This is a topic I’ve wanted to write about for awhile, but didn’t really have it all sorted out. I’m really bored with music at the moment. There isn’t really anything that I’ve heard lately that is really turning my crank and that makes me want to jump out of my skin to buy. It’s really odd for me. I’m always going on about new music, but lately there hasn’t been anything really great. All the stuff that is being hyped up I find either entirely over and without inspiration(ie. U2), or pretty boring(ie. Arcade Fire).

Someone posted on a forum I frequent this concept. Music is only great from the ages 15-25. Ages 25-35 music gets progressively worse until you eventually tune it out and just listen to comfortable music. I would have to say that this could entirely be true. I look at my life and basically the staples of my music collection and basis of my musical tastes can be found residing in about 1996-97 with Oasis, The Verve, Blur, Pulp and the Britpop scene. I progressed to liking other stuff and many other different genres, but this era forms a basis. Now using this theory, it seems that I would be coming to the end of a cycle, as I am on the cusp of turning 25. I hope this isn’t the case, but I can see how the curve works. I know myself that I’ve always wanted to be on the cutting edge of music, but that almost becomes ridiculous as you spend most of your time listening to flavour of the week bands that odds are you’ll forget about in 6 months, or just sour on them once the average person starts hearing said band on commercial radio and tells you how great they are. I’ve got shelves of albums that I have no intention of listening to again, and are merely there so I can say I have a collection. A lot of them I bought, listened to once and then shelved. It’s pretty bad. It makes a pretty good case for music piracy given how much money I’ve wasted buying albums with one song on or that I’ve heard good things about.

Now with all this said, I still want to listen to new music. I never intend on stopping listening to new music. I just hope I can find music that interests me. I always said that I never wanted to settle into a genre and stay there, like classic rock. I don’t want to listen to a station that plays all 90′s all the time. That would be terrible. Though I think I’m just down at the moment because I’m in a funk musically. I think once it gets into the spring and some new music starts getting released, I’ll probably be less mopey about the state of music. January is the dumping ground for new artist albums and stuff they didn’t think would sell leading up to Christmas, just like with movies.