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[2] too much music
 

offline elusive from detroit (United States) on 2005-01-20 07:06 [#01468099]
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too much damn music.

especially electronic music.

i need weeks to a month to fully take in just a couple of
tracks, and there seems to be great tunes coming out almost
daily.

believe it or not, i wish there weren't so much damn music.

it's quite overwhelming and i almost get in a state of
"omg-must-get-it-all".

after losing one of my 200gb'rs, along with all my music,
i've found i quite fancy only having a few dozen
albums....mostly my favorites that i had backed up on my
work machine.

so now i've been listening to the same couple dozen albums,
and really am not too worried about the rest.

i haven't even loaded up soulseek to start recovering the
music...and my hdd crash was well over 2 months ago.

so, yeah .... i hate being overwhelmed with music.


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2005-01-20 07:11 [#01468105]
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I'd love to always have something new + good to listen to...
at least it doesn't get boring... (of course; going back to
classics and totally amazing songs is also necessary, but
there are few AMAZING songs...)

[2]???


 

offline weatheredstoner from same shit babes. (United States) on 2005-01-20 07:13 [#01468106]
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yep, 15 gigs of music, its uh... yeah, quite a lot. But I
like it all. To quote the Breastie Boys: "And you dont
stop!"


 

offline weltact from Taiwan on 2005-01-20 07:19 [#01468109]
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i always try to have as little as possible
but i cant reduce that number to less then 20gb

i hate that!

good ol days...



 

offline weltact from Taiwan on 2005-01-20 07:19 [#01468112]
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"less than"

stupid wankshot keyboad £"$^%£


 

offline Taxidermist from Black Grass on 2005-01-20 07:23 [#01468113]
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As far as I can see, its all part of the evolutionary
process. What happens when a food source does not have
enough consumers to adequitely control its population? It
gets riddled with diseases, extinguishes its own food
source, etc etc.

I can see how this would apply to massive ammounts of music,
without an economically feasable source of distrobution
and/or consumption, it will start controlling itself. I am
pretty sure this is going to be a big part of the next major
musical evolution, which is about to become fully mature
within the next two years.

So, if my prediction rings true, you will notice a drastic
decrease in the ammount of quality music, both underground
and mainstream within the next two years.


 

offline Taxidermist from Black Grass on 2005-01-20 07:24 [#01468115]
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Follow that with a decrease in the amount of people
producing said food source.


 

offline weltact from Taiwan on 2005-01-20 07:25 [#01468118]
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oh god
how can u be arsed to write a dissertation everytime :)


 

offline elusive from detroit (United States) on 2005-01-20 07:27 [#01468121]
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I think we can all agree we have already seen a massive
decrease in the amount of "quality" music.

The question is, does that "decrease" come from the
experience of music in one genre, and thus binding memories
to certain tracks, or types of music? Thus, filtering out
the rest that you learn to have no feeling for? As one
jumps into a genre they are new to, it is overwhelming and
there are tons of tracks to sift through. Now, using this
with your prediction ... I become a bit more "knowledged" in
a genre, after listening over the years ... Binding memories
to certain songs and basing my -future- music-likes off of
the previous. Now this would seem to go along with your
prediction that, after a while, a peak will be reached and
instead of taking everything in ... the user will reflect
back on the previous and work backwards to rid of all the
garbage, and concentrate on the goods.

But I think that can be applied to most anything in life ...
but this topic has prospect.


 

offline Taxidermist from Black Grass on 2005-01-20 07:28 [#01468125]
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I donno. I kinda sometimes convince myself I have something
worthwhile to say.

That usually clears itself after a few hours. Then its all
stupid posts about music that nobody seems to reply to, and
stupid insults that don't seem to have any real target, or
too specific a target....

I donno. I get chatty when I am tired. ;)


 

offline Taxidermist from Black Grass on 2005-01-20 07:30 [#01468129]
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One thing I am sure of though. Wankshot would prolly be an
adequate replacement for IDM to describe the kind of music
that it is...


 

offline Mertens from Motor City (United States) on 2005-01-20 07:32 [#01468132]
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Good to see you back to proper form


 

offline weatheredstoner from same shit babes. (United States) on 2005-01-20 07:32 [#01468133]
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theres a lot of shit in every genre. especially country and
happy hardcore.


 

offline xf from Australia on 2005-01-20 07:37 [#01468144]
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heh, about 200gigs of music too, and i can't get enough; i
seem to tire of albums easily... :-(


 

offline Mertens from Motor City (United States) on 2005-01-20 07:38 [#01468147]
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I don't think there is a decrease in quality. Only in new
experiences. At least for me. Even my favorite artists don't
impress me like they used to. I don't think anything will
ever top my experience of listening to Aphex's ICBYD album.
It's like a drug addict's first high. I'm contstanly trying
to get back that feeling.


 

offline xf from Australia on 2005-01-20 07:39 [#01468149]
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and the wierd thing is, the more music i get, the less i
seem to have and the quicker i bore of it.

ack.


 

offline elusive from detroit (United States) on 2005-01-20 07:42 [#01468154]
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Maybe you should change your ways, xf, much like I have
(after my hdd crash).

delete most of your music, just to prove that "you can" and
that you don't hold some addiction to your data.

remove all the albums that you just don't listen to anymore,
and streamline down to some of your favorites....now you're
stuck with them and it might help you :)


 

offline xf from Australia on 2005-01-20 07:47 [#01468163]
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jesus christ no way, i thought i lost a 120gig drive with
most my stuff on it a few months ago and i spent ages
recovering it. i don't want to go through that pain again
:)

on the positive site i'm now listening to a lot of music i
haven't heard in years and enjoying it - presidents of the
usa, bloodhound gang, older juno reactor, pet shop boys,
lords of acid, trans am, et al.

i just need to make my listening habits more rigid; stick
with a few albums at a time instead of listening to a whole
heap.


 

offline xf from Australia on 2005-01-20 07:49 [#01468165]
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and yes, i'm rather addicted to my data. i would much
prefer for my computer to get stolen than the actual hard
drives.

and hell, i'm proud of it, i guess :-P


 

offline elusive from detroit (United States) on 2005-01-20 08:10 [#01468196]
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yeah I only have 700GB or so on my main box to worry about.

you don't have to lecture me about saving data.. (lol in
case of fire, fuk everything, grab the pc case)


 

offline xf from Australia on 2005-01-20 08:17 [#01468211]
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haha, word, i'd do the same. grab the laptop, my main
machine, and i'm out of there. fuck everything else :)

then again, i'd be pretty screwed if all my tax invoices got
burnt. i wonder if insurance covers your claims? that'd be
neat.


 

offline mrgypsum on 2005-01-20 10:49 [#01468486]
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in the case of 700GB, yeah thats too much, that room to fit
all music, all there is - 700Gb are you f ing kidding me? i
hope is not just mp3 and you have some flac or wav stuff
there, the hd on my computer is 30 gb and ive barely been
able to fill that since 1999! its called the delete button,
you also have to empty the recycle bin every now and then.


 

offline Raz0rBlade_uk on 2005-01-20 10:52 [#01468491]
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700GB! ?!? !!?


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2005-01-20 11:00 [#01468507]
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hmm, when analord got out i listened to only those two
tracks for 40 hours in a row. since then (the past two days)
i listened to 18 new albums :)


 

offline weatheredstoner from same shit babes. (United States) on 2005-01-20 11:08 [#01468519]
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200gig? Jesus Lord and Mary, are you fucking insane?


 

offline zkreso from Kr.sand (Norway) on 2005-01-20 11:19 [#01468543]
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Yeah I had to reformat my hard drive a couple of days ago,
so I backed up all my music. I haven't moved back any of it
though. I've just been listening to the same albums for a
while.


 

offline elusive from detroit (United States) on 2005-01-20 13:15 [#01468708]
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250
200
200 (died)
120
120

------
890 now. my 200 is dead but the RMA should be here soon :(


 


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