Musical Misconceptions
 

This was brought up in the shoutbox. What are some misconceptions you had about music as a kid? To start off (because I had TONS), I considered Garth Brooks to be the best country artist around. I also went through a phase where Incubus and Sublime were the best bands EVER.

I will repeat a couple of the ideas I shared from when I was about 13 and really just starting to get into music.

- I thought a band had to be from California to be good.
- I thought Linkin Park were as hardcore as music got.
- I thought a band had to have either three or five members to be good.
- I thought solo artists and singer/songwriters had no merit.

-I thought Slipknot was the heaviest band in existence
-I thought old bands "sucked"
-I thought Korn was the best band evar!!!
-I thought shoegaze was a band.

Even though I listened to all of this horrible music I still felt like there was something better out there.

I thought Canada was the world's foremost source of awesome music.

I thought bands beginning with 'The' were the only important bands around.

I thought albums had to be titled after the most important song on the album.

- I thought the Jesus & Mary Chain and the Smiths were the greatest indie bands ever
- i thought Frankie Goes to Hollywood was cutting-edge
- i was of the view Dylan is a good singer
- i thought the Manic Street Preachers' lyrics were biting socio-political remarks that made sense

and many others

HAHA!!!

I thought world music was terrible. Now I can't get enough :)

I'm curious how these two notions worked together in your mind.

The production was for the time? When Relax was released I didn't hear anything else that quite sounded like it at the time. But the main thing to me was their big singles back them just sounded like good music, and I think they still sound good.

lyrically - i thought it was the most controversial thing I heard, then I heard stuff like the live version of "Kick Out the Jams", which was released in 1969

musically they're good or rather, Trevor Horn's session musicians were good

- I thought Sum 41 were proper punk
- I thought Korn and Slipknot were as br00tal as music got
- I thought Creed were a great band
- I thought all electronic music was mindless rubbish
- I thought Finch and Funeral For A Friend were innovative
- I thought Michael Jackson was a woman

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The group could perform well live I think, I liked some clips on youtube. The lyrics were controversial it's true but if the basic music wasn't good I don't think it would have had that much of an impact.

but the original "Relax" was so different, i'm not saying they're a bunch of talentless poseurs, it's just Welcome to the Pleasuredome is mostly a Trevor Horn venture

obviously if the band plays something, they followed the sessions musicians' composition

Relax did evolve a great deal to be sure and a fair bit of that was due to other people. But they could still perform it and give it the energy and even some of the atmosphere. The vocals play a big part too on it I think, and they were not done by session musicians.

I thought music 30 years and older was the best and all newer music sucked.
Queen was the best band in the world.
Marilyn Manson is deep.
People who liked The Smiths were Hipsters.

Those are a few I could think of off the top of my head. I really didn't know what was up.

I've never had any musical misconceptions at all, I am superior.

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OK, there may have been a time where I thought teens wearing Slipknot hoodies were cool.

weren't they? and still are?

maybe they occurred at different stages of life

I thought "Castles in the Sky" and "SandStorm" from Darude was proper techno

my musical misconceptions:

1) i thought Michael Jackson was white
2) i thought MTV was like the God of all music.
3) i thought Kate Winslet was Celine Dion who sang My Heart Will Go On from Titanic, for a long time.

My musical misconceptions growing up were basically not knowing original songs from covers. I didn't find out All Along the Watchtower was a Dylan tune, not a Hendrix tune, until I was 13 and had been digging it for a few years. A few cases like that....

I remember when I was about 16 and the first Poison album Look What the Cat Dragged In came out. There were close up photos of each of the individual band members on the cover. I saw an ad for the album in a music mag that I'd bought and immediately ripped it out, hung it on my wall and avowed that these were the four hottest women on the face of the planet. I used to plant kisses on each of their individual faces before going to bed at night (you know, where you kiss your hand and then touch the object of your devotion, yada, yada...). This lasted about a week before I was informed by a friend that they were dudes. I don't think I've gotten over this yet.

http://www.amoeba.com/dynamic-images...Dragged-In.jpg

I'd hit it. Scorching hotties.

Can't think of much myself. Maybe I didn't quite understand some genres as much like punk or metal, but they aren't my favourite genres even now. And the songs I liked when I was a kid I still like now. There were some things I certainly didn't know about but that also means I couldn't misjudge them as I didn't know about them.

As for this I think there are probably quite a few songs that many people still think are original but actually aren't.

-I thought Simple Plan were actual punk rock
-I thought all electronic music was called "techno"
-I thought System of a Down was the most original music out there

Hip Hop I will have underestimated at the start of the 90s, but then I wasn't really listening to hardly any popular music then anyway. If you don't actually hear stuff you won't hear the best of it and so be able to judge it better.

were you one of those rap = crap people back then?

I thought Rap took no talent at all cause they didn't use instruments.

I thought Slayer was the heaviest Death Metal band of all time lol.

I remember a time when I thought the stuff put out by Shrapnel Records was quite good :laughing:

Yeh, although at that time I would have said the same for other types of popular music as I largely just heard classical music in that period. The radio stuff I heard didn't appeal to me, and most of that probably wouldn't appeal to me now either really. But if you look beyond what just got the major play on the radio then you can find much more good stuff of course. But there is only so much time to hear music and at that time I was looking at other stuff.

I thought that the only music worth listening to was Classical. Or the Beatles. And anything with rapping was crap. And anything heavier than, say, Creed was pure noise and just awful. Heck, I hated Iron Maiden with a passion when I first heard them.

I had issues as a child. :p

I thought that all songs with the same title were the same song.

I wouldn't say they're the best. My taste has changed since then, a lot. I don't listen to them anymore. A lot of bands trump them IMHO and find it funny that that's all I used to listen to.

-I thought Eminem was the best rapper of all time.
-I thought MCR had real emotion in their songs.
-I thought Jared Leto was one of the coolest guys ever.
-I thought Maynard was a God.

-I thought all types of art music was called classical music.
-I thought American Folk Music Revival of the late 50's/early 60's was called Folk.
-I thought all country music was horrible.
-I thought The Chesterfield Kings were from the 60's.
-I thought Led Zeppelin wrote all their songs.
-I thought The Beatles should not be called The Greatest Rock Band of All Time, now that stuff doesn't bother me about The Beatles, in a way it still bothers about some other bands/artists.
-I would confuse band names like:
The Young Rascals w/ Lovin Spoonful
Hüsker Dü w/ Minute Men
Collective Soul w/ Goo Goo Dolls
30 Seconds to Mars w/ 30 Seconds from Mars