I think I'm doomed for liking too much of too many different styles. At some point I thought I wasn't being selective enough about what I chose to listen to, but it can't really be the case as I've kept dismissing by the pound everything that wouldn't fit what I consider topnotch requirements.
Anyway, these past few years it has become extremely hard to keep up with events, and even more to derive from each style the degree of enjoyment they potentially have in store for me. For short periods of time I manage to focus on a single style/band and get the most out of it. But then in the meantine 10 kickass albums in 10 different styles would have been released and I'm completely overwhelmed again. Furthermore there comes once in a while some kind of shock discovery which should have been essential from the beginning (see Swans in 2005) and thus more digging tasks ahead and less breathing space for the other styles.
I know at some point I will slow down and watch the train pass, becoming in my turn one of those frozen-in-time types growing increasingly indifferent to current musical production/progression, but the time just hasn't come yet.
I wouldn't exchange my position for someone's who listens to one style exclusively, be it old school Thrash metal or NSBM or even a classical music integrist, but I can't help thinking how much more at ease they must feel in their well-delineated microcosm than I do on top of my salad with new toppings ever pouring down over my head.
I await thoughts.
Anyway, these past few years it has become extremely hard to keep up with events, and even more to derive from each style the degree of enjoyment they potentially have in store for me. For short periods of time I manage to focus on a single style/band and get the most out of it. But then in the meantine 10 kickass albums in 10 different styles would have been released and I'm completely overwhelmed again. Furthermore there comes once in a while some kind of shock discovery which should have been essential from the beginning (see Swans in 2005) and thus more digging tasks ahead and less breathing space for the other styles.
I know at some point I will slow down and watch the train pass, becoming in my turn one of those frozen-in-time types growing increasingly indifferent to current musical production/progression, but the time just hasn't come yet.
I wouldn't exchange my position for someone's who listens to one style exclusively, be it old school Thrash metal or NSBM or even a classical music integrist, but I can't help thinking how much more at ease they must feel in their well-delineated microcosm than I do on top of my salad with new toppings ever pouring down over my head.
I await thoughts.
