A personal commitment to shed light on overlooked music

[乳头的早餐谷物]

From the 1st of January to the 7th of January I will not listen to any music that I own on CD. Since I try to buy most albums I really like, this excludes most of my most-listened-to bands. I've decided to do this because there's so much good music that I haven't listened to nearly as much as I ought to.

If you find yourself listening to the same things too often as well maybe you should do this too. If you don't have a suitable CD collection to exclude, you could try excluding your top 20 artists on Last.fm or something along those lines. OR ARE YOU NOT MAN ENOUGH?

Discuss.

[SlappyMcGee]

I've been doing this for December, actually. It sucks.

[乳头的早餐谷物]

I've been doing this for December, actually. It sucks.

NOT MAN ENOUGH.

[unoriginal name]

The only albums I listen to are ones I haven't heard before.

[t̷s͢uk̕a͡t͜ư]

My version of this is to get go into the wild and find bands that are compared to ones I already listen to, get entire discographies of the bands whose samples I enjoy, and then painstakingly go through all of their work one by one to cherry-pick the songs I like.
With each iteration of this process, I branch out to more and more bands, so I'm also forced to adopt better heuristics for determining whether or not I keep a song.

[toasters]

My version of this is to get go into the wild and find bands that are compared to ones I already listen to, get entire discographies of the bands whose samples I enjoy, and then painstakingly go through all of their work one by one to cherry-pick the songs I like.
With each iteration of this process, I branch out to more and more bands, so I'm also forced to adopt better heuristics for determining whether or not I keep a song.

This is what I've been doing more or less, except without the background in computer science.

[t̷s͢uk̕a͡t͜ư]

My version of this is to get go into the wild and find bands that are compared to ones I already listen to, get entire discographies of the bands whose samples I enjoy, and then painstakingly go through all of their work one by one to cherry-pick the songs I like.
With each iteration of this process, I branch out to more and more bands, so I'm also forced to adopt better heuristics for determining whether or not I keep a song.

This is what I've been doing more or less, except without the background in computer science.

Er... no part of my approach involves computer science. By "better heuristics," I mean things like, "if you don't like 50% of the album, and every song in the album has sounded more or less the same, just skip the rest of the album."

[SlappyMcGee]

Er... no part of my approach involves computer science.

Only a computer scientist could know that!

[Lenny]

Wow. That's a pretty dedicated challenge.

I'd do the same, except we'll be travelling from the 3rd of January until the 11th or so, and I won't actually be listening to a whole lot of music. Plus, a large amount of what I listen to regularly has been taken from YouTube, not CD, so I'd still end up listening to a lot of what I do usually.

[Seneschal]

I'm going to try a similar thing and listen to four (new) albums a day for the next few weeks; often they'll include individual tracks that I've heard and/or purchased beforehand, and they'll usually be by bands I've heard stuff by before too, but most of it will be new to me. Occasionally I'll throw in something completely new as well.

So far I've got through four: In Rainbows by Radiohead, Room on Fire by The Strokes, Fleet Foxes by Fleet Foxes and Conditions by The Temper Trap, and they were all good, which is promising.

[Tanner]

I'm going to try a similar thing and listen to four (new) albums a day for the next few weeks;

Four new albums a day? That's a ridiculous amount. Are you on Winter break because that's going to take a lot of time and concerted effort. If you can pull this off and actually get something meaningful from it, I applaud you.

[Rhekatou]

My version of this is to get go into the wild and find bands that are compared to ones I already listen to, get entire discographies of the bands whose samples I enjoy, and then painstakingly go through all of their work one by one to cherry-pick the songs I like.
With each iteration of this process, I branch out to more and more bands, so I'm also forced to adopt better heuristics for determining whether or not I keep a song.

Pandora!

Yeah, I've been doing this and now I'm at Linkin Park: Minutes to Midnight.

[SlappyMcGee]

I do about two new albums a day, and one favorite.

[T3chno]

I'm doing this in January.

[otters~1]

...into the wild...

Had a pretty cool soundtrack.

[Seneschal]

I'm going to try a similar thing and listen to four (new) albums a day for the next few weeks;

Four new albums a day? That's a ridiculous amount. Are you on Winter break because that's going to take a lot of time and concerted effort. If you can pull this off and actually get something meaningful from it, I applaud you.

I am on holiday for two weeks, but then again I'll probably have to do a lot of revision during this period, so one or two would be a much more realistic (and more practical) target. On reflection, four was perhaps a tad ambitious.

[EdoI]

I do this every once in a while because I way too easily overplay songs.

My recent discoveries are Incubus and Opeth, they're awesome. Rammstein and Radiohead are in test mode.

[Leaff]

I might try a less difficult version of this because this challenge seems a little too hardcore for me. >_>

[T3chno]

I'm doing this on January.

4 new albums from bands I have yet to listen to and are not in my Top 30 artists every week.

[Tunco]

I don't buy any albums, I just *snip*. In fact, I only own a few CD's, they are from artists I listen to most.

This won't be so hard for me.

LF: No piracy discussion.

[乳头的早餐谷物]

Did it. Didn't miss my regular music. Didn't actually get around to listening to nearly as much other music as hoped. It was good, though. Got around to having a proper listen to Ágætis Byrjun and fell in love with Flugufrelsarinn. Still need to listen to way more overlooked music.

[SlappyMcGee]

I miss my regular music so much. Where is Weezer and TVOTR? And Radiohead? :(

[乳头的早餐谷物]

By sheer coincidence I have happened upon this old thread with near-perfect timing. I think I'll do this again in the new year.

[kamikaze3000]

...and I've just started by giving Crystal Castles a listen. I like what I hear

[SlappyMcGee]

...and I've just started by giving Crystal Castles a listen. I like what I hear

THEY KICK ASS