only five years to go

According to an article by Robert Sapolsky, your openness to new types of music dies a death at about the age of 35. Thereafter you stick to listening to the same old stuff over and over again.

To my horror, I realise that this means I only have five years left! I’d better devote some serious time and money to plundering record shops whilst I still can, before my brain starts to atrophy.

There are 4 responses to “only five years to go”:

  1. Daisy says:

    Oh I don’t know, I think it’s possible to fight against it (even unconsciously). I still channel hop on sky’s music stations and although I couldn’t tell you what’s in the top 40 (is there still a chart?) I enjoy the music. I think that’s part of it you know, I listen and enjoy, ignore the rubbish and couldn’t give a monkeys about new releases or what’s “hip” at the minute. Ah the joys of getting older!

  2. Blue Witch says:

    Yep, I’d definitely agree with that.
    But, I don’t see it as a problem….

  3. Joules says:

    Only if you let it (says the 46 year old who regularly discovers new favourites on any/all of the cable music channels - currents being Green Day, Kaiser Chiefs, System of a Down and My Chemical Romance (such pretty young boys!) But then, I was a punk when punk was in, mohican and all, so what do I know?)

  4. Stig Carlsson says:

    Dont let it! I’m 48 and still like new music. Of all sorts(except hip-hop), but i have seen it in some of my more uneducated friends. At twenty! But whe we get drunk we Do like to play Deep Purple , Pink Floyd or Swedish Left-wing Prog Rock music and Punk. Nostalgia, you know.

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