I've hit middle age as far as my taste in music
I don't really have the desire to listen to loud noisy music anymore. I'm mostly into trip hop and ambient stuff now. And in the last couple of months I've discovered lounge / bossa nova. If I do listen to rock it's mostly mellow Britpop / dreampop type stuff.
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Conversely I've gotten into more noisey stuff as I've gotten older; and a lot of the new bands/ new records from indie stalwarts I kind of accept without asking too much from them.
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I think that's why I prefer How To Destroy Angels to Nine Inch Nails. Because with HTDA Trent is making more downtempo / ambient sounding stuff. For the first time I've actually found a project that Trent Reznor has been involved in that I genuinely like.
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I've been listening more to the 80's and 70's stuff the past couple of years. Anything from old R&B, new wave, Yes, floyd, moody blues..etc
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We all go through phases.
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Are you excited about Kate Bush returning to the stages?
If you're not, then you're not old enough... |
I stopped having an interest in "heavier" music about ten years ago.
I can't listen to half the pumpkins stuff anymore. Its just too "heavy" for my tastes. Well basically by heavy i mean (cause SP was never technically very heavy at all) heavily distorted guitars do nothing for me anymore and haven't in a long time. It's like yeah, yeah you crank up the fuzz and hit power chords, that started being boring around the time nickelback started to do it (actually even before that). It's just been gay sounding shit for me for a good while now(80s pop/synthpop/new wave/post punk) At least i haven't started to like Sting's solo career. That's always what i associated reaching middle age with (not that i am middle age yet). If i ever do, i'll know it's time to jump off something high. |
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Early 20's was all Kill Hannah, ambient, glitch, instrumental, along with just some regular indie shit Mid-20's I got way more into shoegaze, indie w/ electronic elements, some post punk etc Late-20's to now I'm like give me noisey stuff like APTBS, DFHVN, weird shit like Ice Balloons, shoegaze like Ceremony and Screen Vinyl Image, and psych (Black Angels, Warlocks, etc). But I still like a generic indie album every now and then. |
I went through a glitch phase, with Telefon Tel Aviv. I think I got into ambient around the same time I discovered TTA. The Solaris soundtrack was my first foray into ambient.
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Just kidding. It's fine, I just don't care for Sting past The Police. there's something just...terribly baby boomer about it to me. |
Yeah similarly I don't care for General Public. Only the English Beat. Everything Dave Dave Wakeling did after the English Beat I always avoid.
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no it's definitely sting too and i like ten summoners
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well i did, i haven't listened to it since i was in my early 20s
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fields of gold is a good song though
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also holy shit the depth of their guitar tone in the SD era is probably second to only Black Sabbath in terms of masturbatory rhythm guitar glory
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yeah there were plenty of metal fans who liked MCIS and even SD
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Well exactly, not heavy compared to say, death metal. It's heavy enough. But to any metal fan, not very much. I just didnt want to make it seem like i thought SP was the heaviest band i ever heard.... |
Two words: Vinnie Colaiuta
Pay no attention to the singer, only the drummer Just like, I dunno, that band called The Smashing Pumpkins |
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FFWD to 2000, Tracy Chapman and Sting is my first concert. Free ticket. Still have the shirt, I believe. |
Oh fields of barley i guess
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I did wonder later how the guy could not know what song i was referencing when they had just played the song and the way sting says barley sounds not unlike bodies.
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Because radio DJs are robots
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