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Post by georg on Feb 1, 2023 21:31:04 GMT
I use Apple Music and currently have 7,827 songs across 519 albums by 132 artists, but I continuously listen to the same ~20 songs daily. I frequently delete and add music as my tastes and moods change, but still gravitate to the same stuff. It's frustrating, but I can't break myself free of that cycle. I generally go into each new year with the intention of listening to more new stuff by artists I'm not familiar with – I even had an idea at the beginning of this year to challenge myself to listen to one new (to me) album a day, but I gave up after the third day – but that usually doesn't last. I guess as I've gotten older my hunger for discovering new artists and music has waned considerably, and I'm more comfortable with the familiar (I think the last time I was genuinely excited about new music was 2009, though there were some highlights in 2012 and 2018). Moral of the story: don't grow old, kids! Wow, just 20 regular songs? I think I'd get bored pretty quickly but I know what you mean about getting 'stuck'. I've been listening to the new Thin Lizzy Live & Dangerous Box Set, and played all eight discs through consecutively, twice, albeit not in one sitting. I tend to get hooked on a particular album or band and it can be difficult to pull away, a bit like binging on a DVD box set, but I make myself go back to my random playlist, as even though some of the tracks I've been listening to are on it, I know I won't hear them again at least for a while. I'm exaggerating a bit with the 20 songs, but I'm definitely stuck in a rut. Even recent box set purchases – Little Feat's Waiting For Columbus, Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, and Jethro Tull's Thick As A Brick – have only got a cursory listen. Incidentally, I've been listening to the Miracle box set pretty much since it was released – like you, I'll find a song or album or band that just clicks and that's all I listen to. For a while last year it was Max Webster; I must've listened to Battle Scar and the A Million Vacations album at least a hundred times, if not more. Before that, I was stuck on The Cosmos Rocks, specifically We Believe. It's frustrating because there's so much music to listen to, but I just can't break free, at least not now. I think a good part of it is that I don't commute anymore, whereas in the beforetimes I would spend my hour-plus drive to and from work listening to stuff I wouldn't normally listen to, and no matter how many times I say I "should" listen to new music, I just don't. |
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Post by Lord Fickle on Feb 1, 2023 21:56:05 GMT
Wow, just 20 regular songs? I think I'd get bored pretty quickly but I know what you mean about getting 'stuck'. I've been listening to the new Thin Lizzy Live & Dangerous Box Set, and played all eight discs through consecutively, twice, albeit not in one sitting. I tend to get hooked on a particular album or band and it can be difficult to pull away, a bit like binging on a DVD box set, but I make myself go back to my random playlist, as even though some of the tracks I've been listening to are on it, I know I won't hear them again at least for a while. I'm exaggerating a bit with the 20 songs, but I'm definitely stuck in a rut. Even recent box set purchases – Little Feat's Waiting For Columbus, Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, and Jethro Tull's Thick As A Brick – have only got a cursory listen. Incidentally, I've been listening to the Miracle box set pretty much since it was released – like you, I'll find a song or album or band that just clicks and that's all I listen to. For a while last year it was Max Webster; I must've listened to Battle Scar and the A Million Vacations album at least a hundred times, if not more. Before that, I was stuck on The Cosmos Rocks, specifically We Believe. It's frustrating because there's so much music to listen to, but I just can't break free, at least not now. I think a good part of it is that I don't commute anymore, whereas in the beforetimes I would spend my hour-plus drive to and from work listening to stuff I wouldn't normally listen to, and no matter how many times I say I "should" listen to new music, I just don't. Yeah, for me also, it takes a really good album to get more than a cursory listen in full these days. I don't know if I'm just getting less enthusiastic about new stuff as I get older (I remember thinking in my younger days that I would never lose my obsession with music), but a 45 year old live album is the first one I've actually fully and repeatedly engaged with for a long time. Even Disc 2 of The Miracle Box Set only got one full play through, then made it's way into my random playlist. I still love the tracks when I hear them, but I don't have the urge to repeatedly play it in full, like I used to. Further to this, when I got a new album in my teens, 20s, 30s, I would listen to it until I knew all of the lyrics off by heart. These days, I probably wouldn't recognise the lyrics off any album within the last 20 years. |
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Post by JackG on Feb 5, 2023 12:06:15 GMT
I currently have 2396 songs on my PC and 1544 songs on my iPhone 4
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Lord Fickle
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Post by Lord Fickle on Mar 2, 2023 15:38:47 GMT
Since starting this thread my playlist has grown to 4540 tracks. I'd got to 2754, so more than half way through...
... and I've just accidentally reset it! 😫😫😫😫😫
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Post by pg on Mar 2, 2023 23:34:15 GMT
Mine resets every day when the Sonos comes on, plus the ongoing random sequences in my car and on my phone are independent of both that and each other.
So I can get the same song more than once on the same day, instead of having no repeats for 10 days (which ought to be the minimum, on a 24/7 basis)
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Post by Lord Fickle on Mar 2, 2023 23:44:55 GMT
I was hoping to get through it all to the end without any repeats. Another six months should do it.
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