Around my school I find that some younger people ( like me) usually stick to and only listen to one or two basic styles of music derived from the rock variety; IE the metal heads, Rock crowd, the punk crowd etc... I find it weird because you see some metal heads ( while the more opened minded ones, some are still pretty arrogant though) will respect classic rock bands like The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin etc.. they will only listen to metal and the guys who only listen to classic rock will only listen to the type of bands I listed above, and some totally disregard the metal bands. Now what I find weird is that why is it that there are only a few that will listen to both (me). I mean is it that weird on uncommon to listen to blues, metal and rock? It seems that virtually no one I know (with exception to a few) can listen to The Rolling Stones, Metallica, Pink Floyd, Iron Maiden, The Beatles, Angra, Led Zeppelin, Stevie Ray Vaughn etc..... I can't really understand it because there are big similarities between those genres.
The thing is, in today's music, it is all about genre-based things. You are right in your observation, that is for sure. You are not alone though, and you will notice that with the more people you talk to over time. I myself like a wide variety of music myself, and even on bass I play a wide variety of styles and genres. The unfortunate thing for the music industry is that it is slowing getting shut down and weeded out, there are almost exclusively genre based bands these days, and it is a hard industry to get into, especially with so many bands being able to self-produce themselves.
+1 What I am listening to currently Eric Whitaker Nile Phish The Faceless Hiromi Uehara Nobuo Uematsu It's to hard fo me to listen to 1 band or style of music, because it lessen the effect emotionally it has on me
Eyes on Me isn't that bad. Any song that is from FF I pretty much love, and FF VIII was an amazing game.
I have no problem with: 1. people with a variety of musical taste. 2. people with no variety of musical taste. 3. people no.1 who respect people no.2 and vice versa.
It's standard lovey dovey pop something. =/ One Winged Angel is good. I also like Liberi Fatali from FF8. But I think I like FF Tactics the best in terms of music. Not sure if it was still Uematsu, but it's great.
I've found that the most respected musicians listen to a wide range of music. It would feels rather silly to listen to only one or two styles of music just to keep up a cool (?) image... To me, there is great and crap music in all genres.
yea it's not right to listen to one kind of music. If I've learned anything valuable (not just marketable) from my 10 years of piano, it's that different styles are important to know and understand to become more well-rounded not only as a person, but as a musician. Me? I might listen to eagles in the morning, classical of some variety in the afternoon, early evening maybe beatles, later might listen to a little MCR. Then of course there's the occassional symphonic movie soundtrack thrown in from john williams or hans zimmer, yea that about covers it. I don't get how you can only appreciate one genre, especially of modern music with all it's compression and lack of dynamics and dynamic expression. Classical is so much better at that sort of thing, and I try to incorporate that in every style I play, at least on piano. Bass it's sort of pointless to make the melody sing out when there isn't a melody line on the bass. So I just go with the flow. Any of you know what an alberti bass line is? Those are fun.
What a sad thing it is to hear that liking different kinds of rock is considered diverse. That's only the proverbial tip of the iceberg, and not the biggest one either.
if you were referring to my post I didnt mean classical rock i meant classical like the four periods: baroque, classic, romantic, contemp. Like bach, mozart, beethoven, rachmaninov, stravinsky, schoenburg, etc.
+1 I never said I think my music taste is diverse hell no I'm just saying a lot of people I know and see have very little variety even in the whole Rock Genre which I find a bit more odd. I listen to mainly classic rock, Metal and am starting to get into blues, not a big variety but it's growing.
Here are some related products that TB members are talking about. Clicking on a product will take you to TB’s partner, Primary, where you can find links to TB discussions about these products. Browser not compatible
