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| Turned 20 today
I don't want to be that guy who always goes on those existential "Where has the time gone?" tangents, but damn does it freak me out. List is sorta my musical evolution. | | 1 |  | The All-American Rejects
Move Along
Radio era: one of the only times I would listen to music when I was a kid is when I was in the car with my mom, who mostly stuck with top 40 radio hits. Most of my friends either listened to Metallica or Eminem but I didn't care for either.
Notable Artists: Nickelback, Skillet, Finger Eleven, Bowling For Soup, Linkin Park and Green Day | | 2 |  | Yellowcard
Ocean Avenue
Videogame era: The other time I would listen to music is when I played games, most notably Tony Hawk's Underground and Burnout 3: Takedown; whose soundtracks still largely stick with me today.
Notable Artists: Rise Against, Strike Anywhere, Ash, Chronic Future, The Matches, Alkaline Trio, Eighteen Visions, Breaking Benjamin, Papa Roach, Amber Pacific and Atreyu | | 3 |  | The Becoming
Vol. 1
Radio era V.2: Sometime in middle school I found this radio station that I really got into. I didn't realize it was a CCM station (essentially Tooth & Nail radio) until a few months later as they really only got preachy once a day. But when I did figure that out they played too much good music for me to care. This is where I started to really give a shit about music.
Noteable Artists: Anberlin, Icon for Hire, Capital Lights, House of Heroes, I am Empire, Red, and Demon Hunter | | 4 |  | Escape the Fate
Ungrateful
Edgy era: Like a lot of kids, my early highschool days were filled with experimentation to put it simply. This is when I started looking for some heavier music to listen to. This is where social media has led me to including my introduction to Sputnik.
Notable Artists: Black Veil Brides, Blessthefall, Silverstein, Blood on the Dance Floor, Bullet for My Valentine, and Trivium | | 5 |  | iamthemorning
Lighthouse
Prog era: here is where things start to blend together and overlap. Somehow I stumbled into a Fair to Midland thread and I was instantly hooked with this new thing called "Prog Rock" I didn't know that it meant but it was cool and I wanted to hear more.
Notable Artists: Fair to Midland, Caligula's Horse, The Enid, Renaissance, Genesis, and Thank You Scientist
(This also got me into some neo-classical stuff such as Kashiwa Daisuke, Rachel's , Unwound, GY!BE, and World's End Girlfriend) | | 6 |  | July Talk
Touch
Blues era: when I started college I started feelin' the blues; once realized how much I liked Jack White, I knew I needed more.
Notable Artists: Everything Jack White has done, Rival Sons, Joe Bonamassa, Blues Pills, July Talk, Dead Sara, Tom Waits, and Gary Clark Jr. | | 7 |  | Motion City Soundtrack
Panic Stations
Indie / Emo era: Again, college was sort of a rough start for me. Nearly everyone I knew got into OSU or just went to community college to transfer later while I ended up Miami. I didn't know anyone here and it was incredibly difficult to get to know people as this was one of the first times I didn't really know anyone at all. I had listened to these guys before but "Pleasure to Meet You" came out at just the right time and really got me into them.
Notable Artists: Tiny Moving Parts, Jimmy Eat World, The National, Mew, The Daysleepers, Arcade Fire, and Foxing | | 8 |  | Sonata Arctica
Pariah's Child
Power Metal era: My most recent musical movement; I have always been very picky when it comes to metal but power metal like this is exactly how I wanted it to sound, fast, melodic, cheesy, and so much fun to listen too.
Notable Artists: Rhapsody of Fire, Dragonforce, Twilight Force, Tierramystica, Wintersun, and Nightwish.
(Also adding some melo-death as I have nowhere else to put it: Sonic Syndicate, the Unguided, and Soilwork) | |
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04.22.17 | ayy i turned 20 yesterday. happy birthday | Rolling Girl
04.22.17 | A lot of good artists I could still mention but we all get the gist. Thanks Sputnik for showing some good stuff over the years! | Rolling Girl
04.22.17 | Thanks Bullet! Happy belated birthday! | SandwichBubble
04.22.17 | Happy birthday! :) | Frippertronics
04.22.17 | "The Enid"
knew I clicked on this for a good reason | Deathconscious
04.22.17 | yep, time only goes faster and faster. its freaking me out that its already been almost a month since my 26th. feels like a week ago. | Rolling Girl
04.22.17 | Thank you Sandwich!
I never did read the RJG interview that everyone freaked out about. But based on the thread I just put it off as "Old man misses good ol' days" kinda thing | Rolling Girl
04.22.17 | Sorry Adolf. :C I'm just trying to not think about the future too much. | porcupinetheater
04.22.17 | I'm not sure you know what Blues is | Rolling Girl
04.22.17 | Fair, but I didn't want to to type "White guy revival blues" | Frippertronics
04.22.17 | There's an inkling of that in his interview, but a lot of the people missed the point in which he stated a lack of originality and an increase in emulation is what is hindering the genre. Steven Wilson is kind of an easy target but is exactly the person RJG has a problem with thanks to his King Crimson/Rush-worship-disguised as solo albums | Rolling Girl
04.22.17 | The problem I have with that line of thinking is that you can make that argument to essentially any genre of music. Prog has also changed so much that classifying it can be really difficult to do and singling out a few artists for emulating successful formulas of the past really just feels like a moot point. | Snake.
04.22.17 | "Power Metal era: My most recent musical movement"
not a good sign | TheEnigma
04.22.17 | Happy birthday man, tear it up! | Rolling Girl
04.22.17 | But power metal is the best kind of metal snake! D:
And thank you Enigma! | Dylan620
04.22.17 | ¡Feliz cumpleaños! | InFlamesWeThrash666
04.22.17 | fuck, this reminds me I turn 20 in a few months [2]
scary isnt it
| Maniac!
04.22.17 | Watch as each day feels shorter than the last | Rolling Girl
04.22.17 | Enjoy the youth while you can, I guess.
¡Muchas Gracias, Dylan! | FullOfSounds
04.22.17 | happy birth | ramon.
04.22.17 | turned 19 just under a week ago, happy birth [2] yea | Dewinged
04.22.17 | If you freak out at 20 wait until you hit 40. HB! | Titan
04.22.17 | If you freak out at 20 wait until you hit 40. [2] | Rolling Girl
04.22.17 | Thanks guys and happy belated birth Crypt!
The countdown starts now I guess. | Titan
04.22.17 | the second 20 years go 100X faster than the first 20 years | Dewinged
04.23.17 | They are MUCH better so they burn faster. | Titan
04.23.17 | they are definitely much better | Rolling Girl
04.23.17 | yay..... | Whispered4tw
04.23.17 | I'm 24 for two months now, being 20 sounds like a good deal |
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