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How do you look at your old musical tastes?
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
Is there any music in your past that you feel regret or embarrassment about having once liked?
I know that a number of people here started out as "laser-reachers," so to speak, gobbling up trance anthems and other stuff they now see as "cheesy," rolling in clubs as they sang along to vocal trance through clenched teeth and stimulants rushed through their blood.
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And if your tastes have changed significantly, how do you see that change? As a progression from ignorance to knowledge? As a simple change in preference?
Do you think the tastes you have now will eventually seem "cheesy" or "bad" to you at a much later date?
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| palm |
| beacuse it was better music before im realy proud of what i listened to then, i wish there would be just as much great music today. it might be tho ive been lazyer searching lately. my tastes the same as always. |
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| nefardec |
not embarassed, just intrigued
i love hearing the themes that re-occur
i still gravitate towards the same basic things with different wrappers
many of the reasons i like trance music are also the reasons why i enjoy other kinds of electronic dance music
ps jivebo - are you writing a book with all of these topics you make? lol |
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| Clovis |
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
Is there any music in your past that you feel regret or embarrassment about having once liked?
I know that a number of people here started out as "laser-reachers," so to speak, gobbling up trance anthems and other stuff they now see as "cheesy," rolling in clubs as they sang along to vocal trance through clenched teeth and stimulants rushed through their blood.
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And if your tastes have changed significantly, how do you see that change? As a progression from ignorance to knowledge? As a simple change in preference? |
A bit of all of that really. I mean, the longer your into something, the more the context is created for you to explore it further. When I listened to cheese trance 80% of the time, I heard Involver and really liked it even though I had little context or precedent for it, and the further you go along the more you dissect and the more telescopic the point of view becomes. I've also gotten into this music smack in my transition from adolescent to adult, a period in which I think my tastes and understanding of things have changed vastly, as I figure out who I am more.
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Do you think the tastes you have now will eventually seem "cheesy" or "bad" to you at a much later date?
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Again, its a matter of context. I don't think I was stupid for liking trance anthems, the context of my life and my musical knowledge at the time are more responsible than my individual taste. I think with the perspective I have now I'm much more able to find and seek music that I connect to better personally, that will have greater longevity with me and that I'll probably still enjoy in a few years time.
On a side note, its interesting to me to see that during my musical progression, from the trance time to now, the type of music I most enjoy presently has always existed, and even years before I ever discovered any real electronic dance music, and it seems like it was just a matter of being led into those avenues and finding it. |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | Originally posted by nefardec
ps jivebo - are you writing a book with all of these topics you make? lol |
I might be able to by now, but who would want to read it? :p |
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| lücid |
in my old CD case i have CDs from Jessica Simpson, DMX, Hoobastank, Eminem, Dashboard Confessional, and much much worse.
in other words, i'm not embarrassed to say that i once reached for the lazers so high that i tore a muscle in my trance pants.
as i've gotten older i think i've become more open-minded about a lot of things. my musical tastes (even in the last few months) have expanded so greatly and i've been introduced to so many artists i never would have even thought of listening to because they were in a certain genre that i just kind of brushed off previously, assuming that it wasn't for me.
in other words, i credit my changes in musical taste mostly to an ever increasing desire to try new things and experience everything that is out there, rather than sticking with what i already know that i like. that gets boring after a while... and i am the type of person who thrives on changes of scenery. |
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| enydo |
| quote: | Originally posted by Clovis
I've also gotten into this music smack in my transition from adolescent to adult, a period in which I think my tastes and understanding of things have changed vastly, as I figure out who I am more.
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This is very true for me as well. |
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| Zoso |
I look back on them (my tastes) in the sense that, at that particular moment in time, they meant something to me.
For example, would I listen to Bon Jovi/Poison/Motley Crue albums in full on a tape deck in my bedroom again? Hell no, shoot me first. But at that time in my life did it mean something? Sure, young and impressionable and all that.
And maybe in a few years I'll look back at all the EDM I've listened to and mixed and just shake my head.
P.S., get off my lawn! :p |
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| DOOMBOT |
I played a bunch of my old records last night and enjoyed every second of it.
That answer your question? :) |
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| Gauss |
| I see it as an evolution. It really is a drastic change. I'm a bit embarassed about my very beginnings, back when I listened to stuff from MTV and Viva, but I'm also kind of proud of it because that's when it all began. I'm not ashamed because I used to listen to trance, I still consider it good music, at least the tracks from late 90's and early 00's. They just don't float my boat as they used to before. I'm not 16 anymore. :clown: |
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| SYSTEM-J |
Well I look at my collection now and see a lot of trance from 2000-2002 that I never play and think of all the good music I could have bought with that money.
The thing is, my tastes haven't changed all that much. I just sucked at buying music when I started out. I never enjoyed most of the tracks on compilations I bought, and what I enjoyed then I still enjoy now for the most part. A lot of people I know who are casual music listeners become enraptured when they hear an album that's good from start to finish. "It's the best album ever made- I like every track!" they enthuse. I used to be like that. I was more into hearing certain tracks, I didn't have much appreciation of entire sets of music and I didn't buy many records that I consistently enjoyed as a result.
Today I expect to enjoy a record all the way through, and it starts losing points if I don't. I have much more love and understanding of listening to a solid hour of music rather than individual tracks.
Despite that, my tastes have changed insofar as what I look for in music. When I was younger if it wasn't catchy or energetic I didn't see the worth in it. It took a while for me to look for attributes such as beauty, soul, subtlety and groove. In fact, I remember the record that taught me to listen for all four- the FSOL's Papua New Guinea. That was the track that almost single-handedly kicked me out of an immature pop mindset of listening to music.
Most of the stuff I used to listen to I still enjoy, although sometimes it's a bit simplistic and doesn't hold up to repeat listens. The only thing I've almost totally turned my back on is hard dance- I used to love it but I can't listen to it these days. |
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| Mr.Mystery |
| I still listen to almost all of the stuff I did back then plus a whole lot more. I won't stop looking back even when I move forward. |
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