sharke


I sometimes look down upon my teenage musical tastes with a snobby air and thank God that I've progressed onto better stuff throughout adulthood. Tonight, for laughs, I listened to "Crushing Day" by Joe Satriani and initially laughed at how cheesy it sounded. But by around 2 minutes in I was stomping my feet, punching the air and banging my head, aged 14 all over again. Think I'll go listen to some Candlemass next!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFRhmKuD9x8

well, with my teenager son I had to learn all bout hip-hop music and I have already started to smoke again to keep it together....



The most irritating part is my kids were always exposed to best of the best of 70-ties and later rock and roll, to jazz and to classical music
and what I got in return? a crap! I mean rap...

Kids like to contradict their parents, almost systematically.. You should have exposed them hip hop. They'd be into Bach or Led Zep right now. ;)

I plan on telling my kids that I want them to cut their hair and get a real job, like, so that I can enjoy seeing them going through the same crap I had to go through in their twenties as artists. ;)

Notice that in my family, it was the opposite because my dad was really immature. He started hating the Beatles the minute I "discovered" them... I even came that close to making him say bad things about Elvis.

Yeah,  I was really into The BEATLES, Paul Revere and Raiders, I had Ramblin Gamblin Man by Bob Seger, Donovan HG Man, Disraeli Gears some others but I think I listened the We're Only in it for the Money more than any other one album... and I was straight as a board for several more years. Something about that record really hooked me.

J

Interestingly enough I never liked Beatles or Elvis for that matter when I was younger. I mean maybe a few songs I liked and that's it. Started to appreciate some of their songs when I got older but still don't get what Beatles-Madness was all about...

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but still don't get what Beatles-Madness was all about...

Simple. At the time, there really wasn't anything like them. But if you did not live that time (I was 11 when they landed in New York for the first time) it would be hard to appreciate the impact they had on so many of us youngsters.


I personally believe it was the dawn of mass marketing so really, if it wasn't them it would have been someone else. However, for every one who says "still don't get" there are hundreds of us who were getting it from the get go.

JMO.

Guitarhacker


 I still have the same musical tastes that I did back in the days of my teenage years. I can appreciate early Ozzie, Clapton, Jimi, and all the iconic others. 

I have even purchased some of the favorites on CD..... Deep Purple Machine Head, Pink Floyd DSOTM, Humble Pie Rockin the Fillmore...... 

that stuff still sounds as good now as it did back then. 

If anything, my ability to listen to and appreciate many other genre's of music has expanded. I still have yet to acquire a taste or appreciation for rap, hip hop, dubstep, techno, or electronica though.  I can listen to it in moderation..... about 15 seconds or so...... 

I can listen to good electronica.  But I am with you on the others.  


Here are three pieces I do not know how to classify.


Little Fluffy Clouds - Orb.  


We Have Explosive - Future Sound of London 


WTF

I'm lucky enough to have a father who exposed me to good music from the day I was brought back from the hospital. I was weaned on Steely Dan, Frank Zappa, the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Little Feat, Joe Jackson and many others. I think my all time favorite band is Steely Dan. To this day I listen to them regularly, even though I must have listened to each album thousands of times. They just touch a music nerve with me. I think the first album I have a memory of listening to is Frank Zappa's "One Size Fits All" and apparently I would ask to hear "Sofa no 2" over and over when I was 3. 

At various times of my life I've "rebelled" against my core tastes with other genres, some of which I cannot stand anymore like hip hop, but I've always gone back to the stuff I love the best. I think the likes of Steely Dan really attuned my ears to colorful harmony and interesting arrangements and made my ears prick up when I heard the likes of Debussy. 

Right now I'm being blown away by the Goat Rodeo Sessions album, I know it was raved about quite some time ago but I'm just discovering it. This is what I mean by colorful music. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtAITPpMzWI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIVrCZ5sNwE

Sometimes it's a case of being seen to rebel. I used to go to my mates house and listen to ELP, Santana, Zepplin, Yes etc. Sometimes if and only if his parents were out we would listen to his father's Buddy Rich and Sinatra albums.

I used to do the exact reverse in some cases....my father liked Bach...I would go for Medieval music....