What changed the way you look at music?

I honestly couldn't think of a better time to be alive and appreciate music.. The technology of the past coupled with the technology of today. The artist over the last 50+yrs, Having to live thru the 70,80,90s and the 00h..oh on noooOO's..

 

Animal Collective, maybe? I don't know.

 

Well I'm a man of broad tastes, or so I tell myself.
But I don't really see trance as 'listening' music. It's all about dance really. And on that level I've had some great experiences.
Thing is though, I'm getting too old for it these days and don't have the energy anymore.
So I tend towards listening to ambient type electronic stuff more. (as well as a dash of classical, rock n roll, some folky stuff even now and then).

 

I tend towards ambient electronic music these days as well. Lately I've been on a Boards of Canada spree, and I've just discovered Laurel Halo (not exactly ambient, at least not entirely). I never was able to appreciate the majority of electronic music which developed after the early eighties but there are definitely some exceptions, some of which are among my favorites but almost all of them are unique experimental artists which did not develop out of any particular movement. What I mean by electronic music when I say that this is my favorite, is a combination of styles which originated in the early seventies and sort of disappeared in the early eighties (one could argue with the advent of digital synthesis) that includes everything from Krautrock and Berlin School to Synthpop and Space / Italo Disco. If you are familiar with Richard Pinhas and Heldon, Cluster, Michael Bundt, Droids, Milkways, Space Art, Software, Eyeless in Gaza, Conrad Schnitzler, Hans Edler, Robert Schroeder... any of these ring a bell?

 

The 1st song that really got me into all the old music was lynyrd skynyrd's free bird. I guess I never really realised just how good music can really be until then

 

Not really, but there's so much out there these days it's impossible to keep track of everything.
A few of my current faves: Bruno Sanfillipo, Carbon Based Lifeforms, Aes Dana, Cell.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoKt4vhJ-c0"]Carbon Based Lifeforms - Abiogenesis - YouTube


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYRyrL0ozus"]Bruno Sanfilippo Auralspace - YouTube

 

To post on topic here, the two songs which probably most profoundly changed the way I appreciate music would be Lightning Bolt's Two Towers, and Mistral's Jamie. The former introduced me to noise rock, which progressed into electronic music, and the latter opened me up to disco (this was simultaneously with discovering the likes of Brian Eno, Cluster, Klaus Schulze &c).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTPLcst4OL8"]Lightning Bolt - 2 Towers - YouTube


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PChGb4rnd_s"]Jamie Robbie van leeuwen Mistral 1977 - YouTube

 

disco duck motherfuckersssssss. yeah it was a sad childhood up to the 5 year old point...

then i heard hot blooded on the radio, and soon after that queen. and i was introduced to real music.

then the wall came out and i was introduced to real music with great visuals.

then the 80s pop music came and i was fortunately and unfortunately an impressionable young mind when the greats like rick springfield, blondie, and pat benetar came out. unfortunately that was also the time that culture club, toni basil and tiffany came out.

one thing that completely changed my mind on music was during a movie, some nobody was playing a song in the background of the movie, it was no radio hit, i dont remember the song...but it was good i mean it should have been a top ten hit and i never heard it before or sense. and thats when i realized music dosnt have to be commercial to be good.

for a brief moment in the late 80's def lepard became the only hair band that i liked which was pretty much the only fast paced music on the radio.

next stage was early 90's i discovered 92.3 the rat or whatever it was called when i first started listening to it. i started mixing in some new and less polished music. the heavy rotation list was the likes of nine inch nails, janes addiction, black lab, emf, jesus jones, the chili peppers and a mix of the others you would expect like the pumpkins, stp, edie brickell, some nirvana, and even rush. that really was a great station. i dont know if its even on air anymore.
i expanded on this taste of music through the 90's focusing mostly on the big alternative bands. nirvana, pumpkins, stp, the cranberries, our lady peace, and the chili peppers.

then one day on my way to work before i had the chance to put in my usual alternative cassette tape i heard a good song. it was kiss me by six pence none the richer. no big deal i mean it made me want the album and i did go get it but that isnt the reason it was big. the reason it was big was because i left on the radio because of that song long enough to hear the next song which was get up by sleater-kinney and that is the group that actually did change everything that i think about music. whats good, how music is played, seeing live shows, who can be a rock star, it all started with that song. i went down to jacks music store ( from the chasing amy movie) and purchased all their albums then i started buying the compilations they were on, then i started buying the other bands that were on those compilations. pretty much kill rock stars became my favorite record label and i was that punk kid that said fuck record labels.

last music to change me was korn, it was the first time i heard heavy music, (besides mod which i was more a fan of because of the funny lyrics) metal music, uhhhg i hate the lable nu metal. but it was the first music that hard that i loved, and i started giving other heavy music a chance. that got me into refused and static-x and a few others.

 

I am familiar with Carbon Based Lifeforms, but the others I will check out Thanks Bill

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKdsRWhyH30&list=RDLRpj9mCl0qg"]CROSBY, STILLS, NASH Woodstock 1971 - YouTube
we has HBO long before we had mtv.. I would watch this every single time it was on.. it was the late 70s my grandmothers apt building had cable. shit completely unheard of where I lived at in the city.. We didnt get cable til the mid 80s, by that time the VCR was invented and I had taped the Woodstock concert and the HAIR movie off HBO, as well as other music. Roy Buchanan specials on PBS.. My grandma died when I was 12, fortunate for me she introduced me to Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd.. She had a triple tier organ. I liked that but didnt love it. I guess after seeing Kermit on the banjo "Rainbow Connection" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5_y0s-COl8"]The Rainbow Connection - HQ - The Muppet Movie - YouTube
a little hippie was being born in me .. I would be glued to the Monkeys, speaking of Glue ,, I couldnt play the organ very well and I glued some keys together.. We're (grandmother and I )in the music store together and I told my grandma I wanted to play the guitar. I yelled about this bullshit piano teacher and called piano teacher an "asshole motherfucker", and I wanted to play the guitar, so later the old man got me this pos dime store classic guitar with steel strings on it. said if I could play that, I could get another guitar. I took it to the music store and dude was like this should have nylon on it. something happened over the holidays where I built this stupid model car the old man was "saving" saving for what jackass?. He made a big stink about it, cut my compound bow cord and broke my geetar right there during a holiday dinner with other family and I called him a "asshole motherfucker" and went to my room and I left with my grandma that evening to go to her house., we went to the music store the following day and got me another guitar, it stayed at my grandmothers house. My dad hardly ever came there.

Should of kept that guitar.. 70's fender probably worth a fortune today..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDhDUSmHvHQ&list=RDLRpj9mCl0qg"]Joe Cocker - Let's Go Get Stoned (LIVE in Woodstock) HD - YouTube

 

punk rock..germs, black flag, bad brains, exploited..raw, original and in your face..