ilovefuzz.com

ChetMagongalo wrote:Music has no age dude, and finding music now is easier than it ever has been. Check out youtube, blogs, ask yer friends, last.fm, maybe even pandora but I personally don't like that place

I'll guess OP knows this I think.. It sounds more like "I feel like I am too old to like the stuff I like and feel I must ACT my age"
...
...
fuck that noise!

Agree! ^

thurston is nearly 55

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWjKLiexGI4[/youtube]

kawabata makoto is in his late 40s

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gVzqxH4qag[/youtube]

david bowie is 66

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02BXbobS_mY[/youtube]

tom jones is 73

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAcZGYIqZvw[/youtube]

etc

Wilco

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6ONvmePDDc[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnIY6dQiDws[/youtube]


everybody is old now

Blackened Soul wrote:

ChetMagongalo wrote:Music has no age dude, and finding music now is easier than it ever has been. Check out youtube, blogs, ask yer friends, last.fm, maybe even pandora but I personally don't like that place

I'll guess OP knows this I think.. It sounds more like "I feel like I am too old to like the stuff I like and feel I must ACT my age"
...
...
fuck that noise!

'No one has ever been older than you are right now.'

That's the one phrase truism I gleaned from "War and Peace," (among other things and experiences) and it applies to everyone at all times.

D.o.S. wrote:

Blackened Soul wrote:

ChetMagongalo wrote:Music has no age dude, and finding music now is easier than it ever has been. Check out youtube, blogs, ask yer friends, last.fm, maybe even pandora but I personally don't like that place

I'll guess OP knows this I think.. It sounds more like "I feel like I am too old to like the stuff I like and feel I must ACT my age"
...
...
fuck that noise!

'No one has ever been older than you are right now.'

That's the one phrase truism I gleaned from "War and Peace," (among other things and experiences) and it applies to everyone at all times.

My elbow is cold and damp.

I'm 39, I'm the oldest in my band but not by much. We don't play dad rock. We play whatever the hell we want. I've been getting deeper and deeper into the local music scene and I keep finding more and more great bands who are not "acting their age" The bands I saw last night killed it and there were plenty of grey hairs on stage. Long grey hairs
find one band you like and go to their shows, I guarantee you find more.

Thanks for the suggestions.

I originally posted in a moment of existential terror after a friend asked if I'd heard any new music that I liked and I had to say no.

Part of the problem is that music is too easy to find but I don't have the time to wade through. I want a blog or something that filters for me. Or a podcast, that would be ideal.
Used to be, I could turn on the local radio station and hear cool stuff. Now they play Dave Matthews all the time.
I would read biographies of artists I like and track down their inspirations. I feel like I've exhausted all that.

How about classical? How do people get into avant garde weirdo classical stuff?

oldangelmidnight wrote:How about classical? How do people get into avant garde weirdo classical stuff?

I have always just happened upon it at odd times, like, going to violin shops, reading mags, going to sites for... oh fuck it I'll just link you to the big one..

http://www.gollihurmusic.com/links.cfm#linkCat23

http://www.gollihurmusic.com/links.cfm#linkCat4

Really the more you dig through that page that more actually music you find in odd places, also I have FB friends that are classical musicians also find stuff on PBS and so forth.. it's out there.

My all time favorite is Stefano Scodanibbio, I found out about him in Double Bassist [and British magazine that cost WAY TOO MUCH ]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7LCiaixhtI[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pE-ESOSpj0[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LcrKmaeRA4[/youtube]
also youtube is cool, because or all the side link vid things.. you can go down the hole for hours

sorry if this is all too bass-centric but that's what I play so...

also Dark abient you will find can quickly go hand in hand with avant garde classical such as
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjDs7Vj4Fg4[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SbhD-BCKCQ[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpyJg2GF7GQ[/youtube]

To quote a Finnish saying, the Young rebel of today is the old fart tomorrow.

Just give an ear to a style/genre/scene You are not familiar with. Space Rock. Funeral doom. Baroque composers. Romanticism. Minimalism. Free jazz. Raga. Ritual ambient. Harsh noise and glitch. EBM. Spaghetti western soundtracks. Ska punk or tango or what ever.

Try to understand it with... suspended dislike if You don't get it right away read and ask around for the good bands. There's a plenty of good composers and musicians in any given style of music.

Yeah, I gave up on radio years and years ago. As said above, check out the listen thread. If you have any cool local music stores, go in and ask the clerks for advice - those jobs pay shit, so often employees are there as a labor of love. Back when I worked at a record store, we had regulars who would come in and ask "What's good in genre x?" If I didn't know, odds were that I knew which other clerk in the store would know. There was nothing more gratifying than to see someone buy a bunch of stuff that you'd suggested, and to have the chance to talk to them a week later and see what they thought.

Also, if you live in a college town (or near one), and are interested in classical & avant garde, see if any of the colleges have a concert series you can check out, or offer classes to audit. Or hell, call up the music dept and see if you can get in touch with a professor! I've had a friend do that around art history/appreciation, and it worked out well - the profs were more than happy to chat over the phone to give him some quick pointers.

The older I get, the more I find myself listening to soul, country, blues, bluegrass, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, shit like that. I kind of understand the original post, because you can't just fucking Vincebus Eruptum/Now I wanna be yr deg all the time. Fuck, all I listen to is old music, anyway. Maybe wrong one to give advice in such a thread. I like Tame Impala...???

blooghost wrote:The older I get, the more I find myself listening to soul, country, blues, bluegrass, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, shit like that. I kind of understand the original post, because you can't just fucking Vincebus Eruptum/Now I wanna be yr deg all the time. Fuck, all I listen to is old music, anyway. Maybe wrong one to give advice in such a thread. I like Tame Impala...???

Anyway, you owe it to yourself to get on some Cope.
http://www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/

D.o.S. wrote:

blooghost wrote:The older I get, the more I find myself listening to soul, country, blues, bluegrass, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, shit like that. I kind of understand the original post, because you can't just fucking Vincebus Eruptum/Now I wanna be yr deg all the time. Fuck, all I listen to is old music, anyway. Maybe wrong one to give advice in such a thread. I like Tame Impala...???

Anyway, you owe it to yourself to get on some Cope.
http://www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/

Sounded like bullshit to me too