I still play it as it is the first Bjork album that I got (not counting the greatest hits one that got 'lost' at my job) I really like Earth Intruders and Innocence. This has been one of the best albums I've gotten this year

AnckSuNamun said:

at least we know Bjork influenced you in everyday speech

Cinnie said:

AnckSuNamun said:

you know when she forces a phrase out with a half-giggle, that's how I read your sentence

Innocence











im out

I still like it, though I haven't listened to it in months. It'll come around in the rotation again one of these days.

I really like it! Declare Independece is one of my fav tracks from this yéar!

Tho I need a certain Gudmundsdóttír mood to listen to the whole album...

My Juvenile edit
[Edited 11/19/07 1:48am]

so the overall census is that people like it a lot, they just never
listen to it



i find that applies to most of the music i've gathered over the last
2 years. some amazing albums there, yet i hardly ever listen to them
at all. i suppose i'm still listening and absorbing some of the cd's
that came out before that time.

IstenSzek said:

I think it also has a lot to do with getting older. You can recognize how phenomenal a new album is, but you just don't usually develop the emotional connection that you did when you were younger with older albums.

Cinnie said:

The album just fell out of my top 20. It wasn't bad at all. I just liked a lot of other albums this year more.

Raze said:

When I was a teen, it was simply because I didn't have that many albums so the ones I had, I played over and over until I knew them all backwards and forwards. Now that I have a zillion albums, I play them less frequently and don't bond with them as much.

sextonseven said:

i think that's half of it...aging out of obsessing over one album every single day, and also amassing so much music that it's hard to focus on just one album like i used to...but in the case of volta, i think it's also the material to some extent. there are at least a couple of albums i megabonded with this year, but volta just seems kinda pretty and interesting but overall hard to love.

Anxiety said:

I agree with what you guys are saying with lack of focus on a few albums, but for me, it's mostly that I'm not really as into music as I was 5 or 10 years ago. I still enjoy it, but I often feel like I've already found all the ones I need. I still pick up a new favorite artist every once in awhile, but I very rarely try new things out on a whim or on a recommendation anymore. And that made me sad and mad at myself for awhile, but I got over it.

Raze said:

i don't think i'm ever going to love an album from first listen the way i went nuts over 'purple rain' or 'ziggy stardust' the first time i heard either of those. i think i look for a different kind of high from new music at this point in my life. i love...LOVE!!!...the blonde redhead album '23' because it's nice and melancholy and melodic and mellow (that's a lotta "mel"), and it hits the spot. not terribly exciting, just an entire album's worth of stuff my ears seem to like, which these days is rare. i don't know if it's the state of the industry or the state of me getting older that i never think i'll ever again get so excited with a new album that i can barely even stand to be in my own skin.

Anxiety said:

I understand what you're saying, and it ties in exactly with my review of Sound of Silver, which was such a revelation for me BECAUSE it ignited the teenage passion overdrive of yesteryear unlike anything has in awhile.

Anxiety said:

What's weird for me is that the older I get, the farther I go back to discover artists and albums I'd never paid any attention to or just didn't know anything about. The last artists I got into when they were fairly fresh or new or making their impact were Mercury Rev, Me'shell and Rufus Wainwright back in the late 90's. Since then, I've delved into Bowie, James Brown, Elvis, Stevie Wonder, Johnny Cash and some others.

Raze said:

i think i've done just the opposite. when i was a teenager i got into bowie, hendrix, beatles, janis, and so forth. i think as i get older, i'm more interested in what new stuff i was missing at the time while i was listening to all that old stuff.

oh i like the way this thread developed! great thoughts!

IstenSzek said:

Raze said:

thats kinda sad!

Cloudbuster said:

you're an animal

thekidsgirl said:

It is if you're young. And it was for me, for a minute. But the older you get, the more you realize it's not that important.

Raze said:

Not necessarily. For me it's more a matter of what my priorities are. I'm old, but if I had a wife and kids (like my younger brother) then yes, music wouldn't be that important. But I don't have any of those things to worry about at the moment so I'm buying more music now than ever.

sextonseven said:

PANDURITO said:

It's true.