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repetition has destroyed an awful lot of music for me that i used to really love.
the beatles for example.
most everything that you hear on publick house jukeboxes from led zep to bob marley.
like ratbasid, i loved pink floyd once. now i only enjoy "piper at the gates of dawn" really. the post dark side stuff i cant listen to at all any more.
i dont like this , but there seems to be nothing to do about it. it pains me that it pains me to hear "strawberry fields forever" for example because the tape loops are great--but i still like "tomorrow never knows"...because it was not in Rotation....
stuff that i used to like that i lost interest in entirely:
yes
traditional irish music
fusion
steely dan (something happened. i figured it out the other day actually: it seems to me that the world changed around the synth sound---fagen's love of trumpet presets once was just dandy. now it isnt.)
new jack
most electric blues (there are exceptions--muddy waters, john lee hooker, elmore james...)
bluegrass. all of it.
"classic rock"---i fucking hate it. all of it. i hate everything about it. i hate most that it never changes.
the doors
new order
public enemy
almost the entire standard european classical symphonic repertoire. you know, the warhorses. (example: i cant deal with hearing beethoven's third or ninth in particular...i have heard them over and over and over and over and over since i was a small child. over and over and over. but i really do not like this situation. lately, though, i have been listening alot to his string quartets and love them dearly...i hadn't explored them at all previously. i dont know what i was thinking on the one hand---on the other, i am glad that it turned out this way)
stuff that operates in constant danger of being unlistenable because i have heard it so fucking much, but which i struggle with because i dont want it to be this way:
jimi hendrix
the ramones
the sex pistols
the clash
alot of the mothers of invention (this is SUCH a drag...)
kraftwerk
eno
joy division
beethoven symphonies that are not 3 or 9.
stuff that i have learned to hear differently, that i love now but not in the same way as i once did:
charlie parker
beach boys/brian wilson
can
the stooges
roxy music (early)
stuff that floats outside of all the above somehow:
captain beefheart
king crimson's larks tongues in aspic and starless and bible black.
dj/rupture: minesweeper suite
howlin wolf
sam the sham and the pharoahs (i dont understand this either)
my bloody valentine
schoenberg's piano music
sun ra
andrew hill (r.i.p.)
thelonious monk
what i learned: move constantly. there is so much excellent music out there. eat as much of it as you can. forward in time, backward in time, it doesnt matter. pillage libraries. make networks and share music. listen to everything.
current favorites:
asa chang & junray
franco & ok jazz (from the 50s-60s, when they were a rhumba band. so good)
john cage: sonatas for prepared piano
luc ferrari: petit symphonie intuitive pour une paysage de printemps
sorry bamba: porra
and a fabulous compilation of 70s funk from bollywood films: the bombay connection. seriously. it's the shit, in the parlance of our times.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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