My Musical Heritage: I was born in XXXX....

Chula Vista · 07-04-2015, 11:08 AM

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Here's the rules.

1. Replies must begin with: I was born in (year you were born)
2. Try to keep it succinct.
3. End with: These days....

That is all.

I was born in 1960. Came of age with a backdrop of The Beatles, The Beach Boys, American Bandstand, and Motown. Lots of Motown. BLAM! Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, and Deep Purple. Spent most of the 70s sucking up what's now considered Classic Hard Rock. Latter 70s was all about progressive and fusion - Yes, Genesis, Mahavishnu, Dixie Dregs, etc. Got sucked into the 80s guitar god stuff via Malmsteen, Satriani, and Vai. Life then gets in the way and new music takes a back seat.

These days I'm just trying to suck up some of the ****e MB members suggest, like:

This Town Needs Guns
Strapping Young Lad
Sufjan Stevens
Death Grips

(PS Thread is dedicated to Frownland. I want to know how a kid born in 1994 has such a diverse, and highly weird, sense of musical tastes.)

**Frownland** · 07-04-2015, 11:15 AM

I was born in 1994. I grew up on all of your standard rock and metal groups along with a bunch of the nu metal and post grunge that was coming out at the time (thanks dad). I started getting very interested in music at age 5 and was a metal head up until I was around 14, where I found Frank Zappa and Beefheart. Then it all went downhill as I started getting more and more into the weird stuff. Got around my aversion to hip hop and it was implemented into my musical diet when I was around 18.

These days I'll listen to anything that's pushing boundaries. A couple of more recent additions to my favourites are
Jim O'Rourke
Richard Dawson
Matana Roberts
Billy Woods
Bill Orcutt

Key · 07-04-2015, 11:19 AM

I don't understand this thread. And I read the OP.

**Goofle** · 07-04-2015, 11:32 AM

It's a very easy thread to understand.

grindy · 07-04-2015, 12:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Ki

I don't understand this thread. And I read the OP.

It's basically the "evolution of your taste" thread, with the year of birth added, so we don't forget that Chula is kinda old.

Chula Vista · 07-04-2015, 01:01 PM

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Originally Posted by grindy

It's basically the "evolution of your taste" thread, with the year of birth added, so we don't forget that Chula is old.

FIFY.

Listened to Zoot Allures last night for what it's worth.

**Frownland** · 07-04-2015, 01:03 PM

First listen?

Chula Vista · 07-04-2015, 01:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

First listen?

Are you high?

**Frownland** · 07-04-2015, 01:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Chula Vista

Are you high?

Not yet. Are you? I was just curious if you had heard it before since I know you've heard some Zappa but not that many people have heard his whole discog.

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Originally Posted by Chula Vista

(PS Thread is dedicated to Frownland. I want to know how a kid born in 1994 has such a diverse, and highly weird, sense of musical tastes.)

To answer this, it all kind of started when I did a lot of drugs in high school and wanted to find the craziest **** out there to trip out my friends. Then I started listening to that music while sober and it snowballed from there. I also will give most anything a shot these days, since I've been getting better at appreciating music in all forms. I just take whatever recommendations from last.fm or RYM or music blogs sound the most interesting and add them to the database. I highly doubt that my tastes would be anywhere near the same if I had grown up before the internet tbh.

Chula Vista · 07-04-2015, 01:11 PM

Frank is wailing on Black Napkins at the moment.

Zappa's been essential listening since Hot Rats for me. Joe's Garage V1 maybe being his best realized work on a whole. (hate V2 and V3 BTW)

07-04-2015, 11:15 AM	#2 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,548	I was born in 1994. I grew up on all of your standard rock and metal groups along with a bunch of the nu metal and post grunge that was coming out at the time (thanks dad). I started getting very interested in music at age 5 and was a metal head up until I was around 14, where I found Frank Zappa and Beefheart. Then it all went downhill as I started getting more and more into the weird stuff. Got around my aversion to hip hop and it was implemented into my musical diet when I was around 18. These days I'll listen to anything that's pushing boundaries. A couple of more recent additions to my favourites are Jim O'Rourke Richard Dawson Matana Roberts Billy Woods Bill Orcutt __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

07-04-2015, 01:03 PM	#7 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,548	First listen? __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

07-04-2015, 01:11 PM	#10 (permalink)
Chula Vista Toasted Poster Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: SoCal by way of Boston Posts: 11,332	Frank is wailing on Black Napkins at the moment. Zappa's been essential listening since Hot Rats for me. Joe's Garage V1 maybe being his best realized work on a whole. (hate V2 and V3 BTW) __________________ “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

07-04-2015, 11:19 AM	#3 (permalink)
Key . Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 13,153	I don't understand this thread. And I read the OP.