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You've hit on a very big part of listening to music that appears largely lost today. Composers would know that they had a captive audience for so long a time an

by sosuke 9y ago

You've hit on a very big part of listening to music that appears largely lost today. Composers would know that they had a captive audience for so long a time and would be able to create large narratives in their music that just can't be pulled off today. I have a hard time imagining just sitting down to listen to music. Not listen to music and converse or eat. Not listen to music and browse the web. Just listening to music sounds like a hard task. However when I am at a live concert it is very easy to completely focus on the music even over a couple of hours. I can see the instruments and my other senses are involved in the experience.

vertex-four 9y ago
There's still a lot of narrative-based music, it's just not heavily pushed in music stores and on the radio. A lot of it sits on bandcamp - the New Albion trilogy, The Mechanisms' sets, etc etc.
- sosuke 9y ago
  Thanks for the leads I'm always looking to expand my horizon.
  - lastflowers 9y ago
    I've been using the Store at VinylMePlease every few months to discover new bands. I'll put their albums on a Spotify list and remove those that really don't jive.
kazinator 9y ago
> You've hit on a very big part of listening to music that appears largely lost today. The big part that is lost today is the music.
- some-guy 9y ago
  Nonsense: there was plenty of horrible music that came out in the past that did not stand the test of time. Ironically it's all on Spotify now for your enjoyment :)
mtalantikite 9y ago
Agreed. Even the way that a service like Spotify organizes its application seems to be based around the song rather than the album. I tend to listen to entire albums still, so years ago I hit a saved music maximum in Spotify because they limit the amount of songs you can have in your collection. These days I usually have to go through my saved music collection and un-save random albums just to add more in to download for offline play. As a teenager in the 90s I started buying vinyl because it was cheap and browsing a local record store was the best way to discover music, mainly jazz and hip hop. I'd spend hours a day just listening to albums from start to finish, reading liner notes, doing nothing else. A couple decades later and I still discover most of my music the same way. Spotify's Discover Weekly often is good, but it never matches the random LP dug up that completely opens your mind to a style or form you've never run into before.

by sosuke 9y ago

vertex-four 9y ago

There's still a lot of narrative-based music, it's just not heavily pushed in music stores and on the radio. A lot of it sits on bandcamp - the New Albion trilogy, The Mechanisms' sets, etc etc.

sosuke 9y ago
Thanks for the leads I'm always looking to expand my horizon.
- lastflowers 9y ago
  I've been using the Store at VinylMePlease every few months to discover new bands. I'll put their albums on a Spotify list and remove those that really don't jive.

kazinator 9y ago

> You've hit on a very big part of listening to music that appears largely lost today. The big part that is lost today is the music.

some-guy 9y ago
Nonsense: there was plenty of horrible music that came out in the past that did not stand the test of time. Ironically it's all on Spotify now for your enjoyment :)

mtalantikite 9y ago

Agreed. Even the way that a service like Spotify organizes its application seems to be based around the song rather than the album. I tend to listen to entire albums still, so years ago I hit a saved music maximum in Spotify because they limit the amount of songs you can have in your collection. These days I usually have to go through my saved music collection and un-save random albums just to add more in to download for offline play. As a teenager in the 90s I started buying vinyl because it was cheap and browsing a local record store was the best way to discover music, mainly jazz and hip hop. I'd spend hours a day just listening to albums from start to finish, reading liner notes, doing nothing else. A couple decades later and I still discover most of my music the same way. Spotify's Discover Weekly often is good, but it never matches the random LP dug up that completely opens your mind to a style or form you've never run into before.