I mean had to listen to over and over and over and over and over, just because you thought it was soooo good. That good that anything that you play after can't possibly measure up...
I've been thinking about this since reading the right honourabe Mr. Ian Townsend in the thread about 50 NME albums of the year or some such.
Originally Posted by Ian Townsend
I have, for the past three or four years, been depressed by how few songs really 'connect' with me and can only assume that age (and deep-rooted preferences) have finally caught up with me, thus:
I still cherish verse / chorus / verse / bridge type songs
I find too many offerings to be what I would call tracks, rather than songs
I find too many are too fragmented, dissonant, restless (and dull)
I like tension and release in songs, (or fervent passion) and much falls short.
I've really, really, tried to like drone, ambient and Avant garde but very little connects.
PINA makes me want to smash things over the musicians heads.
I don't think there's anything wrong with new music and it's fantastic it's evolving, it means the world is still spinning on its axis and the 'old is yielding place to the new' (their arrows are not your arrows etc). I just have to accept that I'm standing in a different place now and new music that genuinely thrills me will occur less and less ( and when it does it will probably be of a retro nature!)
This mirrors my views fairly accurately... I tend to focus on buying retro 60's / 70's music and I am finding fewer things that get the heart going... maybe the well is running dry on my budget, maybe I'm not "digging deep or hard enough" maybe I need to change genre, maybe it's because I'm finding less records in charities full stop... who knows, but those magical moments are further apart.
Anyway enough ramblings from me. Post up the last song you really fell for....
For me it comes from an album which I can highly recommend which was brought to my attention by Matt Shiftless on my last trip to the Leeds Northern Brillo... I mentally stowed it away in the back of my mind knowing I was bound to find it at some point, and lo and behold it happened this week...
"New burying ground" by Lonnie Donegan, from his "Sing Hallelujah".
The whole album is great (most of it is on youtube should you care to investigate), Lonnie gets spiritual and soulful and consequently a million miles away from his "King of skiffle" box that I'd pigeonholed him into...
Of course the youtube clip doesn't do it full justice... but still TUNE.
Lets hear yours...
I've been thinking about this since reading the right honourabe Mr. Ian Townsend in the thread about 50 NME albums of the year or some such.


I have, for the past three or four years, been depressed by how few songs really 'connect' with me and can only assume that age (and deep-rooted preferences) have finally caught up with me, thus:
I still cherish verse / chorus / verse / bridge type songs
I find too many offerings to be what I would call tracks, rather than songs
I find too many are too fragmented, dissonant, restless (and dull)
I like tension and release in songs, (or fervent passion) and much falls short.
I've really, really, tried to like drone, ambient and Avant garde but very little connects.
PINA makes me want to smash things over the musicians heads.
I don't think there's anything wrong with new music and it's fantastic it's evolving, it means the world is still spinning on its axis and the 'old is yielding place to the new' (their arrows are not your arrows etc). I just have to accept that I'm standing in a different place now and new music that genuinely thrills me will occur less and less ( and when it does it will probably be of a retro nature!)

This mirrors my views fairly accurately... I tend to focus on buying retro 60's / 70's music and I am finding fewer things that get the heart going... maybe the well is running dry on my budget, maybe I'm not "digging deep or hard enough" maybe I need to change genre, maybe it's because I'm finding less records in charities full stop... who knows, but those magical moments are further apart.
Anyway enough ramblings from me. Post up the last song you really fell for....
For me it comes from an album which I can highly recommend which was brought to my attention by Matt Shiftless on my last trip to the Leeds Northern Brillo... I mentally stowed it away in the back of my mind knowing I was bound to find it at some point, and lo and behold it happened this week...
"New burying ground" by Lonnie Donegan, from his "Sing Hallelujah".
The whole album is great (most of it is on youtube should you care to investigate), Lonnie gets spiritual and soulful and consequently a million miles away from his "King of skiffle" box that I'd pigeonholed him into...
Of course the youtube clip doesn't do it full justice... but still TUNE.
Lets hear yours...
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