From Greg Clow Sent Fri, Sep 3rd 1999, 17:00
From Greg Clow Sent Fri, Sep 3rd 1999, 17:00
On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Irene McC wrote: > Besides wondering what he might be listening to, it also got me to > thinking what we (collectively) might be listening to when we reach > 60 or 70 - will we be pulling out Ae's LP5 and telling our > grandchildren how lucky we consider ourselves to have been > around at a time when this was fresh and new? That's a good question. Had you asked me this 10 or 12 years ago, I probably would've said "Hey man, I'm gonna be listening to goth and industrial and gloomy rock for the rest of my LIFE!" But now, most of that sort of stuff has been cleared out of my collection. I still listen to bits of it, and actually enjoy a few current bands that get lumped into the "goth" category. But it certainly is well in the minority compared to the percentage of IDM stuff I listen to now. Today, I'd be more tempted to say that while this wacky IDM stuff will probably have a longer "shelf life" for me, I would like to think that the majority of the music I'm listening to when I'm 60 or 70 will be stuff that is being recorded when I'm 60 or 70. That is to say I hope that I never lose the bug for new sounds, and continue to drive my wife crazy with my habitual record buying until the day we die. :) > Or will we have come around to Mozart? Or jazz? Oddly enough, my classical "phase" has already come and gone. I listened to that stuff a fair bit in my early 20s (sort of an extension of the ethereal-gothy stuff I was into at the time, I think), but got bored of it quickly. Perhaps I'll redevelop a taste for it when I get older. And as for jazz, I think I've already "come around" to it. Miles, Coltrane, Mingus, Hancock, Parker, etc. make up a fair (and slowly increasing) portion of my music collection. I expect that to continue. Greg