The Beat Goes On, And Tastes Evolve Part 1
May 20th, 2009
As I child I enjoyed music, and singing when I thought no one was around, but I was never really “into” music until I reached 14/15 or so. It was in the year I reignited a friendship with D, a friend I fell out with due to an incident a few years before.
It was only through hanging out with him through much of my teens that I discovered the music that would shape the basis of my taste today, as well as many of my attitudes and ideas towards life.
It really began with Machine Head, Fear Factory, Joe Satriani, Marilyn Manson, Matchbox Twenty, Goo Goo Dolls, Liquid Tension Experiment, Metallica, Weezer, Depeche Mode Therapy? and of course Iron Maiden, who I became completely obsessed with; I bought the biography, silk posters, t-shirts my mum didn’t like, DVDs and VHS of live shoes and plenty of CDs.
Of course this was around the time of Nu-Metal, and like all the kids at the time, I enjoyed the occasional bit of rocking out to Papa Roach, Linkin Park, System of a Down, Disturbed, Deftones, Static X. Limp Bizkit were always a bit shit, though Break Stuff was a nice angry song.
From Metal I moved to some Death Metal with the likes Dimmu Borgir and their album ‘Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia’ and the odd bit of Cradle of Filth, but that didn’t last for too long. All the while, however, I didn’t forget my original childhood loves: Meat Loaf, Michael Jackson, Enya, Chris de Burgh.
Shortly after, though, I thought it was time to discover real music, in the way of the classic rock stars I’d heard so much about, and in a fairly short period of time I discovered and thoroughly enjoyed the music of Pink Floyd, Aerosmith, Queen, Van Halen, David Bowie, Eagles, AC/DC, Bad Company, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Alice Cooper, Black Sabbath, Supertramp, Jethro Tull, Eric Clapton and others.
The Beatles were one band I could never really get into, until I discovered the White Album and Revolver. They eventually grew on me.
The music was first, and always number one. Photography is now also a huge part of my life and I’ve enjoyed the times that I have combined the two. Occasionally with results I am really pleased with.
