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Non-Music Shit / Re: What bands compromised your teenage years?
« on: January 17, 2008, 12:12:55 PM »
Getting into good music wasn't really a gradual thing for me, it kind of all happened at once around age 17 onwards, when I met the guys now in my band who showed me Crypt and Alternative Tentacles, and I went from there going backwards in time discovering all the other great stuff it came from.
I was 15 around the time the whole White Stripes/mainstream garage stuff happened, so that turned me on to the sound at least, and I did discover JSBX and Beefheart around that time. I was into real studenty stuff like Radiohead/Pixies/Nirvana though. I guess before that I wasn't really 'into' music like I am now, as there wasn't really anything that blew me away being presented to me- I didn't know just how good it could be. From when I was real small, I only remember playing tapes by Queen, Motorhead and Blur.
With the luxury of the internet, I started looking at different genres and weirdness to find what I was really looking for... found some oddball stuff that I still break out occasionally like Autechre and Space Streakings, then found Big Black/Rapeman/Shellac, then Nomeansno. After talking to a guy who was into stuff like this (my film studies teacher!) he gave me a CD with mp3s of Popular Favorites, Don't Like You, Fire of Love and Satan Is Real Again, and that was that.
I was 15 around the time the whole White Stripes/mainstream garage stuff happened, so that turned me on to the sound at least, and I did discover JSBX and Beefheart around that time. I was into real studenty stuff like Radiohead/Pixies/Nirvana though. I guess before that I wasn't really 'into' music like I am now, as there wasn't really anything that blew me away being presented to me- I didn't know just how good it could be. From when I was real small, I only remember playing tapes by Queen, Motorhead and Blur.
With the luxury of the internet, I started looking at different genres and weirdness to find what I was really looking for... found some oddball stuff that I still break out occasionally like Autechre and Space Streakings, then found Big Black/Rapeman/Shellac, then Nomeansno. After talking to a guy who was into stuff like this (my film studies teacher!) he gave me a CD with mp3s of Popular Favorites, Don't Like You, Fire of Love and Satan Is Real Again, and that was that.
