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Why are CDs the current hot topic?

baked_potato said:
How do you discover new music? (Assuming that's something that you do)
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I don't have time to listen to current music, I am still catching up on music from the 60's and 70's that I never listened to when I was young. Being born in the early 60's, a lot of great music came and went before I started buying records. Atomic Rooster, Amboy Dukes, Cate Brothers, Fever Tree, Hot Tuna, Sir Lord Baltimore, Maypole, and Oxpetals, just to name a few. Then you have complete genres that I missed while I was doing that parenting thing. Bands like Illustrated Man, Romeo Void, ABC, Shriekback, Blancmange, etc. Then you also have the complete catalog of artists you like. I went through a completest phase a few years back and bought every studio album from over 30 different bands/artists and I am slowly working my way through them as well. I think I would have to live to be 150 to listen to every album I own from start to finish.
 
coonmanx said:
That is easy. It's called internet radio. Technically that is streaming as well but it is 100% free.
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Yeah, I am wondering how someone who doesn't stream discovers new music. Turns out they don't.

As much as I miss prolific music stores, the discussions, magazines, etc, the last thing I'd want to do is go back to the difficulties in that era in trying to separate the chaff from the good stuff.
 
baked_potato said:
Yeah, I am wondering how someone who doesn't stream discovers new music. Turns out they don't.

As much as I miss prolific music stores, the discussions, magazines, etc, the last thing I'd want to do is go back to the difficulties in that era in trying to separate the chaff from the good stuff.
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There are thousands of internet radio streams out there. Whatever you want. Blues, country, whatever, Krautrock... An endless supply of music to discover. I just discovered a new female blues artist the other day. Or I will discover some music that I had never previously heard from an artist that I already know. That is how I discovered Christone "Kingfish" Ingram. Heard him on the internet radio (either UnderCurrents or JB Radio). Bought the CD...

Also bonus... No commercials at all...
 
coonmanx said:
There are thousands of internet radio streams out there. Whatever you want. Blues, country, whatever, Krautrock... An endless supply of music to discover. I just discovered a new female blues artist the other day. Or I will discover some music that I had never previously heard from an artist that I already know. That is how I discovered Christone "Kingfish" Ingram. Heard him on the internet radio (either UnderCurrents or JB Radio). Bought the CD...

Also bonus... No commercials at all...
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But... isn't that streaming?
 
baked_potato said:
Yeah, I am wondering how someone who doesn't stream discovers new music. Turns out they don't.

As much as I miss prolific music stores, the discussions, magazines, etc, the last thing I'd want to do is go back to the difficulties in that era in trying to separate the chaff from the good stuff.
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Streaming has made "new" music discovery almost to simple :rockon: :rockon:
 
GChief said:
He was the house band at the club on the series Cage. That is where I first heard him.
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I remember the first time I saw a video of him and thought that he had a baby face but sounded like an old blues soul. Amazing artist from Clarksville, MS...
 
GChief said:
Streaming has made "new" music discovery almost to simple :rockon: :rockon:
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Yeah, I am certainly guilty of using many different services to listen to new artists or playlists created by others.

But I still do what I've always done and will buy the album when I find something I really like.

I still enjoy CDs, and do have them on my Xmas wishlist so that my bewildered relatives can purchase them for me. But I'm running out of space as I never sold off my collection due to emotional attachment. I tend to rip them right after opening them and don't touch them again.
 
Duane said:
I don't. Almost exclusively classical music anymore and most have been around for centuries.
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I played it for most of my early life but never got into listening :dunno:

I do keep trying but it just won't take.
 
GChief said:
Being born in the middle of the 60's I like finding new to me old music and brand new music as there is plenty of both out there. I can't wrap my brain cell around limiting to old music. But that's the cool thing about this hobby, do it however you want :thumbsup:
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Yeah, I was born in '70 and am still discovering old music that I'd missed, mainly 50's-60's jazz, 60's garage, psych and proto funk, as well as psych and funk from Africa and Latin America from the 60's and 70's, but it's finding new music that really lights my fire. There is a lot of incredible music being made right now and I can't imagine cutting myself off from it, just because I'm stuck in my salad days.
 
GChief said:
Streaming has made "new" music discovery almost to simple :rockon: :rockon:
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It has. It's more efficient, but now everyone has access to almost everything the baby gets thrown out with the bathwater. The intangible element of discovery, and sharing that discovery in person with friends, that all disappears. There's no inherent value, music just becomes another consumable.

In the old days we had that experience of a friend bringing round the latest LP release by some band we both liked - it was an event, and the LP itself was an artifact, a totem, a thing of inherent value. Something to be admired in its own right, a quality separate from the actual music it contained.

It wasn't easy, or cheap (an LP cost me four hours wages) to have that experience and so it had an inherent value beyond just listening to the music. It was an important event in our lives.

Any LP you bought got dozens, even hundreds of listens since you couldn't afford to buy dozens of LPs per week. So you got to know every song in depth, you got to appreciate the musicianship, the song construction, the little events, and the hundreds or thousands of hours spent by the artist and the engineers to craft all of that into as close to perfection as they could.

Now your friend just says 'Check out such-and-such' - click, click, listen, 'Oh yeah that's okay' and then on to the next thing.

This is why when I go to the record shop there's all those youngsters in there, crate digging for vinyl. They recognise that something has been lost even if they don't consciously realise it. They want something more from the music hobby than just the sound.

Maybe it is not so bad for our generation since we had those experiences even if we can't have them any more. Younger people didn't. They just get the 'fast food' experience. Maybe I will not go so far as to say streaming has ruined music but it is negative in many ways.
 
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