07-27-2003, 07:43 AM
Hehe, oddly enough I think I basically started out disliking music, waaaaaay back when. I can't really remeber much but tunes from films I saw when I was real little and from then I think it was merely acceptance of music for a while. My dad listened to stuff like Sade and... well Sade, so maybe that was what turned me off initially, and lots of oldies, so I didn't relate. I'm told I hummed a lot to myself, but not too much else. I was a Sound FX man.
I remember kids all singing this song together one time and I was like "How can they all know it? I don't know it." In retrospect it was Green Day's "Basket Case" (just shows you how late in the game I actually picked up on things). Anyways it was all too much. By that time I was a Beatles/Boyz II Men fan and there was raging opposition, so I picked up a copy of Bush's "Sixteen Stone" and tried to see what all the hubbub was.
So I took to that a bit and it helped me to break free of the Blockbuster's collection of film soundtracks I had been listening to. So then it was some Joan Osbourne and such, and then my good friend got me into popular grunge.
Soundgarden and Alice in Chains. Some kid had me listening to Dave Matthews. Smashing Pumpkins, The Presidents, No Doubt. I made the rounds. Then I started a band with a kid named Danny and we were into Toadies and Marilyn Manson and Sponge (I think). So I'm basically another vapid consumer at this point, then I start this other band with another Danny. We are Nirvana. 100%. Through and through. So this all goes pretty well, but then I moved to WA.
So I am alone in dullsville and gone from Mr. The Shit (we kicked some ass at an otherwise musical-recital of a talent show in Jr. High) to piece of shit. So I cling to Nirvana, HARD, for a few with very little anything else. Eventually I meet this kid who doesn't know much about music and I "school" him in Nirvana. He gets hooked and we are off. Then high school takes its toll and eventually I end up surrounded by Korn, (who I've never much liked for the record), etc. I made some stabs at expanding my horizons and came up with NIN, Primus, Ozzy, etc. but I was in a rut. Lots of mainstream hard rock.
I don't remember how I got into TOOL but I did and I still am. From then on the crappy music scene around here has tempted me with gansta rap and rap-rock, but I am Ahab and I will not be moved. So admittedly into some uninspired music I finally realize there a lot more out there and actively explore for new stuffs. I'm at this point finding out about Mudvayne and Pantera, and I still had a lingering distaste for all techno. Well, story-of-my-life aside, eventually the heavy rock/metal thing melted off and I was left looking in all directions for all things good. I found Radiohead on "Kid A".
Gawd I found Radiohead on "Kid A". By this time I began to look a little deeper into music and started to see some good in most areas. Music is really very connected, and I like many genres after a fashion. So then it was a gradual acceptance of IDM and techno, a departure from the, let's say "youthfulness" of metal and hard rock, and a search for introspective and important lyrics and musics.
So now I'm pretty much a musical whore, but I can be so, confident that I will not regress, because of some finely developed discrimitating tastes, hehe.
It surprises me sometimes what I will come to like. Generally it's peaceful or politically active or surprisingly honest stuffs at this point, with healthy doses of ridiculous hip hop and techno thrown in. Experimental all the way. (Make no mistakes: I hate rap. Always have, always will). I favor the music that you can justify to yourself, not necessarily others. Y'know?
(Gawd, sorry about this big-ass post, but since it's basically me and Batz, who cares?)
Oh yeah, sorry Batz for ripping on Sum41, Blink and Avril. I couldn't think of any others.
I remember kids all singing this song together one time and I was like "How can they all know it? I don't know it." In retrospect it was Green Day's "Basket Case" (just shows you how late in the game I actually picked up on things). Anyways it was all too much. By that time I was a Beatles/Boyz II Men fan and there was raging opposition, so I picked up a copy of Bush's "Sixteen Stone" and tried to see what all the hubbub was.
So I took to that a bit and it helped me to break free of the Blockbuster's collection of film soundtracks I had been listening to. So then it was some Joan Osbourne and such, and then my good friend got me into popular grunge.
Soundgarden and Alice in Chains. Some kid had me listening to Dave Matthews. Smashing Pumpkins, The Presidents, No Doubt. I made the rounds. Then I started a band with a kid named Danny and we were into Toadies and Marilyn Manson and Sponge (I think). So I'm basically another vapid consumer at this point, then I start this other band with another Danny. We are Nirvana. 100%. Through and through. So this all goes pretty well, but then I moved to WA.
So I am alone in dullsville and gone from Mr. The Shit (we kicked some ass at an otherwise musical-recital of a talent show in Jr. High) to piece of shit. So I cling to Nirvana, HARD, for a few with very little anything else. Eventually I meet this kid who doesn't know much about music and I "school" him in Nirvana. He gets hooked and we are off. Then high school takes its toll and eventually I end up surrounded by Korn, (who I've never much liked for the record), etc. I made some stabs at expanding my horizons and came up with NIN, Primus, Ozzy, etc. but I was in a rut. Lots of mainstream hard rock.
I don't remember how I got into TOOL but I did and I still am. From then on the crappy music scene around here has tempted me with gansta rap and rap-rock, but I am Ahab and I will not be moved. So admittedly into some uninspired music I finally realize there a lot more out there and actively explore for new stuffs. I'm at this point finding out about Mudvayne and Pantera, and I still had a lingering distaste for all techno. Well, story-of-my-life aside, eventually the heavy rock/metal thing melted off and I was left looking in all directions for all things good. I found Radiohead on "Kid A".
Gawd I found Radiohead on "Kid A". By this time I began to look a little deeper into music and started to see some good in most areas. Music is really very connected, and I like many genres after a fashion. So then it was a gradual acceptance of IDM and techno, a departure from the, let's say "youthfulness" of metal and hard rock, and a search for introspective and important lyrics and musics.
So now I'm pretty much a musical whore, but I can be so, confident that I will not regress, because of some finely developed discrimitating tastes, hehe.
It surprises me sometimes what I will come to like. Generally it's peaceful or politically active or surprisingly honest stuffs at this point, with healthy doses of ridiculous hip hop and techno thrown in. Experimental all the way. (Make no mistakes: I hate rap. Always have, always will). I favor the music that you can justify to yourself, not necessarily others. Y'know? (Gawd, sorry about this big-ass post, but since it's basically me and Batz, who cares?)
Oh yeah, sorry Batz for ripping on Sum41, Blink and Avril. I couldn't think of any others.