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Ambient Hurricanes 
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 Topic: Breadth or Depth?
Posted: July 19 2012 at 18:13 |
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I have a problem in that, when I'm looking for new music, I don't know whether to check out a few bands at a time and listen to several albums from their discography, or check out many bands and only listen to a couple albums from each one. When you discover new music, do you tend to go for a deep knowledge of the music of a few bands, or a broad knowledge of many bands?
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: July 19 2012 at 19:03 |
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If an artist clicks with me I like being able go and dig in deep. I have found that there are certain artists I wish I had been a bit slower about exploring. Not a big deal for me.
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Luna
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Posted: July 19 2012 at 19:09 |
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Normally just get an album or so from an artist, if I like it, I'll remember to get other albums from them
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Posted: July 19 2012 at 19:16 |
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I'll maybe check out 2 new bands at a time, one or two albums apiece. If I really like one or both of the bands, I'll usually put other new bands on hold until I can explore those bands more fully. It's not a strategic thing, it's just how I like to process information.
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Posted: July 19 2012 at 19:49 |
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I generally prefer breadth to depth, especially when it comes to new artists. I did explore the depth of the discography of say Beatles or Floyd but that's because I felt it would be worth it, based on the reviews and acclaim. Of course, if I really love the first album of an artist, I will come back for a subsequent release. Not sure I would necessarily go backwards, though.
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Posted: July 19 2012 at 19:54 |
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I like broads. Erm, I mean, I like going broad.
If I find an artist that really clicks with me, I dig deeper. Most of the time, the other material doesn't impress me though. Still, every first listen is an audition.
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The Bearded Bard
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Posted: July 19 2012 at 19:56 |
I'm quite new to prog, so I dont't know too many prog artist's discography too well. Therefore I'm checking out several bands at the same time at the moment.
Also, I don't have too much money to spend on music, so I'm buying the cheaper albums on my wish list first, no matter which band it is (as long as it's on my wish list). That's another reason I'm exploring widely rather than deeply.
I don't know if this is a good or bad way to explore music, but I think it's working out pretty well for me. I don't feel that I'm missing out on anything, or that I must explore more deeply the music of artist I love some albums of. It will be a time for that later is what I'm thinking.
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ProgMetaller2112
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Posted: December 31 2012 at 17:40 |
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Interesting topic I prefer neither really in the end music is music and it effects you either way
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Ambient Hurricanes
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Posted: December 31 2012 at 18:28 |
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Posted: December 31 2012 at 18:38 |
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In my early years I tried to get at least one album from every (or at least any) band I was intereested in. Now I seem to want to acquire as many albums from one band as quickly as possible.
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Posted: January 01 2013 at 02:14 |
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The diagonal is what measures the longest...
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Gerinski
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Posted: January 01 2013 at 05:42 |
Nice that this topic has resurfaced. In my youth (70's - 80's) I did not know too many bands so the process was trying to get the full discographies of the classic bands we knew and liked and try to keep up with each of their new releases: the usual suspects Yes, Genesis, ELP, The Who, PF, Purple, Oldfield, Queen, Renaissance, Kansas, Zeppelin, Rush etc etc plus a few celebrated albums from lesser known bands such as PFM, Banco, Utopia, VDGG, some Spanish bands, then the Neo wave etc. Usually we did this as a team among the group of close prog-loving friends (5 guys or so) so not each of us had to buy all the albums, each of us would buy some and lend them to all the others for copying to cassette, so in the end we all had all the albums owned by each, around 20-25% in vinyl originals and 75-80% in cassette copy. So for each album I purchased I actually got 4 or 5 and for many bands we had their full discographies.
In more recent years (since the 90's more or less) this process stopped working because: - the group of friends gradually got more involved in their family or professional lives and less in collectively enjoying listening to music together, exchanging albums etc. This culminated when I moved to Belgium so any exchange with the Spanish friends became too difficult. - the use of cassette gradually faded as tapes became damaged or lost sound quality, and cars got a CD player instead of a cassette player. Now I do not even have a cassette deck in my stereo and I threw away all my tapes in one of my home removals to save space.
So first I had to replace all the cassette copies of albums I wanted to have by new CD's or vinyls which meant buying a lot of albums just to maintain the discography I once had. In the process there were quite many albums which I did not replace because I did not like them enough, which means there are many classic albums I know but I do not have anymore and have not listened to for ages.
Then I started to discover many new bands, some actually new and some old from the 70's which had remained undiscovered for me. The discovery of new bands (= unknown to me even if they are actually old) increased exponentially since I discovered PA.
Now not being able to share the purchasing with other friends, and given the huge breadth of bands I have discovered it is simply impossible for me to dig too deep in most of them. I try to keep up with the new releases of a few favorites but for the rest I cherry-pick single albums from a broad number of bands.
Edited by Gerinski - January 01 2013 at 05:45
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Posted: January 01 2013 at 10:36 |
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Both, I guess. I usually explore a several bands at a time, a couple albums for each. If I like one a lot, I'll listen to more. Usually, the depth comes pretty slowly. I'll listen to a few albums, go check out some other artists, come back to the band, check out more albums, go check out some more artists, etc. I also usually avoid buying live albums. While many of them are incredible, there are too many studio albums I have on my "to buy" list.
The only artists whose discographies I've entirely explored are Radiohead, Gentle Giant, and artists with not very many albums.
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Dayvenkirq
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Posted: January 01 2013 at 10:53 |
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Hard to say. I think I mix both. I could be playing a videogame while listening to about three albums from each one of three different artists/bands.
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Posted: January 01 2013 at 11:17 |
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I usually get one album by a few bands. Rarely do I stop exploring further a band I like. The ones I'm really impressed by, I'll check their other albums first. Also I don't have a problem checking a band that I thought was just ok, if I read some positive reviews about that second album.
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Posted: January 01 2013 at 12:00 |
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I feel "guilty" if I make a multi-album purchase and most of them are from artists that I am already familiar with (own albums from). While I do, of course, like to have many albums from my favorite artists, I also prefer to sample new artists as much as possible. Of course its much simpler to buy from those you already know.
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