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Discovering NEW music, per chance [shock, horror]?:eek: Stuff produced post-2000... There IS life beyond Steely Dan, you know!:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Macca
Good - so am I, and I suspect plenty others watching:cool:Quote:
I'm just mildly curious to see if it works, and if it does, what it sounds like.
Marco.
I have a Wadia Digital Sound Decoder and sometimes use it for youtube music , The down side is
" you are listening to a track and all of a sudden you get a advert pop up , Music stops you the listen to the add for a product you don't want then you chosen track starts again , FFS :steam: "
This has never happened with any LP's I own :D
IMO there's very little worth bothering with after 2000. The most recent album I own came out in 2013. I often check new stuff out on You Tube, it's mostly either derivative, not my sort of thing, or just complete crap. If someone was making good music in this day and age I'd be buying it. But they don't appear to be.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marco
There's no proper rock stars anymore. It's all clean-living mummy's boys (and girls). You can't make good music with virtue signalling and a vegan diet. It needs drink, drugs and some rock n roll ethic. All proper music was made by alcoholics or drug addicts and the very best is by the people who were both.
That world now appears to be gone, replaced by the shiny, plastic-fantastic, Disneyland-safe-space-crapola future we live in now. And the music reflects that, sadly.
I partly agree but there is some good music around today but you have to seek it out but it depends on your taste. Easy to find good albums in the 70s for rock but I agree today rock music does little for me, Tool, Foo Fighters and Royal Blood are ok, these days I listen more to Americana, singer songwriters and Jazz. Some artists are not well known, I don’t like mainstream stuff. The most recent album I bought was released in 2014.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
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Originally Posted by Audio Al
Just use an adbloker then you don’t get that. LPS you can get many other issues. Not keen on YouTube, there are better resources in my opinion.
Most of my listening is rock or funk. Occasionally a bit of jazz. Mostly mainstream stuff, mostly pre-1995 which for me was around the point that rock music pretty much finished.Quote:
Originally Posted by StingRay
There's one Foo Fighter's album I really rate, I found out recently it's also Dave Grohl's favourite. Tool and Royal Blood don't do much for me. Maybe it's because it's all been done before and better and there's nowhere left to go? Or maybe I'm just getting old. I don't know.
I don't do background music so I don't listen that much, maybe 10 albums a week, so there's no need for a collection of thousands of albums, 300 or so is plenty enough to not get bored. I have a decent system to play the music I like, not to embark on some voyage of discovery. There's far too much made of the supposed merits of that I think. For me that's what you do in your teens and twenties, not in your fifties.
Aside the Additional full catalogue of YouTube Music and original video content (a la Netflix) you also get, it’s worth going Premium just to lose the feckin’ Ads...!Quote:
Originally Posted by Audio Al
I have, Very much worth it imo.
Gary , what's the cost ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Gazjam
I thought rock music virtually finished in the 70s, there is the odd album after that worth’s playing. For me streaming is finding new music and the variety, if you have a large collection then I can understand why you don’t need it. It’s also great if you read album some music you can just play it. It is not just recent music, I’m discovering old music also. According to Deezer I played over 2,000 tracks last month. You can also try albums out before buying, so cuts down on mistakes. I have too many cds I would never play anymore even if I did have a streamer. Without a streamer I doubt I would have heard some of my recent favourite albums.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
See I only listen to albums, never just individual songs, and always all the way through. Might cut it off before the last song if it's just filler though. You Tube is perfectly adequate for checking out anything that is new to me whether it is current or old. Then I buy the CD.Quote:
Originally Posted by StingRay
Even new albums are only £8 so it isn't the massive outlay it was 30 years ago. And then you've essentially got the master-tape, of the version you want, forever. You can copy it to a hard-drive or just play the CD but you still have the physical copy that can't be taken away. Of about 400 CDs I have maybe 20 I probably won't play again, not a bad failure rate.
Renting music makes no sense for me but I can see how it would to someone who goes through 2000 songs a month. Assuming ten songs on an album I'd maybe get through 400 in a month. Big difference.
There's still a fair few albums I need to get to replace the vinyl, Robin Trower, Pat Travers, Montrose, Golden Earing, Creedence, just off the top of my head. And I like jazz fusion but not really scratched the surface of that yet. That's where the Amazon music will come in handy.
Anyway I already have Amazon Prime so costs me nothing extra to use their music library.