2008: The Year I Officially Lost My Edge!

me personally i listen to a mixture of old music and new music.

― ♪☺♫☻ (gr8080), Friday, November 28, 2008 3:49 AM Bookmark

Yeah, I do this, too. It's really incredible! Today I listened to Shiela E. and The Bug.

at the same time?

sounds like a dope collabo. someone should set them up

This is a great thread. I've been trying to find a thread that mark s started about "what would be the consequences if no noew music was produced for an entire year" but he probably named it something like "encyclopedia of perverted moratoria"

this isn't it: Who needs new music?

this was a good thread too:

If you had to choose between listening to all new music/music to be made in the future and NO music made in the past or music from the past but NO new/future music what would you choose?

It will be a dark day indeed when I lose the urge to seek out new music. I take the points about signal-to-noise - but it's still mostly signal (especially in years as fruitful as this one), and I can still glean background knowledge from the chaff. For me, "keeping up" is all tied up with experiencing the now-ness of now, and that's a feeling to which I still ascribe a high value.

Also, I've found that my tastes have broadened rather than narrowed with age; I'd never have predicted developing a taste for English folk music, for instance. The only area where I've had to admit defeat is hip-hop: my hip-hop gene has slipped down the back of my critical sofa, and I can't find it anywhere, where have you hidden it?

Mike - keep an eye on the BiA EoY list round about Christmas time; it might help you relocate it!

I have retired from pursuing music. I'm into taking photographs and cooking now, I think.

Why send out music poll forms then?

That's a joint venture.

Where was that "recommend albums for Nick" thread?

See, after "Odessey", I'd pick The Kinks' "Arthur" as being of that ilk.

I did find Billy Nicholls' "Would you realise" and it's mmm.... dunno.

"Would you believe", that is.

Title suggested by Jimmy Savile?

I have retired from pursuing music. I'm into taking photographs and cooking now, I think.

You cloning me or something? (That said I haven't stopped, merely supplemented.)

This thread seems to have tried to be a variant of the threads Tracer linked to Would trade your music collection for every album Robert Christgau declared a "Must To Avoid"?.

I'm 37, I haven't kept up with new music since probably 2002. I go through heavy downloading periods for a couple of weeks, I get busy, it starts to seem like a chore, then I stop. I've had a few periods where I listened to nothing but hair metal, or nothing but acoustic instrumental music, these generally last about six months, or until I get tired of it. Probably the last 'new' group that I really loved was Sigur Ros back at the turn of the century. No new music has affected me in the same way since, I'm starting to think that really falling in love with a band is something that only young people do.

I'm married with a baby now, so I don't have all day to seek out new music on blogs, but that's not really an excuse, as RSS and sites like hypemachine basically exist for this purpose. I also sort of resent a lot of the music review sites telling me what the hip new thing is, I've bought stuff blind on their recommendation so many times and have been burned so much that I've started to become very cynical. I don't listen to the radio, and my iPod plays news podcasts and audiobooks about 50 percent of the time. I also started to really get into playing piano and guitar, so a lot of the music I hear in my spare time is made by my own hands. I'd really like to start following music again this year - not even new music necessarily, it can be old music I've never heard that's new to me.

Yeah, I do this, too. It's really incredible! Today I listened to Shiela E. and The Bug.

― The Saving Grace of Gospel House (The Reverend), Friday, November 28, 2008 4:04 AM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

at the same time?

― GSOHSHIT (blueski), Friday, November 28, 2008 4:13 AM Bookmark

No, but I have listened to The Bug & Chrome at the same time! It is awesome! See here:

Recommend me something with a lot of electronic beeps

oooh actually we should hook up chrome with sheila e

I'm having some serious issues with all this stuff too. I've heard a ton of new-to-me music that I've loved this year... very little of which was first released this year. Most of the newly-recorded stuff I've heard recently has the same effect on me as eighth-tier college rock from 1990--I can practically see the "When You Play It, Say It!" stickers on it.

me personally i listen to a mixture of old music and new music.

― ♪☺♫☻ (gr8080), Friday, November 28, 2008 3:49 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

sometimes i listen to the same cd for weeks on end.

― ♪☺♫☻ (gr8080), Friday, November 28, 2008 3:49 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i'll go months where all i listen to is talk radio in the car and the occasional steely dan or tupac song on youtube.

― ♪☺♫☻ (gr8080), Friday, November 28, 2008 3:50 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink