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I'm definitely not too cool for school. Those who know me well point out how uncool I am regularly. For instance, the other I declared my appreciation of the jug (the handled kind) and its usefulness, to looks of complete bemusement.
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When I'm trying to find an obscure album I type the artist and title into google image search. Often you'll get some results from music blogs with MP3 rips to download of said album. I invariably spend a lot more time on these blogs checking out all the other weird and cool shit they have and downloading some of that.
It's like Apple Genius only more low tech, and better.
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interesting, intelligent music for me can be found across the various spectrum of programmes on Radio 3.Late Junction particularly.
if youre a bit jaded but love music have you tried learning an instrument? looking at how music is actually constructed, reading sheet music can open a whole different appreciation of listening. -
The problem I have is that I can't piece it all together. I can easily find a random sample of music that I like (I've just put on an album by Kong, who I hadn't even heard of fifteen minutes ago). What is difficult is finding out where's it coming from (stylistically, not geographically), what it's all about and how it fits in with everything else going on. The internet seems to have fucked up the bigger picture for me.
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interesting, intelligent music for me can be found across the various spectrum of programmes on Radio 3.Late Junction particularly.
if youre a bit jaded but love music have you tried learning an instrument? looking at how music is actually constructed, reading sheet music can open a whole different appreciation of listening.I couldn't agree more. I learnt bass as a teenager and played in a band for several years and it completely turned upside down the way I hear music. I've reached a dead end there too, but that's mainly to do with having no-one to play with anymore. Sad face.
I listened to A LOT of radio in 2009 but only ever BBC 4, 2 and 1, depending on my mood, and largely skipped 3. I suspect then that that was a big mistake. Hmm, interesting.
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there will be many for whom 3 is too highbrow-obscure but
there can be found the origins of all modern music.
I love music, listen to it to exclusion of t.v and inbetween silence, but also love the BEST of any genre, as contributions to music threads on here prove.
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if youre a bit jaded but love music have you tried learning an instrument? looking at how music is actually constructed, reading sheet music can open a whole different appreciation of listening.
Yeah I agree, although after learning to play a couple of intruments and getting my head around music theory, it's turned me off from a lot of music, some of which I used to like a lot.
...that said, Foo Fighters are still in my top 10 most listened on Last.fm... http://www.last.fm/user/pifko
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Last FM is pretty handy. Also maybe subscribe to the weekly newsletters from Boomkat and Picadilly Records, both on the net. Also, the Late Junction is a great show and I'm thinking that using a combination of all these suggestions will find you a pretty diverse selection of music for arts sake, which is what I think you really mean when you say 'intelligent music'.
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quite like hype machine for its ability to show you artists which are popping up in music blogs, it essentially is searching for artists on blogs and showing up the results on its website and linking through to them, i've discovered some really great blogs from that alone. you can search by artists or songs as well, although just taking a look through their list of 'top' artists at the moment can be pretty illuminating.
Failing that, student radio has its good points for looking for genres. with all things, there are plenty fantastic things out there, great talent to listen to talking passionately about the music they love, and loads of rubbish, radio 1 wannabes, but if you look in the right places there are diamonds lurking.
I went to uni in scotland, so i'd obviously recommend Fresh Air, Subcity and Air3 (Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Stirling respectively), but there are plenty london radio stations like Smoke (westminster) and there's also the Roundhouse Radio, which is run from the Roundhouse in Camden by young things looking to get involved.
sorry, someone mentions radio i feel student radio just gets ignored a bit, and it's pretty good to check out at times.
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All very good shit, thanks a lot for the contributions.
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just stumbled upon this
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fun and useful site set up by ex plan b dude, mucky pup regular and all round good-egg, john doran.
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http://mnmlssg.blogspot.com/ have a decent and intelligent attitude towards electronic music. sometimes they travel a little too far up their own arses, but they're trying to push new music forward and search out new artists that fit into their oeuvre.
the quietus is certainly decent. hessle audio shows on rinse.fm are generally worth a download for a bit of house, garage, dubstep and the odd bit of techno.
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Drownedinsound.com is really good for staying on top of everything new that is coming out on a weekly basis.
Their reviews aren't too wanker-ey and even go some way to describe some elements of the music from time to time
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This young guy's blog came to my attention when looking for some bike info.
He's into fg/ss. You have to wait a while for the music to auto-play. Its worth it.
http://beezwax-bt.blogspot.com/2009/10/2-wheels-1-guy-lets-ride.html
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I have arrived in a musical wilderness. Where I once actively pursued music, I now find myself endlessly looking for new things to get my teeth (ears?) into but then arriving at dead ends. I'm ashamed to say that I've been getting sucked in by recommended media favourites and am yearning for something inspiring to listen to. Not just music from the past (of which there is an bottomless supply), but current things too.
Are there any credible music websites or blogs that anyone here could recommend as a place to start in order to begin to get excited about music again? The only one I've ever looked at more than once is drownedinsound.com, but I've found it to be populated by some quite snobby wankers. I'm not looking to be told what to listen to, but I'd like to be more aware of what's going on in the world. I'm open to absolutely all sorts of genres so I won't be boring enough to list my favourite bands etc., I just want to listen to some interesting, intelligent music.
Thanks.