The Music Thread - General Discussion Forum - Page 104

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I was listening to The Ape of Naples by Coil and I can’t stop picturing this guy

@zupertramp That I'm With Her recommendation was very well received here at home. My partner yesterday evening said: can you put on that nice folky music that you played last week again?

@Kidfried I can’t argue with any of what you said, it was beautifully written too. I was more musing on a different time due to the sense memory/ratatouille moment listening invoked. I do try to make it ‘magical’ on the whole, music is incredibly important in our household and we’re doing our best to pass that onto our children, although with our record player being broken, the children’s experience is more ipad speakers than a tangible experience. I struggle with the duality of both missing the hunt and discovery of the old way as @Thrillho alludes to and enjoying the shear freedom of listening to almost any recorded piece of music ever, all at my fingertips. My eldest son is in his element with playlists, naming and tailoring each one to certain tastes and moods, which reminds me of making mixtapes for my dad when I was his age, albeit they took much more physical involvement swapping tapes, vinyl and cds around and such. Sometimes the illusion of choice can create diminishing returns, where “back in the day” I would listen to maybe 2 or 3 albums for months until I could afford more and even if they weren’t incredible I would still take time to digest and appreciate them and create fond memories or unlikely new favourites. Whereas now even albums of the year or records by my favourite artists may not hit me the same due to it rotating within a sea of hundreds of records a year. I have tried your method @Thrillho but it’s just really difficult from a