For the past couple of years I seem to have become more and more addicted to music. Since I first realised how to get lots of it for free I've been collecting huge archives of songs of all kinds of different music. It never used to be so bad. I would get a new album or a few singles and listen to them and if I liked them I'd add them to my general playlist which would rotate songs randomly. Then I found methods to get more music, faster than I could really listen to it. So now I have a huge waiting list of music to listen to, and yet I'm still pre-occupied with adding to the list rather than listening to any of it.

I think my central reasoning is that what I'm doing is stocking up on resources that will last me throughout my life, and the opportunity to get it so easily may not always be available.

I've also begun to realise that the only reason I think I'm better than other people is to do with my musical taste. It isn't because I'm more intelligent or know more than them (which is usually true too), but because I have better musical taste. I'm tempted to think that musical taste is entirely subjective, that of course everybody thinks that they have good musical taste like they think they have a good sense of humour, and that therefore the evidence that you believe either of these ought to make you doubt them. Most people believe them and are wrong, so therefore my belief in the same is probably wrong too. But at the same time, I've never come across somebody who has the same attitude to me. I don't think that's because I'm particularly arrogant. I think it's more likely that most people don't claim to be better in virtue of their musical taste because they would admit that they had not really been very moved by music anyway. They're modest and they've got a lot to be modest about. If I came across somebody who shared my attitude then I would want to know what they'd been listening to in order to have such an attitude, and as a result I'd possibly discover new good music and have more justification for my own attitude.

One genre of music that I'm currently not very interested in is classical music. I suppose some sophisticats would instantly make disparaging remarks about my musical taste were they to learn that. I know a few classical pieces, a few names of pieces and a few names of composers but I think the only case where they all overlap is Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. I don't think I can identify the tune, composer and name of any other piece. I believe it's simply a mistake that classical music is superior to modern music, or even foundational to it. I'm mostly only interested in music that contains the two greatest instruments. Firstly, the guitar. It's just so much more versatile than a piano. You can get it to do far more. A piano is just a glorified drumkit. Secondly, there is no instrument that can express as much emotion as the human voice. and because it's so natural, there's nobody who can play any musical instrument as well as most people can sing. I think that people who prefer classical music to modern pop are probably quite emotionally stunted, to the point of solipsism.