• My love fear relationship with music is at a new level. I am a contributor to the website I have been using to find lyrics for over a year. I see that no one on this site actually uses their jounal, and that makes it appealing to me. Where I am in my music listening: maturing I think that untill a year ago, when I got my laptop and became media oriented, my listening was pretty filtered. All I heard was the radio and the music from one semi-unusual show. I thought I knew a lot about rock because of my regular listening to, recoring of, and re-liteining to of this show. Now I know, there was relatively little on that show. I have made some great discoveries since then: The Jolly Rogers M83 The Black Dahlia Bill Monroe The Animal Collective ... But I feel like I have seen one or two or zero bands from a bunch of interesting genres. Maybe that is how I have seen the last year, and introduction to the idea that there is a lot out there. What I see as likely to happen next is to learn some genre names, and of course the debates over the proper use of each term, and in this way getting a feel for what is out there in a more general way. Where is this all heading? I want to have a big collection of music I like, a constant influx of new music I like, and, perhaps unexpectedly, to have a pile of stuff I dont like. I enjoy thinking about what I do and dont like. I enjoy watching myself come to like something I previously couldn't. I want more than this, I want an education. I want to know who is making/has made what music, and why, and I want to be able to understand why they enjoy these things. The frontiers I am currently trying to explore: Metal: This is a continuation of my education which started wsith "that one radio show" I cant tell you how many time I have heard a song and thought "it doesnt get any more hard core then that" only to bump into another song a little down the line which kicks its ass. I want to know what I mean by hardness, I want to know how far the human body can push that. This fascination surely stems from my being a muscian, one who has been tacitly competative about my skill from time to time. This "hardness" definitely requires some virtuosity, and I want to know how much a heman can develop tis brand of virtuosity. IDM: This is, somehow, the music I enjoy the most. I find it hard to believe because it doesn't make me want to dance, but that is the point right, dance music you cant dance to... I love this stuff because it has the most possabilities. Any instrument, any time signature, any timbre any beat... anything! The quest is not perfection of any one ideal, but to play and do something interesting. Thats quite a contrast to what I am looking for out of metal. Bluesgrass: This stuff makes me dance! I feel like a wacky, overalls clad souther plantation porch sitter when I bump my knees to this stuff. I dont seek any knowledge here yet, just more stuff, more fun! Rock history: I wnat to know where the music I already know came from. I want to know why the bar chord became so popular, why so many people think that something happened in music in the 70s that cant be redone, where did headbanging come from? Basically I feel like my exploration of sound in the heart of the modern rock genre is done. If I have to listen to another radio friendly rock album this year, I'm just gonna loose it. But I wnat to know where what I know so well came from. Things I have never hear/heard of before. I want some gregorian chant, Mongolian throught singing, digeridoo jams, pigme drumming. Bring it. I'm hungry, where do I get it? This site is clearly biased to modern rock fans, and that is why I have been using it so much, and that is why i think I can have a positive effect here. Pleased to meet you.

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