What music you into?
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What music you into?
Ok lets go back to the time we were all spotty and adolescent and think about this question. I now find it as easy as it was 5 or 10 years ago to say Smiths, Morrissey, happy mondays, orbital and joy division.
What I am trying to say as I play my favorite MP3's, is that music tastes are logged in the most the most formative times of your life. Well that is what works for me and I am starting to enjoy talking to new friends and banging on about "the last nights on Mordling street, goodbye house forever; I never stole a happy hour around here" ah sorry went into lyric land but remember being 17 and every lyric ripping inside your being?
No song does that now.
Ok slightly drunken rambling of mine is trying to say - " Can any music that you hear post in the formative years have as much impact as it did then and if so how?"
What I am trying to say as I play my favorite MP3's, is that music tastes are logged in the most the most formative times of your life. Well that is what works for me and I am starting to enjoy talking to new friends and banging on about "the last nights on Mordling street, goodbye house forever; I never stole a happy hour around here" ah sorry went into lyric land but remember being 17 and every lyric ripping inside your being?
No song does that now.
Ok slightly drunken rambling of mine is trying to say - " Can any music that you hear post in the formative years have as much impact as it did then and if so how?"
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Nah mate,
My musical tastes have fossilised around 1973-5. Sad innit?
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My musical tastes have fossilised around 1973-5. Sad innit?

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as much impact? prolly not - cos when i was about 15 I thought music was everything ...since then I grew up
I still have favs from my youth (stranglers, the police (gives away my age there)) and other people's youth (rainbow, led zep) but I my tastes have changed to include folk music, which I would not have considered in my youth - but influences me alot now, including going to festivals, playing it myself etc, and its only since I reached my thirties that I developed a taste for 'pop rock' - (fountains of wayne, teenage fanclub, weezer etc)
I am still developing my taste for music and probably wont stop until I peg it....but it does nto have the same impact any more as frankly I have other interests to occupy my time these days.
I still have favs from my youth (stranglers, the police (gives away my age there)) and other people's youth (rainbow, led zep) but I my tastes have changed to include folk music, which I would not have considered in my youth - but influences me alot now, including going to festivals, playing it myself etc, and its only since I reached my thirties that I developed a taste for 'pop rock' - (fountains of wayne, teenage fanclub, weezer etc)
I am still developing my taste for music and probably wont stop until I peg it....but it does nto have the same impact any more as frankly I have other interests to occupy my time these days.
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The genres that I am into seem to change over time.
When I was 15 it was 1995 and the peak of Britpop, I was the ultimate britpop kid, I bought the blur and oasis singles
I liked loads of those bands Pulp, Garbage, Travis (the early years), The Bluetones. I was also listening alot to the music my brother played, the records I nicked off of him were The Cure, The Velvet Underground, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds.
My brother was in a band so I ended up going to loads of free gigs and festivals when he was playing and saw hundreds of bands (I went to connect festival this year and realised how out of touch I really am)
I was in a band/ singer/ songwriter/ thingy for a while and I love playing accoustic guitar so I play covers of odd songs which I think are just fabulously written including Back for Good - Take That, Last Christmas - Wham, Leaving on a Jet Plane - John Denver.
When I fell in love and didn't have the balls to tell my best friend I loved him, I listened to The Devine Comedy and Coldplay (first album, a year before anyone else seemed to know who they were), almost constantly.
When I made my wedding dress I listened to Ella Fitzgerald, Tony Bennet, The Rat Pack and Norah Jones. We had a jazz band at the wedding, It Had To Be You was our first dance.
When E was born Mornings Eleven by The Magic Numbers was on the radio, I used to sing it to her alot, along with King of the Road - Roger Miller and Dream a Little Dream - Mamas and Papas
I have gone through my phases of exhaulting the praises of people who I think are fantastic song writers though their music seems crap, mostly Billy Joel, Elton John and Dolly Parton.
In the past few years I have been enjoying the Magic Numbers and Arcade Fire.
My CD collection is huge, I get annoyed because my ipod only holds 1000 songs, it is just not enough. I still get emotional about most of the music I have enjoyed over the years. Sometimes because I remember where I was when I first heard it, danced to it, sang it. Sometimes its because it stirs up fresh emotions in me, which I had burried for some reason.
Oh I have rambled on
, I like my music. 
When I was 15 it was 1995 and the peak of Britpop, I was the ultimate britpop kid, I bought the blur and oasis singles

My brother was in a band so I ended up going to loads of free gigs and festivals when he was playing and saw hundreds of bands (I went to connect festival this year and realised how out of touch I really am)
I was in a band/ singer/ songwriter/ thingy for a while and I love playing accoustic guitar so I play covers of odd songs which I think are just fabulously written including Back for Good - Take That, Last Christmas - Wham, Leaving on a Jet Plane - John Denver.
When I fell in love and didn't have the balls to tell my best friend I loved him, I listened to The Devine Comedy and Coldplay (first album, a year before anyone else seemed to know who they were), almost constantly.
When I made my wedding dress I listened to Ella Fitzgerald, Tony Bennet, The Rat Pack and Norah Jones. We had a jazz band at the wedding, It Had To Be You was our first dance.
When E was born Mornings Eleven by The Magic Numbers was on the radio, I used to sing it to her alot, along with King of the Road - Roger Miller and Dream a Little Dream - Mamas and Papas
I have gone through my phases of exhaulting the praises of people who I think are fantastic song writers though their music seems crap, mostly Billy Joel, Elton John and Dolly Parton.
In the past few years I have been enjoying the Magic Numbers and Arcade Fire.
My CD collection is huge, I get annoyed because my ipod only holds 1000 songs, it is just not enough. I still get emotional about most of the music I have enjoyed over the years. Sometimes because I remember where I was when I first heard it, danced to it, sang it. Sometimes its because it stirs up fresh emotions in me, which I had burried for some reason.
Oh I have rambled on


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Absolutely love music of all sorts and eras.........
Was a teenager in the 60's........lucky me! - Dylan, Beatles, Stones, Hendrix, Zeppelin, Floyd, Santana - Woodstock etc.........then there was the folkie stage - Donovan et al
(have fond memories of a wonderful summer when "Gift from a flower to a garden" seemed to always be playing) - Jazz Bach by Jacques Loussier
(sensational)...........
Ever since then have enjoyed all sorts of music - but find that some bands just leave me stone cold - the likes of Coldkeanepatrol...................just awful, painful angst-ridden, tuneless, out of tune drivel! (Are they all castrato? - the "music" has no balls whatsoever...)
Latterly I've been really "getting into" the reggae genre - I didn't know what "dub" was until I discovered it on the Avalon stage at Glasto in 2002, and have been making up for lost time
It's such a refreshing change - it's not mind music, but body music - hits you down in the lower chakras, and makes them boogie!
Other notable recent finds - Zion Train (best gig of 2004), St Germain
-crazy french jazz that boogies, and one of Bob Marley's sons with some of the old backing band (superbluous) - Bonnie Raitt live (stunning).........
I've forgotten to list so many - King Crimson, Yes, Chicken Shack, Cream, Blind Faith.......
And can still be reduced to tears by Bruch's violin concerto properly played (not by that musical vandal "Kennedy")

Was a teenager in the 60's........lucky me! - Dylan, Beatles, Stones, Hendrix, Zeppelin, Floyd, Santana - Woodstock etc.........then there was the folkie stage - Donovan et al
(have fond memories of a wonderful summer when "Gift from a flower to a garden" seemed to always be playing) - Jazz Bach by Jacques Loussier
(sensational)...........
Ever since then have enjoyed all sorts of music - but find that some bands just leave me stone cold - the likes of Coldkeanepatrol...................just awful, painful angst-ridden, tuneless, out of tune drivel! (Are they all castrato? - the "music" has no balls whatsoever...)

Latterly I've been really "getting into" the reggae genre - I didn't know what "dub" was until I discovered it on the Avalon stage at Glasto in 2002, and have been making up for lost time

It's such a refreshing change - it's not mind music, but body music - hits you down in the lower chakras, and makes them boogie!

Other notable recent finds - Zion Train (best gig of 2004), St Germain
-crazy french jazz that boogies, and one of Bob Marley's sons with some of the old backing band (superbluous) - Bonnie Raitt live (stunning).........
I've forgotten to list so many - King Crimson, Yes, Chicken Shack, Cream, Blind Faith.......
And can still be reduced to tears by Bruch's violin concerto properly played (not by that musical vandal "Kennedy")

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I think it is part of being middle aged (at 44, I think I have to admit this
) that you look back with nostalgia at the music of your yoof. I have recently started buying stuff on CD that I originally had on vinyl - Kate Bush, Joni Mitchell, John Martyn, Nick Drake...but there are lots of musicians that I enjoy now too, and my kids have got me into musicals - something I would have considered as uncool as it was possible to get at their age!
And I quite like folky stuff too, now - not the bearded man with finger in ear stuff as much as proper celtic music and rock influenced folkish stuff like the Waterboys.
But no, you are right - music rarely has quite the same effect as it did when I was young and carefree...

And I quite like folky stuff too, now - not the bearded man with finger in ear stuff as much as proper celtic music and rock influenced folkish stuff like the Waterboys.
But no, you are right - music rarely has quite the same effect as it did when I was young and carefree...
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am 21 now and my teen years were spent listening to the tail end of rock that me and my friend caught off his older brother:
Metallica, nivana, red hot chillie peppers, motorhead, meatloaf,
lead into more modern stuff - general poprock from radio - some of which make me tear up coz ive lost that part of my child hood and cant go back.
even the odd emo/punk song from now that elicits the same nostalgia - greenday evernesence + coupple of others
Have always listened to clasicall bach vivaldi orff some chopan and beathoven (sp?) I love the Carmina Burana by Orff, + the rings cycle
Also grew up on a diet of pink floyd, led zep, bob dylan, moody blues, donovan, the byrds, the beatles, Credance Clearwater Revival ect.
Still listen to and love them.
Pre and now post teen i love ethnic music - celtic primarily, but am also a bagpipes fan.
like SOAD The flaming lips, Perfect circle and modern Alt/trance music and my brother and girlfriend have both influenced me toward some hard rock/metal like Disturbed, Manson, Rob Zombie
I could go on . . . but wont. Basicaly is it isnt Teen pop or Gangsta i will tollerate it. Im a real music mongeral

Metallica, nivana, red hot chillie peppers, motorhead, meatloaf,
lead into more modern stuff - general poprock from radio - some of which make me tear up coz ive lost that part of my child hood and cant go back.
even the odd emo/punk song from now that elicits the same nostalgia - greenday evernesence + coupple of others
Have always listened to clasicall bach vivaldi orff some chopan and beathoven (sp?) I love the Carmina Burana by Orff, + the rings cycle
Also grew up on a diet of pink floyd, led zep, bob dylan, moody blues, donovan, the byrds, the beatles, Credance Clearwater Revival ect.
Still listen to and love them.
Pre and now post teen i love ethnic music - celtic primarily, but am also a bagpipes fan.
like SOAD The flaming lips, Perfect circle and modern Alt/trance music and my brother and girlfriend have both influenced me toward some hard rock/metal like Disturbed, Manson, Rob Zombie
I could go on . . . but wont. Basicaly is it isnt Teen pop or Gangsta i will tollerate it. Im a real music mongeral

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I could write a personal thesis about this, but I won't.
I will say, however, that when I was young I seemed to form a sort of 'relationship' with the music I listened to. This may have been because an LP cost £2.25 and my pocket money was five bob a week, so I bought one record occasionally, and played it lots; it meant getting to know that music intimately, and some of it stays with me to this day.
These days, with music played in every shop, lift and dentist's waiting room, with a musical accompaniment to the sports results, to every advert and company ident, with dozens of music radio options (including on the internet), music has become much more of a textureless morass. That's not the fault of the music, but of the use it is put to. Ironically there is now so much music about that I suspect we don't actually listen to most of it. I find it harder to relate to much of it - alas it becomes meaningless and often an irritant.
In general, though, I would say anything except opera and rap - both of which sound awful to my sensibilities (with the odd, very rare exceptions). But these days I find I am retreating into more traditional music - 'roots' and 'world' music as the marketeers would have it; music that pays allegiance to traditions and cultures. Listening to this has given an eye opening perspective to everything - I can clearly see now how there is a straight line which runs through so much, from the minstrels and bar-room balladeers of history, through blues and jazz, linking Bert Jansch and Jimmy Page to Ali Farka Toure, running through Woody Guthrie, Nick Drake, John Martyn, Billy Bragg, The Pogues, Eliza Carthy and Ani DiFranco, linking June Tabor and Youssou N'Dour, the Beatles to Kathryn Tickell and Aimee Mann, Baaba Maal to The Clash, Carlos Santana to The Levellers, Ry Cooder to Miles Davis, and all this to the open sessions at the local folk club... It's all one music, really.
Hearing stuff live is pretty important, too. Whereas once I would covet the perfection of studio recordings, these days I'm often disappointed with CDs; studio techniques often seem to lose the vibrancy of the music. Now I find myself preferring the fallibility of an unrecorded voice, and the immediacy of the musicians, even when less than perfect.
The worst crime against music these days is perpetrated by all those Pop-Idol type programmes; not because of the type of music, but because the producers take a dozen different versions of talent, and then remould and shape it until, in its perfection, it all sounds the same. All that aspiration and youthful drive, all that individuality is crushed and replaced with a musical version of market forces. The end results are identikit finalists impossible to tell apart. The latest of these programmes is currently doing the same for classical musicians - I despaired when one of the judges came out with that hackneyed old cliche that "...there are only two types of music; good music and bad music" - well no, wrong; there is music which you like, relate to and connect with. That's it. It's not divided, but is a perspective which varies and changes. Any musical judge who thinks they can define the limits of what is 'good' has clearly missed the whole point.
Did I say I wasn't going to write that thesis? Oops.
I will say, however, that when I was young I seemed to form a sort of 'relationship' with the music I listened to. This may have been because an LP cost £2.25 and my pocket money was five bob a week, so I bought one record occasionally, and played it lots; it meant getting to know that music intimately, and some of it stays with me to this day.
These days, with music played in every shop, lift and dentist's waiting room, with a musical accompaniment to the sports results, to every advert and company ident, with dozens of music radio options (including on the internet), music has become much more of a textureless morass. That's not the fault of the music, but of the use it is put to. Ironically there is now so much music about that I suspect we don't actually listen to most of it. I find it harder to relate to much of it - alas it becomes meaningless and often an irritant.
In general, though, I would say anything except opera and rap - both of which sound awful to my sensibilities (with the odd, very rare exceptions). But these days I find I am retreating into more traditional music - 'roots' and 'world' music as the marketeers would have it; music that pays allegiance to traditions and cultures. Listening to this has given an eye opening perspective to everything - I can clearly see now how there is a straight line which runs through so much, from the minstrels and bar-room balladeers of history, through blues and jazz, linking Bert Jansch and Jimmy Page to Ali Farka Toure, running through Woody Guthrie, Nick Drake, John Martyn, Billy Bragg, The Pogues, Eliza Carthy and Ani DiFranco, linking June Tabor and Youssou N'Dour, the Beatles to Kathryn Tickell and Aimee Mann, Baaba Maal to The Clash, Carlos Santana to The Levellers, Ry Cooder to Miles Davis, and all this to the open sessions at the local folk club... It's all one music, really.
Hearing stuff live is pretty important, too. Whereas once I would covet the perfection of studio recordings, these days I'm often disappointed with CDs; studio techniques often seem to lose the vibrancy of the music. Now I find myself preferring the fallibility of an unrecorded voice, and the immediacy of the musicians, even when less than perfect.
The worst crime against music these days is perpetrated by all those Pop-Idol type programmes; not because of the type of music, but because the producers take a dozen different versions of talent, and then remould and shape it until, in its perfection, it all sounds the same. All that aspiration and youthful drive, all that individuality is crushed and replaced with a musical version of market forces. The end results are identikit finalists impossible to tell apart. The latest of these programmes is currently doing the same for classical musicians - I despaired when one of the judges came out with that hackneyed old cliche that "...there are only two types of music; good music and bad music" - well no, wrong; there is music which you like, relate to and connect with. That's it. It's not divided, but is a perspective which varies and changes. Any musical judge who thinks they can define the limits of what is 'good' has clearly missed the whole point.
Did I say I wasn't going to write that thesis? Oops.
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I second that emotion! What a great post Stew. I totally agree with the comment about the pop idol shows in particular.Chickenlady wrote:Blimey - well said, Stew. Ever thought of writing for a living??
I like all kinds of music myself... definitely agree with the comment about rap - but it means something to someone and so must be respected.
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What music you into?
Country, a few 80's and 70's faves, mostly Country though, Alabama, Reba McEntire, Mark Chesnutt, oldies by Hank williams or Johnny Cash, classic oldies like Nat King Cole's "Mona Lisa", Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, "let's Call the whole thing Off"
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mainly metal (or very early emo) although im starting to mellow out a little as i approach mid twenties and currently listening to lots of the Undercover Hippy (a little known solo artist who i met at glastonbury one year) and Forty Thieves Orkestar (another glastonbury find)
My favourite bigger bands are Muse, Gogol Bordello (never fails to make me dance), Less than Jake, Nine Inch Nails.
I also absolutely love comedy music. i adore Goldie Lookin Chain and Flight of the Conchords. always good for a giggle if you like that type of thing. (although Goldie lookin chain are a very british type of humour)
My favourite bigger bands are Muse, Gogol Bordello (never fails to make me dance), Less than Jake, Nine Inch Nails.
I also absolutely love comedy music. i adore Goldie Lookin Chain and Flight of the Conchords. always good for a giggle if you like that type of thing. (although Goldie lookin chain are a very british type of humour)




Well said Stew!
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