tinnitus photography Posted April 4, 2014 Share Posted April 4, 2014 you must choose one option: 1 - you can only listen to music for the rest of your life that you've previously heard. 2 - you can only listen to music for the rest of your life that you've never heard before today. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
GtrPlyr Posted April 4, 2014 Share Posted April 4, 2014 My knee jerk reaction, go with the devil you know: music I already know. There is so much great stuff in my collection that I don't ever need to hear anything new to be content. Of course I do love discovering new stuff, and am doing so constantly, so the choice would still be very hard to make. But I'm sticking with my first choice, as the thought of never hearing The Beatles, Sly Stone, Big Star, etc would be too hard to bear. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
remphish1 Posted April 4, 2014 Share Posted April 4, 2014 Option 1 hands down...I couldn't imagine not listening to my favorite albums or songs ever again. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
froggie Posted April 4, 2014 Share Posted April 4, 2014 #1 would be the obvious answer for anyone... not everyone's fallen in love with a song or band today ditch everything else before Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bleedorange Posted April 4, 2014 Share Posted April 4, 2014 I would go with #2. Easy choice. It's how I currently listen to music for the most part. And I would be much more comfortable with the mere memory of music I used to love than with the thought that there was so much music I would be missing from that point on. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Winston Legthigh Posted April 4, 2014 Share Posted April 4, 2014 #1 - There's got to be a ton of music that I've heard but was either unaware of it, or don't remember it. I wouldn't be happy knowing I'd never be able to hear Beethoven, or the Beatles, or Elmer & Bugs in What's Opera, Doc, again... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lammycat Posted April 4, 2014 Share Posted April 4, 2014 #1, not even close. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jff Posted April 4, 2014 Share Posted April 4, 2014 It wouldn't be easy, but I'd choose 2. I would have said the opposite five years ago, but I feel like I'm in a golden age of discovering amazing new music and old music I had never heard before. Plus, I still have a pretty good memory, so the music I already know and love wouldn't really go away. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
John Smith Posted April 4, 2014 Share Posted April 4, 2014 #1 go with the known knowns over the unknown unknowns. I've listened to a crap ton of music and could keep the old fresh sounding by careful rationing, rotating and mixing it up frequently. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
worldrecordplayer Posted April 4, 2014 Share Posted April 4, 2014 That is a Sophie's Choice question, but #1 for me. If you told me I couldn't hear Jack Straw, Mt. Jam, Summerteeth or any one of a million other songs ever again, I don't think I could keep on going. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Atticus Posted April 4, 2014 Share Posted April 4, 2014 I demand a poll. Or a pole. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Magnetized Posted April 4, 2014 Share Posted April 4, 2014 Being a little closer to the grim reaper than many of you, and with a buttload of music in my memory and in my iTunes, I could happily live with just what I've heard so far. I would miss discovering new music, but I can't imagine not being able to hear my old favorites again. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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Fritz Posted April 5, 2014 Share Posted April 5, 2014 #1...When you get older you start to look back more. I wan to be wistful and nostalgic in my fading years and force the old music on anybody around me who'll listen. Case in point: last night I heard 100 Years Ago by the Stones for the first time in what must be twenty years and I used to listen to that record over and over again (on tape) when I was 16. So I played the rest of Goat's Head Soup and it took me back to so many things. I could see my bedroom then, hell I could even smell it. It was very powerful being taken back like this. I'd never give that up. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mr. Heartbreak Posted April 5, 2014 Share Posted April 5, 2014 #1, no surprises here Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jff Posted April 7, 2014 Share Posted April 7, 2014 I'm going to strengthen my opinion that #2 is the only choice for me. It'd be tough to never hear old favorites again, but taking away any possibility that I would discover great new music, or have a favorite new band ever again is far worse. Like contemplating suicide level of worse. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bleedorange Posted April 7, 2014 Share Posted April 7, 2014 I'm going to strengthen my opinion that #2 is the only choice for me. It'd be tough to never hear old favorites again, but taking away any possibility that I would discover great new music, or have a favorite new band ever again is far worse. Like contemplating suicide level of worse. It appears we're the only intelligent ones here. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
calvino Posted April 7, 2014 Share Posted April 7, 2014 If I could have my guitar, I would have no problem picking #2, because I could just play the past tunes. Not being able to hear new music, esp. jazz music, would suck. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Atticus Posted April 7, 2014 Share Posted April 7, 2014 I'm going to strengthen my opinion that #2 is the only choice for me. It'd be tough to never hear old favorites again, but taking away any possibility that I would discover great new music, or have a favorite new band ever again is far worse. Like contemplating suicide level of worse. Is throwing a reference to suicide in a hypothetical about music really the best move? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jff Posted April 7, 2014 Share Posted April 7, 2014 Is throwing a reference to suicide in a hypothetical about music really the best move? I have no idea what you mean by "best move'? Can you clarify? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lammycat Posted April 7, 2014 Share Posted April 7, 2014 I'm going to strengthen my opinion that #2 is the only choice for me. It'd be tough to never hear old favorites again, but taking away any possibility that I would discover great new music, or have a favorite new band ever again is far worse. Like contemplating suicide level of worse. See, I look at option #2 to include all the shitty music currently, in the past, and in the future that I have no desire to listen to. If I'm forced to listen to Miley Cyrus and Garth Brooks and Creed and other past, present, and future turds then It'd suck. Given this potential scenario, I'll keep listening to what I know and like..... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LouieB Posted April 7, 2014 Share Posted April 7, 2014 Maybe #2. I dunno. LouieB Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Stewart Posted April 7, 2014 Share Posted April 7, 2014 I have to go with 1 because of Paul's Boutique. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tinnitus photography Posted April 7, 2014 Author Share Posted April 7, 2014 See, I look at option #2 to include all the shitty music currently, in the past, and in the future that I have no desire to listen to. If I'm forced to listen to Miley Cyrus and Garth Brooks and Creed and other past, present, and future turds then It'd suck. Given this potential scenario, I'll keep listening to what I know and like.....that's a really strange way of looking at it. why would you be forced to listen to that stuff just because you haven't already? do you think you've exhausted the current supply of music that you would enjoy? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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