Listening habits: What's your percentage of new music to old music?

[luisterpaul]

...for lack of a better term...

In other words, over the course of a month or so, how much time do you spend listening to new music as compared to stuff you've known forever / favorites / etc.? Rather, do you go through cycles where for months on end you'll only listen to music you're already familiar with? Do you spend the greater part of the year exploring bands / artists you haven't heard before? How (more or less) does it break down for you?

I tend to try out stuff I haven't heard before, when I can find it. A long time ago I got tired of listening to the same old stuff I had in my cd collection, which pretty much mirrored the radio stations I was listening to at the time. Then I discovered how many bands were out there, recording very good music, who weren't getting played on my radio stations. Since then I've become a bit of a junky, wanting to hear new music more frequently than I was interested in listening to bands I had considered favorites for years.

So, I tend to listen to music I'm not as familiar with, rather than going back to known favorites. What about you?

[twentyshots]

hmmm. maybe it' 70% new, 30% old for me. listening to internet radio several hours a week, i hear a lot of repeated stuff that's newer, so that is a little harder to classify. it kind of depends too if i hit a streak of new duds or not; if nothing is sounding good after sampling a few new albums in a row and i might just say fuck it and listen to 40 cramps songs in a row.

[cyclone]

Probably 80% old, 20% new.

I can no longer ever go through phases where I only listen to brand new stuff because I dislike so much of it.

[Predot]

At work, I listen the entire day and almost exclusively to new stuff. I used to simply flip woxy on and listen, now it's a grab bag of radio stations, blogs, new releases on luisterpaal/spinner, etc.

To and from work (hour each way), CDs (though a little sports radio as well).

Ipod listening (about 2/3 hours per week) when walking the dog, running, waiting around at the kids' activities, etc. Ipod is mostly new (stuff downloaded from blogs, primarily).

[luisterpaul]

At work, I listen the entire day and almost exclusively to new stuff. I used to simply flip woxy on and listen, now it's a grab bag of radio stations, blogs, new releases on luisterpaal/spinner, etc.

My post-woxy daytime listening habits are much the same.

[Cockney Rebel]

99.5% old. 0.5% new.

Most everything I hear that is 'new' is little more than rehashed 'old'.

[Butter]

At work, I listen mostly to old stuff I have on my computer already (though occasionally I will get new albums on there, but my patience with them is short).  I have been listening increasingly to some of the wealth of comedy podcasts out there lately.

In the car, I nearly exclusively listen to the "new indie rock" station on satellite radio, so that's about an hour and a half each day... so that ratio is something like 10-15% new music, depending on how much I flip away from the "new indie rock" station.

[MissKitty]

Probably 70 percent new and 30 percent old, although I'll get on a kick and listen to old playlists now and then, usually when I'm working out and using the iPod, which I don't update very often because it's such a PITA.

[Jen]

I would say I go through cycles.  When woxy was on the air, it was listening to them all day long at work so very little old stuff. Currently, I am a little burned out seeking out new music so I have fallen back on my iTunes library. I have also noticed a very heavy British artist concentration, always my first love.

I did notice that finally Luisterpaal had some stuff up there I might care to give a listen to so have done that for a little variety. And I listened luisterpaul's new spotify playlist and liked quite a few of those bands so now I have new bands to research.

[luisterpaul]

And I listened luisterpaul's new spotify playlist and liked quite a few of those bands so now I have new bands to research.

Hey, thanks! I was especially fond of this month's installment. 

[virgil p colon]

I would say that I am 80/20 new to old. I love finding/listening to new music. Most of the old stuff I listen to is when iTunes or Spotify is shuffling.

[Zafer Kaya]

Depends how you look at it.

When I'm at work I pretty much always play new stuff.  I try as a minimum to give four new albums that came out that week at least two full plays.  The problem is that when I'm at work I'm often busy doing other things so I'm really only vaguely listening.  Which means that unfortunately a lot of stuff slips by even though technically I "listened" to it.

If you count that stuff, then I'm like 90/10.  If you only count the times when I'm really actively listening it's more like 60/40.

[Buzzstein]

I mostly listen to new stuff. Maybe a 75/25 ratio new/old. I need to remind myself to work on listening to more older stuff I haven't heard before though.

[Dan]

These days it's probably 15% new. It used to be so much more. Other than WOXY's disappearance, I don't have a single excuse or reasoning for the changeover.

[frizgolf]

It cycles. When I was younger I noticed that good music seems to come out in spurts about every three years or so. It still seems to be that way to me, although the spacing varies from a couple years out to five or so. I honestly can't remember a two or three year period in my life where I thought "damn, this has been a good couple years for music". It seems that whenever a buzz band or sound comes along, everyone starts to imitate. And that's when I fall back on the older stuff.
Right now I'm waiting for the next big thing. Haven't felt like there's been a breakthrough year for a few now.
That said, I'd say I'm about 50/50 with old and new. I'll go on spurts of either for varied lengths of time but I always fall back to that 50/50. There's just so much older music I'm still getting used to. Is older, unfamiliar music "new" in this sense?