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This romanticizes logistical issues for nostalgia purposes.
I did not live through that era, but his description makes me thankful i didn't have to go through all that to find my favorite music
Bad take, the more accessible is something to find, the easier it is for people to listen to it. And I think if you do music, you want as much ears listening to your tunes. This romanticizes logistical issues for nostalgia purposes. I did not live through that era, but his description makes me thankful i didn't have to go through all that to find my favorite music
Then you probably don't fully understand where he's coming from, do you?
I will never understand this kind of sentiment: > You had to dig. You had to seek out small, specialized record stores or spend time on shady forums. You’d track down obscure distros just to order releases you couldn’t get any other way... Now, it’s completely different... That sense of discovery, of finding a truly underground gem, just isn’t the same anymore. It’s too easy now. To the contrary, I can now spend mont…
I've been thinking about this a lot recently and I realized what was missing for me: the social aspect. Back in the 90's, when I was a teenager, finding new music required you to expand your social network. For me, the height of this was when I worked at a college radio station in the late 90's. It seemed like "cool music" came attached to "cool people." I've since outgrown the snobbery, but when I think about what socializing was like during those years, it often involved hanging around with no other purpose other than to listen to music together and to talk. Maybe the kids still do that but I do not and I miss it.
This goes beyond music honestly. All forms of media used to have a kind of social underground or niche. Remember when you played that one video game you found on a video retailers shelf and couldn't wait to tell your friends all about it the next day knowing for a fact that none of them had ever heard of the game before? How about when you found that basement horror film randomly made by the guy from the next town ov…
“All forms of media used to have a kind of social underground or niche.” These things and their corresponding communities still exist, they’re just not big presences in the mainstream internet places like TikTok where they are overwhelmed by more popular options. It’s much like how you wouldn’t find an underground record at Sam Goody in the 90s.
I think there is certainly also something to the hyper-availability problem, where a great preponderance of music is simultaneously available everywhere. But I think the degradation of the streaming product itself is what makes it inferior to radio.
This year I have been using spotify more. I do like being able to create custom playlists, but I don't always like the suggested songs after the playlist ends. I'll make a playlist like "Upbeat dance music that includes popular hits from the last 10 years and newer hits that I haven't heard yet. No country. Keep it positive and upbeat." And it will mostly abide the instructions, though I can never escape having a few…
Bad take, the more accessible is something to find, the easier it is for people to listen to it. And I think if you do music, you want as much ears listening to your tunes. This romanticizes logistical issues for nostalgia purposes. I did not live through that era, but his description makes me thankful i didn't have to go through all that to find my favorite music
> I did not live through that era Then you probably don't fully understand where he's coming from, do you?
In other words, clickbait title, not an interesting conversation topic.
> Now, it’s completely different. The moment some obscure demo drops, it’s everywhere, Bandcamp, Spotify, Apple Music, Instagram, whatever. Everyone knows about it instantly. That sense of discovery, of finding a truly underground gem, just isn’t the same anymore. It’s too easy now. I don't agree. I want to be clear that I think youtube is terrible in many, many ways, but one thing I _do_ love about youtube is music…
I will never understand this kind of sentiment: > You had to dig. You had to seek out small, specialized record stores or spend time on shady forums. You’d track down obscure distros just to order releases you couldn’t get any other way... Now, it’s completely different... That sense of discovery, of finding a truly underground gem, just isn’t the same anymore. It’s too easy now. To the contrary, I can now spend mont…
Everyone should listen to William Onyeabor at least once in their life:
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyL4c_LDCl0