How often do you listen to music? - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Music is my profession and one of my favorite hobbies, so usually I am hearing music of some kind almost all day.

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The Anders wrote:

If I am under pressure, I prefer not to listen to music at all, and this can last for weeks, sometimes even months. Music, like any other noise, can become a strain if I am stressed, and I really need silence around me. Listening requires some surplus, but then it can also be the artistic stimuli that I need.

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Hi,

I only listen to music now when I want to EXPERIENCE something, which tells you that is the reason why I lose interest fast when someone says ... it's progressive" ... because you know it's not about the music itself, or the actual work, but about an idea that makes no sense whatsoever to me and is used in the most vagrant and fake way possible.

Music, 20, 30, 40 years ago was a very important experience for me on the inside, and this is the reason WHY it has not "changed" or "differed" since ... the experience ALWAYS remains, and your values change. Some say that times makes you see things differently ... but that depends on how FAR INTO YOURSELF these things happen, and when it is done "right" and "well", you experience as much out of it as it is possible, and it will not change 40 years later! You go right back to that image instead.

I listen to enough stuff, but as I posted earlier, it is about "the surprise" and the "difference" and not about anything else, and these days, you're not going to find this stuff in many of the "progressive" shows, at all, because the way it is presented is (ALMOST) a complete counter point to the music itself ... and when it is backed up and fronted by another 4 or 5 minute piece that is "better known", you have to understand that right away, the interest of the music itself is not important ... and if it isn't important to that person, why should it be for you?

I like to say ... that ... somehow, the music "comes to me" and that ends up in my collection, although these days the number of purchases has dropped immensely ... the stuff I want is not even readily found or available, and they all are the most foreign and out there stuff that only one show is capable of showcasing it properly! I get pist off when someone ends a TD piece and immediately follows it with Rush, or Metallica ... it's just sick and senseless! I like Rush, but plllllzzzzzzz!

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moshkito wrote:

Hi,

In my older days, I tend to not listen to anything anymore ... as much as I used to have music all day and night, just about. However, I still probably average around an hour or two a day, although many of those would be Space Pirate Radio, that is anywhere from 3 to 4 hours long, and the mixes in there are too good and enjoyable to not hear it ... in many ways way more satisfying than putting on an album by any band, just about.

It's the element of "surprise" and "difference" for me, something that almost all albums do not have after the first piece, unless your name is AD2, but even then, i don't listen to them as much now as the music is cemented in my soul forever. Listening to any of the early albums is sort of like validating all the images and thoughts in my head in so many of those pieces, and I still find the MM Soundtrack (Dance of the Lemmings) to be one of the prettiest and best pieces to fly with ... such touch, such imagination, and such creativity ... and it's all an improvisation ... outstanding work!

Too many albums today are about having a sound that is this or that ... and so few of them are strictly about the music and screw the ideas and what it is supposed to be. But I don't think that folks today have enough of the INNER LIFE to be able to create something that is not based and full of ideas from everything else. How quickly we forget how much different and NEW so much of the music we love was 50 some years ago ... and how fast we have forgotten it all for stuff that is just a format and a sound, instead of pure music!

Always using every opportunity to turn the topic towards "modern musicians are crap" ... quite predictable. I for one am glad that I wasn't around 50 years ago. Who knows, if I had I might be as closed-minded (eared) today.

So for me it is quite the opposite. Working on my website has rekindled my interest in music, and for the last six months I have listened to more than 150 new releases from this year. So while, as I explained above, I don't have nearly as much time to listen to music as I had twenty years ago, I am really trying to use it to listen to NEW music, at least 4-5 release per week.

Edited by MikeEnRegalia - September 21 2023 at 06:10

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Usually 2 or 3 hours in the morning .

If it snows I'll sometimes listen to music non stop or until I fall asleep. During a snow blizzard I may end up playing Procol Harum, Renaissance, Jethro Tull, Omega, for hours.

Or modern chamber music. Usually the stormy weather conditions are inspiring and I get lost in music for hours.

Psychedelic Paul wrote:

A typical day In My Life...

12 hours listening to music online, gaming and reading

3 hours walking and shopping

3 hours watching DVD movies & TV shows in the evening

6 hours sleeping

I'd say, you spend much time on walking and shopping, Paul. Big smile

Edited by David_D - September 19 2023 at 14:46

quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond

If I am under pressure, I prefer not to listen to music at all, and this can last for weeks, sometimes even months. Music, like any other noise, can become a strain if I am stressed, and I really need silence around me. Listening requires some surplus, but then it can also be the artistic stimuli that I need.

When I do listen to music, it is always with headphones. Firstly because I don't want to disturb other people like f.e. my neighbours, secondly, my listening experience gets more intimate, and I can better focus on musical details. My listening is usually very thorough, and I can live myself very strongly into music (it depends on mood and mental surplus, though). I usually prefer not to do other things at the same time; however, I will sometimes hear music while washing up or cleaning - which doesn't require much intellectual energy anyway.

Not as much as I used to, I'm afraid Disapprove

Still listening at least one hour in the car (work & back) and part of the evenings (years ago, this would amount to five hours/day - except for saturdays - too busy at something else)

Nowadays, I'd say 3h on average per day. ... CD and Bandcamp mainly.

Hi-fi in both my places, and will have a dedicated library/music room once retired, so I won't annoy the GF (she hates jazz-infkected musics)

Edited by Sean Trane - September 19 2023 at 09:22

let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword

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