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Post by kds on Sept 11, 2020 12:21:54 GMT
The song or artist that awakened you to romantic possibilities. (“Girls/Boys like music, too? Well, now!”)
I can't recall if it was Saigon Kick's Love is on the Way or Bad Company's Feel Like Makin' Love. But, I'm fairly certain it was one of those two.
A song or artist you recall being turned on to by a “cool person’s” recommendation. (Just anyone you looked up to: sibling, friend, guy at the record store, whatever.)
I never hung with anyone "cool," but I had a good friend who I met in elementary school who I always looked up to. Even though I remember his was really into Queen before Wayne's World, he was not the one who persuaded me to get into them. But, I think he was the one who helped get me into the post Beatles catalog of Paul McCartney, around the spring of 1993, when we were finishing 7th grade. Paul was about to release his Off the Ground record at the time, and I remember being interested enough to watch a concert that was broadcast on Fox TV.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Sept 11, 2020 13:47:02 GMT
The song or artist that awakened you to romantic possibilities. (“Girls/Boys like music, too? Well, now!”):
I'm having a hard time with this one. I can't think of any artist other than The Beach Boys. Regardless of the surf & turf/fun and girls aspect which appeals to guys, I found that many girls could appreciate Brian's music (and the vocals), too. A boring answer, I know...
A song or artist you recall being turned on to by a “cool person’s” recommendation. (Just anyone you looked up to: sibling, friend, guy at the record store, whatever.):
Bob Dylan through my sister. Lou Reed, The Velvet Underground, and The MC5 through Creem Magazine. The Band through the old Smiley Smile board. I know he had his problems but I miss Ian Wagner. I loved his writing; I learned a lot from him.
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Post by Kapitan on Sept 11, 2020 13:53:25 GMT
I miss Ian Wagner. I loved his writing; I learned a lot from him. Ditto. I didn't always like what seemed to be the pack of toadies following behind him, but I really appreciated him.
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Post by Kapitan on Nov 13, 2020 15:10:19 GMT
While cleaning some files yesterday I came across a list of questions for this thread ... which was the first time in almost two months I remembered the existence of this thread. So, in the words of VDP, "trousers forward!" Our next question is:
What was your favorite song/artist as of your first year out of high school (or if you’re in a place that doesn’t have “high school,” roughly 18 years old and/or leaving home for the first time)?
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Post by kds on Nov 13, 2020 15:18:20 GMT
While cleaning some files yesterday I came across a list of questions for this thread ... which was the first time in almost two months I remembered the existence of this thread. So, in the words of VDP, "trousers forward!" Our next question is:
What was your favorite song/artist as of your first year out of high school (or if you’re in a place that doesn’t have “high school,” roughly 18 years old and/or leaving home for the first time)?
For me, that would be Pink Floyd. I'd really gotten into The Wall during my junior year. Then, senior year, I got into Darkside of the Moon and the post Waters stuff. After graduating, when I started having some of my own money to spend, and a drivers license so I could go to record stores and box stores, I began to collect the rest of the catalog.
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Post by B.E. on Nov 13, 2020 16:07:23 GMT
What was your favorite song/artist as of your first year out of high school (or if you’re in a place that doesn’t have “high school,” roughly 18 years old and/or leaving home for the first time)?
I tended to listen predominantly to one artist at a time (often for a few months at a time) and winter of my senior year of high school was Bob Dylan. I distinctly remember listening to The Essential Bob Dylan when driving to (away) basketball games and visiting colleges. I also have this memory of listening to The Who, and specifically, "Baby Don't You Do It", on the bus ride home from a basketball game my junior year. It's weird the things we remember. But, it was something of an epiphany because it's been one of my favorite Who songs ever since.
By the fall of my freshman year of college it was Led Zeppelin's turn. It's not like I was just discovering them then (or Bob the year prior), but it was probably the first time I really dug into their entire catalogs. What album couldn't I stop listening to - day in and day out? Physical Graffiti. Still my favorite to this day. Coincidence? Probably not.
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Post by Kapitan on Nov 13, 2020 16:37:07 GMT
I'm trying to remember specifically who I'd have called my favorite at the time, but probably Queen or Zeppelin. I remember feeling the depth of the productions, the musical details in their music, and the sheer power. I remember blasting "Carouselambra" or "Achilles Last Stand" or any number of Queen tunes in my dorm room, the kind of dorm-room-open invitation for like-minded people to stop in. It was really just my senior year of high school when I mostly abandoned new music: truly as grunge came and went and the grunge-influenced trash heap of "alternative" dominated the rock scene (and R&B also got really big), I went deeper into the classics.
It's funny that all three of us so far as 18-year-olds or so were looking back 20-30 years for our favorites at that time. Was that common among your peers? Because it really wasn't among mine. My fellow jazz majors were into jazz, of course, so that went back mostly to the 50s and 60s with them. My fellow rock-band-creating friends and art nerds (who hung with the musicians) were into a lot of older things. But the vast, vast majority of our peers were really into what was big at the time, and not much else: Sheryl Crow, Beck, Nirvana, Babyface, TLC, Boyz II Men, etc.
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Post by kds on Nov 13, 2020 16:43:47 GMT
It's funny that all three of us so far as 18-year-olds or so were looking back 20-30 years for our favorites at that time. Was that common among your peers? Because it really wasn't among mine. My fellow jazz majors were into jazz, of course, so that went back mostly to the 50s and 60s with them. My fellow rock-band-creating friends and art nerds (who hung with the musicians) were into a lot of older things. But the vast, vast majority of our peers were really into what was big at the time, and not much else: Sheryl Crow, Beck, Nirvana, Babyface, TLC, Boyz II Men, etc.
I had a fairly small circle, but it really wasn't all that common amongst my HS peers. When I graduated in 1998, many of them were into the 311, Sublime, Sugar Ray type groups at the time. Of my really good friends at the time, one of them was really into Sublime and Limp Bizkit. He didn't start going backwards until later. Another friend was getting into Floyd around the time as me. And my best high school class friend was into a mix of classic rock and a new band that had just cropped up called.........Creed. Personally, I though, as still think, that music was a shit show in 1998. The last few years of the 1990s might be the absolute nadir when it comes to rock music. Even Van Halen found a way to totally suck.
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Post by B.E. on Nov 13, 2020 17:27:06 GMT
It's funny that all three of us so far as 18-year-olds or so were looking back 20-30 years for our favorites at that time. Was that common among your peers?
Well, my closest friends were all into classic rock. We might only share one or two favorite artists each, but we were all in the same ballpark. (Again, coincidence?) Then, some interest in alternative rock or hard rock (but by then most of it was 10-15 years old). As you widen the net, increasingly my peers were more into current music, other genres entirely. I was obviously of a more extreme variant. Nearly exclusively listening to not just classic rock, but early rock 'n' roll.
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Post by B.E. on Nov 13, 2020 17:29:59 GMT
KDS, unfortunately, high schoolers were still listening to those groups 5-10 years later!
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Post by kds on Nov 13, 2020 20:07:24 GMT
KDS, unfortunately, high schoolers were still listening to those groups 5-10 years later! Sad. I do remember Led Zeppelin being on the few classic rock bands my HS classmates seemed to be into. Maybe it was because of the big Plant / Page Unledded show that MTV aired during freshman year, but it seemed like Led Zeppelin captured guys who were into grunge and alternative. And only Zeppelin, not Queen, Sabbath, Purple, etc.
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Post by Kapitan on Nov 13, 2020 20:11:07 GMT
KDS, unfortunately, high schoolers were still listening to those groups 5-10 years later! Sad. I do remember Led Zeppelin being on the few classic rock bands my HS classmates seemed to be into. Maybe it was because of the big Plant / Page Unledded show that MTV aired during freshman year, but it seemed like Led Zeppelin captured guys who were into grunge and alternative. And only Zeppelin, not Queen, Sabbath, Purple, etc. I think you're right. I don't think all the grunge types liked Zeppelin, as some of them were more punk mentality, where being good at your instrument was awful. But there was the more mainstream and heavier rock that was still alternative, like Pearl Jam or Soundgarden, and their fans definitely were into Zeppelin.
But yeah, I think all alternative/grunge types of that era hated those other big '70s bands like Sabbath, Queen, or Purple.
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Post by kds on Nov 13, 2020 20:21:52 GMT
Sad. I do remember Led Zeppelin being on the few classic rock bands my HS classmates seemed to be into. Maybe it was because of the big Plant / Page Unledded show that MTV aired during freshman year, but it seemed like Led Zeppelin captured guys who were into grunge and alternative. And only Zeppelin, not Queen, Sabbath, Purple, etc. I think you're right. I don't think all the grunge types liked Zeppelin, as some of them were more punk mentality, where being good at your instrument was awful. But there was the more mainstream and heavier rock that was still alternative, like Pearl Jam or Soundgarden, and their fans definitely were into Zeppelin.
But yeah, I think all alternative/grunge types of that era hated those other big '70s bands like Sabbath, Queen, or Purple.
I could see them hating the bombast and camp of Queen. But, you'd think that Purple (Mark II version at least) and Sabbath would've similarly appealed to the grunge/alternative fans. But, then again Purple and Sabbath weren't really pushed too much on MTV at the time. I remember MTV used to show "Legends" or something with a similar name, and they showed one on Zeppelin a lot, especially in late 1994 when Unledded was about to premiere. It feels so odd now to be discussing Led Zeppelin and MTV in the same breath.
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Post by Kapitan on Nov 16, 2020 14:36:01 GMT
Tell us about a song that is emotionally meaningful to you.
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Post by kds on Nov 16, 2020 20:12:04 GMT
Tell us about a song that is emotionally meaningful to you.
I'd probably really need to ponder this one, but one of the top of my head is Pink Floyd's "High Hopes." I got a copy of The Division Bell during my senior year of high school 1997-98. It wasn't exactly a great time for me, I was a pretty angsty teenager. The lyrics of the song are about lost childhood, a theme in many Floyd songs, but this really spoke to me, even though I was still a minor. Even though I was at the tail end of high school, I already found myself pining for my elementary and middle school days that seemed far more fun and innocent. At 40, I'm far more comfortable in my own shoes, so High Hopes doesn't really make me as melancholy as it did over 20 years ago, but it's still moving on other levels, as when I listen, it doesn't fail to conjure up memories of the past.
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