Since childhood I have been surrounded by my parent’s generation of music. My dad always played Janis Joplin, The Beatles, Bob Marley and Bob Dylan around the house, amongst many other musical groups. This was the type of music I listened to before I really began to define my own interest in music. I definitely went through phases of musical genres throughout middle school and high school trying to figure out where my niche was. Many times I tried to conform my interests to what my friends and peers were interested in, but as I got older I began to get back to my roots which were the legendary artists of the 1960’s and 70’s that I grew up around. I find myself moving backward in time in terms of music rather then forward and it is only recently within the past few years that this began to happen. I still like many of the artists I experimented with, but I find myself more likely to purchase a Bob Dylan CDs then one of the current popular artist’s. It’s a very atypical way of progressing through music, but that’s where I have found my niche, and I enjoy trying to relate to my parent’s generation in order to better understand what they were all about at my age.
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I was like you when I was in high school and spent a lot of time with The Beatles, Dylan, and Brian Wilson - my parents' music. I was always struck by how much better and more complex that stuff sounded than the contemporary, mainstream stuff to which my friends listened. When I went to college, however, I was stuck by the fact that indie culture provided access to many bands that had a lot in common with my favorite avant-garde artists and poets. Artists like Patti Smith, Nirvana, Sonic Youth, Fugazi, R.E.M., the Velvet Underground, Bowie, etc. gave me hope, and I've followed indie ever since. In my opinion, artists like Sufjan Stevens, Outkast, Radiohead, and the Mars Volta are very innovative and satisfying and, in their own way, fight the corporate establishment.
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