Thread 128035596

>Have an account on boomer music forum because I mostly listen to boomer music
>Try discussing anything even remotely obscure, like artists who never had a top-40 hit or albums that don't appear on Rolling Stone magazine's best-ever lists
>crickets.mp3

It's honestly both frustrating and depressing to witness. How are these old farts content with listening to just the same couple dozen artists on repeat for 50+ years? Where is their sense of discovery? I guess the answer is that people's tastes tend to calcify over time and boomers lived in an era where everyone was spoonfed the same radio hits with little room for exploration, but still. I hope I never stop seeking out unfamiliar music.

>>128035596 (OP)
>boomer music forum
You can just say Steve Hoffman Forums.

>>128035611
Alright, wasn't sure if most people here were familiar with it

Why would you talk about some obscure /mu/-tier trash on a music forum where people actually have good taste?

>>128035596 (OP)
Sounds like a you problem

>>128035596 (OP)
There's a thing called demographic and "appropriate spaces" for certain things. Try going to a wpop shitfest board and talk about anything good

>>128035596 (OP)
I think that can happen when you get older yeah. You settle more on what you like, and if you don't like it, you're not interested in it.

Also it was harder to discover experimental music because there was no internet. I like industrial music and there are boomers in it who listened to bands like Severed Heads and Portion Control and it was a niche scene, how they discovered that in their own day is beyond me. If you made this sort of electronic music back then, you had to have the gear, and people traded / bought gear off each other. So it was like a total scene while now everyone has software on their computer to make whatever sounds they want. In a way that's better, but it's also worse because people stopped buying music and the industry collapsed for the musicians in the middle. There's still the mega-huge big ones like Taylor Swift but everyone else needs to have another job unless their parents are really rich.

>>128035644
If good taste means listening to and discussing nothing except the same handful of Beatles/Bowie/Hendrix records for all eternity, I'd rather be a tastelet

>>128035654
HISS

>>128035674
What's the demographic/space that talks about obscure crate-digging finds and clamors for reissues of albums that were originally pressed in quantities of like 250?

>>128035699
Thanks for the response anon, a very level-headed take

Maybe part of it is that most people (especially boomers) were/are normies who associate popular music with parties and other good times in their past, whereas I pretty much only listen to music on my room or car so I tend to assess it in more of a vacuum

>>128035596 (OP)
I’ve been feeling the exact same way about this place to an extent. So many washed up fuckers on here who totally gave up on seeking out new, unfamiliar music and pushing the boundaries of their taste. Bringing up anything new and interesting will either get crickets or outright backlash in most cases. It’s sad to see the stagnation and watching the board culture just become more and more confused and angered by new music. It’s a very, very common sentiment on here that no good albums have released in the last ten years, let alone this year. Posting here basically is discussing music with pedestrian boomers

>>128036191
The worst part is that people don't even have to push their boundaries very far, but they aren't willing to leave the kiddie pool of familiarity

There are lots of artists doing interesting things within the genres people already enjoy

>>128035596 (OP)
can you stop being a fag and always post the links to the songs you are talking about? share the music you listen to so they can discuss it.

Not applicable to John peel

>>128035596 (OP)
most people of any age are like that
thinking this is unique to boomers is you being blind to your peers and those who are younger

>>128035596 (OP)
dude what are you talking about its the same shit here, except replace Rolling Stone with Anthony Fantano

they probably listen to a ton of artists you would consider obscure, they just arent interested in what youre saying. try asking them about daniel lanois instead of les rallizes denudes or whatever gay shit

>>128035712
>What's the demographic/space that talks about obscure crate-digging finds and clamors for reissues of albums that were originally pressed in quantities of like 250?

maybe the people that go on discogs? but the forum doesn't really have anything that breaks it down

https://www.discogs.com/forum/topic/1

alternatively, search for some obscure bands in google, and it can bring up obscure forums sometimes

Heavy Harmonies is down temporarily because they're migrating software, but maybe check it out if you like rock and metal

https://heavyharmonies.ipbhost.com/

>>128035596 (OP)
Kinda unfair, those guys used to buy records; they didn't always had access to obscure shit, the only reason you know obscure shit is because of the internet. old farts are not really that interested in old music that wasn't popular, they just enjoy the nostalgia

>>128038308
>>128035712

There's also the discogs groups, and those are broken down by genre.

https://www.discogs.com/group/browse/all

>>128035611
Who the fuck is Steve Hoffman?

>>128038398
Egomaniac Jew boomer music engineer who runs a forum for audiophiles

>>128035596 (OP)
>interested in obscure boomer music
tell me the name of the band

>>128035596 (OP)
>just the same couple dozen artists on repeat for 50+ years
more like 60+ years at this point
>I hope I never stop seeking out unfamiliar music.
why? dont know how old you are but after a certain number of years collecting i came to the conclusion i was neglecting so much music i already enjoyed in search of new music. i have 1,000s of cds but now i focus on my favorites and hardly bother looking for anything new at all anymore because there is only so much time in a day to look and listen. im not going to waste it on unfamiliar music that i probably wont even like that much anyway

>>128039329
heres my thougts on that:
you should spend your 20s discovering new music, and im talking about thousands of albums, actively searching for new music.
after your 20s, you should know a lot, and you should know what you like and dont, so, the rest of your life you can look deeper into what you already know.
personally, I still have many years of searching to be satisfied

>>128035754
NTA but If you zoomed your perspective for the past 100 years and the centuries before it, music was never meant to be an isolated experience. Only due to the advent of recording and the convenience of portable players and the internet. Music was an event, a communal experience. Govan, a Gen X guy with boomer working class parents said while growing up that listening to their vinyl player was a set aside family activity like dinner. Nowadays who even has a tv set among younger generations? I'm not being Ted Kaczynsky or being smug up in my ivory tower, I also peruse 99% of music on my own comfort.

There's also a neurological reason for why most people will just stick to what they liked in their adolescence and young adult years, something about neuroplasticity and hormones. As much as I dislike what Adam Neely has become on youtube, he had a good video on this years back.

Thanks for reading my blog
>t. Listening to First Fragment, discovered here on mu while on the clock

>>128040137
thanks to you, for showing me your blog

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>>128035596 (OP)
>post on /mu/ about any band that's even mildly less well known, let alone obscure
>get about a dozen replies before a kpop general pushes it onto page 10 and it dies
it's not an old people problem, Anon.

>>128040137
I’m genxer with boomer parents and when I was a kid we had one tv we used to all watch and only had whatever tv stations were available via the aerial, then we got a second tv but still used to all sit together to watch movies rented from the video store which Dad and I and my little brother would go to and sometimes he’d have instructions on which movies to rent and we’d be allowed to pick a couple of weekly movies or later some vidya. Anyway yeah nobody does anything like that now because everyone has their own stuff, it’s actually now more like everyone is reading their own book so you’ve got to do something else to bring people together, it was only easy because everyone likes watching movies

>>128035596 (OP)
Tastes calcify unless you have aspergers