There are tons of ways to find out about music. Swap a CD with someone you know has different tastes than you do, then listen to it in its entirety. Ask a friend when the next local show they're going to is, then tag along.
That's not all. You can go on Myspace and on the Music page, click on a genre you like, or one that you don’t even know. Browse the artists and listen to their songs. Read about them. Go to Google and type in the search engine, “New music 2008,” if you don’t usually listen to mainstream stuff.
Go on your AIM if you have one and look at people’s away messages and profiles and if there’s a good quote, there’s a great chance that it’s from a good song. (You won’t be considered a creep, believe me. It’s flattering.) If you like the lyrics, you’ll most likely love the song, so Google it.
Boomp3 is a good way to discover music.
So isn’t Pandora, where you type in something you like and it gives you something similar that you probably haven’t heard before.
This is just a little advice to be truly happy in life, because it doesn’t just go for music. Live it. Your mother didn’t advise you to try all foods once for no reason. People don’t realize how easily it is to get wrapped up in one’s self, and music is one of the biggest ways to be stubborn and simple minded. I have met so many people who think they have the greatest taste in music, but they only like one thing. Their whole play-list and their entire CD collection is the same song over and over again. They do not have a good taste in music because they only have one taste, and in my opinion that’s boring as hell.
There are so, so many more ways to find out about different stuff. Seriously, I am sick and tired of people claiming diversity when there’s nothing diverse about what they listen to. You can argue and say some people just don’t like certain sounds. This is true, but make sure you actually don’t like the other stuff before you knock it.
-Kassandra Small
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That's not all. You can go on Myspace and on the Music page, click on a genre you like, or one that you don’t even know. Browse the artists and listen to their songs. Read about them. Go to Google and type in the search engine, “New music 2008,” if you don’t usually listen to mainstream stuff.
Go on your AIM if you have one and look at people’s away messages and profiles and if there’s a good quote, there’s a great chance that it’s from a good song. (You won’t be considered a creep, believe me. It’s flattering.) If you like the lyrics, you’ll most likely love the song, so Google it.
Boomp3 is a good way to discover music.
So isn’t Pandora, where you type in something you like and it gives you something similar that you probably haven’t heard before.
This is just a little advice to be truly happy in life, because it doesn’t just go for music. Live it. Your mother didn’t advise you to try all foods once for no reason. People don’t realize how easily it is to get wrapped up in one’s self, and music is one of the biggest ways to be stubborn and simple minded. I have met so many people who think they have the greatest taste in music, but they only like one thing. Their whole play-list and their entire CD collection is the same song over and over again. They do not have a good taste in music because they only have one taste, and in my opinion that’s boring as hell.
There are so, so many more ways to find out about different stuff. Seriously, I am sick and tired of people claiming diversity when there’s nothing diverse about what they listen to. You can argue and say some people just don’t like certain sounds. This is true, but make sure you actually don’t like the other stuff before you knock it.
-Kassandra Small
Photo from UniqueEvents.com
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