forgive me, this is my first opening discussion on something and if something similar has happened before, please let me know. Anyway...
I was having a look through my collections, and having a strongly mid 90s section represented, i was wondering are there any correlations between age and music? The mid nineties were my mid teens and of course a strong influence, so i was wondering is anyone has been similarily biased/influenced by certain ages/turning points in their life. Is a certain band not loved for its intrinsic value but for other life changing event surrounding it, and if so, what were they?
I don't know if what i was trying to say was cohesively put forward, but i hope to gain a discussion from it.
Kyla, adolescence is a scary and exhilarating time simultaneously and is going to have a huge impact on what music resonates most with you, even though you go on to love other music as you age.
A critic once said that one of the things Jimmy Page discovered was that "spaced out heavy rock drove barely pubescent boys mad" Well, that was me in 1969 and I still get the same buzz from hearing "communication Breakdown" now as I did then. An older or younger person may not connect with it in quite the same way.
I also think that music can resonate because of its association with a time, place or person. Roxy Music's "Avalon" is one such album for me.
Having said that, I heard TV on the Radio for the first time the other day and loved it, so you can teach an old dog new tricks
Originally posted by Kyla: I was having a look through my collections, and having a strongly mid 90s section represented, i was wondering are there any correlations between age and music?
Absolutely. I would guess that most people form their musical preferences in their high school years. For me it was 92 to 96, when alternative was massively popular. I think my musical ear was tuned at that point towards somewhat "different" sounding music. Of course nowadays, alternative = any generic guitar rock band, but that's for another discussion.
Hi, I think the so-called "grunge" era reached a lot of people who were part of one big generation(we're all are now about 28-35 years old!)...
Personally, this grunge was my ticket to hear new sounds, new bands. Before those I was discovering and always listening to '60s-'70s classic(and some less popular)rock groups... it was some sort of "my rock education"! It was a good transition because many of this grunge bands were having an "old rock" edge, something refreshing and radical.
Finally, I would like to thank my father so much because he's the person who gave me my first thrills with music! You never forget what's a good song and a good sounding band when you're 6 years old, riding on a car with your father and listen to The Police's "Synchronicity"...
