The Confessions Thread

[nieh]

I often put on gear demos of pedals I don't even really care about just for background noise.

[unownunown]

I often put on gear demos of pedals I don't even really care about just for background noise.

this.

also videos of people fucking with their boards.

[jfrey]

I always overpay all my bills just to make them even dollar amounts. The extra counts towards the next bill though.

[Achtane]

I'm pretty bored with music right now. A lot of newer bands don't move me, it's like I'm waiting for some new thing to happen and it's not happenin'.
Recently it seems like there's been a wave of "well let's kinda go into the dreampop/noisy territory while remaining ambivalent enough to make our music boring as shit" bands.

Or "hey let's make it sound like the 80s".

I dunno.

[Mudfuzz]

I'm pretty bored with music right now. A lot of newer bands don't move me, it's like I'm waiting for some new thing to happen and it's not happenin'.
Recently it seems like there's been a wave of "well let's kinda go into the dreampop/noisy territory while remaining ambivalent enough to make our music boring as shit" bands.

Or "hey let's make it sound like the 80s".

I dunno.

Recently? hasn't been like ten years now...?

[Achtane]

I'm pretty bored with music right now. A lot of newer bands don't move me, it's like I'm waiting for some new thing to happen and it's not happenin'.
Recently it seems like there's been a wave of "well let's kinda go into the dreampop/noisy territory while remaining ambivalent enough to make our music boring as shit" bands.

Or "hey let's make it sound like the 80s".

I dunno.

Recently? hasn't been like ten years now...?

Maybe...

[phantasmagorovich]

I'm pretty bored with music right now. A lot of newer bands don't move me, it's like I'm waiting for some new thing to happen and it's not happenin'.
Recently it seems like there's been a wave of "well let's kinda go into the dreampop/noisy territory while remaining ambivalent enough to make our music boring as shit" bands.

Or "hey let's make it sound like the 80s".

I dunno.

Recently? hasn't been like ten years now...?

Maybe...

It used to be sort of exciting ten years ago though. I kinda like some of the psychedelic / dreampop stuff. But you can always check out older stuff. Go and have a listen to Units and Deity Guns. Or check out music you never thought you'd like. Youtube makes digging really easy because it's all available. Of course you can only go so far with that right column, because it will inevitable direct you back to mass appeal stuff in three steps. But if you know what to probe it might be rewarding. For example check out rumenian folk music (Dona Dimitru Simica) or portuguese (Argentina Santos). I really like older stuff, if only because you know it has already been filtered through time. Of course there were as many bands as today in the 80s, but the ones that you still hear about are only a couple and those are usually good.

[D.o.S.]

I'm pretty bored with music right now. A lot of newer bands don't move me, it's like I'm waiting for some new thing to happen and it's not happenin'.
Recently it seems like there's been a wave of "well let's kinda go into the dreampop/noisy territory while remaining ambivalent enough to make our music boring as shit" bands.

Or "hey let's make it sound like the 80s".

I dunno.

Another great way to shake things up is flash drive trading. You and a compatriot switch, say, one gig flash drives and fill them with music you're pretty sure the other hasn't heard.

I know I've found some awesome stuff that way.

[dubkitty]

when there isn't interesting new stuff happening, you can always go sideways and/or backwards for stuff. the amount of music that was legendarily near-unobtainable that's been reissued on CD since the mid-1990s is utterly staggering, literally more than a platoon of humans could listen to in a lifetime, and includes essential stuff like the Neu! albums that birthed 80% of post-punk, as well as everything from Van Dyke Parks and T Bone Burnett to Harry Partsch and Carla Bley. you can lose your mind for a year just listening to the Fela Kuti reissue series, after which Eno's rock records and the Talking Heads will never sound quite the same again.

[jfrey]

My music collection as of right now exceeds 3 months of play time. What makes that more impressive is that I get rid of about 12 hours of music every month.

[dubkitty]

i'm well overdue for a massive cull of the officially released CDs; i now have more music in the form of official CDs, CDs of BitTorrented live concerts and outtakes, stored FLAC/SHN files of same, etc. than i could probably listen to between now and the day i die. and this is despite my obdurate refusal to torrent officially-released material. i've probably got a hundred discs whose absence i wouldn't ever notice...hell, i have techno material from my rave days i don't even remember.

[Chankgeez]

when there isn't interesting new stuff happening, you can always go sideways and/or backwards for stuff. the amount of music that was legendarily near-unobtainable that's been reissued on CD since the mid-1990s is utterly staggering, literally more than a platoon of humans could listen to in a lifetime, and includes essential stuff like the Neu! albums that birthed 80% of post-punk, as well as everything from Van Dyke Parks and T Bone Burnett to Harry Partsch and Carla Bley. you can lose your mind for a year just listening to the Fela Kuti reissue series, after which Eno's rock records and the Talking Heads will never sound quite the same again.

Harry Partch.

Talking Heads.

And as much as I like Fela, Remain in Light will remain one of my favorite albums.

[dubkitty]

oh, i didn't mean they'll sound BAD...i love that stuff. about 40% of my listening the last six months has been those Eno records. but it'll definitely give you a different perspective, the same way that Stereolab or Joy Division is different after you hear Neu!

[alexa.]

random good music insert:
http://cantfakenature.bandcamp.com/

[Chankgeez]

oh, i didn't mean they'll sound BAD...i love that stuff. about 40% of my listening the last six months has been those Eno records. but it'll definitely give you a different perspective, the same way that Stereolab or Joy Division is different after you hear Neu!

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