What got you into avant-garde and experimental music?

Engine · 10-25-2009, 09:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Kamikazi Kat

I guess you could say I was kind of pretentious about it, I still don't like how I limited myself soley to experimental music.

No reason to denigrate yourself for your having your own opinions. Of course you should avoid being a prick about it but there's nothing pretentious about wanting to hear only what you want to hear when you want to hear it. I went years without giving good bands the chance they deserved because I couldn't stand their general sound. But there's time to hear it all.

gunnels · 10-25-2009, 09:31 PM

Hint:
Mah smile is shtuck, iii cannot go back t' yer frownlaand.

music_phantom13 · 10-30-2009, 08:52 AM

I guess I listened to Pink Floyd, Zappa, and Capt. Beefheart and went from there. After listening to a whole bunch of bland alternative and metal for a while, I got really tired of it all and went looking for more of the few truly unique and interesting albums I had. Sonic Youth, Four Tet, and early Flaming Lips were some of the first, and at some point I just really got into noise. I geuss there wasn't really a specific point where I decided to look for more experimental stuff. But, joining MB didn't hurt.

peacesrc · 11-20-2009, 05:50 PM

My boyfriend listens to alot of avant garde, experimental and just..alot of music many people probably haven't heard of and then I started to get into it.

Webster · 11-20-2009, 09:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Terrible Lizard

Pink Floyd=Tool=Mr.Bungle=Frank Zappa=Sleepytime Gorilla Museum=Residents=Acid Mothers Temple=Magma=Ruins=John Zorn=John Cage=Captain Beefheart=Univers Zero=Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music=Brainticket=Trist

My story is one big ****ing equation....
Yep, Turn on, Tune In, Drop out.

Yeah, so by that equation, Pink Floyd=Captain Beefheart, I don't think that's what you're trying to say, so yeah. I'm a math major and that bothers me.

Anyway, for me it started out I guess with Pink Floyd, if you count that. Honestly it's not a genre I've deeply explored. I moved on to Frank Zappa, Tom Waits, and more recently Beefheart. Also Coltrane and Ornette Coleman if that counts.

hyphyguy · 11-21-2009, 07:12 PM

for me it went a little something like this.

Buck 65>Tricky>Massive Attack>paranormal attack>People Under the Stairs>Siditious

Adonai · 11-23-2009, 12:38 PM

First I got into alternative/new metal, then Sonic Youth, Tool, A Perfect Circle, then lots of jazz and blues, then Lustmord, Atrium Carceri, Alva Noto, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Desiderii Marginis. And here we are.

Sneer · 12-01-2009, 11:37 AM

I think the album that caught my curiousity and subsequent love for avante garde was probably The VU & Nico. I bought it on a whim from HMV when i was 15 thinking it'd sound like the Beatles. By the time Venus in Furs came on i had to turn it off because my sister was ridiculing me so much. Needless to say i've given her ears a battering over the years following that fateful eve.

+81 · 12-01-2009, 11:47 AM

I think from punk, hardcore, ska, and grunge I just started to find things like Mr. Bungle, Melvins, Sonic Youth, Flaming Lips, Lightning Bolt, The Locust. Discoveries keep happening, tastes keep expanding.

Axiomatic Wiki · 12-01-2009, 03:55 PM

My first brush in with anything that I would really consider experimental was with Ulver. They were such an eye opening band for me, and began me on a path that has lead to my current tastes in music.

11-23-2009, 12:38 PM	#27 (permalink)
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Sneer Let it drip Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 5,430	I think the album that caught my curiousity and subsequent love for avante garde was probably The VU & Nico. I bought it on a whim from HMV when i was 15 thinking it'd sound like the Beatles. By the time Venus in Furs came on i had to turn it off because my sister was ridiculing me so much. Needless to say i've given her ears a battering over the years following that fateful eve. __________________ LastFM Sneer's Emporium of Sound Fright Team radio show

12-01-2009, 11:47 AM	#29 (permalink)
+81 Rats off to ya! Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: House of the Ju-Ju Queen Posts: 1,609	I think from punk, hardcore, ska, and grunge I just started to find things like Mr. Bungle, Melvins, Sonic Youth, Flaming Lips, Lightning Bolt, The Locust. Discoveries keep happening, tastes keep expanding. __________________ My Music on: Facebook Last.fm My Last.fm My Poor Ol' Neglected Journal

12-01-2009, 03:55 PM	#30 (permalink)
Axiomatic Wiki Music Addict Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Souvlaki Space Station Posts: 99	My first brush in with anything that I would really consider experimental was with Ulver. They were such an eye opening band for me, and began me on a path that has lead to my current tastes in music. __________________ http://www.last.fm/user/AxiomaticWiki

10-30-2009, 08:52 AM	#23 (permalink)
music_phantom13 Music Addict Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Pittsburgh, PA Posts: 942	I guess I listened to Pink Floyd, Zappa, and Capt. Beefheart and went from there. After listening to a whole bunch of bland alternative and metal for a while, I got really tired of it all and went looking for more of the few truly unique and interesting albums I had. Sonic Youth, Four Tet, and early Flaming Lips were some of the first, and at some point I just really got into noise. I geuss there wasn't really a specific point where I decided to look for more experimental stuff. But, joining MB didn't hurt.

11-20-2009, 05:50 PM	#24 (permalink)
peacesrc Groupie Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 14	My boyfriend listens to alot of avant garde, experimental and just..alot of music many people probably haven't heard of and then I started to get into it.

11-21-2009, 07:12 PM	#26 (permalink)
hyphyguy Groupie Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 3	for me it went a little something like this. Buck 65>Tricky>Massive Attack>paranormal attack>People Under the Stairs>Siditious