Yelling About Music is the music blog of Jeph Jacques, the creator of Questionable Content, where he...well...yells about music. Indie rock, mostly.
I just read his post from Friday, in which he talks about how there is too much music sometimes; I completely agree. Jeph talks about 1) how he doesn't have enough time to listen to the cds he buys and to keep up with the new stuff coming out ; 2) how ubiquitous MP3s are nowadays, and how that affects people's relationship with music, 3) how his experience at a music festival was unpleasant because there was constantly music, from which he could not escape; and coming up witht he conclusion about how even though he loves music, he wishes there were less of it.
I got an iPod for Christmas 07, and spent the good part of the second week of the break uploading music from cds, and getting album art, and loading them into my iPod. Currently I have exactly 800 songs on my iPod, and when I first got it I thought I would hover around 500 songs. But new stuff keep coming out, and I started a Textpad list of bands/artists that I should check out or get songs from - from friends, papers, blogs, online acquaintances, etc. - and for every one that I listen to there's another two that I add. There are about 60 items on that list right now; it's frustrating.
This trying to clear the list negatively impacts my listening experience. When I hear a new cd, sometimes I don't have the patience to hear all of it the first time, and I dismiss it. If I get the chance to hear it a second time, and give it a thought, I might turn out to love it (many past examples - Arctic Monkeys, Buckcherry, and Tokyo Police Club* being examples that I didn't like at all first time I heard them, but I love now). Now I know I do this, and make myself listen to stuff at least twice before making up my mind about it.
I used to observe people on buses and the TTC; now I put on the earphones. Sometimes I do get tired of music, and stop myself from doing that. I think I shall observe No Music Day this year, if just to see if I can do it, on my own free will. It's nice to have a little quiet once in a while
Cindy
5 comments:
Getting addicted to music can be a big big problem....it can eventualy lead to depression! Many documented cases of listening to too much music and having lots of psychological problems (in fact, a greater chance of these problems than being deaf)
Ironic comming form me but....
Well, don't blame music for your problems. That's like...blaming video games for violence/violent tendencies.
Plus depends a lot on what type of music you listen to.
Well, there are many cases of people who play WoW too much, whose lives are ruined because of it, so I'm sure there's some way that you can do that with music too. While most people probably can't blame their problems on music, I'm sure some people can.
Also, One by Metallica is in Guitar Hero 3, so the person in the XKCD comic should be able to avoid that... embarrassing... situation now.
lol cindy: "blaming video games for violence ..." YTMPPPP
also, i dont really think getting addicted to music is that bad of a thing... like, it might make you become less social but whatever
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