TOO MUCH MUSIC

Anyway...not so much 'too much music' as 'too many bands' - nowadays, everyone has a friggin' band, and most of them shouldn't. It's like that old saying "Everyone has a novel in them - and that's where it should stay." The phrase 'I'm in a band' is enough to make me immediately dislike somebody these days. I've known people for years who still don't know I'm in a band (my co-wrokers, most of my family, etc) and that's how I like it.

I sorta blame Kurt Cobain, indirectly. I mean, The Vines?!?!? We need more bands like this?? Why can't they just get into a horrible van accident already?

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"I've known people for years who still don't know I'm in a band (my co-wrokers, most of my family, etc) and that's how I like it."

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UNRESOLVED ISSUES!

But now, the first you hear of an album it's up there on slsk for you to listen to, so you feel you have to hear them all. Or somebody on ilx mentions it (Kaito - wtf?) and it sounds interesting so you have a listen. Either way, I definitely feel I listen to way more shit albums than I used to.

Actually, audioscrobbler is the best solution to this that I know of. Because it works with the music people listen to rather than what they own (e.g. slsk) you can easily find others who have similar tastes and thus find new stuff you'll like.

-- Ned Raggett (ne...), April 22nd, 2004 10:16 PM. (Ned) (later)

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matos gives us the "slow listening movement"

http://slowlisteningmovement.blogspot.com/

i love it

i've been buying used CDs on Amazon for $5 which forces me to listen and enjoy them since its an investment.

So for the first time in something like 14 months I have ZERO records/cds in the "to-be-listened-to" pile. This is definitely the longest time since I've had no new music deficit. So, ILM, what's the longest you've gone without having something waiting to be heard?

I've always had something on the to-be-listened to list. Not necessarily CDs but lots on Spotify or elsewhere. Summer does tend to be slow for new purchases for some reason.

I ran out a few months ago and am borrowing a few albums from family members before I start buying more new stuff. I really have neglected my music listening but continue to read about piles and piles of goth, dreampop, prog, punk, metal stuff I might never hear. a decade ago I wanted to dig deep into brit/euro folk and I've still barely scratched the surface. I'd like to be majorly into classical but I've barely started that either. Then there are so many artists I love who I still need loads of.

Even as I become more discriminating and accept that I will inevitably miss loads of amazing stuff, it still feels overwhelming. When I look at the discographies of Tatsuya Yoshida, Legendary Pink Dots, Robert Pollard, In The Nursery, Current 93, loads of prog bands etc, I just want to shout "SLOW DOWN! Let me catch up!"
I've recently been watching loads of Russian, Belarusian, Hungarian animation. There is so much of it, but it feels worthwhile and a lot of it has crazy avant garde soundtracks.
I used to want to explore every genre I could but to keep things manageable I think I'll have to avoid quite a lot of genres (swing, hiphop, blues, noise, rave)or maybe only getting a few little things here and there. I think I could be a jazz fan but I don't think I should, I'll just get some classics and some crossover stuff I like and hope I don't get too sucked in.

But the worst thing is having hundreds of books and because of OCD, reading a book at 1/10 of the speed I should be. I been trying for years to stop OCD, but it is very hard.
For the last ten years I've either been unemployed or had a part time job so I should have done millions of things, but I've only done a tiny percentage of what I could have because of OCD, eating junk, watching junk, too much forum/blog reading, procrastination, too long in bath, too long waking up and too much staring into space. Constantly reading up and thinking up ways to stop bad habits but never able to do it.

Knowing how much stuff is out there it baffles and annoys me how so many people spend a lot of time watching films they know they wont like just to be part of the discussion. All these blog arguments with a million links, so you spend hours and hours more on some film you could have happily avoided.

Some people seem to be able to be amazing cultural explorers yet have time for jobs, creative things, friends/family and blogging, forum stuff, also sleeping and eating. I don't know how they do it.

This might sound cold but I'm afraid of making new friends and then realising I don't like them that much and not being able to get rid of them.
I hope to do lots of drawing/painting, listening, reading, viewing and also holding a job. I don't think I can handle that much more than a small social life.

Some people seem to be able to be amazing cultural explorers yet have time for jobs, creative things, friends/family and blogging, forum stuff, also sleeping and eating. I don't know how they do it.

this. i am not 1/100th the music/lit/art fan of some people on ilx, but i still think that my cultural consumption has cut into my life in damaging ways. or, i know it has. i've spent so much money on books i might as well have had a drug habit (i am a savage who writes in books so the library wouldn't work for me, so i reasoned.)

Because of limited money, I've recently been searching for lots of films and animation that aren't for sale anywhere (or not at a halfway reasonable price)on youtube and similar sites. I don't think that keeps most of these things from coming out on dvd, but I do know that a lot of Japanese comics never get translated and made commercially available because everyone has already read online fan translated scans of them.

Sometimes free stuff helps things get officially reissued eventually but sometimes it stops it. But I doubt a lot of that foreign animation is ever going to be for sale. I doubt anyone can make an easy ethical argument for what you should or shouldn't take for free.

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