Monday, June 11, 2007

obsession

I was saying to a friend of mine yesterday how I miss having obsessions with bands. When I was a teenager, I had an R.E.M. obsession (8th through 10th grade) followed by a Sebadoh obsession (some of 10th, through senior year). Back then I never had to think before answering what my favorite band was. My taste has broadened a lot and I can't say I'm sorry for that. But I miss getting that excited about a band. Especially one with a nice juicy back catalog and/or prolific new releases (R.E.M. had more of the former, while their new releases always disappointed me, but Sebadoh and its side-projects kept me busy and at the height of my obsession were still reasonably consistent).

I might be too jaded and blase now to appreciate things the way I used to. To some extent it's probably like high school crushes--I'll never feel that way about anyone again. But it would be nice if I could have a nice adult love affair with a new band. Maybe I just haven't found the right one yet, who knows.

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Anonymous said...

I've had similar feelings about my lack of obsession about music these days, too. Part of the reason why I think things have petered out for me is because I used to be a lot more obsessed about the musicians' personalities and lives, whereas now I'm more interested in the music alone.

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I've found that as I've gotten older, my obsessions with a specific artist has been displaced by a broader, much more rewarding interest in music. In other words, nowadays I don't just like R.E.M. - I've investigated many of the artists that influenced them (or comtemporaries that Peter Buck namedrops in interviews) and expanded my interests.
Not that there is anything wrong with obsessions, but I find that there can be a sort of adolescent limitation to them, whch gets less and less comfortable as I get older.

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