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at least in music preference.
I recently got an XM satellite radio and I've found myself listening more and more to the 40's channel.

Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, The Andrews Sisters, Dinah Shore, Kay Kayser, and so on are what's usually played, though they do have an a capella show with current groups that's pretty good.

I realized just how much it's grown on me today when I got some really strange looks from the teenager in the car next to mine at the stoplight when I had 'Joshua' cranked up (no sub, but a nice set of Polks and a high power amp) on my car stereo.

Maybe I was born 60 years too late.

Glocksman wrote:at least in music preference.
I recently got an XM satellite radio and I've found myself listening more and more to the 40's channel.

Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, The Andrews Sisters, Dinah Shore, Kay Kayser, and so on are what's usually played, though they do have an a capella show with current groups that's pretty good.

I realized just how much it's grown on me today when I got some really strange looks from the teenager in the car next to mine at the stoplight when I had 'Joshua' cranked up (no sub, but a nice set of Polks and a high power amp) on my car stereo.

Maybe I was born 60 years too late.

Hey, that's cool. I happen to think Dean Martin was the man, and I've always thought of Jim Reeves as probably the best vocalist to ever make music. Entertainers had to have more talent then than they do now. The other factor is that modern music is mostly shit.

But... why in god's name did you get XM over SIRIUS? Are you high? Stern forever!

Two reasons:

1. XM is reputed to have slightly better sound quality because of a better DA encoding/decoding standard. At least that was the consensus on the Ars Technica A/V group.

2. Air America. I wanted to hear Al Franken for myself to see if he's as good as some people say he is. He's not. All politics aside, he provokes the same reaction in me that Rush Limbaugh does. Namely a desire to reach through the speakers and strangle him with my bare hands because he comes off as a smug asshole.

Entertainers had to have more talent then than they do now. The other factor is that modern music is mostly shit.

Isn't it amazing what a good sound engineer can do to clean up shit vocals these days?

Heh, I also maintain I was born too late. I listen to the music my parents would have if they had been into hard rock (though my dad does have some Doors). I'm also a metalhead - air guitaring, half-baked dreams of guitar godhood, and a fetish for wicked guitar soloes are all traits of mine that would fit in better 15-20 years ago.

And like in the OP, my friends and I have gotten some weird looks for driving around with Jefferson Airplane's "Somebody to Love" blaring.

My brother sometimes drives around the county seat blasting accordion polkas just for the weird looks. I go for classical, jazz, older rock, and metal myself.

I remember the time when I was with some friends in a town called Chesaning, Michigan. My grandma, very generously, was letting us stay at her place as we were passing through. This was a small town out in rural Michigan. Not podunk-size, but very white-bread and basically boring.

So my friends and I were on our way to the liquor store to pick up some booze, and we rolled down the windows, turned up the volume and started playing "Damn It Feels Good to be a Gangsta", moving our hands with the beat and everything.

I'll never forget the dirty looks we got or how hard we were laughing when we got out of the car.

I listen to the local public jazz radio station frequently, which plays its fair share of 30s-50s popular, swing, and big band, and I enjoy most of it a great deal.

It's hard to listen during the weekday hours though, because their rotation loops are really small. So to avoid hearing several of the same songs over and over again, I usually only listen at nights and over the weekends (they've got an awesome alternative/new age block on Sunday nights).

Sinatra popular in the 1940s and still class and style incarnate.

The Yosemite Bear wrote:Sinatra popular in the 1940s and still class and style incarnate.

I dunno. The Coffee Song doesn't seem very classy.

Way down among Brazilians
Coffee beans grow by the billions
So they've got to find those extra cups to fill
They've got an awful lot of coffee in Brazil

You can't get cherry soda
'cause they've got to fill that quota
And the way things are I'll bet they never will
They've got a zillion tons of coffee in Brazil

No tea or tomato juice
You'll see no potato juice
'cause the planters down in Santos all say "No, no, no"

The politician's daughter
Was accused of drinkin' water
And was fined a great big fifty dollar bill
They've got an awful lot of coffee in Brazil

<instrumental break>

You date a girl and find out later
She smells just like a percolator
Her perfume was made right on the grill
Why, they could percolate the ocean in Brazil

And when their ham and eggs need savor
Coffee ketchup gives 'em flavor
Coffee pickles way outsell the dill
Why, they put coffee in the coffee in Brazil

No tea, no tomato juice
You'll see no potato juice
The planters down in Santos all say "No, no, no"

So you'll add to the local color
Serving coffee with a cruller
Dunkin' doesn't take a lot of skill
They've got an awful lot of coffee
An awful lot of coffee
Man, they got a gang of coffee in Brazil!!

smacks glocksman with a copy of "from here to eternity" and play's "when I was 17"

The Italian in me wants to break Glocksman's knee caps for dissing The Sinatra

Personally, I dislike Sinatra, Martin, etc, too. Just don't like the sound.

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Personally, I dislike Sinatra, Martin, etc, too. Just don't like the sound.

Oh, I like them but I was just pointing out that not everything Sinatra did was classy.
His early bobby-soxer stuff was pure bubblegum.
The class and enduring style came later.

You might consider it class, but he always struck me as being a chump.