Sinister: on warmer music

[Johan Nilsson]

bling bling.

i need help. mentally, i think something is wrong with me. i try to eat my
vitamins and my iron and drink a lot of water. but it is not helping. what
is wrong with me? well i don't know how to put this but the last couple of
months, music has been boring me out. i buy all these records that i am all
excited to hear and then i put them on listen to them a couple of times and
then i get bored of them and let them sit and start to pick up dust on my
shelf. i started to realise how critical the situation was today when after
i had ordered a couple of cds. what i ordered was records that i had on tape
probably around 1996/1997 and that i liked a lot but never bought on cd,
this past months, my uncontrolable turn off by new music i have started to
realise 'how much better those records were'. does that make any sense? i
fear that this can be the resault of aging. well my father belongs to this
generation born in the 50s and will never accept any other decade than the
60s to be the best ever. he basically stopped listening to music around 1969
or whenever the white album was released. now when he hears new music that i
play in my room he whines and says the music is dorky (belle and sebastian),
the singer can't sing a note (will oldham) or what a hell is this crap?
(hefner). i fear that some people when they reach a certain age they loose
interest in new music and stick with music that they liked when they were
young. see what i am getting at? i fear i am there. i fear that i will never
like a new band and that the records i value and adore will be from the late
90s (specially around 1996/1997 like tigermilk etc.). now this is scary
business cuz i don't wanna be like that. as jesus christ once said, no wait,
jarvis cocker (i always confuse the two because of their initials) it's ok
to grow up, just as long as you don't grow old. records that this year i
have gotten bored of include kid a, the new hefter, the new pj harvey and
well the list could get long. point being, i was looking forward to those
records so much. the only records that i still like to listen to from this
year is fishclap (specially the two first tracks), the david grubbs record,
the sea and cake record and the will oldham and rian murphy (read: will
oldham & drag city) ep. well is this is it? am i getting old? please, if
someone knows how to get pills that makes you stop grow old then let me know
how to get them, this is a critical situation.

johan / le petit communiste
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