Where I'm At...

Astronomer · 08-14-2009, 06:57 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 find this so hard to believe! I wasn't here when you first joined up... but for some reason I've always pictured you as an ultra-cool indie/hippie chick! Haha. Well, I think it's great that your music taste has grown so much

jackhammer · 08-14-2009, 07:17 PM

I have been digging Male singer-songwriters a lot recently but I have no set path and listen to a multitude of genres in one sitting.

Antonio · 08-15-2009, 12:10 AM

Where i started:
let me say first off that i love to shuffle my music. i love the spontenaiety of not knowing what's next, whether it be a different song, band, or genre altogether. i never really liked having stuff that was too similar to each other; i loved discovering new bands and listening to new music. i didn't like to think that one genre was better than another or that some stuff is "good music" while everything else isn't. in my opinion, there is no "bad music" so much as there are bad artists. i think every artist deserves a fair chance, regardless of their connotations or the type of music they're affiliated with. i still love Korn, Slipknot, Mudvayne, Green Day, New Found Glory, and i don't care if other people consider it "bad taste". i like what i like and that's what matters.

another type of music that's also close to my heart is Jazz. when my guitar teacher introduced me to groups like Return to Forever and Mahavishnu Orchestra years ago, i grew to love and appreciate jazz music as well as begin to understand the relations of notes and chords along with the compositional nature of songs. this not only helped me with that realm of music, but also to see that different genres have musical value and compositional abilities that have worth musically. so i started more closely listening to songs from metal to pop to soul and back to jazz and trying to feel the notes and dissect the song musically. i loved the idea of composing and love trying to create songs that don't just go the motions and end the same.

at this point i have to give a MASSIVE thanks to MusicBanter for helping me find some wonderful artists and helping me with dipping my feet into other types of music. not that i never appreciated things other than rock, alternative and metal, i did, but i felt that i couldn't officially enter into a genre without knowing at least a few artists so as not to have such a limited library in that field. thanks to the genre education threads as well as the collective myriad of tastes from people here, i've been able to discover new stuff and fill my library up much more, making it feel more full and varied for my listening enjoyment. this site has not only helped me in starting with new things, but also in exploring further exploring fields that i already knew, like Metal and Jazz.

i'd also like to mention how me joining a pop punk band helped me further appreciate music. while some people here may have raised eyebrows when i first mentioned playing bass in such a group, considering what i listen to, but after playing and really delving into alternative and pop punk, i've found alot more bad than good. like i said before, there's no "bad music" only bad artists, and my band experience has helped me see that as well as appreciate the role of the bass in music.

Where i am now:
these days, along with he usual stuff i listen to, i've been digging alot more Reggae and Hip-Hop. some of my favorites from those genres have been Peter Tosh, Busdriver, Fat Freddy's Drop, OutKast, Tech N9ne, Black Uhuru, Kanye West and Burning Spear. while i love what i already listen to, i still have ALOT more exploring to do. i've also been diggin a good amount of Soul and Funk, like Curtis Mayfield and Sly & The Family Stone.

i've also been meaning to get into some more Classic Country and Electronica. while i have more than a few albums in both genres, i found that there were only a few artists i enjoyed fully, although i still like the majority of albums that i have.

Fruitonica · 08-15-2009, 12:12 AM

Up until I was sixteen or so I wasn't all that concerned about what music I listened to, so my tastes followed the usual route of classic rock mixed with whatever hip hop/rock/pop was on the radio.

If there was a defining moment in transitioning to someone who is passionate about mucis, it would be when I stumbled accross a review of Madvillainy, and downloaded it on an impulse. And as soon as the opening collage faded and that swirling accordion kicked in, I loved it. Which started me on an underground hip hop kick which eventually bled into other genres, and I started searching around for new music. Which is when I googled music forum and Music Banter cropped up.

My tastes actually haven't come that far, all of the genres that I listened to up until then still get the most representation, and my favourite albums all fall within the hip hop or rock spectrum. But I have become much more appreciative of challenging or abrasive music, and thanks mainly to hip hop lyricism has become more important to me.

Like others have mentioned, I don't expand my collection that quickly, and find myself spending time with favourites more often than not. I only download a few albums a week, and delete quite a bit of what I lay my hands on if it can't impress me. Generally, if I enjoy an album I listen to it a lot, and when I see people on MB going on crazy downloading sprees I always wonder how they can listen to so much music with a proper level of appreciation, it would exhaust me.

*I know how much you hate this stuff Satchmo. Please forgive me.

SATCHMO · 08-15-2009, 12:17 AM

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*I know how much you hate this stuff Satchmo. Please forgive me.

Lol, What stuff?

And the first time I heard Madvilliany it kicked my ass! I can totally relate.

Fruitonica · 08-15-2009, 12:23 AM

Just a joke, flowing on from everyone else's unnecessary apologies.

Antonio · 08-15-2009, 12:26 AM

yeah SATCHMO, sorry for bolding those two lines up there, i know you hate that type of stuff.

god, i ****ed up ;_;

WWWP · 08-15-2009, 01:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Lateralus

I find this so hard to believe! I wasn't here when you first joined up... but for some reason I've always pictured you as an ultra-cool indie/hippie chick! Haha. Well, I think it's great that your music taste has grown so much

Haha, I've totally transformed into that indie/hippie chick you're talking about in the past year or so... it's crazy how much I've changed, but it's definitely been for the better. And a LOT of it has to do with my ever-evolving taste in music. But as you probably guessed I've always been ultra-cool.

zeppy111 · 08-15-2009, 02:42 AM

Pre-musicbanter

I have grown up in a household where the music never turned off and the quantity of it was always immense. Those days were from about day 1 of my life till about 10, where I had no real direction of my own when it came to music, but instead was lead by my parents immense collection of 80's/stadium rock/random outbreaks of brilliance. Most of the stuff that filled my ears as a little kid included: Journey, GNR, Heart, Bon Jovi, Crowded House, Duran Duran, REO Speedwagon, Styx, ect... You see where I am going with this list.

Once I hit the age of 10 I began to explore a bit for myself and like most kids of the modern day have done, gone down the nu-metal sought of route: Korn, Slipknot, Limpbizkit ect, luckily that phase only lasted a couple months before I proceeded to greener pastures.

The next phase included much of what occured in the first phase, with two major bands sticking their heads out in front: JOURNEY and 10000 Maniacs. This phase here lasted over a year until about 13.

You guessed it, every kid needs a metal phase in their life, and this one was going to last awhile. From about 13-until I joined MB really 3 months ago, at 16 years of age, it was basically all metal, with a few exceptions. Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Pantera, Slayer, Sepultura, Motorhead, You name it... Along with the copious amounts of metal were a few bands that led me to love music properly and join MB in search of more of the sought, most notably THE CLASH!!!

Since joining MB

I joined MB at the beginning of 2009, but only made my first real post and started participating about 2 months ago. Since joining MB, my tastes have changed 20000 fold and 90% of the music I did once listen to does not appeal anymore, yet their are some staples from my history. Some bands that have stuck with me through the past phases are: The Clash, The White Stripes, 10000 Maniacs, Led Zeppelin, The Doors.

My collection has almost doubled in the space of two months and is consistently growing. Some of the threads that have got me going in new directions are:
Comus's 1001 Albums: I must have either bought or downloaded 30-35 of the albums on there and very few of them I dislike.

Jackhammers Thrash Thread: Need I say anymore? Some great bands and awesome music which really opened up the genre to me.

Jackhammer/Bulldogg's Reggae Thread: This has probably been the biggest influence on me. Although I don't own many of their suggested albums, I have gone out and bought quite a few reggae albums and am totally hooked on the music as a whole. The reggae collection is still very small at 16 albums, but is forever growing and has had the biggest influence on me as a person and in my musical taste, than any other single element has before, music related or not. That is pretty special to me.

Needless to say, MB has been a real-eye opener as before coming here I thought I knew a lot about music as I could mouth off to 99.9% of the people I know about music, now I have been chopped down to size and come to appreciate the vast amount of music that has brought me here and the music that I will/will not discover in the future.

Thanks MB.

FaSho · 08-15-2009, 10:20 AM

2006: I heard American Idiot for the first time when I was 11. I then fell in love with Green Day, it was an obsession. i had to find other music like it. Three months later, but cd collection consisted of Green Day, Sum 41, Good Charlotte, and Simple Plan. It was like this for the rest of the year until I found FuseTV. Where I heard Ohio Is For Lovers by Hawthorne Heights, and realized that i liked other music besides what I considered at the time to be 'punk'. I then continued to by cds from almost every artist on Victory Records. Aiden, Atreyu, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus. 'Screamo' was my favorite genre. not too much later my copusin showed me two songs. 'Sugar We're Goin Down' by Fall Out Boy, and 'The Birth And Death of The Day' by Explosions In The sky. I thought the first one was great, and the second was boring noise. I loved Fall Out Boy almost as much as I loved Green Day, who I still listened to religiously. I continued to by everything Fuse threw up on me. Nirvana, Linkin Park, Senses Fail.
2007: I never thought I would like another band as much as I liked Green Day, that is until I was watching Fuse one morning and was introduced to 'Welcome To The Black Parade' by My Chemical Romance. I bought that album and listened to it everyday for about 5 months, then Fall Out Boy's new album Infinity On High came out, and i discovered other artists on Fuled By Ramen, Cute Is What We Aim For, Cobra Starship, The Academy Is,Gym Class Heroes, and the band that would soon become my favorite ever, Say Anything. My obsession with these bands led me to the mindset that I should stop finding new music, because I would never find anything as good.
2008: It was the same for the first half of the year, until I stumbled across musicbanter.com . I felt it necessary to join because my taste in music was so great. I soon learned thanks to members like sleepy jack, and Urban Hatemonger that I was very, very wrong, and that my ideas of 'punk' and 'screamo' were all wrong. I decided I needed to find some more music if I was ever to become a respectable meber of this community. I listened to anything someone mentioned in the popular threads, I found some great music, David Bowie, Porcupine Tree, The Mars Volta. but nothing really hit me like Green day or My Chem did until around November when I first heard Sufjan Stevens. His music made me question everything I though tI knew about music. I no longer wanted to listen to Sum 41, I had found a new love folky singer/songwriter stuff. Which led to me to the kind of music I would probably consider my favorite genre to this date, Indie Rock.
2009: I heard Girlfriend In A Coma on the radio, and had to download the album it was on, Strangeways, Here We come. I had found what would later become my favorite abdn ever.

I also got into post-rock, and facepalmed so hard when I realized how great Explosions In The sky are.

Thank you Music Banter, for completley re-hauling my taste in music, because thoug hI still listen to My Chemical Romance and Fall Out Boy, i now know what 'good music' is.

08-14-2009, 07:17 PM	#22 (permalink)
jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	I have been digging Male singer-songwriters a lot recently but I have no set path and listen to a multitude of genres in one sitting. __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”

08-15-2009, 02:42 AM	#29 (permalink)
zeppy111 16, so? Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: South Africa Posts: 630	Pre-musicbanter I have grown up in a household where the music never turned off and the quantity of it was always immense. Those days were from about day 1 of my life till about 10, where I had no real direction of my own when it came to music, but instead was lead by my parents immense collection of 80's/stadium rock/random outbreaks of brilliance. Most of the stuff that filled my ears as a little kid included: Journey, GNR, Heart, Bon Jovi, Crowded House, Duran Duran, REO Speedwagon, Styx, ect... You see where I am going with this list. Once I hit the age of 10 I began to explore a bit for myself and like most kids of the modern day have done, gone down the nu-metal sought of route: Korn, Slipknot, Limpbizkit ect, luckily that phase only lasted a couple months before I proceeded to greener pastures. The next phase included much of what occured in the first phase, with two major bands sticking their heads out in front: JOURNEY and 10000 Maniacs. This phase here lasted over a year until about 13. You guessed it, every kid needs a metal phase in their life, and this one was going to last awhile. From about 13-until I joined MB really 3 months ago, at 16 years of age, it was basically all metal, with a few exceptions. Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Pantera, Slayer, Sepultura, Motorhead, You name it... Along with the copious amounts of metal were a few bands that led me to love music properly and join MB in search of more of the sought, most notably THE CLASH!!! Since joining MB I joined MB at the beginning of 2009, but only made my first real post and started participating about 2 months ago. Since joining MB, my tastes have changed 20000 fold and 90% of the music I did once listen to does not appeal anymore, yet their are some staples from my history. Some bands that have stuck with me through the past phases are: The Clash, The White Stripes, 10000 Maniacs, Led Zeppelin, The Doors. My collection has almost doubled in the space of two months and is consistently growing. Some of the threads that have got me going in new directions are: Comus's 1001 Albums: I must have either bought or downloaded 30-35 of the albums on there and very few of them I dislike. Jackhammers Thrash Thread: Need I say anymore? Some great bands and awesome music which really opened up the genre to me. Jackhammer/Bulldogg's Reggae Thread: This has probably been the biggest influence on me. Although I don't own many of their suggested albums, I have gone out and bought quite a few reggae albums and am totally hooked on the music as a whole. The reggae collection is still very small at 16 albums, but is forever growing and has had the biggest influence on me as a person and in my musical taste, than any other single element has before, music related or not. That is pretty special to me. Needless to say, MB has been a real-eye opener as before coming here I thought I knew a lot about music as I could mouth off to 99.9% of the people I know about music, now I have been chopped down to size and come to appreciate the vast amount of music that has brought me here and the music that I will/will not discover in the future. Thanks MB. __________________ My Blog (album of the day): http://musicfromthesouth.blogspot.com

08-15-2009, 12:12 AM	#24 (permalink)
Fruitonica Pale and Wan Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Aus Posts: 917	Up until I was sixteen or so I wasn't all that concerned about what music I listened to, so my tastes followed the usual route of classic rock mixed with whatever hip hop/rock/pop was on the radio. If there was a defining moment in transitioning to someone who is passionate about mucis, it would be when I stumbled accross a review of Madvillainy, and downloaded it on an impulse. And as soon as the opening collage faded and that swirling accordion kicked in, I loved it. Which started me on an underground hip hop kick which eventually bled into other genres, and I started searching around for new music. Which is when I googled music forum and Music Banter cropped up. My tastes actually haven't come that far, all of the genres that I listened to up until then still get the most representation, and my favourite albums all fall within the hip hop or rock spectrum. But I have become much more appreciative of challenging or abrasive music, and thanks mainly to hip hop lyricism has become more important to me. Like others have mentioned, I don't expand my collection that quickly, and find myself spending time with favourites more often than not. I only download a few albums a week, and delete quite a bit of what I lay my hands on if it can't impress me. Generally, if I enjoy an album I listen to it a lot, and when I see people on MB going on crazy downloading sprees I always wonder how they can listen to so much music with a proper level of appreciation, it would exhaust me. *I know how much you hate this stuff Satchmo. Please forgive me.

08-15-2009, 12:23 AM	#26 (permalink)
Fruitonica Pale and Wan Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Aus Posts: 917	Just a joke, flowing on from everyone else's unnecessary apologies.