Where I'm At...

SATCHMO · 08-13-2009, 08:34 AM

^^^^It just keeps getting better & better. Nice post Zarko.

Zarko · 08-13-2009, 08:37 AM

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Originally Posted by SATCHMO

^^^^It just keeps getting better & better. Nice post Zarko.

Thanks for finding it in the junkyard Satch

~~Flower Child~~ · 08-13-2009, 12:33 PM

I think I have most evolved in the reggae genre more than anything thanks to Jackhammer, Bulldog and Gavin B. They have introduced me to some of my most favorite and most prized songs I have.

I have also got into a band I probably wold have never given a second glance or even heard of, if it wasn't for Urban Hatemonger. The Fall is like nothing I have listened to before and I absolutely love them for that. I do have to take them in very small doses, as I am still getting used to them, though.

Classic country seems to come easy to me, and it is one of favorite genres. I love writing about it and sharing my thoughts, maybe because I feel that I'm getting people, that wouldn't normally listen to this genre's, attention.

I thank Boo Boo, Seltzer, and whoever else that did that thread about King Crimson, for introducing me to them. I play them almost everyday, and it made me look into some more prog.

But, as of right now, I have been on the biggest Buena Vista Social Club/Ibrahim Ferrer kick. I can't get enough of that traditional Cuban sound. I don't care if I don't understand them because there is something mysterious in not knowing what exactly they are saying that keeps you interested

Schizotypic · 08-13-2009, 02:35 PM

When I came to MB:
When I came here I liked Tool and The Mars Volta. I already liked the more popular Floyd albums too, but who doesn't? I had started a list of people I wanted to eventually get into in rehab. At that point it was about 150 artists long. Looking back that list was 50% big names (Sonic Youth, Miles Davis, VU) and a bunch of TV On The Radio-like pop bands. I was at the mercy of my counselors, though, so I guess that was just their taste. So that's about when I hit MB.

The biggest thing MB contributed to was my list. It is now over 550 artists long. It's quite intimidating to be honest and is a little weak on hip-hop, indie, rap, reggae, and funk- but aside from those is pretty solid. The second thing I got from MB was my music library. I've always been into discographies, but some of them are insane. I have not yet imported all the Sun Ra into my MM but I think I own over 80 albums, and currently have 24 imported. 60 Miles Davis, 40 Frank Zappa (and 34 live ones too), 36 Brian Eno, 25 The Fall, etc, etc...

I feel like more of a collector sometimes. I just have these albums, and I spin one or two sometimes, but just passively. I like to spend real time with an album before I consider it something I like or not, and then whenever I do finally love an album, I spend more time with that album then with new ones. Because of this I feel like it's hard to give growers the time they deserve, and I also tend to gravitate toward bands with one or two albums rather then seventy.

I think despite that I've done my share of trying new stuff. Eventually I got to Jazz, been spinning Miles and Ra every now and then, but so far no go. Though I am starting to fall in love with The Shape Of Jazz To Come, I've had it for months and months now. I listened to do it the way I'm doing with Miles for a long, long time. One day I just shut off the lights and focused on only the music about 1:00am. I got interrupted half way through but I never felt the same way about that album again. It went from background music to some combination of new Orleans and that scene from dumbo, or that's maybe just what it felt like to me.

What I'm diggin' now:
So I guess I'll answer the question of what I'm diggin' now. Been listening to this Otis Redding album a lot, The Dictionary Of Soul. Otis's voice has this way of pressing up against this barrier over and over until it finally brakes through and blasts into space. A little 13th Floor Elevators (Easter Everywhere), The Arcade Fire's Funeral, some Arvo Part, strangely some Boards Of Canada... I think that was just where I went after DJ Shadows Endtroducing got old. Now and then I spin some Crime & The City Solution. I could go on and on really. Some of them have the potential to be all-time favorites, like The Bride Ship by C&TCS, or I've been saving Moss Side Story for over a month to listen to while camping... it's so delightfully creepy, but as I was saying- I have to spend a lot of time with an album before I fully get it. Anyway, MB, that's where I am on my music journey. Sorry for the rant to anyone who actually read this.

SATCHMO · 08-13-2009, 02:46 PM

All lengthy rants are welcome.

I've been on a bit of the post-Endtroducing pursuit lately. It's lead me in a lot of strange, but fun, directions. I've been following the whole dubstep trip-hop trajectory from it and have been pretty non-commital with what I've found , but 2 albums, Nightmares on Wax - In a sound Outta Space and Flying Lotus - Los Angeles have lead me to expand that search even futher outward. I'm just obsessed with the beat as a musical microcosm, and it's probably an avenue that i'll be pursuing for a while to come.

5-Track · 08-13-2009, 03:13 PM

grew up in the 80s (born 1976) surrounded by classic rock circa 1965-69 (parents' record collection) and classical music on public radio ... rejected classical by age 12 or so in favor of 50s rocknroll - Buddy Holly, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, early Elvis, all of whose songs I tried to learn on the guitar ... on from there to early Stones ... late 80s / early 90s I picked up my first electric guitar(s) and discovered Jimi Hendrix, Phish, Jane's Addiction, Nirvana, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Mudhoney, and also Buddy Guy ... gradually also John Coltrane, electric Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Tim Buckley, Fred Neil, and African musics (Olatunji, the Mahotella Queens whose guitarist was unreal) ... Also during this time started to think of music as a) vehicle for meditation b) energetic / mystical force, which ideas didn't really develop until around the time I discovered funk (Meters, Sly, early Funkadelic) and dropped out of college (not that the two were related, but they happened around the same time - 1997) ... spent a lot of time listening to Zappa (mainly for the guitar playing and the concept-art games) and Marc Ribot, then formed a band in backwoods Vermont which really worked at refining our ideas of "energy music" etc ... we still play together occasionally ... music as a force for good, and all kinds of theories as to what makes "good" music (not genre ideas or even taste ideas, but a quest for the real cosmic nut of what makes a musical energy useful, positive, helpful, curative, etc ... we never figured it out, for reasons which are probably obvious ... though the thought process continues to this day in mutated form) ... five years later I moved to Seattle where I got into more current sounds of guitar noise and astmosphere: Acid Mothers Temple, High Rise, Comets On Fire, Six Organs Of Admittance. Also studied Beefheart kind of closely. Played TONS of improv shows, hour-plus jams, with a huge array of different bizarre people who no one has heard of. Some of these were really wonderful, some were so-so, a few were crap, but none of it was dull. Played bass in a couple of "we're going to be rock stars" bands and got fired from one and the other broke up and reformed without me (I used to play along with the flashing streetlight outside the practice space and ignore the drummer ... the drummer loved it, the band leader not so much) ... played lead guitar in a potentially great rocknroll band that broke up due to ego derangement just as we began to be on the threshold of minor regional popularity. Began leading my own bands and playing "solo" acoustic shows ... began studying Les Rallizes Denudes, Grateful Dead, and Bob Dylan (and collecting live shows by all 3) right around this time. Followed girlfriend to Los Angeles (2007) ... musical taste has not evolved hugely, except for a minor interest in Squarepusher, Muslimgauze, Amon Tobin, Wagon Christ, et al, brought on by a roommate in Seattle ... Mainly now I bounce around between all the aforementioned stuff and get deeper and deeper into smaller and smaller aspects of it all while playing solo shows, band shows, and guitar and bass in several different groups... Sometimes I like to drive across the country with the radio set to scan and hear something different every 8 seconds (even if it's static!) ... sometimes I just listen to the neighbors, or the cult across the street, or the cat

dac · 08-13-2009, 03:51 PM

Me, right now?

I'm still trapped in the post rock phase that I entered several months ago. I've yet to get bored and I've yet to find a band to help me break the habit. The rest of my listening has gone to trip hop and electronica mostly, and I find myself listening to a lot less indie than I did a few months ago. I did relisten to Zeppelin IV the other day for the first time in well over a year and enjoyed it. Perhaps some rediscovering is due...

Astronomer · 08-13-2009, 07:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Seltzer

I don't have as much time to listen to music with my undivided attention nowadays so I end up falling back on favourites more often than not. But I still try to check out a few new albums each week.

This is pretty much me. There are certain bands/ artists that are huge favourites of mine and I always end up listening to them rather than trying out new stuff because I feel as though I just don't have the time to give new things my undivided attention.

I also find myself trying to get into bands that many people speak highly of here, but I don't, and then feel like I'm too picky or something. But I'm not going to like a band just because of the hype surrounding it.

WWWP · 08-13-2009, 11:49 PM

When I first started posting here, I listened to bands like KoRn, System of A Down, Buckcherry and Shinedown. I was one of those people who listened to mainstream, overplayed, radio rock, thought I was a bad ass, and considered myself a "metal-head." I was, to say the very least, confused, because I was always the person in my group of friends who would become obsessed with a song everyone else hated, and now, looking back, I think those were the times the side of me longing for better music was provoked and trying to break free.

My largest hindrance at that time (about a year and a half ago) was that I didn't know where to look for good music. My main source was MTV/VH1/Fuse and the radio. In my naive and shallow state of mind, I didn't really think that there was anything else. Soon after I joined MusicBanter, however, I realized that my taste in music was laughable. No one that I talked to shared love for the bands the I worshipped, and I quickly picked up on the fact that no one wanted to discuss them. Ever. Because they sucked.

After the realization that I had work to do, I quit my "Lounge Whore" habits and began reading the music forums. I had finally found a place where people would suggest bands to me, discuss good music, and it seemed like everyone was always on the hunt for more. My only problem at this point was that I had found the music, I just didn't know how to get it. Then, a certain Modfather stepped in and showed me the miracle that is WinRAR. The first album I downloaded here was Consolers of the Lonely by The Raconteurs. Since that day so long ago I've been addicted to finding new music, expanding my horizons, and collecting albums.

In my first couple months as a blogsearcher I had collected all of Radiohead's studio albums and was in heaven. There was a handful of other bands I listened to, including Beck, Modest Mouse, Ben Kweller, The Arctic Monkeys and Elliott Smith, but although my taste had changed and indeed expanded, I was still narrowminded. I was now in my "indie" phase, and I was convinced that everything else was pointless and inferior. Now don't get me wrong, I still adore all of those bands, but I had to step away from my comfort zone if I wanted to acheive my goal. As time passed, my album collection grew. I owe a lot to Ethan (sleepy jack), Kenny (sweet nothing), and John (molecules) for not only reccomending a LOT of bands to me, but basically shoving them down my throat (among other things

) until I loved them. Hence my discovery of Bright Eyes, David Bowie, Blur, Rilo Kiley, Cat Power, Interpol, Guided By Voices, and countless others. Also, a quick shout-out to Dustin (Fasho) for introducing me to Iron & Wine.

These days a lot of the music I've been listening to has been heavily influenced by Peter (loathsome pete). I'm pretty sure that every album he's sent me I have enjoyed. And even if there was band I didn't particularly care for, it would lead to my discovery of another. Anyway, to list some: Beirut, Against Me!, Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution, The Peculiar Pretzelmen, Bon Iver, and Yo La Tengo. Big thank you to Ashley (dreadnaught) by they way, she's the one who started me on my Yo La Tengo kick.

As I wrote this it really hit me how much I owe to this site. It's scary to think where I would be and what I would be listening to if I hadn't joined. I know I still don't have the most eclectic taste in music, and perhaps it's still not considered "good," but my mind is no doubt completely open, and I think it's obvious that I've come a long way. So thanks a lot everyone.

PS- Satchmo, I apologize if this isn't the kind of thing you were looking for for the thread, but once I get on a writing streak I just keep going.

SATCHMO · 08-14-2009, 06:51 PM

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Originally Posted by wolverinewolfweiselpigeon

When I first started posting here, I listened to bands like KoRn, System of A Down, Buckcherry and Shinedown. I was one of those people who listened to mainstream, overplayed, radio rock, thought I was a bad ass, and considered myself a "metal-head." I was, to say the very least, confused, because I was always the person in my group of friends who would become obsessed with a song everyone else hated, and now, looking back, I think those were the times the side of me longing for better music was provoked and trying to break free.

My largest hindrance at that time (about a year and a half ago) was that I didn't know where to look for good music. My main source was MTV/VH1/Fuse and the radio. In my naive and shallow state of mind, I didn't really think that there was anything else. Soon after I joined MusicBanter, however, I realized that my taste in music was laughable. No one that I talked to shared love for the bands the I worshipped, and I quickly picked up on the fact that no one wanted to discuss them. Ever. Because they sucked.

After the realization that I had work to do, I quit my "Lounge Whore" habits and began reading the music forums. I had finally found a place where people would suggest bands to me, discuss good music, and it seemed like everyone was always on the hunt for more. My only problem at this point was that I had found the music, I just didn't know how to get it. Then, a certain Modfather stepped in and showed me the miracle that is WinRAR. The first album I downloaded here was Consolers of the Lonely by The Raconteurs. Since that day so long ago I've been addicted to finding new music, expanding my horizons, and collecting albums.

In my first couple months as a blogsearcher I had collected all of Radiohead's studio albums and was in heaven. There was a handful of other bands I listened to, including Beck, Modest Mouse, Ben Kweller, The Arctic Monkeys and Elliott Smith, but although my taste had changed and indeed expanded, I was still narrowminded. I was now in my "indie" phase, and I was convinced that everything else was pointless and inferior. Now don't get me wrong, I still adore all of those bands, but I had to step away from my comfort zone if I wanted to acheive my goal. As time passed, my album collection grew. I owe a lot to Ethan (sleepy jack), Kenny (sweet nothing), and John (molecules) for not only reccomending a LOT of bands to me, but basically shoving them down my throat (among other things

) until I loved them. Hence my discovery of Bright Eyes, David Bowie, Blur, Rilo Kiley, Cat Power, Interpol, Guided By Voices, and countless others. Also, a quick shout-out to Dustin (Fasho) for introducing me to Iron & Wine.

These days a lot of the music I've been listening to has been heavily influenced by Peter (loathsome pete). I'm pretty sure that every album he's sent me I have enjoyed. And even if there was band I didn't particularly care for, it would lead to my discovery of another. Anyway, to list some: Beirut, Against Me!, Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution, The Peculiar Pretzelmen, Bon Iver, and Yo La Tengo. Big thank you to Ashley (dreadnaught) by they way, she's the one who started me on my Yo La Tengo kick.

As I wrote this it really hit me how much I owe to this site. It's scary to think where I would be and what I would be listening to if I hadn't joined. I know I still don't have the most eclectic taste in music, and perhaps it's still not considered "good," but my mind is no doubt completely open, and I think it's obvious that I've come a long way. So thanks a lot everyone.

PS- Satchmo, I apologize if this isn't the kind of thing you were looking for for the thread, but once I get on a writing streak I just keep going.

Are you crazy!?!? That was awesome! Everyone's apologizing for doing exactly what I've encouraged them to do, you being no exception. It's great that you've pointed out how MB has influenced your musical tastes, and I don't think there's anyone who hasn't committed their time to this place who hasn't been hugely influenced by the musical tastes of others, either by being inspired by what other members are digging or by direct recommendations. I wouldn't be into half the music I listen to today if it weren't for this place.

08-13-2009, 12:33 PM	#13 (permalink)
~~Flower Child~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: classified Posts: 639	I think I have most evolved in the reggae genre more than anything thanks to Jackhammer, Bulldog and Gavin B. They have introduced me to some of my most favorite and most prized songs I have. I have also got into a band I probably wold have never given a second glance or even heard of, if it wasn't for Urban Hatemonger. The Fall is like nothing I have listened to before and I absolutely love them for that. I do have to take them in very small doses, as I am still getting used to them, though. Classic country seems to come easy to me, and it is one of favorite genres. I love writing about it and sharing my thoughts, maybe because I feel that I'm getting people, that wouldn't normally listen to this genre's, attention. I thank Boo Boo, Seltzer, and whoever else that did that thread about King Crimson, for introducing me to them. I play them almost everyday, and it made me look into some more prog. But, as of right now, I have been on the biggest Buena Vista Social Club/Ibrahim Ferrer kick. I can't get enough of that traditional Cuban sound. I don't care if I don't understand them because there is something mysterious in not knowing what exactly they are saying that keeps you interested Last edited by Flower Child; 08-13-2009 at 04:32 PM.

08-13-2009, 02:35 PM	#14 (permalink)
Schizotypic Souls of Sound Sailors Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Mojave Posts: 759	When I came to MB: When I came here I liked Tool and The Mars Volta. I already liked the more popular Floyd albums too, but who doesn't? I had started a list of people I wanted to eventually get into in rehab. At that point it was about 150 artists long. Looking back that list was 50% big names (Sonic Youth, Miles Davis, VU) and a bunch of TV On The Radio-like pop bands. I was at the mercy of my counselors, though, so I guess that was just their taste. So that's about when I hit MB. The biggest thing MB contributed to was my list. It is now over 550 artists long. It's quite intimidating to be honest and is a little weak on hip-hop, indie, rap, reggae, and funk- but aside from those is pretty solid. The second thing I got from MB was my music library. I've always been into discographies, but some of them are insane. I have not yet imported all the Sun Ra into my MM but I think I own over 80 albums, and currently have 24 imported. 60 Miles Davis, 40 Frank Zappa (and 34 live ones too), 36 Brian Eno, 25 The Fall, etc, etc... I feel like more of a collector sometimes. I just have these albums, and I spin one or two sometimes, but just passively. I like to spend real time with an album before I consider it something I like or not, and then whenever I do finally love an album, I spend more time with that album then with new ones. Because of this I feel like it's hard to give growers the time they deserve, and I also tend to gravitate toward bands with one or two albums rather then seventy. I think despite that I've done my share of trying new stuff. Eventually I got to Jazz, been spinning Miles and Ra every now and then, but so far no go. Though I am starting to fall in love with The Shape Of Jazz To Come, I've had it for months and months now. I listened to do it the way I'm doing with Miles for a long, long time. One day I just shut off the lights and focused on only the music about 1:00am. I got interrupted half way through but I never felt the same way about that album again. It went from background music to some combination of new Orleans and that scene from dumbo, or that's maybe just what it felt like to me. What I'm diggin' now: So I guess I'll answer the question of what I'm diggin' now. Been listening to this Otis Redding album a lot, The Dictionary Of Soul. Otis's voice has this way of pressing up against this barrier over and over until it finally brakes through and blasts into space. A little 13th Floor Elevators (Easter Everywhere), The Arcade Fire's Funeral, some Arvo Part, strangely some Boards Of Canada... I think that was just where I went after DJ Shadows Endtroducing got old. Now and then I spin some Crime & The City Solution. I could go on and on really. Some of them have the potential to be all-time favorites, like The Bride Ship by C&TCS, or I've been saving Moss Side Story for over a month to listen to while camping... it's so delightfully creepy, but as I was saying- I have to spend a lot of time with an album before I fully get it. Anyway, MB, that's where I am on my music journey. Sorry for the rant to anyone who actually read this. Last edited by Schizotypic; 08-13-2009 at 03:29 PM.

08-13-2009, 03:13 PM	#16 (permalink)
5-Track Music Addict Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Echo Park, Earth Posts: 197	grew up in the 80s (born 1976) surrounded by classic rock circa 1965-69 (parents' record collection) and classical music on public radio ... rejected classical by age 12 or so in favor of 50s rocknroll - Buddy Holly, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, early Elvis, all of whose songs I tried to learn on the guitar ... on from there to early Stones ... late 80s / early 90s I picked up my first electric guitar(s) and discovered Jimi Hendrix, Phish, Jane's Addiction, Nirvana, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Mudhoney, and also Buddy Guy ... gradually also John Coltrane, electric Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Tim Buckley, Fred Neil, and African musics (Olatunji, the Mahotella Queens whose guitarist was unreal) ... Also during this time started to think of music as a) vehicle for meditation b) energetic / mystical force, which ideas didn't really develop until around the time I discovered funk (Meters, Sly, early Funkadelic) and dropped out of college (not that the two were related, but they happened around the same time - 1997) ... spent a lot of time listening to Zappa (mainly for the guitar playing and the concept-art games) and Marc Ribot, then formed a band in backwoods Vermont which really worked at refining our ideas of "energy music" etc ... we still play together occasionally ... music as a force for good, and all kinds of theories as to what makes "good" music (not genre ideas or even taste ideas, but a quest for the real cosmic nut of what makes a musical energy useful, positive, helpful, curative, etc ... we never figured it out, for reasons which are probably obvious ... though the thought process continues to this day in mutated form) ... five years later I moved to Seattle where I got into more current sounds of guitar noise and astmosphere: Acid Mothers Temple, High Rise, Comets On Fire, Six Organs Of Admittance. Also studied Beefheart kind of closely. Played TONS of improv shows, hour-plus jams, with a huge array of different bizarre people who no one has heard of. Some of these were really wonderful, some were so-so, a few were crap, but none of it was dull. Played bass in a couple of "we're going to be rock stars" bands and got fired from one and the other broke up and reformed without me (I used to play along with the flashing streetlight outside the practice space and ignore the drummer ... the drummer loved it, the band leader not so much) ... played lead guitar in a potentially great rocknroll band that broke up due to ego derangement just as we began to be on the threshold of minor regional popularity. Began leading my own bands and playing "solo" acoustic shows ... began studying Les Rallizes Denudes, Grateful Dead, and Bob Dylan (and collecting live shows by all 3) right around this time. Followed girlfriend to Los Angeles (2007) ... musical taste has not evolved hugely, except for a minor interest in Squarepusher, Muslimgauze, Amon Tobin, Wagon Christ, et al, brought on by a roommate in Seattle ... Mainly now I bounce around between all the aforementioned stuff and get deeper and deeper into smaller and smaller aspects of it all while playing solo shows, band shows, and guitar and bass in several different groups... Sometimes I like to drive across the country with the radio set to scan and hear something different every 8 seconds (even if it's static!) ... sometimes I just listen to the neighbors, or the cult across the street, or the cat __________________ music for your life: http://www.5-Track.com/NeptuneResearch

08-13-2009, 03:51 PM	#17 (permalink)
dac MB's Biggest Fanboy Join Date: May 2008 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land Posts: 2,852	Me, right now? I'm still trapped in the post rock phase that I entered several months ago. I've yet to get bored and I've yet to find a band to help me break the habit. The rest of my listening has gone to trip hop and electronica mostly, and I find myself listening to a lot less indie than I did a few months ago. I did relisten to Zeppelin IV the other day for the first time in well over a year and enjoyed it. Perhaps some rediscovering is due... __________________

08-13-2009, 08:34 AM	#11 (permalink)
SATCHMO Al Dente Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Texas Posts: 4,708	^^^^It just keeps getting better & better. Nice post Zarko.

08-13-2009, 02:46 PM	#15 (permalink)
SATCHMO Al Dente Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Texas Posts: 4,708	All lengthy rants are welcome. I've been on a bit of the post-Endtroducing pursuit lately. It's lead me in a lot of strange, but fun, directions. I've been following the whole dubstep trip-hop trajectory from it and have been pretty non-commital with what I've found , but 2 albums, Nightmares on Wax - In a sound Outta Space and Flying Lotus - Los Angeles have lead me to expand that search even futher outward. I'm just obsessed with the beat as a musical microcosm, and it's probably an avenue that i'll be pursuing for a while to come.