brief music stuff
brief note of explanation; my Dad basically controlled music growing up (ie, he likes the good stuff, and we have an LP/CD player, why would I want to listen to anything else?). Consequently I grew up listening only to stuff he liked, or top 40s I happened to hear.
My Dad's taste in music is *only* classical (his parents stopped him from going to Juliard, etc), some folk rock, some jazz. So real limited, and I've been trying to explore music ever since I got out of there. But getting out of my comfort zone was real slow at first. I actually can credit my interest in visual art for finding some music I like; I wouldn't have known about Tom Waits without "Hellboy," I wouldn't have gotten interested in Tori without Tony Diterlizzi talking about her, I discovered Jethro Tull thanks to Iain McCaig obviously.
Other stuff has just been random luck. F'rex you'd expect that I'd fall in love with Oingo Boingo instantly (true), but because I'm not from SoCal or particularly Goth, I only found out about them thanks to my (NorCal) ex. I found Tinariwen thanks to YouTube recommendations. Etc.
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@Kusimanse I know I've said this before but my folks are a lot of what's likable about me, only you make it COMPLETELY FUCKING SELF ABSORBED. That's part of what I hate about dealing with them now, everything's pretty much their deal for 3-10 hours. Music's just another part of the completely self absorbed.
But you wanna know the REALLY wild music thing? My Dad's taste in jazz is all earlier stuff, Duke Ellington and Count Basie are pushing it. Dude doesn't listen to Miles Davis which is a little like saying "aha, really into classical but he just will NOT listen to Mozart ever." You'd think "talented pianist, he's gotta be into Thelonious Monk" right? Nope.
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@Leucrotta Goood golly. I imagine Coltrane he couldn't handle.
I understand being muscially stuck, I try hard to keep myself interested in music and bands of this century when I just want to listen to more 90's ska and TMBG. But still.
And bleh, dealing with the self-absorbed. No fun. :P
brief music stuff
@Leucrotta Wow. My Parents were.. much more broad-minded, for which I am fortunate. We lsitened to their music of course, and I had lots of access to their record collections.. but we had our own record player as kids with some kiddie records, I got a boom box when I was like. 11 and was able to buy my own cassettes, and had a walkman (Well, a Sanyo) for the school bus and such in high school. And the local library checked out cassettes.
Mind, there was musical Veto sometimes.