[knox]

Originally Posted by Decayed Rhapsody

Albini once said something about how he views his favorite records as conversations. One listens to a record and walks away feeling like they've had a conversation with the band, an experience that clued them into something they weren't aware of before playing it. There are very few TOTAL PACKAGE bands around like that now.

That's a really good way to put it. Most records produced by Albini do that for me. But I like to think a good album is more like something that transports you into its own universe and you cannot help it, you are absolutely powerless.

[knox]

What I don't understand is this "religious" kind of fan thing. I still adore SY (even if I don't listen to it as much as I did before, which seems natural) but I like some things more than others. Most of my favourite artists have albums I can't stand, and I truly respect that. I don't have to listen to it as much as I did before to respect it just the same. But to be frank, I'm from a different generation. I live surrounded by hipterish kind of people who talk crap, listen to crap music, read NME and wear Sonic Youth t-shirts. So I just gave all my Sonic Youth t-shirts to charity? Because I'd rather see homeless people wearing them. Although, to be fair, it's getting harder and harder to differentiate homeless people from hipsters around here so they might be my t-shirts after all.

[stu666]

well i've been a fan of sonic youth for almost 20 years now and i listen to them more now than ever.

[knox]

I hardly listen to any guitar music these days, but it's a phase. It'll probably go when I finally buy my new guitar.

[chicka]

Originally Posted by knox

That's a really good way to put it. Most records produced by Albini do that for me. But I like to think a good album is more like something that transports you into its own universe and you cannot help it, you are absolutely powerless.

"Own Universe" is an excellent way to put it for truly good music.

Classic Music that I grew up with in the sixties can be sickening to me now. The radio ruined many a band. I can only listen to Led Zeppelin I and III the rest of their catalog can go in the rubbish. The Beatles only the white album.
Aqualung no way in hell. Eric Clapton no thank you. Yet I'll listen to every Doors, Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd and Carlos Santana album I have. As for newer bands to me Sonic Youth, X, The Clash, Rage Against the Machine and Joy Division I can listen to any time.

[SONIC GAIL]

My tastes always change but I am die hard sy. Must listen at least once a day.

[SONIC GAIL]

Originally Posted by stu666

well i've been a fan of sonic youth for almost 20 years now and i listen to them more now than ever.

True stu

[SONIC GAIL]

Originally Posted by foreverasskiss

Yeah,it happens to everbody. But age has nothing to do with it.

I am in agreance with this statement. Fact is as I age I tend to go back to shit I loved a decade ago and it is like new. Sometimes we need a break and a new outlook.

[demonrail666]

Originally Posted by foreverasskiss

But age has nothing to do with it.

It has to. People's values, priorities and overall understanding of things inevitably change over time. We may still like things we listened to in our teens but our relationship with those things is inevitably different as time goes on. That's not to say that we can't like music more as we get older but as our perspective changes on pretty much everything over time, I don't see why music should be exluded from that. I'd be more worried about anyone whose taste was fixed by a certain moment in their life.

[SONIC GAIL]

Good point. I do see and hear new things as I age.

[E. Noisefield]

My tastes have changed a lot, but SY has been my favorite band for ten years. And I still like the other stuff I liked in high school (Pavement, Pixies, Ramones, Iggy/Stooges, Dinosaur jr, Big Black, Slint, Sebadoh, Nirvana, Nine Inch Nails just to name a few). No, I don't listen to them every day, but I still love them.

SY are transcendent of "the phase" for me.

[_slavo_]

Originally Posted by Nefeli

oh and i m 40

time flies

[nicfit]

Originally Posted by _slavo_

time flies

 

[_slavo_]

Time flies, as a crow flies, in a straight line,
Through you, not around you

[chicka]

I'm 58 and I've had all different phases of music listening starting with the Beach Boys, Motown, British Invasion, American Rock, Disco, Southern Rock,
then in the 80's I pretty much got stuck in classic rock mode then I finally got into alternative, new wave, punk, hip hop, rap and so on. So at different times I missed different groups in different time periods so I am able to go back and forth and find things I've never heard before that might be 40 years old. Still though since 91 when I bought my first SY album and proceed to buy the rest of the catalog after that they have been my favorites because they always stretching the boundaries, pushing the envelope....

[SpaceCadetHayden]

I've always only listened to harsh japanese noise

[Derek]

from da womb to da tomb.

[Dr. Eugene Felikson]

I used to hate Sebadoh aside from Smash Your Head. Now I like them.

Go figure.

[EVOLghost]

Originally Posted by Chewobeinnolo

Its 7:33 PM and its dark outside. Its been dark for almost an hour, I guess. Okay, I dont have any problem with that. Its fall, the earth is farther away from the sun, whatever, its starting to get cold outside and thats the way it goes. Happens every year. But tomorrow at this time it will be 6:33 PM. Why? Why the hell cant it still be 7:33? Later tonight Ill have to go all over the house and set every one of my clocks back one hour. For what? Who says? Who the hell came up with this stupid idea and why do we have to do this twice every goddamn year? It doesnt make a bit of fucking sense to me. Its bloody insane if you ask me.Resolve Carpet Cleaner leaves your carpets looking like new. I just heard that here.

ok.

[Pookie]

I still like what I liked when I was 18 because I am NOT getting old.