What changed the way you look at music?

Ive never changed the way i look at music

its an inner connection..always has been always will be..music is like a language everyone understands but interprets differently..kind of like physical attraction or taste

i dont like onions

 

Exposure and maturity. Having people with different tastes in music and hearing what they enjoyed has been exposures to artists that I may not have known. Being able to play piano has also changed how I hear some pieces.

Music either reaches something in you or it does not. No right or wrong just personal connections.

 

The Rolling Stones. I heard them for the first time and was like 'Oh my god, what the FUCK is up with that guy's voice?!'

Loved them ever since. :2thumbsup:

 

Onions....I like them....but I HATE lima beans.

Music...universal language....love it...most of it....nothing ever changed for me there....

 

I do not look at music. I listen to it.

 

Everybody does, this was not the question you (supposedly) smartass!

 

Electronic music has changed my whole view of it. Starting with rave music in the 90's, I'm now into more ambient type stuff as well.

Seems to me it opens up may possibilities which were just not there before. On the downside, maybe it's too easy to get into producing it, and there is a great deal of total dross out there done by people with little musical sense.

I do still listen to non electronica - bit of rock, bit of classical. After a short time, I find rock music sounds like something out of a museum to me these days.

 

Do you listen to new rock as well, or just the classic stuff from the former millenium, Black Bill?

 

yah, i'll go along with that one. although there are other ways of tempering an octive too.

 

Mainly old stuff. But I don't really get much exposure to new rock music.

I think that for me the problem is that I associate rock music with a whole subculture that has now all but disappeared, or at least mutated into something else.

 

I have kind of the same associations I think. But although I can't identify/associate well with modern indie, alternative, pop rock or most else I do can with stoner rock and other certain kinds of which I find they resemble (or really simply continue) the classic psych and hard rock/heavy blues rock subculture.

 

Another problem I have is that I think rock music is a limited kind of idiom, and maybe all the best stuff has been used up.
Maybe I'm wrong, perhaps I'll hear something one day that I consider original or new. But as we know, a ball bounces higher on the first drop.

Regarding old stuff - even if I go to see an old time band, and they're almost perfect in the performance, I still find some energy lacking. I felt that when I saw Neil Young live about 4 years ago. Flawless, but also a wee bit pointless.

 

You are wrong about the best stuff being used up, but that doesn't make it any less of a problem for you personally of course

About old time bands that are still playing: I agree about their energy being kind of lacking too but it is not something I would project on rock in general. There is something in good rock that is best translated by people that aren't really old yet. Of course there are a few exceptions.

 

GE super radio..
thinks hearing on one side is damaged because of it..

 

Yes, it's all personal. And yes it's a young persons game, and maybe I'm getting old. But that doesn't stop me liking electronica which is done by people many years younger than I am.

I guess in fairness you still can now and then hit on a great performance by old timers. I watched the Stones at Glastonbury last year and thought they were pretty good.

 

The original fans grew up, and brought many of their counterculture values into the mainstream. For example, it used to be controversial in the South for so many white rock fans to reject racism and accept artists like Jimi Hendrix. That attitude is completely mainstream now. Rock fans in the South also did a lot to make alcohol consumption much more accepted in general society. We helped make sex before marriage an accepted part of dating. To some extent, we aren't a subculture anymore because we took over the place.

Maybe the best stuff has been written, but that doesn't make me not want to hear it anymore.

I'd still pay to hear Beethoven's Fifth Symphony done live by a great orchestra once a year, if I could. It's more than 210 years old. I don't care.

Classic rock is an expanded version of the blues idiom, and this is what alternative, current rock has left in the dust. All the current electronic music is keyboard-based, with non-bending notes, like Baroque. Even though I'm a keyboard player, I miss the electric guitars in rock. Even when they are there, they're severely under-utilized.

I wish we had a separate label for rock that isn't in the genetic line of guitar-oriented blues. I like it. I just didn't want it to take over the music world and replace so many other things.

That's because in live shows, they compress the shit out of everything, just like they do on radio and in studio recordings. They're just trying to make everything sound louder, without having to pay for more and bigger amps and speakers. Audio compressors suck the life out of music.

 

Tech Death has been shaping me a lot over the past year.
I had forgotten how much I am moved by killer bpms and of course the technical side of it is just mind blowing. It's like Mozart being played by the minions of hell.

Greek Gods exist and mine is named George Kollias.

 

I know this is a stereotypical answer on a hippie forum but I would say when I discovered the grateful dead. It was the first time I realized music can be more than music; it can morph into an entire culture.

 

It would have to be Radiohead's In Rainbows. I swear to God ... that CD transformed my DNA.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSx6hXHzRHc"]In Rainbows Full Album High Quality - YouTube