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My music taste is narrowing as I get older

PostPosted: Mon Jan 16, 2017 7:34 am
by john1175727
When I was a teenager, I liked pretty much everything that was playing on MTV.

When I was about 20, I became more selective and I started to take music more seriously. I stopped listening to random song and started to listen to full albums, and I started to research about several music styles and music from several epochs.

Now I'm 25, and in five years I got sick of most of the music that I listened to. I used to have 70 GB of music, now I have 13 GB, and I believe these 13 GB are the music that I will listen to forever, because I just can't get sick of it.

I'm not narrow-minded, purist or anything like that. Every week I take some time to discover new music in several websites (All Music, Pitchfork, NME, Discogs, Last FM, etc.) and sometimes I make long lists with 50-60 band names, and in the end I only like 2 or 3 at best, if any.

I don't know if music is really getting worse or it's just me. I don't want to have just OK music around me. Why should I listen to average music (or slightly above average) if I can listen to great music? I don't think that I should lower my standards. But it's not that I deliberatedly became "demanding" and started to narrow my listens, it just happened for some reason, and I can't get along with average music.

Maybe it's because I'm getting older and I don't know what's cool (I doubt that), but it's just my opinion about the current state of music. Do you guys feel the same way?

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Re: My music taste is narrowing as I get older

PostPosted: Mon Jan 16, 2017 2:06 pm
by GuitarMikeB
Damn, you're turning into a 'grouchy old man' at a very young age!

Nothing wrong with maturing and appreciating some music and not other music. You may find your taste change as you get even older, too.

Re: My music taste is narrowing as I get older

PostPosted: Tue Jan 17, 2017 12:27 am
by MikeTalbot
Follow the links brother. I watched a couple Megadeth shows where they played in Argentina (which were great btw) and that led me into checking Argentinian and other SA bands - some good stuff.

I was looking for Celtic when I stumbled into Nightwish, then Epica.

It's out there, there is just so much now it can't be packaged like it used to be, we have to find it.

Talbot