As I get older my musical tastes change to music before my time. Why does this happen?

[Pat Vegas]

The older you get the further back you go?

I find myself listening to Led Zeppelin.
My dad would used to listen to this stuff but as he is older he now listens to 50's stuff

Then my grandfather listens to classical. So what's the connection of aging and musical tastes going backwards?

[Berni]

You no longer have any social pressures to be up to date in terms of your tastes and - equally - you come to realise that most modern stuff is a direct echo of older (usually better) stuff that's gone before.

[Classic Jorge]

[Pat Vegas]

[Classic Jorge]

Cream are utterly wonderful, the best three piece band ever. Even mores than The Hendrix Experience.

imo

[Berni]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

As you get older you tend to have less trust in modern music so the logical route is backwards through the classics, and then from there you may read of other acts which perhaps influenced the classics or who were peers of.

I am listening to lot of modern electronic and ambient music at the moment as it happens, totally contradictory to the above.

[redgunamo]

It's not so much "changing" as "reverting".