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submitted 2 years ago by randomnick@beehaw.org to c/music@beehaw.org

I have some friends my age still listening to the same bands they used to 20 years ago, complaining about how music today sounds all the same. However I discover something new almost every day and I'm not kidding.

It's true that some of my discoveries are bands from decades before I was born, so they can't be considered new, although they are new to me if that makes sense.

What about you? Still listening to the same tunes you used to listen to when you were a teenager?

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[-] monkeysuncle@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

Mostly the same stuff. I'll occasionally find a new band/album that I like, but it's always by chance. I've been missing a good place to find new music ever since what.cd got shutdown.

[-] rjd@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 years ago

Listen to a heap of new stuff, as well as a lot of old stuff.

Picking up the guitar to learn start of last year has put me on a journey of exploration into several areas and a lot of new music

[-] RinceWind@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

I travel a lot and am always looking for new music wherever I am! Love going to local rock bars and live venues and seeing whatever's on on a particular day.

[-] wispi@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

all the time. I have a problem. I'm always seeking the next mindblowing album experience. gotta go back to the trieds and trues occasionally!

[-] calixte@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

What are some of the mindblowing albums you discovered lately?

[-] KevinDeRodeTovenaar@feddit.nl 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Not the original commenter, but i'll add some of fav

Sadneccesary - Milky chance Skinty fia - fontaines dc Town centre - squid

[-] LanyrdSkynrd@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

My favorite new album in years is Codefendants - This is Crime Wave : https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_maX9ORPggXh_sTT7I7Lw2IUEpEzdfgJgo

It's a new project from Fat Mike of NOFX, Ceschi, and Sam King of Get Dead.

[-] termus@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

This rules, thank you.

[-] DracEULA@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

I still listen to new music, but most of it is related to stuff I listened to as a kid. I was big into 90's alt rock, and there's so much of it that I keep finding stuff I hadn't listened to from that era. Right now Butthole Surfers have been getting a lot of play; they were always kinda on my radar, but the name really put me off. Can't believe I missed out for this long.

I've always liked folk punk and alternative country, but there wasn't a ton of it when I was younger. Now there's so much more so I've been discovering lots of new bands. Blackbird Raum is pretty great, and Amigo the Devil might be one of my new favorites.

[-] pootriarch@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 1 points 2 years ago

i listen to the same genre of music i listened to as a teenager, which is, music for teenagers (receipts in profile links)

[-] retronautickz@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

I sometimes go and search for lists of new artists of the music genres I like to listen to, but most of the time I just end up listening to the same band, composer, etc I've been listening since my teens.

I'm not closed to "new" music, but I rarely get attached to anything new, so I end up listening to the same things almost every day.

[-] fermionsnotbosons@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Actively searching for new music is fun to me. I ask for recommendations from close friends, family members, people I know online, and just the internet in general. Typing 'artist that sounds like _______' into a search engine has been surprisingly successful, almost on par with the other methods, lol.

I also just recently discovered Bandsintown, which suggests artists playing live in my area that are similar to the ones I am already following (i.e., willing to pay money to see). I listen to a few of their songs and if I like them enough, now I have a new performance to go to!

For every song I listen to from my teens/20s, I listen to at least 2-3 songs from artists I discovered much more recently. The amount of good music is never the problem - there's just not enough time in the day!

[-] Faydaikin@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

I have to admit that I don't actively seek out new music as such anymore.

But I usually welcome suggestions and follow a few reaction channels on YT. So I feel well-covered for my own need of new stuff.

Just got into 'Sicksense' for an example. Pretty neat band so far.

[-] KevinDeRodeTovenaar@feddit.nl 1 points 2 years ago

I still discover new music, there is plenty of good music nowadays, i like fontaines dc, wet leg, squid, mac Demarco, Altin gün, the chats, la femme, parquet courts, lcd soundsystem.

Which are all active today.

[-] man_zonder_poespas@feddit.nl 1 points 2 years ago

I saw Squid a while back at Zeitgeist 2023 and they made for a great first moshing experience for me, I think during Narrator.

Black Country, New Road played there too with their new collection of songs, and they rocked as well.

[-] dekwast@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago

Where most of my friends are getting stuck listening to the same music they've been listening to when they were young I try to actively look for the new artists/styles too. Not everyday of course, but definitely at least one a month.

[-] Banana@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

I've always been the type to look for music. In highschool I was torrenting music constantly, then in the last couple years I subscribed to Spotify. I get so much dopamine from finding new music that I listen to new things probably every week/month. I do still listen to what I listened to 10-20 years ago, it's just all a mix of my favourites at the time.

[-] marco@beehaw.org 0 points 2 years ago

I'm more focused on new releases by bands I've listened to for a long time. Mostly rock, folk, and pop from the 80s/90s.

But I also got into EDM a little while ago and added a lot of new and old stuff to my frequent plays.

I don't want to be the old grumpy guy, but the current pop music is very rarely pleasant for me... Queue the struggle for control when I'm in the car with the kids: We found that Yacht Rock is safe territory for all :p

[-] Banana@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

I don't know what it is, but I rejected pop music so hard when I was young (I was a big tomboy and lived for punk, still do, but I've embraced my femininity a bit more) and now I've kind of come to love some of it. That being said, I only listen to pop music if I agree with the message. You won't find me listening to blurred lines or my humps because I just don't vibe with it. Pop songs about loving yourself? hell yeah!

[-] relevant_user_name@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago

Please elaborate more on this "Yacht Rock." it has certainly piqued my interest.

[-] marco@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago
[-] man_zonder_poespas@feddit.nl 1 points 2 years ago

Pretty much anything that sounds like Steely Dan.

[-] man_zonder_poespas@feddit.nl 0 points 2 years ago

I still browse Rateyourmusic for new releases that seem interesting, but less and less seems interesting to me nowadays. Maybe that's the first sign of me getting old...

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