tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3442455430231444267.post7345109489001813582..comments2024-01-17T13:21:23.709-05:00Comments on The Vinyl District | thevinyldistrict.com: TVD Takeover Giveaway | Jesca HoopJonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03401281910218683136noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3442455430231444267.post-41746841713309712252010-08-03T16:59:47.933-04:002010-08-03T16:59:47.933-04:00Well, to be fair, I'm not rejecting new artist...Well, to be fair, I'm not rejecting new artists and music over old. I merely said there's a tangible authenticity lacking in the current crop who mine the past. <br /><br />...Y'know - over and over.<br /><br />I mean, I remember my first beer.Jonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03401281910218683136noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3442455430231444267.post-28027379510130538992010-08-03T16:49:22.646-04:002010-08-03T16:49:22.646-04:00I just wrote an album review about "Hunting M...I just wrote an album review about "Hunting My Dress" around a week ago at my blog!<br /><br />http://nosleepatnight.blogspot.com/2010/07/jesca-hoop-hunting-my-dress.html<br /><br />I definitely have that nostalgia for the "older" things, be it the debut album of my favorite band from this decade or be it music from a decade in years past. And I have fallen victim to believing that what came before is always better, no matter what; I will viciously argue that the 60s produced the best music, ever, period. I'll also contest that the first record of Kings of Leon, a favorite of mine, is better than anything they've made since. <br /><br />But completely rejecting the new stuff is also ignorant and silly. We need to allow artists to reinterpret either themselves, the past, or both simultaneously. While looking backwards is fun, enjoyable, and comfortable, looking forward is a learning experience that might just rub us the wrong way at times. Jesca's new album certainly takes on a darker sound than her previous work, but it is undoubtedly gorgeous and stunning. I thank her for the contribution of her beautiful ideas into our present world, or else I could be completely content with being stuck in the past.<br /><br />ocd44 at hotmail dot comOliviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14448324388151352633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3442455430231444267.post-11193541892793159052010-08-03T15:55:12.129-04:002010-08-03T15:55:12.129-04:00You're both absolutely right and absolutely wr...You're both absolutely right and absolutely wrong to love old over new. The stuff of our youth replayed incarnates old loops and memories, stokes souls in ways that something unfamiliar never could. But just like that fire in Jesca's vid, passions smolder without new fuel. Try and replicate the feeling when your lips grace a new loves skin and your nostrils fill with their scent. It's an excitement and passion an old flame can't ever replicate. The same is true the first time you see a new band take the stage and vocals and instruments resonate so you feel it in your spine. I couldn't imagine life with out it.<br /><br />The smell of musty old vinyl or plasticine new? I could never pick just one. Thankfully music doesn't bear the mutual exclusivity of lovers.<br /><br />scottreitz(at)gmail.comScotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17820049009222118613noreply@blogger.com