here's my biographical music tastes, and in order to one-up pidzilla, i'll ad the years these bands remained my faves.
little tot-5 y/o: pete seger (sp?), neat folk music, i still likes.
5 y/o ~ 9: heh, tears for fears and michael jackson; i cant even remember the tff song i liked, but my parents bought me the 7" and i listened to it till it broke. i also like the pointer sisters, who my mom was listening to at the time.
9 ~ 11: the beatles, i liked them all along, but this was the period that i intensely liked them.
12 ~ 13: pearl jam, the second band i got into independently of my parents (after tears for fears
), and the one that lead me to believe that everything my parents listened to was crap (esp. the beatles
). the bitter irony is that now my dad likes pearl jam and the chilli peppers and all those other bands he was calling crap back when i started calling the beatles crap, and i dont any more.
13~22: foetus, scraping foetus off the wheel, phillip and his foetus vibrations, steroid maximus, wiseblood, and all the other names j.g. thirwell has gone by in his long and obscure musical career. actually, for a short time between pearl jam and foetus i really liked nin (and still do like trent's older stuff a bit (though my favorite song is 'suck' which he did with pigface well before nin came into being), but that all changed when my friend's dad played us the stuff that "nin sprung from", namely the 1982 album, 'hole', by scraping foetus off the wheel.
22~present (still 22): tom waits. been really digging tom waits' stuff lately. got a copy of 'raindogs' from my friend a year ago, but barely listened to it until i heard a very cool waits interview over the summer (on npr), and decided to give it a second chance. since then i've bought about 6 of his albums, and cant choose a favorite: blood money, swordfish trombones, blue valentine, alice, closing time, and raindogs are all great!
heh, there's soo much great obscure music out there...not too long i went and saw the legendary pink dots play in ny, and if i had the patience for more live shows, i'd have love'd to have gone and seen the residents last week. but after the pink dots show, i went back to my friend's place, and he showed me a bunch of the amazing stuff he got while staying with some noise band called 'the eugenics counsel' out in missouri...just a taste of obscure gems like 'the suburban lawns', 'francic kimono', 'shonen knife', 'army of flowers' (with their classic song, 'the prostitution twist'), and dozens of others.
i've also decided to give nick cave another chance after hearing johnny cash's amazing cover of the bad seeds song, 'the mercy seat'.
plus recently watching some great betty boop cartoons (for example 'minnie the moocher') has seemingly rejuvenated my interest in cab calloway.
damn, there's just too many to list.
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