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Billy Mahonie

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Cernunnos:
Ah. I get where you are coming from. I guess I should probably say that I like this band while i am at it.

Sox:
I'm somewhat paraphrasing from our conversation in the chat, but I think it's a pretty worthwhile post that sums up my feelings on current music pretty well.
There's probably a lot of really great music coming out. There always will be. There's also a lot of band music coming out, and I don't want to be the guy who has to listen to it all to figure it out. Frankly, keeping up to date with music is expensive and time consuming. I tried for a while, but it just clearly wasn't worth it.
Time is the great decider. I'm sure the nineties were just the same as the noughties are turning out to be. Fortunately, time has swept away most of the filler and left mainly gems, lodged safely in the cracks. In ten more years, we'll be looking back on the noughties in very much the same way a lot of us view the nineties now. But if those of you who are old enough try to think back, you'll probably remember how terrible it all was at the time. It's not a case of wearing rose tinted glasses, but of all the layers of crap slowly being washed away.

I implore you, if you're reading this, don't be that guy. The one who spends too much time keeping up to date with current music from a variety of sources. Don't be that guy who downloads every new album as soon as it comes out. Don't be that guy actively pursuing the latest trends. Don't be that guy who preorders the new album by the most talked about band.  Don't be that guy, because it isn't worth it.

Cernunnos:
Another thing to note about that. while it's good to not get too stuck in the past, you are totally right to not try to be really really up to date, and to always crave the new, the next big thing. It's true, the way music is made, written, recorded and distributed is in constant flux. Which is good.  But no one can say that music has gotten better over time, at least in the long term. The change in musical form is merely a mirror of the shifting cultures and technologies that produce it, not a mirror of quality. In that sense, it makes little difference when a given piece of music was written, provided its context still allows it to be aesthetically, philosophically, artistically fullfilling.

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).

Sox:
This is turning into a really good (offtopic) discussion. I hope people don't miss it because of the title.

michaelicious:

--- Quote from: Sox on 19 Jan 2009, 10:20 ---I implore you, if you're reading this, don't be that guy. The one who spends too much time keeping up to date with current music from a variety of sources. Don't be that guy who downloads every new album as soon as it comes out. Don't be that guy actively pursuing the latest trends. Don't be that guy who preorders the new album by the most talked about band.  Don't be that guy, because it isn't worth it.
--- End quote ---

More and more people seem to be becoming this guy. Because of the internet people are able to easily access an absolutely astounding amount of music with little to no effort. Downloading some mp3s from a blog is rarely, if ever, as rewarding as stumbling upon a cassette or CD in a used bin at a music store and discovering an incredible new band. As more and more people that have never lived without internet get older, that old way of appreciating music is becoming less common and perhaps less relevant. So people have to look for a new way to find that feeling of reward, I guess, and some people get it from staying ahead of the curve of all the Crystal Castles and Vivian Girls and Vampire Weekends.

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