The personal paradigm shift that you wish had (or hadn't) happened

Hard to think of a shift that I wish hadn't happened at all. I do wish I'd heard Marquee Moon back when I was in high school. As it stands I didn't hear it until only last year. It's opening doors for me now, but by god back then it would have been EXACTLY what I was looking for, and I think it would have put me on a very different path. There's a whole trove of bands I would have really sunk my teeth into a young age, rather than all of them being just in my peripheral vision, even all these years later.

I wish that everything did not seem like a slight variation on something I've already heard.

I don't enjoy the remnants of my lo-fi, twee-pop phase these days.

most of the guitar based collection i have, i rarely listen to now as boredom quickly sets in, and a quick flick through one of my cd wallets today revealed i have way too many crappy cds on Creation that i know i will never ever listen to again ..

A couple of months ago I listened to 100 or so 12"s, mainly from 2001-04 when I was on some dance PR mailing lists, because I could hardly remember what any of them were like. It kind of made me feel bad cos hardly any of them flat out sucked but I knew there was gonna be no reason to listen to them again in the next decade. So yeah, I pretty much don't give a shit about vinyl as a dance medium now, which is a shame in a way cos I'm still glad that culture's stayed alive

i wish i had gotten into jungle earlier than i did. i first heard it end of 95 beginning of 96, didnt go to a rave to hear it until fall 96. basically, i caught only the tail end of one of my favorite periods of time musically, though at that time it was still pretty easy to hear the previous couples years' worth of jungle out frequently.

i wish i had gotten into house and underground disco earlier. i never was exposed to much good house, and i loved me some commercial disco for years and years without realising how much great underground shit there was in there.

I regret a four year foray into mall punk and "skacore."

I wish I hadn't been so self-conscious about music in my twenties. Oh, the wonderful things I deliberately avoided to impress snarky, bespectacled indie girls.

"DJs don't have any talent; they just play other people's music."

At one point, probably around age 19, I made a remark like this ... AND I must have thought I had stumbled upon some kind of profound revelation.

(sigh)

As for music. . . I often wish I was never 16.

I wish I hadn't started reading Wax Poetics and blown a bunch of money on collectible LPs with a hot 20 second break on them. I don't even DJ or anything.

wish I had saved more money as a kid so I could buy those metal releases my mom forbade me to buy for satanic content (like Mercyful Fate). I had to get them at a later age