Recently my posts have been pretty mushy... too mushy in fact. You, dear reader, are going to get the wrong idea about me. I am not a mushy kind of guy... but trying to be as honest as possibly about things I feel and what not, the mush is going to ooze. So, less mushing, more... non mush.
Now, I made my movie list (incomplete I know, I know I've forgotten some key movies) but lets try music. I will be honest and say I don't have a wide reputua of music. I like a lot of singles here and there, but I am a music snob in some regards to classics. Instead of just listing the music I like, I think I'll give a short music history.
First songs I can remember listening to, seeing.
Sunday Bloody Sunday, U2 - First song I can remember listening to, I was 6 or 7.
Losing My Religion, R.E.M. - First music video I remember seeing.
Smells Like Teen Spirit, Nirvana
Today, Smashing Pumpkins
At this time, my parents ONLY listened to the Oldy Station, and honestly enough, I liked the oldies. What I didn't understand is the oldies I liked the most were the ones which were influences on today's rock. Unfortunately I didn't get to taste the classic rock station (Zeplinn, Floyd, etc) till much later.
So, about this time, I think it was during the Mario Cart craze (our cousin's had it, and we played it NON stop). I bought my first tape: Two Princes, Spin Doctors. I listened to that song over, and over, and over as anyone does the first of anything. At about this time CD's came out and my brother, Brandon, had The Best of the Doors album. It was possibly the first CD I just listened all the way through without skipping a song, and even if the song I didn't like to much, I still just listened... I think I was caught many a times singing in my room, jumping up and down to Break on Through. I was 12, give me a break lol.
I wish I would have had a lot of money at this time to buy cd's. I imagine I would be a much more rounded 90's music listener if I had had the money to get the CD's my friends got (I was spending my money on nintendo games I believe, though, not as many as you would believe). I hooked up with some friends and they introduced me and got a lot of new music and what not.
Meh, it get's kinda boring from here till now. I'm a music snob in some regards. If you don't know or can't appreciate Zeplinn, The Who, Pink Floyd, Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins I feel sorry for you, a lot like the people today who think I'm lost because I haven't really listened to the indy rock band of their choice I suppose. But, in the end, it's just music, and like any art when we experience it for the first time we cherish it and hold it close.
So, here is a list of music I like listening to today. (links are to a internet radio station I listen to):
Elliot Smith
Gorillaz
Moby
Muse
Radiohead
Peter Bjorn and John
The Shins
Tool (hard rock)
Now you can't ever complain (like me) that you have no source of new music.
BTW, that radio station is really cool, when you hear a song you like you can tell it so, and it will begin to play the music you like based on other people who also liked it.
