Yeah, I kind of sound like a music snob or an old man at this time. I’ve been introducing her to classic rock, heavy metal, 90s hip-hop, R&B, 90s and 80s pop, 90s 2000s and 2010s techno, and so on.
I just like the idea. She’s very receptive to this and wants to hear a different genre each morning before school. Welcome to the world of dadding.
Could it be that you’re playing the ‘best of’ previous decades not taking into account all the garbage that was produced at the time?
I’m still finding tons of awesome new music
i do think the sheer volume of complete dogshit that comes out these days (especially now with AI) makes it extremely hard to find the good stuff, though. Like are you gonna trawl through 5 billion songs to find 1000 ones that blow your mind?
You basically have to rely on software recommendations at this point. What i’d like to see is a software where you just input the stuff you like and it helps you sift through it all by showing similar things and what others with your tastes enjoyed.
You don’t have to rely on software recommendations. You can still get your music recommendations the same way you did in 2005. Follow the artists, follow reviewers you agree with, follow indie music blogs.
Music is either a casual experience or a hobby and people who complain that good music is hard to find are in the former category. Which is totally fine but boy am I sick of casual listeners complaining about music nowadays. There’s more good music than ever.
I think 5 billion might be a bit of an exaggeration :P
But yeah I do listen to a lot of new music, one of the big ones for finding new music is live performances like Defqon1
They have lots of colour stages, for example Gold stage is old school hardstyle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tww7lK7OHpw
Yellow (uptempo):
https://youtu.be/RolG5P3YN1o
Red which is the main stage and this set in particular is the legends set which goes through all the top hardstyle producers in their eras playing their stuff
00:00 - Epoch 1: 2000 - 2005
00:23:34 - Epoch 2: 2005 - 2010
01:33:18 - Epoch 3: 2010 - 2015
02:55:32 - Epoch 4: 2015 - 2020
04:08:42 - Epoch 5: 2020 - 2025
04:41:46 - The Closing Ritual
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvVrXLErxcg
Then maybe I go oh this song from late 90’s sounds good, wonder what else was going on before then, then I can hop on Spotify and search for early 90’s rave:
Early 90s rave classics
Classic rave tracks from (mostly) 1990-1995. Everything from chart hits to underground hardcore.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4kWUW71rphZnv4hPE7OsVQ
or maybe I’ll hear something new like https://youtu.be/QeD-amb0vA0?t=580 and want to hear more so then I lookup the artist on Spotify and just start playing through all their songs seeing if anything else stands out
and that’s just for one genre (hardstyle) not taking into account trance music, metal, ambient/chillout, vaporwave, techno etc
It’s just a never ending quest to hear new music and keep pushing my boundaries
There’s also a BIG catch, you’re predisposed to liking the music you heard during your youth the most:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/the-career-within-you/201411/why-does-music-we-heard-as-teens-stick
This might explain why I still love a cheeky listen to Korn or Limpbizkit every now and then 🤣
Oh I remember the bullshit that was around back in the day.
yeah but we don’t show them that. We’ll skip disturbed and move right on to between the buried and me
wow, you are clearly not down with the sickness wa-ah-ah-ah
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