that music of the past

Started by Rogue planet September 30th, 2011 1:51 PM
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Are there any specific bands or songs you associate with years gone by?

For me it's Daft Punk, Gorillaz and Red Hot Chili Peppers
Gorillaz were the first band I got into, it was my introduction to a love of music, I would listen to them every single day. Chili's were always there as well, Daft Punk I discovered a bit later and loved so much and still do now.

Songs: The Killers - Bones, Muse - Starlight, MCR - Welcome to the Black Parade, 30 Seconds to Mars - The Kill, Kings of Leon - Use Somebody. All evoke certain memories and emotions.

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There's the obvious kid boy-band types of music I used to listen to as a kid - Backstreet Boys, N SYNC, and I think I went through an Aaron Carter phase.

For more modern bands that just remind me of the past, My Chemical Romance was one of the first bands I really listened to, back in seventh grade. Also a lot of metal and heavy stuff reminds me of when I was a dumb high schooler and I would fight my own tastes. "I like metal because it's cool!" while secretly turning it off and listening to music I liked the second I was alone. But I had myself convinced I liked it, lol.


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I associate my Spice Girls phase with the early 2000's, because even though I was young then, I listened to them all the time and loved them to bits (still do). I associate Kylie Minogue, Britney Spears and S Club 7 with that time period also. I love them all to bits, why did they have to get old ;-;

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My mom listened to a lot of Ace of Base when I was like, 5 or 6, so any time I hear an Ace of Base song, nostalgia hits me like a brick. XD Also, Chumbawumba. I GET KNOCKED DOWN BUT I GET UP AGAIN. That really brings on the nostalgia! I should go listen to them...XD
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Pre-2005 I didn't really have a proper music taste (or I should say, music didn't take as much emphasis in my life as it does now). I do remember liking some of what was in the top 40 on the radio, a few AC/DC songs and a few songs by The Doobie Brothers. Green Day and Good Charlotte (shudder) were my favourite bands.

Year 7 (05) I went through a death metal phase which was more for the appearance than for actual enjoyment of the music. I also enjoyed just normal rock and emo, like The Living End and My Chemical Romance. Towards the end, I started getting into bands like Led Zeppelin and The Black Keys.

Year 8 (06) The metal started to phase out when I realised it was lame. Mainly this year was full of classic rock and a few of the older emo bands.

Year 9 (07) This year was more or less my grunge year - I got into lots of Nirvana, Mudhoney and Pearl Jam as well as continuing to listen to rock and blues and a few emo and screamo bands. I also started listening to theredsunband at this time - I always thought my music taste was more closed at this time but after remembering that I liked theredsunband I realise I may have been more open to different music than I remember.

Year 10 (08) Halfway through this year, I heard a song that made a huge difference on my enjoyment of music. That was Incinerate by Sonic Youth, and from then my music taste exploded into indie music. It was at this time that I started enjoying entire albums as opposed to just some songs. But yeah, I started really enjoying bands like Broken Social Scene and Metric. Sonic Youth took over as my favourite band from The Black Keys (who had held the title for almost three years).

Year 11 (09) I can't remember what I got into, it was more just expanding on what I started getting into in Year 10. I remember a lot of Foals. A lot of my current music library came from this year. At the start of this year I had purged my iPod of pretty much all the lame emo bands I'd listened to in Year 7 (aside from My Chemical Romance's Three Cheers, which in contrast to their later releases is actually a decent album). About halfway through the year I started listening to math-rock as well, stuff like toe, LITE and The Edmund Fitzgerald.

Year 12 (10) Lo-fi describes this year. I listened to tonnes of the new wave of indie music, stuff like Beach Fossils and Real Estate and so on. It also involved a lot of math-rock. That and lots of Die! Die! Die! and La Dispute.

Uni (11) Although I started listening to Beach House in Year 12, I'm going to include them here because they've dominated this entire year. That, and a lot of chillwave music. A couple of drone artists... pretty much everything. I'd say dream-pop and chillwave have been the "new" genres of this year.

(btw, to you Americans the school year over here goes from early February to early December (or March to October at uni))

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I was thinking of making a thread like this!

I remember listening to Hootie and the Blowfish as a little kid, and confusing ALL THE WORDS. Also remember Aerosmith, Bon Jovi, Rolling Stones, and various other people. That's all my parents music though, but it's what I remember hearing in the car. Oh, and I liked to mumble along with songs even though I didn't know the words. Always been singing.

When I was 6, I would dance to Britney Spears' album everyday. First introduction into music sorta kinda I guess? Or well, the first person I liked out of my own free will. Feel free to judge me if you want, but I'll just punch you if you have anything negative to say and then KINDLY point you to the records she's broken. :3c Then of course, more of that 90's stuff like Backstreet Boys, Nsync, Christina Aguilera, need I go on.........

During early 2000's, I didn't have much preference in music. I liked whatever was on the radio really. So it was more Britney, Nelly, Avril Lavigne, random bands I don't care to remember but obviously didn't make any impact on me anyway since I can't remember them. Also really liked Eminem at a young age, mainly cause of my dad. Still like him, of course.

7th grade, I was obsessed with Gavin DeGraw, who is still one of my favorite artists today. Didn't make it as big as I wanted him to be, but he has a permanent place in my heart.

Let's just skip to 8th and 9th grades. That's when I started paying more attention to stuff. Listened to a lot of random stuff this year. James Blunt, Green Day, Simple Plan, Mariah Carey, My Chemical Romance, Gorillaz, Usher, Aqualung, Regina Spektor, The Feeling, Amy Winehouse, The Fray, Adele...anything I saw on Vh1 basically, especially the You Outta Know artists.

10th grade I went all emo and lame and would only listen to Underoath, Deftones, My Chemical Romance, Bullet For My Valentine, Nirvana, Three Days Grace, Foo Fighters, and Breaking Benjamin. I still love Deftones and Nirvana. Don't care for the others though. Breaking Ben is good too though. And Foo Fighters. Definitely Foo Fighters.

11th and 12th grade I straightened back up and BROADENED my HORIZONS and met a musical man. This is when I started listening to The Beatles, Dropping Daylight, Lady Gaga, Modest Mouse, Death Cab For Cutie, Blake Shelton, and...the most important band ever in the history of my life: Kings of Leon. THANKS KLIPPY.

Now today you see me jamming to pretty much everything I've stated so far and a ton of other stuff, like Foster the People, Black Sun Empire, Snow Patrol, Pendulum, The Mars Volta, Christina Perri, Rihanna, She, The Story Changes, Washed Out, We The Kings, Taeyang, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and yeah I'm done you can quit reading.

...Did I answer this right? You have my musical history now. v_v
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Well until about last year I've just listened to my mother's music. Now I've found stuff I actually like better, and don't really like hers as much now, even though she still listens to the same music, which is mostly heavy metal.

So yeah, last year I was really into synthpop, especially the Human League. That's like all I listened to. So now synthpop just reminds me of last year, which was horrible and I don't like to think about it. Even though I still kinda like the music itself. xD

Early this year I started listening to classic rock, which is still what I listen to most of the time.
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It's weird because most of the music I listen to now is the same music I have always listened to, which would be movie scores, oldies, funk, rock, etc. My Dad is a musician and he exposed me to all sorts of music from when I was an infant, so I was listening to Ray Charles when I was like 3, and still do. I love Steve Winwood a lot when I was little too, and have ALWAYS loved movie scores. The first time I was exposed to movie scores was probably at age 4 or 5 when the Nightmare Before Christmas came out and I heard Danny Elfman's beautiful score to it. Blew my mind. Although I listen to music in almost every genre now, I never really went through weird phases of music when I was a teenager. I never had a death metal phase, or an emo phase, etc. I listened to scores on the bus going to grade 7 and still do!

I must say that almost anything from the 90s gets me nostalgic about childhood though!


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I don't particularly like Oasis or The Killers, but if one of their songs come on, it'll always bring back bits of nostalgia. Oasis were pretty much the only band I can remember from the '90s, even when they started becoming increasingly irrelevant as the '00s wore on; The Killers remind me of my final years of school, especially the song 'Mr Brightside', but also some of their other earlier songs. They bring back the memories, even though I don't really like the songs themselves.

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When I actually started paying attention to music at all, I was like in the 6th grade and listened to stuff like Korn and System of a Down and Slipknot. It lasted for like a year or two, then I got into the portuguese hip-hop and rap scene (LOL how could I...), and then the drum 'n' bass came and I started listening to Pendulum and The Prodigy, like in the end of my 9th grade or so.
Then salvation came in the form of Iron Maiden, when I was finishing my 11th grade. I became really interested in the classic metal scene and started listening to Motörhead as well, and got glimpses of Black Sabbath and Ozzy and such. Then Megadeth, like a year ago. And now it's my favourite band. And I also like Metallica and Pantera.
So yeah, if I have to name a band that reminds me of my childhood, that'd be System of a Down (mainly their album Toxicity). And Rage Against The Machine as well. Even though I never spent straight days listening to their songs, some of them were constantly on my playlists.
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I associate myself with being one of the very few people in my area who listens to, and loves, metal. Whenever I'm mad, songs from bands such as Five Finger Death Punch and Trivium can make me happier. Also, Metallica got me into guitar with their amazing songs such as Of Wolf and Man, and One. I hate that my generation listens to very unoriginal rap that sounds nothing like it used to. Metal can be unoriginal at times, but it still is music to me rather than rap. I can listen to a multitude of things however such as techno, oldies, classic rock, grunge (Pearl Jam and Nirvana are amazing!), and much more

It's weird because most of the music I listen to now is the same music I have always listened to, which would be movie scores, oldies, funk, rock, etc. My Dad is a musician and he exposed me to all sorts of music from when I was an infant, so I was listening to Ray Charles when I was like 3, and still do. I love Steve Winwood a lot when I was little too, and have ALWAYS loved movie scores. The first time I was exposed to movie scores was probably at age 4 or 5 when the Nightmare Before Christmas came out and I heard Danny Elfman's beautiful score to it. Blew my mind. Although I listen to music in almost every genre now, I never really went through weird phases of music when I was a teenager. I never had a death metal phase, or an emo phase, etc. I listened to scores on the bus going to grade 7 and still do!
I absolutely love Nightmare Before Christmas! Your whole post reminds me of my GF and how she listens to oldies, all Disney scores, and other assortments of other music. She is a serious seasonal music lover and it makes me happy when she puts on funny Halloween music lol.
However I'm trying to get good as a musician and am currently learning Stairway to Heaven which is possibly the best song ever made IMO.
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