for ska-punk

people like ian mackaye/thurston moore/mike watt are in their 40's/50's and are/were members of some stupidly great bands, and still listen to great music, then i think the "old" thing goes out of the window. you should be able to listen to whatever music you want at whatever age and not get told you're too old/young for it.

category, but i think on an individual level you can grow out of a band.

i used to love feeder when i was a teenager. i still do like their first 2 albums a lot, and comfort in sound, but only ever listen to them occasionally as a nostalgia kick really.

some bands do tend to have younger audiences than others, but i dont think that in general you can be too old for a band unless you have just moved on. In 5 years time i might be back loving feeder with a genuine renewed passion, though music will have gotten really boring for that to happen...

Look in my profile, check it out.

I have always liked what I like, when I like. I feel a little out of place at gigs sometimes, but no one has come up to me and said look man you are too old to be at a Liars show, or scoffed at me so I could notice. Like whatever you can before you are dead. Most people let their music taste buds wither before they are 30. Tell your friend to lighten up, it is they who grow old too soon.

Ain't no rules for loving music

ok?

I'll probably drop dead at a gig.

I'm going to see Boris in July. I've got a Wolfmother shirt on right now.

Kids and olds are always asking me about music- what should I do? Give it up and settle down with dark side of the moon till they put me in a home?

Oh Emmi, you're such a girl.

You get too old for some music but you start appreciating music you were previously too young for.

i think there are certain bands that are aimed at a teenage audience. i would definitely be too old for chart-friendly emo-lite (paramore being a good example, not that i particularly like them). i think this would be most evident at a gig, but like the guy above said, there are people in their 50s at most of the gigs i go to, and i don't think anyone regards it as odd!

I'm 27 now and scoff at the NME hype bands of today, which I didn't do a good few years ago.

but sometimes your taste changes ( and sometimes not... )

but we all know those people are twats

with that band being shit.

Now I'm 30 and I still love Sonic Youth and Joy Division - which means I've loved them for longer than I've not loved them which is cool.

I think my tastes have broadened a lot (when I was 14 I had about 10 bands I loved and everything else sucked) and now I listen to all sorts from ambient droney stuff to grindcore.

Anyway, in conclusion John Peel was about 60 when he died wasn't he?

In my opinion. I'm 13, almost 14, I like 70s/80s rock. I listen to Radar Love, American Pie, Blinded by the light ect. I also like Feeder, Blink 182, Greenday. And if you've heard of him Scroobius Pip. Quite a broad range of music tastes there for a teen methinks :p.

Basically, for me it comes down to whether or not it's a bloody good tune. If it is, I'll listen to it, regardless of when it was released or who it's target audience is.

Although he might have been off the mark every now and then, he was pretty much at the forefront of new and cutting edge music until he died. He was into it all- grime, metal, techno...

So, I really don't think age matters that much. Perhaps only if you let the bullshit of society (yehman!) dictate what you listen to...

that it's an age thing, if you're 12 or 57, three people playing 'together' whilst so obviously, so far apart will always sound really really bad. What makes Born Ruffians enjoyable, period, (to any age group) is far more mystifying?

were great. Someone said maybe it's an "age" thing. After not listening to them for about 5 years, i put the album on yesterday. For a couple of minutes. It turns out that person was right.

that if the band were younger than me then it'd be a bit embarrassing, but then realised that's the stupidest thing I've ever thought of.

Sure there's an age thing. We've boy bands for youngsters. Muse for teenage boys...metal for morons...Michael McDonald for middle-aged dentists...Mozart for old people.

Someone's gonna say, "My gran listens to N'Synch" okay whatever. My marketing demographics don't lie!

born ruffians... I think some people just get intermidated in discovering new stuff cos aparently thats what the kids do.

My mum loves alot of the random stuff I play her like Youthmovies and a DJ set of deranged house tunes from set at the scala by my mate.

So I think its more to do with the indervidual rather than age.

grow old gracefully with you're music taste. If you like something that a load of teenagers like, what's to stop you?

Born Ruffians are a hype band and as a resuly heavily associated with teenagers... if it werent for the NME hype I dont think the association would be made. Did you not see the crowd at ATP, all around your age!

and like The Wombats.

Give a shit.