What do teen-age and young men listen to nowadays?

[RickStain]

I decided about six months ago I had heard all the new music I ever needed. At 34, I've heard plenty to be in rotation forever and not get stale.

 

[Mr. Sunshine]

I decided about six months ago I had heard all the new music I ever needed. At 34, I've heard plenty to be in rotation forever and not get stale.

Ugh. I can't imagine going the rest of my life without discovering any new music. Never gets old.

 

[EStreetJoe]

Electronic signatures already are acceptable in most documents.

All of the signatures on or connected to my mortgage were given electronically.

Every document I sign for work, performance evaluations, etc., are all given electronically.

Cursive has outlived its usefulness. Typing and cybersecurity are a much better use of valuable education time nowadays.

When I did my mortgage refi earlier this year, I had to sign everything (no electronic signatures)
When I did my car loan earlier this year, I had to sign everything (no electronic signatures)
So yes, typing is very valuable, but cursive still has a place in education.

 

[Starman]

When I did my mortgage refi earlier this year, I had to sign everything (no electronic signatures)
When I did my car loan earlier this year, I had to sign everything (no electronic signatures)
So yes, typing is very valuable, but cursive still has a place in education.

Yeah, but your signature doesn't have to be in legible cursive handwriting. Whatever you scribble out on the paper counts.

 

[MisterCreosote]

My dad used to sign things with something that looked like an "O" with a squiggly line halfway through it.

My written signature is technically in cursive, but if I showed it to 100 people who didn't know my name, I doubt more than two or three would be able to tell what it is by reading it.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

I'm at least tuned in enough to know almost all the names on this list, and I've listened to maybe a third of it. I like some of it a lot. The Car Seat Headrest album is good.

I still love "discovering" new music, but increasingly it's not new at all -- just new to me.

I grew up on 80s New Wave. For a long time, that was still 90% of what I listened to. Then I decided I should really make an effort to listen to new stuff. I got a lot of popular indie stuff like Frightened Rabbit, Arcade Fire, Beach House, Best Coast, etc. Ultimately, I concluded... meh.

There's newer stuff I do really like -- Butch Walker is great, Ryan Adams, Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson -- but a lot of what I'm told I should like seems really weak to me.

At the same time, though, there are decades filled with great stuff I've never listened to. That's the music I'm discovering now. Why should I keep trying to convince myself Arcade Fire is any good where there are still like 20 Van Morrison records I haven't listened to? Right now I've got Spotify fired up and I'm listening to Wayne Shorter's Blue Note collection. Never listened to him before. He's really good. I was in New Orleans over Spring Break and picked up an Allen Toussaint record. Holy shirt, he was brilliant. I've been going down that rabbit hole for the last two months. Curtis Mayfield. The Faces. The Zombies' "Odessey and Oracle." Dennis Wilson's "Pacific Ocean Blue." The O'Jays. George Harrison's 70s stuff.

Did I write this post??

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Yeah, but your signature doesn't have to be in legible cursive handwriting. Whatever you scribble out on the paper counts.

Cursive, foiled again!

 

[swingline]

Cursive, foiled again!

Damn metric system!

 

[EStreetJoe]

Damn metric system!

Don't forget about Dewey Decimal

 

[Big Circus]

I'm at least tuned in enough to know almost all the names on this list, and I've listened to maybe a third of it. I like some of it a lot. The Car Seat Headrest album is good.

I still love "discovering" new music, but increasingly it's not new at all -- just new to me.

I grew up on 80s New Wave. For a long time, that was still 90% of what I listened to. Then I decided I should really make an effort to listen to new stuff. I got a lot of popular indie stuff like Frightened Rabbit, Arcade Fire, Beach House, Best Coast, etc. Ultimately, I concluded... meh.

There's newer stuff I do really like -- Butch Walker is great, Ryan Adams, Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson -- but a lot of what I'm told I should like seems really weak to me.

At the same time, though, there are decades filled with great stuff I've never listened to. That's the music I'm discovering now. Why should I keep trying to convince myself Arcade Fire is any good where there are still like 20 Van Morrison records I haven't listened to? Right now I've got Spotify fired up and I'm listening to Wayne Shorter's Blue Note collection. Never listened to him before. He's really good. I was in New Orleans over Spring Break and picked up an Allen Toussaint record. Holy shirt, he was brilliant. I've been going down that rabbit hole for the last two months. Curtis Mayfield. The Faces. The Zombies' "Odessey and Oracle." Dennis Wilson's "Pacific Ocean Blue." The O'Jays. George Harrison's 70s stuff.

Funny you brought up the Zombies after this batshirt story dropped last night:

They're Not There: The True Story Of The Fake Zombies, Rock's Strangest...

 

[PCLoadLetter]

Funny you brought up the Zombies after this batshirt story dropped last night:

They're Not There: The True Story Of The Fake Zombies, Rock's Strangest...

That's a great story. I knew the Zombies split in the 60s and there was some weirdness that followed, but I didn't know it was THAT.