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Hector
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| You are one hip teenager. The Residents at 14! What were the nu-metal bands you listened to? It's sort of funny because I've only ever listened to some of that stuff now and I really like some of it, like that first Korn album. |
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SpectreWithin
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Yeah Aalto you are blessed with some seriously good music taste at an early age. I didn't discover great things like Current 93, The Residents, Can, and GYBE until about age 20 or later. Wish I had found them sooner.
I grew up in a small conservative town and simply didn't know that "underground" music existed for most of my childhood. This was before the internet / web came into prominence - I'm sure growing up now it is much easier to discover different music.
Here's my progression roughly (keep in mind this was mostly in the 80's):
Early years / pre-teen: Duran Duran, Run-DMC, Van Halen, Twisted Sister, the Miami Vice theme
Teen years: classic rock, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Stevie Ray Vaughan
Later teens: started discovering alternative radio stations, My Bloody Valentine, Primus, Soundgarden, Nirvana (had a bit of a "grunge" obsession)
And then during college I began digging deep into the underground / obscure stuff since I had much easier access and exposure to it. |
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Aalto
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Cheers! I'm glad people have familiarity in that stuff! It was that punk phase I had in which I accidentally stumbled upon the Residents, and upon thinking "Margaret Freeman" sounds like a taxi driver falling down a well and just couldn't believe that music could exist, I downloaded some more, and just played a select few of the tracks from their heydays over and over again. It just opened me up to a whole new span of genres, which just kept opening me up to further ones, and it didn't take me too long to no longer worry about listening to any certain type of music. I live in a village not too far from decent cities, but I must thank enthusiastic record shop assistants, the internet's provision of information and ultimately friends for giving me a richer taste in the arts.
It's awesome that it does eventually occur to people that there's some wonderful music down there, and quality is independent of genre, SpectreWithin. I see Sunn O))) in your avatar, who have similarly done some spectacular stuff. My thirst for music was certain when I discovered its availability on the internet at 13 but it takes more to open up, and we can just be thankful we did.
At 11 I was into all that Linkin Park, Slipknot and The Offspring though. Some things turn out for the better. |
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Fogman
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One band that had a profound impact on me was Chrome, who effectively mixed Industrial Music/ Musique Concrete with Punk, and Psychedelic music. The first songs that I remember hearing by them were 'Eyes On Mars' in June 1981, as well as 'Perfumed Metal' from the then newly released '3rd From The Sun' LP in early October, 1981.
Other than that I was listening to The Allmann Brothers, Johnny Winter, The Rolling Stones, Santana, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, and The Jimi Hendrix Experience when I was 7 years old.
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Delirium
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I didn't really start listening to music until I was in seventh grade. My dad used to play old blues records all the time (I remember reading this article from The Onion and thinking it sounded exactly like him). When I started listening to music, I listened to teenybopper crap like Avril Lavigne and the Lizzie McGuire soundtrack, but my music tastes have changed dramatically since then.
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Tim_Tex
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Various 80s artists.
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Hector
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| Aalto wrote: | | At 11 I was into all that Linkin Park, Slipknot and The Offspring though. Some things turn out for the better. |
I quite like Slipknot's self-titled album, it's furious and original and completely incongruous with what I normally associate with the charts. Goes to show that you can market a lot of things to young people. Linkin Park was just another pop band to me and I only know that "Pretty Fly for a White Guy" song from Offspring which is OK I guess. |
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Aalto
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| Hector wrote: | | Aalto wrote: | | At 11 I was into all that Linkin Park, Slipknot and The Offspring though. Some things turn out for the better. |
I quite like Slipknot's self-titled album, it's furious and original and completely incongruous with what I normally associate with the charts. Goes to show that you can market a lot of things to young people. Linkin Park was just another pop band to me and I only know that "Pretty Fly for a White Guy" song from Offspring which is OK I guess. |
Yeah, it's fair to set apart Slipknot but it doesn't stop there from being reaches of metal harder to find, in which attributes of Slipknot such as intensity, it seems, can be beat. Cryptopsy, for example, seem leagues ahead of those like Slipknot despite being around years before, also being a more "serious" act than a bunch of people in jailbird overalls and masks. Nu-metal brought them to fame, and though I've no clue how (un)skilled they could be, that was their selling point. |
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Hector
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| A fair amount of extreme metal doesn't really do it for me because although a lot of it might be more difficult to play, it's often easy to pigeonhole. Cryptopsy are a band that I always respected but they never did much for me, they just did it with more speed and apparent dexterity than most. I'm a big fan of the Gorguts album Obscura though, very much "technical" but also unpredictable and with its own sound. |
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Aalto
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| Yeah, that and None so Vile are my two favourites of the genre. Gorguts are more versatile and perhaps more exhilarating, but I've seen that there are hundreds of death metal bands out there so there's obviously quite some saturation. |
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freak_audio
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Due to my dad my childhood was filled with:
Pink Floyd
King Crimson
Led Zeppelin
Bonzo Dog Do-Dah Band
Caravan
Brian Eno
Talking Heads
The Cure
The The
The Specials
Madness
The Clash
Desmond Dekker
Prince Buster
The Pixies
Lionrock
The Orb
The Prodigy.....
Phew.. 
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Squidy
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My mum listened to The Cure all throughout the pregnancy; I came out of the womb knowing all the lyrics to Boys Don't Cry. My childhood was full of bands like The Psychedelic Furs, Joy Division, Echo and the Bunnymen. Sadly, I have not grown out of this. My teens and very early 20s were spent collecting industrial records - I have a nearly complete collection of everything that was on the Wax Trax! record label ... including a huge run of test pressings (oh hooray - a test pressing of KMFDM's Naive). Now I mostly collect records of bellydance music. It's getting harder to find Clash and Cure and Buzzcocks vinyl, but 1960s bellydance stuff is in every record bin I dig through. And the covers are groovy!
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IdahoRose
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| During my childhood, I just listened to whatever was on the radio in the car. Then, when I got my own CD player, all I listened to was Aqua (though oddly enough, Barbie Girl was my least favorite song out of their whole Aquarium album). |
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