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Name: 2000 Man
E-Mail: latrobe33@gmail.com
Subject: What styles of music do you like?
Date: Thursday, August 3, 2006
Time: 8:57:48 AM
Remote Address: 128.221.197.129
Message ID: 195850
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God I hate starting these kinds of threads. Where I ask a question and you answer - everyone on the planet is better at it than me.
Anyway, conversations of the last two days or so have had me thinking about exactly what I like, and in turn exactly what I don't.
When I was a kid I was weaned on 50's rock n' roll. Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Carl Perkins and plenty of Doo Wop. I got older and got my own radio and my favorite thing to do with it was to stay up all night with this little speaker I had that plugged into the earphone jack. It was flat and called a pillow speaker. I used to just dial around until I found a station I'd never heard playing some kind of rock and roll. I loved that. Mostly it was top 40 by then. CKLW out of Canada. WIXY here in Cleveland. Some Chicago station that had a clear channel after 10 PM. Then I got an FM radio. Man, did things change then! I listened to a freeform station called WNCR that was more rock and roll than WMMS. MMS at that time would play non rock and roll sometimes, like Mozart. And I just can't dig that longhair stuff. That's how I got into progressive rock. I loved that stuff when I was like 11 to 14 or so. Really over the top stuff like Yes or Flash. Manfred Mann's Earth Band blew my mind (I have some on cd to remind me of what it was like when my biggest concern was getting busted with an ammo box full of Tiparillo's, firecrackers and two beers I had buried in the bushes). I started listening to Steely Dan and Pink Floyd then, but I was getting interested in stuff like Free and Rory Gallagher, too. Oddly, all my friends had older sisters, except one and his older brother was weird as it got. But those girls rocked and unlike older brothers, they shared their records.
Then I started seeing all the local bands at tennis courts, rec centers and the Berea Community Center. That's when stuff started getting more like weird. I liked Bowie (in 1976 if you liked Bowie you were generally considered a fag by the general public, especially in Junior High) and I liked The Doors. Yes was the only progressive band I liked anymore. I liked ZZ Top.
Then I found out about Elvis Costello and The Sex Pistols. That changed EVERYTHING. It was like someone finally put their finger on just exactly what it was I needed. Around then I met a guy who loved country. I was floored - no one listened to that stuff. He turned me on to Johnny Cash and Merle Haggard. We used to listen to Conway Twitty too. So I think that's what got me mainly to where I am today. The Stones came along in 78 for me. I was a reluctant fan. But the more I listened the more I was amazed at how many different styles of music they could play. I still am. But my favorite Stones songs are and always will be the fast rockers.
So in the 80's I liked Z Rock. I still like heavy metal. It's funny and it's so rigidly defined. You can lose your entire fan base with one slip up. I don't play much of it these days. But I'll let it go when I hear something from Motley Crue's first album or Celtic Frost or Iron Maiden or Saxon.
Come the 90's I got sick and tired of classic rock in general. It was just like, "when does this get relegated to oldies status so new music has room to grow?" That answer was "NEVER!" So I went underground out of necessity. Man, was I pissed when I found out I had essentially missed The Replacements! I had Pleased To meet Me, but I must have bought it on one of those "got 100 bucks to blow on cd's" days and I don't think I really ever played it until several years later. Oh, well. My loss. You can't keep up with everything.
So now I mostly like this huge cross section of punk/garage/twang. Pretty melodies? You can have them. Pretty vocal harmonies? No, thanks. I like it noisy. I've tried to get into Radiohead and Interpol, but it's just not working for me. I've got a short attention span. I like music to essentially smack me in the face. It's got to sound like it would be great live in a small setting. I don't generally like bands with horns, backup singers, synthesizers and tapes and click tracks. I totally agree with Paul Westerberg that too many recordings or takes of a song takes all the soul out of it. Mistakes don't bother me much. It's all about feel.
I need to be able to trace that line back to Buddy Holly and Chuck Berry generally. I don't need to go further than that. If it moves too far from the beginning for me, then I usually lose interest. I kind of wish Exile had come out in 1955, then instead of being like the repository for everything that rock and roll is all about, it could have been the fountain. But at least it's here.
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