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As a teenager when the latest fad / group came out I remember my nan / mum saying "who / what are they."

And you look at them in stunned silence, like they've been to Mars for a year. "Where the hell have you been XXXXX is the best thing since sliced bread - what do you do live under a rock?" "What do you mean you can't identify Simon Lebon in a line up blindfolded?"

The on the radio / TV etc - it seems the latest trendy thing is this new boy band One Direction. I say new because they are to me. I didn't even know they were from the UK let alone barely old enough to take themselves off to bed.

And it made me realise that it finally happened.

I got old and out of touch :(

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Nah, you just need more little girls around you. :p I know about OD due to spawn.

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ha - my oldest is 20 and my youngest is into Rammstein and such like :eek:

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One of our esteemed although somewhat absent of late BE colleagues is rather taken by them if I remember correctly. I'm not sure which of them is his favourite though. :confused:

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It's when a 'new' song is released and it's a remake of a remake of a remake - and you remember the original, but it was a remake of the original that you danced to at school disco's.

Oh and calling a school disco a disco and not a dance:eek::rofl:

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Their movie will be coming to a cinema near you soon......1D in 3D :rofl:

They even have the audacity to start selling concert tickets for 2013, what makes them think they are going to be around that long?

Boy bands are sooooooooo yesterday

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Mandy!!! Did you have to put this into words? I am heavily into denial here! To the 'rest of you' I am 'young, fun and absolutely gorgeous'.....at least for the next little while!

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Keep tellin' yourself that. Self awareness is a virtue :D:D

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PP, this is so true, you took the words out of my mouth, lol.

Only last week a song came on the radio in the car and I said "what the hell is this tosh? I remember when this came out the first time around" (can't remember what song it was now :o (an age thing)). My daughter rolled her eyes at me in the way that I used to at my parents.

Kaz

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I've always looked at it this way, and have convinced both sprogs of the sense of the point: Good music is music which stands the test of time, bad or derivative music fails to do that. Enjoy the crap by all means but don't pretend it's good.

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Translation: "I remember paying a guinea for that song on a 78."

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The only reason I know them is because my youngest loves them and i'm so bored of the one album:eek: (see I still call them albums:lol:) she plays over and over and over again.

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I slipped and referred to an 'LP' :eek:

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:rofl: better than a 78 I suppose ............just:lol:

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Not really so simple. Leaving classical music aside, the "modern stuff" needs to stand the test of time too.

As I said, if you want to hum along with the latest spearmint commercial, go ahead, have a blast.

Choosing any example will be contentious, but do you think Justin Bieber will be remembered and listened to longer than Symphony for the Devil, Eleanor Rigby or even The Piano has been Drinking, Not Me?

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The same happened with me with the band One Direction.. Who ?? They were all over the news when they arrived here and it looked like the Beatles had landed. :ohmy: I had never heard of them before and now they have a sold out concert at the Bell Center for July 2013 and they have what , 2 singles out from what I have been told..??

I am turning into my mother LOL

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I hate old people. I think they should be shot at birth.

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Freedom of speech and all that. What about obnoxious teenagers? ;)

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Funny..i remember my Nan asking about school dances and me correcting her dances???..they are called discos these days!..now they are dances again?

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Remember my kid is in Canada - maybe Canada hasn't got as far as Disco yet:lol:

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Remember when birds had dance cards? :thumbdown:

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Sorry Methuselah, I don't.

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Re: test of time
True that Novocastrian - remember the Spice Girls were big as Bieber and they just draw a big ‘huh‘ now.

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Is that to do with the page 3 top trumps?

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:lol: I hope not, I love disco and would hate to miss it:o:lol:

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Clubbing!

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its always been clubbing!

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A lot of crap music around now a days. Give me 77' Punk and early 80's Punk and Oi! over the shite that is around today.

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I appear to have stopped listening to new music around the end of the 90's. Moving to Canada didn't help as cancon is invariably a bit shite. Nor did moving to Newfoundland although I can now stomach squiddly diddly without too much pain. But now I find myself contemplating the itunes store and a sea of meaningless names and wondering how to goabout finding something new to listen too?

So any suggestions? My tastes run from Indie through to rock, either prog or heavy(ish) via electronica. Little interest in pop/rap/country/r&b or something called bluegrass which appears to be outlandishly popular in this part of the world. (When they've had enough oirish squiddly diddly stuff). What are the kids, or more accurately, the discerning 40somethings listening to these days?

This could be a new thread. Or a chance for ridicule. This is BE. It can go either way.;)

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Ah...Disco is it, innit? :rofl:

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Xpat, just browse - I use 2 different free aps on my android (no computer) to download music and it‘s surprising what they have. My ringtone is Do You Love Me by the Dave Clark Five.

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My 7 year old son was asked a few days ago by a rather precocious 9 year old girl at his school if he knew them as he was from the UK. Well of course he wasn't going to say no was he?? So he proceeded to tell her that he did indeed know them and that yes they would be coming to Toronto next year! It was so funny to listen to as he is so not clued up about that sort of thing and she was hanging on to his every word!

...and it's dance here and disco in the UK, fyi...

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The worrying things are that (1) I remember that record and (2) you have a custom ringtone.

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Hey AX why not play the satellite tv channel Galaxy Rock, they have some great tunes on there, at least you might find a couple to download :fingerscrossed:

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Yes, and when the young ones think these new 'bands' (and I'm using that word loosely) wrote those songs, it is our duty to correct them and teach them about the music industry before X Factor and Simon Cowell.

{start nostalgic, patriotic music here}

When a number one couldn't be bought with a few Saturday night shows and the exploitation of mum and dad's phone bill for vote after vote after vote, to the extent that Mr Cowell doesn't care if the new 'artist' flops and falls on their arse, because he's made millions through the TV show.

Shame on you Mr Cowell, and bring back the days where bands had to learn their craft and 'make it' in the business; where they built up their fan base and it wasn't purchased for them; because when these 'artists' are spent and flung onto the scrap heap of has-been TV show winners, and you hear their cries of "DAM YOU SIMON COWELL! DAM YOU!" as nothing more than the buzzing of flies; Karma will place another mark in its book of 'just you wait, you won't see this coming', and one day, yes one day Mr Cowell you will get that book full on in the face and have to go around using your fortune to make amends like a never ending series of My Name is Earl, and no Mr Cowell, there will be no brother called Randy to keep you company, you will be on your own.

{end music}

In fact I've never thought of it like that, but these 'talent' shows are just an insurance policy for the modern music exec in case their act flops.

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You are me and I Claim My Five Pounds.

You need to stream BBC 6Music. :thumbsup: That, and XfM if possible. :thumbsup:

One of the things I've really enjoyed about this past year and a half commuting between the UK and Canada is the opportunity to listen to really good British radio again, and catch up on exactly that sort of music that you're after.

Like you, after so many years of feeling 'cut off' from new music, it's been so revitalising to listen to good new stuff. We've been to festivals when I'm home, and - Sad Dad Alert! - I've even gone and bought a couple of guitars! :lol::o

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And now there‘s a news item the Spice Girls are in London promoting the new stage musical based on their songs. Dammit can‘t I even be right for one day? Perhaps it‘s an indicator my own best-before date is running out.

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I heard some Justin Bieber the other day and have no idea what all the fuss is about, complete drivel. Are OD at least any good?

And yes, I feel old. Very old. And I'm only in my mid 30s!!!!!!!