Re:Why we listen to new music
by holri on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @07:41AM
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A Beethoven Sonata is always new music each time you listen carefully or play it for yourself.
It depends on the quality and richness of music.
Fastfood music wears off quite fast. It is made for the trash, so the industriy can sell more trash.
Bach wrote music for god, as he wrote.
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There’s plenty of pop and pop-adjacent music out there that has depth, complexity, and holds up well to repeat intense listening. Radiohead, Flaming Lips, most of El-P’s work.
What I think is completely missing in today’s music is the prevalence of covers. If you want, you can spend a lifetime listening to Bach sonatas, by any amount of different performers, but if there’s a specific Radiohead song you like, there’s only one and that’s all you get.
I get your point but maybe not the best example, as Radiohead has been covered and remixed innumerable times...
A sample: https://www.whosampled.com/Radiohead/ (135 samples, 336 covers, 36 remixes listed)