my experience with getting Into Music was kinda weird
spoilered for who cares
I didn't for the longest time, and the fact that i didn't know or like any pop songs or the cool music like Linkin Park or Limp Bizkit that the skater kids in middle school listened to made me feel kind of isolated
and at some point i started listening exclusively to Weird Al as some kind of weird statement of defiance against the way that lack of shared cultural touchstones made me feel. Like I would sit on the bus and flamboyantly rock out to Weird Al because it was Important To Me as a preteen that everyone around me understood that this is what i think of your so-called music, maaaaaaaan
anyway i became a little less of a dumbfuck around freshman year of high school. I had really loved the Tiny Toons shorts with They Might Be Giants as a little kid and then they popped up into my life again when they did some work with Homestar Runner, so I decided to get into them. iTunes was a relatively new thing, and they were doing a promotion with Pepsi where every Pepsi bottlecap had a code you could redeem for a free iTunes song. It just so happened that our school had pepsi vending machines, and a friend and I both realized that if we were willing to sacrifice a little dignity and go digging through trash cans, we could both easily get enough bottlecaps to download a ton of songs. By the time the promotion was over I had downloaded nearly the entire iTunes catalogue of They Might Be Giants without spending anything on it
i was part of a forum that had a big clique of kinda big music snobs, or at least people that positioned themselves as music snobs. as a 14 year old it felt like they knew all kinds of super obscure music that no one had ever heard of but in retrospect they were still talking almost exclusively about In the Aeroplane Over the Sea and 90s Radiohead albums in 2005 so maybe the weren't super in the loop so much as I was super out of it. There was some weird running half-joking feud about which 80s college rock band was better, They Might Be Giants or U2, and even today I have a weird chip on my shoulder about U2 as a result of that even though i like the songs of theirs that i've heard. Anyway, there was a thread there that was just "post the song you're currently listening to right now" and eventually people started hassling me about how I never posted anything but TMBG songs and I reached a point where I was like "fuck you fine I'll download something else, what's a good band the beatles are a good band right i'll download some beatles" and I downloaded a bunch of beatles music and enjoyed it a lot so then i started getting into some other classic rock stuff, mostly The Who and then my dad also got me into Supertramp, and at some point i checked out some of the bands that those web forum music snobs liked so I ended up liking Neutral Milk Hotel and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and Franz Ferdinand (like I said, it is really clear in retrospect that they were only music snobs in comparison to someone that knew fuck all about music)
and then i started using pandora and downloading stuff from any band that popped up on there that i liked and ended up getting into Talking Heads and Devo and The Cars and at some point there was some kind of evolutionary split in my pandora playlist and it started serving up a ton of ska music and i was like "guitars... AND brass? what is this madness?" and I still have a ton of Planet Smashers and The Toasters and Catch-22 and Streetlight Manifesto and Goldfinger and Aquabats (even though they pretty much stopped being ska after a few albums) and i think that's around the end of where i have anything interesting to say about why i like the music that i like
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There is absolutely a Natalie Portman playing The Shins in Garden State moment in my life, but at a summer camp and the seminal work Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water.
There is absolutely a Natalie Portman playing The Shins in Garden State moment in my life, but at a summer camp and the seminal work Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water.
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There is absolutely a Natalie Portman playing The Shins in Garden State moment in my life, but at a summer camp and the seminal work Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water.
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I held hands for the first time at that camp.
So just my heart.
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Health insurance rip off lying
FDA big bankers buying
Fake computer crashes dining
Cloning while they're multiplying
Fashion shoots with Beck and Hanson
Courtney Love, and Marilyn Manson
You're all fakes
Run to your mansions
Come around
We'll kick your ass in
I've spoken to dozens of people that attribute that song to the mighty mighty bosstones, and I have no idea why.
It sounds nothing like the Mighty Mighty Bosstones. That's crazy. Doesn't everybody know about the New Radicals?
I passed by some people doing this song on Rock Band late Friday night and had it stuck in my head the entire weekend. Two solid full days of magfest with an echoing refrain of now I'm an amputee god damn you
I passed by some people doing this song on Rock Band late Friday night and had it stuck in my head the entire weekend. Two solid full days of magfest with an echoing refrain of now I'm an amputee god damn you
I once saw Live during a lightning storm at some outside festival in VA. Lightning Crashes (Iris?) was incredible because everytime he sang those words, chain lightning would arc across the sky.
I'm not a Live fan, but that was a pretty memorable show
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I guess technically, according to google, it was 2000, but one of my biggest impulse buy albums was The Madding Crowd by Nine Days exclusively because of Absolutely (Story of a Girl).
I remember the album being .. okay?
"I am not young enough to know everything." - Oscar Wilde
Michael Jackson: Bad
Michael Jackson: Dangerous
Michael Jackson: HIStory
I can reflect on my past purchases and at least not have total disgust in my purchases for the 5 years following that, which were a bunch of rap CDs from groups nobody's ever heard of, like The Luniz.
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Actually, on reflection, my first CD was Amish Paradise
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
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Also one Christmas I got a knock-off version of Jock Jams, which is how I know all the words to "we built this city"
shit, someone actually mentioned this before I got back to this thread
I actually unironically really like we built this city and don't understand the vitriol so many have towards it
sure, it's not actually rock, but as far as catchy hooks go it has one I like a whole lot
also as a millennial can confirm I heard pearl jam on the classic rock station growing up, I'm not sure about green day/nirvana but I haven't listened seriously to the radio in a few years
I think I'm technically considered a millenial and I recall pearl jam being a current band in my teenage years
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I think the first cd I owned was either 2BA Master or Sugar Ray's first album
But the first one I purchased with my own (and a friend's) money was MCR's The Black Parade. My friend and I would meet up on the weekends and pass it off to one another until I learned how to burn a CD and make copies
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I think I'm technically considered a millenial and I recall pearl jam being a current band in my teenage years
I think that's like by definition not millennial, you were essentially a young adult by the time the new millennia came around (assuming pearl jam being a current band in the middle-late bit of the 90s)
the general guideline I've been going by for millennials was "became a teenager after 2000"
first cd I ever had was the ghostbusters soundtrack
I think the first ones I ever bought were rock spectacle and the barenaked ladies greatest hits cd? we were driving back from a boy scout camping trip in pennsylvania and stopped at a wal-mart between there and illinois and I was like "well, I have some spending money and I like 'one week' so (I think at that point I'd also received 'maroon' as a gift also)" oh! and I think I picked up the spider-man soundtrack, because for some reason I really thought that "hero" song was really rad!
I think I'm technically considered a millenial and I recall pearl jam being a current band in my teenage years
I think that's like by definition not millennial, you were essentially a young adult by the time the new millennia came around (assuming pearl jam being a current band in the middle-late bit of the 90s)
the general guideline I've been going by for millennials was "became a teenager after 2000"
1946-1966 are boomers
1966-1986 gen x
1986-2006 millineals
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apparently pew research group uses 1965-1980 as gen x
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First CD I ever purchased was Warren G Regulate G Funk era.
spoilered for who cares
and at some point i started listening exclusively to Weird Al as some kind of weird statement of defiance against the way that lack of shared cultural touchstones made me feel. Like I would sit on the bus and flamboyantly rock out to Weird Al because it was Important To Me as a preteen that everyone around me understood that this is what i think of your so-called music, maaaaaaaan
anyway i became a little less of a dumbfuck around freshman year of high school. I had really loved the Tiny Toons shorts with They Might Be Giants as a little kid and then they popped up into my life again when they did some work with Homestar Runner, so I decided to get into them. iTunes was a relatively new thing, and they were doing a promotion with Pepsi where every Pepsi bottlecap had a code you could redeem for a free iTunes song. It just so happened that our school had pepsi vending machines, and a friend and I both realized that if we were willing to sacrifice a little dignity and go digging through trash cans, we could both easily get enough bottlecaps to download a ton of songs. By the time the promotion was over I had downloaded nearly the entire iTunes catalogue of They Might Be Giants without spending anything on it
i was part of a forum that had a big clique of kinda big music snobs, or at least people that positioned themselves as music snobs. as a 14 year old it felt like they knew all kinds of super obscure music that no one had ever heard of but in retrospect they were still talking almost exclusively about In the Aeroplane Over the Sea and 90s Radiohead albums in 2005 so maybe the weren't super in the loop so much as I was super out of it. There was some weird running half-joking feud about which 80s college rock band was better, They Might Be Giants or U2, and even today I have a weird chip on my shoulder about U2 as a result of that even though i like the songs of theirs that i've heard. Anyway, there was a thread there that was just "post the song you're currently listening to right now" and eventually people started hassling me about how I never posted anything but TMBG songs and I reached a point where I was like "fuck you fine I'll download something else, what's a good band the beatles are a good band right i'll download some beatles" and I downloaded a bunch of beatles music and enjoyed it a lot so then i started getting into some other classic rock stuff, mostly The Who and then my dad also got me into Supertramp, and at some point i checked out some of the bands that those web forum music snobs liked so I ended up liking Neutral Milk Hotel and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and Franz Ferdinand (like I said, it is really clear in retrospect that they were only music snobs in comparison to someone that knew fuck all about music)
and then i started using pandora and downloading stuff from any band that popped up on there that i liked and ended up getting into Talking Heads and Devo and The Cars and at some point there was some kind of evolutionary split in my pandora playlist and it started serving up a ton of ska music and i was like "guitars... AND brass? what is this madness?" and I still have a ton of Planet Smashers and The Toasters and Catch-22 and Streetlight Manifesto and Goldfinger and Aquabats (even though they pretty much stopped being ska after a few albums) and i think that's around the end of where i have anything interesting to say about why i like the music that i like
http://www.audioentropy.com/
Okay how much Stuff did you Break
I held hands for the first time at that camp.
So just my heart.
they don't like smash mouth very much
http://www.audioentropy.com/
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What in the fuck
It sounds nothing like the Mighty Mighty Bosstones. That's crazy. Doesn't everybody know about the New Radicals?
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I passed by some people doing this song on Rock Band late Friday night and had it stuck in my head the entire weekend. Two solid full days of magfest with an echoing refrain of now I'm an amputee god damn you
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Or Vertical Horizon?
Or Candlebox?
Also I cried at a middle school dance where I had no date to Everything You Want.
Steam: Chagrin LoL: Bonhomie
Seven Mary Three
Cumbersome was my jam.
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Yeah.... I never cried listening to that song when I was in my 20's!
YOU CAN'T PROVE ANYTHING
I once saw Live during a lightning storm at some outside festival in VA. Lightning Crashes (Iris?) was incredible because everytime he sang those words, chain lightning would arc across the sky.
I'm not a Live fan, but that was a pretty memorable show
corey hart - boy in the box
cannibal corpse - the bleeding
entombed - wolverine blues
Weird Al- Poodle Hat
Weird Al- In 3D
Weird Al- Dare to be Stupid
http://www.audioentropy.com/
I remember the album being .. okay?
Steam: Chagrin LoL: Bonhomie
saw these fuckers at pointfest back in high school
it rained a ton and the lawn turned into a giant mudslide and we all got filthy and I lost my glasses
Although I'm embarrassed by how long it took them being one of my favourite bands to understand it. Or how I discovered it.
Steam: Chagrin LoL: Bonhomie
coincidentally, I got my first erection during that concert because Vitamin C was wearing white pants and a thong.
Sup ladies
Coran Attack!
That "friends forever" song has been played at every school graduation ceremony for how long now?
Michael Jackson: Bad
Michael Jackson: Dangerous
Michael Jackson: HIStory
I can reflect on my past purchases and at least not have total disgust in my purchases for the 5 years following that, which were a bunch of rap CDs from groups nobody's ever heard of, like The Luniz.
shit, someone actually mentioned this before I got back to this thread
I actually unironically really like we built this city and don't understand the vitriol so many have towards it
sure, it's not actually rock, but as far as catchy hooks go it has one I like a whole lot
also as a millennial can confirm I heard pearl jam on the classic rock station growing up, I'm not sure about green day/nirvana but I haven't listened seriously to the radio in a few years
But the first one I purchased with my own (and a friend's) money was MCR's The Black Parade. My friend and I would meet up on the weekends and pass it off to one another until I learned how to burn a CD and make copies
I think that's like by definition not millennial, you were essentially a young adult by the time the new millennia came around (assuming pearl jam being a current band in the middle-late bit of the 90s)
the general guideline I've been going by for millennials was "became a teenager after 2000"
I think the first ones I ever bought were rock spectacle and the barenaked ladies greatest hits cd? we were driving back from a boy scout camping trip in pennsylvania and stopped at a wal-mart between there and illinois and I was like "well, I have some spending money and I like 'one week' so (I think at that point I'd also received 'maroon' as a gift also)" oh! and I think I picked up the spider-man soundtrack, because for some reason I really thought that "hero" song was really rad!
stupid shitty vague labels
1946-1966 are boomers
1966-1986 gen x
1986-2006 millineals