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My gen Z's listen to the most eclectic things you can imagine. My 14yo loves Michael Jackson.

The musical "generation gap" was a strange 20th century artifact brought on by the fact that the only music you could access freely was what was brought to the store in your neighborhood on a truck (or the ads that played on the radio to sell said music).

Modern day listeners can just type a name and follow a rabbit hole as deep as the history of recorded music. If you're just a kid exploring, you experience Lady Gaga and Duran Duran on equal footing and click both into you favorites with equal effort.

Its a golden age.

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Absolutely. Especially when it comes to Baroque/Classical music on Youtube. I've spent many an evening just firing up a 50 minute symphony and enjoying a night with a free classical performance! Beat that!

My girlfriend is a classical musician and it blew my mind how she only listened to music on YouTube. Nowadays I try to listen to classical music on YouTube to see the sheet music scroll by :)

My 16yo daughter loves Steely Dan, ELO, They Might Be Giants and Jack Stauber. It's pretty fun watching her get into various genres and artists.

To be fair, who couldn’t love ELO?

I just happened to read Downbeat (December issue?) where one of their top 5 albums of the year was Steve Tibbetts' Life Of.

I'll wager most people have never heard of him.

There was a jazz/fusion/younameit FM station in Mountain View in the early 80s called KPEN. They got copies of Tibbetts' first two albums (eponymous, and "Yr") directly from him and gave them some airplay. I was hooked, told some friends, and I put together a group buy of his first two albums' self-pressings. So I have autographed self-pressings of his first two albums... with his own original cover art... from 1980!

For those who want to check out his early stuff, check out the song "Sure" on his first album, and the song "Three Primates" on Yr.

KPEN's license frequency, 97.7FM, is now KFOG's South Bay broadcast frequency. KPEN's studio was in the long-defunct Old Mill shopping center, later the big HP development on Central Expressway.

I am always confused about who qualifies as a millennial? Does a 14 or 16 yo today qualify as a millennial?

Is it 18-35 year olds? Is the people who grew up around the millennium? That group must be ageing by now. Then why millennials’ habits matter so much?

my 17-year-old tried to turn me on to Herb Alpert yesterday. I think it's quite wonderful, though I dunno if I'm gonna keep coming back to that particular artist.

Fun Fact: there was no Tijuana Brass. He initially used overdubs of his own horn, then later used top session musicians from the broad assortment most commonly known as the Wrecking Crew.

Start from the beginning, with "The Lonely Bull".

Alpert also gave The Carpenters their first record deal.

They were never called the wrecking crew, that was a retelkig of histroy from one session artist with that as his side band. Look up Carol Kaye for the real story.

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