Music channels

[aquamarinesky54]

For the longest time, I was curious as to how people were able to find music that was less than mainstream. You know, stuff that wasn't generally played on the radio.

Well, I found other one way I could do it. If you have a major cable provider (DirecTv, Comcast, etc.), you can look on your menu near the end.

Near the pay-per-view or movie channels, there's some really great channels for music. They have all kinds of genres. My cable provider even offers gospel and contemporary Christian channels. Usually these channels are just dark screens with the music, and they have text telling you about the artist and stuff.

But I switched to Wow cable, and this provider has pictures of the artists and trivia about them. I could have the oldies channel on all day, it's so cool! I'm rediscovering old music Mom raised me on and finding new stuff.

I'm sorry if this post is kind of useless, but there may be someone who, like me, would like this method of finding music.

 

[farouk]

It's good if the old music isn't forgotten.

Some of the golden oldies can bring back a lot of memories.

 

[Thirstyone]

I do listen to those music channels. Listening to the oldies that I grew up with sometimes, but lately, I listen more to the Christian channels.

Just what years are considered "oldies?"

I might be an antique. :D

 

[Mike]

I was born in '67. The 60's music always sounded like drugged up, stoner music to me. I never thought there'd come a day when 70's music made me nostalgic, but it happened along the way. My wife says I'll be frozen in 80's music forever, and that's true for secular rock. If I'm listening to modern music these days, it's almost always contemporary Christian.

I thought this thread would be about MTV. I'll never forget being captivated by it when it came out. Video didn't kill the radio star, after all. ;) Does MTV even play music videos anymore?

 

[reba]

Elvis or other real rock and roll.... Old country Hank Sr. Kitty Wells bobwills

 

[farouk]

I do listen to those music channels. Listening to the oldies that I grew up with sometimes, but lately, I listen more to the Christian channels.

Just what years are considered "oldies?"

I might be an antique. :D

Thirstyone:

I agree; it's so hard to define in music, in a lot of things, what's new, what's old fashioned.

There's nothing new in fashion; it's all waves and trends, really, back and forth.

With music, how many aging rockers are there? Someone into rock and roll, aged in his late 20s in about 1960 would now be aged 80.

Some music, tunes, hymns, etc., are timeless. It's neither old fashioned nor new, either.

Same with fashions and styles. A woman in her 20s in 1965 might have worn a high miniskirt that, 15 - 20 years later might have been regarded as real short but again now would be pretty widespread again, maybe; meanwhile, the lady herself could by now be a great-grandmother in her 70s. Old fashioned? new? I don't know.

Sometimes old hymns can be sung to a new setting. Sometimes the music can be excellent and fresh but the words themselves can be rather plain: "I love You, You, You, God now", repeated over and over, etc.

And what about the real minority of young women without pierced ears? is it old fashioned not to have it done? or is it avant-garde for her to be different from her triple-pierced mom and grandmother?

What's old fashioned and what's not, is a matter of definition, and I don't know the answer any more.

(Two cents'.)