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Your musical phases

musicismylife78musicismylife78 Posts: 6,116
edited December 2008 in Other Music
Its weird how our lives coexist with our musical phases. I remember a time when all I listened to was alt rock, nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden and the like. A time when I was obsessed with loud music, agressive music.

And I remember a time when all I wanted to listen to was 1960's type music, dylan, the stones, the dead, hendrix.

and I remember only wanting to listen to political music, rage, u2, public enemy, any of the backpack hip hop etc...

its funny how our taste in music shifts
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  • intodeepintodeep Posts: 7,240
    I agree completly.

    I too started off with rock/alt rock in the early 90's.

    Went to college and oddly listened to a lot of classic rock in

    Graduated college and started listening to a lot of college/indie rock

    Have gone through phases where i listend to a lot of jazz and heavy metal.

    I can understand how as you get older someone asking you "what kind of music do you like" is a foolish question. I still like everything i listened to before it is just not what i'm digging now. There is so much good music out there from every genre.
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  • South of SeattleSouth of Seattle West Seattle Posts: 10,724
    1975-1978 - Whatever my parents listened to. I remember Leo Sayer, Elvis and Air Supply

    1979-1983 - KISS

    1984-1986 - Iron Maiden, Ozzy, Quiet Riot, The Clash

    1987-1991 - Beastie Boys, NWA, BBD, EPMD

    1992-1996 - Pearl Jam, AIC, Soundgarden, Nirvana, A Tribe Called Quest, Public Enemy, 311

    1997-2000 - 311, Sublime, Beck, Pearl Jam, The Roots, Elliott Smith, RATM

    2001-2004 - Eminem, Pearl Jam, Ben Harper, Widespread Panic, QOTSA

    2005-Present - Pearl Jam, MMJ, Atmosphere, Black Keys
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  • Yellow LedbellyYellow Ledbelly Posts: 3,749
    I grew up on Creedence, the doors, CSNY, a lot of motown and country music for the most part.....the stuff the parents listened to...oh yea, the chipmunk christmas album too.
    As a child of the 80s I was a hair metal freak, which led me into heavy metal.
    The 90s of course turned me into an alternative guy.
    Then, in high school I started to really go back to classic rock which led me on a musical journey deep into the blues and that phase lasted quite a while.
    Early in the 2000s I kind of wandered from style to style because there was really nothing new that captured warranted all my attention.
    In general though, I go through phases when all I want to hear is punk or metal or country or alternative or alternative country or.....I just go where my moods lead me and end up finding some really good stuff that way by letting one band lead me to another.
    I have quite a varied cd collection as a result
    All I have to do is revel in the everyday....then do it again tomorrow

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  • Evensolo05Evensolo05 Posts: 118
    electro - mid 90's
    hip hop - late 90's
    heavy metal/hard rock - late 90's early 00's
    classic rock - early 00's
    indie rock - 05 onwards

    I have not abandoned any of the music I listened to in the past but these days its mostly MMJ, Cold War Kids, Hold Steady, Band of Horses, Modest Mouse etc. You get the drift.
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  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Er, I'll have a go at this. I'm skipping a lot of peripheral artists and just naming my main interests over time:

    1979 - 1982: The Beatles mainly
    1982 - 1984: add The Rolling Stones, The Who and Bob Dylan
    1984 - present: Hendrix
    1986 - 1987: The Doors, The Velvet Underground
    1986: beginning of a love of jazz, lasting to the present; my first jazz album was Charlie Parker Live at the Royal Roost Volume Three
    1987-88: Syd Barrett; big Dylan phase
    1988: big blues phase, including artists such as BB King, Albert King, Freddie King, Furry Lewis, Blind Lemon Jefferson ... pretty much the canon of blues artists up to a point
    1989-90: Major jazz vinyl-collecting phase
    1990 to present: Nick Drake, John Martyn, Sandy Denny, Tim Buckley
    1991 to present: PJ


    The list gets too complex and myriad after that point called "coming of age".
  • LineOneMightyFineLineOneMightyFine Posts: 347
    70s: whatever my big sister listened to: The Who, Pink Floyd, Rolling Stones, David Bowie
    early to mid 80s: Eurotrash pop a la Duran Duran, Van Halen, Aerosmith, hair metal, Huey Lewis and The News (hey, I was young!)
    mid to late 80s: all forms of hip hop
    early 90s: hip hop, entry into grunge
    mid 90s to present: grunge, alternative rock, classic rock, all over the spectrum
  • gregkitefangregkitefan Posts: 1,117
    81 - 83 - Cheap Trick, Triumph, Rush, Queen, Van Halen
    84 - 88 - Kiss, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Scorpions, Ozzy, AC-DC
    89 - 92 - Queensryche, Tom Petty, Junkyard, Jane's Addiction
    93 - present - Pearl Jam, Bruce Springsteen, Black Crowes

    I still listen to all of them.....
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  • stargirl69stargirl69 Posts: 6,387
    69-79 what I heard at home,Zeppelin,Floyd,Skynyrd,Dylan,Hendrix,Stones

    79-85 my Rush obsession galvanised itself,Muddy Waters,folk,all of the above now as my own choosing

    82-90 Marillion :/,Stone Roses,Charlatans,U2,REM added to above

    90-present Beck,Black Crowes,Pearl Jam,Hendrix,Floyd,Zeppelin,Stones,U2,REM,White Stripes
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  • TallGuyCMTallGuyCM Posts: 328
    Yellow Ledbelly wrote:
    oh yea, the chipmunk christmas album too.

    YES. Absolutely.

    I was in 6th grade when "Ten" came out and changed everything.

    1979-1987 - CSNY, Beatles, Fleetwood Mac (in the car with parents)
    1987-1990 - Vanilla Ice, MC Hammer
    1991-1994 - Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins
    1995-1997 - Pearl Jam, Live, Soundgarden, Third Eye Blind, The Offspring
    1998 - 2001 - Pearl Jam, Incubus, Radiohead
    2001 - Present - Pearl Jam, Radiohead, STEELY DAN, The Mars Volta, Incubus, Smashing Pumpkins, Black Crowes, The Killers, QOTSA
  • corduroidcorduroid Posts: 293
    I started listening to things of my own choice as a teen in the late 70s, typically hard rock ... Nugent, Aerosmith, Zeppelin. That soon led to bands with more 'depth' as my collection became focused on Rush (big time) and Pink Floyd, along with Hendrix, ELP, chamber music, and keyboard works.

    From there, I had discovered two new worlds by the early 80s: genuine blues, and the Grateful Dead. These are still my highest passions and the center of my listening/playing today. By the 90s I had developed an ear for all kinds of improvisational music and singer/songwriters ... artistry that blends those two, e.g. Patricia Barber, is just supreme to me.

    But I've never gotten away from a love of hard rock :cool: Obviously PJ, and a bit earlier (late 80s) the Cult, Soundgarden, Jane's Addiction. My appreciation for Zeppelin grows with age. I need this music like nourishment, it's part of my make-up, and I draw from it constantly. And I'll tell you what ... for live shows, there hasn't been much better ever than Gov't Mule and the Black Crowes in 2008 :cool::cool:

    I've never 'moved on' from any phase and still listen selectively from all the albums and CDs of my youth ... I just keep adding :o I've always sought out higher end gear, even as a teen, and still have all of my original equipment and albums tucked away in great condition. I think I'm really lucky in that regard.
  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    as a kid in the 70's i shared a room with my older brother so early on i was emersed in zeppelin, pink floyd, steely dan, eagles....my older sisters were into the singer/songwriters of the 70's like loggins and messina, james taylor etc....plus the beatles, the stones etc....

    late 70's early 80's i started listening KROQ....punk and new wave became my music world especially the police, u2, oingo biongo and black flag, agent orange, dead kennedy's, toy dolls....yet still listened to most of the popular music of the decade thanks to mtv....

    late 80's finishing high school starting college i got heavily into classic rock.....hendrix and the doors almost exclusively if memory serves...

    and then....nevermind, blood, sugar sex magic and ten....the early 90's were an amazing time in music and i'm glad i was a part of it and old enough to appreciate it...

    since kurt jumped off the raft music hasn't been the same....most bands today all sound like they came from the factory....but 5 years ago i discovered a folk singer named todd snider....since then i've been into more folk and acoustic music...



    "i dig music!" - russell hammond

    :)
  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    cutback wrote:
    ...since kurt jumped off the raft music hasn't been the same....


    "i dig music!" - russell hammond

    :)

    what? i thought he blew his head off. :confused:


    I AM A GOLDEN GOD!!! :D
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    hold my hand
    lie beside me
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  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    catefrances wrote:
    what? i thought he blew his head off. :confused:

    it's an expression my friend uses when someone dies...."fell off the raft" :o

    catefrances wrote:
    I AM A GOLDEN GOD!!! :D


    I'M ON DRUGS!!!! :p
  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    cutback wrote:
    it's an expression my friend uses when someone dies...."fell off the raft" :o

    I'M ON DRUGS!!!! :p

    aah tis all making sense now. :)


    when i was way younger i went thrugh a phase of listening to my da's western movie soundtracks. aah ennio morricone. ive since turned him onto moby. so were even ;):)



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  • K.LOK.LO Posts: 163
    I grew up in a Christian household, so most of the music back then was Contemporary Christian. Then, unfortunately, I discovered Britney Spears in the mid to late 90s. :p
    When I was around 13, I started getting into Linkin Park, and listened to the classic rock radio station.
    Now, I still listen to classic rock, but with some rock, alternative, and indie as well.
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