Paramore - After Laughter (May 12th, 2017) Album • Page 32

just in my opinion that's a pretty lousy way to listen to music. best thing about is that there's so much out there and there is pretty much infinite things out there for you to enjoy. sure, you can wear out one band and be bored but why do that? why not find something that is out of the box that could blow you away and change the way you think about music?
too many people on this site seem way too comfortable in their little musical bubbles and i actually feel sorry for people who think that way, they're missing out on so much. different viewpoints, different ways of creating art...i just don't get restricting yourself

 

There's simply too much art being released for me to ever be bored. I pray that day never gets here for me.

 

and if there's a down week with not much out? go back and explore another year, another genre, another country of music. there is literally no way to ever get bored

 

Maybe it's cool that some people experience music and art in one way, and enjoy a more insular approach within the bands/genres they like and know, and find "comfortable" ... and others don't and are always on the look out for more/new/expanding. The condescension is pretty whack and oddly patronizing if you ask me. There's lots of great music, lots of new music, lots of old music ... but if it's not scratching an itch for someone, or they specifically are anticipating an album ... I get that craving completely. And if you're in the mood for something specific ... even new (great) music may not be the right prescription during that phase. I'll be in a craving for something specific and just unable to get into albums I know I'll like in a few months all the time. I end up having to just say "yeah, this isn't gonna hit me right now, I'll come back to it" ... and a lot of times that's all I need to end up loving something I wasn't feeling months later.

 

I feel like feeling sorry (which is a Paramore song ha!) isn't the proper reaction. There's nothing wrong with being comfortable enough with one's own music taste to have this set of genre that you just go back to. I feel like wanting one specific thing (like this album) is perfectly fine.

I can understand that being adventurous and trying everything and opening up to new music can be rewarding and uplifting, but at the end of the day we all have stuff we deal with IRL and we're not always in the mood to be adventurous. Sometimes there's too much going on, and the only thing we're really looking for is something familiar that we can feel right at home to

Obviously I'm looking into it way too much. I have a habit of exaggerating, and making things way too sentimental so just downplay a bit what I said haha.

EDIT: so jason pretty much said it better and shorter

 

ya I feel like people were just excited to maybe get the new paramore album a few days early not making blanket statements about their music listening habits.........


Like there's good stuff coming out every week and the discovery of new things is one of the best parts of music and like everyone said you should make sure and try to have eclectic tastes, varying genres, decades, etc.

But in this case I feel like people (I know I am) are just dying to hear this specific album and that's ok too

 

I can't speak for other people, but as for myself: I listen to a ton of new music on a weekly basis, but there are certain tentpole bands that pretty much trump everything else. In my case it's bands like Brand New, Paramore, Pianos Become the Teeth, and Title Fight, that become kind of "tentpole" releases, where I don't want to listen to anything else. I'm focused on what those bands are doing because I want to know. I don't think that comes at the expense of other music, as you're presenting it, I think it simply means I like a band and I'm excited for what they're doing and I don't think it's necessary to tell me I'm missing out because A: I'm not and B: It's not your problem (or a problem at all) if I am. And for the record: the chances of me finding a band these days that will "change my way" of thinking about music are so incredibly slim that they're essentially nonexistent so... whatever that's worth.

Edit: fully aware I used tentpole twice. Finals week is reeeeeally not the time for me to be making long posts in the forums.

 

that being said I totally get what @cwhit is saying and I'm all for giving recommendations that might seem "out of place" for whatever thread you're in

and yes the emperor x album is good

 

i'm curious why you think that. do you think that you won't somehow come across a band that immediately just blows you away in ways you didn't expect? that's kind of a bummer to feel that way, especially because that's part of the thrill of things. people discovered pinegrove in the last year and that did a lot for some people. emperor x hit me in that way, i saw him live and it just truly changed the way i thought about both live and recorded music.

 

Hell, I'll even go on huge Apple Music dives and try like a hundred artists in a day, adding things I like and experimenting, and trying things ... and still never settle on an album I want to listen, or that grabs me, and feel frustrated that nothing's "clicking" ... and then all of a sudden, out of the blue (days or a week later), something will and then the timing just ... works. Those funks happen. Usually end up doing a huge genre switch from what I was binging when it happens too (two months ago it was so much skate punk, this month it's female fronted 80's tinged pop).

 

i wasn't really trying to give specific recommendations, more of just like a bunch of great records that came out in the last week. teebs said he's been bored with music and this one was something to look forward to, so i was saying that plenty of really exciting things have come out lately! maybe not everything is for everyone, that's the fun of it

 

we've sure come quite a long way from the "cwhit doesn't feel things from music" days haven't we? hahaha

 

for sure, for sure

I was more responding in reference to someone saying some of the stuff was weird in the paramore thread haha

like the past weeks all I really listened to was AC/DC, Iron Maiden, Hilary Duff, Public Enemy, and the Click Five so being all over the place is just fun

 

"jenny" was the jam in like 2006 or whatever, haha.

 

dope song!

Their first album is like 76% HITS and then some filler

It's all really cheesy but it's a fun sugary spin on power pop

 

One thing thats been preventing me from really getting into new bands lately is this new concept of releasing one off singles. I'll go on spotify and look up their RIYL suggestions and find a band that has one song. I enjoy the song and then totally forget the band exists because they don't put anything out to follow up. The Aces immediately comes to mind.

 

Speaking of, if you're looking for something similar, here's some good shit to listen to:

• Florrie
• Verite
• Allie X
• Astrid S
• Tove Lo
• Wet
• Kiiara
• Queen of Hearts
• Banks
• Laleh
• Shura
• Little Boots
• Say Lou Lou
  
• Broods
• MUNA

 

i've gotten to the point where i'll rarely listen to a band that i'm not super aware of until the album comes out, apple music has been super nice with that, hah.

 

It's not that I won't. It's that it's rare, and I don't listen to every new song by a new band and think "Hopefully this will blow me away." I'm told on a daily basis that "X band is going to be huge" "X band changed my life" "X band is a gamechanger" and when I get around to listening I'm hearing the same alt-rock, dreampop, or insert-genre-that-will-be-argued-about-even-though-it-doesn't-matter, that every other band is doing. The "thrill," like you said, comes when that feeling comes out of nowhere. When Pinegrove finally clicks because I listened to visiting with my best friend and it seemed to speak to the situation we were in. It doesn't come when I'm actively seeking to find that feeling.

All this aside: the point of my posts was and is to point out that I don't think you should feel the need to lecture people on their listening habits. People are excited about a new Paramore record. Let them be excited and anticipate and yes, be impatient. Those are all fundamentally good things.

 

Were those actual days? Feel like you wouldn't be active on these boards if you weren't feeling things for music...

 

(... and be thankful you're not only anticipating Brand New for the last 9 or whatever years, feel like that's the fan death trap band. Haha.)

 

Echoing the love for Shura. A friend recommended her last year and then I saw her open for a show I was at in October. Next thing I know, her album made it to #5 on my AOTY list.

 

@ me next time, Jason.

 

hahaha those were weird days, i think more i just couldn't register the actual things that were going on, i felt i didn't have any real emotional relation to it and it was more just entertainment sort of things, rather than those positive feels of enjoyment.

was a weird kid, and still am quite a bit, hahah

 

People can consume and appreciate art however they see fit. I was just trying to point out how there's dope stuff coming out constantly, and wanted to encourage people to check out as much new stuff as possible, and to expand their horizons. But ultimately if people are happy doing whatever they're doing, that's what matters. Sorry to anyone for any possible pretentiousness or condescending tones that came with those posts.