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Your music taste chronology

Started by Cohaagen, April 19, 2011, 05:24:08 PM

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Cohaagen

How has your taste in music varied and evolved over the years? Bands or genres picked up on and then left behind, only to resurface years later. What's the timeline of your interests? While there are lots of gaps in the chronology and various missing bands, this is what it was more or less like for me...


1985: the first song I ever remember hearing is Iron Maiden's Phantom Of The Opera, from the famous advert of Daley Thompson running his twat off for a bottle of Lucozade under a set of traffic lights.

1987: Youngest elder sister takes me to Woolworths to buy my first single, Star Trekkin' by The Firm. Because I like Star Trek.

1988: My eldest sister is listening to lots of Guns n' Roses. Like Maiden, has some kind of implantation effect on my child's brain.

1989: I buy my first single on my own with my own pocket money - Jive Bunny's That's What I Like. Not because I actually enjoy the music, but because I keep pet rabbits and the anthropomorphic rabbit gimmick appeals to me.

Middle sister is bringing back lots of horrible Euro-dance from Italy which I suck up like an imbecile being fed mashed banana.

My aged mother buys me the Ghostbusters 2 soundtrack[nb]Actually true.[/nb]. I think the one for Basketballs Heads was out of stock.

Throughout the 80s: periodically all thru the decade I am listening to old-school country with my aged father in the cab of his lorry while on extended trips around the UK. A lifelong affection and nostalgia for the English countryside is sown.

1990: The crazy Mormon stepfather of my two friends along the road gives me two tapes, neither of which are about Joseph Smith, that will shape my tastes for years to come: Unleashed In The East (Judas Priest) and No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Motorhead). A week or so prior his long-suffering wife had finally left him after he went out to the chicken coop stoned and naked and blew the rooster's head off with a shotgun because it had a septic toe.

1991: I see Megadeth's video for Hanger 18 on The Chart Show. Beginnings of a metal obsession.

1991-'93: Youngest elder sister is heavily into grunge and thrash. Osmosis absorption of Nirvana, Pixies, L7, Soundgarden, Faith No More, Metallica, Sacred Reich, Testament, etc. One night she and her American boyfriend break my glasses then pin me to the ground and spit in my ear.

1993-mid '96: Expelled from primary school and sent to a residential establishment that preaches a "holistic, theraputic" philosophy. Three and a half horrible years of gabba and techno ensue, eg. Bass Generator, Lenny Dee, Industrial Strength Records, Omar Santana, etc. among the savages. I am the only pupil without an Eclipse jacket. The odd bit of death metal to line the nest.

90s dance records...Reel 2 Reel ft. Mad Stuntman, Culture Beat, Scatman John, etc.

Hear Cardiacs for the first time around about the release of Sing To God.

Later, as my behaviour "improves", I get my own personal radio as a reward. I begin listening to John Peel.

1996/'97: Into the Prodigy in a big way. Also Radiohead, Simon & Garfunkel. The worst song ever recorded, The Dunblane version of Knockin' On Heaven's Door, is released and reaches No1. I buy a copy of White Town's Your Woman and then deny having ever done so.

Visiting youngest eldest sister in Windsor I predict the Spice Girls will disappear quickly.

1997: I see Megadeth live for the first time at the Barrowlands in Glasgow.

1998: Still into Radiohead (OK Computer). DJ Shadow, Chemical Brothers, Prodigy, Portishead, etc. are all in the Top 40 and my favour.

Skinhead phase - a lifestyle joke that went too far - begins. I convince myself I like Laurel Aitken, Upsetter, Dave & Ansell Collins, Pioneers, Pyramids, etc. Much more interested in street punk and, tragically, Oi!. Infa Riot, 4-Skins, Exploited, The Business, Blitz, and so on. If it's fast and heavy I'm listening to it[nb](no Skrewdriver, I swear on my dog's life!)[/nb].

Late 2000: skinhead fad ends. Back to metal. Tech death metal and weird shit like Atheist, Voivod, Believer, Gorguts, Watchtower, along with Obituary, Death, Terrorizer, Morbid Angel, Possessed, etc. Start digging on Cardiacs in a big way. Prog rock odyssey begins - King Crimson mostly, with some Genesis, ELP, Soft Machine, and others. Folk rock begins to infiltrate, Fairport Convention, Trees, Byrds, Pentangle, Sandy Denny.

2002: As broadband access spreads, the reach and scope of the internet leads to a convergence of all musical roads. 80s pop, movie soundtracks, folk, metal, prog, and particularly jazz fusion...Mahavishnu Orchestra, Weather Report, Brand X, and more. Tom Waits and Hawkwind part of the whole buffet.

Hitherto obscure bands come to the fore. I hear Reginald Bosanquet's disco track for the first time. Voivod and Cardiacs on constant play.

2004-'05: Folk rock! Otherwise, Tom Waits is my stalwart for about 18 months due to evangelical efforts of my best friend the wrestler. I turn him onto Cardiacs in return.

2006-'08: My love of death metal takes a turn for the esoteric. Purtenance, Divine Eve, etc. I finally cave in and get an iPod.

The internet, and YouTube in particular, leads me to chiptune and keygen music. Start to build a library of OPL3  tracks. Sad fuck.

Today: Sample iPod Shuffle listing - Cardiacs (Burn Your House Brown), King Crimson (Starless), Carbonized (Spanish Fly), Ladytron (Seventeen), Killing Joke (The Wait), Q Lazzarus (Goodbye Horses), PTP (Show Me Your Spine), New Model Army (Christian Militia), Darkmateria (The Picard Song), Extreme Noise Terror (What Do You Care).

Brundle-Fly

You seem a fickle character. Re-visit your skinhead reggae phase and report back.

PaulTMA

Come off it, everyone knows the year zero for music was 'Funeral'.

JesusAndYourBush

I've always found it weird when someone's into one genre of music and listens exclusively to that genre with the exclusion of anything else.  For me, I'll like a handful of bands from a genre while avoiding a huge percentage of trash. [nb]In my opinion, obviously.[/nb]

I've known people who've been so heavily into one genre that their album/cd collections consist of only that genre, with great examples of the genre as well as a lot of rubbish[nb]See [1][/nb], and it's their whole life right down to dressing in a certain way.  They're missing out on so much.

Lee Van Cleef

Quote from: JesusAndYourBush on April 20, 2011, 01:08:25 AMI've known people who've been so heavily into one genre that their album/cd collections consist of only that genre, with great examples of the genre as well as a lot of rubbish[nb]See [1][/nb], and it's their whole life right down to dressing in a certain way.  They're missing out on so much.

Are they?  They're listening to what makes them happy.  I don't see it as missing out.

CaledonianGonzo

I still like most of the same stuff I did as a youngster.  I've added to it obviously and my tastes have expanded to incorporate things that I wouldn't have given houseroom to as a nipper, but many of my deepest musical bonds were formed before the age of 10 and still hold true today.

Neville Chamberlain

^

That's exactly the way it is with me. I've never been through a "metal phase" or a "dance phase" or anything like that. Stuff I listened to when I first started really getting into music when I was 10 or 11 is still, for the most part, stuff I would still happily listen to today, except obviously the volume of stuff has expanded many thousands of times over since. Although I think I would eventually have discovered the music I listen today at some point, the process for me was massively accelerated by the fact that my brothers were obsessed with music and started collecting from a very young age too, so I was constantly immersed in the noise of their music. Now they did go through phases, albeit different ones, and I probably would have gone through phases a bit more had I been left to my own devices and not been exposed to a pretty diverse range of music from so young.

And I shall be eternally grateful to my older brother for exposing my ears to Cardiacs sometime in the late 80s, although as a 10-year-old, I initially found them more frightening and intriguing rather than downright bloody amazing (though still a bit frightening and intriguing!).

SavageHedgehog

I guess I was a bit of a chart whore in my single digit days. I liked a lot of the dance-pop that was around in the early 90s, and when Britpop went big in 1995/96 I was keen on a lot of that too. From about ten to thirteen I was a bit of a grump music wise I guess, listening to a not particularly defined but fairly limited selection of stuff. When I was 14 I heard Golden Brown by The Stranglers a couple of times, liked that a lot and bought a tape(!) of their greatest hits second hand. I liked what I heard. Around that time I heard Rise by PIL and liked that a lot too. My interest in these lead to me watching Top Ten: Punk on C4. I then got interested in a lot of the featured bands, which lead to interest in further bands from the same era. That lead into an interest in new wave/post-punk, which lead to an interest in synthpop, which eventually lead to an interest in rave etc. I tried to go more hard rock/metal when I was 17-19, but I never quite convinced myself, I think on some level I was doing it because I felt like I "should" like hard rock. Still at least I'm not the total hardrockaphobe I was in my early teens. I never listened to one genre/scene/type at the exclusion of all others, mind you, but I definitely went through stages of preferring a particular kind of record. Since turning twenty I've rarely gone for one style particularly over others. My last major "phase" was Progressive Rock phase when I broke my arm shortly after turning 22. It seemed to suit painkillers and bedrest well somehow. I did go through a minor Country phase about a month ago.

Lord Mandrake

As an 80's kid, curiosity killed the cat, matt bianco, swing out sister.. Then we started listening to electro cassettes and later hip hop. The 90's was hip hop, madchester and then hardcore/rave/jungle took over completley until acid jazz reached my ears and that led me down many paths from retro funk/soul film scores and bebop, modal jazz and concurrently a lot of avant garde dance music, dub, trip hop etc... I finally started to understand folk and country music by the millenium but afro cuban and other south american folkloric stuff has been my obsession for the last ten years and will remain so. Jazz is a constant and I like to check out new electronic stuff now and then .