do you ever think you don't like music anymore? or that you have no 'allegiance' to one genre/style anymore?

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or at least, think that nothing really affects you or moves you or if it does, you don't actually *LIKE* it. i don't know what music i really love anymore, i seem to just flit from genre to genre and scene from scene, picking up bits of what i am interested in, then moving on. i havent really had one music i felt part of since hip hop as a teenager. there's been lots of music i love, but i'm never going to be able ot fully 'catch up' on rock as much as i would like, as even though i've always loved several rock artists, i don't have the same curiosity for it as i did for hip hop. right now, im in my electronica phase, but while i find it incredibly compelling, i don't find myself in love with it.

― dickvandyke (dickvandyke), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

No. I've never had any "allegiance" to any one genre.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

sometimes i just need to be conservative about how much music i listen to/talk about/buy when i feel spread too thin. i generally just need to reconnect myself with albums i love, and spend some time just listening to them.

― peter smith (plsmith), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I think losing your allegiance to a single genre is part of growing up. I don't have the intense passion for music that I had in my exclusively metal phase (14-17), which in part stemmed from feeling the music was 'mine'. On the other hand, my taste is now infinately broader so there's so much more to choose from. Discovering a great track still excites me, and I've been delving into genres I wouldn't have touched as a teenager. So, generally a good thing, I think.

― Wooden (Wooden), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I was thinking about this question last night. Every now and then I get to a spot where I can't answer the question "What (or who) are you listening to?" It seems like I jump around trying out so much stuff that a lot of it doesn't really take hold. I agree that the broadening of my tastes has been a really good thing, but there's been a downside to my listening habits of the past year or so, too.

― JC-L (JC-L), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

but do you ever think you dont know anything about these new found genres? or perhaps not as much as you would like? as youre basically playing catch up of sorts... it means you cant really be a specialist so end up being some sort of neither here nor there generalist, the bland sort who when asked what music he/she likes, says 'oh, well i like a bit of everything really.'

― dickvandyke (dickvandyke), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

GRIME TIL I DIE!

Ha ha ha.
Back in like '92, this local TV station did a big expose on the burgeoning Grunge Scene and interviewed 15 yr-old me and two girls I knew. At the end, they asked us if we would be grungers or alternativists forever and the girls were like "Oh yeah, we're way loyal" and I was like "I'm a shark, I gotta keep moving forward or I'll die."
I ran into those girls at the recent Pixies show, and one of them's a lawyer, the other's in grad school, neither of them go to regular shows anymore. I was wearing a Mudhoney t-shirt.

JOKE'S ON ME, WOkKA WOKkA!

― Huck, Tuesday, 17 August 2004 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

i would like to say grime til i die but know i cant possibly know all i would like to know about it so probably wont bother investigating it as much as i would like to.

― dickvandyke (dickvandyke), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I wouldn't know Grime if it moved in down the hall and borrowed a cup of sugar.

― Huck, Tuesday, 17 August 2004 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not so worried about becoming a specialist in anything. I feel like I'll never get caught up on electronic music, but I just like to keep tabs on what's coming out now that looks interesting, with occasional forays into older stuff.

I'd also look like a fool if I ever had to take a hip hop IQ test, but I'm fine with that.

Whenever someone asks you what you like, just make up a micro-micro genre that contains only two artists (both of whom you know), and presto! -- a specialist.

― JC-L (JC-L), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

It's been a long time since I loved a particular genre, but now I love having an affiliation to just one artist and watching what develops as they become more confident and creative. until that stops. Even the low points can be part of the scenic drive towards high points. That way you dont have to be a specialist in any genre at all - most of what comes out in any particular genre is shit anyway. and a few great bits.

― GARY ORANGE, Tuesday, 17 August 2004 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

the weird thing is back when I was in high school ('89 to '95) I listened to Steely Dan, Hendrix, classical, blues, jazz, etc.

now that I'm on the cusp of 30 I listen to MF Doom, Ellen Allien, garage-punk, The Streets/Dizzee/Wiley, Luomo, Daft Punk, Underworld, Junior Boys, noise/experimental, etc.

I think I'm getting weirder the older I get.

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)

You were in high school for six years?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

He was high in school for six years.

― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

long story short, I went to a public high school and during my senior year I flunked like a motherfucker, because I hated it and just stopped caring about it. Before that I was intent on doing as little as possible and getting out, going to community college, transferring after two years, maybe getting into graphic design or something. After I flunked my senior year there my father (president of the school board, even) said he didn't think that high school was so good anyway and I signed up for a college prep school, which was for two types of peoples: fuckups and smart, rich kids. I straddled the line (minus the rich bit). Of course, some of my credits wouldn't transfer and instead of re-doing my senior year I went all the way back to the beginning of junior year, but I didn't care. I was just happy to get out of that shithole high school. I was miserable there anyway.

Long story short, it was better that I got to redo two more years because I got excellent grades there, went to school in NYC and got a film degree, and moved to L.A. five years ago as of August 21. Haven't said a word to anyone from my first high school since I left there in June of '93, but I have about a dozen people I keep in touch with from my second high school, which was a wonderful time.

That was my six years!

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I said long story short twice for some reason. I've failed again =(

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

threadkiller

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 00:38 (twenty-one years ago)

"i could be shooting up in a crashing jet with Princess Diana and it still wouldnt compare to the time in when i was in high school that we threw our neighbours garden furniture in the pool"

Douglas Coupland sorta paraphrased, i can't find the book.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 00:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I've always considered myself a fan of SOUND at large. I hate the concept of "genre."

― Salvador Saca (Mr. Xolotl), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 00:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, but still, genre does exist. It's an artist's approach to the subject that makes it so.

I think after I had heard just so much frickin hard rock, as it were, that I started to actually enjoy almost anything but. I'm sure that I reached a saturation point.

― jim wentworth (wench), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 02:29 (twenty-one years ago)

So? Have you heard Chris Watson's field recordings? Beautiful musicality in nature.

― Salvador Saca (Mr. Xolotl), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 03:05 (twenty-one years ago)

strange as it may seem, the first time i took the drug x, i searched for and listened to "life's a long song" by jethro tull and then announced to my girlfriend that i was "done with music. i didnt feel like music could do it anymore... i now know that x is the work of satan and music is a gift we should cherish and use

― wallace carothers, Sunday, 29 August 2004 23:14 (twenty-one years ago)

best post ever.

― Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Sunday, 29 August 2004 23:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Is X ecstacy, Wallace? If so, I disagree with your post, as ecstasy was at least indirectly responsible for most of the best British music of the 90s. It was also at least indirectly responible for the broadening of my own musical taste from a diet of metal, metal, and nothing but metal.

― Wooden (Wooden), Sunday, 29 August 2004 23:58 (twenty-one years ago)

clearly this is why no one ever sampled the rull for a rave track

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 30 August 2004 00:11 (twenty-one years ago)

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