Berklee... that figures...
Good shiite!
Good shiite!
It's a simple mentality. I just "like" what I like. Stuff I already know I like gets an auto like. Stuff I don't know but want to revisit gets a like. Something I'm maybe not familiar with or am unsure about gets a like for challenging me to expand my horizons. Essentially, the only things that will not get a like from me in this thread is anything I haven't gotten around to yet.
In your case it's all stuff I'm familiar with. I grew up with every kind of rock music because my parents were big on it. I had musical inclinations at an early age, so I paid a lot of attention to it and it probably influenced the direction that I would take with music quite a lot. It still informs my tastes quite a lot, even when it doesn't seem like it does.
That being said, I'm more interested in shit that's happening now. Never before have we been able to very conveniently locate and access such a grand and diverse range of music. For a while there, I thought that all the good music had already been made and that very few people made it anymore. But over these past few years, I've come to realize that there's always something significant happening. I was limiting myself by looking in the same places for the same things. I'm big into the stuff just peaking the horizon these days. The fruits of that are what I'm trying to bring to the table here.
Guys like you and Hypnophone help keep me from forgetting the awesome shit that happened then in the wake of all of the awesome shit happening now. For that, you have my thanks. Helps keep my perspective in check while I'm listening to whatever weird shit I happen to be into at the moment. Gotta maintain reverence for where the current music that I appreciate got its start.
I really like these kinds of threads. I'm glad to see its gotten more active than it was when I first joined. Beats online radio services like spotify and pandora in some ways. It's a more interactive way of sharing and discovering music. You can sort of steer the kind of music that pops up with the music you post up, but at the same time, there are more random elements that can put you onto some shit you never imagined yourself listening to and enjoying. Though not as powerful as those services, its at least as rewarding.
Haha, I thought you might enjoy that. They're a talented bunch of dudes. Didn't need a description blurb to tell me that they're Berklee students.
This is going to be my sleepytime music for the night.