the soft compulsion of constant consumption training

December 8, 2011

"What I love in music, more than anything, is the feeling a listener can so often get, that so much is riding on whether or not the song you’re listening to is going to realize the ambitions you feel inside—whether it’ll resolve itself in a way that will make you think, 'I’m so privileged to have been alive to hear the song the way I heard it just now.'"

Greil Marcus.

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Yeah that is a fair point, and I think he’s describing a very small subset of our listening. Most music is happening for...
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Yeah realized as soon as I wrote it I was sorta misinterpreting it, and yes, I agree it’s exciting! I guess I was more...
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