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Posted: November 10 2012 at 20:33
smartpatrol wrote:
I can't really associate much music with a specific time period, mainly because I'm always into so much music all at once, and because I've only been seriously into music for about five years.
Not to sound like an old fart, but your generation really does have greater access to more music. I would probably average a couple of new albums a month when I was your age. I had no way of hearing them beforehand, or even reading about them, apart from what was in my trusty Rolling Stone Record Guide. The one good thing about that is that I really got to know all of my albums well. I would sit and listen to them in my room, read the album cover, and that was it. Today, I feel almost overwhelmed by the sheer volume of stuff available to me. And yet, I can't slow down.
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Posted: November 10 2012 at 20:41
HolyMoly wrote:
smartpatrol wrote:
I can't really associate much music with a specific time period, mainly because I'm always into so much music all at once, and because I've only been seriously into music for about five years.
Not to sound like an old fart, but your generation really does have greater access to more music. I would probably average a couple of new albums a month when I was your age. I had no way of hearing them beforehand, or even reading about them, apart from what was in my trusty Rolling Stone Record Guide. The one good thing about that is that I really got to know all of my albums well. I would sit and listen to them in my room, read the album cover, and that was it. Today, I feel almost overwhelmed by the sheer volume of stuff available to me. And yet, I can't slow down.
I'm glad for it because sometimes my taste in music is very ADD
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Posted: November 10 2012 at 20:42
HolyMoly wrote:
smartpatrol wrote:
I can't really associate much music with a specific time period, mainly because I'm always into so much music all at once, and because I've only been seriously into music for about five years.
Not to sound like an old fart, but your generation really does have greater access to more music. I would probably average a couple of new albums a month when I was your age...
Oh, I know! I'm finding new bands every week! I can listen to a band's full discography in one day for free.
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Right around my 17th birthday. Genesis and Gabriel were about as popular as anyone at the time. I remember I took a summer program at Davidson College during that month. Great times. That's where I first heard ELP (beyond Lucky Man, that is), and the Velvet Underground.
I love those nostalgic/ sentimental moments in your life that you can associate to a certain band or music you were really into at the time. I, of course can't fully compare of you in terms oh how many times that's happened. But it's a good feeling. So I must ask, ELP or Lou Reed and Co.?
It was a month-long summer program for rising high school seniors, and my first extended stay away from home. We took classes and lived in dorms and everything (except beer, that is, but I didn't drink yet anyway so I didn't care). My roommate was a Lou/Velvets fan, and had some cassettes including the Velvets' White Light/White Heat album, which I thought was one of the coolest things I'd ever heard (I was into hardcore punk mostly at the time). All their stuff had been out of print for over 10 years, but Verve was in the process of reissuing them all on vinyl (no CDs yet), including a new set called VU which turned out to be very popular. Anyway, after that month I went home and bought up every VU album I could find. White Light/White Heat is still an all-time favorite for me. I wouldn't get too heavily into ELP until about a year later, but then I went full-on into it.
Today, I'd pick VU/Lou Reed over ELP, but "Tarkus" is my favorite album out of both bands.
Wow, I wish I had the same opportunity/ experience. What did you do at the school? And regarding to your friend's music, see that's something that's absent today; going over to a buddy's place and being introduced to new music, or listening to a full album. It's a shame really.
Actually, in fact this is probably a better example. Straight off the new album. You liking it? This is a bit more Ambient and less Dance - appeals to me a bit more.
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Posted: November 10 2012 at 20:55
Fox On The Rocks wrote:
Wow, I wish I had the same opportunity/ experience. What did you do at the school?
We all took 2 classes, both of which had an exam or project due at the end. It was intended as a primer for college, crammed into one month. It was called "July Experience". I enjoyed it so much I applied "early decision" (meaning you apply early only to their school, and agree to go if they accept you, and still have time to apply elsewhere if you don't) the following year and got in. Had a great 4 years there from '87-'91. And speaking of music representing periods of your life, the weird thing is the music landscape changed overnight almost as soon as I graduated in '91, when Nirvana hit #1 on the pop charts. My senior year, people were listening to Bobby Brown. When I came back to visit a few months later, it was all about Pearl Jam.
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Wow, I wish I had the same opportunity/ experience. What did you do at the school?
We all took 2 classes, both of which had an exam or project due at the end. It was intended as a primer for college, crammed into one month. It was called "July Experience". I enjoyed it so much I applied "early decision" (meaning you apply early only to their school, and agree to go if they accept you, and still have time to apply elsewhere if you don't) the following year and got in. Had a great 4 years there from '87-'91. And speaking of music representing periods of your life, the weird thing is the music landscape changed overnight almost as soon as I graduated in '91, when Nirvana hit #1 on the pop charts. My senior year, people were listening to Bobby Brown. When I came back to visit a few months later, it was all about Pearl Jam.
Man, that must have been a wonderful period of your life. Seeing all the changes within the music scene as you said, and not to say seeing changes within yourself as you matured into adulthood. So what did you take at College then. And I assume it's still the same field your working in now?
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Posted: November 10 2012 at 21:52
smartpatrol wrote:
That song is so bizzare. But also really good Same for Cygnus X-1. The main character gets sent into space, flies into a black hole, wakes up without a body to witness a war between Dionysus, Apollo, and their respective followers, and after ending the war with his silent anger, is made a god.
I remember seeing Rush do Cygnus X-1 live in the spring of 1977, the last part of the song was accompanied by a gigantic animated story behind the band, with a spaceship that explodes-really cool!
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smartpatrol wrote:
What did you do at the school? And regarding to your friend's music, see that's something that's absent today; going over to a buddy's place and being introduced to new music, or listening to a full album. It's a shame really. 
So what did you take at College then. And I assume it's still the same field your working in now?