Listening to stuff that sounds a lot like stuff you used to listen to a lot.

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I took the El to AKA records and bought Vision Creation Newsun, along with some a couple Fred Frith CDs. Am now playing Vision Creation Newsun for the first time. As I've said before, the relatively recent growth in audience for old Krautrock stuff has kind of taken me by surprise. It's just really weird to listen to Vision Creation Newsun or much of Super AE because it reminds me so much of a lot of what I used to listen to on the radio Monday through Friday, prime time. It's not exactly that it's a regression. I never swore off this sort of music, but some of it is putting me back into a spacey groove that I'm not even 100% sure I want to get into. (Maybe it's the way this music seems to together well with social disconnection; or at any rate, the autobiographical fact that when I listened to the most space/energy music, I was also going through a period of having a virtually non-existent social life. You know, like sitting at home on a Friday night, listening to music, and maybe typing letters or something. Wait a second. . .) Do I want to buy more stuff that sounds like this? Do I want to backtrack and buy some select things from the past that I think I still like? (Is any of this important? Obviously not.)

Know what I mean? Probably not. Anyone have any other examples?

― Rockist Scientist, Friday, 11 April 2003 23:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Interpol to thread.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 11 April 2003 23:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I found myself listening to The Germs and Black Flag the other night.. I had a strong urge to also pull out Give Me Convenience Or Give Me Death. I don't know if I want to re-live all the nights in middle school I spent alone, bored and miserable. At the time I was probably reading a lot of bad science fiction/fantasy and doing algebra homework.

I think I'm finally 'getting' the space/kraut (rock) thing now... It connects a bit to my current period of smoking more weed than is probably a good idea. It's an odd thing to do to tune out.. I listen to the new Black Dice album, Bardo Pond, Temple of Bon Matin, Acid Mothers Temple, etc and also watch the history channel (not simultaneously.) Those are my junkfood; that is my beer and baseball; that is my poker and cigars.

Fuckin' weird.

― Ian Johnson, Saturday, 12 April 2003 05:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I never stopped listening to what I used to. I've just added more stuff through the years. Makes for one large music collection, but it's worth it to have that one song when you just have to hear it.

― ima fann, Sunday, 13 April 2003 02:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm very into electropop now but I wasn't in the 80s...I was a little punk rock 'keyboards aren't proper instruments' purist. But I'm still not getting into the old stuff, just the new electropop. I have no idea what that's all about.

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 13 April 2003 14:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know, I reckon that between the Manics in their heavy metal period, Interpol, and Ladytron, I don't think I ever moved out of the 80s at all.

― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 13 April 2003 16:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I wish I hadn't.

― Millar (Millar), Sunday, 13 April 2003 19:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I think my musical tastes are stuck in a period of arrested development that came to full fruition circa 1994.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 13 April 2003 19:39 (twenty-two years ago)

....meaning that by and large, I've yet to get excited about any artists/bands that sound genuinely "new" after that particular era. I mean, oh sure -- I appreciate the Hives, the Strokes, the Hot Hot Heat etc., but they all sound like bands from the past, so they don't count.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 13 April 2003 19:40 (twenty-two years ago)

''I think my musical tastes are stuck in a period of arrested development that came to full fruition circa 1994.''

that really shocks me alex!

sarcasm etc etc

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 13 April 2003 20:06 (twenty-two years ago)

i would never have picked alex for an arrested development fan.

― gaz (gaz), Sunday, 13 April 2003 21:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I actually own not only their first album (Three Months and blah blah blah), but also the cd-single of "Revolution." S'truth!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 13 April 2003 21:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Right, my mission for the next FAP is to find a bar that has "Tennessee" on the jukebox.

I think my tastes arrested when I was five! This is unacceptable! "You don't like any new music at all, Ally!" "That's not true, I like this, what's this on the jukebox right now?" "Um, that's a Soft Cell song from 1983." "Oh. Well, it's fantastic."

― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 13 April 2003 22:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Somewhere out there there is a reverbed guitar pedal effect that's still echoing from its being played at an MBV rehearsal. I seem to have bought every album by every band that keeps hearing it too.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 14 April 2003 00:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Sometimes I get upset at hearing something that is really awesome but I realize that I would have appreciated it a lot more when I was younger. Like Orbital 2, which I just heard a few months ago for the first time. It's fantastic, but I couldn't help but think I would've dug it a whole lot more back in high school, when I was a huge Chemical Brothers / Daft Punk / random Astralwerks electronica junkie.

― Mike Ouderkirk (Mike Ouderkirk), Monday, 14 April 2003 04:32 (twenty-two years ago)

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