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[Nono]

He couldn't have been more than 30 and on that Fox News show where they put the pretty blonde in the middle so you can not help but admire the full length of her legs and maybe more. Any way this putz was spouting something about Pink Floyd. As though he at 30 knew a **** thing about this group. Did he? How could that be----Roger Waters is nearly 60---anyway, I don't care what he was saying but there happened to be three beautiful women all talking at once about their favorite music. It occurred to me that these beauties who were equally young and saying how much they loved Jimmy Buffet's music. I was almost offended---to them Jimmy is background party music---to us old folk Jimmy was a way of life that emerged from the 70's drug free love and then disco era.

I don't know Jimmy Buffet nor did I sleep on the beach after drinking all night that much, but that was my generation, how dare the beauties claim his music. A 30 New York princess may listen to Jimmy Buffet and associate his melodic acoustic style with "partying" with her friends over a glass or two of wine on 5th Ave, but she wasn't around when Jimmy began as a drunken beach bum so I think she needs to get her own music----say Hillary Duff or Paris Hilton's single. No you don't have to be the same age as me or Jimmy to love his music, but its humorous to us older folks to hear youngsters claim Pink Floyd, or Led Zeppelin as the greatest-----when in fact we grew up with this music.

Oh well, I'm glad they are enjoying 40 year music-----I wonder if Pearl Jam, Dave Mathews or Wide Spread will endure the test of time?

What music defines you and who do you see lasting? Say when you turn on the radio in 30 years---who's music will they still play?

[Headshot]

I know I'll still be listening to Audioslave, Tool, Rage Against the Machine, A Perfect Circle and Pantera 40 years from now, as well as The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Marley, Pink Floyd, 2Pac, Nas, John Mayer, Jack Johnson and so on and so forth.

Music is one of those things that spans generational gaps. Music never gets "old." In fact as long as young people keep discovering music that was around 2 decades before they were even born then it's always going to be new.

[pencilpusher. just because]

What I am listening to in 40 years will be whatever I like then. Right now I listen to anything but mainstream rap and new country.

I honestly feel that if the Beatles, the Stones or Led Zep just emerged today, playing the same music, they would be just as good but they would not be "legends" in 20 years. I feel that way because todays generations are the throw away kind and when something new comes along, they throw the old out and don't waste any memories on it to keep it alive.
People will toss out perfectly good cell phones and other gadgets just because something new comes along. They do the same with music.
Musicians are celebrities now, not musicians. Seriously, there is no excuse for the stardom of people like 50 cent and Fallout boy. None.

So in 40 years from now, I will likely be dead and remembered only by my select few, but if alive,  I will be listening to whatever is good music, just like now. And it will probably be at least 50 years old.

[pencilpusher. just because]

And crap I wish I hhad a nickle for every time some young kid discovered songs like " surrender" by Cheap trick or "The Trooper" by Maiden because of Guitar hero. So bless them, and bless their little plastic guitars with no strings.

[Psing8]

i know when im 40 ill STILL be listening to boyz II men, Nas, New Edition, Jay Z for sure. just cant beat the R&B from the 90's and Rap inbetween the 80's and 90's.

[capologist]

I'm still stuck in the 80's...

[BigSlick]

Just because someone wasn't alive when Jimmy Buffett or Pink Floyd were making music, doesn't mean they can't appreciate as much as you do.   You can't have them all to yourself.

Nirvana, Tool, and Motley Crue will still be on my playlist in 40 years, if it is even still called a playlist.

[charlestonchad]

Music that defines my generation, hmmmmmm, maybe:

RedHotChiliPeppers
Dave Matthews
RageAgainstTheMachine
White Stripes
Outkast
Lil'Wayne
311
Radiohead