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Post by urbanpatrician on Mar 23, 2022 9:49:51 GMT
1999 - Britney Spears (12 years old)....... I was just a little kid, so obvi I start with the obvious teen princess.
2000 - Eminem (13 yo).......... Eminem was the anti-Britney in 2000. He never missed a chance to bash her, tho he was flat out Putin to Christina Aguilera if she was Ukraine. I tried Eminem after initially dismissing him because I thought he was a clown at first, but I saw the Real Slim Shady music video and was hooked. I was anticipating The Way I Am video a LOT and I ended up surprisingly liking him enough to overtake Britney. In 2000, usually people who like Eminem don't like Britney, but I liked them both - but Brit BELONGED to mostly 1999 for me.
2001-2002 - The Flaming Lips........ I was living in Toronto in 2001. There are lots of CD shops in downtown Toronto in 2001. I was hanging around this shop because it's within close walking distance. I heard The Soft Bulletin played. I bought the CD off of a whim and it was by far the album I listened to the most EVER in half a year. If last.fm existed in 2001, I'd have 3,000 counts of it I'm predicting. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots was my most anticipated album ever, and it did not disappoint.
2003-2004 - Rilo Kiley......... Indie Pop was so cool in 2003 and 2004. I went on a date with a girl obsessed with Bjork who took me to a hipster party and Rilo Kiley's The Execution of All Things was the album played in 2002 by this weird group of hipsters. It just sounded way cooler than anything I heard in 2002 or 2003.
2005 - Massive Attack......... Massive electronic obsession in 2005.
2006-2007 - Coil............ Keeping up with the electronic obsession.... Coil was really cool, tho they were darker and more apocalyptic than Massive Attack who are mostly psychedelic.
2008 - My Bloody Valentine...... massive dream pop overload in 2008. I also liked The Sundays, Cocteau Twins, Slowdive, Cranes, The Cranberries, Mazzy Star and all the early 90s dream acts.
2009-2011 - Current 93........ I think I called them my definitive favorite band from 2009-2011. I don't know who is my favorite today, but Current 93 was the first band that I consistently clung to as a definitive best.
2012 and after..... I dunno. Has been a huge dropoff in music for me after that. But Lana Del Rey's Born to Die rescued me from a dead period of music, but then I went into another dead period within 2012-2019. But in 2019 while I was living in Long Island and Norman Fucking Rockwell came out at the perfect time. Lots of long, airy, endless roads staring into the ocean in Long Island to be blasting that perfect album for the occasion in your car.
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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 23, 2022 11:03:53 GMT
This is a little long - it's weird  * I'm not sure I have ths exactly because I didn't like music organically at first - I had a my pre-formed taste and just added to it but never did it overtake my canon of artists - when I was very little though it was Beatles / Kinks / Who / Stones (especially) / Dylan because that's what my brothers and their friends and my cousins liked ........and I wanted to be like them and be "older" * Then I found Punk and that exploded by tastes....... So in the same era covered in the OP: * 2000s - 2010s - still Dylan / Stones (especially) / Kinks / Who / Beatles ......... Big Star, Ramones, Costello, Faces, Stone Roses debut, Johnny Thunders, Replacements (especially), Husker Du, early REM. I mean as Pavement once said about Slanted & Enchanted - "all the great bands" went into it ..... When I hit the IMDB boards - it was then just the music of the most recent few years added on to all that Strokes, Libertines, Ike Reilly, Exploding Hearts, SpoonI never love a band and then turn on them - they may eventually suck but I never change my mind on a band's great work - never (same with movies actually) - that either means I'm really stubborn (um) or that I have great taste (um) but I will say I champion The Muffs more now than I did when younger - probably because Kim died and on some level I feel "guilty" for not turning more people on to them. I try to turn people on to music very much - it's sorta my thing tbh. I wish I had talked about Kim Shattuck more when she was around ......RIP  2010-2022 - I hear great records by bands but don't consider them my favorites exactly nowadays but.......but Parquet Courts are one of the few I can say are a "Great American band" which now is rarer than a female who can parallel park (kidding). In the "MAR years (2017-2022)" Fontaines D.C...... The Speedways are peerless in different ways ......... and have the potential to be all time great bands if they can maintain their erections ..... especially for me The Speedways - who are quite obscure and do everything I like: short songs, no solos, all Power-Pop about girls, superb, catchy and joyous writing, almost 0 dud songs at all.......... and great at covers too. I love that band in a way that I haven't for a new band in a loooooooooooong time.....like they're my little secret /not so secret crush  |
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Post by urbanpatrician on Mar 23, 2022 11:13:00 GMT
This is a little long - it's weird * I'm not sure I have ths exactly because I didn't like music organically at first - I had a my pre-formed taste and just added to it but never did it overtake my canon of artists - when I was very little though it was Beatles / Kinks / Who / Stones (especially) / Dylan because that's what my brothers and their friends and my cousins liked ........and I wanted to be like them and be "older" * Then I found Punk and that exploded by tastes....... So in the same era covered in the OP: * 2000s - 2010s - still Dylan / Stones (especially) / Kinks / Who / Beatles ......... Big Star, Costello, Faces, Stone Roses debut, Johnny Thunders, Replacements (especially), Husker Du, early REM. I mean as Pavement once said about Slanted & Enchanted - "all the great bands" went into it ..... When I hit the IMDB boards - it was then just the music of the most recent few years added on to all that Strokes, Libertines, Ike Reilly, Exploding Hearts, SpoonI never love a band and then turn on them - they may eventually suck but I never change my mind on a band's great work - never (same with movies actually) - that either means I'm really stubborn (um) or that I have great taste (um) but I will say I champion The Muffs more now than I did when younger - probably because Kim died and on some level I feel "guilty" for not turning more people on to them. I try to turn people on to music very much - it's sorta my thing tbh. I wish I had talked about Kim Shattuck more when she was around ......RIP 2010-2022 - I hear great records by bands but don't consider them my favorites exactly nowadays but.......but Parquet Courts are one of the few I can say are a "Great American band" which now is rarer than a female who can parallel park (kidding). In the "MAR years (2017-2022)" Fontaines D.C...... The Speedways are peerless in different ways ......... and have the potential to be all time great bands if they can maintain their erections ..... especially for me The Speedways - who are quite obscure and do everything I like: short songs, no solos, all Power-Pop about girls, superb, catchy and joyous writing, almost 0 dud songs at all.......... and great at covers too. I love that band in a way that I haven't for a new band in a loooooooooooong time.....like they're my little secret /not so secret crush Might be a little confusion, but I don't mean to imply that I ever turned on a band I liked or anything. I'm exactly in your boat, once I like them I'll remember them for when they were great. I just meant, another guy supplanting someone who was your #1 favorite originally. Like your #2 overtaking your #1. In 1999-2004, I had a way more limited catalogue than I do now so it's easier to determine a definitive #1 favorite, but also teenage minds change around and flip back and forth instantly. And LOL! Women can't parallel park. That's just a fact. It takes them half a second longer to turn over their shoulders. |
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Mar 23, 2022 20:32:54 GMT
This is interesting to think about for me because I didn’t start actively listening to a lot of music until middle school, which coincided with when I first started learning to play music. Before then, I think only really listened to soundtracks to my favorite movies, and then I became interested in classical music more broadly at the beginning of middle school. It wasn’t until the end of middle school and beginning of high school when I started exploring rock and metal.
For most of my high school years (2004-2008), my favorite band was Metallica. I was pretty obsessed to the point that I think most people knew me as “the Metallica kid.”
Now, I still consider myself a big fan of them, but nowhere the level of passion that I had in high school, and I’m not sure I’ve ever had a single favorite artist/band since then. Like even now, I’m not sure I can definitively point to a favorite rock band the way I can with movies, though if I had a gun to my head, I suppose I’d say Led Zeppelin.
With classical music, it’s actually much easier for me because Brahms has been my favorite composer for a long time now, probably since around 2010ish. Before that, I think I would have said Beethoven, and now I’d probably have him at #2.
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Post by Mattsby on Mar 23, 2022 20:52:52 GMT
11-12 y/o. Very conflicting tastes, going to Warped Tour, listening to ska like The Toasters, also thought I was cool listening to CCR bc they were older, easy to learn the lyrics. Also getting into bands like Hot Hot Heat and especially Arctic Monkeys. 13-14 y/o. Spoon. 15-17 y/o. aka high school was very much Bob Dylan, obsessively too...... and then somewhere in this period I join the IMDb boards (2007) and I'm seriously introduced to The Replacements from some Mo on coffee and red vines and Xena reruns, aka pacinoyes , and well... 18 y/o to now (still in my 20s people!!) - The Mats forever and always.  |
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Post by DaleCooper on Mar 23, 2022 23:17:04 GMT
< 12 y/o No realy taste I guess, I guess I just listened to whatever was on the radio.
12-13 y/o Evanescence and especially Linkin Park. The release of Meteora was huge, a record I re-discovered a while back and still enjoy greatly.
14-18 y/o Iron Maiden. I guess this is where I really found my taste in music. Pretty much still my favorite band, they blend just about everything I love with music.
19-22 y/o John Mayer and Stevie Ray Vaughan. Obviously still favorites and I used to play guitar, and what's better than to listen to the greatest guitarist of all time and one of the best current guitarists?
23-24 Pink Floyd and Pearl Jam. Always liked Floyd but didn't really thoroughly listen to them until this time, and I saw Pearl Jam live in 2014 which was one of the best concerts I've ever been at.
> 25 y/o Too many favorites nowadays. The bands/artist I've listened the most to in recent years? Radiohead, Jethro Tull, Alcest, Opeth, Agalloch, The Cure, Massive Attack, Taylor Swift, Lana Del Rey and Justin Timberlake probably. Radiohead probably my favorite of these, but it's very much depending on the day. My latest favorite would be Built To Spill.
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Mar 23, 2022 23:45:03 GMT
Linkin Park. The release of Meteora was huge, a record I re-discovered a while back and still enjoy greatly. This was sort of my "gateway" album when I first started getting into rock in middle school... that and the soundtrack to The Punisher (2004).  |
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