What year does music start for you?

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It was the 70's for me I remember when Countdown first started I do remember in the early 70's when shows like happening 70 & 71 where on showing some of the Aussie bands & singers.
But by the time Countdown started it was when I got more interested in music.

I agree with those who have said that music is timeless, although I haven't listen to a lot of Classical, Baroque, Romantic music, or to much jazz, blues, and old crooners.

Having said that, the year from which I used to feel pop music got interesting to my ears, would be 1980, or the early '80s in general. When I was a child (I was born in '87, and my conscious memory starts at about 1990, while my awareness of time starts in 1993), I felt that seventies music was 'old fashioned' while '80s pop music sounded more 'modern', more akin to the established standards of the early to mid '90s. More sophisticated use of synthesizers, certain beat arrangements that appealed to me, et cetera. I'm thinking of the times when Imagination and Irene Cara were making hits, and the rise of bands like Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet, Culture Club. That, for me, used to be the beginning of my favourite pop music.

Now that I'm older, I have a somewhat broader scope, a better view on the history of popular music. But the '80s nevertheless remain my favourite decade for music.

In the sixties, we'd wear out a Beach Boys album about every week or two, went down to the record store and bought a new one for $3.95. Then the first Beatles album came out. The change was amazing and 100% complete. Beach Boys airhead bubble gum totally forgotten and it was the Beatles that got played all the time. With that change, it seems like we grew up, became more real and more childlike. The big difference was their songs were actually nice and they also they had content that was deep and real, that eveyone could relate to. "I want to hold your hand" for example was just so much more real and really expressed how everyone felt inside. Instead of trying to be cool, we could be loving.
At first, I couldn't deal with Dylan's voice and then really listened to what he was saying and that too changed. I now think he is the poet of this time. MoTown is sweet, too. Amazing Hendrix never did the same song the same way twice, always pushing it, going for more. Mainly, these people have beautiful tunes and memorable lyrics. Also, thinking of Jimmy Reed, Timi Yuro, Cobain and Bolan just quickly thinking here.

Man, music wouldn't be where it is today if it weren't for the old stuff (and I don't mean the 60s - I mean the really, really old stuff), but if I had to choose a particular time I'd have go with the jazz and swing of the 1930s (about a third of my music collection comes from that era, or was greatly influenced by it), but even the seeds for that were sewn long, long ago.

My favorite music is from the 80s.

1950s. - Jazz

The only music from the 2010s are only from continuing musicians and artists.

The 60s were the first decade that really got me. Or rather... The Beatles. XD

The 90s followed immediately after that. After a couple of years, I also approached the 70s and 80s. And contemporary stuff.

I always want to listen to The Kinks, but maybe I'll do it one day. They seem interesting to me and I know random facts. And 2 or 3 songs.


I also prefer music that transcends time. I absolutely loathe musical trends. Well, I like the music, but not the selling aspect of it.


Music is cosmic.


I have the same problem. Either, I like bands that are perceived as "retro" or bands that were founded in the 70s/80s/90s.

i dont really know when music started for me, i dont have a clear timeframe, somewhere in the reneissance period though.

i do know when it died: 10 years ago, when the first dj's went mainstream with *insert-here*-core

1974 with the first Rush album

I picked the 90's. I understand that there are more periods where music was way better. But...a lot of fond memories I cherish and hold close to the heart can often be associated with a certain song(s) from the 1990's. It purely emotional for me.

One of my favorite types of music ever is Ragtime so I chose the 1910s. I enjoy music from before and after that era as well.

Mine is the music from the 1980's,
There's a thread on this forum dedicated to 80's music.
The 1980's were problably the best days of my life, so I enjoy listening to most music from that decade.

The oldest music written down is 3400 years old, so at least 3400 years ago.

So hadrian, what do you think of those grunting cavemen in those writings?

Actually, the music is not a far cry from early western music. The exact sounds are of course unknown as we haven't unearthed their USB drives yet, but it definitely is way more advanced then grunting (which is a rather modern invention I really hate) and because music is based on mathematics we can make a fair guess to how it must have sounded.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurrian_song

On one level Im similiar to the OP.

Music started for me when the Beatles took america by storm and spearhead the British invasion in that same year she mentions: 1964.

Everything before that -even the beach boys- and certainly elvis and the bigband era and all of those pop crooners like sinatra are all old fashioned. The late sixties and the seventies are when real music happened. The eighties on are too new, and pre 1964 is too old.

But actually I always liked Bach, and other classical pieces. A friend got me into Jazz.
And now I work as a party deejay and have to be expert in current music- especially the new fangled 21st centurey stuff. Cant get enough LMFAO and Gaga.

So classic rock of the late sixties and seventies is where I live, but I can visit almost any genre and era.