Music that shaped you
 

Those moments that blew your mind and shaped you as a music listener. Those songs or artists that chenged you from one day to another.
It's a pretty demanding task, but try to throw down some links to those few things that probably played the biggest part in defining you as a fan of music. The bigger impact on your life the linked songs have, the more relevant they are.

This time, I'll wait posting something myself until someone else has taken the stage. So: What music shaped you as a music listener?

I swear I've seen a thread like this somewhere.

I grew up listening to a lot of material rap that was more focused on being braggadocios and having "banging" production than the actual lyricism of the artist, so when I heard Doomsday by MF Doom for the first time, it flipped my world upside down.



In terms the metal genre, there were two very defining moments in my listening. The first of which was when I heard Jane Doe by Converge the second time. The first time I listened to it, I just didn't get it. I had just started getting into Dillinger and still couldn't really comprehend many challenging metal acts, but once this album stuck, it opened my eyes in a lot of ways. This song in particular has always stood out to me as a defining moment.




Lastly, would be getting into black metal I suppose. Not only has black metal become my favourite sub genre of metal over the past few years, but it is also probably my favourite genre of music. Without Burzum, it may have never happened. This album changed my taste in so many different ways.

It's possible. I did a search but came up blank, but at the same time, I was thinking that someone must have come up with this idea before.

Welp so much for my journal.

I started as a drummer idolizing Dave grohl and Nirvana's music and they somehow led me to The Breeders and they ofc led me to The Pixies and that's about it. Since then I've discovered some artist that have broaden my horizons a bit but the artist that I feel has shaped me the most is definitely Frank Black.

Idk but a certain age I stopped being too impressionable, even if I listened to artist that were better and more creative than the ones I love somehow I wasn't that interested in them and prefered to stay in my little comfort zone. Once in awhile I discover a new artist that becomes part of that comfort zone and expand it little but ever since I settled with Frank black only 2 artist have gotten in there. No wait, 3. I forgot deerhoof.

That is something that has always scared me. I'm only 34, but I've feared getting too set in my ways since I was a teenager. I discover something that I found pretty eye-opening at least a few times each year. Hopefully that's how it will continue to be...? Even just today I found something that really captured my imagination (link at the bottom).
Maybe there's nothing bad about not being "easily impressionable" anymore, but I always likened it to not finding the world as interesting and mysterious anymore. To sort of get set in your ways and stop taking an interest in what's going on around you. I'm always suspicious of my own opinions about music, honestly (meaning that I'm not sure if I'm being open and fair when I hear new things).

The latest thing that captured my imagination:

Good song, it got a little too pop midway through but it was good. I don't think I have that fear. I know I'm set on my ways but I don't feel I need to impress anybody with my music taste or the need to listen to a lot bands and absorb as much as I can, I don't feel like that anymore. When I was a teenager I did but sadly I wasn't exposed to a lot bands back then and even when Napster became a thing it was a little too late. I always try to keep a open mind to not be stuck in a musical time capsule but like I said, few artist tear that wall of familiarity for me.

To me it's become a balancing act. Trying to challenge myself fairly regularly, while also making sure to listen to all the artists that I know that I love. There's only so many hours in a day, so of course there's a limit to how much new music one would need, but I do place some value in always pushing myself a little so that I don't become complacent.

I discovered the weird hard rock/heavy metal music of Blue Öyster Cult in the year 1973, when I was 19 years old and in the depths of schizophrenia. I seriously believe that listening to the music of BÖC helped me a little bit in regard to recovering from my psychosis!

I was so fascinated by the BÖC´s weird music that I had an easier time focusing on "reality out there" whenever I had either one of BÖC´s first two albums playing on my sister´s stereo.:yeah: