1) What kinds of music did you listen to growing up? Were you influenced by family and friends? Quick answer: Soul, classical, rock, pop, latino flavoured music, synth, rap, blues, country, folk/traditional music, dance, musicals.
Aside from the heavier stuff (metal, etc) I pretty much got introduced to all kinds of music, old and new, through my family. Mom has a soft spot for temperamental music in the form of Gypsy Kings (among others), along with earlier artists such as Andrew Sisters, Aretha Franklin, Nat King Cole. We listened a lot to the classic dudes: Elton John, Eric Clapton and Billy Joel. Ah, and Queen. Classical music was thrown in for a good mix. (My younger sister and I loved to flutter around to a cd called "Rondo Russo" with this woman playing the flute ^^)
Jethro Tull was very present through dad, sometimes to the chagrin of everyone else. Everyone loved Simon and Garfunkel. Eldest sister Eleine got me hooked on stuff like Depeche Mode, Erasure, Toto and Beastie Boys. Elder sister Angela brainwashed me with Soul Asylum, R.E.M and Smashing Pumpkins (not quite succeeding at that time with Wilco, Ben Folds Five, etc).
And obviously we were big on Disney ^^
Watching German satellite tv in my teens 'opened my eyes' to trance and such, which was huge in all of Europe at that time, lol.
2) What was your musical evolution? Did your tastes change as you got older? Hm. My tastes haven't changed much, I reckon. Just broadened to encompass more artists/groups in the genres that've always been present in my life. Most of the new stuff I come across are through recommendations from my sisters or by exploring friends suggestions.
3) What is the first album you bought for yourself, and in what format (cassette/vinyl/CD/download)? Ace of Base "Happy Nation" on cd.
4) What is the longest song you've ever listened to? I'm not enough of a music snob to keep a track of length :p
Madman With a Box (Otaku Eternal) | Posted 04/04/08 | Reply
@:
What's amusing is seeing the signs of age difference =P
Most of you who talk about listening to boy bands mention N'Sync and Backstreet Boys. When I was a kid, my sister was listening to New Kids On The Block XD
Ahh, music. "If music be the food of love, play on!"
1) What kinds of music did you listen to growing up? Were you influenced by family and friends?
I grew up listening to lots of Disney (granted most kids did), '80s rock songs from my dad (i.e. "Hungry Like the Wolf", I think a few Britney Spears and P!nk songs, etc.) and acahpella (not sure if the spelling is correct, but The Nylons were big) singing. Frank Sinatra was a favorite of my mom's.
2) What was your musical evolution? Did your tastes change as you got older?
I continued with rock, ditched the Disney and Sinatra, and kept a bit of acahpella. Throw in classical (it comes with playing the piano), band songs (like trumpet, drum, sax, and flute bands... school bands), and more modern rock. I got more into pop music, as well as j-pop.
3) What is the first album you bought for yourself, and in what format (cassette/vinyl/CD/download)?
I think it was a Hilary Duff CD from the 'Lizzie Maguire Movie'. Don't make such a face when reading that, I was only probably 9 or 10.
Then again, it could have been a gift, so the only real CD I can truly remember buying with my own money was a Cascada CD...
4) What is the longest song you've ever listened to?
I visited an Amish community and they had a museum with examples of songs from Amish and Mennonite church services, and damn those Amish songs can be up to 20 minutes long. It's exhausting just listening to it.
I just remembered now that my father loves Elvis' songs and my mother loved Frank Sinatra I heard them all the time when I was kid. How come I forgot to mention those before?! 0_o...I do not know...
1)Heavily influenced. I grew up listening to the radio with my parents. Pink Floyd, Rush, Queen, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Beatles, Aerosmith, the list goes on. So I guess I would say classic rock from the 60s and 70s and into rock of today.
2)Not a whole lot has changed. Still listen to above mentioned bands, though I have grown to like alternative rock, some punk rock, certain country and a handful of rap songs. I do have some j-rock also. But if you were to ask me what I listened to, I would still say Classic Rock.
3)I cannot recall what I bought for myself first, but it was a CD. I never really bought music, or recorded it, so it was borrowing other peoples' tapes and cds and stuff.
4)Do comedy albums count? Longest song I listned to was the monk chants while fishing down in Arkansas when I was 10. And those damn chants brought us luck.
hey i was randomly bouncing around theO and i saw this post on MUSIC =D
1) What kinds of music did you listen to growing up? Were you influenced by family and friends?
I was never really into pop music while growing up, i never had the same obsession over the spice girls that some of my friends had for example. I had some cassette tapes, i remember one was 'the snowman' - you remember 'walking in the air' right? it was the music from the cartoon. I also had a cassette of the Wombles - including 'under ground, over ground, wombling free...' not exactly 'normal' ^_^
My mum was into celtic music and some christian stuff, i guess that influenced me quite a bit. I love Capercaillie and Iona.
I love so many different things XD Film soundtracks too.
2) What was your musical evolution? Did your tastes change as you got older?
I have quite a random taste in music now, from classical piano, to rock to celtic to Disney to the odd random Japanese song... I still dislike rap and screamo music, but i have grown to like rock more. I love exploring other peoples music tastes ^_^ i used to say i dislike metal - but i have listened to bands such as Nightwish and i quite like their take on the genre - i like the strings. The lyrics are not always to my taste, but hmmm...
As for bands...
Sanctus Real and Relient K and Switchfoot are ace!! I tend to like bands that few of my friends have heard of XD
Newton Faulkner is good. I love Duke Special, and Vienna Teng, and, erm... Einaudi (pianist), OH!! And i guess i should mention mt friends band - Heartstring. They have a website - try googling them ^_^
3) What is the first album you bought for yourself, and in what format (cassette/vinyl/CD/download)?
I think it was a B*witched CD i liked their Irish music and it was quite a happy boppy thing to listen to ^_^
4) What is the longest song you've ever listened to?
Erm, i think some of Nightwishes songs/instrumental tracks are 10 mins or over. I have listened to some classical stuff that is long, but i can never remember names. Music from films, does that count?
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Gosh that was a long comment! XD hope i didn't bore you! I blab a lot about music...
1) What kinds of music did you listen to growing up? Were you influenced by family and friends?
John Williams, after all… I was around when the first Star Wars came out and vividly remember seeing it in the theaters and all. There was also country and rock like Chicago, Pet Shop Boys and Erasure as well as techo/dance.
2) What was your musical evolution? Did your tastes change as you got older?
Other than country and rap, I ended up liking a lot of stuff, though I often gravitate back to classical and movie scores that are orchestrations like what John Williams writes. I did like country when I was a kid, but I grew up and now, other than a song here or there, I don’t care for it at all.
3) What is the first album you bought for yourself, and in what format (cassette/vinyl/CD/download)?
My first purchase, that I bought myself was Handel’s Messiah… I was taking voice lessons at the time and got heavily into vocal works. I had lots of music before that, but it was stuff that was given to me, not stuff I actually bought.
4) What is the longest song you've ever listened to?
Like Rachmaninoff said, depends on how you define it. :p I really don’t recall any set length other than I know that if I like it, being long is irrelevant. And since I too have seen Mozart’s - Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) which is 185 minutes long. You could count that. Though unlike Rach… I’ve seen that performed live. Heh.
1) What kinds of music did you listen to growing up? Were you influenced by family and friends?I've listened to all kind of music, but my parents were more inclined to Classic music, Opera (I remember one hot summer day, I was watching my dad shaving ( yeah, don't ask) and on the background Pavarotti was singing, I was 4 or 5 years old, awww good times). I also grew up listening to Bon Jovi and other 80,90's songs.
2) What was your musical evolution? Did your tastes change as you got older?It changed, yes. Although I still love music from the 80's, classic music or Opera (not all of it though, I just love listening to Pavarotti, great voice!). Nowadays I listen to any kind of music, except Pop and Rap, those get on my nerves.
I'm addictive to rock, gothic, metal and alternative music. I LOVE Rammstein, Linkin' Park, Staind, Apocalyptica (sp?), Lacuna Coil, Starfield, Papa Roach and the list goes on and on...
3) What is the first album you bought for yourself, and in what format (cassette/vinyl/CD/download)?
Oh my, it was so long ago....let's see the very first CD that I bought for myself was...oh, right! One from Bon Jovi, can't remember the name though. I was so happy, haha.
4) What is the longest song you've ever listened to?
Hmmm probably one from classic music or one from TOOL.
The first Parental Advisory CD I bought (I was so flippin' proud of myself) was Staind's "14 Shades of Gray".
Heh, the first Parental Advisory CD I bought was Eve 6's "Horrorscope". I remember it because we were in North Carolina for my sister's wedding, I had just turned 19 the week before, and I was in a mall CD store with my aunt.
Back then I looked younger than I actually was, so when I went up to the register to buy it the cashier looked over me at my aunt and asked if I was allowed to buy a CD with an advisory on it =P I was a little peeved and showed them my driver's liscence to prove my age.
1. Thanks to my parents... almost everything. I've acquired a highly ecletic music taste thanks to them.
2. I used to tolerate country, but I gave up as I grew older. Pop music left a severe imprint on my brain and I’ve expanded further than my parents in some areas by hoarding heavy metal and foreign language tracks. *I like Rammstein and Elton John* Basically, I can have a playlist that jumps from Sinatra, to High and Mighty Color, over to Michael Jackson and then round it off with some Flogging Molly and Royksopp.
3. I think either Linkin Park’s “Hybrid Theory” album or ‘N Sync’s “No Strings Attached” (both of which were CDs). I can’t remember which one anymore. It's been too long. (My first actual musical recording of my own was Hanson though. ^_^')
4. “Art of Life” (live concert recording) by X-Japan. 34-something minutes? Cha. Maybe, if I go through all the classical music in my house, I'll find something longer, but that's it for now.
Japan Bureau (Podcasters) | Posted 04/03/08 | Reply
1) What kinds of music did you listen to growing up? Were you influenced by family and friends? Up until and through part of hs, I did a lot of disney, then RHCP and Ice-T and a lot of other rap.
2) What was your musical evolution? Did your tastes change as you got older? I can listen to anything except country, and even then sometimes. I love techno/trance, and over the last few years a lot of JPop as well. But classical is my anytime music.
3) What is the first album you bought for yourself, and in what format (cassette/vinyl/CD/download)? I think the first one I bought was probably pretty hate machine, followed closely by under the bridge.
4) What is the longest song you've ever listened to? Not sure, probably American Pie (~8:30)
1) What kinds of music did you listen to growing up? Were you influenced by family and friends? growing up I listened to mostly disney music, and the kind of soft oldies music my parents listened to.
2) What was your musical evolution? Did your tastes change as you got older? well, I still like my disney music :) but now, I mostly like alternative pop/country/rock. I'm not really into screamo music, but I love bands like anberlin and skillet.
3) What is the first album you bought for yourself, and in what format (cassette/vinyl/CD/download)? I honestly can't remember. It was either a jump5 cd, or the highschool musical soundtrack (both cd)
4) What is the longest song you've ever listened to? I don't know, probably Sing to the King by Candi Pearson. (6:11)
Raid Boss (Otaku Eternal) | Posted 04/03/08 | Reply
1) What kinds of music did you listen to growing up? Were you influenced by family and friends?I've always listened to soundtracks, mostly Disney stuff when I was younger, but I also did love the instrumentals. My mom bought me a few Broadway soundtracks too, which I enjoyed. When I hit...that age...I did what every other 10 year old girl did who's been mass marketed to and listened to Backstreet Boys, N'Sync, a lot of pop, a lot of that 90s hip hop/dance (which I've shared with a lot of people). Luckily, I grew out of that phase.
2) What was your musical evolution? Did your tastes change as you got older? My half-brother always listened to rock which I enjoyed when I did hear it (I was 8 or so), but one of our au-pairs always listened to the local rock station at about the time of my boy band fondness. I decided I hated pop music, and really liked rock. Since it was the 90s, I came to really love Grunge, and to this day Pearl Jam remains one of my top 5 bands, though I've gravitated towards more of a heavy, hard rock sound along the lines of Killswitch Engage, Fair to Midland, Five Finger Death Punch, etc.
3) What is the first album you bought for yourself, and in what format (cassette/vinyl/CD/download)? I think the first CD I ever bought with my own money was either a boyband CD or a Will Smith CD. Can't remember. The first Parental Advisory CD I bought (I was so flippin' proud of myself) was Staind's "14 Shades of Gray".
4) What is the longest song you've ever listened to? Some song or other by Tool. I don't have the patience to listen to a song longer than 8-9 minutes.
1.) I listened to a lot of Spanish contemporary Christian music..My mom introduced me to it. SO I got the soft, pretty, Spanish songs.
2.) Over the last couple of years my friends have forced [quite literally] me into listening to rock/screamo/punk music; and I imediately fell in love with it. So I guess are 04/05 I switched over from nice, quite, thoughtful music to hard rock/alternative/punk, ect. I couldn't live withouth Anberlin, underOATH, Dead Poetic, Demon Hunter, Muse, Secondhand Serenade, Linkin Park, Matthew Good Band, System of a Down and Plain White T's.
3.) Um...probably some Jaci Velasquez cd...or after my transition to good, music: Evanescence.
4.) Probably this song that spans both sides of one of my Dad's records. I seriously don't know who it's by or what the song's called...it has to be over a 1/2 hour long, though.
1) What kinds of music did you listen to growing up? Were you influenced by family and friends?
Mainly 50's and 60's oldies music like Cat Stevens and John Denver from my parents. And lots of current (for whatever year) pop and rock because of my siblings.
2) What was your musical evolution? Did your tastes change as you got older?
I basically like anything. I love most classical, I listen to a lot of punk rock,, hip-hop is often good, oldies are still good. I just don't like gangster rap, jazz, or classic rock.
3) What is the first album you bought for yourself, and in what format (cassette/vinyl/CD/download)?
Hmmmm...Lion King soundtrack on cassette? lol.
4) What is the longest song you've ever listened to?
No idea.
1) What kinds of music did you listen to growing up? Were you influenced by family and friends?
I grew up on a combination of movie scores written by John Williams, light rock and what’s considered classical. My father had a thing for Jonny Cash and country like Dolly Parton. My mom liked religious music like Tabernacle Choir as well as Mozart. It was my older brothers who were into rock. :p Not sure if that counts as influence for some of it since I don’t really like Country.
2) What was your musical evolution? Did your tastes change as you got older?
I always liked the classical and stuff by John Williams the best and kind of went there. You could say I changed as I got older since I gravitated more towards the classical than the other kind.
3) What is the first album you bought for yourself, and in what format (cassette/vinyl/CD/download)?
My first purchase was Sergei Rachmaninoff: Complete Works For Piano & Orchestra. A CD set that I still have.
4) What is the longest song you've ever listened to?
Depends on your definition of song. If you break it down in to smaller pieces or the different sections of the works, then most of what I listen to ranges from 10 to 40 minutes. Now if you go by completed works… recently I listened/watched Mozart’s - Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) which is approximately 185 minutes long. :p And in case you’re wondering… that’s an Opera.
Neko Kouhai (Otaku Eternal) | Posted 04/03/08 | Reply
1. Anime music. I started to watch anime since I was one and mum made me cassette tapes of all the songs I liked. ^^ Other than that, whatever my mum listened to on the radio.
2. I still mostly listen to anime music. The rest are by the same bands who sing for the anime but different songs. ^^' Or the progressive music TimeChaser-senpai sends me. X3 Thank you senpai. X3 *hugs*
3. The single CD "Watashitachi ni naritakute", the ending song for Sailor Moon S. That song was also the song I sang for the first time at karaoke. XD
4. Same as senpai, "Light of Day, Day of Darkness" by Green Carnation.
1: much like Timechaser, Beatles and other stuff from the 60's...my parents would listen to Classical Gold radio station when we were having breakfast, so i grew up with the old stuff.
2: never really paid music much mind till i got to secondary school (11 yrs old) and then started to catch up with the rest of the world. now my music tastes are very eclectic, ranging from rock to jazz, from j-rock to Music from Musicals and Stage Shows. ha ha
3: either Darren Haye's "Spin" or Evanescence's "Fallen", both on CD. i had been given albums as a present before then, but one of those two were the first one i actively went and bought for myself.
4: off the top of my head Meatloaf's "Bat out of Hell" full extended Live version (a paltry 14 minutes)
Madman With a Box (Otaku Eternal) | Posted 04/03/08 | Reply
MY ANSWERS
1) What kinds of music did you listen to growing up? Were you influenced by family and friends? - Beatles, Classical, and Big Band Jazz. I had a tape of early Beatles music, several of Classical - my favorite of which was Tchiakovsky's 1812 Overture & Romeo and Juliet, and my grandparents always listened to Big Band, especially Glenn Miller.
2) What was your musical evolution? Did your tastes change as you got older? - I listened to the above styles of music (and continue to for the most part) uintil high school when I listened to a lot of Oldies from the 50s and 60s (we had 2 oldies radio stations). After graduating high school I started listening to contemporary rock and metal bands, then around 2004/2005 I discovered progressive music.
3) What is the first album you bought for yourself, and in what format (cassette/vinyl/CD/download)? - Billy Joel's "River Of Dreams" on cassette.
4) What is the longest song you've ever listened to? - Green Carnation's "Light Of Day, Day Of Darkness" (60:00)
Mimmi
Otaku Eternal | Posted 04/04/08 | Reply
1) What kinds of music did you listen to growing up? Were you influenced by family and friends? Quick answer: Soul, classical, rock, pop, latino flavoured music, synth, rap, blues, country, folk/traditional music, dance, musicals.
Aside from the heavier stuff (metal, etc) I pretty much got introduced to all kinds of music, old and new, through my family. Mom has a soft spot for temperamental music in the form of Gypsy Kings (among others), along with earlier artists such as Andrew Sisters, Aretha Franklin, Nat King Cole. We listened a lot to the classic dudes: Elton John, Eric Clapton and Billy Joel. Ah, and Queen. Classical music was thrown in for a good mix. (My younger sister and I loved to flutter around to a cd called "Rondo Russo" with this woman playing the flute ^^)
Jethro Tull was very present through dad, sometimes to the chagrin of everyone else. Everyone loved Simon and Garfunkel. Eldest sister Eleine got me hooked on stuff like Depeche Mode, Erasure, Toto and Beastie Boys. Elder sister Angela brainwashed me with Soul Asylum, R.E.M and Smashing Pumpkins (not quite succeeding at that time with Wilco, Ben Folds Five, etc).
And obviously we were big on Disney ^^
Watching German satellite tv in my teens 'opened my eyes' to trance and such, which was huge in all of Europe at that time, lol.
2) What was your musical evolution? Did your tastes change as you got older? Hm. My tastes haven't changed much, I reckon. Just broadened to encompass more artists/groups in the genres that've always been present in my life. Most of the new stuff I come across are through recommendations from my sisters or by exploring friends suggestions.
3) What is the first album you bought for yourself, and in what format (cassette/vinyl/CD/download)? Ace of Base "Happy Nation" on cd.
4) What is the longest song you've ever listened to? I'm not enough of a music snob to keep a track of length :p
ShadowLight
Otaku Eternal | Posted 04/04/08 | Reply
@TimeChaser:
Thats true after all the nostalgic feeling you suddenly realize how old the song is and feel that your getting oooold XD
The crazy bubbly shadow
TimeChaser
Madman With a Box (Otaku Eternal) | Posted 04/04/08 | Reply
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Well, I meant more amusing to me, and maybe to others in their 20s ^^
I know... time is freaky that way. It's weird realizing when songs or movies actually came out o_O
Bazinga!
TimeChaser
Madman With a Box (Otaku Eternal) | Posted 04/04/08 | Reply
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What's amusing is seeing the signs of age difference =P
Most of you who talk about listening to boy bands mention N'Sync and Backstreet Boys. When I was a kid, my sister was listening to New Kids On The Block XD
Bazinga!
TimeChaser
Madman With a Box (Otaku Eternal) | Posted 04/03/08 | Reply
@Allamorph:
So I misspelled one word. It won't rend the space/time continuum in twain =P
Bazinga!
Allamorph
Spiritus Memorae (Otaku Eternal) | Posted 04/03/08 | Reply
@TimeChaser:
Seville. The Barber of Seville.
Learn your Rossini, bucko. =P
mewmewpudding
Otaku Eternal | Posted 04/03/08 | Reply
Ahh, music. "If music be the food of love, play on!"
1) What kinds of music did you listen to growing up? Were you influenced by family and friends?
I grew up listening to lots of Disney (granted most kids did), '80s rock songs from my dad (i.e. "Hungry Like the Wolf", I think a few Britney Spears and P!nk songs, etc.) and acahpella (not sure if the spelling is correct, but The Nylons were big) singing. Frank Sinatra was a favorite of my mom's.
2) What was your musical evolution? Did your tastes change as you got older?
I continued with rock, ditched the Disney and Sinatra, and kept a bit of acahpella. Throw in classical (it comes with playing the piano), band songs (like trumpet, drum, sax, and flute bands... school bands), and more modern rock. I got more into pop music, as well as j-pop.
3) What is the first album you bought for yourself, and in what format (cassette/vinyl/CD/download)?
I think it was a Hilary Duff CD from the 'Lizzie Maguire Movie'. Don't make such a face when reading that, I was only probably 9 or 10.
Then again, it could have been a gift, so the only real CD I can truly remember buying with my own money was a Cascada CD...
4) What is the longest song you've ever listened to?
I visited an Amish community and they had a museum with examples of songs from Amish and Mennonite church services, and damn those Amish songs can be up to 20 minutes long. It's exhausting just listening to it.
ShadowLight
Otaku Eternal | Posted 04/03/08 | Reply
I just remembered now that my father loves Elvis' songs and my mother loved Frank Sinatra I heard them all the time when I was kid. How come I forgot to mention those before?! 0_o...I do not know...
The crazy bubbly shadow
Schultzie
Getaway Driver (Otaku Eternal) | Posted 04/03/08 | Reply
1)Heavily influenced. I grew up listening to the radio with my parents. Pink Floyd, Rush, Queen, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Beatles, Aerosmith, the list goes on. So I guess I would say classic rock from the 60s and 70s and into rock of today.
2)Not a whole lot has changed. Still listen to above mentioned bands, though I have grown to like alternative rock, some punk rock, certain country and a handful of rap songs. I do have some j-rock also. But if you were to ask me what I listened to, I would still say Classic Rock.
3)I cannot recall what I bought for myself first, but it was a CD. I never really bought music, or recorded it, so it was borrowing other peoples' tapes and cds and stuff.
4)Do comedy albums count? Longest song I listned to was the monk chants while fishing down in Arkansas when I was 10. And those damn chants brought us luck.
Kaerlyn
Tea pixie (Otaku Eternal) | Posted 04/03/08 | Reply
hey i was randomly bouncing around theO and i saw this post on MUSIC =D
1) What kinds of music did you listen to growing up? Were you influenced by family and friends?
I was never really into pop music while growing up, i never had the same obsession over the spice girls that some of my friends had for example. I had some cassette tapes, i remember one was 'the snowman' - you remember 'walking in the air' right? it was the music from the cartoon. I also had a cassette of the Wombles - including 'under ground, over ground, wombling free...' not exactly 'normal' ^_^
My mum was into celtic music and some christian stuff, i guess that influenced me quite a bit. I love Capercaillie and Iona.
I love so many different things XD Film soundtracks too.
2) What was your musical evolution? Did your tastes change as you got older?
I have quite a random taste in music now, from classical piano, to rock to celtic to Disney to the odd random Japanese song... I still dislike rap and screamo music, but i have grown to like rock more. I love exploring other peoples music tastes ^_^ i used to say i dislike metal - but i have listened to bands such as Nightwish and i quite like their take on the genre - i like the strings. The lyrics are not always to my taste, but hmmm...
As for bands...
Sanctus Real and Relient K and Switchfoot are ace!! I tend to like bands that few of my friends have heard of XD
Newton Faulkner is good. I love Duke Special, and Vienna Teng, and, erm... Einaudi (pianist), OH!! And i guess i should mention mt friends band - Heartstring. They have a website - try googling them ^_^
3) What is the first album you bought for yourself, and in what format (cassette/vinyl/CD/download)?
I think it was a B*witched CD i liked their Irish music and it was quite a happy boppy thing to listen to ^_^
4) What is the longest song you've ever listened to?
Erm, i think some of Nightwishes songs/instrumental tracks are 10 mins or over. I have listened to some classical stuff that is long, but i can never remember names. Music from films, does that count?
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Gosh that was a long comment! XD hope i didn't bore you! I blab a lot about music...
ShadowLight
Otaku Eternal | Posted 04/03/08 | Reply
@TimeChaser:
Hahaha...I think he was. XD
The crazy bubbly shadow
SunfallE
Nyaa~ (ZE MEANIE) | Posted 04/03/08 | Reply
1) What kinds of music did you listen to growing up? Were you influenced by family and friends?
John Williams, after all… I was around when the first Star Wars came out and vividly remember seeing it in the theaters and all. There was also country and rock like Chicago, Pet Shop Boys and Erasure as well as techo/dance.
2) What was your musical evolution? Did your tastes change as you got older?
Other than country and rap, I ended up liking a lot of stuff, though I often gravitate back to classical and movie scores that are orchestrations like what John Williams writes. I did like country when I was a kid, but I grew up and now, other than a song here or there, I don’t care for it at all.
3) What is the first album you bought for yourself, and in what format (cassette/vinyl/CD/download)?
My first purchase, that I bought myself was Handel’s Messiah… I was taking voice lessons at the time and got heavily into vocal works. I had lots of music before that, but it was stuff that was given to me, not stuff I actually bought.
4) What is the longest song you've ever listened to?
Like Rachmaninoff said, depends on how you define it. :p I really don’t recall any set length other than I know that if I like it, being long is irrelevant. And since I too have seen Mozart’s - Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) which is 185 minutes long. You could count that. Though unlike Rach… I’ve seen that performed live. Heh.
In the name of the tune I will punish you!
TimeChaser
Madman With a Box (Otaku Eternal) | Posted 04/03/08 | Reply
@ShadowLight:
I was watching my dad shaving ( yeah, don't ask) and on the background Pavarotti was singing
Was he singing Barber of Saville? =P
Bazinga!
ShadowLight
Otaku Eternal | Posted 04/03/08 | Reply
1) What kinds of music did you listen to growing up? Were you influenced by family and friends?I've listened to all kind of music, but my parents were more inclined to Classic music, Opera (I remember one hot summer day, I was watching my dad shaving ( yeah, don't ask) and on the background Pavarotti was singing, I was 4 or 5 years old, awww good times). I also grew up listening to Bon Jovi and other 80,90's songs.
2) What was your musical evolution? Did your tastes change as you got older?It changed, yes. Although I still love music from the 80's, classic music or Opera (not all of it though, I just love listening to Pavarotti, great voice!). Nowadays I listen to any kind of music, except Pop and Rap, those get on my nerves.
I'm addictive to rock, gothic, metal and alternative music. I LOVE Rammstein, Linkin' Park, Staind, Apocalyptica (sp?), Lacuna Coil, Starfield, Papa Roach and the list goes on and on...
3) What is the first album you bought for yourself, and in what format (cassette/vinyl/CD/download)?
Oh my, it was so long ago....let's see the very first CD that I bought for myself was...oh, right! One from Bon Jovi, can't remember the name though. I was so happy, haha.
4) What is the longest song you've ever listened to?
Hmmm probably one from classic music or one from TOOL.
The crazy bubbly shadow
TimeChaser
Madman With a Box (Otaku Eternal) | Posted 04/03/08 | Reply
@red tigress:
The first Parental Advisory CD I bought (I was so flippin' proud of myself) was Staind's "14 Shades of Gray".
Heh, the first Parental Advisory CD I bought was Eve 6's "Horrorscope". I remember it because we were in North Carolina for my sister's wedding, I had just turned 19 the week before, and I was in a mall CD store with my aunt.
Back then I looked younger than I actually was, so when I went up to the register to buy it the cashier looked over me at my aunt and asked if I was allowed to buy a CD with an advisory on it =P I was a little peeved and showed them my driver's liscence to prove my age.
Bazinga!
Nehszriah
Hits Self With Axe (Otaku Eternal) | Posted 04/03/08 | Reply
1. Thanks to my parents... almost everything. I've acquired a highly ecletic music taste thanks to them.
2. I used to tolerate country, but I gave up as I grew older. Pop music left a severe imprint on my brain and I’ve expanded further than my parents in some areas by hoarding heavy metal and foreign language tracks. *I like Rammstein and Elton John* Basically, I can have a playlist that jumps from Sinatra, to High and Mighty Color, over to Michael Jackson and then round it off with some Flogging Molly and Royksopp.
3. I think either Linkin Park’s “Hybrid Theory” album or ‘N Sync’s “No Strings Attached” (both of which were CDs). I can’t remember which one anymore. It's been too long. (My first actual musical recording of my own was Hanson though. ^_^')
4. “Art of Life” (live concert recording) by X-Japan. 34-something minutes? Cha. Maybe, if I go through all the classical music in my house, I'll find something longer, but that's it for now.
Be true, be you and of course, be otaku.
AP Ichigo
Japan Bureau (Podcasters) | Posted 04/03/08 | Reply
1) What kinds of music did you listen to growing up? Were you influenced by family and friends? Up until and through part of hs, I did a lot of disney, then RHCP and Ice-T and a lot of other rap.
2) What was your musical evolution? Did your tastes change as you got older? I can listen to anything except country, and even then sometimes. I love techno/trance, and over the last few years a lot of JPop as well. But classical is my anytime music.
3) What is the first album you bought for yourself, and in what format (cassette/vinyl/CD/download)? I think the first one I bought was probably pretty hate machine, followed closely by under the bridge.
4) What is the longest song you've ever listened to? Not sure, probably American Pie (~8:30)
-Ichigo
Hana1991
Otakuite++ | Posted 04/03/08 | Reply
1) What kinds of music did you listen to growing up? Were you influenced by family and friends? growing up I listened to mostly disney music, and the kind of soft oldies music my parents listened to.
2) What was your musical evolution? Did your tastes change as you got older? well, I still like my disney music :) but now, I mostly like alternative pop/country/rock. I'm not really into screamo music, but I love bands like anberlin and skillet.
3) What is the first album you bought for yourself, and in what format (cassette/vinyl/CD/download)? I honestly can't remember. It was either a jump5 cd, or the highschool musical soundtrack (both cd)
4) What is the longest song you've ever listened to?
I don't know, probably Sing to the King by Candi Pearson. (6:11)
red tigress
Raid Boss (Otaku Eternal) | Posted 04/03/08 | Reply
1) What kinds of music did you listen to growing up? Were you influenced by family and friends?I've always listened to soundtracks, mostly Disney stuff when I was younger, but I also did love the instrumentals. My mom bought me a few Broadway soundtracks too, which I enjoyed. When I hit...that age...I did what every other 10 year old girl did who's been mass marketed to and listened to Backstreet Boys, N'Sync, a lot of pop, a lot of that 90s hip hop/dance (which I've shared with a lot of people). Luckily, I grew out of that phase.
2) What was your musical evolution? Did your tastes change as you got older? My half-brother always listened to rock which I enjoyed when I did hear it (I was 8 or so), but one of our au-pairs always listened to the local rock station at about the time of my boy band fondness. I decided I hated pop music, and really liked rock. Since it was the 90s, I came to really love Grunge, and to this day Pearl Jam remains one of my top 5 bands, though I've gravitated towards more of a heavy, hard rock sound along the lines of Killswitch Engage, Fair to Midland, Five Finger Death Punch, etc.
3) What is the first album you bought for yourself, and in what format (cassette/vinyl/CD/download)? I think the first CD I ever bought with my own money was either a boyband CD or a Will Smith CD. Can't remember. The first Parental Advisory CD I bought (I was so flippin' proud of myself) was Staind's "14 Shades of Gray".
4) What is the longest song you've ever listened to? Some song or other by Tool. I don't have the patience to listen to a song longer than 8-9 minutes.
ink.black.sky
Otaku Legend | Posted 04/03/08 | Reply
1.) I listened to a lot of Spanish contemporary Christian music..My mom introduced me to it. SO I got the soft, pretty, Spanish songs.
2.) Over the last couple of years my friends have forced [quite literally] me into listening to rock/screamo/punk music; and I imediately fell in love with it. So I guess are 04/05 I switched over from nice, quite, thoughtful music to hard rock/alternative/punk, ect. I couldn't live withouth Anberlin, underOATH, Dead Poetic, Demon Hunter, Muse, Secondhand Serenade, Linkin Park, Matthew Good Band, System of a Down and Plain White T's.
3.) Um...probably some Jaci Velasquez cd...or after my transition to good, music: Evanescence.
4.) Probably this song that spans both sides of one of my Dad's records. I seriously don't know who it's by or what the song's called...it has to be over a 1/2 hour long, though.
Kastom
Otaku Princess | Posted 04/03/08 | Reply
1) What kinds of music did you listen to growing up? Were you influenced by family and friends?
Mainly 50's and 60's oldies music like Cat Stevens and John Denver from my parents. And lots of current (for whatever year) pop and rock because of my siblings.
2) What was your musical evolution? Did your tastes change as you got older?
I basically like anything. I love most classical, I listen to a lot of punk rock,, hip-hop is often good, oldies are still good. I just don't like gangster rap, jazz, or classic rock.
3) What is the first album you bought for yourself, and in what format (cassette/vinyl/CD/download)?
Hmmmm...Lion King soundtrack on cassette? lol.
4) What is the longest song you've ever listened to?
No idea.
I'd rather see in shades of gray.
Rachmaninoff
Otaku Legend | Posted 04/03/08 | Reply
1) What kinds of music did you listen to growing up? Were you influenced by family and friends?
I grew up on a combination of movie scores written by John Williams, light rock and what’s considered classical. My father had a thing for Jonny Cash and country like Dolly Parton. My mom liked religious music like Tabernacle Choir as well as Mozart. It was my older brothers who were into rock. :p Not sure if that counts as influence for some of it since I don’t really like Country.
2) What was your musical evolution? Did your tastes change as you got older?
I always liked the classical and stuff by John Williams the best and kind of went there. You could say I changed as I got older since I gravitated more towards the classical than the other kind.
3) What is the first album you bought for yourself, and in what format (cassette/vinyl/CD/download)?
My first purchase was Sergei Rachmaninoff: Complete Works For Piano & Orchestra. A CD set that I still have.
4) What is the longest song you've ever listened to?
Depends on your definition of song. If you break it down in to smaller pieces or the different sections of the works, then most of what I listen to ranges from 10 to 40 minutes. Now if you go by completed works… recently I listened/watched Mozart’s - Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) which is approximately 185 minutes long. :p And in case you’re wondering… that’s an Opera.
-Darren
Raina
Neko Kouhai (Otaku Eternal) | Posted 04/03/08 | Reply
1. Anime music. I started to watch anime since I was one and mum made me cassette tapes of all the songs I liked. ^^ Other than that, whatever my mum listened to on the radio.
2. I still mostly listen to anime music. The rest are by the same bands who sing for the anime but different songs. ^^' Or the progressive music TimeChaser-senpai sends me. X3 Thank you senpai. X3 *hugs*
3. The single CD "Watashitachi ni naritakute", the ending song for Sailor Moon S. That song was also the song I sang for the first time at karaoke. XD
4. Same as senpai, "Light of Day, Day of Darkness" by Green Carnation.
Love Bug =X3
darkeangel
Senior Otaku | Posted 04/03/08 | Reply
1: much like Timechaser, Beatles and other stuff from the 60's...my parents would listen to Classical Gold radio station when we were having breakfast, so i grew up with the old stuff.
2: never really paid music much mind till i got to secondary school (11 yrs old) and then started to catch up with the rest of the world. now my music tastes are very eclectic, ranging from rock to jazz, from j-rock to Music from Musicals and Stage Shows. ha ha
3: either Darren Haye's "Spin" or Evanescence's "Fallen", both on CD. i had been given albums as a present before then, but one of those two were the first one i actively went and bought for myself.
4: off the top of my head Meatloaf's "Bat out of Hell" full extended Live version (a paltry 14 minutes)
TimeChaser
Madman With a Box (Otaku Eternal) | Posted 04/03/08 | Reply
MY ANSWERS
1) What kinds of music did you listen to growing up? Were you influenced by family and friends?
- Beatles, Classical, and Big Band Jazz. I had a tape of early Beatles music, several of Classical - my favorite of which was Tchiakovsky's 1812 Overture & Romeo and Juliet, and my grandparents always listened to Big Band, especially Glenn Miller.
2) What was your musical evolution? Did your tastes change as you got older?
- I listened to the above styles of music (and continue to for the most part) uintil high school when I listened to a lot of Oldies from the 50s and 60s (we had 2 oldies radio stations). After graduating high school I started listening to contemporary rock and metal bands, then around 2004/2005 I discovered progressive music.
3) What is the first album you bought for yourself, and in what format (cassette/vinyl/CD/download)?
- Billy Joel's "River Of Dreams" on cassette.
4) What is the longest song you've ever listened to?
- Green Carnation's "Light Of Day, Day Of Darkness" (60:00)
Bazinga!