Do we get harder to please as we get older?

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Or do only young ‘uns fall in love with music? Is it just me, or is it much harder to get properly into a band or artist when you’re 31 as opposed to when you’re 16? By “properly into” I mean to have unquestioning faith in them, regardless of any duff material they produce. Why do I demand that a new band’s album is unwaveringly excellent, when I used to play LPs to death even though half the tracks weren't vary good? I feel a bit, well, crap about this – I feel like I’m missing out on a lot. Maybe I just haven’t got the time for this record-buying lark anymore!

― Eagle, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Just when I think I'm too old to ever fall in love with a record again, one creeps into my collection. Though I do admit, it's not so much random purchases any more, it's more things that people reccomend to me or lend to me, so they are *aimed* at me. Most recently it was a Piano Magic record, and it cozied up next to me batting its eyelides, and stuck its pink kittenlike tongue in my ear and next thing I knew I was hopelessly in love with it.

Though I must admit that it doesn't happen as often any more, I've grown far more discriminating about what records I allow to molest me in such manner.

― kate, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Surprise always happens. I had an anticipation for Tool's album this year, did I know it would fully knock me for the loop it did? No way! :-) Bring on more records, half-formed, fully-formed, barely there.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i still love to follow bands careers. i don't have the time to "devote " myself to any particular band any more though.the only thing i find dissapointing(in myself),is that i don't memorise track names any more.

i used to know all the names of any given fave band song,but now find myself only knowing which cd said track may have come off of. maybe it is because i used to hold the album cover in my hands and listen ,waiting to turn the album over...

i do find that with cds,although they are easier to store and carry around for listening,the cd doesn't get my full attention any more.so is it because i am getting older or because of the cd that i don't get fully into a band any more?

i still love music and especially finding new artists/groups that i never heard before,then trying to track down as much as i can from them.

disclosure::i am 44 and still spend way too much on music,ask my wife;-)

― william harris, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

neither (or both) easy and (or) harder

i'm impatient with stuff i've heard a thousand times before: like, cut to the chase yeah yeah — but i'm also much less threatened by things that i "hated" when young (= disapproved of), and intrigued at what i therefore missed

then there's the fascinating project of listening to things you haven't heard for MORE THAN 20 YEARS (I'm 41), and just totally hearing them differently...

― mark s, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am proud to say I can still hate the Eagles with just as much venom now as I did in high school

― maryann, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Get the fuck outta my cab!

― Josh, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

or because of the cd that i don't get fully into a band any more?

The answer is yes, but don't get me started.

― Sean, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I find the oppisote was true when i was younger i was stuck in genres and uncomfrotable with those who broke them but the more i heard the wider my nets became. I know listen to all sorts of stuff becaue i am not the pissed off teen tryign desperatly to impress those who had high school status.

― anthony, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think at a very young age theres this passive unpretentious liking of anything halfway decent that comes your way. Then one day you decide you have tastes because this is you and that is not. So you move into genre-hugging and get all worked up about credibility. After a few years, if you're lucky, you lighten up and broaden the scope a bit while developing a more refined and expansive sense of your own sonic- pleasure zone. By this time die-hard faith in an artist generally simmers down and you divorce yourself from the idea that a record can be your personal manifesto.

― Honda, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

nine years pass...

Unless your parents are hipsters, they got no chance. Where is the fine pop music of the day? Name something.

(ralph)

― suspecterrain, Friday, 18 November 2011 09:09 (fourteen years ago)

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