I like to identify "layers of nostalgia", so how much of your appreciation of Smells Like Teen Spirit is because it's 90s alt-rock/grunge, how much is because it's Nirvana, and how much is because it's Smells Like Teen Spirit?
The ways to test this: How do you appreciate a previously undiscovered track from your favourite band? Or slightly more niche music from your generation and taste that you "missed at the time"?
I've recently been getting the experience of discovering a new band/artist on Spotify and going "wow, this is amazing", and I look for their album release dates. They were inevitably founded in the mid 2000s and broke up in the late 2010s - it's uncanny. This last year I got more obsessed with a "new" album than I had for many years previous (Levi the Poet - A Correspondance), but, of course it was from 2014.
When I was young, I noted that my father didn't like popular music made after about 1970, when he was in his late 20s. I resolved never to let that happen to me, to remain open to new sounds. And it worked! Sometimes I find new music boring because it's formulaic, but I don't perceive it as "just noise."
Up until recently I never had to put effort into trying to listen to new music, I was just drawn to it. I've turned a corner and now I have no desire for it, and that worries me. It's not the only thing in my life I'm less interested in, nowadays. :(
I like to identify "layers of nostalgia", so how much of your appreciation of Smells Like Teen Spirit is because it's 90s alt-rock/grunge, how much is because it's Nirvana, and how much is because it's Smells Like Teen Spirit?
The ways to test this: How do you appreciate a previously undiscovered track from your favourite band? Or slightly more niche music from your generation and taste that you "missed at the time"?
I've recently been getting the experience of discovering a new band/artist on Spotify and going "wow, this is amazing", and I look for their album release dates. They were inevitably founded in the mid 2000s and broke up in the late 2010s - it's uncanny. This last year I got more obsessed with a "new" album than I had for many years previous (Levi the Poet - A Correspondance), but, of course it was from 2014.
When I was young, I noted that my father didn't like popular music made after about 1970, when he was in his late 20s. I resolved never to let that happen to me, to remain open to new sounds. And it worked! Sometimes I find new music boring because it's formulaic, but I don't perceive it as "just noise."
Up until recently I never had to put effort into trying to listen to new music, I was just drawn to it. I've turned a corner and now I have no desire for it, and that worries me. It's not the only thing in my life I'm less interested in, nowadays. :(