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Oh apart from that. Thanks for the link you posted.I don't think you have a full understanding of what is being discussed here. The author has asked about the music that represents as best of all. For example, my kids are imprinted on K-pop. 韓流ウォッチ!! is their youtube, lol. If it wasn't for me, they would play this music all day long and at night in their headphones. It's true, jazz music is very relaxing. That is why it is widely played in restaurants and bars. Yet, this doesn't mean that someone cannot imprint on jazz music. Hope that makes sense!
My bandmates of the same age or older are still stuck on Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and Black Sabbath, we bonded over 50s and 60s music though. To this day they still try and slip in some of the easy listening music you mention, or as I like to call it, Soft C... Rock.Well, I was born in '62 so the music of my adolescence was crappy 1970s pop and disco. I HATED it then, and I HATE it now. Muskrat Love. Evergreen. MacArthur Park. Love will Keep us Together. What a Fool Believes. Tie a Yellow Ribbon. You Light up my Life. Staying Alive (ah ah ah ah, staying alive, staying alive...)
Fortunately, the great nostalgia wave of the 1970s allowed us to hear a lot of older music (rock from the 1960s, for example). I was always looking backward.
So, NO, the music that was au courant during that "imprinting" period is NOT something that I would want to revisit.
Here’s a hypothesis for you:Numerous studies have shown that humans imprint on a style of music associated with a period between adolescence and 20 something. These are formative years in which we actively disassociate with music and taste of our parents and instead take up the prevalent music of our peers.
As people who actively engage in music making (and the music is seldom from our "imprint years"), I'm curious to hear where individuals have drawn lines as to what they will listen to and what get's shut out. Is there a strong desire to play music from those imprint years? Have some (all?) of you evolved past thinking whatever you listened to at age 18 was the best music of all time? What's the "furthest out" music that you enjoy and would like to share and see if others ears are open?
This is an invitation to share, so hopefully there will be some respect for each person's "out there" choices. The real question is can you keep your mind and ears open to hear what might be special about that person's choices?
P.S. This is NOT and invitation to share your FAVORITE music...it's about stretching and opening our ears to styles, rhythms, harmonies etc. that we may have never heard.
Pythagorus just liked the squares.Here’s a hypothesis for you:
“Pythagorus killed popular music. Before him music was owned, played, danced to and enjoyed by everyone. After him it became property of The Intellectuals, and everyone else became The Audience”
Being a Libran I can see both sides of this argument.