On 18 Jul 2001, at 7:12, Adam Piontek wrote:
quoted 4 lines There's something wonderful about being a teenager and getting a> There's something wonderful about being a teenager and getting a
> new album for the first time in months, taking it home and holing
> up in your room with the headphones and falling in love with new
> music.
YES YES YES!!! Why doesn't that happen any more? Are we just
too damn jaded and locked into the eternal quest for bigger, better,
more?
These days, I get new albums, and they're *nice* but somehow
they never enmesh with every single cell in my body like my old
music used to. I have some old vinyl dating back, ooh - 20, 25
years, that is so deeply engrained that I can imagine every crackle
and surface scratch before it comes along, and if I hear a CD copy
of the same album, it somehow lacks the well-worn ambience of my
beloved original.
I think partly this might be due to my obsession with music having
become something akin to an addiction, and I'm always looking to
the next fix, rather than fully enjoying the present.
It's also partially a fault of the media, peddling music as a mass-
market consumable. Gone is the arcane pleasure of indulgence.
Cynical? You bet!
I
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