Thread 127385178

As I get older, how do I avoid the trap of only enjoying music that I listened to when I was younger?

I certainly do think music was better when I was growing up, but the idea of rolling my eyes at every new artist while going on "back in my day..." rants like some old fuck is just sad.

im 30 and this was never a problem for me, every year I hear something new (to me) and add it to my rotation and usually obsess over it to some degree until I reel it back and it just becomes another album/song I call back to. This year I listened to more john fahey than ever before but I also added a lot of random lesser known 90s alternative acts like Helium, was listening to Generation X, and most recently I enjoyed the Knife. I still cycle through all the folk, classic rock, grunge, punk, meta, prog, experimental etc that I've known for 10+ years. if anything sometimes I get a bit sad when I realize I don't listen to Pavement or Bowie like I used to and by that I just mean I used to play them all the fucking time but now it gets lost in the mix I'm more likely to listen to the Wrens for indie rock lately.

>>127385848
what's your favourite album of 2025 so far

I wound up losing the motivation to follow any particular band. I have a scattershot playlist of songs I heard on some college radio show or stream or youtube playlist or something. I couldn't tell you the band or song title of half of them.

I don't know if there actually is a way to avoid it. I'm 35 now, and I listened to basically everything I possibly could, in case my brain did what everyone else's did and I got stuck with the music from growing up. There's still the odd new thing I like, but it's rare, and probably from jazz, EDM or video game music. I got into most subgenres of metal, jazz, funk, folk, hip-hop, rock, electronic, and EDM. I didn't listen to much classical, but I think I can still get into that one later. I would say now, I can still freely get into music from the 2010s (limited), 2000s, 1990s, 1980s, 1970s, 1960s and 1950s, so I'm glad I spread myself out. I like 2010s stuff less, and can't really get much into 2020s stuff, despite trying.

It seems like the main difficulty is that the idioms of music shift too far, and you get stuck with either what you know, or music that's similar to it. Stuff that hasn't shifted too far from all the idioms that you know.

>>127385867
What's yours?

>>127385178 (OP)
Thought the image was Tarkus

>>127385178 (OP)
Mainly listening to anime and videogame music when I was young actually helped me. They all just copy and ape off of "real" music, so my taste is extremely eclectic thanks to it. I still have plenty of music rabbit holes to go down at over 30yo, and because of the huge selection, I've found several artists from the late 2010s and 2020s that I really enjoy.
But honestly if I wasn't eclectic I probably would struggle to not become an old man yelling at clouds

>>127385178 (OP)
Listen to music for reasons other than impressing an imaginary crowd of people judging you for media programmed metrics of behavior and thought, pleb.

>>127385178 (OP)
Why force yourself? Listen to whatever you want to

>>127385178 (OP)
It's only a problem if you listened to shit when you were younger.

Listen to whatever the fuck you want, pussy