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Does anyone else grow "numb" to a track after listening to it for a while? 400-500 plays seems to be the limit for me, and the period between plays doesn't seem to matter, after which it evokes no pleasing feelings, and even causes a little annoyance as if some part in the brain is "sore" from it.
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…
I think it's just how our brains change. When we're in our late teens, striking out into the world everything is new and full of possibilities. We hoover up new experiences and crave novelty as we find our place in the world. But later on in life that's no longer necessary - we enter stable survival mode instead.
I think evolutionary biology can explain a lot of this (the same happened to me too btw).
Does anyone else grow "numb" to a track after listening to it for a while? 400-500 plays seems to be the limit for me, and the period between plays doesn't seem to matter, after which it evokes no pleasing feelings, and even causes a little annoyance as if some part in the brain is "sore" from it.
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…
I use Spotify Discover Weekly. In the 30 recommendations, there usually is one I like. Than I check out the Album and artist and with a bit of luck I have hours of new music to listen to.
"The Rite" may have been technically groundbreaking, but it sounds TERRIBLE. We've seen plenty of artistic experimentation over the centuries leading to new artistic genres, but early experiments like these are almost always awful. It takes someone with skill in aesthetics to turn the new into the beautiful, and it's rarely the inventor who does this.
Art (and music) is not something for endless consumption. Music is something we tie to our experiences, to our life, to times we've known, etc. There's no real need to always seek new music, obsessively, unless you particularly enjoy to (or you have business reasons). You're not a bad person, or more shallow, or lesser art lover, for not doing so (in fact many very deep creators of art had a very limited set of artis…
You could easily same the same for movies, TV shows, games, cuisine, parks, or anything. If you like something, there's nothing wrong with enjoying it again. It doesn't mean you should limit yourself to the things you know. Once in a while you find something that's better than anything you've encountered before.
Yeah, you can find something new you like, but that doesn't mean that you necessarily have to be looking for it, especially not obsessively.
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?
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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
HypeMachine tracks the music being written about across thousands of blogs and still works for me as a great discovery / serendipity engine.
Tracks link to artists on Bandcamp, SoundCloud, Spotify, the write-up that got them picked up by HypeM, and any work from the artist previously covered.
I usually listen by genre and pick those per the kind of work I’m doing. There are many genres. 98% of what I hear is new to me. I favorite and skip tracks and open especially tasty ones in new tabs for deeper-dives.
It’s always a pleasure to go back to my feed of favorites every few weeks. I revisit tracks i took time to explicitly like and have long uninterrupted sets to enjoy. This is usually when I do deeper dives and buy stuff on SoundCloud and Bandcamp.