Best Ever Albums

Re: When do we stop keeping up with new music?

Fischman — Tue, 20 Dec 2016 14:57:24 GMT

Author: Fischman

Posted: 12/20/2016 19:57

I stopped keeping up with new music when I had children.

I started keeping up again, when said chillins became teenagers and they kept me up.

Re: When do we stop keeping up with new music?

Anonymous — Wed, 4 Nov 2015 00:04:26 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 11/04/2015 05:04

Psh, molecularly degraded bestial me is still gonna be spinning the latest Young Thug and Jenny Hval.

Re: When do we stop keeping up with new music?

Anonymous — Tue, 3 Nov 2015 21:42:49 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 11/04/2015 02:42

jhuik wrote:

The rest of the internets say nothing about this. I looked it up.

they want you to remain ignorant

Re: When do we stop keeping up with new music?

jhuik — Tue, 3 Nov 2015 21:35:07 GMT

Author: jhuik

Posted: 11/04/2015 02:35

SquishypuffDave wrote:

jhuik wrote:

Haha back on topic.

But you are also saying, "When I am 45."

I'm saying everyone will simultaneously stop keeping up with new music in 2036 when the bioprisms finally break free from their geometric prison with a deafening peal of psychic noise. It is predicted that mankind will once again take on a bestial nature while the bioprisms vibrate back and forth between this dimension and the next, depleting our resources at the molecular level. My church has written a bunch of pamphlets about it. I'll PM you with the links.

The rest of the internets say nothing about this. I looked it up. I do believe you are part of said church however.

Re: When do we stop keeping up with new music?

Anonymous — Tue, 3 Nov 2015 19:32:34 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 11/04/2015 00:32

Dave always telling it like it is

(gonna listen to/reciprocate that tape soon btw. Expectations are high)

Re: When do we stop keeping up with new music?

zdwyatt — Tue, 3 Nov 2015 18:43:37 GMT

Author: zdwyatt

Posted: 11/03/2015 23:43

SquishypuffDave wrote:

And someone will be there to claim they liked psychic noise before bioprisms popularized it.

Re: When do we stop keeping up with new music?

SquishypuffDave — Tue, 3 Nov 2015 18:26:15 GMT

Author: SquishypuffDave

Posted: 11/03/2015 23:26

jhuik wrote:

Quote:

2036

Haha back on topic.

But you are also saying, "When I am 45."

Re: When do we stop keeping up with new music?

jhuik — Tue, 3 Nov 2015 17:42:14 GMT

Author: jhuik

Posted: 11/03/2015 22:42

Satie wrote:

jhuik wrote:

Haha back on topic.

But you are also saying, "When I am 45."

I think you did your math wrong. In 2036, you'll be 71. :)

I was doing the math for SquishypuffDave.

Re: When do we stop keeping up with new music?

alelsupreme — Tue, 3 Nov 2015 17:36:43 GMT

Author: alelsupreme

Posted: 11/03/2015 22:36

StreetSpirit wrote:

"New music" is a relative term. I first listened to The Doors self-titled album in 2005. Even though it came out 1967, it was "new" to me in 2005. Today I listen to "new" albums at a faster pace than ever. But these albums actually first came out anywhere from the early-60s through the present. I've listened to a few albums from recent years, but not many. That's because there's so much good music I missed before I was born and came of age, I'm constantly listening to past albums, therefore neglecting the present. And I don't care, either. I'm not listening to many 2015 albums now, but I'm sure I will at some point in the next few years.

Yeah, one doesn't need to be keeping up with albums released in the present to be discovering "new" music.

Re: When do we stop keeping up with new music?

Anonymous — Mon, 2 Nov 2015 20:53:58 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 11/03/2015 01:53

jhuik wrote:

Haha back on topic.

But you are also saying, "When I am 45."

I think you did your math wrong. In 2036, you'll be 71. 😄

Re: When do we stop keeping up with new music?

jhuik — Mon, 2 Nov 2015 20:52:46 GMT

Author: jhuik

Posted: 11/03/2015 01:52

SquishypuffDave wrote:

Quote:

When do we stop keeping up with new music?

2036

Haha back on topic.

But you are also saying, "When I am 45."

Re: When do we stop keeping up with new music?

CA Dreamin — Sun, 1 Nov 2015 23:57:20 GMT

Author: CA Dreamin

Posted: 11/02/2015 04:57

"New music" is a relative term. I first listened to The Doors self-titled album in 2005. Even though it came out 1967, it was "new" to me in 2005. Today I listen to "new" albums at a faster pace than ever. But these albums actually first came out anywhere from the early-60s through the present. I've listened to a few albums from recent years, but not many. That's because there's so much good music I missed before I was born and came of age, I'm constantly listening to past albums, therefore neglecting the present. And I don't care, either. I'm not listening to many 2015 albums now, but I'm sure I will at some point in the next few years.

I guess what I'm saying is I've never kept up with the latest releases, but I've never stopped exploring new music. And I'm exploring more now than ever, despite working full-time and living on my own. I don't know if raising children is in my long-term future. But if it was, I hope that would only slow down my musical exploration without completely stopping it.

Re: When do we stop keeping up with new music?

SquishypuffDave — Sun, 1 Nov 2015 19:02:58 GMT

Author: SquishypuffDave

Posted: 11/02/2015 00:02

Quote:

When do we stop keeping up with new music?

2036

Re: When do we stop keeping up with new music?

jhuik — Sun, 1 Nov 2015 18:57:12 GMT

Author: jhuik

Posted: 11/01/2015 23:57

Tap wrote:

There's so much more than that derivative nonsense tho.

Of course there is. That's why I still listen to music. This argument is thousands of years old (you know, as old as music) and is all over these forums, I think, too, in various forms.

Re: When do we stop keeping up with new music?

Tap — Sun, 1 Nov 2015 18:48:25 GMT

Author: Tap

Posted: 11/01/2015 23:48

There's so much more than that derivative nonsense tho.

Re: When do we stop keeping up with new music?

jhuik — Sun, 1 Nov 2015 18:28:14 GMT

Author: jhuik

Posted: 11/01/2015 23:28

Applerill wrote:

Yeah, I don't get how an entire art form that's existed for thousands of years can be "not that varied"...

It is finite. A lot of things that are popular or trendy sound like things that have been popular and trendy in the past.

When people rave about War on Drugs and line up to call it the best album of the year, I and many others say it does remind a lot of people of Springsteen (and also Tom Petty and others)... When another major favourite of the past few years is Arcade Fire ("One of the greatest bands ever" say so many people who have been listening to music for less than a decade), the same can also be said -- very much reminiscent of Springsteen according to me and many others. There was nothing terribly original (musically speaking, I might add) about Springsteen I'll admit (and I love the guy). I love Springsteen because the sound and the ethos was new to me, when I was young. He was just doing for us what Dylan and Elvis and Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger did for him. Arcade Fire is just doing for kids these days what Springsteen did for them.

I'm not going to argue this any more. It was a minor point in what I was trying to say.

Re: When do we stop keeping up with new music?

Norman Bates — Sun, 1 Nov 2015 13:14:44 GMT

Author: Norman Bates

Posted: 11/01/2015 18:14

HazeyTwilight wrote:

When you realise that you've barely kept up with all the other music you've been rec'd. :oops:

There's this, too.

Re: When do we stop keeping up with new music?

Norman Bates — Sun, 1 Nov 2015 13:08:06 GMT

Author: Norman Bates

Posted: 11/01/2015 18:08

meruizh wrote:

Whether the demands of parenthood and careers mean devoting less time to pop culture,

I don't really understand your question. This ^ is obviously true, and therefore it is an undeniable fact that if you get a job and kids, you will listen to less new music. Surely there is no possibility for discussion here?

Re: When do we stop keeping up with new music?

Applerill — Sun, 1 Nov 2015 12:36:16 GMT

Author: Applerill

Posted: 11/01/2015 17:36

Oh well, at least this thread has an official willing case study now.

Re: When do we stop keeping up with new music?

Anonymous — Sun, 1 Nov 2015 12:06:09 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 11/01/2015 17:06

Like, you can step outside of popular music's narrow range of chords and progressions for Western classical music, and then even when you think you're getting satisfied and comfy and tired of that tradition, you realize like Debussy that Gamelan offers entire new reaches of the human psyche through its use of counterpoint, etc. etc. etc.