Yeah, there's huge areas of music I think I probably wont investigate much, but if I was a musician I think I would feel more of the need.
I find it quite refreshing when writers insist that writers should read as many styles and landmark books as possible, because too many writers are happy to be insular; but nobody can do it all.
Luckily for me, visual art history is easier to at least glance through and get something out of it. Those 1000 images to see before you die books automatically get you more acquainted than the similar books about music and film.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 28 March 2020 22:06 (four years ago) link
I very much doubt I'll ever get much into blues, hiphop, skiffle, swing, crooners, mod, country that doesn't have any alt rock appeal and traditional punk but I feel I'm missing out on dance, jazz and world.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 28 March 2020 22:21 (four years ago) link
can we know what the song was
― budo jeru
"raindrops"
― Kate (rushomancy), Saturday, 28 March 2020 22:46 (four years ago) link
The thing is, there's a positive side to preemptively or summarily rejecting vast swaths of music, at least for me, which is that because I've focused on just a few areas, I have a much deeper understanding now than I did years ago of the music that I do like. I can pop the hood and see how the motor works. And there are still doors opening: for example, I've only recently started to develop a taste for big band jazz, after years of disinterest.
― but also fuck you (unperson)
i'm not one of those people who smugly claims they like "all kinds of music". certainly there are genres i particularly like and genres i particularly dislike. i will grant that there is some theoretical benefit to my having an exceptionally in-depth knowledge of, say, 1970s progressive rock, and honestly? i hate most country music, and don't spend a lot of time listening to it. but for myself... i gotta ask what's of more value to me, being familiar with the 1977 s/t by hands, or being familiar with richard dobson's 1979 album _the big taste_? if i had to choose a record to never listen to again, it wouldn't be the hands lp.
― Kate (rushomancy), Saturday, 28 March 2020 22:54 (four years ago) link
― Robert Adam Gilmour
there's this young person on rym who went through and did a cursory review of the top-rated album in every genre on that site. it's from that list that i discovered that "world" covers a lot of genres, and also that there are a _lot_ of genres i really don't have any interest in.
― Kate (rushomancy), Saturday, 28 March 2020 22:56 (four years ago) link
My listening habits have def changed. Now with lockdown I have way more time. So yes some shit is growing on me.
― nathom, Saturday, 28 March 2020 22:59 (four years ago) link
This thread may be interesting for some:
Can You Force Yourself To Like A Record Through Blunt-Force Repetition?
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Saturday, 28 March 2020 23:08 (four years ago) link
i discovered that "world" covers a lot of genres, and also that there are a _lot_ of genres i really don't have any interest in.
― Kate (rushomancy), Saturday, March 28, 2020 10:56 PM
Definitely, there's a lot of that music I wouldnt even know if it fell under a kind of classical or folk. I really don't have the foggiest of just how much Dance might cover either.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 28 March 2020 23:17 (four years ago) link
If I were to come up with two columns – subgenres I like/dislike – chances are the latter would outweigh the former.
― coco vide (pomenitul), Saturday, 28 March 2020 23:20 (four years ago) link
Editing a world music magazine for two years taught me a few things:
1) People all around the globe love shitty pop, they just want it in their native language;2) Music from hot countries > music from cold countries, BUT3) Music from deserts > music from jungles
― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 28 March 2020 23:34 (four years ago) link
1) is true, but 2) and 3) are just... I hope you're being facetious. (Spoiler: there is good and bad music from countries hot and cold; also, some countries are both, some neither.)
― coco vide (pomenitul), Saturday, 28 March 2020 23:49 (four years ago) link
i want to hear more world mixtures, like
black metal reggae
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Saturday, 28 March 2020 23:50 (four years ago) link
Here you go, kind of:
https://oranssipazuzu.bandcamp.com/track/dub-kuolleen-porton-muistolle
― coco vide (pomenitul), Saturday, 28 March 2020 23:54 (four years ago) link
of COURSE it'd be oranssi
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Saturday, 28 March 2020 23:55 (four years ago) link
finland delivers
― ban laggy jazzer (imago), Saturday, 28 March 2020 23:58 (four years ago) link
good, i'm not driving all the way over there for fucking carryout
― Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, 29 March 2020 01:44 (three years ago) link