I threw this up in chat about a month ago and it was meet with a mixed feelings from mmmm to you are talking crap
I thought I would put it up here, do with it what you will
every music fan passes through stages while developing their musical tastes
stage 1, manufactured pop, examples: K'lee, True bliss....
stage 3, alternative pop ( or entry point music) this music has layering of particular genre or has had a label attached, Rubicon, Blindspott,
stage 4, genre attachment, tastes have developed from entry point now to exploration, appreciation of and identification with a style of music, often excluding music styles out side of the chosen genre. i.e. if it's on the radio it must be crap
stage 5, broadening tastes, through exploring a certain genre, realisation that music is not linear but a woven tapestry and styles of music merge and cross over from one to the other
stage 6, total appreciation, a love of music in all it's forms and is able to get pleasure from it despite labels and earlier preconceptionsjust as long as it is good.
"there must be a surface for there to be depth"
so what I'm saying is there is a need for pop, it is an essential step along to road in being a music fan.
*kisses monitor* its soooooo good to be home, missed you guys more than I will confess. Atleast I wasn't reported as AWOL.... hate to think what the resident MP nastas999 would have in store for me.. Get me up to speed, has DVSgal had a boy or a girl? Has the true identity of 'spike' been discovered? Has the guru Stefan started a cult yet? I tried to do my homework and catchup but alas my attention span shortcircuted.
Yes valid comments there but not ALWAYS applicable to everyone. I myself listened to the likes of Queen etc during intermediate tainted with souunds of nirvana...i mean who didnt. I then started to listen to the doors, the beatles (pop), led zep, deep purple, jimi hendrix, as well as stuff like sublime, ash, dead flowers, the feelers (god forbid) and that kind of saga. Then I found myself listening to hip hop...snoop, mase and bone thugs and everything. now days, whislt still largely hip hop, it has elements of jazz & soul, not so mainstream. But, largely new zealand music...the jazz, the hip hop, dub, reggae...its all too beautiful.
But yes I dont feel that I for one have gone through listening to mainstream music terribly. I never really used to listen to the radio when growing up. just my parents records or my big bros tapes. and i still dont now, just Radio Active...but thats not mainstream radio. So yes what you have said is true. it hink what happens ultimately is that we accept heaps of other genres, and start to appreciate the talent involved. but i think that taste sometimes comes hand in hand with grwing up too...
Yeah, definately not true in many cases. I've never been a pop fan. Maybe an odd song here or there, but not near enough to be part of a stage or phase or whatever. I think I'd be closest to stage 4 though. & If you say so, I would have began at 3, definately not everyone would go through 1 & 2.
mmmmm... def something along those lines - I always relate it to school or rather education...
stage 0.5 preschool / primary
Listens to what your parents/older siblings are into.
In my case it was my parents LPs - The Eagles, Abba, the nutcracker suite, the silent one soundtrack and some stylee bing crosby type crooners and my sister with Rod Stewart, The Mockers, the kinks and the beatles
stage 1 primary school intermediate junior high
def manufactured pop cos everyone at school was watching tv and learning about popculture so we were into whatever we were spoonfed mel & kim, MJ, kylie, commadores
stage 2 highschool - own tastes start to develop - music to party to, music to have an identity crisis to - led zep, the cure, rem, janes addiction, led zep, nirvana, led zep, and did I mention led zep??guess I had more parties than crisies.
stage 3 uni -supa nova new music explosion
then I think it can either go 2 ways
stage 4 a - implosion - get a job, get older, like the same stuff you liked when you were a youf, hate eminem and anything else your kids will listen to.
or
stage 4 b - carry on the path of musical discovery and hopefully do a John Peel and supernova till your dying day, or deafness. that would be cool, but I guess at some stage you'll still hate what your kids like - specially that stage 1 plasticcote pop
I think if we're talking stages of development, then aka's 4 - 6 are spot on, and Teina's 4b: 4a isn't really "developing" as such, although a common pattern. For various reasons, a lot simply stop listening to new stuff, unless its like what they're comfortable with. I'm more of a 4b person myself - exploring electronica, hiphop, free noise... - but still hate Eminem, don't hate "young" person's music so much as remain astonished at how they're being re-sold the wheel as something new and big.
I had a fairly atypical upbringing, so skipped aka's 1-3 altogether: we never had music in the house when I was a kid that ever spoke to me (unless you count Flick the little fire engine, Sundays on the National Programme) - a solid diet of Merv Smith and 1zb, so we had Sadie the Cleaning Lady etc! The other kids at school, I don't remember any of them talking about music either - we were in a pretty remote country area. It wasn't until I got to about 15 that I started listening to music, and Pink Floyd was the big name of the time, along with Dire Straights. Abandoned the latter fairly quickly, but have dug into Pink Floyd's (and Syd Barrett's) back catalogue over time.
I guess I did hit a period of pop taste - Air Supply, Toto come to mind - but the main force in acquiring music was the bargain bin in the music shop. Rock would have been my main genre, although it took me a long time to start looking at the key bands of the genre, still have some way to go.
1st of all: (stuff my parents listened to) The Eagles, Eric Clapton, Simon and Garfunkel, Pink Floyd etc.
The I went through the shitty primary/intermediate pop stage where you basically liked whatever everyone else did.
Now (high school) I listen to a variety of different artists and styles but I have to say I mainly like rock. I don't usually listen to dance/techno stuff or pop (except maybe goodshirt). :D
Drugs or not I really fucking hated the Doors when I was a teenager. Morrison fans thought he was so insightful yet nobody could tell my why "come on baby light my fire" was any more worthwhile than Paul Stanley's "put your hand in my pocket/grab onto my rocket".
Reaching your hand with the cold, sudden fury of a divine messenger.
Let me tell you about heartache and the loss of god,
Wandering, wandering in hopeless night.
Out here in the perimeter there are no stars,
Out here we are stoned
Immaculate.
a little more insightful than pocket and rocket? a clue to Doors appreciation is in the second to last line.
I went and did a little research the recording I had of la woman was pressed on orange vinyl... from what I can gather it was available only in the states so how on earth I ended up with a copy at 14 I don't know.... but one thing is for sure no way at that age I was under the influence.
I would agree that Aka is close, though it's by no means a strict rule. I reckon it just follows a pattern of moving towards a greater complexity while we try to find that "thing", that sound, that resonance that is just right. People have tendancy to get bored with things and move on, well put it aside for awhile anyway. There is something we are looking for, and we find a piece of it here, and a part of it there. Some things resonate a little louder within us than others, and when that happens we fall head over heels in love with it, but after awhile you start to notice what it lacks more than what it has. If you don't follow all the avenues and sample as much as you can then you wont be able to see the big picture, to pick out that pattern, or that common cross thread in that (as Aka says) "woven tapestry". I really feel sorry for someone who sticks to one track(pardon the pun) or avenue. You get no perspective. No genre of music completely captures that resonace, you have to find the pieces all over. I haven't found all the pieces by a long shot yet and isn't that beautiful!? It means I get to keep searching, keep listening, keep being surprised when I hear something new. I get to meet other people on the crosspaths, who can point me in the direction of something new and good. The experienced travellers always seem so wise.
I suppose that is why I have such a distaste for manufactured pop. It feels like someone trying to present the same thing over and over again in a different package. Nothing new comes out of it. No insight, no surprise. Pop is the xmas fruit cake of the music world.
Don't get me wrong, you can always go back and enjoy stuff. If you are allowed to leave it for awhile, and come back and appreciate it on your own time. Like a good book thats been sitting on the shelf for awhile. You can remeber how you stumbled on that sound, and what other paths it opened up for you. And time is the best sieve. You really notice the stuff that made an impact when you look over your music collection and see the old, long time friends.
I hope I keep finding new stuff I like til I die, I'll most definitely keep looking.
Sorry for the length of this reply. I meant to say, " I agree". G'night.
This site had funny arguments for convincing others your taste in music is better than theirs.
(ps, yes I know funkymonkey was joking, but you know I don't like being categorised Aka. Shame on you;) )
0-16
Pop. I listened to lots of pop music on the radio, but didn't buy much because I didn't feel much of a connection to it.
14-17
Hip-hop (yeah, there's overlap). I discovered the Native Tongue hip-hop artists (De La Soul, Jungle Brothers, etc), then moved onto gangsta rap. I started buying more music because I was listening to stuff that wasn't on the radio and stuff that I wanted to hear often.
17-22
Alterno-pop. I started off going down the Nirvana path, but soon veered and discovered less popular artist. I decided that rock 'n' roll could really save your soul. I also got into those alterno classics like the Pixies. Started going out and seeing rock shows. Also learned to play the guitar and became disillusioned with the apparent simplicity of rock.
23-25
Retro and Electronic. I didn't buy much new music. What I did buy was that electronic influence pop and rock that was so popular in the mid-late '90s. I didn't get much satisfaction.
26-now
Many and varied. I spent about three months watching tons of music television. I rediscovered the top 40, live music and how cool bad-arse guitar bands really are. Music is making me feel good again.
yeah well mine is not very long because i am not very old, but:
0-8 - straight out top 40 pop music. i had no idea what it was called or who sang it, i just listened to the stuff people in my year lip-synced to in school assemblies. i wasn't that interested.
9-10 - Still pop, but now i knew what it was called. i was a pretty hardout 91zm fan. i loved the spice girls.
11-12 - Went through a soft/christian rock stage. creed, live, etc. i hated all 'teenybopper' bands and pledged my life to killing nsync. this is the only part of my 'musical history' i am really ashamed of. listened to the edge + channel z.
13 - Got into placebo, ash, muse, new order (= turning point!). Realised the stupidity of creed and live. Started to like radiohead. listened to channel z.
14 (now) - Stopped liking all above bands (with the exception of new order) and discovered sonic youth and carriage h. from there got into joy division, mogwai, bailterspace, hdu, patti smith, television, augie march, the lucksmiths etc. stopped listening to radio almost completely and also stopped really hating 'teenybopper' bands. if i do listen to radio i listen to rdu.
I'll guess I'll do this
0-9 - don't really remember, anything popular I guess
10-13 - I really liked Micheal Jackson, SuperGroove, Guns n' Roses, MC Hammer, 3 The Hard Way, Naughty By Nature
14-17 - stopped liking above artists except maybe for SuperGroove, starting to like the bands I like now - MetallicA, Nirvana, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Foo Fighters, The Offspring, Pearl Jam, Green Day, Shihad etc
18-19 - starting to actually liking the 'older' bands, (I use to think, oh they old, so they're suck) great 70s bands like - Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Queen, Jimi Hendrix, Cream, etc. Also starting to like more 'metal' bands
20 (now) - To know about the lesser known Kiwi bands than Shihad, Weta, HLAH, like Bands - Marystaple, 8 Foot Sativa, D4, Datsuns. But still haven't heard much of those yet, or any other NZ bands. But seeing these bands on M2 have helped.
I will aways hate chessy bubble gum pop music and laugh at all of them!!
Oh yeah between 0-9 country music was the big thing in my family, that how and where I started to play drums. I didn't really like the music that much, but some of it was ok. When I started playing drums when I was 6, I played in country music clubs, it helped me be a better drummer and play with other and better musican's.
I'm doing less of the country scene now days, but can't deny it!!
0-9 - fleetwood mac, electric light orchestra, dire straits... whatever my parents were listening to.
10-15 - i got into metallica, metallica, and more metallica. i also liked some of the popular pop/rock music that was out at the time.
16-17 - i started playing bass and got into bands like iron maiden, testament, and funnily enough, the beatles!
17-19 - i hung around in the goth scene a little, and got into bands like nine inch nails, skinny puppy, and the older stabbing westward stuff. at the same time, i launched myself into new zealand music and latched onto marystaple, carriage h, big block (RIP!), etc etc.
all that being said, i still love fleetwood mac, the beatles, skinny puppy, pitchshifter.... i seem to be collecting musical tastes rather than having them change! the only music i dont like so much anymore, is some of the more pop-like stuff that i listened to when i was 12.
young: Dad's stuff mostly. Queen, Elton John, Travelling Wilbourrys (spelt that wrong I know), Dire Straits, Prince, Eagles, Beatles, Crowded House, Aretha Franklin, The Pointer Sisters... Own stuff like Michael Jackson, A-Ha, UB40, whatever was on Pepsi RTR. NKOTB, Bobby Brown, MC Hammer, Vanilla Ice, Inner Circle, Bob Marley, Four Tops...
fourth form to seventh form: Pearl Jam, Fugees, Supergroove, Shihad, Soundgarden, Metallica, Korn, Busta Rhymes, Muttonbirds, Fear Factory, Gravity Kills, Bentley Rhythm Ace, NIN, Radiohead, Stabbing Westward, System of a Down, Bjork, Finley Quaye, DJ Shadow, Daft Punk...
uni onwards: Soul Coughing, The Dismemberment Plan, Fugazi, Neil Young, Roni Size, The Strokes, Refused, (International) Noise Conspiracy, The Hives, The Faint, Nick Drake, Dan the Automator, heaps of NZ stuff, heaps of other bands.
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I threw this up in chat about a month ...
I threw this up in chat about a month ago and it was meet with a mixed feelings from mmmm to you are talking crap
I thought I would put it up here, do with it what you will
every music fan passes through stages while developing their musical tastes
stage 1, manufactured pop, examples: K'lee, True bliss....
stage 2, pop, Zed, Feelers, Sellar*, Goodshirt ....
stage 3, alternative pop ( or entry point music) this music has layering of particular genre or has had a label attached, Rubicon, Blindspott,
stage 4, genre attachment, tastes have developed from entry point now to exploration, appreciation of and identification with a style of music, often excluding music styles out side of the chosen genre. i.e. if it's on the radio it must be crap
stage 5, broadening tastes, through exploring a certain genre, realisation that music is not linear but a woven tapestry and styles of music merge and cross over from one to the other
stage 6, total appreciation, a love of music in all it's forms and is able to get pleasure from it despite labels and earlier preconceptionsjust as long as it is good.
"there must be a surface for there to be depth"
so what I'm saying is there is a need for pop, it is an essential step along to road in being a music fan.
Tut tut....*sighs* mortals, when are ...
Tut tut....*sighs* mortals, when are you gonna stop trying to put everything in boxes..*winks* Hey Aka... Guess who's back?
*Aka starts running round the room in ...
*Aka starts running round the room in pure delight, u had been noted as MIA, welcome home.
would seem that your whole system has ...
would seem that your whole system has not been restored????????
*kisses monitor* its soooooo good to be ...
*kisses monitor* its soooooo good to be home, missed you guys more than I will confess. Atleast I wasn't reported as AWOL.... hate to think what the resident MP nastas999 would have in store for me.. Get me up to speed, has DVSgal had a boy or a girl? Has the true identity of 'spike' been discovered? Has the guru Stefan started a cult yet? I tried to do my homework and catchup but alas my attention span shortcircuted.
Yes valid comments there but not ALWAYS ...
Yes valid comments there but not ALWAYS applicable to everyone. I myself listened to the likes of Queen etc during intermediate tainted with souunds of nirvana...i mean who didnt. I then started to listen to the doors, the beatles (pop), led zep, deep purple, jimi hendrix, as well as stuff like sublime, ash, dead flowers, the feelers (god forbid) and that kind of saga. Then I found myself listening to hip hop...snoop, mase and bone thugs and everything. now days, whislt still largely hip hop, it has elements of jazz & soul, not so mainstream. But, largely new zealand music...the jazz, the hip hop, dub, reggae...its all too beautiful.
But yes I dont feel that I for one have gone through listening to mainstream music terribly. I never really used to listen to the radio when growing up. just my parents records or my big bros tapes. and i still dont now, just Radio Active...but thats not mainstream radio. So yes what you have said is true. it hink what happens ultimately is that we accept heaps of other genres, and start to appreciate the talent involved. but i think that taste sometimes comes hand in hand with grwing up too...
Yeah, definately not true in many ...
Yeah, definately not true in many cases. I've never been a pop fan. Maybe an odd song here or there, but not near enough to be part of a stage or phase or whatever. I think I'd be closest to stage 4 though. & If you say so, I would have began at 3, definately not everyone would go through 1 & 2.
mmmmm... def something along those ...
mmmmm... def something along those lines - I always relate it to school or rather education...
stage 0.5 preschool / primary
Listens to what your parents/older siblings are into.
In my case it was my parents LPs - The Eagles, Abba, the nutcracker suite, the silent one soundtrack and some stylee bing crosby type crooners and my sister with Rod Stewart, The Mockers, the kinks and the beatles
stage 1 primary school intermediate junior high
def manufactured pop cos everyone at school was watching tv and learning about popculture so we were into whatever we were spoonfed mel & kim, MJ, kylie, commadores
stage 2 highschool - own tastes start to develop - music to party to, music to have an identity crisis to - led zep, the cure, rem, janes addiction, led zep, nirvana, led zep, and did I mention led zep??guess I had more parties than crisies.
stage 3 uni -supa nova new music explosion
then I think it can either go 2 ways
stage 4 a - implosion - get a job, get older, like the same stuff you liked when you were a youf, hate eminem and anything else your kids will listen to.
or
stage 4 b - carry on the path of musical discovery and hopefully do a John Peel and supernova till your dying day, or deafness. that would be cool, but I guess at some stage you'll still hate what your kids like - specially that stage 1 plasticcote pop
I think if we're talking stages of ...
I think if we're talking stages of development, then aka's 4 - 6 are spot on, and Teina's 4b: 4a isn't really "developing" as such, although a common pattern. For various reasons, a lot simply stop listening to new stuff, unless its like what they're comfortable with. I'm more of a 4b person myself - exploring electronica, hiphop, free noise... - but still hate Eminem, don't hate "young" person's music so much as remain astonished at how they're being re-sold the wheel as something new and big.
I had a fairly atypical upbringing, so skipped aka's 1-3 altogether: we never had music in the house when I was a kid that ever spoke to me (unless you count Flick the little fire engine, Sundays on the National Programme) - a solid diet of Merv Smith and 1zb, so we had Sadie the Cleaning Lady etc! The other kids at school, I don't remember any of them talking about music either - we were in a pretty remote country area. It wasn't until I got to about 15 that I started listening to music, and Pink Floyd was the big name of the time, along with Dire Straights. Abandoned the latter fairly quickly, but have dug into Pink Floyd's (and Syd Barrett's) back catalogue over time.
I guess I did hit a period of pop taste - Air Supply, Toto come to mind - but the main force in acquiring music was the bargain bin in the music shop. Rock would have been my main genre, although it took me a long time to start looking at the key bands of the genre, still have some way to go.
My mother just bought a CD with Flick & ...
My mother just bought a CD with Flick & other strange old childrens songs. As a reminiscent of childhood. lmao.
I'm pretty much with Teina ...
I'm pretty much with Teina here.
1st of all: (stuff my parents listened to) The Eagles, Eric Clapton, Simon and Garfunkel, Pink Floyd etc.
The I went through the shitty primary/intermediate pop stage where you basically liked whatever everyone else did.
Now (high school) I listen to a variety of different artists and styles but I have to say I mainly like rock. I don't usually listen to dance/techno stuff or pop (except maybe goodshirt). :D
I think the majority of kids go through ...
I think the majority of kids go through a pretty big Doors stage, listening to Jim Morrison's dodgy poetry, whilst huffing on their first bong.
OMG i had totally forgotten about ...
OMG i had totally forgotten about doors......mmmm.... orange LP
Drugs or not I really fucking hated the ...
Drugs or not I really fucking hated the Doors when I was a teenager. Morrison fans thought he was so insightful yet nobody could tell my why "come on baby light my fire" was any more worthwhile than Paul Stanley's "put your hand in my pocket/grab onto my rocket".
Reaching your hand with the cold, ...
Reaching your hand with the cold, sudden fury of a divine messenger.
Let me tell you about heartache and the loss of god,
Wandering, wandering in hopeless night.
Out here in the perimeter there are no stars,
Out here we are stoned
Immaculate.
a little more insightful than pocket and rocket? a clue to Doors appreciation is in the second to last line.
It's amazing what sounds good when ...
It's amazing what sounds good when you're under the influence - whether it be drugs, love or exhaustion.
I went and did a little research the ...
I went and did a little research the recording I had of la woman was pressed on orange vinyl... from what I can gather it was available only in the states so how on earth I ended up with a copy at 14 I don't know.... but one thing is for sure no way at that age I was under the influence.
I would agree that Aka is close, though ...
I would agree that Aka is close, though it's by no means a strict rule. I reckon it just follows a pattern of moving towards a greater complexity while we try to find that "thing", that sound, that resonance that is just right. People have tendancy to get bored with things and move on, well put it aside for awhile anyway. There is something we are looking for, and we find a piece of it here, and a part of it there. Some things resonate a little louder within us than others, and when that happens we fall head over heels in love with it, but after awhile you start to notice what it lacks more than what it has. If you don't follow all the avenues and sample as much as you can then you wont be able to see the big picture, to pick out that pattern, or that common cross thread in that (as Aka says) "woven tapestry". I really feel sorry for someone who sticks to one track(pardon the pun) or avenue. You get no perspective. No genre of music completely captures that resonace, you have to find the pieces all over. I haven't found all the pieces by a long shot yet and isn't that beautiful!? It means I get to keep searching, keep listening, keep being surprised when I hear something new. I get to meet other people on the crosspaths, who can point me in the direction of something new and good. The experienced travellers always seem so wise.
I suppose that is why I have such a distaste for manufactured pop. It feels like someone trying to present the same thing over and over again in a different package. Nothing new comes out of it. No insight, no surprise. Pop is the xmas fruit cake of the music world.
Don't get me wrong, you can always go back and enjoy stuff. If you are allowed to leave it for awhile, and come back and appreciate it on your own time. Like a good book thats been sitting on the shelf for awhile. You can remeber how you stumbled on that sound, and what other paths it opened up for you. And time is the best sieve. You really notice the stuff that made an impact when you look over your music collection and see the old, long time friends.
I hope I keep finding new stuff I like til I die, I'll most definitely keep looking.
Sorry for the length of this reply. I meant to say, " I agree". G'night.
This site had funny arguments for ...
This site had funny arguments for convincing others your taste in music is better than theirs.
(ps, yes I know funkymonkey was joking, but you know I don't like being categorised Aka. Shame on you;) )
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This is kind of what it was like for ...
This is kind of what it was like for me.
0-16
Pop. I listened to lots of pop music on the radio, but didn't buy much because I didn't feel much of a connection to it.
14-17
Hip-hop (yeah, there's overlap). I discovered the Native Tongue hip-hop artists (De La Soul, Jungle Brothers, etc), then moved onto gangsta rap. I started buying more music because I was listening to stuff that wasn't on the radio and stuff that I wanted to hear often.
17-22
Alterno-pop. I started off going down the Nirvana path, but soon veered and discovered less popular artist. I decided that rock 'n' roll could really save your soul. I also got into those alterno classics like the Pixies. Started going out and seeing rock shows. Also learned to play the guitar and became disillusioned with the apparent simplicity of rock.
23-25
Retro and Electronic. I didn't buy much new music. What I did buy was that electronic influence pop and rock that was so popular in the mid-late '90s. I didn't get much satisfaction.
26-now
Many and varied. I spent about three months watching tons of music television. I rediscovered the top 40, live music and how cool bad-arse guitar bands really are. Music is making me feel good again.
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yeah well mine is not very long because ...
yeah well mine is not very long because i am not very old, but:
0-8 - straight out top 40 pop music. i had no idea what it was called or who sang it, i just listened to the stuff people in my year lip-synced to in school assemblies. i wasn't that interested.
9-10 - Still pop, but now i knew what it was called. i was a pretty hardout 91zm fan. i loved the spice girls.
11-12 - Went through a soft/christian rock stage. creed, live, etc. i hated all 'teenybopper' bands and pledged my life to killing nsync. this is the only part of my 'musical history' i am really ashamed of. listened to the edge + channel z.
13 - Got into placebo, ash, muse, new order (= turning point!). Realised the stupidity of creed and live. Started to like radiohead. listened to channel z.
14 (now) - Stopped liking all above bands (with the exception of new order) and discovered sonic youth and carriage h. from there got into joy division, mogwai, bailterspace, hdu, patti smith, television, augie march, the lucksmiths etc. stopped listening to radio almost completely and also stopped really hating 'teenybopper' bands. if i do listen to radio i listen to rdu.
thats where i am now i guess
I'll guess I'll do this 0-9 - don't ...
I'll guess I'll do this
0-9 - don't really remember, anything popular I guess
10-13 - I really liked Micheal Jackson, SuperGroove, Guns n' Roses, MC Hammer, 3 The Hard Way, Naughty By Nature
14-17 - stopped liking above artists except maybe for SuperGroove, starting to like the bands I like now - MetallicA, Nirvana, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Foo Fighters, The Offspring, Pearl Jam, Green Day, Shihad etc
18-19 - starting to actually liking the 'older' bands, (I use to think, oh they old, so they're suck) great 70s bands like - Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Queen, Jimi Hendrix, Cream, etc. Also starting to like more 'metal' bands
20 (now) - To know about the lesser known Kiwi bands than Shihad, Weta, HLAH, like Bands - Marystaple, 8 Foot Sativa, D4, Datsuns. But still haven't heard much of those yet, or any other NZ bands. But seeing these bands on M2 have helped.
I will aways hate chessy bubble gum pop music and laugh at all of them!!
Oh yeah between 0-9 country music was ...
Oh yeah between 0-9 country music was the big thing in my family, that how and where I started to play drums. I didn't really like the music that much, but some of it was ok. When I started playing drums when I was 6, I played in country music clubs, it helped me be a better drummer and play with other and better musican's.
I'm doing less of the country scene now days, but can't deny it!!
0-9 - fleetwood mac, electric light ...
0-9 - fleetwood mac, electric light orchestra, dire straits... whatever my parents were listening to.
10-15 - i got into metallica, metallica, and more metallica. i also liked some of the popular pop/rock music that was out at the time.
16-17 - i started playing bass and got into bands like iron maiden, testament, and funnily enough, the beatles!
17-19 - i hung around in the goth scene a little, and got into bands like nine inch nails, skinny puppy, and the older stabbing westward stuff. at the same time, i launched myself into new zealand music and latched onto marystaple, carriage h, big block (RIP!), etc etc.
all that being said, i still love fleetwood mac, the beatles, skinny puppy, pitchshifter.... i seem to be collecting musical tastes rather than having them change! the only music i dont like so much anymore, is some of the more pop-like stuff that i listened to when i was 12.
pitchshifter, oh yeah, good stuff....
pitchshifter, oh yeah, good stuff.
ok: young: Dad's stuff mostly. ...
ok:
young: Dad's stuff mostly. Queen, Elton John, Travelling Wilbourrys (spelt that wrong I know), Dire Straits, Prince, Eagles, Beatles, Crowded House, Aretha Franklin, The Pointer Sisters... Own stuff like Michael Jackson, A-Ha, UB40, whatever was on Pepsi RTR. NKOTB, Bobby Brown, MC Hammer, Vanilla Ice, Inner Circle, Bob Marley, Four Tops...
fourth form to seventh form: Pearl Jam, Fugees, Supergroove, Shihad, Soundgarden, Metallica, Korn, Busta Rhymes, Muttonbirds, Fear Factory, Gravity Kills, Bentley Rhythm Ace, NIN, Radiohead, Stabbing Westward, System of a Down, Bjork, Finley Quaye, DJ Shadow, Daft Punk...
uni onwards: Soul Coughing, The Dismemberment Plan, Fugazi, Neil Young, Roni Size, The Strokes, Refused, (International) Noise Conspiracy, The Hives, The Faint, Nick Drake, Dan the Automator, heaps of NZ stuff, heaps of other bands.
Hmm this list isn't very accurate but yeah.
Neil Young, good call Stefan. Think ...
Neil Young, good call Stefan. Think I'll queue up my copy of Harvest sitting on my desk right now.