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Not Heidi

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Fri Mar 28, 2025, 01:47 PM Mar 2025

Post your favorite recording artist or band from outside those of your generation [View all]

That is, what you consider your generation for purpose of this music survey.

I share Bob Seger's opinion, assuredly without any offense toward yours.

just take those old records off the shelf
I'll sit and listen to them by myself
today's music ain't got the same soul
I like that old time rock & roll

I'm 62 . . . my music is primarily from the '70s, with some '60s. My favorites from outside my generation are The Cranberries, the B-52s, and Paula Cole. I also really dig Peter Gabriel, but I think it's a reach to call him "outside my generation." And literally - he's only 13 years older than I am.

Tell us - what is your favorite music from outside your generation? And, if you like, the music you dig from within your generation.

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I listen to Bob Seger every day, but for now it's Jelly Roll & Lainey Wilson. RoadRunner Mar 2025 #1
I love Bob Seger. I guess he's out of my generation. Walleye Mar 2025 #3
I graduated high school in 1967, so I am a big rock fan Walleye Mar 2025 #2
Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holliday, Dinah Washington, Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Coleman Hawkins? brush Mar 2025 #16
Yes, to all of those, good selection too Walleye Mar 2025 #18
I was born in 1965. johnp3907 Mar 2025 #4
Roger Miller BlueKota Mar 2025 #5
I like Roger too, and sing along. Sequoia Mar 2025 #9
Great song BlueKota Mar 2025 #25
Big sixties music fan. But nowadays, singer/songwriters like Steve Earle, Gillian Welch, Rhiannon Giddens, and similar Silent Type Mar 2025 #6
The new Jason Isbell album is 100% acoustic AZJonnie Mar 2025 #20
I read about the new album, but need to listen. Thanks. Silent Type Mar 2025 #21
Here's a sample (which is particularly moving if you know the backstory) AZJonnie Mar 2025 #22
That's my kind of music. I assume it's about his breakup, which always makes for a good acoustic song. Silent Type Mar 2025 #24
Born in 1940 so I have to dig deep. Chipper Chat Mar 2025 #7
Robert Johnson, and 50's/early 60's jazz like Bird, Monk, Coltrane & Miles AZJonnie Mar 2025 #8
The only singer/musician in the current batch birdographer Mar 2025 #10
Louis Armstrong CountAllVotes Mar 2025 #11
Green Day and Cage the Elephant Sequoia Mar 2025 #12
Before my generation favorites Tiny Tabby Mar 2025 #13
Hank Williams Sr., Cab Calloway, and some swing. Dorothy V Mar 2025 #14
Tool unweird Mar 2025 #15
Tool kicks ass! OldBaldy1701E Mar 2025 #35
I love 60's music and rock in general. I am 70 years old. redstatebluegirl Mar 2025 #17
moon light serinade by glenn miller . gets me going. AllaN01Bear Mar 2025 #19
Miles Davis WestMichRad Mar 2025 #23
Count Basie was performing and conducting late. Frasier Balzov Mar 2025 #26
Django Reinhardt. 1910-1953 Thunderbeast Mar 2025 #27
Nirvana and Green Day nuxvomica Mar 2025 #28
U2 🧡, Midnight Oil🧡, Patti Smith🧡, Bruce Springsteen🧡, The Clash🧡 electric_blue68 Mar 2025 #29
Kasey Musgraves. rubbersole Mar 2025 #30
I'm quite fond of the Big Band Era Zorro Mar 2025 #31
'Trane, Miles, and the Bird justaprogressive Mar 2025 #32
Francesco Geminiani 1687-1762 catbyte Mar 2025 #33
Cake. OldBaldy1701E Mar 2025 #34
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