Insightful on all fronts. I do wonder what music is evolving into. So much is ubiquitous. You have to be deliberate in your listening choices or you'll become bored.
Insightful on all fronts. I do wonder what music is evolving into. So much is ubiquitous. You have to be deliberate in your listening choices or you'll become bored.
I think it's going to REvolve back to live music in small venues, to families making music together. I don't think the manufactured homogeneous recordings that are being produced are even listened to in any real sense. They provide background noise which most people now seem to not be able to function without. For those of us who like quiet and being able to order our thoughts in said quietude it's a nightmare.
I agree, and hope for it. My 14-year-old rocker and budding guitarist and I play around the house. My wife sings along. It's a lot more fun than listening to someone else. And we love going out to see the local bands at the brewpub. I highly recommend "back to local" and "back to folk music" (Created by common folks, even if it's loud electric rock 'n roll).
I agree with you! I was going to make a comment about feeling like we are on the verge of a new folk music emerging, but who wants to listen to me endlessly blather on :))
Spot on about the background noise! IтАЩm 40, and in conversations with the 20 year old people my son knows, I was amazed at the number that have NEVER listened to a whole album, or could speak of one song they recently heard that had genuinely touched them. For most of that generation, music is something to have on while they play online games or txt each other. ItтАЩs not the all enveloping тАЬclose your eyes and really listenтАЭ experience I remember having, and still have, with a great song or album.
That's really sad. They will never know that experience of buying a whole album from just hearing the single. The anticipation as you pulled that shiny, never played vinyl from its cover, and listening, for the first time to the album from start to finish. I remember when itunes was a thing and discovering, with horror that people would listen to albums on "shuffle". What? That's not how the artist intended it to go. The album is a single work in twelve chapters. Would you read a novel jumping higgledy-piggledy from one chapter to another? Would you listen to a Beethoven symphony starting with the slow movement? Makes my teeth ache.
Insightful on all fronts. I do wonder what music is evolving into. So much is ubiquitous. You have to be deliberate in your listening choices or you'll become bored.
I think it's going to REvolve back to live music in small venues, to families making music together. I don't think the manufactured homogeneous recordings that are being produced are even listened to in any real sense. They provide background noise which most people now seem to not be able to function without. For those of us who like quiet and being able to order our thoughts in said quietude it's a nightmare.
I agree, and hope for it. My 14-year-old rocker and budding guitarist and I play around the house. My wife sings along. It's a lot more fun than listening to someone else. And we love going out to see the local bands at the brewpub. I highly recommend "back to local" and "back to folk music" (Created by common folks, even if it's loud electric rock 'n roll).
I agree with you! I was going to make a comment about feeling like we are on the verge of a new folk music emerging, but who wants to listen to me endlessly blather on :))
Two great comments from JD Cotton and Blue Fairy Wren!
Spot on about the background noise! IтАЩm 40, and in conversations with the 20 year old people my son knows, I was amazed at the number that have NEVER listened to a whole album, or could speak of one song they recently heard that had genuinely touched them. For most of that generation, music is something to have on while they play online games or txt each other. ItтАЩs not the all enveloping тАЬclose your eyes and really listenтАЭ experience I remember having, and still have, with a great song or album.
That's really sad. They will never know that experience of buying a whole album from just hearing the single. The anticipation as you pulled that shiny, never played vinyl from its cover, and listening, for the first time to the album from start to finish. I remember when itunes was a thing and discovering, with horror that people would listen to albums on "shuffle". What? That's not how the artist intended it to go. The album is a single work in twelve chapters. Would you read a novel jumping higgledy-piggledy from one chapter to another? Would you listen to a Beethoven symphony starting with the slow movement? Makes my teeth ache.