What keeps you listening to music? (specifically new music)

Paedantic Basterd · 01-08-2012, 06:00 AM

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Originally Posted by slatesphanboi

For quite a few years recently the music scene has sucked, with stuff like Coldplay and Nickelback, but things have recently started to look up for an Alternative Rocker like myself:

1.) Bands that I like that broke up are starting to get back together and tour and even make new albums: see Pixies, Dinosaur Jr., and even Soundgarden!

2.) Bands that I like are putting out good albums now: see Seether with Holding onto Strings Better Left to Fray and Evanesance with their new one.

3.) We are hitting the 20 year 'anniversary' mark where the nostalgia industry is finally giving '90s Alternative its due! Look at the recent mega deluxe re-release of Nirvanas 'Nevermind'

It sounds to me that you don't listen to too much music outside the mainstream, because if you did, you'd find that music does not suck right now, and hasn't been sucking lately.

Stick around and post, and you'll receive a wealth of knowledge about it.

Howard the Duck · 01-08-2012, 06:06 AM

Music : the final frontier. These are the voyages of Il-Duce's ears. Its lifelong mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new sounds and new albums, to boldly go where no one has gone before.

nbakid2000 · 01-08-2012, 09:12 AM

I love discovering new music and seeing what new sounds people are trying and creating.

Someone mentioned the brain being a muscle you have to work - totally agree. There's a lot of genres that I don't tend to like but I force myself to listen to occasionally, just to get used to them and explore them and see what's out there. Will I like most of it? Maybe not, but at least I tried and I'm educating myself.

Someone on another forum mentioned this:

Lifelong Love Affair With Music Ends at Age 35

I really hope I never get to that point.

Howard the Duck · 01-08-2012, 09:23 AM

that's not true - i'm past 40 and still have the same fervour as i did

slatesphanboi · 01-08-2012, 10:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Pedestrian

It sounds to me that you don't listen to too much music outside the mainstream, because if you did, you'd find that music does not suck right now, and hasn't been sucking lately.

Dinosaur Jr. is pretty far outside the mainstream dude.

Anyhow this is contemporary music that sucks:

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Stick around and post, and you'll receive a wealth of knowledge about it.

Sure, I am pretty sure that with all the reunions going on there will be more good stuff coming down the pike, like maybe something along these lines:

CanwllCorfe · 01-08-2012, 11:19 AM

I keep trying to find stuff I TRULY enjoy. A lot of what I find fills the void for awhile, but it never lasts. This is especially true for EDM, except for a lot of the classics that got me into it in the first place.

**Goofle** · 01-08-2012, 12:06 PM

slatesphanboi's music taste will improve if he does stick around. Seems to have a good idea with his posts, just not digged deep enough to find the glorious music that is out there.

Paedantic Basterd · 01-08-2012, 04:29 PM

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Originally Posted by nbakid2000

Someone on another forum mentioned this:

Lifelong Love Affair With Music Ends at Age 35

I really hope I never get to that point.

You didn't reallllllly just cite The Onion, did you?

Howard the Duck · 01-08-2012, 06:59 PM

Foster the People and Charles Mingus are two stuff i recently discovered that kicks ass

of coz, i already have a Mingus comp but hearing the albums in full - wow!

**Janszoon** · 01-08-2012, 07:28 PM

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Originally Posted by slatesphanboi

Dinosaur Jr. is pretty far outside the mainstream dude.

A band with three singles that charted in the top 25 is hardly "far outside the mainstream".

01-08-2012, 11:19 AM	#36 (permalink)
CanwllCorfe Quiet Man in the Corner Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Pocono Mountains Posts: 2,480	I keep trying to find stuff I TRULY enjoy. A lot of what I find fills the void for awhile, but it never lasts. This is especially true for EDM, except for a lot of the classics that got me into it in the first place. __________________ Your eyes were never yet let in to see the majesty and riches of the mind, but dwell in darkness; for your God is blind.

01-08-2012, 09:12 AM	#33 (permalink)
nbakid2000 Music Addict Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 179	I love discovering new music and seeing what new sounds people are trying and creating. Someone mentioned the brain being a muscle you have to work - totally agree. There's a lot of genres that I don't tend to like but I force myself to listen to occasionally, just to get used to them and explore them and see what's out there. Will I like most of it? Maybe not, but at least I tried and I'm educating myself. Someone on another forum mentioned this: Lifelong Love Affair With Music Ends at Age 35 I really hope I never get to that point.