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Music of your generation
seamas:
When I was in high School in the mid 1980s, there was very little contemporary music that I really liked.
I suppose Stevie Ray Vaughan and Rush were the only acts around then that I really cared for.
I liked certain metal--but was NOT a metal head. I liked *some* punk, but mostly listened to the classic rock of '67-77.
My taste for "new" music didn't wane in my 20s--stuff I had never heard was "new" to me.
I got VERY into old blues, old folk music of the British Isles and Appalachia, world music, and then for a while got very into Classical and Jazz. Also managed to get a Bob Dylan fixation for a while.
It wasn't until my late 30s that I started buying the old "classic rock" albums on CD that I had originally had on LP.
random poet:
The "music of my generation" basically boils down to 1994. That seems like the time when all the best stuff came out. But then again, I don't listen to as many of the bands from that era as I used to.
The thing about discovering new music constantly is that it is a very time-intensive process. You can spend hours everyday downloading, cataloging, and listening to new stuff. After a while, you stop spreading yourself out all over the place. You develop an idea of what's worth paying attention to. What styles of music, which performers whose career you follow, which local bands you go see in dives or which giant bands you buy overpriced arena tickets for.
I'd say my tastes are pretty settled, but I find I don't have a specific style I like better, or that I hate. What I value in musicians is hard to define. They need to make me believe they are artists and not a product, I guess. Probably explains why I am so biased against mainstream and so into CBC Radio 3.
Right now I am enjoying the hell outta Jack White. He'd better come out here on this tour.
Neutral Milk:
--- Quote from: random poet on May 29, 2012, 03:20:14 PM ---
Right now I am enjoying the hell outta Jack White. He'd better come out here on this tour.
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When I mention stuff from when I was 15 and 16 that I got into in my early 20s White Stripes is definitely one of the things I had in mind. How's his solo stuff? Worth listening to?
random poet:
--- Quote from: Neutral Milk on May 29, 2012, 03:21:50 PM ---
--- Quote from: random poet on May 29, 2012, 03:20:14 PM ---
Right now I am enjoying the hell outta Jack White. He'd better come out here on this tour.
--- End quote ---
When I mention stuff from when I was 15 and 16 that I got into in my early 20s White Stripes is definitely one of the things I had in mind. How's his solo stuff? Worth listening to?
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Fuck yes. I liked the White Stripes a lot, and as much as I enjoyed his man-vs-guitar sound, when you hear this new album, you realize how much of a handicap he was imposing on himself by having a bad drummer. This new record is just... unleashed genius.
If it doesn't win album of the year in ALL music news outlets, it will be a grave injustice.
Plastique:
--- Quote from: random poet on May 29, 2012, 03:25:33 PM ---when you hear this new album, you realize how much of a handicap he was imposing on himself by having a bad drummer.
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Haha, yeah, her ineptitude always bothered me.
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