Surely *some* of you have at one stage listened to daggy music? Or are you all just not admitting it?
I'm scared to even tell you my music loving history but here goes....
The first song I remember loving was when I was about 4 or 5. It was something about black and blue...'blue and black, I want my baby back' LOL
Although at the time I didn't like my parent's taste in music, I still have a soft spot for Supertramp, Neil Diamond, John Lennon and the Beatles, Elton John, Billy Joel and Simon and Garfunkle (love them!), Eurythmics, and anything on the radio at the time (my dad was a radio DJ in the 60's, 70's and early 80's so we were always surrounded by the boxes and boxes of records he brought home)
Abba was my real first love of music, closely followed by an 11 year old's obsession with Wham (still love George Michael!). 'Make it big' was my first cassette. LOL Cassettes!!!!
From there I became a top 40 junkie. All through high school (till about 15/16) I spent my Saturday nights in front of the stereo with headphones on listening to the top 40 countdown with the ARIA chart in front of me. Ask me anything about late 80's top 40 and I could probably tell you the year the song was released and what position it reached!!! Needless to say I loved all the teenage stuff and have a soft spot in my heart for all the one-hit-wonders of the world.
I always liked the dance type singles better though and listened to people like 2 Unlimited, SNAP, Janet Jackson and Paula Abdul. Far from electronica but dance nontheless
(OK this is getting a little embarrassing). I wish I knew about 'techno' at this stage in my life but for some reason I didn't even know it existed!!!
Once I left high school, I developed a liking for male artists. As embarrassing as it may be, John Farnham, Daryl Braithwaite, Jimmy Barnes, Peter Gabriel (although he's still good) and Phil Collins all found their way into my CD collection. As I was old enough to discover live bands and guitar music I started listening to U2, Midnight Oil, Bush, Live, Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, Gin Blossoms, Oasis and Counting Crows and in the process regained some musical integrity
I became a flannalette wearing grunge lover!! (although I never got into Nirvana...but I now love their MTV unplugged CD)
My first exposure to dance type music was when I went to Livid one year (my first festival) and Skunkhour played their funky, dancy type stuff and I was hooked. Dancing was much more fun than moshing!!! And it also fed my love of Australian bands....Powderfinger, Jebediah, Superjesus, Crowded House, Silverchair, The Whitlams...all of whom I still listen to. Reef, Tool, and Sunny day real estate also appeared somewhere along the way.
I went to my first rave just before I left Brisbane and felt completely out of it in my jeans and doc martins!! I discovered dance music not long after that when I moved to Sydney and went to my first party at the Metro. CJ Bolland I think it was. Awesome night
One of the Sabotage parties in 1997 (I think) was when I truly fell in love with the likes of Pocket, Sugar Ray etc. and gradually over the past few years I listened to more and more dance music until now it's the majority of what I buy. I feel like I've missed out on all the dance music previously but it's all there for me to discover now.
I still listen to Triple J everyday (even here in London via the web!) and love Australian music. Australian LIVE music!! I love all live PA's we have at our events that no one in the world seems to have. I'm missing it heaps here in London.
My tastes are still very diverse and now I'm listening to...most of the Global Underground CD's (especially Nick Warren and John Digweed), Pocket, Boo Boo & Mace, Bjork, Morcheeba, Ian Pooley, Meem (when mona sends me a copy
), Sonic Animation, the Thunk CD's, Underworld, Richie Hawtin, Radiohead, Gomez, Ben Folds Five. I still listen to most of the rest of my CD collection except the male artists! LOL
I want to be listening to Infusion, some Psy trance stuff (any suggestions?), Kruder & Dorfmeister, the new Morcheeba, Lee Burridge, Biftek, Honeysmack and many many more CD's I have on my list to buy! And there's so much undiscovered music out there that I have yet to find. Including the dark, deep, hard, fast trance that I hear when I go out and can't find for the life of me on CD. Anthony Pappa comes close but not close enough.
Sorry this post is so long but it's a subject quite obviously close to my heart.
FUCK I LOVE MUSIC. My music has shaped me as a person and is the reason I am where I am now. It's the reason my life is worth living.
[This message has been edited by miss apple (edited 09 October 2000).]
