Well, since everybody else is doing it and I'm fianlly settled
in my new apartment, here's my musical background for all to see:
Birth to age 11
Mostly early 70's Top 40 from my brothers and sisters. Lots
of Eric Carmen and Elton John. (I used to play "air piano" along with
'Elton John's Greatest Hits') Lots of pompous rock stuff like Queen
and Styx. I also heard Tomita at about age 4 or 5 (I even took a tape
of 'Snowflakes are Dancing' into my kindergarten class) along with
other classical stuff that my parents would play.
Age 11 to 16
My first musical acquisition was the first Flock of Seagulls
album which I played to death while listening to all kind of early
80's stuff like Bananarama, Eurythmics and other standard stuff until
a friend of mine who used to got to Germany every summer brought back
these albums by a group called The Cure. I was hooked. Along with
those cure albums came a mess of stuff by Trio, Kraftwerk, and Falco.
I just fell deeper into the alternative music pool and sort of forgot
about that weird bleepy stuff from some japanese guy. I also started
to listen to Depeche Mode casually, and then more and more.
Age 16 to 20
About the time I started to drive I heard my first Skinny
Puppy song. Being an angst-filled teenager, I loved it. I began to
really get away from any music with guitars and deeper into anything
with synthesizers. In the summer of 1989 I began to hear this stuff
called "House music". I loved it. Then I moved to New York and got a
bit more into the industrial stuff until the summer of 1990 when the
12"s from 'Violator' began to come out. I began to drift away from
Ministry and such and more into the less depressing stuff that was
beginning to get played in the clubs. Stuff like Meat Beat Manifesto
and Front 242. I still thought of myself as "Industrial" until early
1991 when...
Age 20 to present (22.5)
...I heard some weird song with Bjork singing that didn't
sound at all like the Sugarcubes. This was my intro to 808 State and
te wonderful world of techno. I had just started to play around with
keyboards and was stuck in the 'industrial mode' and getting nowhere.
Then about a week after the 808 State experience, I heard "A huge
pulsating...etc" and Cabaret Voltaire's 'Plasticity'. DING! Hey this
stuff was really cool! I liked it. So here I am now. I'm hooked on
electronic music of all types, but I really only buy stuff that holds
up when I'm just sitting and listening, not dancing. I'm quite fond
of Philip Glass and older synth music from the 70's. And for some
reason I'm really beginning to enjoy really grunge (not in the Seattle
sense) guitar music. Basically, if it's something that's well done,
I'll at least listen to it. So that's me...
Dave
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Dave Miller
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