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Tue, 18 Oct 1994 04:04:25 EDT
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Re: More on Re: Prog Rock & IDM
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quoted 6 lines I certainly hope we're not all listening to the same stuff in 20 years. My>> I certainly hope we're not all listening to the same stuff in 20 years. My >> definition of growing old is - whenever your musical tastes stop changing. >> A lot of people I went to high school with are STILL listening to Van >> Halen! These are the people that keep the Classic Schlock, er, Rock >> stations in business (acck!!! phsttt!). I'll keep moving to were the >> innovation is, and stay young in the process, thank you.
quoted 3 lines Yup, I hope that in 15 years time when I'm a late 30 something going>Yup, I hope that in 15 years time when I'm a late 30 something going >on 40 I'll be into innovation, not showing everyone how _Aphex Twin_ >made real music and that the 2005 trends are mindless noise.
There are really two or three issues here. I hope that I am open minded enough to listen to whatever new forms of music are created and I hope that at least some of the music I listen to today will still be listenable. I think a sign of a good artist is if their music still sounds fresh after several years. If their music isn't so tied to a particular technology that when the world moves on to new technologies their music sounds dated. One of the reasons I like idm is the (possibly unfounded) belief that I will still want to listen to some of this stuff on occasion ten or twenty years down the line. That at least some of the music is innovative and original enough that it will still grab my attention even when I'm older. [fletcher] - [don't lose sight of the past] [don't lose yourself in the past] - [on now: pink noise from a dec rainbow]