What are you listening to in 2024 ?

A good friend of mine who I played in several bands with over the years whenever asked what kind of music he liked would always say, "There are really only two kinds of music in the world, good music and bad music. I only like the first kind.
There have been many good tunes posted here since this thread was begun. Right now I'm listening to a box of cassette tapes I found tucked away in a closet which contain performances on stage of various bands I played with over my lifetime.
Listening to that music and the interactions between us on stage are like stepping through a time portal. The sense of nostalgia is palpable and the events of so many years ago come into view as if they had happened just yesterday. It is such a pleasure to hear, reminisce, and re-live those fun times again through sound and memory.
 

sailormann said:
A good friend of mine who I played in several bands with over the years whenever asked what kind of music he liked would always say, "There are really only two kinds of music in the world, good music and bad music. I only like the first kind.
There have been many good tunes posted here since this thread was begun. Right now I'm listening to a box of cassette tapes I found tucked away in a closet which contain performances on stage of various bands I played with over my lifetime.
Listening to that music and the interactions between us on stage are like stepping through a time portal. The sense of nostalgia is palpable and the events of so many years ago come into view as if they had happened just yesterday. It is such a pleasure to hear, reminisce, and re-live those fun times again through sound and memory.
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I think music is what the individual likes, so I don't agree about bad vs. good music. Everyone has their taste in music 🎶. I like some of every kind of music and some may not like what I do. If it makes you feel good....
 
I've got a story for you; when I first became 1970s Social Security stopped my benefits including Medicare. They claimed I was capable of supporting myself based on parental instructions that I should work even though I was receiving SSDI. I tried working but my symptoms became overwhelming so I quit every job after a few days at most a week.
My parents who had me on their insurance plan took me off because I had Medicare. Medicare would not pay for a private hospital as I was a patient before so they took me to a State Mental Hospital where I stayed. I had my dad's portable radio and would sit on a hill overlooking the city and jet planes circling the skies waiting to land. Meanwhile, I am sitting on the grassy knoll, listening to the college radio station, watching life as if it were a carousel of time.

 
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Every tune comes at me from a particular angle, and often several.

The entire track might paint a mood and take me there. The musicians and the sounds of their instruments woven together may sweep me to a particular state of mind separate from the lyrics - when there are any words at all. A song's lyrics alone may pluck emotional strings as poetry, and sometimes they can give voice to my thoughts and feelings literally and very close to word for word.

Melancholy, energized, wistful, hopeful, determined, happy, nostalgic, enthused, despondent, yearning, proud, enchanted... music can take us so many places!
 

I'm a sucker for early Chicago. So much fun with the instrumentation, it takes me back to school band days and my sons' marching band years. But the lyrics are often simple and even primal while saying so much. Their "man's emoting" is refreshing and resonant.
 
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