Music 2010

I think 2010 will go down as the year that I lost interest in music. Well, maybe that’s a little sweeping; more like the year I lost interest in new music. My desire to hunt out new bands diminished in proportion to the reduction in my free time. And you know what? It feels great. I can now quite happily listen to my current mammoth music collection without feeling like I’m neglecting the new crop of songsmiths trying to inject their tunes in my ears. To paraphrase a Dara O’Briain riff, if new music is good enough it’ll eventually become ‘classic’, and I’ll buy it then.

That’s not to say that all I did was listen to my existing music collection. Nope, I found my music listening in general decreasing considerably in 2010. I just wasn’t that into it. Podcasts become slightly more prominent, but mostly I found that I just appreciated the peace and quiet. Lovely lovely middle age. Anyhoo, here’s the list, extracted from iTunes, of stuff I purchased in 2010:

All Pigs Must Die EP – All Pigs Must Die
Only Revolutions – Biffy Clyro
Planets of Old – Cave In
There Is Nothing New Under The Sun – Coalesce
Diamond Eyes – Deftones
Blessed & Cursed – Devil Sold His Soul
Inside Embers Glow – Earthtone9
At Night We Live – Far
Lords of Oblivion – G.U. Medicine
Coextinction Release 2 – Goes Cube
At Both Ends (single) – Grade
Seeing Eye Dog – Helmet
American VI: Ain’t No Grave – Johnny Cash
Only By The Night – Kings Of Leon
Mothership – Led Zeppelin
Revenge Gets Ugly EP – Mastodon
Black Holes & Revelations – Muse
Origin Of Symmetry – Muse
The Resistance – Muse
Bleach (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) – Nirvana
The Best Of – Radiohead
Teargarden by Kaleidyscope – Smashing Pumpkins
Telephantasm (Deluxe Version) – Soundgarden
Coextinction Release 1 – Unsane
Hurley – Weezer
Collisions and Castaways – 36 Crazyfists

And, providing you don’t count Journey’s Don’t Stop Believing, Cake’s Short Skirt/Long Jacket and Massive Attack’s Teardrop (all from TV shows), that’s it.

The new Far album was the highlight. I’ve loved Far for a long time, and it was ace to see them bringing an new album out. I’ve only just discovered how good Zep are, so Mothership blew me away. Muse are also something I’ve only recently got into, but they’re exceptional. The Soundgarden best-of and the Bleach remastering were both like slipping on a comfy pair of slippers. The new Helmet disc still features Page’s awful vox, but rocks like a mother. The new Weezer album is interchangeable with the last few. Kings Of Leon is something I’m not afraid to admit I really enjoyed.

Beyond those, I’m having trouble remembering what most of the other stuff sounded like. Sorry, new music, but it would appear that I’m just not that into you.