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[cheekbones3]

After observing the generally dismal performance in quiz music rounds of younger participants, I'm wondering if they are just struggling due to a lack of general musical knowledge (as I did on occasion at that age, although nowhere near that much), or whether the explosion in sources of musical broadcasts, and the one-dimensional nature of many of these sources is meaning that a lot of people are now illiterate to most music outside their own sphere of interest. Conversely, this may always have been the case, but I point to such programmes as "Pick of the Pops" which used to expose me to a lot of older music when I listened to Radio 1 constantly during the eighties, which now has fallen victim to an almost exclusively contemporary playlist, and resides on Radio 2.

(Please bear in mind, this is my usual back-of-envelope thinking, and coherence may only come after I see some results coming in, or at least how uninformative my options are)

And so, a poll!:


[Poll #598249]

Comments

[deililly.livejournal.com]

What kind of stuff do the kids usually fall down on?

[cheekbones3.livejournal.com]

Anything and everything apart from the really really well known stuff, and even then they sometimes struggle. I am curious at how you've ticked Virgin though, since you must have been almost sixteen at the youngest when it first went on air!

[deililly.livejournal.com]

Doesn't that count as childhood? :P

Actually I remember it being quite a thing at school when it started. We all converted to listening to it.

[cheekbones3.livejournal.com]

Yep I used to listen to it quite a lot too until they descended into playing the same songs in every show, and esepcially their Oasis/The Verve obsession. To be honest, most of my idea for this poll was looking at pre-eleven years old (proper childhood!), as this is where I gained a hell of a lot of my general musical experiences! After that age, I was mainly obsessed with dance music, then metal.

[deililly.livejournal.com]

Well see that doesn't quite work in my head since my teens was when I really learned about music. My mother is more tv than music orientated so it was only when I started paying attention at school and especially at uni that I really soaked anything up. Pre-11 was a wasteland with the occasional Now tape at Xmas for me! Do people really learn more about music before age 11? I wouldn't have thought so to be honest.

[cheekbones3.livejournal.com]

Aye you might be right. I just grew up with the radio being on a lot of the time - the telly was only ever on during the evening really, and even then I'd lie in bed listening to my clock radio obsessively when I first got one in about 1985.

[headinclouds.livejournal.com]

I think you still probably have a valid point though. When I read that question I was thinking about when I was around 12 and under, and how a lot of my musical taste/knowledge was developed when I was young and listening to my parents record collection, especially when we were on holiday (where there tended to be no TV) or taking long trips by car. At home, the radio in the dining room was (and still is) always on all weekend, and often at dinner times, so a huge amount of teh music I know is from that.

[cheekbones3.livejournal.com]

I'm not weird then :)

[silverclear.livejournal.com]

I don't think anyone would go that far :p