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Re: Why we listen to new music

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Post by murat131 »

Listening to new music has got to do with openness and as we age we tend to be less open to new experiences. I think best way to listen to new music is not just about a new band or new albums but more about new genres. I used to not enjoy jazz, found it elitist and quite frankly I didn't even get it. About 10 years ago I started listening jazz and anything that's got mixed with jazz, like jazz-funk, or jazz fusion and I learned more about music itself while enjoying new tunes.

People have the tendency to outright deny than to try new things but if you think about it, it's just picking up patterns and how they make us feel.

Re: Why we listen to new music

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Post by tayo42 »

superpermutat0r wrote: post #9

I can no longer enjoy the music the way I did as a teenager. I automatically picked up the lyrics, I still remember them to this day. I sought new music, new bands. There was a peak when I was around 18-19 and after that I listened to music less and less. Similar thing happened with movies. I followed sites like pitchfork but today I'm just not interested. I started noticing that music on my hard drive would get bigg…

Funny I'm the same way I think. I used to be so into music, I was always listening to something. I had a massive collection of pirated music lol. Always looking for something new to check out.

When edm and dubstep blew up I was always out at shows, festivals, random dj nights. Tried writing a lot of my own music, even had small release

Then idk I got my first job out of college around 24 and stopped searching or even listening. I only have music on in my car and like stuff from high school, concerts I go to are just bands from high school

I think part of it is there is no scene for music any more? Or I'm so out of touch. But bands used to be big on the radio, but there's so many release sources. there's no filter anymore. Everyone used to listen to the radio. Now everyone's Spotify is custom and completely different

Re: Why we listen to new music

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Post by JeanMarcS »

murat131 wrote: post #11

Listening to new music has got to do with openness and as we age we tend to be less open to new experiences. I think best way to listen to new music is not just about a new band or new albums but more about new genres. I used to not enjoy jazz, found it elitist and quite frankly I didn't even get it. About 10 years ago I started listening jazz and anything that's got mixed with jazz, like jazz-funk, or jazz fusion an…

When I was around 15, mainly listening to heavy metal bands (Iron Maiden and alike, so not just basic rock chords/riffs), a friend of my father introduced me to prog rock, that I liked, and told me : if you like this, you will go from heavy metal to prog, then from prog to jazz, and finally to classic music.

And he was right (although I’m not totally over with that journey as I like listening to classic music, but I’m not completely into it)

Re: Why we listen to new music

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Post by Semaphor »

I have mainly 2 ways of discovering new music: a) Concerts and festivals (if I like them, I check bandcamp) b) The newsletter of a pirate metal music site (they have new releases which usually are new albums, so if I like the cover, name or genre, I check them out on YouTube to decide if I buy them). I’d say I buy about one album per month on average (sometimes I get the whole back-catalogue, sometimes nothing).

Re: Why we listen to new music

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Post by Yaa101 »

Since internet I listened to all new music from the 20th century. A lot of "old music" from foregone age was new to me. So new music is a relative term. However, and that is my personal opinion, most new music from 2000-2020 I think is total utter crap, I rather listen to something from 1914 with horrible sound quality than something from 2014.

Re: Why we listen to new music

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Post by inertiatic »

founderling wrote: post #7

I use the Music-Map for my "music journey". Every other day, I start from an artist I already like and travel through the names until I stumble into an area I have not been to before: https://www.music-map.com

That's very cool, I've been thinking about making a similar thing to discover new music but for a few bands I checked this does both provide bands I know to be similar as well as bands that I don't know.

This seems to be powered by http://www.gnoosic.com/, is this the only source of data?

Re: Why we listen to new music

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Post by smackay »

JeanMarcS wrote: post #13
murat131 wrote: post #11

Listening to new music has got to do with openness and as we age we tend to be less open to new experiences. I think best way to listen to new music is not just about a new band or new albums but more about new genres. I used to not enjoy jazz, found it elitist and quite frankly I didn't even get it. About 10 years ago I started listening jazz and anything that's got mixed with jazz, like jazz-funk, or jazz fusion an…

When I was around 15, mainly listening to heavy metal bands (Iron Maiden and alike, so not just basic rock chords/riffs), a friend of my father introduced me to prog rock, that I liked, and told me : if you like this, you will go from heavy metal to prog, then from prog to jazz, and finally to classic music. And he was right (although I’m not totally over with that journey as I like listening to classic music, but I’…

This is the journey that everybody who likes music is expected to take. Just make sure that you don't travel too far and end up where you just assess the quality of the performance - a situation where the music itself is of secondary importance.

Music is technical and cultural. You can always be true to your roots and stick with the heavy metal.

Re: Why we listen to new music

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

Yaa101 wrote: post #16

Since internet I listened to all new music from the 20th century. A lot of "old music" from foregone age was new to me. So new music is a relative term. However, and that is my personal opinion, most new music from 2000-2020 I think is total utter crap, I rather listen to something from 1914 with horrible sound quality than something from 2014.

> most new music from 2000-2020 I think is total utter crap

Oooh here we go. What music have you listened to? Popular music or the very long tail of new artists and bands that are now able to produce and release good music from their home without the big publishers (although spotify, soundcloud, apple music etc are now the big publishers).

Because I personally disagree. I'm more into metal myself and I dig a lot of the stuff that came out after 2000. New genres and subgenres have popped up or come into their strength (folk, djent, synthwave, etc). I'm listening to a varied playlist right now of skillful musicianship, most of which from after 2010: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2h4EoZIoRbUAJnHlHE1eHM?si=...

Anyway I object to a statement "this is utter crap"; you're presenting your personal opinion as a hard fact which is a big part of everything that is wrong today.

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