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Billy Mahonie

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sean:
Man, I have kind of felt like that guy lately, because I pretty much discover all of my music via blogs and shit. I mean, I don't follow the trends and bullshit like that but I blog leach like crazy. But also this past friday I kind of felt what its like to discover music the good ol' fashioned way. I went to go see Monument play and they had a bunch of random music on their merch table and I bought some of it and it was so goddamn good.

Basically fuck the internet, man.

(a combination of both is good, actually. i never would have learned of monument without sam, who i would not know without interbuttz).

Cernunnos:
Yeah, I sometimes feel like I have a really odd way of finding music. I could spend hours in a record store or something, but it would require being in an unfamiliar place. I don't feel as though I make much good use of the internet as a resource either. I mean, I don't even use last.fm. I would also say that it's a really important and rewarding experience to talk about and exchange music with friends, provided you can find people who have a good but not complete overlap in taste.

GMM:

--- Quote from: Cernunnos on 19 Jan 2009, 10:37 ---so uh basically what i am saying is newer ain't better necessarily, but neither is older, I guess. So I'd say it's best to look around in all directions to find music (or any art form, for that matter).
--- End quote ---

Amen to this. People who will only listen to music made in the last six months are just bad as people who will only listen to music made before 1990 and so on. I do a LOT of blog hopping and investigating of new stuff but in the aim of finding things I love, not to try and keep up and listen to NEW NEW NEW music. I mean sure, I will pre-order the next thing Los Campesinos! releases and torrent any TV on the Radio record the day it leaks, but I'm also damn keen to get stuck into everything Talking Heads ever recorded and so on.

I love finding new things I love regardless of wether or not they are new I guess?

Basically Cernunnos is the most right.

ON THE SUBJECT OF BILLY MAHONIE AND DISCOVERING BANDS AFTER THE FACT

I discovered that this band existed because Darren Hayman of Hefner remixed one of their songs and I discovered Hefner long after they broke up and was investigating everything they'd done (and continue to do so). Much as I adore Hefner and most everything Hayman touches, it was not a great remix but it was ok.

Christophe:
I always feel out of the loop when listening to the bands I mostly listen to these days (see: SKWM, June of 44, etc.) and it kills me because I am essentially so far removed from that era in music. Nostalgia is not a good substitute for experience. Without the interwebs I would never had heard of them but at the same time I'm cursed because I'm never gonna see any of those bands live, and even if I do I feel like a fish out of water in a crowd I've never interacted with only because I've had the bad luck to be born in a place and time where I would not have heard of those bands in their prime, in a location where I could easily see them. I don't even listen to a lot of bands from the present day because my mind is way too musically stuck in the 90s and early 2000s.

On the mediafire topic: there is a good amount of music in there that I don't really listen to, and then there's stuff I've gotten from there that sounds absolutely amazing and I listen to it a bunch. I should probably clear some of it out, my hard drive could use the space.

In any case, Billy Mahonie sound rad, I've heard of them before but never listened to their music. I too remember hearing about them when Hefner were still around and they were on the same label, but at the time I was like "Instrumental music? FUCK THAT" and didn't give it a listen. Did Gavin really kill off the rest of the band members? That sounds kind of like if Damon Che and Jack the Ripper had a baby (not music-wise).

Sox:
I don't mind hearing about bands after the fact at all. The experience of being around while they were active is something I feel isn't essential to enjoying records. I get my kicks out of being a part of my local music community. That is all the 'experience' I need when it comes to music. If I want to hear a really great record, it doesn't matter where they are now, it's still a great record. The fact I never saw them live doesn't cause me to enjoy the really good records they left behind any less.

Don't regret that you missed the party. Just be glad it happened.

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