Are your tastes in music/movies/whatever different from what's 'popular' nowadays?

[Diddy_Mao]

Movies... Yes and no.
I love old 1930 silent films, I'm a big fan of Japanese horror films and I have more than my fair share of Indie movies on my shelf.
All these movies share shelf space with my copies of Iron Man, Thor, Indiana Jones, Ghostbusters, and all the various and sundry big name movies from the past couple decades.

Music is a much different beast, I'd say that I probably hate 90% of pop music from the past 15 years. I did a little searching the other day and the last time I had heard of more than 50% of the Billboard top 100 was back in 1997.
That's heard of not just heard, if I tried to go so far back that I'd actually heard more than 50% of it I'd probably have to go back to the early 90's late 80's.

My musical tastes are just extremely varied, the most "popular" bands in my collection are acts that are very well known within the circle of folks who listen to that type of music. but most folks really wouldn't have heard of any of it if their exposure to music has only been what they hear on the radio.
(Usually stuff like the Dead Kennedys, Mojo Nixon, Deltron 3030, The Meteors, Reggie Watts, The Epoxies...etc. etc.)

 

[Pegghead]

If I like it, I like it. I don't care if it originates from now, the 1960s or the 1760s.

That said, the two bands I consider "tied for my favourite" are The Beatles and Elbow (Gotta maintain steady levels of British), the latter of which is a modern band (and a band I'm seeing this March, keen as a bean). But just generally I can dig all sorts of genres and eras of music.

Movies, well I love movies so I'm open to all of them. That said, my favourite is the 1966 classic The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.

But really, it's a little unfair to have these sorts of debates. It's essentially pitting "the moment" (and subsequently what's coaxing along on the mainstream for one of a million reasons, not necessarily quality I.e Friday) against 50+ years of culture with all the crap that was actually popular back then having been filtered away by time (ya think that The Wall was what all the citizens of 1980 were jamming to? Only one of the songs from that supposedly god-tier album made it into the top 100 chart-toppers for the year, and to put that in perspective, Call Me was number one) to leave behind the things considered so good they were ageless. So for what it's worth you can probably stop worrying about LMFAO being considered the Velvet Underground of it's time in some dark, tasteless future destroyed by mediocre pop fluff that apparently never existed previously.

And as for how widely-known-of something is affecting my perception of it, again it doesn't bother me in the slightest whether I'm enjoying a modern box-office smash or a song from some no-name garage band in Queensland. But the point is, there is no point in getting all up in a tizzy and thinking that this or that generation is doomed when you meet someone who's unaware of something you enjoy, because it's all about exposure. You could argue that someone could google these things, but they've gotta be aware of them in the first place (and you as a grown adult belittling 4th graders for not being able to recite the opening theme for Freakazoid aren't exactly giving them any good reason to look into such things).

 

[Mr.Tophat]

I like some new stuff, I like some old stuff. There is great music made now, and there was great music made 20 years ago, 40 years ago, centuries ago even. The same goes for movies (except for the centuries bit), books, art, ect. If one limits ones tastes based on the point on which a thing falls on an illusory chronology based upon the perceived passage of a trans-dimensional force. Well, that just seems silly.

 

[scully745]

Probably has something to do with the majority of younger generations having a shorter attention span than most, meaning anything that's not currently doing the media rounds is old.

Personally I don't limit myself to any specific time period or genre of music. If I find a song I like I'll usually take some time to go through and find other songs I like, a good album to start with and go from there.
Usually the same with other areas: Music ranging from Fugazi, Buckethead to Jimmy Eat World; Movies from The Great Escape, Jurassic Park to most of the X-Men series; Games from Diablo II, Age of Mythology to Mass Effect.

 

[necromanzer52]

I watch movies from the 20s all the way up to the modern day, and I don't think there's been a substatial decrease in quality lately.

A couple of years ago, I was talking to someone about films, and said "The lord of the rings movies are quite good, but they're kind of old". I spent the next few days lecturing him about movies.

The worst instance of this I've seen is on youtube though. I was listening to the song 21st century breakdown, and someone posted a comment "Wow this song is old now, but still". Which lead me to reply with something like "*****, this song is 2 years old. What the fuck are you talking about?".

 

[Nautical Honors Society]

The majority of people nowadays seem to think that anything comes from 5 years before the present is old, and therefore crap. I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks this way. I'm known as the Old Man among my group of friends despite the fact I'm 17, because I think all this 'modern' crap is just that. Crap. Most of my favourite singers/bands originated before the 80's (which isn't very old at all, but to them it is). My favourite musician is Johnny Cash, which is pretty much the polar opposite to what is popular with the 'kids'. Movies are the same, really. I love the old Westerns, and noire crime films.

Are you guys the same? Or do you kind of, move with the times?

I'd have to say yes and no.

I like what I find to be good no matter whether it is mainstream or not.

On one hand some things are popular for a reason (i.e. Kanye West, Jay-Z, Arcade Fire, The Dark Knight, Star Wars, Red Dead Redemption, Halo, etc, etc, etc), on the other hand, some things are popular because they are victims of commercialism (i.e. Kesha, Bieber, Madonna, Avatar, The Devil Inside, CoDMW3, Mass Effect, etc, etc, etc).

Just like what you like, it doesn't matter whether it is popular nowadays or not.

Victims of comercilism?

buy that I supose you mean being changed and tweaked or milked to death to apeal and make money?

Yes.

But certain producers and industry members are able to do this while still creating quality music. Just because it is popular, doesn't make it bad.

 

[FireAza]

Am I the only one who thinks dub step sounds like a Transformer being sexually molested?