I never dated......

[dino_electropolis]

How does one define music as "dated"?

This subject has come up on the show many times, more often of late, and a poster on another thread stated something like the "Thriller" album sounds dated because it has atari-like blips and beeps.....but does that make it sound dated? Are all symphonies dated because Mozart/Beethoven etc. composed their pieces in that style, with those types of instruments/sounds?

Maybe so. I dunno. Thats why i'm asking:

What makes music sound dated? Is it the instruments? The arraingement? Or perhaps the listeners own memories?

[PapaBear]

Style, sometimes the instruments, and sometimes the lyric content.

[biggirl]

I've never considered music as "dated". Weird.

[jennysmurf]

That's interesting. What makes one type of music or song a classic, while another's dated? Maybe the coolness factor? For example, I feel that new wave is dated, where blues is classic. Hmmmmm....

[MC Pee Pants]

I've never considered music as "dated". Weird.

Me neither, Limp Bizkit is timeless.

[razorboy]

Me neither, Limp Bizkit is timeless.

No, she meant she has never had a date.

[jennysmurf]

No, she meant she has never had a date.

I thought she meant she'd never considered dating weird people. That's how I read it.

[DolaMight]

if you can make the same sound on a dollar store toy cellphone that song is dated.

BTW fuck moog.

[razorboy]

if you can make the same sound on a dollar store toy cellphone that song is dated.

Song #2.

[ToiletCrusher]

... a black girl.

[Kublakhan61]

What about music that sounds dated when it comes out? Ever consider that?

Examples: MF Doom's Operation Doomsday OR M83's Saturday's = Youth

I don't like either of these albums due to their dated sound.
Actully, M83 is revolting, but that 80's sound doesn't help anything.

[instrument]

Dated to me usually mean its a style that a certain time is known for
.
A great example is the auto-tune thing, that has automatically "dated" those artists to this time period.

[Sue_Bender]

The 1980's tainted several great songs by artists who made their mark in the years prior.

I can't get past a lot of the drum machine/synth production. It worked for 80's bands like Flock of Seagulls...

that's it.

[JerseyRich]

I really think it has to do with the combination of drum sounds and reverb/echo.

A classic example of this is Stevie Ray Vaughn.

The guy was amazing but I find it hard to listen to a lot of his studio recordings because it has this "slick 80s" recording vibe to it. It's very very clean and the drums just have an awful sound to them.

For this reason alone I think Stevie Ray Vaughn's recordings sound "dated."

If only he had lived another 10 years or so, we might be able to enjoy some frighteningly good, classic recordings of him.