Music that shaped your taste in music

Mom started me out with 2 albums: 'Best of the Beach Boys, Vol. 1' and 'Meet the Beatles'. Then I found out that between she and my dad, there were about 200 more albums in the house. So on it went to all the other Beach Boys and Beatles albums, Chicago, PP&M, James Taylor.

I found out about LedZep and Rush from a friend just as I hit the teen years.

Growing up in a baptist church with a strong music program is the reason I'm now at another baptist chruch with a strong music program. Singing is a fantastic release, especially in the middle of the week.

 

Aman to that...I'm on the praise team at my church as well as the choir and solo list. Nothing like being able to express yourself through song, what a wonderful gift.

 

In sequence:

1975-1986: Country music on my parent's radio

1986: got my own radio, discovered 80s pop

1986-1989: discovered Guns 'n' Roses, Def Leppard, LL Cool J, and Metallica. Afraid to get "into" Metallica because I'd been told they were "bad" (i.e., not something a nice, churchgoing boy should listen to).

1990-1993: The Rap Phase. NWA, Ice Cube, Geto Boys, Ice T, Digital Underground, 2 Live Crew. Also discovered Pantera and Christian death metal.

1993-1994: "Alternative" Phase. Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Smashing Pumpkins

1995-1997: Tortured Artist Phase. Nine Inch Nails, The Cure, Depeche Mode, anything on The Crow soundtrack.

1997: Type O Negative. My first gloomy goth metal band. I first began to realize metal was closest to my heart.

1998: The Demonization. Discovered King Diamond, became addicted to his music. First introduction to Rammstien.

1999: Discovered the world of Black Metal. Emperor, Cradle of Filth, Dimmu Borgir, etc.

2000-present: The metamorphasis is complete!!

KEEP IT HEAVY!!

 

Fats Domino
Little Richard
Jerry Lee Lewis
Elvis Pressley
Glen Miller
Stan Kenton
Count Basie
John Coltrane
Louis Armstrong
Wayne Shorter(w/Miles Davis)
Keith Jarrett
Dewey Redman(Josh's dad)
Branford Marsalis

Since I'm a player as well as a fan these people influence me in an educational manner as well as taste/preference.

While I'm not into the pop music scene I have much respect for artists that maintain some semblance of music integrity; e.g. Steely Dan, Stevie Wonder, Sting, Elvis Costello.
The pre-electronic Bob Dylan deserves a tip of the hat for his sheer artistic integrity.

Have a good day.

 

My parents were much older and old fashioned when I was growing up, as I was the baby of nine, but I thank God every day they tried really hard to be hip. They allowed me any music taste I chose and as loud as I wanted it, as long as it was in my room....

The first songs I remember were gospel songs in church. From there I listened to any and everything from the 50's, 60's and 70's as I had a sister or brother in every one of those decades. Being from the mountains, my love of bluegrass is deep seated, but it wasn't too hip in my teen years. I learned to play the guitar and banjo early but fell into the folk mode with the guitar and quit the banjo all together. There was so much good music back then, it was hard to be faithful to one kind. I did the heavy metal and hair band thing and still do. I feel very lucky to have had such a plethora of musical variety growing up.

 

I grew up listening to the 80's music that my siblings listened to. It had a huge influence on me. It gave me deep rooted hatred for lame ass synthesized pop music. I don't think I paid any attention to music untill I hit the adolescent Zepplin, Rush, Iron Maiden stage. That transitioned into Allman Brothers, Grateful Dead, bluegrasss, jazz, etc. I think I went through a rap stage back when Fab Five Freddie was all about the bling bling and Yo MTV Raps.

 

I really like progressive rock. Dream Theater and Queensryche are my two favorite bands and they are touring together this summer. I really like all types of music. When I was growing up my parents listened to the Beatles, the Eagles, Bad Company, the typical '70s rock. I also like old Motown. I was into the "hair band" thing in the '80s because I was a teenager. I got into Tesla, Van Halen, Extreme. I really love Dream Theater though. Musically, they're the best band I've ever heard. Their drummer, Mike Portnoy is a machine. I don't think he's human!

 

During my formative years, a lot of my friends had older brothers with huge album collections. When we weren't sneaking a peek at their Playboy and Penthouse collections, we'd listen to their albums, check out the cover art and read the liner notes and lyrics (to try and figure out what the bands were singing!). Yes albums had the coolest album covers. We listened to Black Sabbath, Zeppelin, Chicago, McCartney and Wings, ZZ Top, Doobie Brothers, Boston, Allman Brothers, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Bachman-Turner Overdrive and stuff like that.

I also heard a lot of 70's AM pop. The associate minister (who was pretty liberal) and a lot of the late teen, early twentys that chaperoned our youth trips to the Outer Banks would play a lot of Dylan, Elton John, Captain and Tenielle, Janis Joplin on the church bus tape player during the trip.

Be not embarrased my bretheren. Break out your tennis racket, crank up the volume and air guitar away. A little REO Speedwagon never hurt anyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I do find it interesting that so many of you guys evolved into Jazz and country. I sort of did the same thing. I guess a lot of the musicianship went out of rock at some point and we went looking for that in jazz. And a lot of the interesting lyrical talent seemed to move to country (for a while) so we must have gone looking for that over there.

 

Gees, all i know is that Shaun Cassidy was my first album, and Micheal Jackson was my first tape. Grew up listening to songs like "Tie a Yellow Ribbon", anything by Neal Diamond, "Country Roads"...and in high school i really liked Wham! and Level 42. Guess all of that shaped my taste into pop music.

 

This post was deleted/edited by jazzredcat because it was a snide remark toward another poster's taste in music; albeit in jest, nevertheless it would probably have hurt someone's feelings, and added jazzredcat to somebody's ignore/shit list.

Thank you.