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Post by John on Jun 7, 2015 15:22:10 GMT
Music is a very personal experience For me the music I listen is a very personal experience that has changed a lot I am interested in this as I notice a big shift in the music I listen too right now A few years ago most of the music I listened too was pretty heavy and complex. Listening to it now its sometimes hard to see where the melody was I guess it was about the energy and musicianship with these days I tend to now be listening to more classic rock like Govt Mule and Derek Trucks. I notice I am also listening to more Jazz and modern classical music. I also enjoy music that is quite exotic if anyone was to tell me that I would enjoy music with instruments like the Oud and Tabla I would of laughed at them. So how has the music you listen changed or why do you still enjoy the same music
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2015 15:28:55 GMT
Probably not much for me. I still listen to people like Springsteen, Van Morrison, Electronica, 80s bands etc. People I tend to have "found along the way" aren't really that different. I've always liked anything with a Latin rhythm, whatever the genre, so no change there. Likewise "late night jazz". It's been a constant.
On the dislike side, I still can't get away with Classical, especially Opera.
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Post by daytona600 on Jun 7, 2015 15:43:14 GMT
changes everyday great new music everyday
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Post by MikeMusic on Jun 7, 2015 16:02:59 GMT
Not really *changed*
Expanded a great deal and that continues
I still listen to some old favourites
Some change has come about listening to music "I don't like" because it has been made so well
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Post by dvh on Jun 7, 2015 16:23:00 GMT
As above. I like most of what I liked when younger, but I like a whole lot more stuff now, including classical and jazz. I draw the line at opera though.
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Post by Slinger on Jun 7, 2015 16:34:39 GMT
I'd like to think my musical taste (and I use the word "taste" lightly) has grown over the years. For instance, it took me a long time before I could appreciate "classical" music, rather like acquiring the taste for red wine rather than just having the Liebfraumilch with everything. I've always loved blues, due mainly to a cousin who played in a blues band...which I eventually joined. That and stuff like Free, Purple, Zeppelin, Hendrix et al was the score to my formative years. Since then my tastes have encompassed reggae (a definite no no to the crowd I hung with at the time) and I was "into" punk from pretty much the start but I was just as likely to buy a Warren Zevon album as something by Wayne County, The Clash, or Elvis Costello. Oddly, I also started my sonic love affair with Emmylou Harris and Eagles at around the same time. I think my next great "leap" was due to Uncut magazine, which debuted in 1997, and I've continued to buy to this day (just taken out a new 2 year sub in fact) and has introducved me to artists I would never have come into contact with otherwise. Extra big thanks should also go to John Peel (right back to the Perfumed Garden shows) and Bob Harris. I could write a lot more about the various forms I've come to love (and hate) over the years, but with age comes experience, and in my experience I can quite easily bore the arse off folk once I get started on my favourite subject, music.
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Post by John on Jun 7, 2015 16:48:58 GMT
Yes I suffer from the same disease In the early days it was trading tapes and reading the music mags HMV and Shades I get to hear the latest release so would often bore my friends by raving about the latest album I just got Also I used to average two to three gigs a week so would have my fingers on the pulse with new talent coming through
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2015 17:41:54 GMT
Been into prog since i was 14 years of age. ive Not changed that but in the early 90's i contracted an additional disease while spending a full night in a music tent at a music festival, out of it in the form of the all new European trance music {Not the utter tripe you get in night clubs} but the underground variety not really heard of in the UK at the time. However early prog is still my love.
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Post by canetoad on Jun 7, 2015 22:45:42 GMT
Not really. These days I mostly back fill my collection with the albums of bands I already like that I don't have, and buying other bands of the era I didn't really have an interest in previously from the same genres. Late 60s, 70s rock and 80s pop/rock are my favourites.
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Post by Chris on Jun 8, 2015 5:54:05 GMT
My tastes have. Started out with listening to Duke Ellington,Count Basie and Louie Armstrong with my Dad then "progressed" to the chart stuff(we all did!!) then moved on to listening to a lot of dance music as that was the culture of the time. Working in different clubs kept me pretty open eared though(that remains the same) and now it's very little dance music and a huge mix of anything that appeals. I like a wee trawl through the what are you listening to now thread and a browse on Spotify/Deezer is good. The constant is that I enjoy quality music.
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Post by MartinT on Jun 8, 2015 5:54:18 GMT
Good thread. Yes, I would say that my musical tastes have changed to encompass more categories of music, as well as massively expanding and filling in the holes in my collection.
Back in University days I would never have bought music like Portishead, Alt-J, Lorde, Prince, Sinatra, Belafonte. I have dabbled much more with blues and jazz. In classical I was committed to large scale orchestral but would not have bought small scale, chamber, solo instrumental, solo vocal etc. My gig attendance patterns have similarly changed.
I still can't define what I do like, it's much more than it used to be, but there remain areas that do nothing for me: reggae, opera, big band, free jazz, musicals, for instance.
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Post by MikeMusic on Jun 8, 2015 12:01:31 GMT
Extra big thanks should also go to John Peel (right back to the Perfumed Garden shows) I could write a lot more about the various forms I've come to love (and hate) over the years, but with age comes experience, and in my experience I can quite easily bore the arse off folk once I get started on my favourite subject, music. What he said, for both !
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Post by MikeMusic on Jun 8, 2015 12:02:57 GMT
Chris (avatar) How that dog suffers !
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Post by ChrisB on Jun 9, 2015 4:57:52 GMT
As with most others, not really changed but developed and expanded. I still love the music of my youth and play it often. My main interest has been music of the past though and the strange thing is that most of it is from someone else's past, not mine! I was around in 1967, for example, but I wasn't listening to semi-obscure west coast bands or japanese rock music, or even The Doors or Janis. I liked heavy rock as a teenager but I was also exploring things like CSNY, Neil Young, Love and Zappa -things that my demin jacketed cohorts frowned very deeply at! Getting interested in hifi widened my taste significantly and that was the time that I discovered Miles Davis, Dexter Gordon and others. Next up, I suppose would be my rediscovery of classical music. I had grown up with it around the house as a child, loved much of it (probably through familiarity) and then rejected it in the way that is only right and proper for any self respecting teenager. I started going to a few concerts which I greatly enjoyed and, if I am honest, thst is the way I prefer my orchestral music to be presented. I rarely play it at home, but love the performance. Early blues has been a major part of my diet since becoming interested in the social history of the south of the USA. I loved blues since my teens, but my passion for it became heightened once I learnt a little about its origins. That's part of the story, I don't want to bore you any more.
Keep on seeking out new stuff, dismiss nothing until you've heard it (but still respect it even if you hate it) and look back as well as forwards.
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Post by zippy on Jun 9, 2015 7:29:12 GMT
Tastes pretty much have to change if you're going to keep buying music - there will come a time when you have all the 'oldies' that you want/need so if you want more music you'll need to acclimatise to new sounds.
Just don't fall for all the new releases by old artists that seemed to dominate last year (Rod Steward, 'Pink Floyd', Mike Oldfield, Madness) most of which sound rubbish to me (one exception - Ian Anderson).
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