Mellowing
Inspired by my post on the Sisters and REM thread. What to you listen to now that your young self would have hated? I've come to appreciate the likes of Nina Simone and some disco tunes a lot more than I used to.
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SmileySister
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I've got a nice little playlist of sing a long songs. First up is Father and Son by Cat Stevens followed by You're so Vain by Carly Simons, some Tracy Chapman and others. I like to call them my songs to do the ironing to 
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A surprising amount of country music, actually. My 18 year old self would only have tolerated Johnny Cash. I was ignorant.
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I'd never have listened to Euro-disco, techno, or any of that "madchester" bollocks that was doing the rounds of my chums. Now I find that ABBA, Boney-M, Tiesto et al, and some of the Stone Roses stuff isn't bad.
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Hmm, I feel myself heading this way. When I flick through the music channels on the telly I used to stop at the grime stuff, now it tends to be a little pause at the country channels at the end.sultan2075 wrote:A surprising amount of country music, actually. My 18 year old self would only have tolerated Johnny Cash. I was ignorant.
I also listen to a lot more Simon & Garfunkel than I used to.
I still haven't worked out how to get into classical music though which I would like to do. When I try I feel like I'm in a film or an advert or something.
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Tones of music, tones. Almost all, as I started from being simple metalhead; starting from pop, jazz, dub, ambient. On the other hand, I always at least give a try new things.
I just put the radio on.
It's nice to have someone else play a load of records so I don't have to decide.
It's nice to have someone else play a load of records so I don't have to decide.
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Being645
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Same here. Currently I find radio music rather bearable, which was never the case until a few years ago.Pista wrote:I just put the radio on.
It's nice to have someone else play a load of records so I don't have to decide.
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'tis true Radio6 and Absolute do help, in the same way Radio Jackie North and Merseyland Alternative Radio did in the pirate radio days of the late 70s and early 80s.
I'm pleased to see my sons not being trapped in musical genres like we, their parents, were and having far more catholic (small 'c') tastes.
I still can't abide any form of jazz though!
I'm pleased to see my sons not being trapped in musical genres like we, their parents, were and having far more catholic (small 'c') tastes.
I still can't abide any form of jazz though!
....if I have to explain, then you'll never understand....
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I still can't abide any form of jazz though!
Just sounds like a punch up in a music shop
Pista wrote:Word!Swinnow wrote:'
I still can't abide any form of jazz though!
Just sounds like a punch up in a music shop
Jazz club, greeeeeeaaat!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsQYzpOHpik
i know what you mean...Being645 wrote:...
And imagine that i was born there and my parents played it in my baby room
They told me that one day i tried to escape my baby bed, that explains a lot
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"Someday! Someday, everything you need, is just gonna fall out of the sky..." -A.E. Reading 1991
"Don't forget that most of the judges in witches trials had harvard degrees."
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Big fan of The Shins & Hot Chip who a young me would've scoffed at.
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I think it was living in Texas for so long that did it for me. Before moving there, I really didn't like country music at all (except, of course, Johnny Cash). I still don't like mainstream country at all. But there's all sorts of really good independent country being made in Texas and elsewhere that doesn't get picked up by the Nashville industry establishment (Hellbound Glory, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Corb Lund, Colter Wall, etc. and of course Willie). I've since come to realize that a lot of those old country guys are a) phenomenally talented songwriters/storytellers and b) phenomenally talented guitar players.ruffers wrote:Hmm, I feel myself heading this way. When I flick through the music channels on the telly I used to stop at the grime stuff, now it tends to be a little pause at the country channels at the end.sultan2075 wrote:A surprising amount of country music, actually. My 18 year old self would only have tolerated Johnny Cash. I was ignorant.
I also listen to a lot more Simon & Garfunkel than I used to.
I still haven't worked out how to get into classical music though which I would like to do. When I try I feel like I'm in a film or an advert or something.
As for classical music, I'm in a similar boat. I feel like it's a failure in my education.
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The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.
The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.
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...iesus wrote:i know what you mean...Being645 wrote:...
And imagine that i was born there and my parents played it in my baby room
They told me that one day i tried to escape my baby bed, that explains a lot
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My youngself was aware that music is a broad church and that somethings like abba and the baycity rollers was essential to life it's self.
There was and remains no room for things like curiosity killed the cat, aciiiid house music, or the tw*t in the hat (Jeremy why)
Just ordered and looking forward to hearing Robbie Williams new Xmas Cd. I love crooners see.
There was and remains no room for things like curiosity killed the cat, aciiiid house music, or the tw*t in the hat (Jeremy why)
Just ordered and looking forward to hearing Robbie Williams new Xmas Cd. I love crooners see.
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In terms of accessing classical music anyone who had a heart would start with a little night music and orf. Before moving on to the
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S_e7K7io92g
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S_e7K7io92g
Goths have feelings too
My young self wouldn’t have hated anything for being mellow as there have always been solid, mellow tunes I’ve loved. If you could beam a horrifying scene back to teenage me, it would be me, staying up late to hear the latest drop by rapper xxxtentacion, years after his death. And being able to pick out the other rappers who contributed by voice and style. Biggest sacrifice as a parent: I listen to mother f**king RAP so that my sons will continue to share what’s important to them.
Johnny Cash and Louis Armstrong. Even partial to a bit of Dolly these days.
Much to my chagrin, I failed to understand The Doors and Leonard Cohen in my mid-teens.
Have since seen the error of my ways.
Much to my chagrin, I failed to understand The Doors and Leonard Cohen in my mid-teens.
Have since seen the error of my ways.
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I discovered that i like the voice of Mylene Farmer and many of her songs especially the live versions from concerts a decade ago... 
That was a big no no no at the end of 80's and half 90's for that kind of music
That was a big no no no at the end of 80's and half 90's for that kind of music
'Are we the Baddies?'...
"Someday! Someday, everything you need, is just gonna fall out of the sky..." -A.E. Reading 1991
"Don't forget that most of the judges in witches trials had harvard degrees."
"Someday! Someday, everything you need, is just gonna fall out of the sky..." -A.E. Reading 1991
"Don't forget that most of the judges in witches trials had harvard degrees."