Lifestages

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Another poll on a familiar theme. Obviously most here people will not be able to answer all the questions. Use the comments box to i. gasp at what other people say ii. explain yr choices if you like iii. muse generally on the changing place of music in your life iv. suggest more sensible staging points than the tyrrannous 5 year gap I have imposed here...

[Poll #1044379]

Introspective? Moi?

(oh and also I am using "song" to mean "piece of music", because I am lazy. "means a lot" can mean whatever you want it to - different things for different questions I'm guessing)

Comments

[credoimprobus]

I can't even answer the poll, my memory is too vague to bring up any specific tracks. So I'll do it the easy way with artists instead. (Also this lets me be much more long-winded! ahem.)

Age 10: I have no idea! I was quite fond of yr pop hits at this time, though, and my big sis was into hair metal so obv this meant I was too.

Age 15: This is right after I became a music fan for real, and I was still in the throes of my first ever musical obsession ie STING. Most important individual track would probably have been something off The Soul Cages or Bring on the Night.

Age 20: Hands-down most important artist at this time = Nine Inch Nails. This state of affairs lasted for several years, in fact.

Age 25: Omg, so much to choose from! This being the year when I really started using teh intarwebs to explore large volumes of new music. (Also easier to remember things from as I can cheat and check my lj entries from then, haha.) Poss something off/related to Kosheen's Resist, which was a hugely defining record for that year. Or CMX's Vainajala. Or, omg, Cex's track A Mansion as the Body She Resides In! (...and I'd better stop there before there is perishing of nostalgia and love.)

And since I'm still just shy of 30, the Now: seriously, Nelly F's Say It Right. Because it completely bowled me over when I first heard it at the start of the year (especially in the way it so perfectly appealed to my old semi-dormant goth/darkwave sensibilities), and it's still every bit as effective. It's probably going to be my song of the year, because at this point I don't see how anything else is going to usurp the position by year-end.

(I would also like to rep for Jori Hulkkonen's Dislocated but that would be CH34T1NG as that one's really from last year.)

Music's always -- since I Got Into It For Proper, anyway -- been a hugely important presence in my life, but I suppose the time it would have mattered even more than usual would be through the years in my early 20s when I was suffering from depression. I know it did a lot to keep me afloat during that time. </tmi>