Joe BrockmeierMar 15

RE: https://mastodon.social/@yayaver/116210451937109857

Listen to full albums, too.

Just listen: don’t just put music on as background noise. Pick a good album, and find a quiet place with a decent enough stereo or headphones (preferably not earbuds). Grab a cup of tea or a beer or a whiskey (whatever your sipping beverage of choice), get comfy, and really listen to the music.

When you were in grade school did your music teacher have you listen to music (say, “Peter and the Wolf”) and try to pick out the instruments? I hope so. Do that. Appreciate the interplay of instruments and vocals. Really listen to the lyrics (if it has them) if you haven’t before.

One of the tragedies of today is that people have basically all recorded music at their fingertips, but relegate it to background noise.

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@jzb So very much this. Music has been so profoundly devalued.

(There are some really good earbuds now, though - so don’t rule those out. Sony’s WF-1000 series, for instance, are just lovely. OK, they’re not going to stand up to a set of Grado Labs backless cans, but they’re really very musical and listenable, nice and clean and detailed.)

Mar 15 at 6:31pmWeb