How convenient that everyone stopped being pretentious/having deep knowledge about obscure music just as I was losing my edge. You can't become a washed up has-been if everyone is equally mediocre now
>Damn these reeds be fire dawg
Don't worry anon we're still doing this shit we're just less vocal about it.
>>130283032I remember being young and thinking I'd never become one of those lame old dudes who thinks everything new sucks, but then everything new started sucking for real.
>>130283032Salsa plox?
>>130289706Are you seriously hoping its a porno you can jack off to?
It is a bit weird being a millennial who grew up just always believing that pop music would remain a key part of our cultural zeitgeist. That people would just keep coming back to this specific art form, the classic album would always be king - like the arms race of the 1960s to make the next groundbreaking release (Beatles vs Beach Boys, etc.). Getting up before school to watch newly released music videos on TV, like the next big single could legitimately change the world. Some undeniable One-hit wonder will always just come outta nowhere to grab people regardless their geographic location.My parents and their generation pushed their Boomer rock onto us, and we ate that shit up. Respectfully acknowledging the works of the past. Digging even deeper with greater resources, to the point that we knew albums from before we were born better than those that actually lived it. Music mattered before us, and it mattered for us too.In 2001-02ish seeing, bands like The White Stripes and The Strokes, and genuinely believing this shit was capital-I Important. That the next big act was always just around the corner. In 2009, worshipping hipster bands like Grizzly Bear or Bon Iver, who were on the slightly more 'academic' side of indie music, so us music nerds could still gush about musicianship while getting a little dose of the avant-garde. That was really the last time where it still felt important, like a record could still change the world. I personally still enjoyed the early/mid 2010s era with TPAB, Blonde, Astroworld, etc. and consider those 'significant' releases. But it's very clearly not the same quality. It still kinda feels a bit too social media coded to me, like they kinda missed the real golden age of popular music. That feeling of music being important, or speaking for society at large, is basically completely gone at this point.
>>130289970There's a double edge sword to all of it. On one side music has become so valueless, but because of this it's also been liberated; you can finally engage with it at face value. The cultural cache around taste has been so extremely diminished that having a right or wrong opinion won't color your perception of musical experience. We're in the anomie. All this burden upon the listener will make many disengage but others will prevail and develop a deeper immersion. Deeper in a solitary/individual manner though. With the loss of a soft monoculture (canon), we're poorer in anchor points to communicate our experience to others. We're all scattershot and moving further away in our own directions. This is why music as a hobby is dying. At the end of the day, for as stupid as it may sound, it was always a competition. But there's no good in competing if you can't gauge how you're faring against your fellow comrades/adversaries. You could be the fastest swimmer in the ocean, but if the sea is so wide that you never run into anyone else: how will you ever know you were the fastest? digitality was the inception, singles the blueprint and streaming the final nail in the coffin. You've been liberated! Go hear some birdsongs in the park.
>>130289706Of course. What are you, some kind of puritan?
>>130289776Of course. What are you, some kind of puritan?Soz, clicked the wrong button to reply to before. I'm halfway through a Monet gooning session.
>>130290504>>130289970Nice blogs. Next time, just tell your girlfriend... oh
>>130283032idk , almost 50 and i sort of still hope its just a drought and something fun is about to happen. the 00s were exciting, every 2 years a massive whole new trip up to the early 10s, hard to keep up , even. haven't had my "mind blown" in 15 years ... luck factors into this too tho, and when it comes at digging for trippy obscure nuggets way in advance of their time hmm after some time things even out and i got less excited, that comes with being more knowledgable. maybe i have to be the exciting guy for otehr ppl and share selections . i like to go tru whole discography of early years of some 80s band that i thought i knew enough, got a few surprises at that level recently so i'll continue. just rambling for the hell of it, waiting for who knows waht.
>>130291330Things that blew my mind in the last couple years: YHWH Nailgun, Still House Plants and Chanel Beads. But outside of that yeah, I get what you're saying... we really haven't had a paradigm shift, whether that be stylistic or technological. I'm not saying it's some Fukuyama shit like the end of history or music, but it's definitely the time of diminishing returns. Recorded music is roughly 100 years give or take and we've traversed so much in that time that now we're really left wondering "what more can we even do?". It's easier to sink into the past, because the past itself is ever expanding at this point, it's more than anyone could ever consume in one lifetime
