A question to everyone. It's fair to say all of us here have pretty diverse music tastes. I have been struggling to find that album and genre to sit and spend time with. Am I alone on this? Do you just wake up and say "hey I'm gonna play these albums today" or do you search for an album or albums you want to sit with exclusively for a while? Example: I want to sit with the new Virtual Symmetry but I also feel like sticking with a bunch of Black Flag albums etc.... Being there is so much stuff I'm overwhelmed with, being older stuff and new stuff and different genres. I'm just all over the place but I WANT to sit with just a few albums at most and absorb it all like I did when I was younger.
I hear you completely. I've often defined youth as nothing matters except the album you are listening to.
But having a wife, kids, ...um..jobs, shit to do around the house, etc...it's really a time thing.
Tom, one thing that I do religiously is on Fridays I do nothing but sample new releases. I have a couple of new album tickers that I reference, and if I like something I hear, I immediately save it to Spotify. I also note it on a Word document, and if I Saved it or not.
I'll sometimes dedicate a day to reviewing things I saved in the current year.
There are days where I have no idea what I'm going to listen to today.
There are days where I say, I'm going to run through "this" band's discography, or pick a band from the past that I didn't get into and run through one of their albums.
Each day, just pick a direction and stick with it.