I prefer 1984..... by Rick Wakeman.

Thanks to this site, I keep finding new stuff all the time.

Music you never heard before and so could still be older stuff(70's,80's, 90's, 2000's, etc)

Or music from the past three months(or whatever could be consideredly literally "new")

But seriously. A lot of my listening gets taken up with band submission evals. Not sure what the percentage is, but it is significant. Combined with recent discoveries I listen to on purpose, that number becomes substantial. 

If by new we mean modern, almost none LOL.

It’s been an enjoyable year, and I’ve listened to more new, new music than ever before in my life, but it’s not something I’m sure I would like to do indefinitely. There’s so much music I love that it sometimes feels like I’m in constant pursuit of the new, without taking time to appreciate the old favourites.

Every few years or so, I get the idea in my head that I am not going to listen to any more new music. It’s a sensible decision, and my wife would surely love it if I could follow through on it. I have more than enough music in my collection, that I really don’t need anymore, and I barely have time to listen to it all as it is. (In fact, I know it will have been years since I’ve listened to some of the albums in my collection, so it’s probably more correct to say I don’t have time to listen to it all as it is.)

However, with all the best intentions in the world, I think I am an addict, and rehab never really takes. I always end up back listening to new music. I’m actually quite jealous of people who have somehow closed their minds to new music, and are quite happy to stay in their small comfort zone. For a start, the amount of money I’d have saved would be huge. I sometimes look at my collection (which will not even be large, compared to many of you guys), and think of how much money I must have spent to accumulate it. And I barely even listen to a lot of it, because I’m off chasing the next new sound....

Nogbad_The_Bad wrote: I'm about the same. 60 to 70% newly discovered music from whatever era I discovered it. I'm buying a bunch of albums every year and need to give them sufficient time. I struggle to find sufficient time for the existing collection.

Yup, dedicating much of my listening time to my recent acquisitions (no matter from what year release), and not spending much time with my classic albums (rarely get the itch to listen to them anymore).

Unfortunately once I've played a recent acquisition enough to be familiar with it, I tend to relegate it to the unplayed albums for a few years, like all too many other albums.

Simple lack of time.

I will need a strong deadwood cutting session in the next year or so. I have too many discs I never listen to anymore... and probably won't again until that "sprucing" session.

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Maybe it's me but this question seems a little misleading.

Since I'm always "searching" for new music to pique my interest the % might seem high (75-80%)

But most times after one listening I move one. So the "enduring" music that I listen to becomes the higher percentage and it most definitely falls far outside the last 12 months, maybe even the last 12 years.

Maybe a better way of stating the question would be how much of the music you've "discovered" in the last 12 months will endure in your listening vs music from beyond that time frame.

My sorrow is I do not have enough time to listen to what I have already found.

Easily 60-70% for me as well.

Hi,

I'll take 1984 by Anthony Phillips! Thank you!

BTW, if I had any idea which time and place the music I listen to is from, I likely would not be here, or listening to anything at all ... so there is no music from the 1600's and the 1700's for you to find and "DISCOVER"?

If you say no, then you are not listening to music at all !!!!! 

At home I listen to more new music, but in the car I have a pen drive with a lot of music where I only load albums that have passed the test of time, I have it permanently on shuffle mode, so in the car I only listen to music that has endured.

In total perhaps 40% new and 60% "old".

Quite the same here.

Ditto.

But I have to remark that the majority of "newly discovered" listens is due to the reviews, polls and feedback from this website. It's a remarkable group of people, and the varied insights have broadened my musical horizons.

Probably 90-95% "new music" - ie newly acquired CDs, although some of those could be albums originally released from 1970's to 2010's.

Occasionally I root out older discs from my collection, usually older albums by an artist that has just released a new album which I have on order. For example, while I was waiting for delivery of The Flower King's "Islands" I listed to much of their back catalogue.

Alas....I am hopelessly stuck in the past.

So you don't listen to anything except prog? I'm not judging. I'm just curious because I would think that would be somewhat unusual(although not unheard of). 

Please don't take my prog badge..

I listen to almost 100% prog - life is too short to listen to anything else!!

I agree. 

I listen to Madonna too, and I even voted for her True Blue album in a recent "prog" poll.

 

Me too, although modern jazz to me means any jazz from the last fifty years.

ProgArchives has enabled me to become the prog-o-phile that I have become; new artists help fuel the fire.

Could you list maybe six of these modern jazz bands you think are the among the best you listen to? I don't mean avant prog jazz but more or less pure jazz artists or at least ones who could be categorized as jazz. If you include fusion with that then that's ok too. Thanks.

Ah good. I'm glad I'm not alone in that