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Location: south east Michigan | I heard or read this somewhere the last few days.
I'm sorry I can't footnote the reference.
I sure hope it wasn't here of the OFC.
Anyway...
It was suggested that the music we embrace when we are 13 years old or so becomes "our" music for life. At 13 or 14 we stop listening to what our parents listen to and choose something of our own... or at least of your immediate peer group.
After giving it some thought I concluded, yeah, that's me in spades. I was 17 or so in the early seventies when so much great music happened so fast. Yet even with that I still tend to drift a few years back from that. It really shows in the song ideas I bring to practice.
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Think about it.
Does that fit you, too? |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Interesting. Very honestly I have to say "No, it really doesn't."
I was huge into classic rock when I was a teen, morphed into prog rock for a little while, quickly moved into what I would consider jazz/rock fusion, then jazz.
Now I find myself loving acoustic singer/songwriter material but float very easily between all of the above. I really don't think that I have a single genre that I call mine. |
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Location: Route 66, just east of the Cadillac Ranch | Fits me to a T. |
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Location: south east Michigan | Right on Nick.
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And just ignore whatever Wease says.... I know I always do. |
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Location: Cicero, NY | "I'm an island unto myself..."
(but I enjoy it) |
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Location: Route 66, just east of the Cadillac Ranch | Slipkid wrote:
Right on Nick.
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And just ignore whatever Wease says.... I know I always do.
Those of us who were "17 or so in the early seventies" need to stick together. |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | I was listening to John Mayall and Frank Zappa when I was in grade school. Everybody else was listening to the Beatles and the Turtles. But my tastes, while I wouldn't say they've CHANGED (I still love Mayall and Frank), they have broadened.
What I enjoy listening to most now is classical. And jazz. And the music that my friends play. I have a lot of CD's that my friends have made, and when I don't have classical or jazz on the radio, they are what I find myself listening to. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Back then I was very into the music of the day. Now I go between Bluegrass junction and watercolours with a little outlaw country thrown in when the other two get too much to handle.
While it pains me to agree with Weazer I tend more towards the S/S and acoustic.
I had a college roomate who was into obscure things, Hungry Chuck, Bob Martin, Paul Seible, Townes VZ, Willie etc and I like that still, but I can live without the Beatles or DC5 or Who (sorry Brad) |
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Location: SoCal | When I was in high school (early 70's) I thought Jimmy Webb tunes were the best. My friends all thought he was corny. Now those same people tell me that Wichita Lineman is their favorite tune... |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Beal wrote:
While it pains me to agree with Weazer...
Nobody'll hold you to it, Beal. |
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Location: Steeler Nation, Hudson Valley Contingent | While I still find myself drawn to the styles I liked as a teen, I have to say that I was a late bloomer in many ways musically. I didn't pick up guitar until college, and that genuinely led to further exploration musically. And though I certainly can't play many differnt styles of guitar, the fact that I do play has led to a sincere appreciation of, and in many cases a genuine preference for, those many different techniques, skills, and sounds.
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Location: Flahdaw | Back then I liked all styles of music, and still do (even some country, but no rap) |
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Location: Rego Park, NY, | Brad,
I heard this on Criminal Minds last week when they were trying to determine the age of the Unsub.
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Location: 6 String Ranch | DB, Rap ain't no music, cup cake. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | I liked Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull and Alice Cooper.
People who put on a stage show and told stories with their music.
Back in the day when an Album was a complete body of work, no just random songs on a disk.
So lately I have been listening to the Trans-Siberian Orchestra and Phillip Glass
It is not stuff that I can play on guitar, but it is soothing. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | started out listening to Pat Boone, Boots Randolph, Ace Cannon, Bill Black Combo, Elvis, etc and have never lost my love for them. I listen and like pretty much everything but there are fringes that I don't especially care for.
I have tried for years to listen to and learn to like/love classical music but it just bores me to tears.
I do like to go to the symphony or orchestra and hear it live....but the recordings turn me cold. |
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Location: Fort Worth, TX | I think that study was right on in its conclusions. When I was a pinstriper at a major motorcycle manufacturer, I was at least twice as old as the majority of my coworkers. The music I had to listen to all day really would grind on my nerves. I found no validity to it at all. I got into a discussion one day with a kid there who blurted out that he hated the Beatles. I gave him the story of how they changed history and millions of lives. He told me Curt Cobain is credited with having more influence than the Beatles. I said if that were true, all of you guys should be dead now - just like Curt. I rarely listen to music when I work, but spent an awful lot of time on that job with ear phones in listening to 70's music. |
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Location: closely held secret | moody, p.i. wrote:
When I was in high school (early 70's) I thought Jimmy Webb tunes were the best. My friends all thought he was corny. Now those same people tell me that Wichita Lineman is their favorite tune...
And it's new every time they hear it... |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | I'm very open minded about music.
I like NRBQ before, during, and after Big Als tenure.
Also XTC. Basicly, if it's got music and letters I like it.
With the possible exception of RUN DMC. |
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| At that age things were about to transition into disco. I hated pop (ABBA, Anne Murray, Olivia Newton-John - uugghh), with a few exceptions like Elton John, The Guess Who and The Eagles. Spent most of my time listening to Allman Bros, Little Feat, Flying Burrito Bros, Pink Floyd, CSN&Y, Rush, and a bunch of sh*tkicker Southern bands like Skynard, Marshall Tucker, and Molly Hatchet depending on what flavor of mind-altering substance I was ingesting at the time. Some of those have held up far better than others.
Nowadays I'm more interested in finding good singer/songwriters and acoustic guitar players. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Late 50's through the 60's for me, but '65-'67 most of all. I have MP3s of Billboard's annual top 100 (top 30 before 1956) for every year Billboard has published the list, but I listen mostly to the mid-60's. They're all on my office computer. I think it has something to do with my first girl friends and cars back in those days. Every song brings up a memory or two. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | I re-read the premise and it helped me to answer...
"the music we embrace when we are 13 years old or so becomes "our" music for life. "
The keyword being "embrace." I was 13 in 1971. I didn't know much about the music of that era as my parents were into what may have been pop at one time. Big bands, Neil Diamond, John Denver, Carpenters, Herb Albert and such. Now some of the tunes were pretty cool and still are, but... when I turned 16 ('74) a had a car with a radio, I started listening to heavier stuff. I guess maybe I was aware of some of it before '74, but not much. By '78 I was no longer in this country and the music landscape was huge, but I was into rock. Blue Oyster Cult being the first I "embraced." My tastes haven't really changed, although I listen to just about anything, I'll listen to a well crafted, lyric driven rock tune more than once. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | DaveKell wrote:
I was at least twice as old as the majority of my coworkers.
So, when I had a job I used to burn CD's from my computer music collection to take to work.
That way, I don't care if that 15ยข disc gets trashed and I could give them away to someone who liked them...
I remember this one dude (kid) asks "Who is that? Is that Janis Joplin?"
"Why Yes, it is."
"I used to hear that when I was a kid... My Grandma used to listen to her all the time!"
But I did give him the disc to take home for himself.
It probably gave him good memories, although he might not admit it. |
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Location: Colorado | The recent reference comes from last week's Criminal Minds - the character Spencer Reed helped narrow down a list of suspects by the music...by quoting some researcher that the most impactful music in one's life comes from the music listened to at age 14. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Just before I was 13 we moved to North Dakota. I could only get a couple radio stations on my transistor radio and one played polka as much as it played "rock". Didn't like the Beatles, because I heard the same songs over and over. Moved to Kansas 3 years later, where they at least could get KOMA out of Oklahoma City. Three Dog Night was probably my first favorite band and then got into whatever they called stuff by John Denver, Jim Croce and that ilk. ELO, Pink Floyd and all that was good, too, but I've stayed with the Denver and Croce type stuff. |
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Location: Michigan | I think it is more up to around 17 - I heard Chick Corea, Al Di Meola, Jean-Luc Ponty, Al Jarreau and the Songs in the Key of Life album, as well as Santana Abraxis and all the great rock from the 70s, and that was about it. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | elginacres wrote:
The recent reference comes from last week's Criminal Minds -...by quoting some researcher that the most impactful music in one's life comes from the music listened to at age 14. You do know that TV dramas aren't required to be factually accurate, right?
If that were true, no one would come around to noticing
how cool 'some' of their parents era music is. And how would you grow to appreciate Coltrane and Mingus over time?
While we're on the subject, most Crime Scene science won't give results during a commercial break either.... |
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Location: Triangle area, NC | I tend to disagree,
I think the music that inspires and interests us changes as we continue to grow and "mature". Not that i would say one music genre is more or less "mature" than another but music will often play different roles as we "need" it to in our lives. Not to say that you cant be a classic rock fan your whole life; and if you are, i dont believe this means you havent matured or grown. Maybe these people find a body of music that seems so consistent with their core that it makes total sense they always come back to it. Thats great.
For me, I still listen to the Beastie Boys or RunDMC every now and again and it brings back a whole lot of memories but I certainly dont seek it out or find it moves me. Kinda makes me think, "Wow I listened to this shit and thought it was mint." (havent said that ((mint)) in a while;) |
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