nothingfails

No offense but if you have the time to post on a message board on your comp, then you should have enough time to listen to music on Spotify or even YouTube a few recommendations.

You sound like you don't want to look, but that you want it handed to you the way it was 20+ years ago. We're in a different age now, you're going to have to make an effort... its worth it IMO. I too would probably hate modern music if I relied on radio (sans NPR stations that play stuff more to my liking) as well.

B5Erik

The day I spent a lot of time on line I was off work, not the usual thing. I usually have 20 minutes in the morning and a little over an hour in the evening and that's it for my online time (and my station takes up about 45 minutes to an hour of my online time every day).

Of course I want it handed to me, who wouldn't? I used to have 3 or 4 record companies sending me promo CD's, I had Kerrang and Metal Edge, and the local radio stations were still playing good new music. Who wouldn't want that situation?

Hell, I wanted to update my playlists more today, but I went to the San Diego State basketball game today (they crushed #15 New Mexico), so I just got home a little while ago and jumped on here for a few minutes.

Bottom line for me? Online stealing hurt the music industry and that's not a good thing. It's the same as if there were ways of stealing dozens of CD's at a time and not getting caught and that kind of thing happened at every store, every day. No one would say that kind of thing was OK, and everyone would understand how that hurts the entire music industry, from the CEO's and shareholders of the record companies to the artists to the employees mopping the floors for those record companies. Everyone involved gets hurt.

And that's a shame.

Josh-da-man

One thing about "music" these days is that there is just sofuckingmuch out there. It's like starving at a banquet. It's overwhelming. There's just so much out there on equal footing that I find it impossible to sift through it all to find things I might like. I can spend an hour sampling new music on iTunes or Spotify or Youtube or Myspace and it all starts to sound the same and I can't separate the wheat from the chaff.

Supermallet

And yet, as we've demonstrated here, that is not the reason you can't find new music. The industry needed to change and it took far too long to do it. If Spotify (or something like it) had shown up around the same time iTunes did, we wouldn't even be having this discussion.

Take notes on the ones you liked, what you liked about it, etc. Not dissertations, just stuff like "Sleigh Bells: Really raw, good guitar sound" then you'll remember better. I had the same problem in December when I loaded the best of lists from Allmusic, Consequence of Sound, and some DJ friends into Spotify. I heard a shit ton of great music (and some bad music), then forgot which ones I really liked because I didn't take notes. Lesson learned.

Numanoid

Kerrang still exists.

B5Erik

Yes, and most of the music they cover these days is Kerrap for Kids written by the 3rd or 4th generation of Kerrang writers.

Part of what I liked so much about Kerrang back in the 80's and early 90's was the writers. They were smart, witty, and informative. My favorite story was completely ficticious, but totally played straight....

TOM JONES JOINS BLACK SABBATH!

(This was in the era where Sabbath changed vocalists every 18 months or so.)

They had a proposed stage set up drawn and everything. It was classic!

nothingfails

Times change. Not every magazine is Rolling Stone who still has ***** reviews lined up every time Dylan, Springsteen and U2 have new music out (them giving Springsteen's Working On A Dream 5-stars got a lot of people laughing since it was one of Bruce's weakest albums, but they give him 5-stars for breathing). These magazines are supposed to be covering what's going on in the present musically, and that means more contemporary bands. I don't really follow metal (I love the 80s stuff) but the hot bands that the younger generation of metalheads are into aren't the same bands that ruled 25 years ago. Just like how Alternative magazines don't cover Depeche Mode and The Cure all that much these days either. One of the main reasons people mock what RS has become is because they treat the old icons (Springsteen, Dylan, Stones, McCartney, U2, Neil Young, etc...) as if they are still the only artists that matter. Look how long it took RS to acknowledge freaking Radiohead and those guys have been around 20 years! When you read RS, you get the idea that Radiohead, Pearl Jam and Foo Fighters are the "hot new bands", and this is 2013.

beavis69

After everyone talking about Spotify i decided to check it out. Jesus what an awesome app. I didn't realize you could get the full albums. Only thing that sucks is i have a low data plan, and it seems to eat data up pretty quickly. Other than that i could actually see paying for the service once i figure out if i can get more data.

BearFan

If you have the paid service, you can download playlists to your phone. I do that a fair amount before flying ... if you do that while connected to wifi, you can cut down how much data you use.

beavis69

Yea i saw that, problem is my iphone is only 16 gigs. I actually have a 64 gig ipod touch i just maxed out, so i had to purchase the 120 gig ipod classic. I was really hoping when they announced the new touches they would have a 120 version, but i imagine the hard drive is just to big to do it. I hate the classic, but its the only thing that will hold all my music.

BearFan

Yeah, space can be a problem, but still if there is an album or two you know you want to listen to in the car .. it is a decent option. If you have a tablet, you can always download onto that as well.