Every loved song was at one point a new song tho
I know you’re joking, but clearly you’ve never seen it performed by a rando with a guitar in a nursing home.
For the residents, clapping to Sweet Caroline is the highlight of their day.
Not that there’s a high standard in nursing homes, but that song in particular seems to light the people up. Considering what hell such places can be, I can’t help but appreciate the heart-lifting power of Sweet Caroline.
But I’m not there for the new song try out, I’m there to listen to the good stuff I already like
With my favorite band, every new record was “not as good as what came before”. But after getting used to, it got there as well.
I have concluded that familiarity brings a feeling of quality in music.
It takes a while to learn the minutia of what makes a particular song great. And the more complex and lengthy a song is, the longer it takes to fully appreciate it.
Can’t confirm. Of course the first time you listen to a new song isn’t the same since you don’t know what to expect, but from then on you can vibe to it even better for a while since it’s new. I’d even assume this is the reason for the “repeat song” feature and why some people listen to a single new song for hours.
Dunno, I have a hard time understanding your perspective.
While they aren’t generally stylistically complex, some songs with complex nonsense lyrics seem, at least to me as a young American, to be the ones that are simultaneously easiest to appreciate for a great many people, and also have huge staying power, despite being quite old. For example:
American Pie
Hotel California
We Didn’t Start the Fire
Don’t Stop Believing
Bohemian Rhapsody (or, really, most things by Queen)
These, at least among the places I’ve been here in America, are the ones to which everyone in the bar starts singing along. Sure, these have underlying meaning, or make references to specific events, but in my experience, most of the people I hear singing and dancing to these have no idea what they’re referencing, and often don’t even know the words. Perhaps it is simply that they are so overplayed that they get those “multiple listens” of which you speak? Or is there something inherently compelling in the seeking of meaning in complex, random lyrics, such that people are immediately drawn in?
Why complain? If you only wanna hear their old shit, this is a great opportunity to get another drink or rock a piss
Why complain?
Because you’re hearing less of the stuff you went there to listen to, would be my reason.
This comment sounds so entitled. If you just wanted a “top hits” list you can play that off your phone. Live shows are whatever the musicians want to do.
I’ve never understood this attitude but I also don’t see legacy acts. Why wouldn’t I want to hear a band’s new stuff?
People who go to concerts want to see their favourite singles and favourite tracks from the albums they already own played by the band who created them (or a really good tribute band). The concert-goer might also want to relive the past and feel like they did when they first heard that music. Note that you don’t get many youngsters going to see old bands when they do a comeback tour. Nostalgia is a really big part of it.
When the band pulls out a new song, it doesn’t touch any of those desires whatsoever. From the nostalgic’s perspective, it’s basically an ad break between all the good stuff, and people hate being pulled out of their reverie to listen to an ad.
Here’s a silly sketch from Big Train where they call this sort of thing out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1YNEtaHbzA
Last year drag went to a concert to hear a famous band drag liked. They sucked, they were too loud and overwhelming. But one of the opening acts, a local band drag had never heard of before, was amazing. And drag is a fan of them now.
New stuff is great!
You have at least a couple of things that make it not quite the scenario I described in my comment. Yes, warm-up acts are kind of an ad, but they’re the pre-show ad. People who watch movies prefer the “trailers” before the movie, not interspersed within it.
And trailers work. Sometimes. Lots of parallels with support acts there.
Secondly, the main band being terrible is not the norm. You went there expecting them to be good and to hear your old favourites, not their new stuff. Maybe you would have liked some of their new stuff if they hadn’t been hopeless at everything else as well, but that isn’t the main thing you were there for.
[removed by mod]
You have to be fucking kidding me.
Click “source” to read this wildly controversial post. Because “lawrence” doesn’t want you to read it and is so clueless he brought attention to it by removing it.
How about you go fuck yourself “lawrence”? Jesus what a pathetic little man.
See the Cheetos dust fly as his fat little fingers ban me from HIS DOMAIN for a “wrong” opinion.
Idiots like you will be the death of lemmy. YOU ARE HURTING US ALL.
Looking into the full logs he was banned for a uh, pedo comment in another post. They may have been joking but it was still gross.
