frozenraven39 said:Everything I’ve loved since I was a kid—and I started actually listening to music seriously around age 12—is stuff I still revisit occasionally and consider absolute genius. For instance, Queen. Or R.E.M.
Those were my go-to bands all through middle and high school. Now, I mostly just play them for my kids. They seem high-quality enough to serve as a gateway to better music.
Personally, everything gets old fast for me, so even the stuff I still enjoy gets played sparingly... usually just for the kids.
Not to repeat myself, but there is just so much unheard music out there. It would be a crime to stick to the handful of artists we obsessed over back when we were young and thought life would last forever.
Lately, I've been diving deep into albums, marking favorites on Spotify so I can find them easily when I don't have the energy to dig. There's so much variety that nothing ever truly gets boring. Thank God for the internet. Too bad it turned most people into idiots. I guess the majority has always been dim, but at least pre-internet media had some standards beyond just making a buck, so they weren't actively dumbing everyone down further. This "democratization" the internet provides basically opened Pandora's box. And then we wonder why nobody talks about music on these forums anymore...🐔