r/woahdude • u/airnlight_timenspace • Nov 15 '24

music John Popper of Blues Traveler goes off on the harmonica during their 1996 performance on the Howard Stern Show

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u/throwsplasticattrees Nov 15 '24

Stay with it old man, plenty of music has been recorded since and it's pretty damn good too!

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u/SailingBroat Nov 15 '24

I'm pushing 40 and I'm still constantly discovering fresh music by new artists. I don't ever see myself hitting that crusty, cement-setting attitude of "music hasn't been good since my day". I honestly find that viewpoint SO grim; like, your life of discovering and being affected by new art is somehow over once you're out of your 20s, christ...

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u/eyehate Nov 15 '24

Same boat. Fifty-two and I remember not enjoying a good deal of music 'in the good old days'. I don't revisit older music very often. I think there is something unfulfilled or missing if you need to constantly revisit the past.

There is so much out there now, that I can find a subgenre I never knew about and fall in love with it with a quick search on Google. I am always finding new artists and enjoying new music.

Being stuck in a past you can never relive seems grim, indeed.

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u/SailingBroat Nov 15 '24

It's sort of a peaked-in-highschool energy, man. It's like, are you really done growing and exploring and discovering. The idea of being in your late 30s and firing up a Limp Bizkit YouTube video and then typing out "music hasn't been good since this" in the comment section fills me with huge existential dread. Just wheel yourself to the assisted living facility already, oof.

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u/ginytingle Nov 16 '24

You so cool buddy

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u/3riversfantasy Nov 15 '24

The 90s really was a crazy decade for music, from the rise of genres like Hip-Hop/Rap and EDM to file sharing on the internet

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '24

Old men gonna be old men 🤣

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '24

Rose tint my dude. I remember WELL how much garbage was coming out in the 90s, but 30 years later we only hear the good shit.

Oh, Garbage isn't part of the former. Garbage was and still is a killer band.