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Apr 05, 2009 18:10

I used to love being on the cutting edge of music. I kept up with all the latest bands, knew all the hippest songs, and forced horrible, almost unlistenable music on my friends because I knew about it and they didn't.

Cut to present day where I feel like I have absolutely no idea what bands are 'in', and in actuality, the thought of all of these ( Read more... )

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hyperform April 5 2009, 22:17:14 UTC

i've been there for a while. There are only a few things I've heard recently that I thought were interesting. I think we're just in a lull of repetitive music, like happens from time to time. Like the early 90s were full of great music, and the late 90s were not.

grooverobot April 5 2009, 22:19:52 UTC

It's obviously all personal taste, but I agree with you. Also, the early 90's was the best time for music...ever.

hyperform April 5 2009, 22:23:05 UTC

i'm actually having this argument elsewhere right now. I'm often accused of being set in my ways and really picky about music, but in my opinion it's just that I really like original music. If I hear a band that sounds cool, I'm likely to dig it, but when there are ten other bands that sound identical that just sort of emulate it, I'm likely to not dig it. It's not new or interesting, it's formulaic. I just hate when things fall into predictable formulas and repetitive production styles. Like I'm really even over steve albini, because the albums he produces all end up sound really similar, especially recently.

sauce1977 April 5 2009, 22:42:42 UTC

Now comes the time where you weed out the stuff you just collected but didn't really like from 5 years ago. And then you keep branching out to stuff you previously overlooked, but now realize it's quality.

joshdahl April 6 2009, 01:00:24 UTC

Like Grampa Simpson said.....

"I used to be 'with it'
but then 'it' changed. And what I was with wasn't 'it' anymore.
And what was 'it' seemed weird and scary.
It'll happen to YOU"

alsoname April 6 2009, 04:06:04 UTC

This just means you're getting OLD!

Don't worry, it happened to me, too. And it happened to me way earlier than I thought it had a right to.

craniumsoftener April 7 2009, 02:52:55 UTC

You aren't the only one.

Can you believe that when I first met Geoff Hudson, he had red dreadlocks, always wore combat boots and listen mostly to industrial music. Now look at him--retro DJ god!

As for myself, I recently downloaded a Leo Sayer song, and I played it three times over.

Anyway, I realized later that just trying to keep up with music just for the sake of keeping up is tiring. From then on out my underground tastes stopped at about 2003. I guess we aren't all cut out to be life-long obscure record collectors like Thurston Moore.

grooverobot April 7 2009, 03:02:18 UTC

It's weird that it is so tiring. It barely takes any effort to find and enjoy music - but it's not the act of listening, it's the act of keeping up with everyone. I haven't done that for some time, now, but the thought sticks with me. It's just a habit.

And I think he should have kept the dreads.