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Started by Nephew Twiddleton, July 13, 2012, 11:18:13 AM

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Nephew Twiddleton

July 13, 2012, 11:18:13 AM
Must have memory and or nostalgia.

Memory and nostalgia:
Formative musical years
Formative musical group
Music video inspired Cramulan meme.


Also I wanted to bonk the girl with the braces because I was 12 ish at the time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mbBbFH9fAg

This was, actually pretty formative.

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Nephew Twiddleton

#1
July 13, 2012, 11:22:32 AM
To put it in perspective, if the song in the OP were a person, it could go to war, buy cigarettes, get married, and buy porno mags if kids even do that anymore. It could not, however, drink alcohol.
Strange and Terrible Organ Laminator of Yesterday's Heavy Scene
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Soy El Vaquero Peludo de Oro

TIM AM I, PRIMARY OF THE EXTRA-ATMOSPHERIC SIMIANS

Nephew Twiddleton

#2
July 13, 2012, 11:24:55 AM
Quote from: Bruce Twiddleton on July 13, 2012, 11:22:32 AM
To put it in perspective, if the song in the OP were a person, it could go to war, buy cigarettes, get married, and buy porno mags if kids even do that anymore. It could not, however, drink alcohol.

This realization makes me feel old.

That and the fact that the songs of my late childhood are now Classic Rock.

More on that later.
Strange and Terrible Organ Laminator of Yesterday's Heavy Scene
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Soy El Vaquero Peludo de Oro

TIM AM I, PRIMARY OF THE EXTRA-ATMOSPHERIC SIMIANS

AFK

#3
July 13, 2012, 12:01:36 PM Last Edit: July 13, 2012, 01:00:14 PM by Gen. Disregard

The first metal band I was REALLY into was Savatage.  Gutter Ballet was the album and when I first saw the video on Headbanger's Ball for the title track, I was instantly hooked and listened to that fucker repeatedly for months.  I'm surprised I didn't wear the tape out.




Gutter Ballet
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H03X8GaVfik


When The Crowds Are Gone
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KoLbjaYpsNk



Criss Oliva was. one of the best guitarists around but I think was underappreciated because Savatage never really hit it big.  He was tragically killed by a stupid-ass drunk driver in 93.


Fun Fact:  Savatage are now the Trans-Siberian Orchestra.
Cynicism is a blank check for failure.

AFK

#4
July 13, 2012, 01:09:15 PM
I won't spag up the thread but the other mention I have to make is Frank Black and The Pixies.  I was a huge Nirvana fan when they hit the scene but my introduction to alternative/post-modern music was Mr. Black.  Teenager of the Year (which I'm listening to as we speak, er type) was the essential album.


It's 18 years old but doesn't have that dated 90's sound.  He's a goddamned musical, hook-writing genius.
Cynicism is a blank check for failure.

The Good Reverend Roger

#5
July 13, 2012, 01:42:52 PM
It's a Long Way to Tipperary

Up to mighty London came
An Irish lad one day,
All the streets were paved with gold,
So everyone was gay!
Singing songs of Piccadilly,
Strand, and Leicester Square,
'Til Paddy got excited and
He shouted to them there:

It's a long way to Tipperary,
It's a long way to go.
It's a long way to Tipperary
To the sweetest girl I know!
Goodbye Piccadilly,
Farewell Leicester Square!
It's a long long way to Tipperary,
But my heart's right there.

Paddy wrote a letter
To his Irish Molly O',
Saying, "Should you not receive it,
Write and let me know!
If I make mistakes in "spelling",
Molly dear", said he,
"Remember it's the pen, that's bad,
Don't lay the blame on me".

It's a long way to Tipperary,
It's a long way to go.
It's a long way to Tipperary
To the sweetest girl I know!
Goodbye Piccadilly,
Farewell Leicester Square,
It's a long long way to Tipperary,
But my heart's right there.

Molly wrote a neat reply
To Irish Paddy O',
Saying, "Mike Maloney wants
To marry me, and so
Leave the Strand and Piccadilly,
Or you'll be to blame,
For love has fairly drove me silly,
Hoping you're the same!"

It's a long way to Tipperary,
It's a long way to go.
It's a long way to Tipperary
To the sweetest girl I know!
Goodbye Piccadilly,
Farewell Leicester Square,
It's a long long way to Tipperary,
But my heart's right there.

Extra World War I trench verse

That's the wrong way to tickle Mary,
That's the wrong way to kiss!
Don't you know that over here, lad,
They like it best like this!
Hooray pour le Francais!
Farewell, Angleterre!
We didn't know the way to tickle Mary,
But we learned how, over there!

" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Suu

#6
July 13, 2012, 01:55:52 PM
Most of my early listening comes from my dad's collection, which is why my music tastes range so deeply and I have every Yes album to date [with Jon Anderson.]

I'm not having an easy time dealing with the idea that music I listened to in middle school is now considered classic rock. I realized that Bush isn't quite there yet the other night, as Sixteen Stone came out in 1995, but Stone Temple Pilots are, Nirvana definitely is, Nine Inch Nails too. Alice in Chains? Yep. Tool is almost there. Yes, Tool. Tool as classic rock. FML.

I really didn't get into alternative until high school though. Mostly because even though I knew the rock songs from the radio and my parents' listening to it, my mind was still fixed on the idea of listening to pop and early big beat electronica. My dad would actually bring me home mix tapes from a coworker of his that consisted of Moby before he started to suck, and some of The Prodigy's earlier works from Experience. This was like...93-94.

Big beat rolled into industrial in 97 when I was introduced to Skinny Puppy and Front Line Assembly from the goth kids who heard I was into techno, and pop was pretty much thrown behind me as I moved into what my school liked to call "black t-shirt bands," and my wardrobe teetered between grunge and goth...which was all sorts of fun in the Florida heat. I remember listening to the Deftones in 10th grade, and a girl sitting near me wanted to listen, so I handed over ye olde headphones and Discman, and she went, "Ewww...how are you like, supposed to dance to stuff like that? I don't understand rock and roll, it's like, so weird." I still remember that to this fucking day, 15 years ago.

Oh yeah, I guess the Deftones are teetering on the "classic rock" mark now too, eh?  :eek:

Sovereign Episkopos-Princess Kaousuu; Esq., Battle Nun, Bene Gesserit.
Our Lady of Perpetual Confusion; 1st Church of Discordia

"Add a dab of lavender to milk, leave town with an orange, and pretend you're laughing at it."

The Good Reverend Roger

#7
July 13, 2012, 01:57:03 PM
Quote from: Suu on July 13, 2012, 01:55:52 PM
Oh yeah, I guess the Deftones are teetering on the "classic rock" mark now too, eh?  :eek:

The sun could die of old age, and the Deftones would not be considered "classic rock".  Nor, at the heat death or collapse of the universe, will they have picked up the adjective "classic" or even "rock".

" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Suu

#8
July 13, 2012, 02:07:28 PM
Oh they're rock. Damnit. I know this first hand.

Chino Moreno blew off my pance with his smooth voice over the heavy rifts.

For serious. Ask Richter, he was there.
Sovereign Episkopos-Princess Kaousuu; Esq., Battle Nun, Bene Gesserit.
Our Lady of Perpetual Confusion; 1st Church of Discordia

"Add a dab of lavender to milk, leave town with an orange, and pretend you're laughing at it."

The Good Reverend Roger

#9
July 13, 2012, 02:11:08 PM
Quote from: Suu on July 13, 2012, 02:07:28 PM
Oh they're rock. Damnit. I know this first hand.

Chino Moreno blew off my pance with his smooth voice over the heavy rifts.

For serious. Ask Richter, he was there.

Regardless of the state of your pance, they are not rock.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Suu

#10
July 13, 2012, 02:27:53 PM
Just for that, I'm wearing my Deftones shirt to the Department of Taxation today.
Sovereign Episkopos-Princess Kaousuu; Esq., Battle Nun, Bene Gesserit.
Our Lady of Perpetual Confusion; 1st Church of Discordia

"Add a dab of lavender to milk, leave town with an orange, and pretend you're laughing at it."

The Good Reverend Roger

#11
July 13, 2012, 02:28:33 PM
Quote from: Suu on July 13, 2012, 02:27:53 PM
Just for that, I'm wearing my Deftones shirt to the Department of Taxation today.

That'll show me.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

LMNO

#12
July 13, 2012, 02:31:15 PM
Dammit Suu, I keep forgetting I have a decade on you. 


LMNO
-off my lawn.  Srsly.  :where the hell is that old man emote?:

Suu

#13
July 13, 2012, 02:36:42 PM
Quote from: The Dead Reverend Roger on July 13, 2012, 02:28:33 PM
Quote from: Suu on July 13, 2012, 02:27:53 PM
Just for that, I'm wearing my Deftones shirt to the Department of Taxation today.

That'll show me.

Yeah!

Cause like...I have no fucking idea...I'm just cranky I have to go yell at the state, again, for "forgetting" my refund, again, because they wrote a goddamn check to Curt Schilling.
Sovereign Episkopos-Princess Kaousuu; Esq., Battle Nun, Bene Gesserit.
Our Lady of Perpetual Confusion; 1st Church of Discordia

"Add a dab of lavender to milk, leave town with an orange, and pretend you're laughing at it."

LMNO

#14
July 13, 2012, 02:57:07 PM
There are a few.  I'll take this from the standpoint, "when did you start listening to stuff other people weren't listening to?"

The first move away was slight1.  I always liked George Harrison songs more than the Lennon/McCartney stuff.  Tame, I know.  But that led me to Yes which is pretentious shite, but I loved that shit, as it appealed to my budding "difficult music" side (and eventually led to King Crimson, mathcore, et al.  But this is about the first song to shift personal paradigms.

So, I was doing Art Rock for a while, and then I was introduced to something that blew my head off.2.  There wasn't much going back after that, especially when I heard the best punk band, ever.  Sure, I kept my pretentious art wankery around, because I still liked the technique and musicality. 

But everything changed when I heard the album that changed everything3.  You had the ideology of punk, and the art rock sensibility.  You had anti-authoritarian lyrics, but they were well thought out, not just yelling.  You had melodic and harmonic skills, but recorded on a shoestring.  This is the album that showed me you could be a punk drummer, and yet use artsy techniques to deliver.

The art punk thing took a dark turn4 which really got a hold of me (and Nick has never gotten tiresome since).  That led me to the goth thing, and then the three major elements (punk, art, goth) came together. 

Everything since has been commentary.





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