Musical Eras

Sometimes I envy my parents, because they had the good fortune to live through the richest musical eras: the sixties’, seventies’ eighties’, and nineties’. During the time my parents were in college and dating, they went to Air Supply, Bee Gees and ABBA concerts together. I remember that the first music I ever heard was my mother’s collection of vinyl records and cd’s. I grew up listening to Robert Plant, Axl Rose and Freddie Mercury’s God-like vocals, Led Zeppelin’s head-scratching lyrics, David Bowie’s many stage personas, and Angus Young’s stage performances wearing his schoolboy uniform and doing his famous ‘duck walk’. I could go on and on. Although my mother introduced me to the best of the eighties’ and nineties’, including Air Supply, ABBA, Bee Gees, Billy Joel, and Simon & Garfunkel, I had a wider taste in music. …show more content…
It was during my early highschool years I began to shift in musical taste. I reverted back to the music I had listened to when I was younger from older generations that were not my own and began listening less to overplayed pop songs from my generation. Don’t get me wrong, I do love good pop, modern rock, and indie rock songs. My musical taste ranges from Aretha Franklin to The Rolling Stones to Bob Dylan to Fleetwood Mac to The Animals and Nina Simone. Some of the things I love about classic rock are that their songs are timeless, their lyrics are unforgettable, their band members have unique styles and they do not rely solely on a computer to compose their music, loosing input on physical instruments such as guitars, bass and