Have you ever wondered why music seems to matter less and less in your life these days? Do you remember the albums you listened to as a kid, and how you knew every lyric and how you’d anticipate one song starting after the last? How you’d hide under the duvet with a crappy radio to get a fix on the latest chart hits? That feeling of emmersion as your favourite song kicked-in on your Dansette record player? Ok, I’m showing my age here, but my latest theory for my own waning interest in music isn’t to do with the rise of MP3, the demise of vinyl or the relatively new distraction of the internet. No, I reckon a lot of it is down to this: it all sounds crap. (more…)
