Thunder

Hi, I thought about joining the crew... I've been a music fan and listener since my mother used to play classical music (mostly Beethoven) and rock and roll (mostly Queen and The Rolling Stones) out loud. One day I got my first MP3 player and I started appreciating and contemplating music b sides simply listening to it. When I started listening to music I didn't know a lot about artists and genres but I started to search and read until my music culture rooted itself. I'm not very good at introductions so I'll just make two lists - One about my personal self and another about my musical preferences.

Personal self:
- I am male, white and 21 years old
- I am a law student and I live with my parents (I help paying the bills)
- I'm politically a liberal and I neither align with the left nor with the right. I'm mostly a centrist and independent, but sympathize with Social-Democracy. I'm also an atheist.
- B sides music I like videogames, literature, movies/TV series, anime (and some manga), philosophy, economics and science in general
- I am Portuguese (situated in southern Europe) and I live in Portugal. I am reasonably fluent in English.

Musical preferences:
- I am a huge fan of rock and roll, and that includes genres like Heavy Metal, Alternative, Hard Rock, Pop Rock, lots of Classical Rock, quite some modern bands, etc. I've been listening to rock since I was 14 and picked up a Led Zeppelin album from my now deceased dad (I now call my stepdad "dad")
- I also enjoy other genres like pop/popular music, from Sinatra to Michael Jackson, and even some modern artists are decent (not really what I consider art but some mainstream pop songs are catchy)
- I like hip hop as well, specially Hip Hop from the 90's
- I like a big variety of Portuguese music, mostly rock/Portuguese rock bands (some of them are similar to American/British bands of the same eras but with Portuguese lyrics). We also have the music genre Fado.
- Lately I've been listening to classical music and getting into it. I'm starting by Beethoven since it's the first composer I remember listening to when I was a kid.
- I dislike elitism in music. I classify elitism as the belief that one's music taste is superior and better than others.
- I'm not a musician or an expert in musical instruments, I'm simply the average person who enjoys music

I hope I have a good time here