Affinity for music

[sorter]

This is inspired by this thread.
What are you listening to now?

Back in my day (just a second I need to set the break on my walker, there)
I would buy a record album about once a month and listen to it over and over until I bought the next one.
Those songs are soo ingrained. When I hear them now the sense memory is strong.

Questions mostly to you young whippersnappers:
1. Do you have a primary source for music, youtube etc, or do you bounce around.
Do you listen to a few songs over and over?

2. Do you have a strong sense memory for songs you heard when you were 13 or 14?

I know it's impossible to know, but I wonder if todays kids will have as much affinity for their music as my generation did.
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[royster]

Thumbs up, sorter!

It turns out R.E.M. was the segue to where I am now. They have a social commentary that is so badly needed, now. I do not listen to much from radio anymore...ClearChannel slowly killed FM...and my cigarrette-ash and beer-spill records are long gone, never replaced by CD's as I had promised myself.

Yes, I like ABBA, too.

[Jon Tore]

Originally Posted by sorter

This is inspired by this thread.
What are you listening to now?

Back in my day (just a second I need to set the break on my walker, there)
I would buy a record album about once a month and listen to it over and over until I bought the next one.
Those songs are soo ingrained. When I hear them now the sense memory is strong.

Questions mostly to you young whippersnappers:
1. Do you have a primary source for music, youtube etc, or do you bounce around.
Do you listen to a few songs over and over?

2. Do you have a strong sense memory for songs you heard when you were 13 or 14?

I know it's impossible to know, but I wonder if todays kids will have as much affinity for their music as my generation did.
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I'm really into music, to say the least.
I don't use youtube for music other than to check out new bands I haven't discovered. It's great that way.. many people who upload the most rare unheard songs of the most forgotten bands, for example. I like to buy CDs, but I don't have that many, yet, but the CDs that I do have are from my very favorites, so there's about 17 CDs and 2 live DVDs. There are some albums that I need to listen to over and over again very often for years. Some songs that have indeed put so much influence and feeling into my own sense of the ultimate musicality that I almost get restless because I can't express my joy for those moments.
When I was 13/14, I listened to different music, but even though I sort of never listen to the same bands as I did then, many of the songs that I listened to then appeal very strongly now and have that big bunch of memory and feeling of what kind of kid I was when I listened to that music.
But I believe that if I wait 10 years now, and listen to the songs that are my favorites right now, I'll get even stronger nostalgia since I'm way more into music than I was when I was 13.

To answer the topic, I just think it varies, a lot as it also probably did back when you were young.