A While Between Posts.

It has indeed for me been a while between posts, as always I am sporadic at best with my blogging, unlike my dear lady, who updates her blogs regularly.

Anyhow, just thinking about how people listen to music tonight.  It's a Saturday night and I find myself in a position where what is on the television amounts to what at best could be described as a paltry array.  At times like this I like to turn off the TV and put on some music, a point which allows us to digress back to what is on my mind, what we listen to and how we listen to it.

I enjoy music, and truth be told, I wish I could listen to it a lot more than I do.  Primarily I find myself spoilt for choice, which easy with over 300Gb of mp3 files to choose from, or several thousand individual albums.  Now I have come a long way I think from being raised on a bland diet of AM talkback radio, before getting a radio of my own and discovering the FM band.  Years ago Brisbane had an AM station called radio 10, which although fairly mainstream, also gave me on Sunday nights the gift of the Doctor Demento show, about the only place a kid from the suburbs was going to hear artists like Weird Al Yankovic.

Fast forward several years, and I am 15 and hearing the Sex Pistols eponymous "Never Mind The Bollocks..." for the first time on a stolen cassette copy (I didn't steal it).  Suddenly the musical world expanded a little bit more, and punk joined my list of things to discover, after I had started to listen such notable 70's dinosaurs as Led Zepplin and Pink Floyd.  We were all hearing all this great music for the first time and enjoying it, and the louder the better.

All this brings me back to my point.  From my experience I can say I have been discovering great music my whole adult life, and I love it all.  I love the thrill of hearing an album I have never heard before and discovering great music, of hearing a great band on the radio and seeking out their album, it's like digging for gold.  Or digging through an artists back catalogue to hear stuff that isn't played on the radio anymore (or never was).  I know some people are seemingly happy to have a limited library and to listen to the same few albums over and over (I have some perennial favourites as well) but I fail to see how that isn't a recipe for boredom.  At the worst I think it breeds poor taste, and I think we do ourselves a far better service by listening to a wide variety of music.