Listening Habits By Decade

Cristi wrote: MikeEnRegalia wrote: ^ This is about what your habits are, not about what you would like them to be. Personally I'd love to be listening to lots of 1970s releases, but it's just not happening because I do not want to miss out on listening to new releases.  Like I said, i don't know or am not sure what a "listening habit" is. Most of the time it's my mood that is what decides what I end up listening to. It's not a matter of what decade the artist/band is from.  I might have misunderstood what I'm supposed to be doing in this thread then.

Sean Trane wrote: Cristi wrote: MikeEnRegalia wrote: ^ This is about what your habits are, not about what you would like them to be. Personally I'd love to be listening to lots of 1970s releases, but it's just not happening because I do not want to miss out on listening to new releases.  Like I said, i don't know or am not sure what a "listening habit" is. Most of the time it's my mood that is what decides what I end up listening to. It's not a matter of what decade the artist/band is from.  I might have misunderstood what I'm supposed to be doing in this thread then.  Maybe the use of the word should be trends, instead of habits, might make it simpler to grasp. Seeing from which era the music you're listening recently is from.  I would imagine that a lot of us are listening to recently-released stuff, so the 20's will probably get a lot of votes.

^^ which is quite understandable... but when you look at Fb posts from a whole host of Prog Websites, the albums people post tend to be either from the Classic era or those which have been released within the past 2-3 years... albums from the 90's and 00's seem to be the most under-represented overall in terms of profile, which was one of the reasons for the poll.   

Well, these are the data across all users (all playlist entries) at AP as of today:

1960s: 774

Jared wrote: Yes, this isn't about 'favourites' (although in a roundabout way it might be!)... it's simply about exposure and airplay. You listen to a great deal of varied music, so it might be hard for you to quantify, but which decades would be best represented by your listening choices? My gut feeling is that much of what was created in the golden era of Prog still gets a lot of airplay, while companies such as Esoteric Recs are busy remastering and repackaging albums by... let's say 2nd and 3rd tier Prog bands from the 70's, perhaps on the wave of nostalgia?? My feeling is that by way of contrast, only the very best releases from the 90's and 00's will stand the best of time as a higher percentage appear to have been forgotten?

Edited by Sean Trane - September 26 2024 at 04:32

Mostly current music.

1970's and also current releases, maily because the 70's always remain the era when I was in my teens/early 20s, and I had a lot of free time to listen to music. Additionally, I like to explore the new band of today, so my tendency is to check them out, more frequently than the 80s, 90s, etc.

Sean Trane wrote: Jared wrote: Yes, this isn't about 'favourites' (although in a roundabout way it might be!)... it's simply about exposure and airplay. You listen to a great deal of varied music, so it might be hard for you to quantify, but which decades would be best represented by your listening choices? My gut feeling is that much of what was created in the golden era of Prog still gets a lot of airplay, while companies such as Esoteric Recs are busy remastering and repackaging albums by... let's say 2nd and 3rd tier Prog bands from the 70's, perhaps on the wave of nostalgia?? My feeling is that by way of contrast, only the very best releases from the 90's and 00's will stand the best of time as a higher percentage appear to have been forgotten? TBH, most of the 60/70's stuff I listen to nowadays is what you call "2nd and 3rd tier Prog bands from the 70's" or "more obscure 70's prog" (that less disrespectful), because I haven't had enough of some - which I've discovered in the 90's via labels like Repertoire. I rarely get the urge to listen to the 70's masterpiece anymore, because I know them by heart ================ As for the 90's, I tend to prefer that decade over the 80's, but it's not that much better. Not only the 80's production values lasted well into the 90's, but also around the end of that decade, the Loudness Wars started happening, rendering some albums painful to listen to (thinking of Rush's Test For Echo & Vapor Trails), but the LW (compressions) lasted until well into the 00's. What saves the 90's for me are grunge, funk metal (RATM, RHCP, etc...), post rock & trip hop as well as the Scandinavian Retro-prog, but I'm not quite sure that I would retain all that much more albums in my top 90's list than for my 80's list. And if there would be more rock albums in my 90's list, it's because I paid more attention to what was going on than in the 80's - when I almost literally turned the radio off from 86 to 89. .

I adore the 80s and 90s, and every decade from the 60s up. Each decade has so much music I like (and film, TV etc.). I don't care that much generally about what was on the radio then. Most of what I adore from the 80s and 90s I got to know much more recently. SOme of that did play on the radio and I only now have an apprecation of it.

From the 80s I love music by Joy Division, Art Zoyd, Swans (with Children of God), Cocteau Twins, Talk Talk, Gary Numan, Terry Riley, Abus Dangereux, Rahmann, This Heat, Glenn Branca, Dün, Phew, Fabio Frizzi, Wha-Ha-Ha, Kate Bush, Giorgio Moroder, Klaus Doldinger, Carpenter, Laurie Anderson, Goblin, Von Zamla, Zamla Mammaz Manna, Holger Czukay, Jah Wobble & Jaki Liebezeit, Eskaton, Konomi Sasaki, Codona, Zanov, The Chameleons, This Mortal Coil, Siouxsie and The Banshees, Echo & the Bunnymen, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Yog Sothoth, Violent Femmes, Jean-Paul Prat, Dead Can Dance, Tuxedomoon, The Residents, Hellebore, Univers Zero, Present, The Wake, Einstürzende Neubauten, Camberwell Now, The Smiths, News From Babel, Harold Budd, Elizabeth Fraser, Robin Guthrie & Simon Raymonde, Shub-Niggurath, Public Image Ltd., Cardiacs, David Sylvian, Renaldo and the Loaf, Midnight Oil, Jane Siberry, Dinosaur, Zendik Farm Orgaztra, The Church, Miriodor, Galaxie 500, The Sisters of Mercy, Thinking Plague, After Dinner, The Cure, The Lounge Lizards, Asylum Party, Ziyo, Geinoh Yamashirumi, Depeche Mode...

And the 90s had so many awesome for my tastes releases with Boards of Canada, Portishead, Air, Swans, Radiohead, Godspped You Black EMperor, Tortoise, Fishmans, the Necks, Mr. Bungle, Stereolab, Pram, Bjork, Komeda, Cocteau Twins, Bondage Fruit etc. etc.

Edited by Logan - September 26 2024 at 14:51

I really can't tell; I have the feeling that I cover new music and several decades of the past almost uniformly. Pre-70s probably have the last position; despite checking out some new releases, 2024 hasn't convinced me much yet, so it's probably not up there either, but that leaves still six categories between which I find it very hard to differentiate. Maybe 1990s a tiny bit less and 2020-2023 because that's just four years. And if I have to narrow it down to three decades, it may well be that even the golden 70s do not qualify, so let's say 1980s, 2000s, 2010s, but that may really be very wrong.