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I am beginning to miss the times in my life where all I could afford was just a couple of albums per year, max. I would listen to the tracks over and over and o

I am beginning to miss the times in my life where all I could afford was just a couple of albums per year, max. I would listen to the tracks over and over and over again, fully immerse myself in the experience, assign my own meaning to the lyrics based on my own experiences in life at the time and permanently associate songs with feelings, situations and people. Now I have seemingly infinite choices and nothing seems to satisfy me anymore. One of the things I used to love to do growing up was driving and listening to music. Now I just skip songs during my commute until I reach my destination because I'm always thinking that maybe the next thing that spotify will throw at me will be an even more enjoyable thing somehow.

mat0 3y ago
And to your comment, I remember not even fully understanding some of the lyrics, so I would just try to come up with phrases that made sense to me. Worse, not being a native English speaker.
- defrost 3y ago
  Just go all in; Ken Lee, tulibu dibu douchoo is a glorious mondegreen of baseless self confidence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQt-h753jHI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQt-h753jHI
  - throw0101c 3y ago
    I call your mis-understood English song, and raise you one song purposefully written to use fake-English sounding 'words': > The song is intended to sound to its Italian audience as if it is sung in English spoken with an American accent, however the lyrics are deliberately unintelligible gibberish with the exception of the words "all right".[8][9] Andrew Khan, writing in The Guardian, later described the sound as reminiscent of Bob Dylan's output from the 1980s.[9] > Celentano's intention with the song was not to create a humorous novelty song but to explore communication barriers. The intent was to demonstrate how English sounds to people who do not understand the language proficiently. "Ever since I started singing, I was very influenced by American music and everything Americans did. So at a certain point, because I like American slang—which, for a singer, is much easier to sing than Italian—I thought that I would write a song which would only have as its theme the inability to communicate. And to do this, I had to write a song where the lyrics didn't mean anything."[6] * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisencolinensinainciusol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisencolinensinainciusol * Audio-only: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQDY3HFkh_Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQDY3HFkh_Y * M/V: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8 Quite catchy.
- doctor_eval 3y ago
  My German wife’s sister famously (in our family) used to sing along to a song called “Jamaica the Sun” (Jamaika die Sonne). It was U2’s “Sunday Bloody Sunday”
dvfjsdhgfv 3y ago
After some time I understood this is not easy and simply requires hard work (also, the YT algorithm that worked well in the past simply shows me the same songs I listened to many times). So once a few months I put away some time for that, usually a few hours, and go through my favorite section on Israbox, checking every album in it. I disregard 95% straight away. Usually it is enough to hear the first notes to understand, sometimes I listen for a couple of minutes. The result of these couple of hours is 1, 2, maximum 3 albums I choose. Often VA: it is more and more difficult to find artists who manage to be creative enough so that all songs in their album don't sound the same while preserving their individual spirit. Years ago, I would do similar work in a music store, every month on Saturday once I got my paycheck. And I would look forward to this "discovery Saturday" knowing there will be a lot of disappointment but also, mist likely, a satisfying surprise.

mat0 3y ago

And to your comment, I remember not even fully understanding some of the lyrics, so I would just try to come up with phrases that made sense to me. Worse, not being a native English speaker.

defrost 3y ago
Just go all in; Ken Lee, tulibu dibu douchoo is a glorious mondegreen of baseless self confidence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQt-h753jHI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQt-h753jHI
- throw0101c 3y ago
  I call your mis-understood English song, and raise you one song purposefully written to use fake-English sounding 'words': > The song is intended to sound to its Italian audience as if it is sung in English spoken with an American accent, however the lyrics are deliberately unintelligible gibberish with the exception of the words "all right".[8][9] Andrew Khan, writing in The Guardian, later described the sound as reminiscent of Bob Dylan's output from the 1980s.[9] > Celentano's intention with the song was not to create a humorous novelty song but to explore communication barriers. The intent was to demonstrate how English sounds to people who do not understand the language proficiently. "Ever since I started singing, I was very influenced by American music and everything Americans did. So at a certain point, because I like American slang—which, for a singer, is much easier to sing than Italian—I thought that I would write a song which would only have as its theme the inability to communicate. And to do this, I had to write a song where the lyrics didn't mean anything."[6] * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisencolinensinainciusol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisencolinensinainciusol * Audio-only: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQDY3HFkh_Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQDY3HFkh_Y * M/V: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8 Quite catchy.
doctor_eval 3y ago
My German wife’s sister famously (in our family) used to sing along to a song called “Jamaica the Sun” (Jamaika die Sonne). It was U2’s “Sunday Bloody Sunday”

dvfjsdhgfv 3y ago

After some time I understood this is not easy and simply requires hard work (also, the YT algorithm that worked well in the past simply shows me the same songs I listened to many times). So once a few months I put away some time for that, usually a few hours, and go through my favorite section on Israbox, checking every album in it. I disregard 95% straight away. Usually it is enough to hear the first notes to understand, sometimes I listen for a couple of minutes. The result of these couple of hours is 1, 2, maximum 3 albums I choose. Often VA: it is more and more difficult to find artists who manage to be creative enough so that all songs in their album don't sound the same while preserving their individual spirit. Years ago, I would do similar work in a music store, every month on Saturday once I got my paycheck. And I would look forward to this "discovery Saturday" knowing there will be a lot of disappointment but also, mist likely, a satisfying surprise.