I Feel Blessed for When I was Born

[Egg Shen]

I really like air conditioning, sports… phhht, I have no motivation to watch men do athletic things, and I’m grateful as Hell that I can find women’s beach vollyball on somewhere to watch.
I’m glad as hell that I don’t have to stand in soup lines, and can go to any city and find a good grocery store.
I’m totally ok with respecting people rights who are different from me… Hell, I wouldn’t want to live somewhere where people are all homogeneous.
Cars, styles, clothes… phhht… I don’t pay attention to that stuff anyways.
Music, some of the best stiff is being made right now…. Old people just don’t know how to find it.
Hell, just a tad over 100 years ago, if you wanted music, you had to make it yourself. 50 years ago we were limited to what a handful of record company execs wanted us to hear. Now, anyone can make it. Sure, there’s lots of crap, but that’s the side effect of so many people recording. SO MANY MORE musicians than ever before.

I see the good in right now. The bad… sure… if you are relying on the News to tell you what’s going on, instead of just looking around, sure, you’re going to focus on the bad. The BAD sells news. Screw ‘em. I’m not buying into any of their worldviews.

I’m perfectly happy in when I am alive.

Your last paragraph speaks to me. The world has been going to hell in a hand basket for millennia but we now have 24/7 news to highlight italicize and underscore it. Likewise, people are doing good, generous, loving things daily As they have always been doing. But nobody is reporting that because most people don’t tune in for that. News channels WANT us to STAY TUNED IN. Fear seems to be how they dupe the gullible these days.

 

[Egg Shen]

The music today sucks ass. My kids are always trying to get me to listen t their crap. I tell them unless there are musicians playing an instrument, don't even bother. I refuse to listen to computer shit music.I grew up in the 60's and 70's.

Yes
Pink Floyd
Lez Zeppelin
David Bowie
Steely Dan
Queen
The Doors
The Beatles
Electric Light Orchestra
The Doobie Brothers
Eric Clapton
Jeff Beck and the Jan Hammer group
Jethro Tull
The Eagles
Aerosmith
J Geils Band
Blue Oyster Cult
ZZ Top
Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet band
Hughie Lewis and the News
The Allman Brothers
Joel Wash and the James Gang
Roxy Music
The Tubes
Lynard Skynard
Motown
Philadelphia Funk
Earth Wind and Fire


These are just off the top of my head, there are many more.

There are just so many great groups from that time. It is real run going on Youtube watching some of the shows I would see.

I only know Jan Hammer as the Miami Vice theme song composer. (Iwas born in 1980). Jan Hammer w. Jeff Beck sounds like it’s worth researching. Thank you

PS exemplary list !

 

[Streeper541]

Like several others in the group I am a child of the eighties. At 42 I'm not quite as old as some of you codgers are, but certainly not a pup anymore either. Regardless, I feel pretty fortunate to have been born when I was and for many of the same reasons.

I didn't get to catch all the cool stuff, but I did see a bunch of it. I feel like I was born in a sweet spot; at the tail end of one generation and the beginning of another.

 

[anotherbob]

Agreed. But I am pretty sure every generation for the last few hundred years or more felt and said the same thing. (Society going to hell in a hand basket.)

you are 100 percent correct. From the beginning of history there are examples of old farts saying the same old story of society is falling apart cause the youth of today is especially lame. Including times right before society is widely considered to have made huge leaps forward.
I think it's people realizing the general state of life and mistaking their new awareness with fact. It is like when I thought for some reason ladies have stopped adoring me as a whole. Nope most of them never did.

 

[captainsousie]

We're all supposed to feel bad about when we were born. Just look at many of the responses here... To get a bit religious, as the prophet says "There is nothing new under the sun." There are great things about each era and terrible things. The best thing is to understand the good things about your era while knowing that there were things that needed to be fixed. Now or 1970, we all have great times and terrible things we have to reckon with and the sooner we realize our era has as many problems as any of the others, the quicker we can come to enjoy the great things about our own. Damn, the self-righteousness can kill your own happiness as quick as it kills your victims.

 

[Sweet Home Alabama]

My ten year old grandson is spending some time with me since he is out from school due to the Omicron surge. After he completed, and I checked his schoolwork, we repaired a chair. I had him wear protective eyewear while drilling.

Later we made a supper of chops and fries for him.

I gave him a watch and ordered a Nato band he chose. He has some New Balance coming. When he wakes there will be hot chocolate. Everything I am doing is as much as my grandfather did for me.

Like I have been saying, when the generations are connected, it is a good thing. Teaching them how to do things right is the way to go.

As an aside, using Google Maps has made my move to a new city much easier, so I appreciate the technology. I do know how to use a compass and am not directionally challenged, but those skills would not have helped me find the carboard recycling location.

I appreciate the older and younger perspectives on this forum. It is all good.

 

[rajangan]

The beautiful thing about growing up in the 80s and 90s is that we also got the music from the previous decades. My parents also passed on their lessons from those years.

Also, 1991 was pretty killer for world history and music.

The Amazing Year That Was 1991

Episode · Ongoing History of New Music · When it comes to music, not all years are created equal…listen, every year features some great new songs from great new bands…but over the long term, this music isn’t equally distributed…sometimes—maybe once a decade, but usually less—we run into what can...

open.spotify.com

 

[STP]

you are 100 percent correct. From the beginning of history there are examples of old farts saying the same old story of society is falling apart cause the youth of today is especially lame…

“What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets inflamed with wild notions. Their morals are decaying. What is to become of them?" Plato 400 BC

Yeah, I’d say that it’s been going on for awhile?

 

[LotusEater]

'Cept that for the present one the hand basket is the size of the Titanic, and going just as fast. And, just like in the Titanic, there ain't enough life boats because... it couldn't possibly sink, right?

I’m not willing to throw in the towel just yet. I think we all have a limited and some what myopic perspective. Limited in that it is based on our experience of a very brief cross section of history and myopic in that we can’t see beyond a certain horizon. All things ebb and flow. It’s possible that we are at a low ebb or moving in that direction but I hope for the sake of my son and his children that at least in some ways there are still “better” times ahead.

 

[JOHN72]

It would be convenient to have a meeting and discuss this topic. Where can we meet? I suggest Geneva, I will bring from Spain, butter sandwiches, they will arrive a little dry, and you guys, you can bring the good tobacco. Switzerland is a neutral country, I promise not to be violent. The expenses will be paid by me, once I have passed away. Jokes aside. I agree with Lotus 99.09%.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Back when women couldn’t vote and segregation was still in effect. The good ol days for you?

Women were able to vote in 1920. You play pretty fast and loose with facts.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

I too grew up in the 60's and 70's. Was a great time to grow up but lots of bad things as well. Viet Nam War. National Guard kills students at Kent State. The Mai Lai massacre. Watergate. JFK and MLK assassinated. And the worst thing of all .... Disco.

But it was still a time of great opportunity. A child had a reasonable expectation for their quality of life to exceed that of their parents. People could send their children out to play without fear of them being molested or kidnapped. We rode our bikes to the baseball field and played pick up games most of the day. There were more good things than bad.

 

[SoddenJack]

Read this recently:
The show The Wonder Years was set it 1968 and premiered in 1988. If it was made today it would be set in 2002.

 

[edger]

I will respectfully abstain from this thread as politics is verboten here.

 

[anotherbob]

“What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets inflamed with wild notions. Their morals are decaying. What is to become of them?" Plato 400 BC

Yeah, I’d say that it’s been going on for awhile?

in a way it to me seems like dearth of memory and self awareness. Like hey Plato that's what young people where like when you were a young person and your parents also thought your music was shit. One of the funny things about music is every generation thinks their music is the real stuff. Like if I wasn't such a music nerd I'd hear some stuff today and then whip out something from the 90's that did it first. Of course my older friends then could have whipped out something from the 70s or 60s that did a similar thing first. Why because music making is fundamentally an act of cannibalism or maybe autophagia.

 

[Streeper541]

Read this recently:
The show The Wonder Years was set it 1968 and premiered in 1988. If it was made today it would be set in 2002.

They did do another version. It was still set in the sixties.

The Wonder Years (TV Series 2021–2023) ⭐ 6.6 | Comedy, Drama, Family

21m | TV-PG

m.imdb.com

 

[jewman22]

Kinda hard to argue, I'm a millennial, and everything these days sucks.
Music, cars, movies, society, culture, technology, work ethic (or lack there of),.
Everything sucks these days. I spent most of my childhood with my grandparents, so I leaned to do things the right way. If you have a job to do, you do it, don't bitch, just do.
People cant even spell or tell time anymore, what the hell happened? This is what happens when feeling are put ahead of education.

 

[frozenchurchwarden]

EDIT: My dyslexia messed up the context of the thread.
"When" vs. "Where"

 

[Kiteflyer]

I'm happy to be around in the age of the internet where I can enjoy the music, movies, and cultures of decades past with ease. I can go from watching the Marx Brothers to exploring the world on Google Earth with the click of a button.

 

[Alejo R.]

I grew up in the 80’s and 90’s and agree that music was better in the 70’s… but the 90’s grunge wasn’t too shabby either. Technology aside, it certainly seems that things were nostalgically better in past than today. I think most realize this as even my kid comments that it’d would be cool to grow-up in the olden days, aka, pre-2000?

I assume your nickname is for Stone Temple Pilots. Same generation here.