zero sum
Smash Apprentice
- Joined
- Jul 5, 2014
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- 144
i'll listen to pretty much anything except country and classic rock. i can listen to things from the 60s or 70s but classic rock is just incredibly boring to me. metal gets a little hard to listen to sometimes but if i really feel like listening to something aggressive then sometimes i'll listen to some of the death metal records that are collecting dust in my archives. but this isn't often and i think a lot of metal feels incredibly contrived – interesting change of heart considering that i listened to nothing but metal throughout middle school and much of high school.
my music collection is going through an interesting and a thoroughly exciting phase. it's an exciting time for my itunes library too. for a while it was mostly indie rock, post-punk, and “golden-age” hip-hop, but now i'm adding more contemporary rap music, some r&b, and a lot of ambient and noise and jazz. i'm even adding some classical music into the mix: although i'm relatively uninitiated into classical, i really like bach and brahms and liszt and chopin. i've been meaning to listen to strauss more too. i think i like 20th-century composers more though, e.g. rachmaninov, shostakovich, etc. a little jazz too but not too much. i don't have too much time to spend looking up new music anymore because i'm doing two majors at one of the most notoriously difficult universities in the nation but i really like what i've found so far in 2015. one of the things i've noticed is that very little music actually really “stays” with me or has a certain emotional salience in my psyche: most things i've listened to in the past three or four years just haven't stuck with me at all. i can listen to some song from elvis depressedly or mogwai and it's like… cool… but i don't really know if i'm supposed to feel anything from this. really i just seek out things that make me think about music differently.
my music collection is going through an interesting and a thoroughly exciting phase. it's an exciting time for my itunes library too. for a while it was mostly indie rock, post-punk, and “golden-age” hip-hop, but now i'm adding more contemporary rap music, some r&b, and a lot of ambient and noise and jazz. i'm even adding some classical music into the mix: although i'm relatively uninitiated into classical, i really like bach and brahms and liszt and chopin. i've been meaning to listen to strauss more too. i think i like 20th-century composers more though, e.g. rachmaninov, shostakovich, etc. a little jazz too but not too much. i don't have too much time to spend looking up new music anymore because i'm doing two majors at one of the most notoriously difficult universities in the nation but i really like what i've found so far in 2015. one of the things i've noticed is that very little music actually really “stays” with me or has a certain emotional salience in my psyche: most things i've listened to in the past three or four years just haven't stuck with me at all. i can listen to some song from elvis depressedly or mogwai and it's like… cool… but i don't really know if i'm supposed to feel anything from this. really i just seek out things that make me think about music differently.
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