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Re: When do we stop finding new music?

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Post by smackeyacky » Thu, Apr 25, 2024, 4:22 AM UTC

bsder wrote: post #153

amanaplanacanal wrote: post #106

I must be some sort of freak. I grew up in the 60’s and 70’s listening to classic rock, and a lot of it I can’t even stand any more due to the incredibly small playlists that most classic rock stations use. In my 20’s I started listening to a lot of classical and then jazz. In the 90’s a lot of grunge which’s I still love. After that was trance in the 2000’s, then ambient, techno and IDM after that. I still listen to…

> I can’t even stand any more due to the incredibly small playlists that most classic rock stations use. That's every bloody station nowadays. It doesn't matter if its radio, SiriusXM, Spotify, or whatever they all degenerate into a small number of repeated songs. I loathe this pigeonholing. It makes finding something new you might like REALLY hard. For example, I don't want an "80s station" with the same old crap. H…

> However, I would also argue that music is simply a LOT less important to today's youth. It's background noise while doing some other activity and not an activity in and unto itself.

Maybe. But then you get t-swizzle teenagers with turntables who rediscover the idea of sitting and listening to an album.

Re: When do we stop finding new music?

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Post by dools » Thu, Apr 25, 2024, 4:24 AM UTC

karl_gluck wrote: post #232

dools wrote: post #209

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah I'm more open minded now than I was when I was younger. All my taste seems to stem from the same roots (for example I like a wide variety of electronic music but the common thread is sounds and/or harmonies rooted in funk/soul/jazz/blues) but when I was a teenager I was only interested in rap music.

Any recommendations?

Recommendations on rap music or electronic music? Or funk/soul/jazz/blues?

Re: When do we stop finding new music?

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Post by imp0cat » Thu, Apr 25, 2024, 4:30 AM UTC

noashavit wrote: post #45

I think that it really depends on your relationship with music. I’m no longer in my 30s and still find new music all the time. I wonder why parents consistently listening to older music than their childless peers

    > I wonder why parents consistently listening to older music than their childless peers

Oh that one is easy. They probably watch Bluey with their children. That show features stuff by Rossini, Offenbach, Tchaikovsky, Holst (Jupiter!), etc... which then gets played in the house because it's so much fun.

I know my kid can't stop dancing when John Ryan's Polka (Bluey episode Fairies) is on! :)

https://www.reddit.com/r/bluey/comments/ph5sot/whats_your_fa...

It's weird that a kid's show can make the entire crave Rossini, but so is life, just roll with it! :)

Re: When do we stop finding new music?

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Post by Groxx » Thu, Apr 25, 2024, 4:41 AM UTC

pxc wrote: post #303

I expect it'll never happen to me. My dad was still actively seeking out new music when I was a kid, streaming college radio via the Internet before Pandora, Last.fm, or Spotify were things. He's in his 60s today and he still listens to new music (in a range of genres) all the time. If novelty in music is actually important to you, this won't happen to you.

Yeah - my taste has pretty steadily churned slowly over and over and over and that's how I like it.

There's so much music out there. It's like asking "when do you stop finding new books": you only stop finding if you stop looking. I enjoy the looking, and I see no risk at all of running out even if no more new stuff is ever made.

Re: When do we stop finding new music?

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Post by graeme » Thu, Apr 25, 2024, 4:41 AM UTC

For anyone who wants a good source of random music, radio Canada has a great French station with an excellent show “l’effet pogonat”.

You won’t understand the host if you don’t speak French but the station is mostly songs and I’ve found so many good ones there.

The Montreal Gazette had a good write up: https://montrealgazette.com/news/pop-goes-the-world-ici-musi...

Re: When do we stop finding new music?

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Post by raffraffraff » Thu, Apr 25, 2024, 4:44 AM UTC

tptacek wrote: post #219

raffraffraff wrote: post #173

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I pay for it because it's dirt cheap and you get track ratings. If I discover an artist I use RYM to get the best 3 songs of their best 3 albums on YouTube. if I still like the band after that I'll buy the highest rated album.

I used it for like 5 minutes before paying for it, it's obviously great, and the "pro" upgrade has the funniest best feature ever (exclude ratings by the age of the rater).

Haha yep, and I also exclude an entire genre and all of its sub-genres.

Re: When do we stop finding new music?

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Post by ddingus » Thu, Apr 25, 2024, 4:48 AM UTC

When we quit seeking.

It helps a lot to be among other people seeking new music.

Without that, many of us stop mid life.

Re: When do we stop finding new music?

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Post by ddingus » Thu, Apr 25, 2024, 4:50 AM UTC

amanaplanacanal wrote: post #106

I must be some sort of freak. I grew up in the 60’s and 70’s listening to classic rock, and a lot of it I can’t even stand any more due to the incredibly small playlists that most classic rock stations use. In my 20’s I started listening to a lot of classical and then jazz. In the 90’s a lot of grunge which’s I still love. After that was trance in the 2000’s, then ambient, techno and IDM after that. I still listen to…

They use a set of researched tracks by Arbitron and others seeking to maximize AD revenue by demographic.

There is a TON of great classic rock to enjoy that never sees airplay and the reason is the researched tunes have "known" demographics that can be sold.

Re: When do we stop finding new music?

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Post by The_Colonel » Thu, Apr 25, 2024, 5:16 AM UTC

jfdbcv wrote: post #89

ryandrake wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yea, the whole "I want to watch the concert through my phone" thing I don't get at all. If you just want to watch it on your phone, why not just stay home and watch a professionally-produced concert video? Are they actually recording it for later (and are actually going to watch their low-quality recording later), or do they simply need to frame everything they experience inside a phone bezel?

I think humans have a natural instinct to share what they find cool / interesting. Before this was mostly done through in person communicate, now this is primarily done through smart phones.

I'd bet that most of such recordings are not even shared or perhaps even looked at by the author (personally, I'm guilty of this). It's just some sort of compulsion to record it.

Re: When do we stop finding new music?

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Post by webworker » Thu, Apr 25, 2024, 5:22 AM UTC

I discussed this with a friend pretty recently. I wondered whether I was getting "older" because I couldn't find anything I liked about the current rappy-pop or soft, high-pitched chic-pop that you hear over loudspeakers at the grocery store, gym, etc. It's grating to listen to, majority of the stuff I can't even determine what the melody is supposed to be.

Then I realized that I'm listening to new alt/indie stuff that I didn't know about three years ago, and that it's probably not me. It's probably just that this mass-music for the masses is indeed awful.