If you could only listen to 10 artists for the rest of your life...

Ol’ Qwerty Bastard · 10-25-2017, 03:46 PM

so you're going to an island with artists that you could just as easily hate? i picked 10 artists that i can listen to any day, all day. there's some music that i like but that i just don't feel the need to listen to very frequently, i'm not taking that risk on my last 10.

The Batlord · 10-25-2017, 03:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Qwertyy

so you're going to an island with artists that you could just as easily hate? i picked 10 artists that i can listen to any day, all day. there's some music that i like but that i just don't feel the need to listen to very frequently, i'm not taking that risk on my last 10.

How long have you been listening to those artists? You're what, 20? You think you're gonna love those artists the same in 40, 50, 60 years? We're all taking a **** of a chance that we're gonna like those artists in all those decades. Might as well take a chance on some **** we aren't familiar with. Otherwise you might well find yourself in twenty years with albums you can't stand cause you weren't willing to admit to yourself that maybe, just maybe, you wouldn't feel about Converge the same way you felt when you were 20.

Ol’ Qwerty Bastard · 10-25-2017, 03:52 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

How long have you been listening to those artists? You're what, 20? You think you're gonna love those artists the same in 40, 50, 60 years? We're all taking a **** of a chance that we're gonna like those artists in all those decades. Might as well take a chance on some **** we aren't familiar with. Otherwise you might well find yourself in twenty years with albums you can't stand cause you weren't willing to admit to yourself that maybe, just maybe, you wouldn't feel about Converge the same way you felt when you were 20.

ok grandpa no need to have a brain aneurysm over a hypothetical scenario

i still think your logic is retarded though, and best case scenario any of us lasts 2-3 months stranded on this island.

The Batlord · 10-25-2017, 03:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Qwertyy

ok grandpa no need to have a brain aneurysm over a hypothetical scenario

i still think your logic is retarded though, and best case scenario any of us lasts 2-3 months stranded on this island.

Totally. I'm sure we'd all end up hating all that music within five years at most, but I might as well give myself a fighting chance by not picking music I'd probably be sick of in a single year.

Lisnaholic · 10-25-2017, 04:04 PM

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Originally Posted by MicShazam

I keep intending to get into Dylan, but it keeps not happening. He's probably very good and all.

^ Well, first you have to read all 700 posts in this thread:- http://www.musicbanter.com/country-f...bob-dylan.html

Then you're ready to take MLM's advice, because Blood on the Tracks is a pretty faultless album. You have to sit and listen though because, you know, it's all in the lyrics man.

EDIT: Yeah, I picked guys I like, but who also have some slack in their discographies that I haven't explored yet. I didn't risk any new names, but I did leave off some favourites, (for e.g. The Allman Brothers) because I could probably sing to myself their entire repertoire, complete with guitar solos, if I got stuck for something to listen to.

~~MicShazam~~ · 10-25-2017, 04:15 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

How long have you been listening to those artists? You're what, 20? You think you're gonna love those artists the same in 40, 50, 60 years? We're all taking a **** of a chance that we're gonna like those artists in all those decades. Might as well take a chance on some **** we aren't familiar with. Otherwise you might well find yourself in twenty years with albums you can't stand cause you weren't willing to admit to yourself that maybe, just maybe, you wouldn't feel about Converge the same way you felt when you were 20.

I basically agree with this, but it's easily solved by choosing artists with big, varied discographies. At least for me, I don't think my picks will get old for me. I'm 36 years old and doubt my tastes in music are going to radically change at this point. Expand, yes, but I doubt I'll wake up one day and despise my favorite artists.

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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

^ Well, first you have to read all 700 posts in this thread:- http://www.musicbanter.com/country-f...bob-dylan.html

Then you're ready to take MLM's advice, because Blood on the Tracks is a pretty faultless album. You have to sit and listen though because, you know, it's all in the lyrics man.

EDIT: Yeah, I picked guys I like, but who also have some slack in their discographies that I haven't explored yet. I didn't risk any new names, but I did leave off some favourites, (for e.g. The Allman Brothers) because I could probably sing to myself their entire repertoire, complete with guitar solos, if I got stuck for something to listen to.

I'm really bad at paying attention to lyrics. At least that means that I listen to vocals in Peruvian as easily as vocals in a language that I understand, but I'm not sure there's a single song I can sing all the way through without forgetting lines.

The Batlord · 10-25-2017, 04:26 PM

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Originally Posted by MicShazam

I basically agree with this, but it's easily solved by choosing artists with big, varied discographies. At least for me, I don't think my picks will get old for me. I'm 36 years old and doubt my tastes in music are going to radically change at this point. Expand, yes, but I doubt I'll wake up one day and despise my favorite artists.

I'm really bad at paying attention to lyrics. At least that means that I listen to vocals in Peruvian as easily as vocals in a language that I understand, but I'm not sure there's a single song I can sing all the way through without forgetting lines.

Have you been listening to 10 artists the past decade? I highly doubt any 10 artists will be anywhere near as intriguing in a decade if that's all we have to listen to. We will all almost assuredly be ****ing sick and tired of what we're listening to unless we take the chance to branch out, and even then...

**Frownland** · 10-25-2017, 04:29 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

Have you been listening to 10 artists the past decade? I highly doubt any 10 artists will be anywhere near as intriguing in a decade if that's all we have to listen to. We will all almost assuredly be ****ing sick and tired of what we're listening to unless we take the chance to branch out, and even then...

Not sure how long these streaks will continue, but I'm coming up on a decade of recognizing the greatness of the greatest album ever made and I'm up two decades on Slayer and Mr. Bungle love.

~~MicShazam~~ · 10-25-2017, 04:31 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

Have you been listening to 10 artists the past decade? I highly doubt any 10 artists will be anywhere near as intriguing in a decade if that's all we have to listen to. We will all almost assuredly be ****ing sick and tired of what we're listening to unless we take the chance to branch out, and even then...

Some have been with me for a long time, but my personal list of favorite bands is currently 72 bands long (Yes, I have a list. I'm a nerd, I know), so it's not like I'm listening to any artist non stop.

I've been listening to Megadeth since around 2000. Kylie since maybe 2002. Depeche mode about the same amount of time. Tori Amos since 2009, Dir En Grey since 2011.

Of course I would feel like a change if I didn't also listen to all sorts of other things along with those, but I do.

The only bands I've been into in a very, very big way that I hardly ever listen to anymore would be D-A-D, No Doubt and Metallica. Those all date back to my teenage years.

In this type of desert island scenario, there's really no way to guarantee that whatever you choose would hold up. What if you live to be 200 years old? Those better be 10 pretty big and interesting artist discographies then.

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