There's just something in it that gets me dancing.
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Clue for the Music Library Game
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Was it a car or a cat I saw?
I remember reading a dumb factoid that the pop music you were into at age fifteen will set your musical tastes for the rest of your life for [reason].
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Willis, it seems like every other time you post, I need to look up a word that's in the OED or Urban Dictionary but not both.
-Mimir
Anything in particular?
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http://lostfacts.net/
I've looked at the world for quite a few years now and I've found that if I don't laugh, I'll probably end up crying.
Well, what if you weren't into any music at that age? And nothing in particular.
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My ability to enjoy pop from most generations has increased greatly over the past few years. Current pop artist I like, Kesha, Lady Gaga, Nicki Minaj (It takes real talent to say the same word three times in a rap song and call it a rhyme.
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"...you should try reading my posts being getting all emo." --FoxMetal
Also, this topic made me think of this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3b5q2lryGY&feature=list_related&playnext=1&list=AL94UKMTqg-9D4HaPCwQDBhnbbAev3DoCC
Grove is in the heart
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"...you should try reading my posts being getting all emo." --FoxMetal
And to make that song better. It features rap from A Tribe Called Quest. I thought I recognized that, had to look it up on Wikipedia.
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"...you should try reading my posts being getting all emo." --FoxMetal
I have no idea and it was probably a crap statistic.
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Willis, it seems like every other time you post, I need to look up a word that's in the OED or Urban Dictionary but not both.
-Mimir
I'm sure that, since we both know it, it was from Cracked.
Whoa, it was surprisingly easy to find, too. http://www.cracked.com/article_19722_7-scientific-reasons-youll-turn-out-just-like-your-parents.html
Took me like 15 seconds.
Here's the actual research article:
Harrison, J., & Ryan, J. (2010). Musical taste and ageing.
Ageing and Society, 30, 649–669. doi:10.1017/S0144686X09990778
The DOI URL is then:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X09990778
So far as I can tell, what the article says is neither what the Cracked article thinks it says nor what Wil recalled the Cracked article as saying it says. What it actually says is that musical tastes expand with age up to about age 55, then decline with age. And the top genres among the oldest folks of different generations are "remarkably consistent":
A second important finding is the remarkably consistent preferences among the three oldest groups (55–64, 65–74 and 75+ years). While there were minor variations in their ranking, the same five genres were the most preferred genres in 1982 and 1992, namely hymns/gospel, country, mood/easy listening, big band, and classical/chamber. In 2002 among those aged 55–64 years, rock replaced big band, and had become more popular among those aged 65–74 years, being in sixth place just behind classical/chamber music (31.8% versus 32.1%). This was the first year in which rock had a sizeable following among the three older age groups. To detail this remarkable consistency, in 1982 the top five preferred genres for those aged 75+ years were in rank order: hymns/gospel (53.7%), country (46.0%), big band (26.6%), mood/easy listening (23.5%), and classical/chamber (22.7%). For the same age group in 1992, the top five were: hymns/gospel (52.5%), country (45.8%), big band (45.5%), mood/easy listening (35.7%), and classical/chamber (29.1%), and in 2002 the rank order was: big band (36.9%), country (35.7%), hymns/gospel (34.7%), classical/chamber (31.0%) and mood/easy listening (27.5%).
Did I mention that it really ticks me off how the Cracked article pretends that these findings are a natural implication of those stupid neuroscience articles they cite? My goodness, the mass media adores neuroscience. You just show them some fMRI figures and say "Dopamine!" and they'll believe your study proves whatever you say it does.
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"did you know that in real life all those stats for how often the average person thinks about sex are ACTUALLY about ice cream?"
Yeah, but shoddy coverage of science news isn't limited to Cracked, nor is shoddy Cracked coverage limited to science:
http://www.gotmedieval.com/2011/06/the-eleventy-seven-most-mind-blowingly-inaccurate-facts-in-cracked-coms-8-filthy-jokes-hidden-in-ancient-works-of-art.html
My B for quoting a thing I didn't remember any details of; I seriously would have clarified "and this came from Cracked, so it's probably not real" much sooner.
(Disclaimer: I love Cracked even in their aggressive wrongness.)
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Willis, it seems like every other time you post, I need to look up a word that's in the OED or Urban Dictionary but not both.
-Mimir
But Cracked doesn't cite the research article; they cite this guy's interpretation of it (http://aginginaction.com/2010/05/musical-tastes-aging/) and they do so fairly accurately.
http://www.gotmedieval.com/2011/06/the-eleventy-seven-most-mind-blowingly-inaccurate-facts-in-cracked-coms-8-filthy-jokes-hidden-in-ancient-works-of-art.html
Man, I feel as if you posted that link (and I read it and enjoyed it) years ago. But the article is less than a year old. And I don't see the URL anywhere in Wisterwood, although I've been archiving PMS since before this article was written. Figure that one out.
But Cracked doesn't cite the research article; they cite this guy's interpretation of it (http://aginginaction.com/2010/05/musical-tastes-aging/) and they do so fairly accurately.
I disagree that the interpretation (even of the interpretation) is accurate. The Aging in Action article says roughly what I said above; there's nothing about the old retaining the tastes they had as young'uns, which is what the Cracked article seems to be implying, and the Aging in Action piece makes clear that the decline effect starts in old age ("older adults" being a euphemism for old people common in psychology), whereas the Cracked article makes it sounds like it starts when you're thirty.
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"did you know that in real life all those stats for how often the average person thinks about sex are ACTUALLY about ice cream?"
You guys ruined this topic.
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"...you should try reading my posts being getting all emo." --FoxMetal
Okay, it turns out I kind of like Foo Fighters now.
I thought I only liked Everlong, and I still maintain that I only like Everlong enough to sit down and say "I would like to listen to Everlong." But I listened to most of the rest of that album and it was p okay.
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Willis, it seems like every other time you post, I need to look up a word that's in the OED or Urban Dictionary but not both.
-Mimir
From: willis5225 | #016
Okay, it turns out I kind of like Foo Fighters now.
I thought I only liked Everlong, and I still maintain that I only like Everlong enough to sit down and say "I would like to listen to Everlong." But I listened to most of the rest of that album and it was p okay.
Pretty sure this is the second time you've kinda liked the Foo Fighters. . .
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I've looked at the world for quite a few years now and I've found that if I don't laugh, I'll probably end up crying.
It never gets past that, though.
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Willis, it seems like every other time you post, I need to look up a word that's in the OED or Urban Dictionary but not both.
-Mimir
Yeah, and if you're anything like me it never will. They're amusing for about 35 minutes or so before you find yourself wondering why Dave didn't stick to drums. He's on par with a good karaoke night singer that has a hell of a production staff behind him to make it sound good.
Notice how he's never done an Unplugged (yet another 90's reference)?
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I've looked at the world for quite a few years now and I've found that if I don't laugh, I'll probably end up crying.
Yeah kind of.
Are we calling Danzig 90s pop?
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Willis, it seems like every other time you post, I need to look up a word that's in the OED or Urban Dictionary but not both.
-Mimir
I wouldn't call danzig pop.
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I've looked at the world for quite a few years now and I've found that if I don't laugh, I'll probably end up crying.
Then I can offer nothing to this thread.
I guess I was pretty into Smash Mouth in the 90s.
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Willis, it seems like every other time you post, I need to look up a word that's in the OED or Urban Dictionary but not both.
-Mimir
All Star is wicked fun to sing at karaoke.
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*shudders* Did...did you just say "wicked" Jace? How could you?...
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Well, there is a new accent of n00b language. It's called: Vet LUEser goes Foreign!-MegaSpy22
Those must be the pants of the gods!-Digitalpython
I seem to be upsetting all sorts of people with my perfectly innocent posts recently.
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"To truly live, one must first be born." ~ Evan [aX]
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You're a New Yorker. "Wicked" (not the musical) was banished to the depths of Boston. We say "mad".
I mean, I used to say wicked and mad a lot, but then I only said mad, for whatever reason. Turns out it's a Boston vs. New York thing.
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Well, there is a new accent of n00b language. It's called: Vet LUEser goes Foreign!-MegaSpy22
Those must be the pants of the gods!-Digitalpython
Using "mad" as an adverb is a pet peeve of mine. It sounds mad illiterate.
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"did you know that in real life all those stats for how often the average person thinks about sex are ACTUALLY about ice cream?"
Well, it's also a UK thing, which I'm sure is where it came from in my case.
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