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Topic: Music Phases Posted: April 26 2017 at 18:38
Anyone go through some embarrassing music phases? Anyone growing up in the seventies could not have avoided Kiss. I went through a very brief Kiss phase before I discovered King Crimson's Starless and Bible Black. That album changed my whole perspective of music. Then it was on to Gentle Giant and others. I also went through a Glenn Miller Orchestra phase because of my dad. It wasn't really a bad thing but the Kiss phase was a really horrible era. How could I have listened crap like 100,000 Years and Strutter over and over again?
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Posted: April 26 2017 at 18:51
Nope, I'm not ashamed of any of the music that I have liked. My tastes have expanded as I've gotten to know a lot more music, but essentially really aren't that different from any other time in my life. I guess I haven't evolved much.
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Posted: April 28 2017 at 07:31
I listened to "The New Wave Of British Heavy Metal" for a year or two in the early 80s, more out of desperation to find concerts to go to in addition to goth and punk.
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Posted: April 28 2017 at 09:39
From an early age, I was introduced to Beatles music so that's good right? However, like a lot of kids, I mainly listened to a lot of top 40 radio stuff. This was in the 70s primarily. It wasn't until my family moved to a new town in 1979 when things changed. My new neighbors were huge into Rush and it grew on me pretty quickly. That started me down a Rock phase that never has ended.
I've often wondered if we hadn't moved, would I have still been listening to top 40 fluff.
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Posted: April 28 2017 at 17:21
Not really. Even in really early days of listening to music I never cared much for top 40 esque stuff.
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Posted: June 02 2017 at 17:55
2dogs wrote:
mechanicalflattery wrote:
The song that got me into music was Europe's The Final Countdown *cringes indefinitely*
This is the one you should be listening to .
I used to have the vinyl of Nova Akropola. It was dark and dodgey, and totally messed up. I never got into. Off-loaded it to a dude for 10 bucks about 15 years ago.
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Posted: June 02 2017 at 19:47
I have been embarrassed in the past, but look back now and appreciate the various aspects of the different kinds of music I liked when I was younger - I never listened to rock or pop until I was in 7th grade - we moved from Boston to Tokyo, first thing I listened to was military radio with a lot of programmed stuff - Wolfman Jack, Charlie Tuna & Casey Casum are what I remember. I got some of the pop fluff of the day but also got an education in the roots of rock music from the Wolfman for which I am very appreciative. Then a few months later I got heavily into the Beatles! Also grateful for that. Then a year later: metal - Sabbath, Priest, Maiden - my first concert was Def Leppard on the Pyromania tour in 1983. I could be embarrassed by that, but later on I realized how amazing the production is on that album and actually still like them a lot.
I even liked Kiss! The only thing I'm embarrassed about there is how juvenile and sexist their lyrics are, but I guess I'm glad that I grew out of it! The music rocks!
Interesting how the move spurred on changes in taste - when I moved back to the States for college I got into the Grateful Dead and Phish and bands of that ilk, also something I'm not at all embarrassed about - I'm seeing Dead & Company the next two nights at Shoreline. Not even embarrassed about appreciating John Mayer!
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Posted: June 02 2017 at 21:16
There's one band that, generally, takes a lot of 'balls' to admit to liking ; Kajagoogoo - my favourite synth-pop band from of all time (next to Buggles). Great music and great playing is what it is.
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Posted: June 18 2017 at 05:06
I still enjoy almost everything I have ever listened to, with the exception of some euro dance groups like Mr. President and Captain Jack for whom I had a short lived infatuation around second or third grade.
It was fun to listen to Mr. President's We See The Same Sun again a few years ago and note that the only song I couldn't stand back then was the only listenable song now.
But of course there's nothing to be embarrassed about.
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