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Listening to new music is one of my favourite activities. Don't understand how people are happy to listen to the same old stuff - it must get so dull. There's

Listening to new music is one of my favourite activities. Don't understand how people are happy to listen to the same old stuff - it must get so dull. There's so much good stuff out there, and it's so exciting to find an artist, genre or new combinations of sounds I've not heard before. Bandcamp is great for this – better than Spotify or Apple Music. You can explore by artist, genre tag, label, and by people who have bought/wishlisted an album. Plus there's lots of interesting smaller artists who are not on the bigger platforms.

gnulinux 7y ago
It's the opposite for me! I hate listening old music. E.g. The Strokes (one of my favorite bands) released a new album last week. It was a pain to listen to it a few times, but I forced myself to do it since I knew after listening to >3 times I'll get hooked. Then, I listened to it every day this week!
- gnulinux 7y ago
  > I hate listening old music. I meant "new" music.
jason_zig 7y ago
If you have Spotify check out JQBX (https://www.jqbx.fm https://www.jqbx.fm) it's a great way to discover new music.
lowercased 7y ago
> Don't understand how people are happy to listen to the same old stuff I have a lot of emotional/memory attachments to certain music - it ties in with a lot of specific events in life. Listening to those 'same old stuff' albums/songs can take me back to places when I want to reminisce. I can get some of the same feelings, even smells and tastes sometimes, with the 'same old stuff'. Not all of those are 'old' like decades ago - I've got some stuff that I started digging in to just a few years ago which is now in my 'heavy rotation'.
- drawkbox 7y ago
  Nostalgia is a hell of a drug. Music can take you back to points in your life in a way that few things can. People should always listen to new and old music, like books or movies/shows, sometimes repeated listens, viewings, or reads, can open up new aspects of the music, something you didn't see or hear before.
- mgolawala 7y ago
  I am exactly like this as well. Some days I am just in the mood to listen to 'old' music. Music I listened to growing up. Other days, I crave something new. I find the same thing with foods as well. When I discover a new dish/restaurant I love, I will have it several times and relish in the new flavors/atmosphere. After a while, I still love and enjoy that dish/restaurant, but now the thrill has been replaced by a more comforting and familiar association with a fun night out. Another example, growing up, I was only allowed to drink Coke when we ate out or went on picnics, or attended sporting events. As a result, as an adult, my brain made an association between drinking coke and having a good time.
partomniscient 7y ago
Even though we appreciate it, the suggestion systems indirectly create a self-similarity of tastes amongst users. This can happen at varying levels though, where all the unique 'we are all individuals' congregate and realise they're a subculture. It completely distorts value / signal vs. noise over time and creates herd following behaviour. Even youtube/google/alphabet realised this and eventually stopped recommending the same videos to everyone. How many of us got exposed to PewDePie and the like because of the supposed wisdom/democracy/lowest common denominator etc. of the crowds? We should cherish the moments we have when things like Bandcamp allow us high quality exposure to different things.
pajaroide 7y ago
I do both, old stuff and new stuff depending on the mood. Lately I've been exploring some genres I didn't even know existed like medieval speed folk (Perkelt is a group I like) and Dungeon Synth (Fief is my favorite so far).
- criddell 7y ago
  In a recent thread somebody mentioned the My Analog Journal YouTube channel called and I've found so many great things through there. I had no idea that Japanese funk was a thing until listening to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEXZSzPpZqo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEXZSzPpZqo There's definitely still a place for radio-style DJs even if radio is basically dead.
WarOnPrivacy 7y ago
> Don't understand how people are happy to listen to the same old stuff - it must get so dull. This is my perspective. For me it's like watching people enjoy chewing glass. I am genuinely baffled that the experience isn't horribly painful for them.
- kyleee 7y ago
  I highly doubt you're actually "genuinely baffled" about why people re-listen to music they love. Why the hyperbole?
  - WarOnPrivacy 7y ago
    I am genuinely baffled because - from my perspective - any song becomes painful to hear after enough listens. This includes artists I loved beyond measure - the same artists that I can no longer stand because I've since heard them so. many. damn. times. (once they got added to every playlist in creation). I believe it's reasonable to be repulsed by overplayed music. I'm somewhat puzzled why this would be controversial.
ChrisRR 7y ago
I agree with this. We're in a golden age of access to small and/or unsigned artists who don't need to be in the top 20s to get their name out there any more. I really enjoy exploring different genres of music and finding new albums I've not heard before and devoted subreddits have been my main source of that. For me, r/progmetal is a group of devoted fans who enjoy recommending prog metal artists and albums. Nowadays a band doesn't have to be super famous and have to have a CD in a store in order for me to be able to listen to them. I read a recommendation, fire up spotify and start listening asap.
billfruit 7y ago
A lot of great music is in the back catalogue.Google music has a good catalogue for example include possibly all of the curated Grateful Dead recordings like the Dave's Picks, and Dick's Picks. Enough content for a lifetime. To find new music rather than seek out new artists, a more promising avenue might be to look into the past, there so much of great work which has fallen into obscurity.
- mattkevan 7y ago
  That is a good thing about streaming platforms - their libraries have depth. It's fun to pick an artist and listen to their entire catalogue, start to finish, over a couple of days.
twic 7y ago
> Don't understand how people are happy to listen to the same old stuff - it must get so dull. It does. But it's hard to find new stuff that i like as much as the old stuff. I used to hear new stuff on Radio 1, a generalist music channel, but don't listen to pop music radio any more - perhaps i should try that again. Back in the day, i used to go through the racks and bins of second-hand CDs in Cash Converters and buy anything that had an interesting cover. It was only 50p or something, so i could afford to buy a lot of crap. I learned about Étienne de Crécy and the KLF that way, so it was money well spent. I tried the New Releases page on LetsLoop, but the music was diabolical - all interchangeable moan-pop or mumble-rap. I routinely fire up Spotify automatically generated playlists, and there's a mix of stuff i already listen to, other stuff that is very similar (which is something!) but isn't very exciting, and weirdly incorrect selections. I've had a couple of really good leads from the random channel in a programming Slack i frequent. Tracks i liked which have led me to whole new (to me) genres. I've had some luck exploring through record labels - if i find a new band or genre i like, see if they're on an indie label, and then see who else is on that label. I won't like every band, but there's a chance i'll like some. Napalm Records has been pretty productive for me, although, infamously, they really will sign any old junk these days. I'm still digging through TimeSlaves's bins. I've also tried going via other users on Bandcamp. Pick an album i like, look at the grid of supporters under the album art, click on a few people who look interesting, and see what else they like. Oh, and i follow a Twitter account that posts bizarre or amusing reviews from a music reviews website. Sometimes i listen to the music they're reviewing.
giu 7y ago
> Listening to new music is one of my favourite activities Same here. I always get so damn happy when I find a new track that I really like. I've added a weekly reminder to listen to my Spotify account's Discovery Weekly and Release Radar (based on the people you follow) lists, and I always find new tracks; the Your Daily Mix lists are quite awesome, too, in this regard. Additionally, I have quite a few Spotify playlists for specific occasions, e.g. gym time; the nice thing about this is that as soon as you start adding tracks to those playlists, you can scroll down and it starts to recommend tracks that you might like based on the ones you just added. Since I'm quite heavily into Eletronic Music (Deep House, Afro House, etc.), I also use BeatportCharts.com's Advanced Search [0] to find new music that is ranked quite high based on a specific parameter which you can specify, e.g. rank on the charts or number of user likes. All in all I get so much excitement out of finding new music that it's basically a thing that I do on a daily basis. I'll add Bandcamp to my list of sources for finding new music :) [0] https://beatportcharts.com/search/advanced/ https://beatportcharts.com/search/advanced/
- FillardMillmore 7y ago
  A fellow house head! I must ask, are you a fan of any specific house mixes? I find that, while I do love standalone tracks, there's something absolutely ethereal about a well mixed house set, where the tracks are perfectly mixed and organically bleed into each other. On Youtube, I'm a fan of Johnny M's mixes for deep house. I've never heard of BeatportCharts, so I'll definitely check that out, thanks for the recommendation!
  - shytey 7y ago
    Not the person you responded to but this is a nice mix from The Kais on Soundcloud. https://soundcloud.com/thekais/wir-waren-wie-dick-und-doof https://soundcloud.com/thekais/wir-waren-wie-dick-und-doof Totally agree on mixes being great. If you have any specific suggestions in return please feel free to share. I'll check out Johnny M on YouTube.
    - giu 7y ago
      Soundcloud's great for finding new music, too; I have currently 1842 tracks and mixes that I liked over there. MixCloud [0] is another source for finding a lot of new electronic music tracks; the absolutely nice thing about MixCloud is that the player shows the track ID at specific timestamps within a mix, so most of the times you don't even have to use Shazam to ID a track :) [0] http://mixcloud.com http://mixcloud.com
sien 7y ago
It's funny how lots of people, including myself, get kinda stuck into a set of music. I do go out and try to find new music, but not nearly as much as other forms of media. I don't reread books that much, mostly watch films I haven't seen, play games I haven't played and largely watch new TV series.
throw0101a 7y ago
> Don't understand how people are happy to listen to the same old stuff - it must get so dull. Only if you listen to dull music. Perhaps pick higher quality stuff? A good portion of my collection was originally written before 1750: Bach, Palestrina, Tallis, etc.† Some CDs I've had for >25 years and they are still as fresh as the first day I listened to them. And even a different take on the same composition can be illuminating: Glenn Gould vs Angela Hewitt, Tallis Scholars vs The Sixteen. There's a reason why certain works regularly appear in those "Top 100" lists where they go out and ask experts: the order may sometimes be different, but the items in the top ten are often the same. Edit: a quotation by Robert Bringhurst form The Elements of Typographic Style: With type as with philosophy, music and food, it is better to have a little of the best than to be swamped with the derivative, the careless, the routine. † I have more modern stuff too: Led Zeppelin, Vampire Weekend, Arcade Fire, Pärt, Górecki, etc.
- rotoradiator 7y ago
  Nope, you are fully missing out on the advances of music production. The sounds producers can create nowdays were not available in 18th century, not even in the 80s. If you consider as music only what you can write down as sheet music you are missing out on so much. Thats why finding new artists, who can make unique sounds, not just melodies, is so rewarding.
  - throw0101a 7y ago
    > Nope, you are fully missing out on the advances of music production. Meh. I have music from Beethoven, Shostakovich , Dvořák, Orff, and many others in my collection (including the previously mentioned Gorecki and Part--also, Zeppelin). I prefer Early Music.
  - paganel 7y ago
    > not even in the 80s Not the OP but personally some of most innovative music can be found in the mainstream Italian scene of the late '60s - early '70s (including music film), you've got former "musique concrète" composers (or people interested in that type of music) like Piero Umiliani, Piero Piccioni, Armando Trovajoli or Ennio Morricone himself now composing music for the masses, I don't think anything similar has happened since then (I'd dare say that nowadays the "music for the masses" has nothing to do with avant-garde music). Add an extraordinary voice like Mina's to one of Morricone's compositions and you can get one of the best songs of all time, "Se telefonando" [1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXX4PdW7dLM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXX4PdW7dLM
Tade0 7y ago
I listen to the same music to invoke certain states. To give an example: most of my all-nighters during college started with listening to Six O'Clock by Dream Theater (lyrics very relatable to such situations BTW). To this day that starting drum solo immediately puts me into focus.
holri 7y ago
A Beethoven Sonata is always new music each time you listen carefully or play it for yourself. It depends on the quality and richness of music. Fastfood music wears off quite fast. It is made for the trash, so the industriy can sell more trash. Bach wrote music for god, as he wrote.
- jkubicek 7y ago
  There’s plenty of pop and pop-adjacent music out there that has depth, complexity, and holds up well to repeat intense listening. Radiohead, Flaming Lips, most of El-P’s work. What I think is completely missing in today’s music is the prevalence of covers. If you want, you can spend a lifetime listening to Bach sonatas, by any amount of different performers, but if there’s a specific Radiohead song you like, there’s only one and that’s all you get.
  - severine 7y ago
    I get your point but maybe not the best example, as Radiohead has been covered and remixed innumerable times... A sample: https://www.whosampled.com/Radiohead/ https://www.whosampled.com/Radiohead/ (135 samples, 336 covers, 36 remixes listed)
smoe 7y ago
I spend significant time looking for new music and exploring genres and regions new to me. I love doing that and sharing discoveries with friends. But I also think, whether music gets dull, has more to do with ones consumption behavior than whether it is fresh or not. Do you have headphones on every waking hour, constantly being exposed to music no matter what you are doing, or do you deliberately take time out of the day to sit down and listen to a musical work and not do anything else. Personally I do both to a degree. But while it is easy to find "good enough" music for the former listening mode, I find it extremely rare to find music, no matter the genre, new or old, able to fully capture my attention and emotions for extended periods of time. That are the works I value most highly and that never get dull.
nimajneb 7y ago
>Don't understand how people are happy to listen to the same old stuff - it must get so dull. I've learned over time that music I actually like I like forever. Music I'm infatuated with I eventually forget about and don't go back to listen after a while. I've been listening to Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and a few others since middle school. Over time bands have been added to that list and always enjoy listening to. For example The Clash, Sex Pistols, Bright Eyes, Nas, Biggie, etc. There is a lot of music I like for a while and is exciting, but doesn't make it onto my forever list. Others get added to that last. Everyone is different though, enjoy music the way you enjoy. Live your own life.
- moojd 7y ago
  I rarely 'fall out of love' with music I discover but I do have to take a break every once in a while. I spend most of my time listening to new indie releases or genres of the past that I haven't explored before, but then I'll get to urge to just listen to Sgt. Pepper's front to back or something. I find that when I take a break and come back to music I've listened to for years I get a bit of a nostalgia rush for the time when I first heard it. I also start to notice and appreciate parts that I may not have picked up on first listen when I can come back with a fresh mindset. I also listen to music for 8 hours a day so it's easy to burn out on things but I always come back to things I loved before eventually. Today feels like it's going to be a Built To Spill day.
- bluntfang 7y ago
  >I've been listening to...since middle school This feels like an appeal to tradition or nostalgia. I'd argue you're attempting to create the mentality you had in middle school, not that you like it more or less than other music.
  - Spivak 7y ago
    But music is art! Any reason for liking it is perfectly valid. How weird would it be to tell someone who enjoys drinking chocolate milk that they don't actually like it because it reminds them of their school lunches.
magicalhippo 7y ago
> Don't understand how people are happy to listen to the same old stuff When I find something I really like, I most likely will enjoy it long after. I'll listen to it a lot when it is fresh, and then come back at it every now and then. Just yesterday I had a listen to some of my trance/club CDs from around the 2000s[1][2]. Back then that was the kind of music I listened to all day err day, but these days not so much. But a few times a year I come back to enjoy it again. > Bandcamp is great for this Yeah love Bandcamp, their discover mixes are also quite nice. The variety, everything from heavy riffs[3] to otherwordly things like this[4]. And the artist actually gets most of the money, unlike with CDs or Spotify. [1]: DJ Tiësto & DJ Montana - Space Age 2.0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED9yN7lkWpw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED9yN7lkWpw [2]: DJ Stein H - Connected Vol. 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsVLPQGqWZA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsVLPQGqWZA [3]: https://firebreatherdoom.bandcamp.com/album/under-a-blood-moon https://firebreatherdoom.bandcamp.com/album/under-a-blood-mo... [4]: https://dakhabrakha.bandcamp.com/album/the-road https://dakhabrakha.bandcamp.com/album/the-road
slothtrop 7y ago
I love new music but I'm also at the point where I'm overwhelmed by it. There's so much interesting music out there I could never keep up. I hate to say it but the fact that great music is not that unique, and that we can easily consume it, makes it seem less meaningful. Maybe it's overconsumption and not breadth of music that does it.

gnulinux 7y ago

It's the opposite for me! I hate listening old music. E.g. The Strokes (one of my favorite bands) released a new album last week. It was a pain to listen to it a few times, but I forced myself to do it since I knew after listening to >3 times I'll get hooked. Then, I listened to it every day this week!

gnulinux 7y ago
> I hate listening old music. I meant "new" music.

jason_zig 7y ago

If you have Spotify check out JQBX (https://www.jqbx.fm https://www.jqbx.fm) it's a great way to discover new music.

lowercased 7y ago

> Don't understand how people are happy to listen to the same old stuff I have a lot of emotional/memory attachments to certain music - it ties in with a lot of specific events in life. Listening to those 'same old stuff' albums/songs can take me back to places when I want to reminisce. I can get some of the same feelings, even smells and tastes sometimes, with the 'same old stuff'. Not all of those are 'old' like decades ago - I've got some stuff that I started digging in to just a few years ago which is now in my 'heavy rotation'.

drawkbox 7y ago
Nostalgia is a hell of a drug. Music can take you back to points in your life in a way that few things can. People should always listen to new and old music, like books or movies/shows, sometimes repeated listens, viewings, or reads, can open up new aspects of the music, something you didn't see or hear before.
mgolawala 7y ago
I am exactly like this as well. Some days I am just in the mood to listen to 'old' music. Music I listened to growing up. Other days, I crave something new. I find the same thing with foods as well. When I discover a new dish/restaurant I love, I will have it several times and relish in the new flavors/atmosphere. After a while, I still love and enjoy that dish/restaurant, but now the thrill has been replaced by a more comforting and familiar association with a fun night out. Another example, growing up, I was only allowed to drink Coke when we ate out or went on picnics, or attended sporting events. As a result, as an adult, my brain made an association between drinking coke and having a good time.

partomniscient 7y ago

Even though we appreciate it, the suggestion systems indirectly create a self-similarity of tastes amongst users. This can happen at varying levels though, where all the unique 'we are all individuals' congregate and realise they're a subculture. It completely distorts value / signal vs. noise over time and creates herd following behaviour. Even youtube/google/alphabet realised this and eventually stopped recommending the same videos to everyone. How many of us got exposed to PewDePie and the like because of the supposed wisdom/democracy/lowest common denominator etc. of the crowds? We should cherish the moments we have when things like Bandcamp allow us high quality exposure to different things.

pajaroide 7y ago

I do both, old stuff and new stuff depending on the mood. Lately I've been exploring some genres I didn't even know existed like medieval speed folk (Perkelt is a group I like) and Dungeon Synth (Fief is my favorite so far).

criddell 7y ago
In a recent thread somebody mentioned the My Analog Journal YouTube channel called and I've found so many great things through there. I had no idea that Japanese funk was a thing until listening to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEXZSzPpZqo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEXZSzPpZqo There's definitely still a place for radio-style DJs even if radio is basically dead.

WarOnPrivacy 7y ago

> Don't understand how people are happy to listen to the same old stuff - it must get so dull. This is my perspective. For me it's like watching people enjoy chewing glass. I am genuinely baffled that the experience isn't horribly painful for them.

kyleee 7y ago
I highly doubt you're actually "genuinely baffled" about why people re-listen to music they love. Why the hyperbole?
- WarOnPrivacy 7y ago
  I am genuinely baffled because - from my perspective - any song becomes painful to hear after enough listens. This includes artists I loved beyond measure - the same artists that I can no longer stand because I've since heard them so. many. damn. times. (once they got added to every playlist in creation). I believe it's reasonable to be repulsed by overplayed music. I'm somewhat puzzled why this would be controversial.

ChrisRR 7y ago

I agree with this. We're in a golden age of access to small and/or unsigned artists who don't need to be in the top 20s to get their name out there any more. I really enjoy exploring different genres of music and finding new albums I've not heard before and devoted subreddits have been my main source of that. For me, r/progmetal is a group of devoted fans who enjoy recommending prog metal artists and albums. Nowadays a band doesn't have to be super famous and have to have a CD in a store in order for me to be able to listen to them. I read a recommendation, fire up spotify and start listening asap.

billfruit 7y ago

A lot of great music is in the back catalogue.Google music has a good catalogue for example include possibly all of the curated Grateful Dead recordings like the Dave's Picks, and Dick's Picks. Enough content for a lifetime. To find new music rather than seek out new artists, a more promising avenue might be to look into the past, there so much of great work which has fallen into obscurity.

mattkevan 7y ago
That is a good thing about streaming platforms - their libraries have depth. It's fun to pick an artist and listen to their entire catalogue, start to finish, over a couple of days.

twic 7y ago

> Don't understand how people are happy to listen to the same old stuff - it must get so dull. It does. But it's hard to find new stuff that i like as much as the old stuff. I used to hear new stuff on Radio 1, a generalist music channel, but don't listen to pop music radio any more - perhaps i should try that again. Back in the day, i used to go through the racks and bins of second-hand CDs in Cash Converters and buy anything that had an interesting cover. It was only 50p or something, so i could afford to buy a lot of crap. I learned about Étienne de Crécy and the KLF that way, so it was money well spent. I tried the New Releases page on LetsLoop, but the music was diabolical - all interchangeable moan-pop or mumble-rap. I routinely fire up Spotify automatically generated playlists, and there's a mix of stuff i already listen to, other stuff that is very similar (which is something!) but isn't very exciting, and weirdly incorrect selections. I've had a couple of really good leads from the random channel in a programming Slack i frequent. Tracks i liked which have led me to whole new (to me) genres. I've had some luck exploring through record labels - if i find a new band or genre i like, see if they're on an indie label, and then see who else is on that label. I won't like every band, but there's a chance i'll like some. Napalm Records has been pretty productive for me, although, infamously, they really will sign any old junk these days. I'm still digging through TimeSlaves's bins. I've also tried going via other users on Bandcamp. Pick an album i like, look at the grid of supporters under the album art, click on a few people who look interesting, and see what else they like. Oh, and i follow a Twitter account that posts bizarre or amusing reviews from a music reviews website. Sometimes i listen to the music they're reviewing.

giu 7y ago

> Listening to new music is one of my favourite activities Same here. I always get so damn happy when I find a new track that I really like. I've added a weekly reminder to listen to my Spotify account's Discovery Weekly and Release Radar (based on the people you follow) lists, and I always find new tracks; the Your Daily Mix lists are quite awesome, too, in this regard. Additionally, I have quite a few Spotify playlists for specific occasions, e.g. gym time; the nice thing about this is that as soon as you start adding tracks to those playlists, you can scroll down and it starts to recommend tracks that you might like based on the ones you just added. Since I'm quite heavily into Eletronic Music (Deep House, Afro House, etc.), I also use BeatportCharts.com's Advanced Search [0] to find new music that is ranked quite high based on a specific parameter which you can specify, e.g. rank on the charts or number of user likes. All in all I get so much excitement out of finding new music that it's basically a thing that I do on a daily basis. I'll add Bandcamp to my list of sources for finding new music :) [0] https://beatportcharts.com/search/advanced/ https://beatportcharts.com/search/advanced/

FillardMillmore 7y ago
A fellow house head! I must ask, are you a fan of any specific house mixes? I find that, while I do love standalone tracks, there's something absolutely ethereal about a well mixed house set, where the tracks are perfectly mixed and organically bleed into each other. On Youtube, I'm a fan of Johnny M's mixes for deep house. I've never heard of BeatportCharts, so I'll definitely check that out, thanks for the recommendation!
- shytey 7y ago
  Not the person you responded to but this is a nice mix from The Kais on Soundcloud. https://soundcloud.com/thekais/wir-waren-wie-dick-und-doof https://soundcloud.com/thekais/wir-waren-wie-dick-und-doof Totally agree on mixes being great. If you have any specific suggestions in return please feel free to share. I'll check out Johnny M on YouTube.
  - giu 7y ago
    Soundcloud's great for finding new music, too; I have currently 1842 tracks and mixes that I liked over there. MixCloud [0] is another source for finding a lot of new electronic music tracks; the absolutely nice thing about MixCloud is that the player shows the track ID at specific timestamps within a mix, so most of the times you don't even have to use Shazam to ID a track :) [0] http://mixcloud.com http://mixcloud.com

sien 7y ago

It's funny how lots of people, including myself, get kinda stuck into a set of music. I do go out and try to find new music, but not nearly as much as other forms of media. I don't reread books that much, mostly watch films I haven't seen, play games I haven't played and largely watch new TV series.

throw0101a 7y ago

> Don't understand how people are happy to listen to the same old stuff - it must get so dull. Only if you listen to dull music. Perhaps pick higher quality stuff? A good portion of my collection was originally written before 1750: Bach, Palestrina, Tallis, etc.† Some CDs I've had for >25 years and they are still as fresh as the first day I listened to them. And even a different take on the same composition can be illuminating: Glenn Gould vs Angela Hewitt, Tallis Scholars vs The Sixteen. There's a reason why certain works regularly appear in those "Top 100" lists where they go out and ask experts: the order may sometimes be different, but the items in the top ten are often the same. Edit: a quotation by Robert Bringhurst form The Elements of Typographic Style: With type as with philosophy, music and food, it is better to have a little of the best than to be swamped with the derivative, the careless, the routine. † I have more modern stuff too: Led Zeppelin, Vampire Weekend, Arcade Fire, Pärt, Górecki, etc.

rotoradiator 7y ago
Nope, you are fully missing out on the advances of music production. The sounds producers can create nowdays were not available in 18th century, not even in the 80s. If you consider as music only what you can write down as sheet music you are missing out on so much. Thats why finding new artists, who can make unique sounds, not just melodies, is so rewarding.
- throw0101a 7y ago
  > Nope, you are fully missing out on the advances of music production. Meh. I have music from Beethoven, Shostakovich , Dvořák, Orff, and many others in my collection (including the previously mentioned Gorecki and Part--also, Zeppelin). I prefer Early Music.
- paganel 7y ago
  > not even in the 80s Not the OP but personally some of most innovative music can be found in the mainstream Italian scene of the late '60s - early '70s (including music film), you've got former "musique concrète" composers (or people interested in that type of music) like Piero Umiliani, Piero Piccioni, Armando Trovajoli or Ennio Morricone himself now composing music for the masses, I don't think anything similar has happened since then (I'd dare say that nowadays the "music for the masses" has nothing to do with avant-garde music). Add an extraordinary voice like Mina's to one of Morricone's compositions and you can get one of the best songs of all time, "Se telefonando" [1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXX4PdW7dLM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXX4PdW7dLM

Tade0 7y ago

I listen to the same music to invoke certain states. To give an example: most of my all-nighters during college started with listening to Six O'Clock by Dream Theater (lyrics very relatable to such situations BTW). To this day that starting drum solo immediately puts me into focus.

holri 7y ago

A Beethoven Sonata is always new music each time you listen carefully or play it for yourself. It depends on the quality and richness of music. Fastfood music wears off quite fast. It is made for the trash, so the industriy can sell more trash. Bach wrote music for god, as he wrote.

jkubicek 7y ago
There’s plenty of pop and pop-adjacent music out there that has depth, complexity, and holds up well to repeat intense listening. Radiohead, Flaming Lips, most of El-P’s work. What I think is completely missing in today’s music is the prevalence of covers. If you want, you can spend a lifetime listening to Bach sonatas, by any amount of different performers, but if there’s a specific Radiohead song you like, there’s only one and that’s all you get.
- severine 7y ago
  I get your point but maybe not the best example, as Radiohead has been covered and remixed innumerable times... A sample: https://www.whosampled.com/Radiohead/ https://www.whosampled.com/Radiohead/ (135 samples, 336 covers, 36 remixes listed)

smoe 7y ago

I spend significant time looking for new music and exploring genres and regions new to me. I love doing that and sharing discoveries with friends. But I also think, whether music gets dull, has more to do with ones consumption behavior than whether it is fresh or not. Do you have headphones on every waking hour, constantly being exposed to music no matter what you are doing, or do you deliberately take time out of the day to sit down and listen to a musical work and not do anything else. Personally I do both to a degree. But while it is easy to find "good enough" music for the former listening mode, I find it extremely rare to find music, no matter the genre, new or old, able to fully capture my attention and emotions for extended periods of time. That are the works I value most highly and that never get dull.

nimajneb 7y ago

>Don't understand how people are happy to listen to the same old stuff - it must get so dull. I've learned over time that music I actually like I like forever. Music I'm infatuated with I eventually forget about and don't go back to listen after a while. I've been listening to Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and a few others since middle school. Over time bands have been added to that list and always enjoy listening to. For example The Clash, Sex Pistols, Bright Eyes, Nas, Biggie, etc. There is a lot of music I like for a while and is exciting, but doesn't make it onto my forever list. Others get added to that last. Everyone is different though, enjoy music the way you enjoy. Live your own life.

moojd 7y ago
I rarely 'fall out of love' with music I discover but I do have to take a break every once in a while. I spend most of my time listening to new indie releases or genres of the past that I haven't explored before, but then I'll get to urge to just listen to Sgt. Pepper's front to back or something. I find that when I take a break and come back to music I've listened to for years I get a bit of a nostalgia rush for the time when I first heard it. I also start to notice and appreciate parts that I may not have picked up on first listen when I can come back with a fresh mindset. I also listen to music for 8 hours a day so it's easy to burn out on things but I always come back to things I loved before eventually. Today feels like it's going to be a Built To Spill day.
bluntfang 7y ago
>I've been listening to...since middle school This feels like an appeal to tradition or nostalgia. I'd argue you're attempting to create the mentality you had in middle school, not that you like it more or less than other music.
- Spivak 7y ago
  But music is art! Any reason for liking it is perfectly valid. How weird would it be to tell someone who enjoys drinking chocolate milk that they don't actually like it because it reminds them of their school lunches.

magicalhippo 7y ago

> Don't understand how people are happy to listen to the same old stuff When I find something I really like, I most likely will enjoy it long after. I'll listen to it a lot when it is fresh, and then come back at it every now and then. Just yesterday I had a listen to some of my trance/club CDs from around the 2000s[1][2]. Back then that was the kind of music I listened to all day err day, but these days not so much. But a few times a year I come back to enjoy it again. > Bandcamp is great for this Yeah love Bandcamp, their discover mixes are also quite nice. The variety, everything from heavy riffs[3] to otherwordly things like this[4]. And the artist actually gets most of the money, unlike with CDs or Spotify. [1]: DJ Tiësto & DJ Montana - Space Age 2.0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED9yN7lkWpw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED9yN7lkWpw [2]: DJ Stein H - Connected Vol. 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsVLPQGqWZA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsVLPQGqWZA [3]: https://firebreatherdoom.bandcamp.com/album/under-a-blood-moon https://firebreatherdoom.bandcamp.com/album/under-a-blood-mo... [4]: https://dakhabrakha.bandcamp.com/album/the-road https://dakhabrakha.bandcamp.com/album/the-road

slothtrop 7y ago

I love new music but I'm also at the point where I'm overwhelmed by it. There's so much interesting music out there I could never keep up. I hate to say it but the fact that great music is not that unique, and that we can easily consume it, makes it seem less meaningful. Maybe it's overconsumption and not breadth of music that does it.