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It’s a blog post about someone’s music listening habits. What are you talking about?
I guess a post that's both not related to any kind of hacking and full of opinions, rather than facts, is not typical HN content.
How I listen to music
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The last line of the post, should maybe go first:
> And to be clear, I am not suggesting that these methods are optimal for anyone else.
Re: How I listen to music
#13I like listening to albums the way they were produced: starting from the first song until the last one.
This modern endless stream of curated playlists and singles is tiring, and loses the storytelling aspect of albums that makes them greater than the sum of its songs.
Or maybe I'm just getting old.
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#14I'm a trained classical music composer and it's shameful how little of music I ever listen. I usually have couple of songs that are in a power play but I very seldom listen any other music. On a contrary I have melodies and song ideas playing in my head all the time. But I'd sure like to find more time to listen through the classics from time to time.
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#16I like listening to albums the way they were produced: starting from the first song until the last one. This modern endless stream of curated playlists and singles is tiring, and loses the storytelling aspect of albums that makes them greater than the sum of its songs. Or maybe I'm just getting old.
Modern music albums aren't really written with that in mind in my experience. They're optimised for people skipping through playlists in a streaming service, not going on a journey through an album.
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#17I came to Bach only recently, I bought a classical guitar a couple of years ago and just over the last eight months or so I've been really getting into baroque music.
I don't know why I didn't appreciate it before, I guess I just never gave Bach a chance, but it's some of the most amazing stuff I've ever heard. The counterpoint that makes it feel like the music is spiralling around you is just otherworldly.
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#18I came to Bach only recently, I bought a classical guitar a couple of years ago and just over the last eight months or so I've been really getting into baroque music. I don't know why I didn't appreciate it before, I guess I just never gave Bach a chance, but it's some of the most amazing stuff I've ever heard. The counterpoint that makes it feel like the music is spiralling around you is just otherworldly.
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#19I was reading, distracted by the thought "is there anything more pretentious than naming your dog after a philosopher?", and the author immediately surpassed himself, throwing away his CDs because gifting them would be too cruel.
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#20I came to Bach only recently, I bought a classical guitar a couple of years ago and just over the last eight months or so I've been really getting into baroque music. I don't know why I didn't appreciate it before, I guess I just never gave Bach a chance, but it's some of the most amazing stuff I've ever heard. The counterpoint that makes it feel like the music is spiralling around you is just otherworldly.
A gift: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OosoIH6osS0
I love 998. The bass-line in the allegro especially is so punchy, especially coming after the fugue.
Always a pleasure to listen to David Russell.
My favourite of his is his arrangement of Handel's passacaglia from HWV 432: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b3D0t1DiEg
If it's baroque don't fix it.