Here's another choice post from that dairy:

'serious' v. 'classical'
this is an interesting linguistic issue. I have a friend who is also a composer of "serious" music - except that he has a great musical sense of humor, so calling his music "serious" doesn't really work either. Personally, I like calling it "modern" or even "postmodern", since his musical sensibility was formed in the 60's-70's.

And I once read a very perceptive and funny thing about how you could tell what decade a person had been born in by what they called a machine that plays pre-recorded music:

"talking machine": 1900-1910
"gramophone": 1910-1920
"victrola": 1920-1930
"phonograph": 1930-1940
"hi-fi": 1940-1950
"stereo": 1950-1960

..and there it ended, but the technology kept marching on. Not sure if it's as easy to peg people who listened to 8-tracks, cassette tapes, CDs, or mp3's in their formative years?

by sidnora on Sat Jun 17, 2006 at 02:27:32 PM"

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The poster forgot "turn table". I don't know when that term started to be used {1990s?}. She also forgot "record player"- I guess that's from the 1950s.