When i was in 4th grade I use to listen to pop. By 6th, it was rap. By 11th grade i stopped listening to crap …rap and was into trance and techno. Now I listen to nothing. I got into death metal and punk for a month but after that…music sucks. Espically when I have 3 sisters who are music freaks and listen to music 24/7 and very loud. It bugs the hell out of me when they have it on in the morning because I usually like my mornings quiet and peaceful. Is there something wrong with me ? Have any of you had similar experiences? With music its like you lose your ability to think and it makes me feel stupid. I have tried listening to new music but none seem to keep me interested. I am not even out of high-school yet and i have lost my interest in music, video games, T.V, and some materialistic things. And i have an itch to learn so i spend some time reading books. I am going insane. I have lost some of my friends cause they fail to understand me…back to the topic how about you guys? Do you dopers listen to music? And loud?
I can honestly say that I couldn’t live without my music. Even if I am only in my bedroom for a few moments I will put something on. It just moves me in everyway. I listen mostly to indie now but also a lot of old rock (Velvet Underground etc.) although I’m not sure rock is the correct genre for that, and late 80s/ early 90s BritPop. I also like my chilled out stuff to keep me sane at times. Oh, yes, and I like it loud!
Yes, I must admit even I’m starting to lose interest in music and I have no idea why. I haven’t bought a CD in about two years, haven’t listened to one in about 4 months. There was a time where I’d take my minidisc or CD player everywhere I went. But now, it becomes a bit of a nuisance and distraction and I tend to prefer some tranquility.
It’s probably safe to say that I’ve lost it completely. I’m 18!
Yeh I listen to music a fair amount. Goes through phases, but generally I return to a mix of rap, trance, rock, pop and classical.
Makes for a nice selection
I go through phases.
Pop, to metal, to punk, to rockablliy, to 70’s era oldies…
Now I like guitar driven instrumentals.
Keep looking.
I liked music in my early teens, now at age 26 it doesn’t do much else than annoy me.
Every once in a while there is one song that I like and I might listen to it 3 or 4 times, after that I’d just as well be without it.
Silence please.
Being 45, I’ve noticed rock music seems to go through cycles, and about every dozen years or so it returns to a condition which I really like (instrumentally interesting, a little raw sounding, but still competent.):
1955-56. Early roots rock, and RB. Love, love, love this stuff.
1966-1971. Golden age of 60’s rock. Ditto.
1978-81. First flash of “new wave” (e.g. X). Ditto.
1990-1994. Grunge. Ditto.
So I’m looking for another high point to begin in a year or two. And obviously the Beatles would be an exception, not having really come in during one of “my” periods, but of course I liked them too.
With all that said, though, I find my tastes are now leaning more towards jazz these days.
“Musical apathy” may have something to do with one’s surrounding environment. Now that I live in a big city where there is always sound I relish moments of silence. Such tranquility is truly blissful.
In my quiet home town, I could spend hours listening to music. And I mean listening to music – whereas my housemate always had music turned on as a din in the background, I would sit with headphones and give it my undevided attention.
Now that I’m in a big city, everywhere I go there is some kind of noise or music. Music in the grocery store, music in the shopping malls, cars with booming bass going “boom! boom! boom!” as they drive past my apartment. Even though I work in the music industry and have the opportunity to hear some remarkable stuff. The idea of sitting and listening the way I used to has lost a lot of its appeal. Even when I have the chance to sit back with music I really, really like, my ears are weary and I’d just rather have silence.
Silence is golden. My ears are overloaded with the din of the city.
One of the problems with music today is that most of the material released by the music industry is on a quality par with most of the material produced by the television industry.
Good music is out there in most any genre, but finding it is especially challenging. And like any good art, good music usually requires something from the listener. Congratulations on not settling for the garbage.
My interests haven’t changed musch since I was in my teens, nor has the amount of music I listen to really changed. My tastes have since expanded to include other types of music than hard rock, however, though hard rock remains as my mainstay, even as I approach my mid 30s.
If anything has changed, it’s the way I listen to it and how I express my tastes. I haven’t watched MTV in many years, and even if it were still music videos I wouldn’t have time to sit around all day and watch them like I did when MTV was in its infancy. I don’t listen to the radio as much as I used to, but this can be partly attributed to the corporatization of the radio industry. I don’t trade recordings with friends like I did in my teens, and I don’t always have to have the CDs that everyone else is buying. I don’t visually express my musical tastes (I don’t wear T-shirts or plaster my walls with posters of my favorite bands). But, I still love the music itself.
BAH! All that’s needed is the right kind of music. Rap, rock, trance, all that crap getting boring? Branch outward. Listen to new things. “Music”, as a form of art and expression, will always have new things to offer. The moment you start to deny this, you will drop further down your own personal spiral of boredom.
Rock music, as I’ve noticed, has been clogged by too many bands that follow the 4/4 timing pattern: Base on 1, snare on 3, repeat (any drummer will know what I mean). It’s a formula that works, but unfortunately, so many rock bands are uninspired to change that. It’s a rock beat, and it’s common, but it’s also tired. my suggestion is to listen to bands that choose not to march on that path, or fall backward into the great rock music from the last few decades.
For the longest time I loathed rap music for it’s “all image/no musical substance” stereotype. I still don’t listen to much rap, but lately I’ve understood that there’s something to it. I just don’t think that something is represented well by today’s top 40 rappers. I guess I can’t really offer a worthy opinion of rap. Moving on.
Trance music has been way overused. If your sick of the “thump thump” beat pattern, or the predictable speeding snares that peak with a crash of synth, congratulations. You are looking for more. If there’s any music style that I can speak for, it’s electronic. Stay away from trance! All the crap I hear on the radio, streaming over the internet, blasting out of dance clubs… it’s always the same, and sometimes it’s worse. Move to other genres of electronic music. Listen to something different.
Innovation is the best thing to look for when hearing new music.
I’ve been a music freak for ten years now, but in the last 3-4 I’ve found myself listening more and more to my cds, and buying new albums by the bands that I’ve liked for years, and not getting interested in many new bands. Sometimes I get bored with my cds and then get interested in older bands. I’m not bored with music, I’m just bored with TODAY’S music. It doesn’t seem to have changed any or grown since 1996 or so. My high points of music listening were 1994-1996.
I agree with the phases and cycles concept. Not just with music but with movies, TV shows, hobbies, even food.
There have been spans of time ranging into years where I just had no interest in something I had loved before and soon enough (usually) something will spark my interest in it again.
The usual trick in my case has been to hear something inadvertently, not as a result of a direct search for it, and to like it enough to hunt down the CD, or at least some radio program likely to have that kind of thing. Then, soon enough, I’ll be back on track.
I worked with a guy in a record/stereo components shop one time, and I asked him his favorite kind of music, since he had to listen to it all day while fixing sick gear. He said, quite seriously, “I hate music.” As far as I can tell, he meant it.
I could have written that practically word for word! Then again, going by your screen name, we were born the same year so no wonder there’s a similarity of experience. Probably the only thing I would say differently is that I’ve always liked many types of music, but the ratio of hard rock to other styles has evened out over the last 15 years or so.
A lot of it does have to do with the lack of variety on the radio. There’s a few popular, newer songs/artists that I like, but so much of it sounds the same - bland, formulaic dreck sold for the eye candy teen factor. I don’t even like a lot of the newer hard rock groups, though there are certainly some that I do enjoy. Usually when I’m in my car I’ll listen to one local independent station, the oldies station, or the news, or I’ll put on a cd. I hear popular music when I’m out, and if I like what I hear I’ll ask someone what it is. Every so often I’ll look up what some of the bands I haven’t heard from in ages on the Web to see if they’re still around, and check out what they’re up to. When all else fails, I’ve been getting into Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald - can’t really go wrong there.
I live in fear of dying before I get to listen to all of the great music out there. I’m 29. I’ve been into music since I got a crusty third-generation dub of a Black Flag album in 1987 - I think it was then that I realized that there was way more than hair metal and Madonna and all the other crap that I saw on MTV.
I love it all, and have at least a thousand CDs (last time I counted). I could quite easily buy a thousand more given enough money and a good enough record store. I like country, bluegrass, jazz, hip hop, punk rock, “indie” rock, metal, tecno, funk, etc. etc. - pretty much everything except blues (can appreciate that it exists, just don’t enjoy it) and I don’t consider most of what pop culture considers music to be actual music (it’s more of a “product”).
Once I find a band I like, i’ll check out allmusic.com and see what bands they list as being similar, and I’ll check them out - chances are pretty good I’ll be into them. It frightens me when I think about how many bands that I still need to check out. I listen to music all day, every day at work - I’m a computer geek and i have headphones on all the time, usually listening to five to seven albums every day (whole albums, not one or two tracks).
I have enough trouble keeping up with old stuff that getting into new stuff is really hard - but it happens. I’ve got a great college radio station in my town and that helps a lot.
I can’t imagine getting out of liking music - I can see not being into it in the first place, but to lose interest in it is unfathomable to me.
I have never lost interest in music… I’ve always had a musical vibe going on, whether it be rock / Brit-pop / alternative / classical music / almost anything else (except rap / country)
As Spoz said in his blog the other day…
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I’m in my late 30s. I listen to way less music than I did up until my late 20s. After that I noticed that I was buying fewer CDs, liking fewer new bands. At first I thought it was that I just didn’t like the music that was out there, but I have since come to the conclusion that it isn’t the music, it is me that has changed. Music is just a diversion I lost interest in somehow. Different kinds of music haven’t been the answer…I just don’t listen to it anymore, except sometimes in the car.
What’s wrong with you people? Music is one of the basic forms of expression of humanity way back into the mists of time! Just because you all grew up on nothing but electronic noise doesn’t mean there isn’t still a WORLD of wonderful music waiting for you out there!
Listen to some African music. The intricate drumming can be truly breathtaking – it’s not rhythmic in the traditional Western sense, but that doesn’t lessen its pwer.
Go back in time. Try some medieval music. I still have not found music much lovelier than lute music from the 14th Century.
The great composers are great for a reason. Go listen to some Bach. On the organ. On a BIG organ. Sit REAL close. Thought you ever got a rush from loud rock music? It will pale by comparison. The best way I know of to do this is to go to one of the free Sunday evening organ concerts at the National Cathedral in Washington DC, where if you’re lucky you can sit up in the choir stalls literally INSIDE the middle of the organ. But find a church with a BIG pipe organ, at least 16-foot or, even better, 32-foot pipes for the biggest ones. And then sit back and wonder at the fact that Bach’s music was written HUNDREDS YEARS before you were born.
Go listen to some live jazz. Any type, doesn’t matter.
Try some traditional musical styles – Celtic, Cajun, bluegrass. Listen to some Australian aboriginal music, that is thousands of years old.
Don’t just stop at electronic noise and declare music has lost its appeal for you!!!
I’m 20 and I’ve lost interest in music. Of course, its hard to stay interested in music when nobody makes new wave anymore. :mad:
Trigonal Planar , hie thee to somafm.com. Mod is still made, dude. The Smiths are still out there. As are Modern English. Plus a few new fun bands on indie labels that don’t get a whole lot of air play thanks to the majorlabelpowers that be.