What's an album you would have loved if you'd discovered it first...
 

...but because someone recommended it to you, you cannot love it?

I just don't listen to anything that's recommended to me. That way I get the discovery credit no matter what.

Legend.

what's the punchline

When I make my AOTY lists I think I unfairly over rank my own discoveries

I’m not totally sure

Maybe it’s just because I know what I’m looking for

You dicksuck free jazz but I'm sure you know that and don't care so why this post?

Doing it intentionally yeah but just getting hype on your own discoveries is pretty natural.

And no offense but you don’t scour everything for new listens nearly as much as some others

You tend to stay in your lane and dis what you don’t understand

I do

To a fault - I mean I pass out 5/5 for free jazz records faster than wolf gobbles fruity pebbles

Exactly so stfu you like the **** that gives you a boner.

Free jazz or watching wolf eat fruity pebbles?

Liking albums that you enjoy. Disgusting.

Exactly you repulsive orca.

Sometimes though man I’ll recommend some free jazz that is so ****ing dope and you never mention it ever. I sometimes wonder if you just don’t want to give me my props. You opened my eyes to Mantana Roberts for example. Out of all my free jazz recs can you even name one?

It's okay to have a smaller museum. Every man is different.

.

I want to totally ruin the experience of finding this on your own. If only you found this album and particularly this song before I recommended it you, you would have loved it with all your corrupt & cold blooded heart.

Avalon - Land Of Mordor

For whom are you making that recommendation?

To you especially, but also to anybody who could have loved that album if only I didn't recommended it.

Some records I’ve been getting to know for 35-40 years. It’s important to keep a good balance between exploration and hanging out with old friends. And remembering what new albums to keep in rotation.

I will not listen to it until I find it randomly in a few years, so that I can love it.

This goes back to an Exo post about the ****tiness of growing up, it just feels like I don't have the time to truly appreciate music anymore. Especially when you gotta ****ing work all the time. Maybe if I get a job that lets me jam out but the chances are limited.

Edit: There's only two albums I feel like I've taken time with from this year.

Unless you have a kid there’s really no excuse for not making time for music and literature (or nature and whatever else you love)

A big part of my work is done in meetings but apart from those I can listen to music whenever I want which is awesome.

What if you're taken captive and sold as a sex slave?

Before or after puberty?

Yes.

Yes wasn’t one of the choices. It’s so ghey when people do that.

*bofa

At some point the real music lovers get separated from the wannabes.

Church

okvlthawk

That goes hard!

Well I spend a ton of time listening to new music. Problem is with my previous job I'd listen to music at work but the work it's self would always distract me, and I was constantly taking the headphones out. Bus ride I'd listen to music but that's about maybe an album depending on the album to work. After work I'm too tired to appreciate it and I often time nod off during the ride. When I get home I'd be too tired. Only times I felt like I was truly getting the time to hear albums was before work and on week ends. But juggling the time between new music and taking the time to appreciate music has been a hard balance. Right now it's constantly new albums and it sucks when I want to get through all this newer stuff but really want to go revisit something else. Like an anxiety that I won't have enough time to do both. Just albums from this year alone from Tyler, ScHoolboy, Ouija, Denzel, Injury Reserve, Slauson Malone, that I want to spend more time with but feel like I need to dig through the rest of these Rivers of Nihil albums which I'll always want to spend more time with.

Plus, I've missed out on a lot of great games from the last decade and I like to immerse myself in it. Also, I want to create music as well. Seems like back in the day (to be fair my taste was much simpler and smaller) I had much more time to create and enjoy music and play video games. Honestly, should just cut games out since I hardly play as is.

You can skip the new Denzel though.
There, made some time for you.

I'm still trying to find the right balance. Last year I listened to too much new **** and didn't give many enough time, this year I'm spending too much time on select releases. I'm rewriting my formulas and taking steps to better account for sunlight, slope, and degree of unrest in Yemen to get the ratio right.

And X2 on what grindy said.

I've already heard it, I actually enjoyed it. Definitely no where near as good as Ta13oo but I still want to spend more time with it.

You can do whatever you want to me so long as you play the newest jams.

Even if you have kids, there's no excuse. Turn off the motherfucking TV or twitter or whatever the fuck brain-deadening thing you're doing and read a book or listen to an album. Or take a walk. There's enough time in the day, even with kids.

I think making time for your own interests that aren't something communal like sports or whatever that solidify your associations with your immediate group of friends and family is a surprisingly transgressive idea. You exist purely to procreate and contribute to the societal machine. That's really all that can be said for evolution's plan for you as an individual. Saying "**** you people I like watching Fritz the Cat" or whatever the **** isn't really a part of that plan which is why you have to force time out of your day to enjoy that ****.