People who truly appreciate music
 

It seems like nobody nowadays truly appreciate music.
When I listen to a lot of music, I feel a certain way that I can't describe, and a lot of times music really makes me think.
I feel like I'm typically the most alive when I listen to certain types of music, and I can just sit around and listen to a whole album and feel like I'm on top of the world.

I've heard/read stories about how a lot of people used to be like that, back in like the 1970s and 1980s. People would just listen to The Dark Side of the Moon in its entirety and absolutely love it.

However, it seems like most people nowadays don't have this kind of connection at all. Am I wrong? Am I just not looking in the right place?

I'm only 20 so I was never able to experience the 1970s or 1980s (or even the great alt rock decade of the 90s), but I have met a few people back in high school who had such a strong connection with music and even if we didn't have the same musical taste, we were able to bond over this connection.

Please tell me that there are still people out there who are like this? I'm not talking about people who listen to the most recent Ariana Grande song and say that it changed their life. I'm talking about people who listen to Siamese Dream by the Smashing Pumpkins and feel a certain way that nothing else can make them feel or think.

You've just joined a community with a few dozen of them.

Why specifically Siamese Dream? I truly appreciate music as you describe, but have never liked that album. Even the serious Smashing Pumpkins fans I knew back when it came out seemed to think of it as the album that appealed more to the casual pop music listener than the "people who truly appreciate music".

TBH I only listen to Dark Side of the Moon in its entirety when I played it while watching the Wizard of Oz. (I think if you cue in the CD on the third lions roar it syncs up to the movie.) I've heard Pink Floyds songs so much on the radio I never felt the need to go to an album to listen to them. Same with Nirvana and Smashing Pumpkins. I think Soundgarden was a band I like to listen to the album as a whole. Soundgarden's Supernuʞuoʍu and Down on the Upside were ones I like to go to for their mood and energy they had.

I think it is up to the person how much time and energy he or she invest in music appreciation. I don't think it is different today. There is more music to explore than back then. And there are different reasons to listen to music, dance music, background music etc. With i-phones, youtube and dozens of music sites (e.g. discogs, last.fm, MB <-what that? & plug.dj etc.) I think people have the same chance (or even better chance) to get involved with music as they did back in the day when the only out-lets were radio and the record store, & Rolling Stone-ish music rags.

Just a case of nostalgia. The "good-old-days-syndrome".
Don't think the percentage of people who pay lots of attention to music and actively seek it out changed much.
Also there are tons of people who just listen to The Dark Side of the Moon in its entirety and absolutely love it. Not me though. Those background singers ruin it a little for me. Too bad, because it's not a bad album actually.
It also seems, that I don't appreciate music, at least I've never heard Siamese Dream or liked Smashing Pumpkins.

I tried that Wizard of Oz business with DSotM once. It was kind of freaky how certain things lined up, but I doubt it was intentional.

I was just using that as an example of an album that I really love. It is an album that appealed to the casual pop because of songs like Today and Disarm, but those aren't really the songs that made the album for me. They are good, but songs like Mayonaise are the songs that made that album for me. Mayonaise is far from a song that the casual pop music listener can enjoy hahaha

Woahhh let me clarify, I was only using examples for both Dark Side of the Moon and Siamese Dream. The Siamese Dream was a personal example. I'm not saying you cant truly appreciate music without loving those albums, I was just using examples of albums that I, or other people classically, can listen to and adore all the time. I don't think anything of the fact that you don't like Smashing Pumpkins or Siamese Dream, I just hope that you have at least one album that is YOUR "Siamese Dream". Does that make sense?

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I know, I know. I was mostly joking.
I should use more smileys. I often forget, that people can't see my grin, when I write something like this.:)
I have a lot of Siamese Dreams of course.