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How do you discover music?

in_wainbows [Edit] [Delete] 18 replies 16:00, 1 July '14

Do you focus on one band at a time, focusing on their main stuff to begin with and then branching out to their full back catalogues and "collecting" all their songs, or do you look at music as a whole from an overview and start with famous albums/songs first?

Before I had Spotify I'd only do the former and just be obsessed about few bands, now I tend to read reviews and look at lists of acclaimed albums by lots of different bands. Tbh I found the former more enjoyable. Now I feel like I know about every band and there's not much left to discover.

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    midnightpunk | 1 Jul '14, 16:04 | X
  • Just relax, and let it happen

    There is no way you have 'discovered' everything as you put it. It is so easy to try new music now, that you will never listen to everything.

    confrontedbybears | 1 Jul '14, 16:04 | X
    • I haven't discovered everything but I feel as though I 'know of' everything.

      not literally everything.

      in_wainbows @confrontedbybears | 1 Jul '14, 16:10 | X
      • I just think I enjoyed music as a hobby a lot more

        when I was only into Radiohead/Nirvana/Oasis/Blur

        in_wainbows @in_wainbows | 1 Jul '14, 16:12 | X
        • *And maybe a bit of Cure, New Order, and R.E.M.

          in_wainbows @in_wainbows | 1 Jul '14, 16:14 | X
      • Whenever you discuss music it is usually concerning the obvious artists

        And the need to investigate their back catalog of albums. It feels like you are working your way through a list of 'required' listening, rather actually enjoying what you listen to.

        confrontedbybears @in_wainbows | 1 Jul '14, 16:50 | X
        Hello_Sadness this'd this
        • That's because I just know

          some things get better and better with more listens. It's like an investment.

          in_wainbows @confrontedbybears | 1 Jul '14, 17:12 | X
        • The studio album fascinates me in the same way a film or a book does.

          in_wainbows @confrontedbybears | 1 Jul '14, 23:25 | X
  • well known indie music website

    drownedinsound.com/community

    Hello_Sadness | 1 Jul '14, 16:53 | X
    • In all seriousness,

      Life's too short to try to catalogue everything.

      There's some bands that I only know one or two albums by and, despite loving them, have no real desire to explore further.

      I tend to get more into back catalogues of bands that I'm due to see, or check out bands at festivals that I'm due to go to. So for example, I'm listening to a lot of stuff from the Jabberwocky lineup atm.

      Other than that I tend to listen to stuff that people I trust recommend me, or that I have seen mentioned on here a lot.

      Hello_Sadness @Hello_Sadness | 1 Jul '14, 16:57 | X
  • Reviews, recommendations, radio

    either something catches my ear or I hear about it via something / someone else, very occasionally I hear something on the radio or on TV (especially around festival time) that I want to check out. Then I download their LP and it goes into a generic "new stuff" folder. I pick and choose out of that. Sometimes I forget why I have downloaded something and ignore it, then I see the name again and think "ooh, I have that", so I can end up getting into something months or even years after I first get it. Basically I have ended up with a ridiculously big mp3 library. Occasionally I have a sort out, usually when making an end of year list, when I filter out the crap. At the same time I use end of year lists to get new download ideas, I get a lot of stuff through these. Cuts out the hype of a new release and rave initial reviews, you tend to get the real good shit that year has to offer.

    steinbolt | 1 Jul '14, 17:41 | X
  • last.fm

    Has kept me occupied for many years now

    AphexTwinkletoes | 1 Jul '14, 17:49 | X
  • this is the sort of thread

    I make when im having an anxiety episode

    yuggy | 1 Jul '14, 18:07 | X
    • fyi I was having a Peroni comedown

      in_wainbows @yuggy | 1 Jul '14, 19:34 | X
  • Music Box (mainly the Simon Potter shows)

    best TV channel ever.

    cronenberg | 1 Jul '14, 19:07 | X
  • "Now I feel like I know about every band"

    ha

    orangejuice | 1 Jul '14, 20:28 | X
  • I mainly listen

    to WFMU these days and then check out bands I like from there.

    StaceySailplane | 1 Jul '14, 21:03 | X
  • The Electric Six

    shucks | 1 Jul '14, 22:09 | X
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