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And the sad truth is a lot of these bands wouldn't get signed today, can you imagine anyone taking a chance on a band like Hawkwind?
I got into music properly in my teenage years, mid 70's onwards. Punk played a big role.
If my father had come in one day, and put "Bollocks" on his record player and said how much he enjoyed it, that would have felt very wrong to me.
Maybe that's because my father was who he was and our relationship was what it was. Or maybe that's because today's music, made by today's youth, is for the youth of today. Punk was by the kids, for the kids - not their parents.
I think that's the way it's always been - and always should be.
If it's good - it's permanent and you'll never leave it behind. The more you've encountered that's good, and want to keep with you, the less time you've got to listen to new stuff.
I basically think that as musos we're not like Joe Punter who only listens to a few things and isn't that bothered by music. I bet most of us have got huge jukeboxes in our heads compared to non-musos.
I agree. I do think within the umbrella of "popular" music it's mostly about time and place. I don't try and get into modern pop/rock because I'm not a reckless randy youth anymore, I'm not going to be staying out all nights with my mates and I'm never going to fall in love again. You inevitably see mainstream music as a soundtrack, and if you try and approach it from a more detached perspective it simply doesn't work, not for me anyway.
I think that's why I've started listening to other forms of music in the last few years, I find that with say jazz or some of the older American acoustic blues stuff you appreciate the music for what it is, not what it reminds you of. I still can't crack classical music though, the Lark Ascending is about as far as it goes with me.
There’s plenty of newer music I like - War on Drugs and Bon Iver have been recent discoveries - but the stuff you you absorb in your youth just never goes away....
My teenage record buying was a lot of rock and heavy metal ( as we called it then!) like Nazareth, Iron Maiden, Saxon, Queen. I don’t dislike it now but I rarely seek it out. Through my oldest brother I got into earlier bands like Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and thereafter spent my
listening time going backwards along that family tree into Zappa and Chicago blues and delta blues.
Some of the other music of my youth was the stuff I was trying to ignore at the time and which I like more now wether that’s Dr Feelgood or The Clash or The Specials or The Police.Again, I’ve gone back from listening to them back to dub and Toots and the Maytalls and have a stupid knowledge of ska and early reggae; stuff I probably didn’t even know existed ten years ago.
I also appreciate music more as a craft now than I did thirty odd years ago so I can appreciate the Bee Gees or Ed Sheeran even if they don’t have a place in my heart.
This is might be about being older rather than wiser but the joy and the pain of having listened to a lot of stuff is that it’s hard to get beyond thinking ‘ I’ve heard it all before’ and so new music doesn’t tend to interest me. Music that is new to me often does but that’s not necessarily the same thing. For example, my 17 year old son put something on the other day, some amazing new band he likes and I thought it sounded like Isaac Hayes. I’m not saying it was bad just that I wanted to listen more to Isaac Hayes afterwards than I did the track he was playing. But for my son there is just so much that’s new to him wether it’s made in 2017 or 1947 and that’s a great journey.
But school also introduced me to Queen, Iron Maiden, Motorhead, Jethro Tull, Saxon, Asia, Diamond Head, Michael Schenker (and friends), Rainbow, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath etc, and to tell the truth, on the odd occasion I've revisited them, it's left me feeling a bit uninspired.
Pink Floyd were and are in a different class and I can't get enough of their 1969-1973 output, especially the live stuff. The 1978 Animals album started it all off when I somehow got hold of whilst still at school.
Since then have passed through Tangerine Dream, Yes, Jean-Luc Ponty, Jazz-Fusion, music from the GRP stable, 60's, some pop (when I got involved in local radio), Hawkwind, Zappa, classical and ambient. I did the record collecting thing for a few years, and amassed some really eclectic albums. Then let it all go. I also got heavily into Yello and the early albums from The Orb, which I continue to revisit occasionally. You can probably tell, I'm not much for "songs", although there's a fair few songs that really hit the spot. But nothing sounds better than a 20-odd minute opus from the Floyd or, say, Tangerine dream.
The one thing I never got into as a youngster was blues, so the last 2/3 years have made up for that. But I think I'm now done exploring the blues as a listener, even though I'm not done with blues as a guitar player.
So where does that leave me with my next aural inspiration?
I think the biggest change for me, now I’m older, is appreciating how great some music is that I never would’ve dreamt of listening to when I was younger: things like Frank Sinatra, opera, classical, big band, swing.
Definitely listen to too much stuff from my teenage/early twenties,as evidenced by my top listened to songs in 2017 on Spotify.I just don't seem to have the same attention span towards new music that I used to have.
These days I'm mostly listening to stuff that was written 500-250 years ago.
There was a disco in our local last night. In all the time he was emitting noise purporting to be music I heard 2 songs that I recognised and none that I liked.
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
90% of the music I listen to is purely because I have to learn it for the various bands. That's the drawback of playing covers for a living, if your not familiar with the material your gonna play you need to get it in the old bonce before you can play it. If I am playing music for pleasure though it's gonna be something new generally .
The actual music from my school days was terrible, Haircut 100, bananarama, Kajagoogoo etc.... urg!! complete shite!
Exceptions where old music is concerned are timeless things like Floyd, I can still happily listen to all the Waters albums from start to finish
I like to keep up with new stuff and I think music is in as good a shape as it's ever been. I like new sounds and styles, but it's also great that bands and players still come along and manage to do something interesting with blues, rock, country and jazz...
I've never been that interested in what's in the charts.