Igniz v2
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gonna start a thread on here basically ripped off from a feature that www.pitchforkmedia.com runs every now and then called ... well, 5 10 15 20.
basically the point of it is that for each age interval you have in 5's you say a short little bit about a bit of the music that was really a big deal for you then and put it in context. i'll start..
5 -
Alan Jackson's Greatest Hits and The Beatles Greatest Hits
this is all I can remember hearing in the car back then.. My dad I guess had recently bought a car that had a CD deck in it and decided to grab all these compilations of things he liked so that he could play them really loud and listen to them out of one ear like anyone who's 3/4 deaf would.
there is a definite sentimental attachment to both of these records, though for some reason i'd be more likely to pick the alan jackson one today just cause it's the corny things that end up being more endearing as time goes on.
10 -
who knows
at this time, i think i was maybe part of the first wave of kids to discover music basically entirely through the internet. I have zero memory of looking at record stores and figuring out what stuff to buy, what not to etc cause I never had to do that when I had no money of my own. I owned one CD though maybe a year later cause my mom got it for me.. Bad Dreams by Swollen Members. in 2001 they were basically our local heroes cause they were both from our town and managed to get on the radio with a string of catchy singles. The album is actually quite good to me still though, but they should cool it on the dungeons 'n dragons talk..
but.. anything that would have been part of the pop landscape of the time probably found it's way into my ears.. me and my sister basically held the same appreciation of the backstreet boys, michael jackson, dr. dre, tool, britney, nickelback, etcetc it was all kind of fair game. i sort of miss those times where i had no taste or bias in music. in particular though I was a pretty big fan of anyone with catchy rap beats.. Cam'Ron/Dipset, Nelly, Ludacris, etc. in addition to whatever bad radio "hard rock/metal" there was on at the time. Papa Roach, Nickelback, Limp Bizkit I all had no qualms in admitting I thought were really cool bands. And.. the Gundam Wing soundtrack, i remember being almost like moved to tears by terribly corny 90's j-pop just cause i associated it with all these really big epic moments in the show and I pretty much thought Gundam was the best thing in the world at 10.
15 -
Daft Punk - Discovery
Outkast- ATLiens
Justice - Cross
were very key records from when I was 15. I was basically an underachieving smartass with few remaining friends and bad skin (now i'm an underachieving smartass with few remaining friends.. but the acne's gone
)
Just before this I had a big phase with the Pink Floyd discography and pretty much swore that they were the best band, on earth, ever, and that all their records are classics. I burnt out hard on them. They got me into the concept of listening to a full album though, and there are still more than a couple of certified legendary records in their collection. but i digress..
I really fell in love with Daft Punk's Discovery after hearing Digital Love.. it seemed like when I heard that track for the first time, after being very deeply entrenched in just like.. 70's rock, it seemed like this revelatory new thing to me. Digital Love isn't the best song ever, but it's still easily in my top 5 all time. I listened to this album about a million times. They were the first live act I saw and have been a big inspiration since.
Outkast - ATLiens
This was the first CD I bought with my own money at our local indie record store. I knew outkast were good but wanted to just dive into an album. Andre 3000 still speaks to me in a way that no other rapper really does. Outkast reign over all 90's hip hop acts in my eyes.. wu-tang are very lyrically inventive but really, i can't relate to 90% of the stuff they talk about. ATLiens was always like a contemplative/bedtime album for me, again i've listened to it enough times that i can probably recite it word for word.
Justice - Cross
I was absolutely convinced that this was the definitive sound of tomorrow. I had listened to them since they just had a few tracks out on myspace, tried to talk them up to everyone, grabbed the album 2 months before it came out here, saw them on their tour, etc. Totally obsessed. That was about 2 years+ now since their album dropped, totally burnt out on that record now, but.. I wait for the day that they return with more.
I'd do 20 but this post is pretty long and rounding up is cheating..
basically the point of it is that for each age interval you have in 5's you say a short little bit about a bit of the music that was really a big deal for you then and put it in context. i'll start..
5 -
Alan Jackson's Greatest Hits and The Beatles Greatest Hits
this is all I can remember hearing in the car back then.. My dad I guess had recently bought a car that had a CD deck in it and decided to grab all these compilations of things he liked so that he could play them really loud and listen to them out of one ear like anyone who's 3/4 deaf would.
there is a definite sentimental attachment to both of these records, though for some reason i'd be more likely to pick the alan jackson one today just cause it's the corny things that end up being more endearing as time goes on.
10 -
who knows
at this time, i think i was maybe part of the first wave of kids to discover music basically entirely through the internet. I have zero memory of looking at record stores and figuring out what stuff to buy, what not to etc cause I never had to do that when I had no money of my own. I owned one CD though maybe a year later cause my mom got it for me.. Bad Dreams by Swollen Members. in 2001 they were basically our local heroes cause they were both from our town and managed to get on the radio with a string of catchy singles. The album is actually quite good to me still though, but they should cool it on the dungeons 'n dragons talk..
but.. anything that would have been part of the pop landscape of the time probably found it's way into my ears.. me and my sister basically held the same appreciation of the backstreet boys, michael jackson, dr. dre, tool, britney, nickelback, etcetc it was all kind of fair game. i sort of miss those times where i had no taste or bias in music. in particular though I was a pretty big fan of anyone with catchy rap beats.. Cam'Ron/Dipset, Nelly, Ludacris, etc. in addition to whatever bad radio "hard rock/metal" there was on at the time. Papa Roach, Nickelback, Limp Bizkit I all had no qualms in admitting I thought were really cool bands. And.. the Gundam Wing soundtrack, i remember being almost like moved to tears by terribly corny 90's j-pop just cause i associated it with all these really big epic moments in the show and I pretty much thought Gundam was the best thing in the world at 10.
15 -
Daft Punk - Discovery
Outkast- ATLiens
Justice - Cross
were very key records from when I was 15. I was basically an underachieving smartass with few remaining friends and bad skin (now i'm an underachieving smartass with few remaining friends.. but the acne's gone
) Just before this I had a big phase with the Pink Floyd discography and pretty much swore that they were the best band, on earth, ever, and that all their records are classics. I burnt out hard on them. They got me into the concept of listening to a full album though, and there are still more than a couple of certified legendary records in their collection. but i digress..
I really fell in love with Daft Punk's Discovery after hearing Digital Love.. it seemed like when I heard that track for the first time, after being very deeply entrenched in just like.. 70's rock, it seemed like this revelatory new thing to me. Digital Love isn't the best song ever, but it's still easily in my top 5 all time. I listened to this album about a million times. They were the first live act I saw and have been a big inspiration since.
Outkast - ATLiens
This was the first CD I bought with my own money at our local indie record store. I knew outkast were good but wanted to just dive into an album. Andre 3000 still speaks to me in a way that no other rapper really does. Outkast reign over all 90's hip hop acts in my eyes.. wu-tang are very lyrically inventive but really, i can't relate to 90% of the stuff they talk about. ATLiens was always like a contemplative/bedtime album for me, again i've listened to it enough times that i can probably recite it word for word.
Justice - Cross
I was absolutely convinced that this was the definitive sound of tomorrow. I had listened to them since they just had a few tracks out on myspace, tried to talk them up to everyone, grabbed the album 2 months before it came out here, saw them on their tour, etc. Totally obsessed. That was about 2 years+ now since their album dropped, totally burnt out on that record now, but.. I wait for the day that they return with more.
I'd do 20 but this post is pretty long and rounding up is cheating..
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