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I think that I need to make it a point to listen to at least one new song a week. It doesn’t matter what artist or genre, it just needs to be something new, and something that I actively listen to.
I say actively listen to because turning on the radio and listening to it in the background will not cut the mustard. The idea here is to continue to evolve my musical tastes, to continue to evolve my musical appreciation beyond my current catalog.
Growing up my parents never had any interest in what we were listening to beyond the question — Are they Satanists? Thankfully all of the corporate bands I listened to growing up were in fact not Satanists.
They knew what they liked to listen to and they were perfectly happy staying in their comfort zone and letting us have our own Satan free musical tastes. What I find most disturbing about this is that I find myself falling into this same kind of thinking at times.
I am ashamed to admit that most of the music today my initial reaction is — WTF? Who would listen to this? This is NOT the response I want to have, it tells me that I am beginning to be confined by my own tastes and experiences, much like what happened to my parents.
So this is what I am going to try, an experiment that hopefully will help me to continue to further my musical horizons. I will listen to one new song a week from one of today’s up and coming artists. It seems like a small thing, and it largely is — but I hope it will help me keep that musical circuit open in my brain.
Tags: Brain, Comfort Zone, Corporate Bands, Current Catalog, Experiences, Genre, Initial Reaction, Music Today, Musical Appreciation, Musical Horizons, Musical Tastes, Mustard, Parents, Radio, Satan
December 11th, 2007 at 3:29 pm
If you need some guidance, visit my music blog at musicorloseit.blogspot.com. You can always come raid my CD collection too.
December 12th, 2007 at 6:25 am
I love the blog name Jim!! I’ll definitely take a peek, I can use all the help I can get.