Year Zero Revisited

Not helpful at all, it's the kinda thing I would've done once. Like only listening to new bands, or a certain genre or discounting bands that don't pas some test of cool. It just strikes me as silly and kinda show off-y.

I kind of think it is helpful when it's a temporary measure. Like only listening to one style of music for a few months, or something - helps you focus and listen a bit harder.

hmmm, I can see the point, but I know it's not something I could do. And, I would question myself on how much I actually "listen" (in the undivided attention manner) to music.

''I kind of think it is helpful when it's a temporary measure. Like only listening to one style of music for a few months, or something - helps you focus and listen a bit harder.''

yeah, that's what I always do...right now I'm listening to a lot of 'abstract' computer music from the old age shall we say. well mostly, I have been listening to 13th floor elevators too.

It may be OK as a very short-term measure, but it's an extremely foolish policy to pursue - I spent far too long myself wandering 'round refusing to listen to - or admit that I liked - anything released much before 1977 other than the odd bit of reggae stuff and a VERY small list of "approved" bands (NY Dolls, Stooges, VU....).

It took a *LONG* time before I was eventually persuaded to remove my punk-rock blinkers - and when I did I discovered that not only was there LOADS of great music around before '77, but also that the very people who had been telling me there wasn't must have KNOWN that there was 'cos they'd very clearly been listening to it themselves all the time, the sneaky little so-and-so's!

i pretty much spent my entire youth ignoring EVERYTHING before 1976 and my playlist was heavily dance/electronic as i grew up...i suppose it was a defiant approach, wanting to reject all the stuff from before in the same way that so many around me seemed to deride modern music - a bit like cutting your nose to spite your face perhaps but its also pretty natural to concentrate on the music going on while you're growing up

in addition to this i've tended to genre-hop a lot in the past catching on to whatever was the 'in thing' at the time be this grunge, jungle, britpop, uk garage...but never exclusively and with the exception of rave and drum n bass i never attached myself to it as a scene completely - i just like to be able to dip my finger in a good few different pies at any given time...

I find it an economic necessity not to try to buy in all areas that interest me.

I find I have to work so many hours to earn enough money to buy all the music that interests me that I don't have enough time left to listen to all the music I've bought....

Isn't veto-ing every record made before 1990 the current Radio 1 playlist policy?!

''I find I have to work so many hours to earn enough money to buy all the music that interests me that I don't have enough time left to listen to all the music I've bought....''

that hits home (though a bigger prob is that on ILM and that is far more effective in preventing me from listening to music) though i still manage but don't listen to as much as I'd like.

''It may be OK as a very short-term measure, but it's an extremely foolish policy to pursue - I spent far too long myself wandering 'round refusing to listen to - or admit that I liked - anything released much before 1977''

no, it's OK to listen to a specific area as long as you're aware that there is exciting stuff going on elsewhere.