Strummer521

Certain members here (ex: Moon Pix, Urban Hatemonger, Cardboard Adolescent) seem to have fairly vast storehouses of knowledge when it comes to music. Many of you guys are incredibly well versed in multitudes of genres (or rather, subgenres of Rock mainly) and seem to have a very solid sense of music history. I used to be fairly comparable, but I haven't been reading up on things as voraciously as I used to, so I've lost touch a bit with what's new, and forgotten a lot of what I knew about the past. I guess I feel a bit out of my depth here sometimes, and I'd like to catch up. So what I'm asking is...where do you guys get information about music? Are there certain magazines, books, particular writers that you find very valuable? Even single articles would be of great use to me if there's a link to them online.

To get things rolling...here's a link to one of my favorite pieces of rock criticism: http://www.harbour.sfu.ca/~hayward/v...ws/astral.html

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sleepy jack

I've learned everything I know from musicbanter and various members, paticular ArtistInTheAmbulance, A_Perfect_Sonnet, and Franscar.

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tdoc210

i find things by looking. through crap.
AKA i don't use sources, except other bands.

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Ma Cherie

urban hatemonger, right- track, and crowquill (beleive it or not)

i don't have relly enougth money, or much variation where i currently live on music, all i hear is the generic pop and rap bullshiit, and southern rock, not my favorites granted i like classic rock, gothic music and japanese rock/metal

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Urban Hat€monger ?

Allmusic.com is probably the best site.
I raid sharing threads on a few forums a lot of the time i`ll just download something without even knowing what it is ,sometimes i`ll go to blogs stuffed full of downloads.Occasionally i`ll download a torrent with anything from 10-20 new releases on it , go through it & just delete what I don`t like.

As well as that i`ll listen to influences of bands I like , read autobiographies , biographies , listen to other people , and have about 20 years of reading music magazines stored in my head.Up until recently I had every copy of Melody Maker from 1993-1999 until I ran out of room & chucked them out.

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Strummer521

Do you remember a lot of minute details often...or more often the general ideas? And another question (for everybody more than one specific person)... Do I seem like a totally clueless newbie?...because I have to admit it's a little intimidating here, in the sense that I live in a town where I know more about music than anybody else I've met...but here there are other people who have a real passion for it...so I'm knocked down a few levels. Overall though, that's a good thing of course...because I wouldn't want to go to a musicforum where nobody knew a lot about music...and there's a lot of learning to be done. And then again I've got to remind myself I've only had about 4 years experience as a serious fan of music. The summer before I entered 9th grade I got into the Beatles (through the movie I Am Sam oddly enough) and that was my launching pad. Also probably the reason I had to defend them fervently over the Stones. They're my foundation in the truest sense of the word.

P.S. Hey Urban...care to drop the names of some of the forums and blogs you visit where uploads are posted?

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adidasss

I actually kinda thought you didn't much like this place. As others have already told you, you make intelligent, thought out posts, and sooner or later, that gets you noticed no matter what forum you're on.

As far as musical knowledge, many people have stated musicbanter as one of the more important sources, and I couldn't agree more. Before I joined, the hight of my musical knowledge was RATM, The Doors, The Bravery, Kings of Leon, Travis and Coldplay. My musical library was about 4GB in size. Then I came here and Stu, Big3 and Urban tore me a new one for not knowing a thing about Joy Division and all other influences on the so called "New wave", and I was compelled to learn as much as I could just so I didn't appear so dumb. Now, my library is 25GB in size, and getting larger by the minute.

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Last.fm

Strummer521

I have to admit that at first I didn't...because when I joined (quite a while ago) most people seemed to be making useless, frivolous posts...such as: User One: I started this tread because I really likes Lacuna Coil.

User Two: Me two! and David Bowie. He rockzzzzzzzzzzz121zzz

And I didn't want to comb through all of that. But then I realized I hadn't given it a fair shot, because I still logged on once in a great while, and I came to realize there was a core group of really intelligent people with interesting perspectives on music. I'd given up my obsessing over music to some degree and decided to focus on film. But now I'm getting back into music heavily...so I started to visit the site in hopes of finding new stuff, and it has paid off, plus the discussion has been very worthwhile. Anyway glad to have met you all. Please continue to post good articles, book titles, blogs and documentaries in this thread when you run across them.

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_Spinning_

Books.
Here.
Last.fm.
Wikipedia.


Occasionally I'll find a random torrent and give it a listen.
Most of the music I get into, I get told about by people. (I.E: Ethan.)

Loser

Buy as many albums as possible and read the booklets and also look at other artists that sound like them.