Usually, as you grow up, your taste in music evolves. What you listened to as a child, you gave up as a teenager. What you listened to as a teenager, you gave up as an adult. Or maybe you never gave up any of the old music but just added more variety to what you listen to. Whatever the case, your taste in music has probably changed over the years. So what did you listen to...
1. As a child
2. In middle school
3. In high school
4. In college
5. Now
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Great topic!
1) Childhood- whatever my parents played in the car (Kenny Rogers, Motown and inoffensive soft rock on the radio, country)
-my oldest brother was a huge influence, steering me towards Van Halen, Pink Floyd, and Jimi Hendrix playing the "Star-Spangled Banner"
-my dad's Dire Straits Brothers In Arms cassette and Paul Simon's Graceland
2) Middle School- when I started playing trumpet I was obviously introduced to orchestral or "classical" music. I liked Bach a whole lot and had a love affair with Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker
-Wynton Marsalis's Standard Time blew my mind and introduced me to jazz
-Queen's Classic Queen album
3) High School- The Beatles, the most all-pervasive, musical paradigm-shift I've ever known
-The Beatles led to "classic rock" on KRXO, which led to Led Zeppelin and Yes, which indirectly led to another huge discovery: Frank Zappa, probably the second most important artist for me
-They Might Be Giants
4) College- I was in full-on prog-rock mode, Genesis and King Crimson
-also was introduced to Elvis Costello and punk rock
-Steve Reich and minimalism also thrilled me at this point
5) Now- I'm settling down a bit. I can appreciate simplicity more. Red House Painters haunt my dreams. I've recently discovered Tom Waits and Queen's A Night at the Opera, (not that it is simple.) I still look to the past and am getting all kinds of "new" old stuff through the library.
New musical experiences are the bulk of what I blog about these days...
Here are mine:
1. Childhood and Middle School-This is kind of all mixed up for me, I can't remember which I listened to when, so I'm combining them. I listened to Motown, the Beach Boys, the Beatles, Elton John, 80s soft rock, Amy Grant, Michael W. Smith, D.C. Talk, Carmen (very embarrassing), etc. And Tiffany! Anyone remember her? And whatever was new on the radio in the early 90s once I got in middle school (although I didn't like alternative music yet).
2. High School-I liked some of the stuff previously mentioned, plus some classical stuff that I played in orchestra. I also liked Jars of Clay, Stevie Ray Vaughn and other blues guitarists/singers, and most of the music on the radio in the mid to late 90s (although still not really into the alternative scene). And I fell in love with Gangsta's Paradise by Coolio (I think that was when I was in high school.)
3. College-This is when my musical world really started changing. I started really liking more alternative and also more indie-type music. I started listening to Cake, Beck, RADIOHEAD!!!!, Travis, Smashing Pumpkins (and other alternative bands from the 90s), Rage Against the Machine, Waterdeep, and I loved Outkast and some other rap that was on the radio at the time.
4. Now-Radiohead is at the top of the list, as well as Patty Griffin, The Frames, Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, Muse, Damien Rice, and so many others. I have really become a fan of the singer/songwriter. And I still enjoy much of the previously mentioned music, including gangsta rap. :)
Suggestion for a topic:
What's your favorite Radiohead album and why?
It's always an interesting discussion of Rhead fans because their output has been pretty varied, stylistically-speaking, over the years.
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