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i like new and old rock my favorite old rock band is led zepplin and my new rock band is the used

I weird, because I'm 16, and I'm not really into music. Most of my friends have stacks and cases of cds, but me, I have like 5 or six. Most of them are Radio Disney Cd's. I listen to Radio Disney alot. But for my opinion, I like alot of the old stuff.

Both.

For me the lyrics don't always have to have meaning. Sometimes I just like how the voice sounds. This is why I can enjoy J-pop. I like how the voice sounds and consider it another instrument. I look for the sound first then maybe the lyrics, sometimes the lyrics hit me first (a recent example is "You'll be There" by George Strait). My music intrests go pretty much across the board, but I was raised on country music.

If I'm looking for some meaning from the lyrics, there's a lot of country music I can choose from or if I'm so inclined, I'll go for the blues. No matter how they try to put thier emtions in there music, nobody can do it like blues musicians. Look at "What a Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong, you can hear the smile on Ol' Sachimo's face. Country, espically older country can have a lot of meaning as well as it's often music about the common man.

I really dislike the cookie cutter music of today though. I can listen to today's country and find a dozen guys that sound the same. It used to be that everybody had their own distinct sound like Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Merle Hagard, Jonny Cash, Conway Twitty, and George Jones. I also miss hearing the four part harmonies like the Beach Boys. Today you can have a band of 5, 6, or even 7 and they're all altos.

I don't want to even talk about the lack of playing talent in mainstream today, but does anybody actually play anymore?

It's going to make this post way too long but I want to finish with some meaningful lyrics that I feel really apply to the topic. It's an old favourite, "Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes" by George Jones, written by T. Seals and M.D. Barnes.

You know this old world is full of singers
But just a few are chosen
To tear your heart out when they sing
Imagine life without them
All your, radio heros
Like the outlaw that walks through Jesse's dream

No, there will never be another
Red-headed stranger
A Man in Black and Folsom Prison Blues
The Okie from Muskogee
Or Hello Darling
Lord I wonder, who's gonna fill their shoes

(Chorus smile
Who's gonna fill their shoes
Who's gonna stand that tall
Who's gonna play the Opry
And the Wabash Cannonball
Who's gonna give their heart and soul
To get to me and you
Lord I wonder, who's gonna fill their shoes

God bless the boys from Memphis
Blue Suede Shoes and Elvis
Much too soon he left this world in tears
They tore up the Fifties
Old Jerry Lee and Charlie
And old Go Cat Go still echoes through the years

You know the heart of country music
Still beats in Luke the Drifer
You can tell when hew sings I Saw the Light
Old Marty, Hank and Lefty
Why I can feel them right here with me
On this Silver Eagle rolling through the night

(Repeat chorus)

i like oldish stuff from about 2 or 3 years ago most rock music now a days is very emo

I would say the oldies with a few expection of some new stuff. A lot of the older music had more feeling of being its own. The only one of todays music artist that is just as good as the oldies it the music writer for the Final Fantasy series.

I am constantly made fun of for not liking the music that everyone else likes. I am a huge Barry Manilow fan, and the only people that like him are 50-year-old women. (I'm a fifteen year old GUY.)

I also love disco, mainly Donna Summer, Bee Gees, Earth Wind and Fire, and ABBA. And Barry Manilow's Copacabana.

I like Elvis, Sinatra and the Beatles.

I love the old music, and hate the new music. I agree with everything everyone else said about the new music, so I won't repeat it.

"maybe the old songs
will bring back the old times
maybe the old lines will sound new"

~ Barry Manilow's The Old Songs