How has your love of music changed?

1. Comparatively speaking, no. There was a stage in my adolescence, and another stage in my early twenties, where music was pretty much all I had.

2. No, I don't miss it. I think there was something toxic about it.

Yes, even more

Not at all

1. Yes. When I was in my teens metal was my music and I felt fiercly possessive of it and also a bit special and elite because of it - someting that the lyrics of a lot of metal of the time totally pandered to.

2. Yes and no. I don't feel the same intense passion anymore, but I was terribly blinkered, which isn't really healthy. It's a relief to be able to listen to and appraise pretty much anything without bias.

1. Now music is more important than ever, but I guess in a different way.
2. Miss how going to concerts used to make me feel, nowadays I just put on Spirit of Eden very loud at home and I am good.

(1) As important as ever. (I could be wrong. Do I really remember how it felt 30 years aog? At any rate, I still think it would be difficult for me survive without it, so it's pretty important.)

(2) No. I might how specific recordings or types of music used to make me feel, but not how music in general used to make me feel.

See also lots of similar threads.

yes,no

I mean I suppose I used to take it more seriously 3/4 years ago than I do now, but I didn't really geniunely enjoy it then nearly as much as I do now.

yes / chap OTM

i love music more and more each day. how can i miss how it made me feel when all i have to do is put some on and then i feel that way again?

well said

1. Yes, maybe more so.
2. Not really, I get what I used to get from music I used to like from something else. It's not like I look back and think "I wish I was still passionate about Epitaph skatepunk bands".

Oh yea, that's who Loretta Lockhorn is...(see James' post above)

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No. Yes.

For me, and this is the case with most things, the exciting and new-ness pulls me into interests until they eventually become tired and numb. I usually do lose sight of much of what has made music enjoyable for me.

On this other hand this is all bullshit, me projecting into the past. I suffer very much from the effects of nostalgia, a dream of a more innocent and fresh time, but where exciting and new was really largely the product of ignorance.

However, that's not to say exciting and new wasn't there, or wasn't any less 'magical.' It's the flashes of that which are what keep me seeking out music, which is why I'm such a huge fan of Pantha du Prince, for instance, because he makes me remember why I like music in the first place.