I do not come to RYM and fill lists and reviews, as often as I would like. I do own or have owned much more music that the one I have commented until now, and I haven't even written a single review for RYM :(.

In fact, I do not listen to music as compulsively as I have done in the former 30 years. The lack of time, the family, the hiperavailability of music, which let us own much more music than the one we will be able to carefully listen in our own life.... In a way, it seems that music is becoming less and less essential in my life.

But… I still like it, still listen to it, and still make it from time to time.... and as a result, appreciate RYM quite a lot.
Even if I’m still receiving the WIRE magazine every month, I have to admit that I don't find time to read it, and that I'm not very up to date with the music of today.... I am very scarcely astonished by something very recent and, both as a cause and as a consequence, I tend to come back to "my classics". But I understand of course that this is really my problem, and not at all the fault of today’s music!

I have previously included a short (and chronological) list of some of my favourite musicians. Some of them (many of them in fact) may not be among my favourite anymore, but they were important for me for enough time, so that they shaped the way I still appreciate music today.

And as informative (or even more) as the list of the ones I like, would be the ones that I don't like so much. So I will now put some names I know I should be supposed to love. Everyone with a wide, informed and "good" taste for music loves them... but I don't know why, they have never moved me enough (perhaps one of the reasons could be that, English not being my mother language, I do not pay so much attention to the lyrics). So here are (in an approximate chronological order) some of the “classics” that do not move me so much (no matter how hard I’ve tried!!!): Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, the Kinks, the Who, Van Morrison, Tim Buckley, Nick Drake, Neil Young, Led Zeppelin, Roxy Music, Can, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Weather Report, Ramones, Television, Public Image Ltd., Joy Division, Sonic Youth, Talk Talk, Kate Bush, Pixies…. (and I’ll stop it here, at least for the moment…).

If you check my favorite ones, you’ll see that I’ve been much more jazz than rock oriented; but I do not like 99% of contemporary jazz, perhaps because I feel that most of it does not have too many new things to say. In essence, I tend to like music that surprises me, that sounds new to me. Most of the contemporary music I listen nowadays to, is therefore not jazz, neither rock. I tend to listen more to electronic music, especially electronic music that mixes with jazz or improvisation. I guess this is where my own music (although I’m quite lazy at composing or performing) would also fit. In case you would want to check, here’s one of my groups from the early 2000s: FMOL Trio.