SATCHMO

This thread is something That I intend to be a a journal of sorts for people to use to communicate, at length hopefully, about where they are in their musical journey in a very open and holistic way. In a way, almost like a shared journal.

I think we see snippets of members musical tastes in threads such as "Albums you're Digging" and in the various sub-forums, but I know in my case, my tastes in music are always doing crazy, wonderful, and self-contradictory things. I think this would be a better way to get a broader more macroscopic picture of where people are at musically at any given moment, that is if no one's afraid to write.

Jazz is always my great love and one I will always return to, but i overdose on it regularly and need to explore other avenues. The same could be said about reggae and hip-hop to a lesser degree.

I've been exploring Post-rock little by little lately, and for a genre that I always ridiculed as being avante garde repackaged for the post-emo scene, I find that I'm liking it quite a bit. Especially Lymbyc Systym's Carved by Glaciers album

On the other side of things, I've been getting into some classic country and western swing. More notably the brilliant guitar work of Chet Atkins.

That's just a taste from me. The reality is much more complex. What's been going on with your musical pursuits?

gunnels

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Currently digging: Bjork, Beardfish, Panic at the Disco, Toy Dolls, Tech N9ne, Koji Kondo.

I'm pretty directionless with what I'm checking out, I'm going in every direction but I intend to dive into reggae soon.

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SATCHMO

Well considering that this is as "at length" as you usually get on here...good job

And I've had my share of fails lately too

crash_override

Awesome thread idea.

Speaking of classic country and brilliant guitar work, have you heard Merle Travis?

As for myself,

Recently digging Poison The Well, Minus The Bear, Behemoth, Trenches, Lake of Tears, 16 Horsepower, Mastodon, and maudlin of The Well.

The genre I would like most to get more into is a dark progressive doom metal. Along the lines of Sculptered and Agalloch. Aslo, any dark progressive along the lines of Lake of Tears.

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I like this thread idea.

I started my musical journey as a young lad basically with a third mainstream classic rock and two thirds modern pop punk type bands. I started with stuff like Nofx, Rancid, Ozzy Osbourne, ACDC, Dropkick Murphys, Lagwagon. From there my tastes focused more so just on punk, ska and grunge-type rock like Black Flag, Minor Threat, Dead Kennedys, The Planet Smashers and Nirvana.

After loads more punk and such I was all about (vaguely) 90's indie bands like Melvins, Dinosaur Jr., Sonic Youth, Fugazi, Eric's Trip, Treepeople, and At the Drive-In. Around the same time I couldn't get enough of noise music, probably brought on by Sonic Youth. Huge Mike Patton fan too. I suppose the same time I began to love calm slower music a lot more. This is just a bit of background on some of my musical growth. I think all the punk and experimental based music made a big impact me and my ideas of what music can be. The D.I.Y ethics as well.

I still love most all of the bands I mentioned but I think my tastes are rooted in indie music. I've developed a love for electronic/dance, reggae and dub music. I'd like to delved into jazz and more into reggae. I don't listen to many reggae artists but I feel the little bit I have listened to have had a large effect on my bass playing within the last year (dance music too). Blah blah blah wow, I'm rambling.

More recently I think I've been trying out a lot more albums of various styles not knowing what to expect and just seeing what clicks. This is probably partially due to Music Banter. I don't think I've ever really been closed minded with music I just think now I'm making a larger effort to listen to albums/artists/genres I'm unfamiliar with.

I've recently fallen in love with the new Health album Get Color at first listen. My favorite album I've heard lately is Just Colour (coincidence?) by The Lollipop Shoppe. I think I'm going to dive further into 60's psychedelic/garage rock. I listened to the Nuggets collection many months ago and I think that was a good starting point. I've discovered that Dredg is just not the band for me.

I apologize for the long winded train of thought and my lack of writing ability.

Dr_Rez

I think anyone who digs far enough into music eventually grows to love jazz. It has just done so much for music theory and improvisation. Personally I hold it in the same category that classical and Baroquial (spelling?) music are in. Not because of the similarities in sound but the knowledge one must have to compose and create them.

Also most jazz musicians I know could play chords/notes/shapes in circles around most other musicians. Technical skill is not all what an instruments about, but it certainly is one aspect of it that is to be respected.

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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.

Post-punk in particular has been piquing my interest in the last 6 months or so. Aside from that, my musical explorations are somewhat directionless although I can feel an electronica phase coming on but we'll see.

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Bulldog

Pretty much describes my approach to new music too. Sometimes I make the mistake of getting far too much of the stuff as well and not really having the time for a lot of it before I get even more stuff as well.

Anyway, my journeys on the seven seas of musical piracy of late...

These last few months I've been getting into a lot of electronic music beyond all the trip-hop and chillout I'd usually listen to before. I started with big beat, IDM and progressive house, which basically entails Leftfield, Stendeck, Overseer, Junkie XL, DJ Hyper, Groove Armada, the Freestylers and many many others. As of this last week or so I've been taking that a step further and delving into drum 'n' bass/jungle, particularly Goldie and Kosheen (who kinda combine it with trip-hop and sound immensely cool as a result).

Other than that, it's been more of the usual - Elvis Costello, Nick Cave, the Pogues, Midnight Oil etc. David Bowie as well, but that's been because I've re-discovered all my old bootlegs.

Might go on another reggae/dub binge next. Haven't done that for quite a while now.

SATCHMO

This is actually exactly what I want to see from people. This thread is an invitation for folks to get long winded about their musical tastes.

Zarko

I've never understood the idea that people have to keep on looking for new music to replace the older stuff they've listened to. I mean, I download a ****e load of music, more than I probably should, but in the same vein, week to week, there is almost a 100% chance that one of Nick Cave/Dead Can Dance/Amon Tobin will top the charts, unless I make a massive new discovery band wise. Maybe its the 'LastFM' age of music listeners, where its cool to seem diverse week to week... Screw that, I'm happy with The Bad Seeds taking up nearly 20% of my total plays at over 2000 listens. I USED to be a bit like this in school. Not 'elitist' but I had a small level of self satisfaction finding the next good thing and introducing my friends to it. Luckily I am past that.

In conclusion, things are same old same old around here. Download a few albums a week, realise most are ****, go back to the albums I love. I do go through phases though. A week or two ago I was in a pretty heavy hip hop/trip hop phase, where I was scouring undeniably average blogs for one or two gems. When your favourite rap band only released the single album (Rubberoom), it sucks trying to find anything like it. Did find some good stuff though, like Dalek, Fat Jon The Ample Soul Physician, The Phonosapiens and others.

Though I do consider myself to be a jazz fan, it is perhaps the most volatile genre in finding an album I actually love. The classics are fine, but in general bore the hell out of me (Unless its Mingus), and it isn't exactly a flooded market nowadays. My 'Jazz Journey' began with an anime (Cowboy Bebop) which set me off on the wrong foot, with the advertisement of 'bebop' when it didn't have any 'real' bebop sounds in it. It was good, and I still love the soundtrack, but it was an odd stepping stone. Nowadays I am a nujazz, Jazz-Electronic fan mainly, with the occasional post bop/avant garde album coming across my palette. Recently got Nils Petter Molvaer's new album 'Hamada' from overseas, which was a treat, really like it, very earthy.

Electronic is a fairly new genre for me on a wide spectrum (A year and a half maybe) and it still almost never gets boring. Although it term 'Electronic' lends itself open to so many styles, it should take a while.

Rock music is the real culprit at the moment. Most of the stuff I am exposed to is pap, I have never been a huge rock fan, but all the other areas just massively appeal more to me now. Never been a prog fan other than KC or PF, not a metal fan. Actually, in general, guitar driven music is becoming a bit of a bore. Its probably due to the fact that I am picky as hell with my music and I haven't really put in an effort to find anything I love recently, but see how that progresses.

For now I will open the same 8 blogs a day, see what new stuff they have to DL, if nothing then it'll be a quiet day for my net, unless I am feeling particularly peckish and try to find another new blog w/ DL's galore.