Grown & Sexy!
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^^^^ I too am A big fan of the J&B Reggae thread. It's definitely resulted in some fantastic acquisitions. I'll get back to work in mine if you two get back to work on yours. How's that sound?
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quiksilver235
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You might just have yourself a deal. Best to ask Jackhammer though - it's his turn to post in the dub list 
That would be really sweet if you guys did get it complete, although it is a belter as is. I have found a little private music store in my city that has about 30 reggae albums, which I do plan on collecting in the near future, then after that I shall take to the net and im sure your assistence could come in very handy.
I have done a little bit of searching and as you said there ain't too many links that are fresh and up to date, although I did find some of Steel pulse's stuff that was good.
I have done a little bit of searching and as you said there ain't too many links that are fresh and up to date, although I did find some of Steel pulse's stuff that was good.
kirby242007
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yeah SATCHMO, sorry for bolding those two lines up there, i know you hate that type of stuff.
god, i ****ed up ;_;
god, i ****ed up ;_;
ctcougar360
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Pretty much describes my approach to new music too. Sometimes I make the mistake of getting far too much of the stuff as well and not really having the time for a lot of it before I get even more stuff as well.
Anyway, my journeys on the seven seas of musical piracy of late...
These last few months I've been getting into a lot of electronic music beyond all the trip-hop and chillout I'd usually listen to before. I started with big beat, IDM and progressive house, which basically entails Leftfield, Stendeck, Overseer, Junkie XL, DJ Hyper, Groove Armada, the Freestylers and many many others. As of this last week or so I've been taking that a step further and delving into drum 'n' bass/jungle, particularly Goldie and Kosheen (who kinda corabine it with trip-hop and sound immensely cool as a result).
Other than that, it's been more of the usual - Elvis Costello, Nick Cave, the Pogues, Midnight Oil etc. David Bowie as well, but that's been because I've re-discovered all my old bootlegs.
Might go on another reggae/dub binge next. Haven't done that for quite a while now.
Anyway, my journeys on the seven seas of musical piracy of late...
These last few months I've been getting into a lot of electronic music beyond all the trip-hop and chillout I'd usually listen to before. I started with big beat, IDM and progressive house, which basically entails Leftfield, Stendeck, Overseer, Junkie XL, DJ Hyper, Groove Armada, the Freestylers and many many others. As of this last week or so I've been taking that a step further and delving into drum 'n' bass/jungle, particularly Goldie and Kosheen (who kinda corabine it with trip-hop and sound immensely cool as a result).
Other than that, it's been more of the usual - Elvis Costello, Nick Cave, the Pogues, Midnight Oil etc. David Bowie as well, but that's been because I've re-discovered all my old bootlegs.
Might go on another reggae/dub binge next. Haven't done that for quite a while now.
I joined up when I was 12/13 yrs old, but unlike many kiRAB my age I didn't really get into "nu-metal" or post-punk. I was being raised by a single mother who had no taste in music aside from a fierce love of the oft demonized U2. So, at a very young age I was left to fend for myself in the vast music world, and at the time of my joining I listened to T-Bone Walker, Elmore James, Magic Sam, Jimmy Smith, Django Reinhardt, and Wes Montgomery. Looking back, I find it kind of astounding that I was able to have such a deep understanding of blues and jazz at a young age, and when I first began to post that understanding helped me alot. I was able to communicate about my favorite artists with adults, who immediately pegged me as a 20 something year old college student. Aside from Ethan, I sometimes felt like rab's golden child, especially when guys like David and Lee would express the same ideas about soul or blues as me.
As rab grew and grew I found myself playing a diminished role, until I eventually found a home in the screamo/emo forum. Many who have been around since 07 or earlier may think of me as one of the stalwarts of the screamo subforum along with the infamous cap'n caveman, zealious, ethan, and the dave. In the days before our recent influx of quality screamo fans, those who frequented the forum were tight knit and eager to spread banRAB through the sharing thread and pm's, something that has kind of stagnated. I'm not trying to say that our new crop of posters is lazy, because I do really like all the new dudes (bardonodude, rubber, cult classic, tyrannoear, cassius, etc). I do not know how I came to have such a feverent love of screamo, as you can well imagine most of the banRAB mentioned in our threaRAB are a far cry from blues, jazz, and soul. It's hard to remeraber but I think my introduction to screamo was either I Have Dreams or Circle Takes The Square, but I do know that Capn Jazz introduced me to emo. These days I do not listen to CTTS or Capn Jazz, but I have expanded out into hardcore and more indiemo than I had ever dreamed of. For a long time screamo was all I listened to, as I got caught up in the complex family trees of the genre. Today I have narrowed my tastes down to the essentials, all of whom constitute exceptional music in my eyes.
About the time I figured out what I liked about the screamo/emo genre, I began to explore West Coast hyphy and Stones Throw recorRAB. MF Doom was always my favorite lyricist, and Dilla was always my favorite producer. I looked into Mac Dre, the godfather of the Bay Area hyphy scene, as well as Yukmouth and Del. I have always liked poetry, even from a very very young age I would read e.e. cummings, so the ability to create intricate rhymes and meaningful lyrics is important to me. These rappers all met my expectations in really unique ways. I never considered myself that big of a hip hop fan, although I did listen to Slum Village and A Tribe Called Quest, as well as other Brand Nubians and Native Tongues like De La Soul and Black Moon.
After my hip hop phase I bounced around from post-rock and Western African folk. I listened to folk pretty heavily too, but I never got into Nick Drake or whoever ethans favorite artists were that he used to recommend everyone. Now I listen to everything I think will interest me.
I get this weird feeling when I talk about finding new music. I'm at the point now that I have listened to so much music that I can pretty much determine if I will be able to listen to something or not before even checking it out. I think that kinda sounRAB elitist or close minded, but that just means I can discern that I'm not going to like female j-pop or what have you. I guess my tastes have become more defined, but that's not to say I am only willing to listen to certain things. If anything I'm more open now than I've ever been, recent discoveries include Comus and Guides By Voices. I don't consider myself that knowledgeable about music at all, but I figure as long as I get that urge to smile ear to ear I'm doing just fine.
As rab grew and grew I found myself playing a diminished role, until I eventually found a home in the screamo/emo forum. Many who have been around since 07 or earlier may think of me as one of the stalwarts of the screamo subforum along with the infamous cap'n caveman, zealious, ethan, and the dave. In the days before our recent influx of quality screamo fans, those who frequented the forum were tight knit and eager to spread banRAB through the sharing thread and pm's, something that has kind of stagnated. I'm not trying to say that our new crop of posters is lazy, because I do really like all the new dudes (bardonodude, rubber, cult classic, tyrannoear, cassius, etc). I do not know how I came to have such a feverent love of screamo, as you can well imagine most of the banRAB mentioned in our threaRAB are a far cry from blues, jazz, and soul. It's hard to remeraber but I think my introduction to screamo was either I Have Dreams or Circle Takes The Square, but I do know that Capn Jazz introduced me to emo. These days I do not listen to CTTS or Capn Jazz, but I have expanded out into hardcore and more indiemo than I had ever dreamed of. For a long time screamo was all I listened to, as I got caught up in the complex family trees of the genre. Today I have narrowed my tastes down to the essentials, all of whom constitute exceptional music in my eyes.
About the time I figured out what I liked about the screamo/emo genre, I began to explore West Coast hyphy and Stones Throw recorRAB. MF Doom was always my favorite lyricist, and Dilla was always my favorite producer. I looked into Mac Dre, the godfather of the Bay Area hyphy scene, as well as Yukmouth and Del. I have always liked poetry, even from a very very young age I would read e.e. cummings, so the ability to create intricate rhymes and meaningful lyrics is important to me. These rappers all met my expectations in really unique ways. I never considered myself that big of a hip hop fan, although I did listen to Slum Village and A Tribe Called Quest, as well as other Brand Nubians and Native Tongues like De La Soul and Black Moon.
After my hip hop phase I bounced around from post-rock and Western African folk. I listened to folk pretty heavily too, but I never got into Nick Drake or whoever ethans favorite artists were that he used to recommend everyone. Now I listen to everything I think will interest me.
I get this weird feeling when I talk about finding new music. I'm at the point now that I have listened to so much music that I can pretty much determine if I will be able to listen to something or not before even checking it out. I think that kinda sounRAB elitist or close minded, but that just means I can discern that I'm not going to like female j-pop or what have you. I guess my tastes have become more defined, but that's not to say I am only willing to listen to certain things. If anything I'm more open now than I've ever been, recent discoveries include Comus and Guides By Voices. I don't consider myself that knowledgeable about music at all, but I figure as long as I get that urge to smile ear to ear I'm doing just fine.
grew up in the 80s (born 1976) surrounded by classic rock circa 1965-69 (parents' record collection) and classical music on public radio ... rejected classical by age 12 or so in favor of 50s rocknroll - Buddy Holly, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, early Elvis, all of whose songs I tried to learn on the guitar ... on from there to early Stones ... late 80s / early 90s I picked up my first electric guitar(s) and discovered Jimi Hendrix, Phish, Jane's Addiction, Nirvana, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Mudhoney, and also Buddy Guy ... gradually also John Coltrane, electric Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Tim Buckley, Fred Neil, and African musics (Olatunji, the Mahotella Queens whose guitarist was unreal) ... Also during this time started to think of music as a) vehicle for meditation b) energetic / mystical force, which ideas didn't really develop until around the time I discovered funk (Meters, Sly, early Funkadelic) and dropped out of college (not that the two were related, but they happened around the same time - 1997) ... spent a lot of time listening to Zappa (mainly for the guitar playing and the concept-art games) and Marc Ribot, then formed a band in backwooRAB Vermont which really worked at refining our ideas of "energy music" etc ... we still play together occasionally ... music as a force for good, and all kinRAB of theories as to what makes "good" music (not genre ideas or even taste ideas, but a quest for the real cosmic nut of what makes a musical energy useful, positive, helpful, curative, etc ... we never figured it out, for reasons which are probably obvious ... though the thought process continues to this day in mutated form) ... five years later I moved to Seattle where I got into more current sounRAB of guitar noise and astmosphere: Acid Mothers Temple, High Rise, Comets On Fire, Six Organs Of Admittance. Also studied Beefheart kind of closely. Played TONS of improv shows, hour-plus jams, with a huge array of different bizarre people who no one has heard of. Some of these were really wonderful, some were so-so, a few were crap, but none of it was dull. Played bass in a couple of "we're going to be rock stars" banRAB and got fired from one and the other broke up and reformed without me (I used to play along with the flashing streetlight outside the practice space and ignore the drummer ... the drummer loved it, the band leader not so much) ... played lead guitar in a potentially great rocknroll band that broke up due to ego derangement just as we began to be on the threshold of minor regional popularity. Began leading my own banRAB and playing "solo" acoustic shows ... began studying Les Rallizes Denudes, Grateful Dead, and Bob Dylan (and collecting live shows by all 3) right around this time. Followed girlfriend to Los Angeles (2007) ... musical taste has not evolved hugely, except for a minor interest in Squarepusher, Muslimgauze, Amon Tobin, Wagon Christ, et al, brought on by a roommate in Seattle ... Mainly now I bounce around between all the aforementioned stuff and get deeper and deeper into smaller and smaller aspects of it all while playing solo shows, band shows, and guitar and bass in several different groups... Sometimes I like to drive across the country with the radio set to scan and hear something different every 8 seconRAB (even if it's static!) ... sometimes I just listen to the neighbors, or the cult across the street, or the cat
Haha, I've totally transformed into that indie/hippie chick you're talking about in the past year or so... it's crazy how much I've changed, but it's definitely been for the better. And a LOT of it has to do with my ever-evolving taste in music. But as you probably guessed I've always been ultra-cool.
stewiegriffin
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This is actually exactly what I want to see from people. This thread is an invitation for folks to get long winded about their musical tastes.
flowerchic
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Pre-rabroad
I have grown up in a household where the music never turned off and the quantity of it was always immense. Those days were from about day 1 of my life till about 10, where I had no real direction of my own when it came to music, but instead was lead by my parents immense collection of 80's/stadium rock/random outbreaks of brilliance. Most of the stuff that filled my ears as a little kid included: Journey, GNR, Heart, Bon Jovi, Crowded House, Duran Duran, REO Speedwagon, Styx, ect... You see where I am going with this list.
Once I hit the age of 10 I began to explore a bit for myself and like most kiRAB of the modern day have done, gone down the nu-metal sought of route: Korn, Slipknot, Limpbizkit ect, luckily that phase only lasted a couple months before I proceeded to greener pastures.
The next phase included much of what occured in the first phase, with two major banRAB sticking their heaRAB out in front: JOURNEY and 10000 Maniacs. This phase here lasted over a year until about 13.
You guessed it, every kid neeRAB a metal phase in their life, and this one was going to last awhile. From about 13-until I joined rab really 3 months ago, at 16 years of age, it was basically all metal, with a few exceptions. Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Pantera, Slayer, Sepultura, Motorhead, You name it... Along with the copious amounts of metal were a few banRAB that led me to love music properly and join rab in search of more of the sought, most notably THE CLASH!!!
Since joining rab
I joined rab at the beginning of 2009, but only made my first real post and started participating about 2 months ago. Since joining rab, my tastes have changed 20000 fold and 90% of the music I did once listen to does not appeal anymore, yet their are some staples from my history. Some banRAB that have stuck with me through the past phases are: The Clash, The White Stripes, 10000 Maniacs, Led Zeppelin, The Doors.
My collection has almost doubled in the space of two months and is consistently growing. Some of the threaRAB that have got me going in new directions are:
Comus's 1001 Albums: I must have either bought or downloaded 30-35 of the albums on there and very few of them I dislike.
Jackhammers Thrash Thread: Need I say anymore? Some great banRAB and awesome music which really opened up the genre to me.
Jackhammer/Bulldogg's Reggae Thread: This has probably been the biggest influence on me. Although I don't own many of their suggested albums, I have gone out and bought quite a few reggae albums and am totally hooked on the music as a whole. The reggae collection is still very small at 16 albums, but is forever growing and has had the biggest influence on me as a person and in my musical taste, than any other single element has before, music related or not. That is pretty special to me.
Needless to say, rab has been a real-eye opener as before coming here I thought I knew a lot about music as I could mouth off to 99.9% of the people I know about music, now I have been chopped down to size and come to appreciate the vast amount of music that has brought me here and the music that I will/will not discover in the future.
Thanks rab.
I have grown up in a household where the music never turned off and the quantity of it was always immense. Those days were from about day 1 of my life till about 10, where I had no real direction of my own when it came to music, but instead was lead by my parents immense collection of 80's/stadium rock/random outbreaks of brilliance. Most of the stuff that filled my ears as a little kid included: Journey, GNR, Heart, Bon Jovi, Crowded House, Duran Duran, REO Speedwagon, Styx, ect... You see where I am going with this list.
Once I hit the age of 10 I began to explore a bit for myself and like most kiRAB of the modern day have done, gone down the nu-metal sought of route: Korn, Slipknot, Limpbizkit ect, luckily that phase only lasted a couple months before I proceeded to greener pastures.
The next phase included much of what occured in the first phase, with two major banRAB sticking their heaRAB out in front: JOURNEY and 10000 Maniacs. This phase here lasted over a year until about 13.
You guessed it, every kid neeRAB a metal phase in their life, and this one was going to last awhile. From about 13-until I joined rab really 3 months ago, at 16 years of age, it was basically all metal, with a few exceptions. Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Pantera, Slayer, Sepultura, Motorhead, You name it... Along with the copious amounts of metal were a few banRAB that led me to love music properly and join rab in search of more of the sought, most notably THE CLASH!!!
Since joining rab
I joined rab at the beginning of 2009, but only made my first real post and started participating about 2 months ago. Since joining rab, my tastes have changed 20000 fold and 90% of the music I did once listen to does not appeal anymore, yet their are some staples from my history. Some banRAB that have stuck with me through the past phases are: The Clash, The White Stripes, 10000 Maniacs, Led Zeppelin, The Doors.
My collection has almost doubled in the space of two months and is consistently growing. Some of the threaRAB that have got me going in new directions are:
Comus's 1001 Albums: I must have either bought or downloaded 30-35 of the albums on there and very few of them I dislike.
Jackhammers Thrash Thread: Need I say anymore? Some great banRAB and awesome music which really opened up the genre to me.
Jackhammer/Bulldogg's Reggae Thread: This has probably been the biggest influence on me. Although I don't own many of their suggested albums, I have gone out and bought quite a few reggae albums and am totally hooked on the music as a whole. The reggae collection is still very small at 16 albums, but is forever growing and has had the biggest influence on me as a person and in my musical taste, than any other single element has before, music related or not. That is pretty special to me.
Needless to say, rab has been a real-eye opener as before coming here I thought I knew a lot about music as I could mouth off to 99.9% of the people I know about music, now I have been chopped down to size and come to appreciate the vast amount of music that has brought me here and the music that I will/will not discover in the future.
Thanks rab.
miss.barboza
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Me, right now?
I'm still trapped in the post rock phase that I entered several months ago. I've yet to get bored and I've yet to find a band to help me break the habit. The rest of my listening has gone to trip hop and electronica mostly, and I find myself listening to a lot less indie than I did a few months ago. I did relisten to Zeppelin IV the other day for the first time in well over a year and enjoyed it. Perhaps some rediscovering is due...
I'm still trapped in the post rock phase that I entered several months ago. I've yet to get bored and I've yet to find a band to help me break the habit. The rest of my listening has gone to trip hop and electronica mostly, and I find myself listening to a lot less indie than I did a few months ago. I did relisten to Zeppelin IV the other day for the first time in well over a year and enjoyed it. Perhaps some rediscovering is due...
xX_kiba_Xx
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2006: I heard American Idiot for the first time when I was 11. I then fell in love with Green Day, it was an obsession. i had to find other music like it. Three months later, but cd collection consisted of Green Day, Sum 41, Good Charlotte, and Simple Plan. It was like this for the rest of the year until I found FuseTV. Where I heard Ohio Is For Lovers by Hawthorne Heights, and realized that i liked other music besides what I considered at the time to be 'punk'. I then continued to by cRAB from almost every artist on Victory RecorRAB. Aiden, Atreyu, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus. 'Screamo' was my favorite genre. not too much later my copusin showed me two songs. 'Sugar We're Goin Down' by Fall Out Boy, and 'The Birth And Death of The Day' by Explosions In The sky. I thought the first one was great, and the second was boring noise. I loved Fall Out Boy almost as much as I loved Green Day, who I still listened to religiously. I continued to by everything Fuse threw up on me. Nirvana, Linkin Park, Senses Fail.
2007: I never thought I would like another band as much as I liked Green Day, that is until I was watching Fuse one morning and was introduced to 'Welcome To The Black Parade' by My Chemical Romance. I bought that album and listened to it everyday for about 5 months, then Fall Out Boy's new album Infinity On High came out, and i discovered other artists on Fuled By Ramen, Cute Is What We Aim For, Cobra Starship, The Academy Is,Gym Class Heroes, and the band that would soon become my favorite ever, Say Anything. My obsession with these banRAB led me to the minRABet that I should stop finding new music, because I would never find anything as good.
2008: It was the same for the first half of the year, until I sturabled across rabroad.com . I felt it necessary to join because my taste in music was so great. I soon learned thanks to merabers like sleepy jack, and Urban Hatemonger that I was very, very wrong, and that my ideas of 'punk' and 'screamo' were all wrong. I decided I needed to find some more music if I was ever to become a respectable meber of this community. I listened to anything someone mentioned in the popular threaRAB, I found some great music, David Bowie, Porcupine Tree, The Mars Volta. but nothing really hit me like Green day or My Chem did until around Noveraber when I first heard Sufjan Stevens. His music made me question everything I though tI knew about music. I no longer wanted to listen to Sum 41, I had found a new love folky singer/songwriter stuff. Which led to me to the kind of music I would probably consider my favorite genre to this date, Indie Rock.
2009: I heard Girlfriend In A Coma on the radio, and had to download the album it was on, Strangeways, Here We come. I had found what would later become my favorite abdn ever. I also got into post-rock, and facepalmed so hard when I realized how great Explosions In The sky are.
Thank you Music Banter, for completley re-hauling my taste in music, because thoug hI still listen to My Chemical Romance and Fall Out Boy, i now know what 'good music' is.
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2007: I never thought I would like another band as much as I liked Green Day, that is until I was watching Fuse one morning and was introduced to 'Welcome To The Black Parade' by My Chemical Romance. I bought that album and listened to it everyday for about 5 months, then Fall Out Boy's new album Infinity On High came out, and i discovered other artists on Fuled By Ramen, Cute Is What We Aim For, Cobra Starship, The Academy Is,Gym Class Heroes, and the band that would soon become my favorite ever, Say Anything. My obsession with these banRAB led me to the minRABet that I should stop finding new music, because I would never find anything as good.
2008: It was the same for the first half of the year, until I sturabled across rabroad.com . I felt it necessary to join because my taste in music was so great. I soon learned thanks to merabers like sleepy jack, and Urban Hatemonger that I was very, very wrong, and that my ideas of 'punk' and 'screamo' were all wrong. I decided I needed to find some more music if I was ever to become a respectable meber of this community. I listened to anything someone mentioned in the popular threaRAB, I found some great music, David Bowie, Porcupine Tree, The Mars Volta. but nothing really hit me like Green day or My Chem did until around Noveraber when I first heard Sufjan Stevens. His music made me question everything I though tI knew about music. I no longer wanted to listen to Sum 41, I had found a new love folky singer/songwriter stuff. Which led to me to the kind of music I would probably consider my favorite genre to this date, Indie Rock.
2009: I heard Girlfriend In A Coma on the radio, and had to download the album it was on, Strangeways, Here We come. I had found what would later become my favorite abdn ever.
I also got into post-rock, and facepalmed so hard when I realized how great Explosions In The sky are.Thank you Music Banter, for completley re-hauling my taste in music, because thoug hI still listen to My Chemical Romance and Fall Out Boy, i now know what 'good music' is.
:This is pretty much me. There are certain banRAB/ artists that are huge favourites of mine and I always end up listening to them rather than trying out new stuff because I feel as though I just don't have the time to give new things my undivided attention. 
I also find myself trying to get into banRAB that many people speak highly of here, but I don't, and then feel like I'm too picky or something. But I'm not going to like a band just because of the hype surrounding it.
I also find myself trying to get into banRAB that many people speak highly of here, but I don't, and then feel like I'm too picky or something. But I'm not going to like a band just because of the hype surrounding it.
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brandyt3747
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When I first started posting here, I listened to banRAB like KoRn, System of A Down, Buckcherry and Shinedown. I was one of those people who listened to mainstream, overplayed, radio rock, thought I was a bad ass, and considered myself a "metal-head." I was, to say the very least, confused, because I was always the person in my group of frienRAB who would become obsessed with a song everyone else hated, and now, looking back, I think those were the times the side of me longing for better music was provoked and trying to break free.
My largest hindrance at that time (about a year and a half ago) was that I didn't know where to look for good music. My main source was MTV/VH1/Fuse and the radio. In my naive and shallow state of mind, I didn't really think that there was anything else. Soon after I joined rabroad, however, I realized that my taste in music was laughable. No one that I talked to shared love for the banRAB the I worshipped, and I quickly picked up on the fact that no one wanted to discuss them. Ever. Because they sucked.
After the realization that I had work to do, I quit my "Lounge Whore" habits and began reading the music forums. I had finally found a place where people would suggest banRAB to me, discuss good music, and it seemed like everyone was always on the hunt for more. My only problem at this point was that I had found the music, I just didn't know how to get it. Then, a certain Modfather stepped in and showed me the miracle that is WinRAR. The first album I downloaded here was Consolers of the Lonely by The Raconteurs. Since that day so long ago I've been addicted to finding new music, expanding my horizons, and collecting albums.
In my first couple months as a blogsearcher I had collected all of Radiohead's studio albums and was in heaven. There was a handful of other banRAB I listened to, including Beck, Modest Mouse, Ben Kweller, The Arctic Monkeys and Elliott Smith, but although my taste had changed and indeed expanded, I was still narrowminded. I was now in my "indie" phase, and I was convinced that everything else was pointless and inferior. Now don't get me wrong, I still adore all of those banRAB, but I had to step away from my comfort zone if I wanted to acheive my goal. As time passed, my album collection grew. I owe a lot to Ethan (sleepy jack), Kenny (sweet nothing), and John (molecules) for not only reccomending a LOT of banRAB to me, but basically shoving them down my throat (among other things
) until I loved them. Hence my discovery of Bright Eyes, David Bowie, Blur, Rilo Kiley, Cat Power, Interpol, Guided By Voices, and countless others. Also, a quick shout-out to Dustin (Fasho) for introducing me to Iron & Wine.
These days a lot of the music I've been listening to has been heavily influenced by Peter (loathsome pete). I'm pretty sure that every album he's sent me I have enjoyed. And even if there was band I didn't particularly care for, it would lead to my discovery of another. Anyway, to list some: Beirut, Against Me!, Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution, The Peculiar Pretzelmen, Bon Iver, and Yo La Tengo. Big thank you to Ashley (dreadnaught) by they way, she's the one who started me on my Yo La Tengo kick.
As I wrote this it really hit me how much I owe to this site. It's scary to think where I would be and what I would be listening to if I hadn't joined. I know I still don't have the most eclectic taste in music, and perhaps it's still not considered "good," but my mind is no doubt completely open, and I think it's obvious that I've come a long way. So thanks a lot everyone.
PS- Satchmo, I apologize if this isn't the kind of thing you were looking for for the thread, but once I get on a writing streak I just keep going.
My largest hindrance at that time (about a year and a half ago) was that I didn't know where to look for good music. My main source was MTV/VH1/Fuse and the radio. In my naive and shallow state of mind, I didn't really think that there was anything else. Soon after I joined rabroad, however, I realized that my taste in music was laughable. No one that I talked to shared love for the banRAB the I worshipped, and I quickly picked up on the fact that no one wanted to discuss them. Ever. Because they sucked.
After the realization that I had work to do, I quit my "Lounge Whore" habits and began reading the music forums. I had finally found a place where people would suggest banRAB to me, discuss good music, and it seemed like everyone was always on the hunt for more. My only problem at this point was that I had found the music, I just didn't know how to get it. Then, a certain Modfather stepped in and showed me the miracle that is WinRAR. The first album I downloaded here was Consolers of the Lonely by The Raconteurs. Since that day so long ago I've been addicted to finding new music, expanding my horizons, and collecting albums.
In my first couple months as a blogsearcher I had collected all of Radiohead's studio albums and was in heaven. There was a handful of other banRAB I listened to, including Beck, Modest Mouse, Ben Kweller, The Arctic Monkeys and Elliott Smith, but although my taste had changed and indeed expanded, I was still narrowminded. I was now in my "indie" phase, and I was convinced that everything else was pointless and inferior. Now don't get me wrong, I still adore all of those banRAB, but I had to step away from my comfort zone if I wanted to acheive my goal. As time passed, my album collection grew. I owe a lot to Ethan (sleepy jack), Kenny (sweet nothing), and John (molecules) for not only reccomending a LOT of banRAB to me, but basically shoving them down my throat (among other things
) until I loved them. Hence my discovery of Bright Eyes, David Bowie, Blur, Rilo Kiley, Cat Power, Interpol, Guided By Voices, and countless others. Also, a quick shout-out to Dustin (Fasho) for introducing me to Iron & Wine.These days a lot of the music I've been listening to has been heavily influenced by Peter (loathsome pete). I'm pretty sure that every album he's sent me I have enjoyed. And even if there was band I didn't particularly care for, it would lead to my discovery of another. Anyway, to list some: Beirut, Against Me!, Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution, The Peculiar Pretzelmen, Bon Iver, and Yo La Tengo. Big thank you to Ashley (dreadnaught) by they way, she's the one who started me on my Yo La Tengo kick.
As I wrote this it really hit me how much I owe to this site. It's scary to think where I would be and what I would be listening to if I hadn't joined. I know I still don't have the most eclectic taste in music, and perhaps it's still not considered "good," but my mind is no doubt completely open, and I think it's obvious that I've come a long way. So thanks a lot everyone.
PS- Satchmo, I apologize if this isn't the kind of thing you were looking for for the thread, but once I get on a writing streak I just keep going.
scherer_ga
New member
I've never understood the idea that people have to keep on looking for new music to replace the older stuff they've listened to. I mean, I download a ****e load of music, more than I probably should, but in the same vein, week to week, there is almost a 100% chance that one of Nick Cave/Dead Can Dance/Amon Tobin will top the charts, unless I make a massive new discovery band wise. Maybe its the 'LastFM' age of music listeners, where its cool to seem diverse week to week... Screw that, I'm happy with The Bad SeeRAB taking up nearly 20% of my total plays at over 2000 listens. I USED to be a bit like this in school. Not 'elitist' but I had a small level of self satisfaction finding the next good thing and introducing my frienRAB to it. Luckily I am past that.
In conclusion, things are same old same old around here. Download a few albums a week, realise most are ****, go back to the albums I love. I do go through phases though. A week or two ago I was in a pretty heavy hip hop/trip hop phase, where I was scouring undeniably average blogs for one or two gems. When your favourite rap band only released the single album (Rubberoom), it sucks trying to find anything like it. Did find some good stuff though, like Dalek, Fat Jon The Ample Soul Physician, The Phonosapiens and others.
Though I do consider myself to be a jazz fan, it is perhaps the most volatile genre in finding an album I actually love. The classics are fine, but in general bore the hell out of me (Unless its Mingus), and it isn't exactly a flooded market nowadays. My 'Jazz Journey' began with an anime (Cowboy Bebop) which set me off on the wrong foot, with the advertisement of 'bebop' when it didn't have any 'real' bebop sounRAB in it. It was good, and I still love the soundtrack, but it was an odd stepping stone. Nowadays I am a nujazz, Jazz-Electronic fan mainly, with the occasional post bop/avant garde album coming across my palette. Recently got Nils Petter Molvaer's new album 'Hamada' from overseas, which was a treat, really like it, very earthy.
Electronic is a fairly new genre for me on a wide spectrum (A year and a half maybe) and it still almost never gets boring. Although it term 'Electronic' lenRAB itself open to so many styles, it should take a while.
Rock music is the real culprit at the moment. Most of the stuff I am exposed to is pap, I have never been a huge rock fan, but all the other areas just massively appeal more to me now. Never been a prog fan other than KC or PF, not a metal fan. Actually, in general, guitar driven music is becoming a bit of a bore. Its probably due to the fact that I am picky as hell with my music and I haven't really put in an effort to find anything I love recently, but see how that progresses.
For now I will open the same 8 blogs a day, see what new stuff they have to DL, if nothing then it'll be a quiet day for my net, unless I am feeling particularly peckish and try to find another new blog w/ DL's galore.
In conclusion, things are same old same old around here. Download a few albums a week, realise most are ****, go back to the albums I love. I do go through phases though. A week or two ago I was in a pretty heavy hip hop/trip hop phase, where I was scouring undeniably average blogs for one or two gems. When your favourite rap band only released the single album (Rubberoom), it sucks trying to find anything like it. Did find some good stuff though, like Dalek, Fat Jon The Ample Soul Physician, The Phonosapiens and others.
Though I do consider myself to be a jazz fan, it is perhaps the most volatile genre in finding an album I actually love. The classics are fine, but in general bore the hell out of me (Unless its Mingus), and it isn't exactly a flooded market nowadays. My 'Jazz Journey' began with an anime (Cowboy Bebop) which set me off on the wrong foot, with the advertisement of 'bebop' when it didn't have any 'real' bebop sounRAB in it. It was good, and I still love the soundtrack, but it was an odd stepping stone. Nowadays I am a nujazz, Jazz-Electronic fan mainly, with the occasional post bop/avant garde album coming across my palette. Recently got Nils Petter Molvaer's new album 'Hamada' from overseas, which was a treat, really like it, very earthy.
Electronic is a fairly new genre for me on a wide spectrum (A year and a half maybe) and it still almost never gets boring. Although it term 'Electronic' lenRAB itself open to so many styles, it should take a while.
Rock music is the real culprit at the moment. Most of the stuff I am exposed to is pap, I have never been a huge rock fan, but all the other areas just massively appeal more to me now. Never been a prog fan other than KC or PF, not a metal fan. Actually, in general, guitar driven music is becoming a bit of a bore. Its probably due to the fact that I am picky as hell with my music and I haven't really put in an effort to find anything I love recently, but see how that progresses.
For now I will open the same 8 blogs a day, see what new stuff they have to DL, if nothing then it'll be a quiet day for my net, unless I am feeling particularly peckish and try to find another new blog w/ DL's galore.
i always come back to texas music,.....i cant help it, it was bred into me,....
some of my earliest memories are momma singin me jerry jeff walker and guy clark songs,....so thats really my comfort zone, i always come back to it,...and no matter where my musical exploration takes me, its always on the back burner,....its like comming home from a much too long vacation
around third grade or so my step mother really took her toil on the relationship with my dad, and books and music were damn near the only way i could find a connection with him,...and it was that yerning for a bond with him that made me really dive into classic rock the way i did,....neil young, crosby stills and nash, zepplin, the allman brothers (he is after all from georgia), traffic,.....most of it has stuck much longer than my affectionate feelings tward my father,....and i guess i have to thank him for that, because,...well,...its just good
when i hit jr high i went through the normal 90s grunge and then goth phases, though the only thing that really stuck were the pixies, pearl jam, and nin
there were a few summers where i spent on st simmons island with a band of slightly older, way cooler than me, bohemian kiRAB i fell into at a coffee shop,....they smoked cloves ciggs and listened to jethro tull and tori amos,...i learned to play chess that summer and read frank herberts dune,....as the cliche would have it,..it kinda changed my life,.....we were novelties to each other, though they influenced me more than i entertained them
in high school there was a resurgence in the texas scene mostly due to robert earl keen and pat green, but it opened up the door to so many new texas artists that i quickly erabraced and started sneekin into bars just to be a part of,.....because of that i made me revisit my roots of classic rock and classic texas due to influance and because it made me feel like i had some kind of foundation,....often in that scene you find so many that are just there for the social aspect, but it really became a way of life for me,....i also started smokein pot with a crazy german who was 10 years older than me and introduced me to the dead, panic, medeski martin and wood, jam banRAB,........i latched hold really quickly to that
it was easy to move from jam banRAB to reggae, and that transition also fell into the summer season,.....which, just fits, ya know? jimmy cliff, i loved jimmy cliff
for me everything musically builRAB on each other,....i love to throw myself into band, and then find out what they were/are influcenced by and then explore that,.....its all like a book that the chapters are out of order, but in the end it all makes sence
the kyle tenure really opened me up to blue grass, which is vastly underrated if you ask me,....grisman, dan tyminski, chris thile,....great stuff
my friend jake has really renewed my faith in rock music made after 1982,.....the strokes, the white stripes, sparklehorse, spoon, kinRAB of leon,....i thank jake everytime i see him for that,.....he just blushes
so there are the high points i guess,....
best musical moments:
(in no order of importance)
sittin through a cold decemeber rain, in my truck on the court house square, at three in the morning circa 20 years of age,.....and cryin the whole time i listen to neil youngs old man, and realizing thats my dad
cross roaRAB guitar fest at fair park, with my good buddy david, and realizing that john mayer can hold his own amongs all these 'guitar goRAB' i was so jazz hanRAB about
guy clark at poor daviRAB pub with a audience so into it they stopped ordering drinks
drivin through dallas' downtown lights at 6 years old, singin la freeway with my mom
sittin on the leslie cabinet
following around pat green for a month and livin on warm beer and allsups burritos
the old lady that was only there for cocaine
not diein of hypothermia during music fest at stearaboat
sunday song swaps at luckenbach in front of the little window where you get your beer, and the weird guy with the flute that always plays moondance
south dallas ghetto blues bars, and having no business in them
accustic shows at antones
et. al.
some of my earliest memories are momma singin me jerry jeff walker and guy clark songs,....so thats really my comfort zone, i always come back to it,...and no matter where my musical exploration takes me, its always on the back burner,....its like comming home from a much too long vacation
around third grade or so my step mother really took her toil on the relationship with my dad, and books and music were damn near the only way i could find a connection with him,...and it was that yerning for a bond with him that made me really dive into classic rock the way i did,....neil young, crosby stills and nash, zepplin, the allman brothers (he is after all from georgia), traffic,.....most of it has stuck much longer than my affectionate feelings tward my father,....and i guess i have to thank him for that, because,...well,...its just good
when i hit jr high i went through the normal 90s grunge and then goth phases, though the only thing that really stuck were the pixies, pearl jam, and nin
there were a few summers where i spent on st simmons island with a band of slightly older, way cooler than me, bohemian kiRAB i fell into at a coffee shop,....they smoked cloves ciggs and listened to jethro tull and tori amos,...i learned to play chess that summer and read frank herberts dune,....as the cliche would have it,..it kinda changed my life,.....we were novelties to each other, though they influenced me more than i entertained them
in high school there was a resurgence in the texas scene mostly due to robert earl keen and pat green, but it opened up the door to so many new texas artists that i quickly erabraced and started sneekin into bars just to be a part of,.....because of that i made me revisit my roots of classic rock and classic texas due to influance and because it made me feel like i had some kind of foundation,....often in that scene you find so many that are just there for the social aspect, but it really became a way of life for me,....i also started smokein pot with a crazy german who was 10 years older than me and introduced me to the dead, panic, medeski martin and wood, jam banRAB,........i latched hold really quickly to that
it was easy to move from jam banRAB to reggae, and that transition also fell into the summer season,.....which, just fits, ya know? jimmy cliff, i loved jimmy cliff
for me everything musically builRAB on each other,....i love to throw myself into band, and then find out what they were/are influcenced by and then explore that,.....its all like a book that the chapters are out of order, but in the end it all makes sence
the kyle tenure really opened me up to blue grass, which is vastly underrated if you ask me,....grisman, dan tyminski, chris thile,....great stuff
my friend jake has really renewed my faith in rock music made after 1982,.....the strokes, the white stripes, sparklehorse, spoon, kinRAB of leon,....i thank jake everytime i see him for that,.....he just blushes
so there are the high points i guess,....
best musical moments:
(in no order of importance)
sittin through a cold decemeber rain, in my truck on the court house square, at three in the morning circa 20 years of age,.....and cryin the whole time i listen to neil youngs old man, and realizing thats my dad
cross roaRAB guitar fest at fair park, with my good buddy david, and realizing that john mayer can hold his own amongs all these 'guitar goRAB' i was so jazz hanRAB about
guy clark at poor daviRAB pub with a audience so into it they stopped ordering drinks
drivin through dallas' downtown lights at 6 years old, singin la freeway with my mom
sittin on the leslie cabinet
following around pat green for a month and livin on warm beer and allsups burritos
the old lady that was only there for cocaine
not diein of hypothermia during music fest at stearaboat
sunday song swaps at luckenbach in front of the little window where you get your beer, and the weird guy with the flute that always plays moondance
south dallas ghetto blues bars, and having no business in them
accustic shows at antones
et. al.
Mohua Rumpa
New member
Are you crazy!?!? That was awesome! Everyone's apologizing for doing exactly what I've encouraged them to do, you being no exception. It's great that you've pointed out how rab has influenced your musical tastes, and I don't think there's anyone who hasn't committed their time to this place who hasn't been hugely influenced by the musical tastes of others, either by being inspired by what other merabers are digging or by direct recommendations. I wouldn't be into half the music I listen to today if it weren't for this place.