Forgotten / Rediscovered Music

[abasio]

When I was younger I lived alone and I had music room, a place with my stereo, my decks, surround sound speakers, a listening chair (all on the cheap mind you, but damn was it good to have a room just for listening to music) and all my CDs organized/categorised and easy to browse and find.

When I got married and moved house, my buzz kill of a wife did not want a music room (why did I marry this woman? A question for another thread) so all my CDs (I thought) got ripped and put in storage.

Over the last 10 years I have listened to CDs less and less and FLAC more and more, I also started streaming music more. I have 2 apps on my phone for music. Bandcamp where I amassed a collection of 6000+ albums (you can stop buying CDs but the idiot that cannot stop buying new music will never be silenced) of mostly "name your price" of $1 albums (mostly just as good as the $20 offerings to be honest) and Ymusic which allows you to search and stream anything that is on any of the big hosting sites like YouTube or....their competitors, I'm sure their are some somewhere. Totally free and you can stream just the audio and it has everything you could really want outside of the really indie stuff that no one likes (and for that there's bandcamp).

Anyway, I digress, over the years I found, like a lot of people I have been using my phone for more and more things. It replaced my camera, my music player, I stopped reading books because what's the point when you can doomscroll? 😲 It replaced my PC, my TV, my consoles, shit, everything. But as the saying goes, a phone is a jack of all trades, but a master of none and I have come to the realization over the last few years that smartphones suck at everything they do and having one device for everything is making everything just a bit crap. I even used it for email, basically meaning I never sent email (sorry mum 😭) or posted on forums (sorry Psynews 😢)

So over the last few years I have been spending my hard earned on getting back the things I need (not a camera yet because I suck at photography anyway)

I have a kobo e-reader and reading is so much more enjoyable than doomscrolling.

I got a Miyoo mini retro handheld for games  and playing all the old Gameboy, NES, SNES, Master system & Genesis games is so much more fun than whatever crappy mobile games are available.

I got a portable music player again, then upgraded it to a hunky hunky slab of a well amped music player (Sony ZX707) with decent iems and headphones and put all my previously ripped music (see this thread is getting somewhere) on it. I stopped streaming, I bought a lot less new music and rediscovered all (wait for it) my old favourites.

I even got a bigger tablet with a full(ish) sized keyboard to help me reconnect with the people that are not in my face every day.

 

Back to the music, well I thought I was rediscovering ALL my old music, but I was clearly not. I have been re-reading the review threads here and today I came across Pleiadians - IFO remastered and 3CDs of extra goodies and I was like "Oh wow, how did I miss that???" I was then surprised again to read my review of it, as I had clearly bought it but had never ripped it (or lost said rip) so I went looking for it and in just the small section of my storage that I found that, I found 20 or more other old classics I had totally forgotten about. A load of Eat Static albums (I always did overplay Prepare Your Spirit but I did sometimes listen to the others) the later Order Odanata compilations, an album by Zen Lemonade and another by Green Oms. All forgotten about until today. I haven't ripped a CD in years, I need to find my old external CD drive and figure out what to do to get all this excellent stuff on my Walkman so I can listen to it again, properly, with decent headphones

Is anyone else having a renaissance with their music? What have you recently re-discovered? Go over the review section and give you thoughts 10, 15 20 years later

 

TL:DR?

Screw you then

Nah, Just read the last paragraph  

[Oopie]

I feel like the problem is I yearn for NEW stuff but I can't be arsed to find the goods amongst thousands of digital singles/EPs that come out each week. Also in the trend of nobody reviewing nothing - it's difficult to spot the good shit you're supposed to. Do I go back to the "good ol" simply because I know it better? Yeah I do.