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Originally Posted by noisereductions
I feel like I'm getting too old to keep on pace. Too many albums released. I barely have time to absorb the ones I'm still catching up on from months ago. Maybe it just takes me longer to really "get" an album. (Not to mention, my listening time has basically been reduced to one album on my commute home every day... and some listening depending on what's going on during the weekend). Plus, y'know - sometimes I listen to things that weren't released this year. It's just a lot of work to keep on top of things. I'm old and bitter. The guy that used to praise MF Doom for dropping 3 records a year is now like "Game! Please slow down! I can't keep up with you!"
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This for me too. Like I've said elsewhere, I'm coming off three years of EXTREMELY excessive record buying... like, really. So many albums that I actually had a top 50 in 2015, and a fucking top 100 in 2014 (what's the point? I don't know. To drive yourself crazy, I expect, without getting to know many albums in full.) This year I'm guessing that I've maybe bought 25, tops.
And like you, there are only a small few that I've kept listening to over time. Most of what I've listened to this year has been Pablo, and when Pablo gets old, I tend to just listen to Kanye's EIGHT other albums.
I think Nicolas Jaar and Kaytranada and Chance are the only other records I've listened to over and over again. I buy new album and listen once, and then there's more new shit to listen to, but it's usually not that exciting so I just put on Pablo again.
I'm definitely getting a bit old for this shit. Everyone just rushed through music like, consuming it like it's candy, and moving onto the next piece. "Classics" are sooooo rare these days, even in the pop culture sense. The fact that TPAB and 1989 (two modern insta-classics for sure) dropped in the same year is just WILD.
Even back in 2013, albums like Yeezus and Long.Live.A$AP and that Campire Weekend joint stayed on the national radar for a long ass time. Things got really weird in 2014 I think. Streaming, yknow? It's made everything fleeting. Given music a really weird sense of impermanence. Even the "biggest" album of the year (Views, by fake ass bitch) is kind of a flop. I can't remember the last time someone said anything about it in my presence, and it's supposed to be the "new Purple Rain" (baaaahaaaaaaaa!!!!)
Anyway, where was I? Oh yeah, me me me Kanye me me.