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King Kobra: if it's not too intrusive, how old are you and what kind of stuff do you listen to? I'm 22 and I buy/acquire far more records than I have time to properly digest. A situation which is about a trillion times more pleasurable than the thought of being, say, 30 and just giving up listening to new music, or interesting old music for that matter. I see it as fairly inevitable that I will eventually get round to 'getting into' jazz, for example.
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 30 May 2003 08:11 (twenty years ago) link
(I'm not sure about the obsessive part. I have hardly ever been that truly obsessive about a particular artist. It happened more in my 20's with Psychic TV--a bit of a waste of obsessiveness--than it ever happened in my teens. And I guess that ordering a UMI print of a dissertation about Oum Kalthoum could be considered somewhat obsessive, but I've never used her image as wallpaper for my PC, for instance. So I don't necessarily expect to become "obsessed" with an artist or album again.)
― Rockist Scientist, Friday, 30 May 2003 12:20 (twenty years ago) link
King Kobra: if it's not too intrusive, how old are you and what kind of stuff do you listen to?I'm 24 and I listen to all kinds of stuff. I don't think there's a single genre that I haven't made some foray into. And I listen to a lot of music. I listen to at least 10 new albums a week (and by new, I mean new to me). And I'm not saying that there aren't good songs, or even good bands. I guess what I mean is that I just doubt that I'll ever feel as strongly about a new album as I have already felt about albums I know and love. I hear new stuff and while some of it's good, I feel like I haven't found something that completely captivates me, exhilerates me, and forces me into obsession in a long while, and I-- sadly-- question whether I ever will have that experience again. Again, I don't mean to suggest that everything sucks, and I know there's enough stuff out there to keep me busy for a long time, but my personal observation has been that 90% of the stuff is rubbish, about 9.5% is good but ultimately disposable, and .5% (actually, probably less, based on a quick runthrough of my experience) is really good stuff that I would have to have on a desert island with me. I just have serious doubts whether something I haven't heard yet could make it on my desert island list.
Some albums that have done it for me in the past:
Neutral Milk Hotel : In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Stone Roses : S/T
Labradford : Fixed :: Content
Slowdive : Souvlaki
...to name a few.
― King Kobra (King Kobra), Friday, 30 May 2003 14:29 (twenty years ago) link
why wouldn't there be? Music never ends. give some dork a guitar or a sampling keyboard when he's 12 and see what happens in 10 years.
we've had a century of recorded music, and at least 2.5 decades of music since punk, so there are always new things to be found, either thru historical mining, or just by keeping your ears out.
for example, i was finally exposed to the Stone Roses this year, and Ride/Spiritualized last year. etc.
― Kingfish (Kingfish), Friday, 30 May 2003 15:01 (twenty years ago) link