i remember that day very well, i work in a newspaper so it was a crazy day, i remember the "unreal" feeling i had all day. As for music, i'd say my taste didnt really change, maybe I like a little more bluegrass now.
Six years ago? I was a sophomore in high school and had not yet met any of you guys. My tastes were horrid and remained so for another two years or so (You may remember by the name SOADlover13)...I listened to whatever the radio told me to like, and didn't get too much further than that. Outkast was there, Metallica, System of a Down (of course), Disturbed, Eminem. I now know more about music, than anybody I know personally, and have come to enjoy the White Stripes after despising their first popular single "Fell in Love with a Girl" (Which I now love).
That particular day, I was in second period spanish, something had happened. Watched the news all day, my parents came home early. I wouldn't say that the even changed my life, I will say that it was incredibly horrific and I cried yesterday thinking about it, maybe it did change my life, yeah, I think that was the beginning of my obesession with politics and other cultures...
Fortunately (or unfortunately), I keep an OCD-level record of all the CDs I buy over the years!
Six years ago, I was starting senior year in high school, and I was buying things like Staind, Alien Ant Farm, Incubus, Rage, No Doubt, Coldplay, System of a Down. Also filling in 90s alt-rock holes like Superunknown and Smash. Of all that, I've lost interest in the first three, but still enjoy the rest.
Originally posted by Shadrach: Good point Jonathanbrisby. Also, Wilco's YHF was recorded but not yet released, and floating around in a leaked form, but they delayed it's release because of how closely some of the lyrics came to the whole situation.
Also, They Might be Giants released Mink Car that day. I was (and am) a big TMBG fan, but I wasn't in the mood for their music at the time, because it didn't seem right, so I have still never bought it. The Giants started to fade at that point too, and I've always wondered if it wasn't connected in some way.
Though it's not addressing the topic, I thought it interesting the albums released that day (being a Tuesday). I had mistakenly thought YHF was released on 9/11, which would have been one of those eerie timely coincidences given some of the substance and context of the album (songs like ashes of american flags, war on war), but alas just streamed and not released till 02. However, according to wiki, there were some of these weird musical coincidences.
I know that if something was examined enough there could be apparent foreboding references or what not, and that's not particularly unusual or bizzare - just stretches. But this one is just crazy, I Am the World Trade Center releasing an album in July that year with the 11th track titled "September". What are the odds?
Also, Shadrach I really enjoyed "The Else". Then again I wasn't that much into TMBG before, so I'm not sure if it disappoints relative to their pre 9/11/01 stuff.
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six years ago i was a freshman at Maryland, i had a medieval history class at 1 pm. i woke up because everyone was up and turned on the tv as the second plane hit. very empty feeling.
my musical endeavors were limited at the time and i was experiencing the university hub for the first time.
all the 90s radio music including Lifehouse, Dido, Stone Temple Pilots,Parachutes by Coldplay and ofcourse Hybrid Theory
top songs of 2001(considered when in 2001): chop suey clint eastwood get ur freak on Teenage Dirtbag
had no idea what radiohead was upto at the time which is straight weird considering the music and art work around that time.
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I was mired in ICPdom. And video games. But mostly juggalo hoo-ha. Sadly, yes it's true.
Also, Shadrach, that was the name of one of the Christians thrown into a fire under Nebuchadnezzar's rule, I read in a pamphlet from the Jehovah's Witnesses yesterday
six years ago... i had just entered grade 9, and i'm pretty sure i was just discovering the beatles, i'm pretty sure i'd just bought that big "1" compilation album that everybody and their grandmother owns. i believe i'd just bought it that summer and i was listening to that almost exclusively because hearing the beatles was everything i imagined it would be, and a considerable step up from the music my peers were into (see: blink 182 and korn). i'd always been under the impression that the beatles couldn't possibly be as amazing as baby boomers seemed to think they were. i was wrong.
here in canada, i don't remember there being the widespread grief that seemed to affect the US (which is strange on some level because to some extent SW Ontario is a whole lot closer both geographically and culturally to new york than most of the US), but i kind of enjoyed the affect that had on the radio for the next few months, as people reflexively reached out for the familiar, and stuff like the beatles being played regularly on the radio became essential to people coping with tragedy.
as a side note, i was pretty big into U2 and Queen at the time too. not a bad triumvirate to begin listening to music with, if you ask me.
6 years ago I was 9 or 10 and listening to the worst music ever. Not MCR bad, like Good Charlotte and Nelly unforgivable crap.
Edit: Ironically, I was also a fan of Modest Mouse at the time, which is still my favorite band of all time, I forgot how I'd heard of them but it's still weird that I actually liked a piece of good music bad then.
--- People think that we don't understand What it takes to want to be a man I don't care much for that I don't know why
I was mired in ICPdom. And video games. But mostly juggalo hoo-ha. Sadly, yes it's true.
It might take me a while to forgive this statement. I'm currently pretending that I never read it.
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Originally posted by golden flea: six years ago... i had just entered grade 9, and i'm pretty sure i was just discovering the beatles, i'm pretty sure i'd just bought that big "1" compilation album that everybody and their grandmother owns.
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Originally posted by Firedove: 6 years ago I was 9 or 10 and listening to the worst music ever. Ironically, I was also a fan of Modest Mouse at the time, which is still my favorite band of all time, I forgot how I'd heard of them but it's still weird that I actually liked a piece of good music bad then.
Thank you golden flea and Firedove, for ruining my "I was only thirteen" defense. It actually took me a long, long time to realize I could listen to a lot of different music and that my image didn't have to be defined by one genre. I've been meaning to scrape the clown decals off my window for years now
I was mired in ICPdom. And video games. But mostly juggalo hoo-ha. Sadly, yes it's true.
It might take me a while to forgive this statement. I'm currently pretending that I never read it.
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Originally posted by golden flea: six years ago... i had just entered grade 9, and i'm pretty sure i was just discovering the beatles, i'm pretty sure i'd just bought that big "1" compilation album that everybody and their grandmother owns.
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Originally posted by Firedove: 6 years ago I was 9 or 10 and listening to the worst music ever. Ironically, I was also a fan of Modest Mouse at the time, which is still my favorite band of all time, I forgot how I'd heard of them but it's still weird that I actually liked a piece of good music bad then.
Thank you golden flea and Firedove, for ruining my "I was only thirteen" defense. It actually took me a long, long time to realize I could listen to a lot of different music and that my image didn't have to be defined by one genre. I've been meaning to scrape the clown decals off my window for years now
Don't feel bad, I just happened upon good music by chance.
--- People think that we don't understand What it takes to want to be a man I don't care much for that I don't know why
I would have just started fall semester for my freshman year in college...
Hmm... I was all over Is This It? and Discovery for a long time (man, those albums are great). A lot of people were playing those records at parties and stuff -- that was fun. I listened to Rooty and Since I Left You a lot as well. I played Sound-Dust quite a bit too -- a great, hugely underappreciated album. Oh, and once I finally settled into Confield, I remember listening to it several times a day for like 2 weeks or something. I have to be in the right mood for that one -- although I can stil listen to "Cfern" on repeat a dozen times in a row.....
------------------------------------------------------- Awkwardness happening to someone you love!
I still enjoy some Our Lady Peace from time to time. And Techno has it's high points (namely, Aphex Twin). There is a lot of really bad techno out there though. I remember the days when everyone with a computer was sequencing "beats" and making "music".
---------------------------- I'm the operator with my pocket calculator.
Christ, I had an unusual experience that day. I was camping with my older brother in northern Florida that week (well, until that day). We were hiking on a path, probably a mile or so away from our campsite, when I received a frantic call from one of my college buddies. All I could hear before the call cut off was that New York and Washington D.C. were hit by nuclear weapons! My buddy didn't have access to media at that time either, but that's what someone told him.
Almost immediately upon hearing that, my cellphone cut off. And I was unable to make any more phone calls for many hours after (I think a good portion of the country had this problem, but my case was unique because of the poor reception I was already getting being in the wilderness). I couldn't contact anyone.
Needless to say, until my brother and I got back to the campsite and into my car to listen to the radio to find out that it was planes, and not nuclear weapons that struck those two cities, I thought that the world was ending. It took us twenty or so minutes to get to a radio; the longest twenty minutes of my life. I still get nightmares about that day.
As far as music I was into around that time, I know I listened to Moby's Play and Kid A a bunch.
