Needles & Grooves

The amount of choice is exhausting really. I restored my old iTunes library from a backup. My library has a serious 90s bent because it was built from CDs, but its been fun rediscovering old favorites.

SOMEONE TELL ME WHAT THIS WORD VOMIT QUOTE MEANS: "The one thing I’ve noticed since divesting is that music sounds better to me because I’ve put in the work to either locate it on a hard drive or download it from a friend’s Bandcamp or something. And every time I listen to it, even if it’s just on the way to work, I can hear the spiritual irreverence of that choice. "

I have lots of questions I would like to pose to the people interviewed in this article. Like i wonder how much genre and other things play into it. I mean I never really take the easy way out with spotify, I avoid random playlists and single recommendations. If I'm unsure what I want to listen to or am building background music at work, I may use the recommended albums posted on my home page and discover page.

More to the point though, how "exhaustive" is their musical taste? Spotify algorithms (as with Tidal and Apple) have no idea what to do with me. I mean I told Spotify to never recommend FJM to me ever again and damned if everytime he releases music it isn't there going but you listen to the stuff all his fans listen too.....

@Lee Newman I think that quote represents a bit of the same mentality I have toward my vinyl collection: sometimes music is more enjoyable because of the activity, anticipation, effort or whatever that precedes or surrounds it. It’s like a meal tasting better when you’ve made it yourself than when you scooped it from a buffet line.

@kvetcha yeah, probably… my problem with the quote is the person was trying to sound smart and used some words in peculiar and/or wrong ways. Which you know, has the opposite effect of their intention.

I am an English major so I automatically feel a spiritual kinship to that nerd