10 Aug 22
Too much music to listen to. Can't keep abreast of it. Might be missing stuff that needs to be heard, trends and innovations to be perceived. There's also so much I already have that's being neglected and it waits, queueing for my ears. Old stuff, new stuff, new stuff that's like old stuff. It's like a weight pressing down on me, a sense of grief, a feeling of helplessness and discontent. Having my nose in the musical trough: far from being a luxury in which I can revel and gorge ~ it has, instead, disconcerted me.
Does anyone else ever feel this?
10 Aug 22
@fmf saidNo
Too much music to listen to. Can't keep abreast of it. Might be missing stuff that needs to be heard, trends and innovations to be perceived. There's also so much I already have that's being neglected and it waits, queueing for my ears. Old stuff, new stuff, new stuff that's like old stuff. It's like a weight pressing down on me, a sense of grief, a feeling of helplessness and di ...[text shortened]... which I can revel and gorge ~ it has, instead, disconcerted me.
Does anyone else ever feel this?
10 Aug 22
@fmf saidI don't feel that way, but at my age there isn't so much new music I would be interested in.
Too much music to listen to. Can't keep abreast of it. Might be missing stuff that needs to be heard, trends and innovations to be perceived. There's also so much I already have that's being neglected and it waits, queueing for my ears. Old stuff, new stuff, new stuff that's like old stuff. It's like a weight pressing down on me, a sense of grief, a feeling of helplessness and di ...[text shortened]... which I can revel and gorge ~ it has, instead, disconcerted me.
Does anyone else ever feel this?
10 Aug 22
@fmf saidNope.
Too much music to listen to. Can't keep abreast of it. Might be missing stuff that needs to be heard, trends and innovations to be perceived. There's also so much I already have that's being neglected and it waits, queueing for my ears. Old stuff, new stuff, new stuff that's like old stuff. It's like a weight pressing down on me, a sense of grief, a feeling of helplessness and di ...[text shortened]... which I can revel and gorge ~ it has, instead, disconcerted me.
Does anyone else ever feel this?
I regard music like the ocean, always there for me, whenever I want a refreshing or invigorating swim. I don't ask anything of it, and it asks nothing of me.
10 Aug 22
@torunn saidI can't escape the effect, in my teenage years [in the 70s], of having limited access to music and the thrifty treasure-what-you-do-have ethos that it engendered. So much music now, such easy access: the quality of personal preciousness is harder to find.
I don't feel that way, but at my age there isn't so much new music I would be interested in.
10 Aug 22
@suzianne saidYes. Exactly. The access to and availability of music makes it like an ocean. Thirty or forty years ago, for me, it was like a system of rivers.
I regard music like the ocean, always there for me, whenever I want a refreshing or invigorating swim. I don't ask anything of it, and it asks nothing of me.
@beowulf saidIf I thought this was true, then I would not feel "music anxiety".
Modern music sucks balls.
Every damn song is about a relationship.
Breaking up or getting together
They have no creativity.
Modern music that, according to you, sucks balls may well suck balls.
Sure, "every damn song is about a relationship, breaking up or getting together" is going to be true for you if EVERY 'modern music' song you happen to listen to is, indeed, about those things.
If you ONLY listen to music and musicians who you think "have no creativity", then no wonder you are asserting that they "have no creativity".
Perhaps you have a different strain of "music anxiety" from me.
@fmf saidok I will rephrase what I said.
There was popular and commercially successful "modern music" in EVERY decade that sucked balls, at least to my ears.
The music they put on the radio, over here, sucks balls because it's always the same storyline.
Getting together or breaking up.
So North America sucks balls as far as radio music is concerned.