Published on 12, July, 2020
There are members here very into music, particularly from past decades, so I thought maybe a dedicated thread would be a good idea.
I've lived within 6 decades of music.
My favourite is the 1970s and I think the best (debatable of course).
I've realised since my diagnosis that for 20 years (70s and 80s) music was my 'special interest'.
I've not had such an avid interest since the 90s and in fact, I find the associations with music mostly too painful to be able to listen.
Music is a sure trigger to memories for me and often the associated pain.
So, why the 70s?
Tamla Motown, Soul, Disco, Reggae, Punk, Glam Rock, New Wave....
Fleetwood Mac, Abba, Elton John, Bowie, Iggy Pop, Talking Heads, Pink Flloyd, Velvet Underground, Gary Numan, B52s...
What are your favourite eras and what do you consider the (debatable) 'best' ?
Please feel free to talk about anything music related here including classical.
Good choice Roy. I especially love listening to Joni in the winter. Her music suits that season.
I’m going through a Joni Mitchell phase at the moment, I’ve come to realise that people come and go, music has always stayed, like a constant companion. Everyday is still a voyage of discovery.
I suppose we change as our true autistic selves start to emerge. This is a verse of ‘Both sides now.’
Oh, but now old friends, they're acting strange
And they shake their heads and they tell me that I've changedWell, something's lost, but something's gainedIn living every day
Ive added a link, it’s a slower version but seems to have more depth.
youtu.be/PtEUStWxod0
I'm not really into stuff from before a few years ago, and I don't like anyone that anyone's ever heard of. I like stuff like anime songs and EDM. Here's some of my top artists/bands according to Spotify. Di Young, The Living Tombstone (anyone who doesn't like fnaf deserves to burn in hell), Autumn J, SawanoHiroyuki[nZk], and thirtyonetwentyfive.
I think that I've always enjoyed music much differently from the average person these days. Most people seem to enjoy music based on the performance, the performers, the stylistic qualities, the brand, the mood, the words, the identifiability, the cultural aspects, but for me the draw of music has always been composition.
It took me a while to realize all this. I probably annoyed a lot of people when I was younger analyzing music at them, assuming that everyone who liked music cared about the composition, but eventually I realised that no one cared about that and music is actually just something for subjective enjoyment and it doesn't really matter lol.
I like music that meets a certain threshold for complexity, does not repeat too much, but still has some sort of structure and progression. I love to have polyphony/counterpoint integrated into the music and also beautiful melodies.
This way of listening to music eventually led me to believe that, using my personal assessment, music really peaked in the Renaissance Era. There are certain later composers that resisted the change to create more "crowd pleasing" music that started in the Baroque and flourished ever since.
Here are some composers I like off the top of my head:
Lately I've also been having fun making AI generated music! Here are some of my creations on Udio:
www.udio.com/.../Spreadsheets
Us too. I got completely obsessed with the music, story and I'm hoping the rumours are true that the cast are going to do a tour with the soundtrack.
I grew up in the 90s, so lots of my music is early 90s indie bands, Carter USM, Levellers, Mega City Four and others. Seen most of them live too. I also spent time with punk and new wave stuff during that period. My Dad always played me cool stuff from the 60s, Dylan, The Who, Stones, which I still love. Seen all of them too. Love Neil Young, but never seen him live. He also got me into classic 60s pop, think American Grafitti, but also later stuff like the Grateful Dead, Paul Simon and Guy Clark.
When I went to uni, I got into electronic music, drum and bass, jungle, ambient. Lots of DJs seen live at various festivals and clubs. Creamfields is local to me, so spent many a sunrise in some dance tent somewhere. Went to Ibiza one year, but don't remember any DJs I saw.....
Would love to have seen The Clash and other punk greats l, but I am too young for that. Lately I am getting into sea shanties and related songs and styles. It's that vague outsider vibe I love.
We loved that series! Really evocative of the time.
Wellygog said:Have you watched Daisy Jones and the six on Amazon?
Nope.
Interesting.
Have you watched Daisy Jones and the six on Amazon? I love the soundtrack from the series and that's got a 70s vibe to it. The series is loosely based on Fleetwood Mac but the band in it is fictional with new music.
Dazed and Confused was another Style Magazine I used to buy. I don't know if that's still going?
You have a good taste.
At 51 yrs old, I honestly think it's low given that some people I knew went to 2 or 3 gigs a week in various places and they are in their late 50's and early 60's lol
Craig said: must have attended over 150 gigs in my lifetime
That is a huge amount.
FH said:Totally me not wanting you to listen to it so I can begin my secret operation: get Debbie to watch Frozen films one day
Stranger things have happened ...
Okie.
…Yknow..
There’s a Frozen 2 song that is inspired by 80s music (according to people. I can’t say from my own knowledge), it’s called ‘Lost in the Woods’..
(Totally me not wanting you to listen to it so I can begin my secret operation: get Debbie to watch Frozen films one day…)
I found it was the first musical that didn’t make me want to stick my fingers in my ears and eyes, up to then musicals were all top hats, canes and strange female dancers dressed in feathers. I’ve never seen Michael but did enjoy Travolta In Phenomenon and Broken Arrow.
I don't think I've ever seen Grease all the way through, or Saturday Night Fever to me they were just cringe worthy, especially Grease, I think they put me off musicals for life and John Travolta until I saw him in the film Michael.
This made me laugh
I’m very much the same with supermarket Christmas music, it just makes me want to scream. My wife also worked in an Etam on Saturdays. You’re lucky your name isn’t Mandy!
Bank holidays are so unsettling , my wife is working, it isn’t a normal weekday or weekend. It’s just wrong, it just takes me back to school holidays, weeks of never seeing another person unless they we’re family. I would listen to other children when school returned, they would recount their adventures.. I suppose it’s another instance of just not knowing why we were different. I was jealous of their adventures but wouldn’t have wanted to have joined in.
Sorry maudlin now, I shall go and work on some metal before mother rises from her bed. ( nearly said box)
I'm a 70's kid and my favourite pop era was the 80's plus it was the birth of Thrash Metal.
Bands that I have seen live.
SLAYER x 19
Metallica x 4
Megadeath
Anthrax x 12
Dire Straits
Onslaught x 10
Cradle of Filth x 6
Anhilihated x 6
Runrig
Bryan Adams
Bon Jovi x 2
Skunk Annasie
Gun x 2
Machine Head x 3
Marduck
Opeth x 5
The Blues Pill
The Vintage Caravan
Iron Maiden
WASP
Slash's Snakepit
White Zombie
Testament x 2
Numerous local gigs with bands like Splintered Halo, Fallen Fate, Black King Cobra.
Seen Punk bands like Anti-Nowhere League
In short, I must have attended over 150 gigs in my lifetime, Glasgow has a very good live scene with plenty of good live music venues like Ivory Blacks, Audio, The Garage & G2.