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good music is good music. There is always great music being made, and always great music being overlooked. There is always shit music being hyped as well.
every generation sees the previous ones wit 20/20 hindsight, and only a few people actually see the "NEW" when it actually happens.
I try to, musically, be someone who hears it when it happens, but it is hard to do. The older you get, the less you spend time at dives and clubs and bars listening to band after band, the less you care.
In my experience , few bands sound fabulous upon first listen, and the ones that do, for me, become some of my faves (sonic youth, dinosaur jr, pavement, Polvo, Unwound). Most bands however, take repeated listens to fully grasp whether you like it or not, and why you like or dislike it.
these bands turn out many that are also my dear dear faves. (Morphine, butthole surfers, phish, Melvins, etc)
to be a true critic, you have to have a storehouse of information in yur head, information which alows you to accurately place what you are listening to in a bigger context of time, place, region, genre, history, etc. without these things, all you can truly say is whether you "liked" it or "disliked" it, which is actually the single least useful bit about any review of anything.
the more you know the more you bring to bear when it comes to art.
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