USCHO Music Thread 2: Rock On, Amigo.

[Gurtholfin]

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New School Dropouts - Bring Back Shaka

Fortunate Youth - It's All A Jam


So I listen to a lot of Reggae, Dub, White-Boy Reggae and a lot of whatever Sublime-like bands would be characterized as.

It's taken me a long time and checking out a TON of bands/artists to find a good solid core of stuff I like coz for every good band/artist in these genres, there seem to be 10 crappy ones.

My biggest gripe(s)?

Songs about pot. It's almost cliche that every one of them has a song or 10 about sensimilla. Hate almost all of them as I don't see it as any different than having songs about beer. I get that it's part of the Rastafarian religion, but have my doubts how many of these artists (or their fans) use sensi for spiritual reasons.

Reggae ballds - they're just god-awful without exception. 'nuff said.

Songs about Jah. Have you ever read up on the Rastafarian religion? It's really not much different than Scientology in terms of plausibility. In addition, singing constantly about Jah isn't really any different than Christian music. For some reason it's more tolerable - I spose palm trees and rum drinks don't hurt. Also... what are white boys from SoCal doing singing about this?


/gripes


Back to my sunny good vibe music on a blustery cold day.

 

[Gurtholfin]

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Now - Stick Figure... all of it on shuffle.


Quite possibly my favorite of the aforementioned. Dubby reggae with a Cali-ocean (not beach) vibe. Love this music.

Don't believe he ever mentions Jah...

 

[rufus]

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What's wrong with songs about beer?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxcqTk4nwKQ

 

[burd]

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Be interested in hearing what your son listens to, Gurth. My daughters, age 21 - 26, knew classic rock from the late 60s and early 70s (Doors, Who, Zep, etc.) surprisingly well. Must have been a retro phase.

 

[The Rube]

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Buckcherry Greatest Hits.

The first run through...meh. Too many slower songs. I wanted to rock out. Upon a 2nd/3rd/4th listening....great music. Nothing ground-breaking, and I expected nothing of the sort. I just wanted to let loose with this album.

 

[Gurtholfin]

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Be interested in hearing what your son listens to, Gurth. My daughters, age 21 - 26, knew classic rock from the late 60s and early 70s (Doors, Who, Zep, etc.) surprisingly well. Must have been a retro phase.

I'm not even sure anymore - or at least I'm unfamiliar with a lot of the artists. He's gone to listening to everything streaming or on his laptop. He no longer uses our iTunes.

He's certainly been exposed to all of the classic rock through me playing it and while he likes some of it, he'd never grab it and play it on his own. My guess is that will happen in college, if ever.

I will say he seems to always have some new band or artist that he's listening to. He's like me to some extent in that he's always searching for more and new music. He's mentioned how important music is to him. These are great qualities in a music fan.


It's funny as it's one of the few areas where he's a lot like I was at that age.

 

[The Rube]

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I'm not even sure anymore - or at least I'm unfamiliar with a lot of the artists. He's gone to listening to everything streaming or on his laptop. He no longer uses our iTunes.

He's certainly been exposed to all of the classic rock through me playing it and while he likes some of it, he'd never grab it and play it on his own. My guess is that will happen in college, if ever.

I will say he seems to always have some new band or artist that he's listening to. He's like me to some extent in that he's always searching for more and new music. He's mentioned how important music is to him. These are great qualities in a music fan.


It's funny as it's one of the few areas where he's a lot like I was at that age.

Dunno if this helps or hurts, but my parents were strictly country/classical. It took a maternal aunt and HS to expand my musical world. There were some bands like the Cure and Ramones that I hit up in Jr High, but for the most part, my tastes opened up in HS. Aunt intro'd me to Zepp, Hendrix, etc. I didn't give The Doors a chance b/c I thought it was a lame band name. Yeah, youth.

Now? Hey, I'll take a listen. Still not a fan of country or the "Cities 97" sound (dunno if you have access to that station; Mpls bit). But once in a while... Generally stick to what I know for styles nowadays.

 

[Gurtholfin]

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Dunno if this helps or hurts, but my parents were strictly country/classical. It took a maternal aunt and HS to expand my musical world. There were some bands like the Cure and Ramones that I hit up in Jr High, but for the most part, my tastes opened up in HS. Aunt intro'd me to Zepp, Hendrix, etc. I didn't give The Doors a chance b/c I thought it was a lame band name. Yeah, youth.

Now? Hey, I'll take a listen. Still not a fan of country or the "Cities 97" sound (dunno if you have access to that station; Mpls bit). But once in a while... Generally stick to what I know for styles nowadays.

Okay, listening to Cities 97 (streaming) right now and appears that they are playing a full album by a female singer. Not really pop - almost adult contemporary. It's not insulting, but not my thing.

My parents were strictly lite hits but I will say that my mom was super cool when we were growing up and let us listen to WLS (Chicago rock station - played the Who, YES, Queen, REO, Rush, Styx etc...) every time we went anywhere in the car.

I found music on my own though. Didn't care for 60's music or the Doors until I got to college. Still prefer the 70s to the 60s and am way over the Doors at this point. Went through a heavy Doors faze though, read the book about Jim, etc. Had a similar faze with the Beatles. Don't listen to them much anymore either.

As a teen I was all in on new wave as long as the bands had guitars (Duran Duran, the Fixx, Men at Work, INXS) and soon after, post punk (the Cure, U2, REM, Echo, Simple Minds, etc.). At the same time, I was for some reason heavily into 70s progressive rock and 70s album oriented rock.

Probably a result of the dawn of MTV colliding with my formative years of listening to WLS.

At one point (1984 or so), my absolute favorite two bands were U2 and YES. Go figure how that works.


As far as where I am today, the journey of discovery continues and I'm constantly frustrated that there isn't more out there. I should say there's plenty out there, but so much of it is such crap.

 

[The Rube]

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Cities and IIRC 98.5 (some Christian station, blame the ex) has a certain pop "sound" that I really don't care for. Current country has the same sort of "type." It's slow, then bombastic. Very vanilla.

I don't mind a certain sound, but make sure it's good. Like the previously mentioned Buckcherry...if they came out in the 80's? They would be lost in the mix. Nowadays? They get heard.

 

[Gurtholfin]

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Back to the boy...

As hip rolleyes:) as I think (know) I am when it comes to music, my tastes and my collection is probably a lot cooler to a college kid than a high school kid.

Stick Figure and Pacific Dub came a bit ago and Dirty Heads are coming and also Pepper with The Movement. All Cali type bands.

I've asked him if he wants to go and bring a friend or two coz he actually likes my "Cali music". His term.

None of his friends listen to any of it. I'm like, "None of your skateboarding or snowboarding friends listen to this?" To my mind it would be the perfect music for those guys.

Nope.

I bet a bunch will once they're in college.


He also informs me that he really doesn't like my Phish, Dead or String Cheese. I'm always like, "Great!"

Don't want him around that scene anyway - not even in college.

 

[Gurtholfin]

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The other funny thing is that despite over a terra byte of music, there are still times when I can't find anything I want to hear.

 

[The Rube]

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Greyeagle's kid chimed in on the GPL music thread one night. A couple of us.....older folks....were reminiscing about the Wu Tang Clang/related, posting vids and such. And GE's kid, about 20ish....quoted "Holy sh*. You guys are more hip than me. I'm jamming to the Beatles, and you old guys are cranking gangsta rap!"

 

[Gurtholfin]

Re: USCHO Music Thread 2: Rock On, Amigo.

Greyeagle's kid chimed in on the GPL music thread one night. A couple of us.....older folks....were reminiscing about the Wu Tang Clang/related, posting vids and such. And GE's kid, about 20ish....quoted "Holy sh*. You guys are more hip than me. I'm jamming to the Beatles, and you old guys are cranking gangsta rap!"

Awesome!


I've mentioned that my generation as parents is the first that isn't fazed by our kids' music because we grew up with essentially the same stuff or "worse."

And a lot of us still listen to it and a lot of our kids listen to our music and we listen to theirs.

 

[The Rube]

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Awesome!


I've mentioned that my generation of parents is the first that isn't fazed by our kids' music because we grew up with essentially the same stuff or "worse."

And a lot of us still listen to it and a lot of our kids listen to our music.

Yup. My mom loves GNR and AC/DC. It really freaked me out at first. Gotten used to it, now, but still kind of weird.

 

[Gurtholfin]

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Yup. My mom loves GNR and AC/DC. It really freaked me out at first. Gotten used to it, now, but still kind of weird.

I meant my generation as parents.

My mom ain't listening to GNR.


Cool for your mom!

 

[Gurtholfin]

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I did give her a bunch of CDs from my collection though (when I liquidated it) that I thought she might like.

She actually listens to Beck quite a bit now. She's 75.

 

[burd]

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At one point (1984 or so), my absolute favorite two bands were U2 and YES. Go figure how that works.

Around that time, I worked for Neil Young for a couple of years (carpentry on his home, not music), and he was asking around for guys to play basketball in what I guess was his annual basketball game between Broken Arrow Ranch and the guys from Yes. I remember wanting to do that but not being able to for some reason. Even then, it seemed odd for Neil Young to have a basketball thing with Yes. For Neil, hockey maybe, but this is Northern Cali.

 

[The Rube]

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I did give her a bunch of CDs from my collection though (when I liquidated it) that I thought she might like.

She actually listens to Beck quite a bit now. She's 75.

Nice!

And I see what you meant, now. I'm not much for today's pop, although some of the hard rock bands I do enjoy, like Avenged, Five Finger, and Godsmack.

 

[Slap Shot]

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My dad bought me Dark Side of the Moon and Frampton comes alive for Christmas. Kind of tells you how we rolled.

However, early on I was heavily influenced by brother who was 5 years older and therefore was already into buying music when most of my friends weren't there yet. KISS, Zeppelin, The Who, Robin Trower, Edgar Winter, Yes, Zappa, Van Halen, Skynyrd, Genesis. First record I ever bought was Queen's News of the World when I was 10. As I got older I chose to listen to Pink Floyd, a lot of the aforementioned, AC/DC, Cheap Trick, The Police, The Replacements, Suburbs, then into the Cure, REM, Violent Femmes, The Suburbs, etc. Still remember listening to Grandmaster Flash and Parliament Funkadelic in h.s. and soon thereafter rap came around.

My catalog now consists still mostly of alternative, progressive, independent, old school rock, along with the blues and a good chunk of rap and even classical/opera. Whenever I put in Carmen with Leontyne Price in the lead I feel the need to drive around late at night with the sunroof open. Can't say I have any legit country outside of Hank Sr., but I do like Cracker, Wilco and others have a bit of the flavor.

 

[Gurtholfin]

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Around that time, I worked for Neil Young for a couple of years (carpentry on his home, not music), and he was asking around for guys to play basketball in what I guess was his annual basketball game between Broken Arrow Ranch and the guys from Yes. I remember wanting to do that but not being able to for some reason. Even then, it seemed odd for Neil Young to have a basketball thing with Yes. For Neil, hockey maybe, but this is Northern Cali.

I have a real hard time picturing the guys from YES doing anything athletic, let alone basketball. Do they even play basketball in England?

I have the same struggle picturing Neil Young doing anything athletic - even hockey.


Your story sure paints an amusing picture though.