CrowleyHead
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So do us nerds necessarily enjoy music more than folk who buy the sort of albums you see advertised on TV and for sale in petrol stations? I know some people who only really listen to chart music but they seem to like it as much as I like my weirdo stuff
This is my personal take on it...
A lot of people can find solace in something that seems perfectly suitable for them that's say 'mainstream' music. But even in mainstream music you know, there's so many things to get into. When I was a child alone, you had nu-metal/rap-rock, which sometimes lead to you getting into post-hardcore/metalcore or becoming a proper metalhead, and in some cases, even getting you into hip-hop properly. Rap fans could become 'better' rap fans by gravitating to certain styles and eras, or lead to one becoming a crate digger and getting really into older funk/soul/jazz records. Cheap euro-trance-pop like Eiffel 65 or whatever, modern rock hits like Smashing Pumpkins could lead you to discover My Bloody Valentine or whatever.
Nowadays it's just as chaotic, because of youtube sensations. I mean, my little 12 year old cousin was trying to tell me about Die Antwoord for a minute until I realize what she was actually talking about, and then a minute later I realized "Oh shit, my cousin only just reached the point that saturday morning cartoons and Disney channel stars are irrelevant not that long ago, and now she's asking me about Aphex Twin because Die Antwoord and Kanye West like him, fuck me."
At the same time though, with me personally, and this is a result of overindulging with mp3s and downloading... I don't remember if I like everything I 'like'. This is actually a result of an old external with almost a terabyte of music on it getting damaged and needing the files to be extracted, but since I haven't redownloaded a lot of that stuff, I can't TELL YOU without actively regrabbing all of those things, which I can't will myself to do all the time. I just tried it with Bowie a month ago, and I was listening to "The Man Who Sold The World", and album I thought I loved, and it was tedious. Granted, that was an album I loved 5 years ago when I had a lot more patience for guitar music, but it makes me call into question that, maybe in my overzealousness to find new things, I tricked myself into thinking I liked what I liked.
Though, I think no matter what technology was around, I'd always hate Joy Division.