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Do you listen to a lot of different artists? Or listen to few, but know them intimately?
I've come to realise over the past few years for close to a decade I'd taken to listening to music the wrong way around. I'd been listening to millions of different artists, trying albums like tasting wine - not really experiencing them, just kind of having a cursory listen, maybe come back to the album once or twice, but rather than act on that initial interest put them on the backburner to pick up at another point. As a result I only had a few genuine favourite artists: The Strokes, Brand New, Elliott Smith, Weezer, a whole bunch of bands I liked but hadn't really explored to their full potential: Scale The Summit, Converge, Flying Lotus etc and then another tier of artists (which is a whole lot) I'd heard of or a few times but probably couldn't name an album or differentiate them from their peers: Mouth of the Architect, Women, Herbie Hancock etc.
More recently I've decided to keep re-investing in those bands I've heard and enjoyed to get maximum value out of them. There's also these latent nostalgic feelings I didn't realise were so profound until I'd actually started going back and listening to albums I'd known about and listened to in brief spurts for years. I first listened to Isis' Panopticon when I was about 16, maybe got through the LP twice - possibly explored their other masterpiece Oceanic once - and then shelved it for another 5 years. At that point I'd listen to it again once and then not listen to it for another 5 years. In 2020 I'd gone through it again, with a newfound appreciation for really wanting to re-visit and reanimate LP's I knew were quality, and made it a part of my permanent listening schedule, say once every 3 months, and noticed the payoff. I'd then concurrently listen to Oceanic, slowly rotate Wavering Radiant in, eventually add in In The Absence of Truth...
I'm discovering less, and re-discovering more, and I'm finding t's far more fulfilling listening this way. There's also plenty of people who listen to few artists, but really listen to them. I have mates who will exclusively listen to old rock music, mates who listen to just Frank Ocean and Earl Sweatshirt etc but wont venture any further. To me that's pretty cloistered, and I'd get bored rotating through only a few bands. I've been listening to quite a lot of The National over the past few months, extracted as much as I can for the time being and don't feel any inclination to chuck one of their LP's on, but I'll eventually come back and enjoy them with hopefully even more perspective and insight and familiar feelings as i had really delving - especially into some of their albums I had put much time into.
What are your listening habits like?
I've come to realise over the past few years for close to a decade I'd taken to listening to music the wrong way around. I'd been listening to millions of different artists, trying albums like tasting wine - not really experiencing them, just kind of having a cursory listen, maybe come back to the album once or twice, but rather than act on that initial interest put them on the backburner to pick up at another point. As a result I only had a few genuine favourite artists: The Strokes, Brand New, Elliott Smith, Weezer, a whole bunch of bands I liked but hadn't really explored to their full potential: Scale The Summit, Converge, Flying Lotus etc and then another tier of artists (which is a whole lot) I'd heard of or a few times but probably couldn't name an album or differentiate them from their peers: Mouth of the Architect, Women, Herbie Hancock etc.
More recently I've decided to keep re-investing in those bands I've heard and enjoyed to get maximum value out of them. There's also these latent nostalgic feelings I didn't realise were so profound until I'd actually started going back and listening to albums I'd known about and listened to in brief spurts for years. I first listened to Isis' Panopticon when I was about 16, maybe got through the LP twice - possibly explored their other masterpiece Oceanic once - and then shelved it for another 5 years. At that point I'd listen to it again once and then not listen to it for another 5 years. In 2020 I'd gone through it again, with a newfound appreciation for really wanting to re-visit and reanimate LP's I knew were quality, and made it a part of my permanent listening schedule, say once every 3 months, and noticed the payoff. I'd then concurrently listen to Oceanic, slowly rotate Wavering Radiant in, eventually add in In The Absence of Truth...
I'm discovering less, and re-discovering more, and I'm finding t's far more fulfilling listening this way. There's also plenty of people who listen to few artists, but really listen to them. I have mates who will exclusively listen to old rock music, mates who listen to just Frank Ocean and Earl Sweatshirt etc but wont venture any further. To me that's pretty cloistered, and I'd get bored rotating through only a few bands. I've been listening to quite a lot of The National over the past few months, extracted as much as I can for the time being and don't feel any inclination to chuck one of their LP's on, but I'll eventually come back and enjoy them with hopefully even more perspective and insight and familiar feelings as i had really delving - especially into some of their albums I had put much time into.
What are your listening habits like?