Recently, buying new music has become fairly predictable. Not in a bad way - I just look at the review section in Q every month and have a listen on Spotify. Then whatever I really like gets on my Amazon wishlist. It's a fairly clinical, and almost middle-aged, system, which efficiently takes me to the new music I like most without ever having to buy a bum CD or stand at the listening post on Our Price (remember that?)
What I also realised recently is how little old music I was getting into. Gone are the days of 'discovering' whole new genres, like hip hop, dance or reggae. In 2011 I still don't really understand classical music or like jazz very much (with a few exceptions), and I'd pretty much got to the point where I thought I knew as much as I needed to know about the music which has gone before.
How wrong I was! I've been gaining more of an interest in folk music in recent years, having gone to Cambridge Folk Festival whilst living there and gaining an ear for artists like the Pogues and Seth Lakeman, and more recently Mumford and Sons and Laura Marling. Well, a recent trip to my parents had me taking their huge 80s stereo to the tip, and with it their entire (terrible) record collection - Ronnie Barker, Leo Sayer and Bruce Forsyth, anyone? Well, they had an old folk compilation too, which I duly listened too...and among the floral dances and Celidh music there were some real old gems, and I've managed to find myself not one but two brand new favourite bands.
So, between my ears at the moment, late 60s works by Pentangle and Fairport Convention are literally the best thing since sliced bread, or Funky Kingston by Toots and the Maytals, or Blur, or whatever. Rock on, in a folky sort of way!
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