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duga · 01-26-2012, 10:55 AM

I think the major problem is that now music is so accessible and there is so damn much of it that it gives absolutely everyone the opportunity to "hear it first". I think that is where the lull in conversation comes from as well. I have a plethora of bands I would love to discuss, but generally no one has heard them. For me, I would LOVE to have deeper discussions about shoegaze, but the only guy I know that can hold his own with that is Zero. I'm sure many of you can relate.

I honestly can't decide if this situation is good or bad. I have plenty of music to listen to but now the crap to good music ratio has drastically increased. I also have to pick and choose whose recommendations to follow up on. I've listened to so much music over the past 15 years (obsessively for the past 10) that I walk around completely confident that I probably know more about music than the next guy...so why should I take his recommendations? This is why it makes a site like MB even more vital for me. I know the people here who love music on my level and I know when I should take note of a recommendation. It's a little disheartening that it has slowed down.

Despite this transitional limbo, I think it's a fascinating time to live in. It will end (as everything does), a new way to distribute and find music will emerge, and hopefully we can get back to the good stuff. I love the idea that I can look back and say "I lived through a very confusing and uncertain time in music...it was pure anarchy. I could download whatever the **** I wanted".

01-26-2012, 10:55 AM	#118 (permalink)
duga MB quadrant's JM Vincent Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Washington, DC Posts: 3,762	I think the major problem is that now music is so accessible and there is so damn much of it that it gives absolutely everyone the opportunity to "hear it first". I think that is where the lull in conversation comes from as well. I have a plethora of bands I would love to discuss, but generally no one has heard them. For me, I would LOVE to have deeper discussions about shoegaze, but the only guy I know that can hold his own with that is Zero. I'm sure many of you can relate. I honestly can't decide if this situation is good or bad. I have plenty of music to listen to but now the crap to good music ratio has drastically increased. I also have to pick and choose whose recommendations to follow up on. I've listened to so much music over the past 15 years (obsessively for the past 10) that I walk around completely confident that I probably know more about music than the next guy...so why should I take his recommendations? This is why it makes a site like MB even more vital for me. I know the people here who love music on my level and I know when I should take note of a recommendation. It's a little disheartening that it has slowed down. Despite this transitional limbo, I think it's a fascinating time to live in. It will end (as everything does), a new way to distribute and find music will emerge, and hopefully we can get back to the good stuff. I love the idea that I can look back and say "I lived through a very confusing and uncertain time in music...it was pure anarchy. I could download whatever the **** I wanted". __________________ Confusion will be my epitaph...