I was just thinking about it today as I was driving around with a chick. There's this pop crap on the radio, and she knows it's crap and she's totally cool and into new sounds and stuff that I bring into the car.

But the point is that I remember being naive about music like that. I remember thinking that Metallica's black album ruled the school. And I thought the guys in Mr. Big were the best songwriters ever.

Anyone else think of this ever or care to admit it? Sorry if not...

Josh

No.


My mom made me listen to Big Black when I was In Utero.







Faiz

I kind of wish I did, actually. My dad was a DJ when I was born and had a pretty massive record collection, most of which I still think was reasonable, around for me to peruse, plus he used to make mixtapes and such for me as a kid so I basically grew up listening to the stuff that's influenced my taste now. Certainly my tastes have "evolved" over the years but I can't think of a point when I was really musically 'naive.'

For you guys who can remember such a time, what was it that changed you? What's your big "musical awakening" story like? What was the first record that "made sense" to you? I'm sure there's got to be some good stories.

kerble wrote:No.


My mom made me listen to Big Black when I was In Utero.







Faiz

You are that is So cheesy breads, Faiz. i Thought itwas mom made you play witht pop's filters? HAHAHA! Good One.

Man, I remember I was the only person in the world that was really into Motley Crue and The Cure at the same time...

That was a long time ago...

That Metallica album was awesome when I was 13(1992) but no where near as badass as Nirvana and Pearl Jam.
I quickly got a bass and started playing like crazy just trying to learn songs for my shitty little "grunge" cover band.
By the time I was 14 I was really into The Beatles thanks to my mom forcing Abbey Road upon my Nirvana addled brain. This took me to Zeppelin and Hendrix.
Our band was starting to cover slighty better songs than the usual "hot shit" (Live and Stone Temple Pilots) at the time as we finally mastered "Tuesday's Gone".
Around that same time I started reading about music a lot which lead to my discovery of punk rock. My poor little brain was soon bombarded by the likes of Fugazi, Minor Threat, Dead Kennedys plus all the old school UK punk.
I remember hearing "I Am The Fly" by Wire and thinking to myself that my fellow band members wouldn't get it. Then I found The Minutemen and became very convinced that I needed to get out of this band and do something a bit more punk rock.By that time I was 15, I was really into Dinosaur Jr. and Sonic Youth. These bands eventually took me to my Pavement and Polvo records. I quit my shitty cover band even though we were writing our own songs at the time. These songs were okay I guess but just to give you an idea of what we sounded like, after I quit, they decided to call the band Three Feet Ocean.
I joined an "indie band" at 16(1995) which oddly enough sounded a lot like the run of the mill 'emo' that would going on a few years later.
Highschool ended and our band broke up. I fell in with this guy who was really into jazz and The Smiths and we had a very short lived band (2 shows) where we would only have a basic idea and totally improv on it before switching to another song. I guess we sounded like some wierd bastardized version of Joy Division and the Mahavishnu Orchestra.
Wow, that was like 8 years ago.
Somewhere in this mess is a point or something vaguely resembling one.
I hope there was a point to this.

ironyengine wrote:For you guys who can remember such a time, what was it that changed you? What's your big "musical awakening" story like? What was the first record that "made sense" to you? I'm sure there's got to be some good stories.

1974, my dads 'hifi' in the dining room for some reason, his Beatles records (Magical Myserty Tour was the first I put on I think, probably due to the odd cover art), a pair of gigantic, oversized crappy headphones. A defining day in my life.

The Jesus Lizard saved my life

Actually, I was really into only two things when I bought my first records: The Cure and hip hop. My records collection looked a bit weird, 3rd Bass, Public Enemy, The Cure, Paris, Ice-T, The Cure, Run DMC, The Cure, Digital Underground and The Cure again,....
I still listen to hip hop though and I enjoyed the last The Cure album.

But what saved my life were Sonic Youth "Daydream Nation", Dinosaur Jr "You're living all over me" and Pixies "Surfer Rosa". Those three bands "made sense" to me.

Listening to Ray Parker Jr's Ghostbusters soundtrack in my bedroom at the age of 8 or 9 could be called "naive"??
If yes, well, I admit being naive about music then.....

I got rock when I was seven and saw Pete Townshend windmilling his guitar. On Live Aid. Six years later someone lent me 'Use You Illusion II', which I found the most exciting record ever because there was lots of swearing on it. When I was 15, the guy I sat next to in French class lent me 'Surfer Rosa' and that was what did it for me; I lucked onto Sonic Youth immediately afterwards. That and getting a big poster from Melody Maker with a horrible shot of Faith No More on the front and an 'A to Z of Grunge' on the back. My sheep-like tendencies meant that my early record collection followed the four star ("Vert to the fucking max, man!" per the key) bands quite closely, which happily included Big Black, Slint and Seattle's most famous sons, the Velvet Underground. I have unfortunately lost this tattered document. Anyone else seen it?