Chula Vista

I was born in 1960. Came of age with a backdrop of The Beatles, The Beach Boys, American Bandstand, and Motown. Lots of Motown. BLAM! Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, and Deep Purple. Spent most of the 70s sucking up what's now considered Classic Hard Rock. Latter 70s was all about progressive and fusion - Yes, Genesis, Mahavishnu, Dixie Dregs, etc. Got sucked into the 80s guitar god stuff via Malmsteen, Satriani, and Vai. Life then gets in the way and new music takes a back seat.

These days I'm just trying to suck up some of the ****e MB members suggest, like:

This Town Needs Guns
Strapping Young Lad
Sufjan Stevens
Death Grips

(PS Thread is dedicated to Frownland. I want to know how a kid born in 1994 has such a diverse, and highly weird, sense of musical tastes.)

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Frownland

I was born in 1994. I grew up on all of your standard rock and metal groups along with a bunch of the nu metal and post grunge that was coming out at the time (thanks dad). I started getting very interested in music at age 5 and was a metal head up until I was around 14, where I found Frank Zappa and Beefheart. Then it all went downhill as I started getting more and more into the weird stuff. Got around my aversion to hip hop and it was implemented into my musical diet when I was around 18.

These days I'll listen to anything that's pushing boundaries. A couple of more recent additions to my favourites are
Jim O'Rourke
Richard Dawson
Matana Roberts
Billy Woods
Bill Orcutt

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Key

I don't understand this thread. And I read the OP.

grindy

It's basically the "evolution of your taste" thread, with the year of birth added, so we don't forget that Chula is kinda old.

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Chula Vista

FIFY.

Listened to Zoot Allures last night for what it's worth.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

grindy

I'll call it oldish.
Still great that you're willing to explore new stuff.
My dad thinks everything that doesn't follow the rules he knows and likes is simply wrong and sneers at it. But then again it's probably not about age, he just is that way.
My grandma is 78 and she is very open-minded when it comes to music.

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Chula Vista

It's not. Cliche's be damned. Check this out: 2001.



I only "found" this after I turned 40.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Key

Still doesn't make sense. Am I supposed to know what I listened to when I was born?

grindy

Screams and heavy breathing probably.

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Goofle

It's a very easy thread to understand.

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