Comments | helpimarock: contemplating the concept of too much music

helpimarock

contemplating the concept of too much music

Jul 16, 2009 10:48

I go through phases in my never-ending quest to acquire music. Sometimes I have a couple of albums kicking around my hard drive or shelf that I need to review and decide whether or not they're keepers. At other times it gets to be dozens. Right now it's getting ridiculous though. I just checked my "to review" folder on my fileshare drive and there' ( Read more... )

introspection, music, filesharing, life

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blozor July 16 2009, 20:30:51 UTC

Think maybe you found, an albeit nondamaging, impulsive behavior?

blozor July 16 2009, 20:33:26 UTC

BTW you will love Simple Minds' Reel to Real Cacophony insane, electronic synth-punk. New Gold Dream wasn't bad either, but Reel to Real is a rare gem in their body of work.

helpimarock July 17 2009, 05:15:00 UTC

I had the Glittering Prize compilation for years and one day I was looking around at neglected genres in my collection and I actually remembered you praising Simple Minds in the past and so decided to start looking at the studio albums. And I decided to start at the beginning with Reel to Real Cacophony. I listened to a few tracks earlier this week and was surprised at how different the band was at the beginning, but was also surprised at how positively unique it was. I need to finish the rest of it.

Also, I got New Gold Dream for comparison, but I definitely think Reel to Real Cacophony is better. It falls into that same brilliant, late-70s area that Devo's Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! falls into.

helpimarock July 17 2009, 04:48:04 UTC

If it weren't for the amount of research (premeditation) I did before getting each album, I would say so.

On the other hand I will admit that I'm a little obsessed with building the "perfect" music collection. Sometimes I wonder if I keep a given album because I'm afraid my collection won't be considered complete without it and not because I like it. But I'm running out of hard drive space and so I've become more discriminating and critical in what I keep.

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helpimarock July 19 2009, 20:57:50 UTC

I used to keep my CDs in my dresser and it used to drive my mom nuts because I had more music in there than clothes. Hah. :)

That's cool that your bf's tastes are similar to mine. It sounds like we both dig a very wide array of things. Though this list of albums "to review" makes me look more varied than I really am; I'll probably end up trimming quite a bit of what's there in the end. I wish there was some way to make my entire collection browseable from my profile or something. So that people could get see the true big picture.

But anyway, yeah, music is definitely my thing!

And yep, I went after Mingus and Clarke almost as soon as you mentioned them. I still need to listen to Clarke, but I've listened to Mingus Ah Um and Let My Children Hear Music a couple of times each and I was blown away by several of the tracks. Particularly "Hobo Ho". That's such a great song. It took me awhile to even begin to understand what he was doing with the bass strings and I really enjoyed that complexity ( ... )