Red Mosquito

Lament wrote:The person who picks that team will likely complain about my team being all "Elfish girls and beeping noises."

You leave my 00's elfish girls alone.

I just personally find it sad when people who at one point voraciously devoured new music just kinda give up on it and prop up the old gods for as long as possible.

Lament wrote:I just personally find it sad when people who at one point voraciously devoured new music just kinda give up on it and prop up the old gods for as long as possible.

I think it just becomes too difficult to keep up - life gets in the way. I have to make a special effort to listen to new stuff nowadays. When you're at that formative stage, you pretty much don't have much to do other than discover new and exciting things at every corner. And then to be really depressed about something the next day.

I understand that, but I think it more often than not leads to people dismissing new things and convincing themselves that what they're still clinging to is somehow superior to what is now going on instead of just acknowledging they can't keep up anymore.

I see both sides of this topic. I'm somewhere in the middle. I try and jam on some new stuff but I go back to bread and butter too.

ABNorman wrote:My picks for 2010-2014 will all be dubstep tracks.

Gross. Not a dub step fan. I don't get it.

True. It's hard to find any spare time except driving to work.

To me there's a big difference between someone who is just going to recreate their 90s team with 10s songs because they say "Man, I just don't have the time or energy to ever seek out anything new" versus those who will inevitably say "Well it's cause everything in the 10s just sucks and the only people who don't are coincidentally the artists who I grew up with."

Lament wrote:

BigRedLedbetter wrote:

Lament wrote:We'll still see at least three songs from LB picked. In fact, 50% of the songs will be from artists who were also picked in the 90s tournament.

I guarantee I won't do that haha. See your point though.

I like you so far, BRL.

Give it time you will change your mind haha. JK....hopefully.

If I have 20 drive I'm not going to listen to something that could annoy me or need to skipped (using my phone here). So I tend to gravitate to something known to me.

And I wish it was different. I really wish I had more time.

The girl who I'm seeing really digs new music so it has helped me branch out some. I would have had no idea who Chvrches was if it wasn't for her.

Another big difference (for me, at least) is that friends largely stop accosting you and screaming "YOU HAVE TO LISTEN TO THIS IT'S THE BEST THING I'VE EVER HEARD". I heard a lot of stuff because of friends at high school and university.

LetMeSleep wrote:And I wish it was different. I really wish I had more time.

But see, that's the difference I'm talking about. At least you realize there's probably still just as much great music out there as there has ever been. I have no problem with people clinging to the old guard because of practicality. It's people who do that but can't admit that they're just not the active music fan they used to be so they blame it on new artists/music rather than themselves.

Lament wrote:I just personally find it sad when people who at one point voraciously devoured new music just kinda give up on it and prop up the old gods for as long as possible.

But don't you also think it's just the nature of this kind of tournament? Not that I'm out here to win it all or anything like that. I'm just having fun. But I don't see what's gained (as far as a tournament objective) by picking something I like that may or may not be obscure just because it's obscure.

Lament wrote:

LetMeSleep wrote:And I wish it was different. I really wish I had more time.

But see, that's the difference I'm talking about. At least you realize there's probably still just as much great music out there as there has ever been. I have no problem with people clinging to the old guard because of practicality. It's people who do that but can't admit that they're just not the active music fan they used to be so they blame it on new artists/music rather than themselves.

Do you have a lot of those people in your life? My experience seems to be the opposite. Virtually ALL of my friends admit that they've fallen off seeking out new stuff and sort of hate themselves for it, myself included.

But the 00s were probably my most expansive years as far as my musical taste is concerned.

Lament wrote:

LetMeSleep wrote:And I wish it was different. I really wish I had more time.

But see, that's the difference I'm talking about. At least you realize there's probably still just as much great music out there as there has ever been. I have no problem with people clinging to the old guard because of practicality. It's people who do that but can't admit that they're just not the active music fan they used to be so they blame it on new artists/music rather than themselves.

I'm not sure there is as much great music as there was say 20 years ago. Close though. People just don't care about music as much anymore. My personal opinion anyway.

I would argue it makes it far more fun if you pick things you like that other people might not know. I'm more eager to see a Spenno pick come across the board, or a Varis pick of some Aussie heroes I've never heard of than I am to see someone pick ten different songs everybody here already knows like the back of their hands. But that's just me. But I'm also gonna try my best to get people to approach this in the way that I think is most enjoyable, and it's been working quite a bit. I would've never known that killer Tripping Daisy song THIP picked if I hadn't made noise about people's approaches, so I don't really intend on stopping now.

durdencommatyler wrote:Do you have a lot of those people in your life? My experience seems to be the opposite. Virtually ALL of my friends admit that they've fallen off seeking out new stuff and sort of hate themselves for it, myself included.

But the 00s were probably my most expansive years as far as my musical taste is concerned.

Tons. It may be because of the nature of my job, but I hear this constantly, and it just gets infuriating.

Lament wrote:II would've never known that killer Tripping Daisy song THIP picked if I hadn't made noise about people's approaches, so I don't really intend on stopping now.

Oh boy...

durdencommatyler wrote:

Lament wrote:II would've never known that killer Tripping Daisy song THIP picked if I hadn't made noise about people's approaches, so I don't really intend on stopping now.

Oh boy...

If my picks can get criticized for being too obscure, I reserve the right to criticize people's picks for being too obvious.