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Zaras wrote:

Corrian wrote:Here's some to get you started (At least wait for the end that kinda kicked my dad and I in the pants...in an awesome way. The Spotify version is even better). She has quite a large variety. My family and I have been pretty much Bjork fans for quite a long time as well. She is very strange with her videos and whatnot, but they are extremely artistic.

I'd say just dive in with Vespertine directly. By a long shot that's the best album she's ever made for me. Debut shows its age a bit too obviously, Post has her worst song, and I love Homogenic (All Is Full of Love <3) but it's ultimately just a notch or two below Vespertine in sheer "OMG MIND BLOWN"ness.

Huh, the one of likely a few Bjork albums I know the least. My dad recently found his copy of Medulla (I think), and the album I know the best is Volta. But I like a lot of songs on Homogenic as well. Though, honestly, I need to listen to more Bjork still....I also like quite a few songs on her new album, Biophilia.

Corrian wrote:

Zaras wrote:
I'd say just dive in with Vespertine directly. By a long shot that's the best album she's ever made for me. Debut shows its age a bit too obviously, Post has her worst song, and I love Homogenic (All Is Full of Love <3) but it's ultimately just a notch or two below Vespertine in sheer "OMG MIND BLOWN"ness.

Huh, the one of likely a few Bjork albums I know the least. My dad recently found his copy of Medulla (I think), and the album I know the best is Volta. But I like a lot of songs on Homogenic as well. Though, honestly, I need to listen to more Bjork still....I also like quite a few songs on her new album, Biophilia.

I found Medulla a bit of a letdown after Vespertine, but Volta and Biophilia are indeed great.

Zaras wrote:

Corrian wrote:Huh, the one of likely a few Bjork albums I know the least. My dad recently found his copy of Medulla (I think), and the album I know the best is Volta. But I like a lot of songs on Homogenic as well. Though, honestly, I need to listen to more Bjork still....I also like quite a few songs on her new album, Biophilia.

I found Medulla a bit of a letdown after Vespertine, but Volta and Biophilia are indeed great.

I've found Iceland as a whole to be full of a lot of musical genius' for such a small country. Agent Fresco, Of Monsters and Men, Bjork, Sigur Ros, Johann Johannsson, Rokurro, Mum, Olafur Arnalds, Daniel Agust (Though, I haven't heard a whole lot of some of this stuff), Jonsi (Singer of Sigur Ros, but he does solo stuff), and a couple of other people who have done some things I've liked, like Steindor Andersen. And, For A Minor Reflection.

When I was about 10 or 11, I used to like stuff like Insane Clown Posse. Then, when I was about 15 I got into heavy metal and hard rock, mostly Megadeth,Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Guns N Roses, AC/DC etc. I still love metal but now I'm also into some indie and alternative music like the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Foo Fighters, Nirvana etc.

North Wiedna wrote:I need to start listening to Bjork.

I wouldn't bother.


My taste has changed way too much.

Eh, it's changed a whole lot and I'd rather not get into that right now. Too tired. Let's just say I can get into anything as long as I take a liking to it; genres don't explicitly define my tastes.

Radiatia wrote:the 90s - the dark age of music.

Not entirely sure what that's supposed to mean but I know a lot of people will feel inclined to disagree.

It hasn't... other than for the fact I have added Turbofolk to my favorite genres list.

Azrael wrote:

Radiatia wrote:the 90s - the dark age of music.

Not entirely sure what that's supposed to mean but I know a lot of people will feel inclined to disagree.

The 90s were a great time for music. The 1950s were the dark ages.

I use to listen to rock but not so much nowadays, I still listen to Queen now and again but I now prefer 90s Hip-Hop , I've always had a taste for Japanese music and that hasn't changed much.

I was mostly into "dad rock" and sixties to seventies things and the like, but have moved on through several phases of punk, goth, metal, and other things into now being mainly interested in metalcore and post-hardcore.

Zaras wrote:

Azrael wrote:Not entirely sure what that's supposed to mean but I know a lot of people will feel inclined to disagree.

The 90s were a great time for music. The 1950s were the dark ages.

Fuck that shit. Dean Martin and frank Sinatra ftw!

Cumbia, is not Mexican... It more Chilean... Just sayin.

Uh, my taste in music has changed but very little... I still like love techo, electro, 80s pop and modern pop. Used to like Hip Hop but now not so much... And now I am listening to Chilean/Spanish speaking music and liking it.

Ceannairceach wrote:

Zaras wrote:
The 90s were a great time for music. The 1950s were the dark ages.

Fuck that shit. Dean Martin and frank Sinatra ftw!

No, fuck that shit. Music truly began in the 1960s, when white people began to steal all the good stuff from black people. (Pre-1960s white people music is just hideous for me. I firmly believe that, musically, shit got real starting with surf rock and the British Invasion.)

I used to listen to hard rock and classic rock, now I listen to Rockabilly(,Elvis, Johnny Burnette, Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis etc..)

Zaras wrote:

Azrael wrote:Not entirely sure what that's supposed to mean but I know a lot of people will feel inclined to disagree.

The 90s were a great time for music. The 1950s were the dark ages.

i agree that the 90s was a great time for music, but todays music is much worse than 50s music.
im not saying that all music is shit but mainstreem music has hit a new low.

lyricism has gone out the window being replaced with "oh like baby" some of the most common words in the teenage vocabulary, dumbing down music in order to attract a larger brain dead audience.

to quote bill bailey
they're not really plumbing the depths of human experience.

Krakosov wrote:

Zaras wrote:
The 90s were a great time for music. The 1950s were the dark ages.

i agree that the 90s was a great time for music, but todays music is much worse than 50s music.
im not saying that all music is shit but mainstreem music has hit a new low.

to quote bill bailey
they're not plumbing the depths of human experience.

I think today is the best age of music, simply because we have a larger variety and wider accessibility than any other time in history. And a lot of the (mostly underground) music being made in the 21st century is pretty interesting as well.

Krakosov wrote:

Zaras wrote:
The 90s were a great time for music. The 1950s were the dark ages.

i agree that the 90s was a great time for music, but todays music is much worse than 50s music.
im not saying that all music is shit but mainstreem music has hit a new low.

to quote bill bailey
they're not plumbing the depths of human experience.

All the past music comes already digested and having all the crap filtered out. By contrast, modern music is still being experienced, so there's no insta-filter. Therefore, the illusion that music is "worse" because people forget that crap music is a constant presence since music was invented.

Zaras wrote:

Ceannairceach wrote:Fuck that shit. Dean Martin and frank Sinatra ftw!

No, fuck that shit. Music truly began in the 1960s, when white people began to steal all the good stuff from black people. (Pre-1960s white people music is just hideous for me. I firmly believe that, musically, shit got real starting with surf rock and the British Invasion.)

Hmmm, this arguement is rather intresing... Honestly I believe both 90s and 50s music is awesome while todays music is well, meh, the 90s and 50s were both good. (And plus the 90s hip hop was good compared to that crap they call modern hip hop)

Zaras wrote:

Krakosov wrote:i agree that the 90s was a great time for music, but todays music is much worse than 50s music.
im not saying that all music is shit but mainstreem music has hit a new low.

to quote bill bailey
they're not plumbing the depths of human experience.

All the past music comes already digested and having all the crap filtered out. By contrast, modern music is still being experienced, so there's no insta-filter. Therefore, the illusion that music is "worse" because people forget that crap music is a constant presence since music was invented.

True words.

Used to like alternative rock, still do.

Gaveo wrote:

Zaras wrote:
No, fuck that shit. Music truly began in the 1960s, when white people began to steal all the good stuff from black people. (Pre-1960s white people music is just hideous for me. I firmly believe that, musically, shit got real starting with surf rock and the British Invasion.)

Hmmm, this arguement is rather intresing... Honestly I believe both 90s and 50s music is awesome while todays music is well, meh, the 90s and 50s were both good. (And plus the 90s hip hop was good compared to that crap they call modern hip hop)

It's not an argument, it's just a statement of my hatred for most pre-1960s music.

Zaras wrote:

Gaveo wrote:
Hmmm, this arguement is rather intresing... Honestly I believe both 90s and 50s music is awesome while todays music is well, meh, the 90s and 50s were both good. (And plus the 90s hip hop was good compared to that crap they call modern hip hop)

It's not an argument, it's just a statement of my hatred for most pre-1960s music.

Ok, what ever you say... Besides everyone has their option.

My taste in music has mainly just got wider and wider. I am 52 now and I still listen to some of the stuff I listened to when I was 14, plus now I listen to much, much more. The only things that I used to listen to that I no longer find interesting are Deep Purple and Van Der Graaf Generator.

L Ron Cupboard wrote:My taste in music has mainly just got wider and wider. I am 52 now and I still listen to some of the stuff I listened to when I was 14, plus now I listen to much, much more. The only things that I used to listen to that I no longer find interesting are Deep Purple and Van Der Graaf Generator.

I try to listen to everything

Gaveo wrote:Cumbia, is not Mexican... It more Chilean... Just sayin.

It's Colombian/Panamanian. But there is a sub-genre called Mexican Cumbia.

Gaveo wrote:Hmmm, this arguement is rather intresing... Honestly I believe both 90s and 50s music is awesome while todays music is well, meh, the 90s and 50s were both good. (And plus the 90s hip hop was good compared to that crap they call modern hip hop)

Man, what's up with this new-age hip hop? (Not all of it's the same buddy, don't generalize. I really like the experimental hip-hop of Death Grips)