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miyuru

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It's crazy but in grade 8 all I started listening to was urban music. Alas, 6 years later, I'm starting to download way more music all around, though so far it's been mostly dancy type stuff, but I downloaded that new Good Charlotte song today ^_^ It's catchy!

Man, this is crazy. I don't know how large an HD I'm going to need now for all this new music. Yikes! So so far I have around 20 GB of urban music, 1 GB or DDR music :lol, and now maybe 500 MB of "other" music ^_^

Before my HD crashed, I had 23 CDs worth of Initial D music...oh, how I'll miss it. At least I got 5 hours worth on an MD.
 
Most of my music tastes developed when I was most miserable, in Arizona. Music takes on a whole new meaning when there's nothing else to enjoy.
 
MrAngryFace said:
Most of my music tastes developed when I was most miserable, in Arizona. Music takes on a whole new meaning when there's nothing else to enjoy.
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this about sums up my life too. anyone else want to join the maf club?
 
My musical tastes were influenced by the music I heard growing up, 70s/80s country, classical, stuff like Neil Young and Fleetwood Mac. Then of course there was just stuff kids listen to, so during hte 80s I listened to plenty of Pop like Michael Jackson and Debbie Gibson. Then I got into Country stuff like Merle Haggard, Kenny Rogers, Alabama, Kentyucky Headhunters and such. Then around 13 years old I got into R.E.M., then that transitioned from some Police and other light rock into the whole Nirvana/Pearl Jam/Seattle era. Which was odd, because I bailed from country just when it got popular with Garth Brooks and then Shania Twain stuff. Anyways, after that brief period of good alternative rock on the radio died and stuff like Matchbox 20 got big, I moved back to an old interest in electronic music and found myself delving into goth and industrial, this then lead me back to some of that 80s music. I got Switchblade SYmphony CDs along with Siouxsie, Sisters of Mercy and Bauhaus. Around this time I found i liked the post-punk era. The electronic research also got me Portishead, which became one of my favorite bands. Of course the post-punk/goth stuff got me Joy Division which is another favorite band. Somewhere between the rock and goth, a girlfriend ditched me on our anniversary to go to a They Might Be Giants concert. This whole ordeal triggered our ugly messy breakup, but out of it I grew a morbid curiousity with the fan community for TMBG and thus got more into the band. Also, around my senoir year of highschool I started listening to classic rock and the stuff my dad use to play alongside the country. When I started working at a record store, most of the employees were 80s metalheads and they got me lsitening to heavy metal and trying out harder rock bands. I bought some Megadeth and Machine Head albums. I started to enjoy Fear Factory and Sevendust. I also got into Blues music and other genres while working at the record store. This included the Swing craze, but I already had an interest in Harry Belafonte and Benny Goodman. The record store gave me access to about any type of music. At this point though, I was really tired of all the new bands in country, alternative rock and metal. So I kind of stuck to older bands for awhile till someone online recommended The White Stripes to me. I checked them out and started trying to find other 'indie' bands online. Places like epitonic let me check out The Shins for free and other bands like Spoon. So as it stands now, I own music that ranges from Burt Bacharach to the Lemonheads and Red Lorry Yellow Lorry to Skinny Puppy.

And you just "discovered" GOOD CHARLOTTE????????????????
 
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It was nothing important, just mentioning how awesome eti's post was. But realised that by doing so it would make it less awesome.
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No offense, but if your musical tastes were personified--let's just say Gary Glitter would be masturbating to it right now.
 
Musically mature is listening to stuff outside of contemporary. I would say you are more matured for the Initial D stuff than Good Charlotte (though kudos to dude for banging Hillary Duff). A move like that is like going from Public Enemy to Anthrax (to date myself). It is different but not really.

You want to mature? Listen to classical, opera, put in either Fantasia or Fantasia 2000 and turn off the TV. Or listen to some Louie Armstrong, Count Bassie, Nat Cole.. Or even Harry Connick, Patsy Cline, Beach Boys (Pet Sounds), etc.

I am not trying to knock you. You have certainly expanded if you've moved past urban (which along with American pop are by far the most musically stunted genres in the world and have been for over 10 years now), but you really have to move further away to be truly matured. There are centuries of music out there. It sounds like you haven't begun to fully explore even past the 21st so far....
 
fart said:
this about sums up my life too. anyone else want to join the maf club?
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I spent the majority of the past 10 years sitting in my bedroom, listening to Lou Reed's Berlin and Joy Division. I probably at one time had sex dreams about Ian Curtis hanging himself.
 
I matured out of pretentious wankfest music and into Blink 182 or whatever is playing on the radio.
You guys are l000sers...



Good on ya, miyuru!
 
I dont know if my taste in music is any better. I hardly listen to anything outisde U2, Tool and The Smashing Pumpkins...
 
White Man said:
I spent the majority of the past 10 years sitting in my bedroom, listening to Lou Reed's Berlin and Joy Division. I probably at one time had sex dreams about Ian Curtis hanging himself.
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That's hot.

Was "The Idiot" playing?
 
miyuru said:
It's crazy but in grade 8 all I started listening to was urban music. Alas, 6 years later, I'm starting to download way more music all around, though so far it's been mostly dancy type stuff, but I downloaded that new Good Charlotte song today ^_^ It's catchy!

Man, this is crazy. I don't know how large an HD I'm going to need now for all this new music. Yikes! So so far I have around 20 GB of urban music, 1 GB or DDR music :lol, and now maybe 500 MB of "other" music ^_^

Before my HD crashed, I had 23 CDs worth of Initial D music...oh, how I'll miss it. At least I got 5 hours worth on an MD.
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Wow, iTunes/Napster must LOVE you... right, right!?

*Summons RIAA*
 
Fuck all these snobs.


You have taken a (baby) step in the right direction. At this rate, in a few years, you will be posting messages on "What are you listening to now?" threads of bands that no one has ever heard of before. You will consider yourself a music expert like most douchebags on the internet.
 
miyuru said:
It's crazy but in grade 8 all I started listening to was urban music. Alas, 6 years later, I'm starting to download way more music all around
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You pay for all this music you download right?
 
miyuru said:
Before my HD crashed, I had 23 CDs worth of Initial D music...oh, how I'll miss it. At least I got 5 hours worth on an MD.
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i listened to a good deal of Initial D music after people started raving about how it was such awesome "trance". i guess that should've been a clue right there. "Love Is In Danger" is the only song i ever liked from the series.
 
mature= not bashing everything outside of your box. Way to go miyuru, soon you'll get to the good stuff.
 
mature = brit pop and new wave. :P
good for you miyuru, you'll expand even more and look back and realize later on that good charlotte sucks.
 
silenttwn said:
I think it would take a lifetime or unrelenting dedication to music in order to "musically mature." So you're being a lil' arrogant here, bud.
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:lol
oh my god
Youre such a tool :lol
 
:lol this thread is too funny :P

RE: Good Charlotte, I'm just saying that I would never in the past bother to uhh, acquire such a song, though I'd see the video (pretty funny) and I said to myself, this is catchy, and I should get over myself and just d/l it. So that right there is a step forward.

Right now I'm trying to find the SSX soundtracks (I've only played Tricky & SSX3 though, never the original). I'll actually buy these since I figure they're rare, and I couldn't find them anywhere online actually :lol

Anyway I'm just more into dance music right now, and some bands. I have the Transplants last album for some reason, I think my ex sent me their single so I just got the album to check it out. It's all right though it's just a less urban Limp Bizkit to me. Other songs I'm really loving are "Jerk it Out" by the Caesars (I used it for my flair demo too :P) and "Oh! Ellin" by Gob.

Well I just transfered all my DDR music to my Xbox, so I have another 2.3 GB free, I wonder what I can listen to today. BTW yeah I'm a pirate. OH TEH NOOOS! :lol It's not to say I've never bought a CD in my life though, because I have, well, only one in recent memory...and it was for the free DVD (Bad Boy Greatest Hits, 11 music videos as a bonus!).

To be honest, filesharers aren't generally consumers - I'd never buy this stuff anyway. Piracy to me just opens doors, but yeah if I am enjoying the music, I should purchase it later on, but at the same time, if I never pirated it, I'd never buy it at the same time. Quite the dilemma, but I try to be fair. Anyway, no more derailment!

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aoi tsuki said:
i listened to a good deal of Initial D music after people started raving about how it was such awesome "trance". i guess that should've been a clue right there. "Love Is In Danger" is the only song i ever liked from the series.
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Hehe I love iD music so much because after watching the series you start to match moments in the show with the music, so it always gets me fired up, especially while driving, though not so much anymore :P

"Love is in Danger" is definitely one of my favourite tracks, as is "Running in the '90s".

EDIT 2: Anyone ever heard of any of Jacques Lu Cont's remixes? Amazing stuff. He goes under the name "Thin White Duke", and in the past "Les Rythmes Digitales"). He also won the Grammy for remix of the year (for some No Doubt song, "It's My Life" or whatever).
 
I suppose that musical maturity means finding good in what seems like shit.
I call this the Bob Dylan Vocals (BDV) rule.

and yeah Initial D music is pretty catchy. my friends used to bombard me with that stuff.
GONNA GET YOU / I'M A SPACEBOY / WHOA-OH-OH-OH / I'M READY BABE
*synth keyboard freakout*
 
Being "musically mature" imo, means understanding that any musical style can convey emotion just as well as any other, but also that some songs within a certain genre are better at it than others.

[/elitist] :)
 
kablooey said:
Being "musically mature" imo, means understanding that any musical style can convey emotion just as well as any other, but also that some songs within a certain genre are better at it than others.

[/elitist] :)
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Yeah, ok. How can minamalism convey emotion just as well as romanticism?
 
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