Why do we stop listening to new music as we get older?

@simonmoon: For a stimulating workout of your brain, give Bach's Concerto For 4 Harpsichords And Orchestra a listen. Each harpsichord plays a separate melody (the form of the Fugue, employing a lot of counterpoint), all following the chord progressions, modulations, etc. played by the orchestra. But it's not just an intellectual challenge, it's also a thrilling musical ride!

For the enlargement of your soul, listen to any of his Passions.

I was introduced to the music of the master by a great songwriter I was recording with in 1974. He had grown up a fan of The Beatles, but when I loaned him my copy of Smiley Smile (The Beach Boys) he became as obsessed with Brian Wilson as was I. That album led both of us to Van Dyke Parks, another near-genius. If you've heard Van Dyke's debut album Song Cycle and like it, there's no reason you can't become enamored with Bach's insanely great music.

Well for me "new" music sucks, It's all Auto tune.  Mostly computers playing the instruments.  Really last newer band for me was Audioslave.  I mostly stick to 60's 70's 80's 90's

@eryoung2k 

Wait...

An easy way to avoid music that uses autotune and computers playing music, is to avoid those types of music! It's not rocket science. 

There is a vast amount of new music that does not use autotune.

I hate to keep harping on this, but avoid mainstream sources for new music, and there are vast amounts of new music out there that does not use autotune.

For a stimulating workout of your brain, give Bach’s Concerto For 4 Harpsichords And Orchestra a listen. Each harpsichord plays a separate melody (the form of the Fugue, employing a lot of counterpoint), all following the chord progressions, modulations, etc. played by the orchestra. But it’s not just an intellectual challenge, it’s also a thrilling musical ride!

For the enlargement of your soul, listen to any of his Passions.

@bdp24

Believe me, I have listened to a lot of Bach’s music. I still own a fair amount of Bach recordings. Same goes with Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Handel, etc, etc, etc.

Bottom line, I am just not a fan of the "Common Practice" eras of classical music. Tonal classical music bores me tor the most part.

With regards to classical music, I only like: atonal, serial, avant-garde, 12 tone, and other forms of 20th and 21st century music. I only tend to like ’challenging’ and ’thorny’ sounding music. Most of my listening of classical music, is from post 1950’s, up through the present.

I have tried many times to listen to earlier eras of classical music, but it bores me. And I return to it from time to time, including Bach, in hopes that it will someday ’click’ with me. But despite honest attempts, no luck so far.

@simonmoon 

Glad to hear you have found a way around this.  You are clearly more net savvy than I am, so you do better.

Right now I am happy where I am and I don't have the time to tweak the population of stuff that's trying to access me.  Nor to I have the technical skills.

I don't even know what 'autotune' is.

Don't forget Bob Dylan has won plenty of Grammys.  Would be a pity to cut him out ever if only his current music is 'new'.

Whenever I see conversations like this on music forums, and I see so many people make comments about how new music sucks, or, it's all autotune, I get the idea that these people are stuck in old ways of looking for new music.

Good new music will never be found on mainstream radio, in Billboard, made by any musician nominated for any mainstream music award, or any other mainstream sources. If those are your sources, then resign yourself to believing that new music sucks.

I listen to prog, jazz, and contemporary classical music, and my biggest problem is keeping up with all the great new, creative, incredibly well played, music. 

And none of it, zero, uses autotune, teams of dozens of writers, computers, quantization, etc. All real musicians, playing their instruments.