#1501

people should only have a limited amount of excitement? idgi

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#1502

It’s 31st=

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#1503

I guess so, but with singing there are more components at play to be affected by your aesthetic sensibilities than there are with rapping from a purely technical standpoint (for both of them)

I dunno, I’m speaking from a position of absolutely no authority innit. It’s just how my brain is wired to process stuff.

#1504

I’m enjoying jazz more these days it has to be said

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#1505

Music is fucking limitless, that’s why!

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#1506

Look at the vast range covered by even a single band, such as The Strokes.

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#1507

No, just that, I think for most people, excitement for music peaks at a relatively early stage of life and you’re left with a sense from that point on that the same level of excitement is nigh on impossible to recapture as you’ve got a benchmark already that is unattainable.

#1508

strong disagree here, so many genres once you’ve heard a couple of bands you can fill in the blanks

#1509

Yes, shame it’s all down hill from there!

#1510

That’s a very limited way to view the world Bam.

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#1511

I’m sorry bud. I feel like there’s a colour in the rainbow I’m not seeing with it.

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#1512

Daft concept that we should all discard imo

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#1513

like if I’d heard Flaming Lips I could probably predict Super Furry Animals or something with a 70-80% accuracy

#1514

frankly that seems like a completely miserable way to view existence

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#1515

Fair enough. I get where you’re coming from, and I think it’s somewhat natural to get less into music as you get older and you’ve got other shit to get into. But I dunno about the “same stuff” bit, cos music’s always changing and evolving and new stuff’s around for you to get your ears into. Like, do you not think you’d have got into Kendrick in a big way if you’d been 30+ when he broke through?

#1516

don’t think music is that new either, I haven’t heard anything particularly new musically since I heard Four Tet or Aphex Twin 20 years ago, lyrically there may be a case for stuff like Kozelek but somebody probably got there before him that I didn’t know about

#1517

It kind of isn’t though, really is it. Or at least, I don’t see it that way. I guess it’s probably fairer to say I’m jealous of people who retain the ability to he genuinely, enthused in a childlike way about new music into their thirties as opposed to suspicious of them.

I do think there is an anthropological reason why it’s rare though.

#1518

A very close minded way to view music Bam but you do you.

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#1519

This is my first poll, so hope I don’t cock it up. What is your favourite song from Drowned In Sound’s best album of the 21st century, Arcade Fire’s Funeral?

  • Neighbourhood #1 (Tunnels)
  • Neighbourhood #2 (Laika)
  • Une Annee Sans Lumiere
  • Neighbourhood #3 (Power Out)
  • Neighbourhood #4 (7 Kettles)
  • Crown of Love
  • Wake Up
  • Haiti
  • Rebellion
  • In the Backseat

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#1520

I like the one with the warbly vocals and the quiet bit then the louder bit and also there’s a violin.

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