Funerary_Doom
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Agreed with Baroque. Michael Jackson is the best thing on that list.
Evolution of music taste This is actually kind of complicated for me to even think about. I wasn't raised at home, (my oldest sibling is more than 20 years older than me so my mom didn't really have time to raise me so I spent a lot of time with my aunt and her boyfriends or with family in Jamaica). Basically moved around a lot and picked up different things.
My aunt had many many many different boyfriends who'd she bring to her apartment and they were all from different Hispanic backgrounds. They introduced me to stuff like Elvis Crespo (sure everyone's heard that track "Suavamente" before), Tito Rojas, Buena Vista Social Club, and Hector Lavoe to name a few and even taught me how to dance salsa, which is a must if you are Hispanic or raised by a Hispanic background. Every weekend there was a BBQ in front the apartment building and they'd open up the fire hydrant, have water fights, and blast classic spanish music, so picked up some stuff there.
Besides myself (and maybe one of my brothers), i think my dad is probably the only one in my immediate family who appreciates music as much as i do. My dad's musical taste was considered "eccentric" among the family because they all listened to mostly reggae and dancehall but he was really big into soul and funk too. I remember liking funk a lot because it was fast paced and exciting. When I was younger (around maybe 3 or so) I really loved James Brown, and would sing "Hot Pants (still my jam btw)." I remember my dad constantly playing Marvin Gaye, Isaac Hayes, Kool & the Gang, Curtis Mayfield, Isley Brothers, Temptations and Sly and the Family Stone pretty much whenever he got home from work, or in his car on cassettes when we would drive places. Would make a game out of guess who is playing. I never remembered albums, and oftentimes artists, but still knew all the words to the tracks and even the surprise pops/changes in the music in the songs.
Then I picked up some stuff from my siblings and their friends they'd bring to the apartment. Now I was much younger than most of them, but they liked more popular music. I remember Kriss Kross' "Jump Jump" song actually taught me how to walk.
But yeah I really liked stuff like MC Hammer ("Can't Touch This" has that James Brown funky beat), Salt-N-Pepper, and just early 90s rap and RnB in general.
When in Jamaica, I really loved the dancehall reggae there. It was real heavy shit, like some of the famous artists like Buju Banton (Boom, Bye Bye) would sing about killing gays and stuff. I obviously didn't agree but I remember really liking how dark the songs were, and this was an aspect of music I really wanted to find and hear more of. Even the popular "Murder She Wrote" track (not by Buju Banton, the name slips me atm) would say some degrading shit about women. I'm not even sure why this intrigued me but it did. Reggae had some real heavy hitters, an aspect I would look for in music afterwards. I've always liked heavy, fast paced and aggressive shit.
I actually didn't discover rock until like maybe 11-12? or something. I actually never heard rock before then and had no damn idea what it was. I was familiar with even Indian/bollywood music before rock. My friend showed me Limp Bizkit actually. I was pretty intrigued. My family (cousins, siblings, aunts, parents etc) would call it "white people music" and would actually pick on me and turn my music off, break the cds my friend would burn for me, etc. Its complicated, because they aren't racist but back then they weren't tolerant of any of that stuff at all, and thought by me listening to rock, i'd be influenced by what they called "white folk ideology" (godless and racist according to them back then). I remember them checking my bookbag for cds when I got home to throw them away. They were pretty damn mean. But yeah, my friends would burn me Korn, Slipknot and whatever metalcore out there. I actually grew a bit tired of that because sometimes it would have a "corny" singy vibe to it and i tried to force myself to like it because i thought that was the only kind of metal. I went online to look for bands (I was on an anime forums at 11 years old, but it didn't come to me to look for music online until I was around 14) and started discovering bands. I discovered extreme metal at 14 and my first extreme metal band was Emperor's Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk. I was stoked because it didn't sound corny to me and reading up on the stories really fascinated me. I started browsing the anime board's music section. There was a thread about metal and I would look up the bands mentioned and dl them. I never really got into conversations about metal because I didn't know much about the classics i.e. Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, etc because I just had no damn idea and was trying to wrap my head around the differences between BM, DM and doom. I revisited the classics a little later, though, at like 16. I'd say 15-16 I really had a firm grasp and would go online and discuss music.
Tl;dr, i'm not exactly sure how my taste developed into liking metal but i think a lot of it had to do with rebelling because my family tried so hard for me to not like it because they didn't trust music that wasn't from their background at the time.
Evolution of music taste This is actually kind of complicated for me to even think about. I wasn't raised at home, (my oldest sibling is more than 20 years older than me so my mom didn't really have time to raise me so I spent a lot of time with my aunt and her boyfriends or with family in Jamaica). Basically moved around a lot and picked up different things.
My aunt had many many many different boyfriends who'd she bring to her apartment and they were all from different Hispanic backgrounds. They introduced me to stuff like Elvis Crespo (sure everyone's heard that track "Suavamente" before), Tito Rojas, Buena Vista Social Club, and Hector Lavoe to name a few and even taught me how to dance salsa, which is a must if you are Hispanic or raised by a Hispanic background. Every weekend there was a BBQ in front the apartment building and they'd open up the fire hydrant, have water fights, and blast classic spanish music, so picked up some stuff there.
Besides myself (and maybe one of my brothers), i think my dad is probably the only one in my immediate family who appreciates music as much as i do. My dad's musical taste was considered "eccentric" among the family because they all listened to mostly reggae and dancehall but he was really big into soul and funk too. I remember liking funk a lot because it was fast paced and exciting. When I was younger (around maybe 3 or so) I really loved James Brown, and would sing "Hot Pants (still my jam btw)." I remember my dad constantly playing Marvin Gaye, Isaac Hayes, Kool & the Gang, Curtis Mayfield, Isley Brothers, Temptations and Sly and the Family Stone pretty much whenever he got home from work, or in his car on cassettes when we would drive places. Would make a game out of guess who is playing. I never remembered albums, and oftentimes artists, but still knew all the words to the tracks and even the surprise pops/changes in the music in the songs.
Then I picked up some stuff from my siblings and their friends they'd bring to the apartment. Now I was much younger than most of them, but they liked more popular music. I remember Kriss Kross' "Jump Jump" song actually taught me how to walk.
But yeah I really liked stuff like MC Hammer ("Can't Touch This" has that James Brown funky beat), Salt-N-Pepper, and just early 90s rap and RnB in general. When in Jamaica, I really loved the dancehall reggae there. It was real heavy shit, like some of the famous artists like Buju Banton (Boom, Bye Bye) would sing about killing gays and stuff. I obviously didn't agree but I remember really liking how dark the songs were, and this was an aspect of music I really wanted to find and hear more of. Even the popular "Murder She Wrote" track (not by Buju Banton, the name slips me atm) would say some degrading shit about women. I'm not even sure why this intrigued me but it did. Reggae had some real heavy hitters, an aspect I would look for in music afterwards. I've always liked heavy, fast paced and aggressive shit.
I actually didn't discover rock until like maybe 11-12? or something. I actually never heard rock before then and had no damn idea what it was. I was familiar with even Indian/bollywood music before rock. My friend showed me Limp Bizkit actually. I was pretty intrigued. My family (cousins, siblings, aunts, parents etc) would call it "white people music" and would actually pick on me and turn my music off, break the cds my friend would burn for me, etc. Its complicated, because they aren't racist but back then they weren't tolerant of any of that stuff at all, and thought by me listening to rock, i'd be influenced by what they called "white folk ideology" (godless and racist according to them back then). I remember them checking my bookbag for cds when I got home to throw them away. They were pretty damn mean. But yeah, my friends would burn me Korn, Slipknot and whatever metalcore out there. I actually grew a bit tired of that because sometimes it would have a "corny" singy vibe to it and i tried to force myself to like it because i thought that was the only kind of metal. I went online to look for bands (I was on an anime forums at 11 years old, but it didn't come to me to look for music online until I was around 14) and started discovering bands. I discovered extreme metal at 14 and my first extreme metal band was Emperor's Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk. I was stoked because it didn't sound corny to me and reading up on the stories really fascinated me. I started browsing the anime board's music section. There was a thread about metal and I would look up the bands mentioned and dl them. I never really got into conversations about metal because I didn't know much about the classics i.e. Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, etc because I just had no damn idea and was trying to wrap my head around the differences between BM, DM and doom. I revisited the classics a little later, though, at like 16. I'd say 15-16 I really had a firm grasp and would go online and discuss music.
Tl;dr, i'm not exactly sure how my taste developed into liking metal but i think a lot of it had to do with rebelling because my family tried so hard for me to not like it because they didn't trust music that wasn't from their background at the time.
