My Mad Fat Diary - the soundtrack (when did you stop listening to music?)

[craigwend]

Very much enjoying the TV show,

Though the more I watch, the more I realise a 'prophecy' of an ex-collague has come true...

She predicted there is a point for 'most' people were the love of music 'sort of' stops in time... (she was into 'soft rock'... still


I'm guessing that around 1996 /1997 I stopped 'listening' to music the obsessive way I had previously
I can more or less recite all the songs on 'mad fat' / have them in my CD collection (previously vinyl)

so it happened!

Yes I still buy the odd CD (not got 'into' downloading yet...still like something tangiable), the odd bit of 'new' music my friends get me into, but yes sometime around 96/97 it happened...

So has it happened to you & if so when?

'Strangely' around 96/97 I got back into cycing

 

[TVC]

I still buy lots of music, new and old. I suppose I left it alone in the late '80s and early '90s when I grew out of Radio 1. Now though, with the return of many more gigs and live music plus youtube and of course Amazon I listen to stuff daily.

 

[Marshmallow_Fluff]

Nope! Still remains my main source of entertainment.. although due to circumstances in a more "privet" way than I would like to, but hey ho!


<rushes to google Spotify>

 

[ColinJ]

It happened to me when I finished university in 1986 and went straight into a demanding job. By the time I got home in the evenings or after (unpaid) overtime at the weekend, I was too knackered to bother.

Funnily enough, I watched the first half of a documentary on the history of the LP album last night on BBC4 and it prompted me to listen to Soft Machine vol. 2 on YouTube in bed. I was thinking how sad it was that I have spent 27 years not doing something that I loved.

 

[Over The Hill]

I was born in 1960 and can probably name every chart song from 60 to 80 and be fairly spot on with the year (I usually get them right on popmaster) 80s get a bit pathchy but then the 90s and 00s I have no idea who is singing and when the song was around. I do still buy and enjoy records but they tend to be a bit off the mainstream.

After I got a bit tired with pop (say early 80s) I started looking at all sorts of old music. Got into the old crooners, jazz, northern soul, country and some classical. So my "new" music switched to being somethin other than the latest pop.

While on music-
Went to se Nerena Pallot last friday. She has just started a tour. Really brilliant singer (and a bit mad). Do try and see her.

 

[Deleted member 23692]

Nope - I'm listening to more than I've ever done, thanks to mp3s I've converted all my LPs, cassettes and CDs to mp3 and it's now all catalogued using Media Monkey. The old formats have been sold off to fund more music on mp3, so the collection still grows

It's pretty much continuously playing on random whenever I'm around in the house, and if I'm out and about I've always got some form of mp3 player goes with me... added to that I've an mp3 jukebox in the car with a 500gb HDD.

 

[ComedyPilot]

I listen to music whilst riding (loudspeaker on bars via iPod) so never stop, but wasn't 'into' it much years ago. But am now in a band and playing bass almost daily

 

[craigwend]

Never actually stopped listening to music, just stopped listening to it like I did - as in buying lots of new stuff, or seeing gigs 2-3 times a week...

Yes I still listen to lots of my old stuff, if i could be bothered I'd convert it to mp3... yes I even have a mp3 player, had a spotify account got a bit bored of it, they were also restricting it's use/ trying to encourage me to pay!

yes Youtube is great to reminisce - but it's mainly that now...

my car is my haven for music - from watching 'big fat' the other night I put a couple of chemichal brothers cd's in my car,

occasionallyon my bike I listen to mp3 player, though mainly at night as the car headlights 'hint' they are sneaking up on me & don't scare the be-jesus out of me!

So it's not that you don't listen, as some have got, it's when you stopped lsitening to 'new stuff


I watched the programme on the 'album' last - there was something very magical. tangible........ scratchable!!!!

 

[ianrauk]

My job is music. I listen to it seven days a week.

 

[Primal Scream]

Never have stopped listening , always looking for new bands, still going to gigs.

If I had a tatoo lt would be "18 till I die"

 

[Marshmallow_Fluff]

Never have stopped listening , always looking for new bands, still going to gigs.

If I had a tatoo lt would be "18 till I die"

No way! Being 18 was rubbish!! I made a decision (long ago) to remain 28..

 

[Primal Scream]

No way! Being 18 was rubbish!! I made a decision (long ago) to remain 28..

No way! Being 18 was rubbish!! I made a decision (long ago) o remain 28..

Fair enough it probably should be 23 till I die but that just dosent sound right.

 

[ColinJ]

I listen to music whilst riding (loudspeaker on bars via iPod) so never stop

Hopefully, not when riding with other people ...?

 

[ComedyPilot]

Hopefully, not when riding with other people ...?

No, I normally ride alone, so music is a constant companion. Conversation is king when I ride in a group.

 

[Yellow Fang]

I didn't give up trying to like modern music till about the 2000's. The 90's was not too bad. The 80's was hard work. My favourite era was 1977 to early 1980.