How did you all get started?

The ultimate musical divide:

American<->International

Elementary school vibes - Britney Spears and all those other pop princesses
Middle school era - Laufer, Let 3, Blink-182 and stuff like that
High school years - Green Day, UB40, Type O Negative, Joy Division, The Cranberries, you know the drill
College days - A messy blend of high school leftovers and newer stuff
Later on - Goth clubs, darkwave, industrial, indie, 80s pop hits, and electronic stuff
Nowadays - Honestly, I can't even tell if I'm listening to good jazz anymore

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But honestly, 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙂

though I suppose the war years really were the golden age for music, weren't they? 🙏

Tajči and that little dress she wore at the Eurovision Song Contest🤣
is just priceless.

Total wartime era vibes. Honestly, those old music videos were filmed on such a massive scale back then.😍

Kyle Jackson54 said:The Beatles (1985-1991) -> The Doors, Led Zeppelin (1993-1995) -> Hladno pivo, Laufer, Let 3 (1995-1997)

Not bad, honestly. You just had to flip the whole thing around for it to actually make sense. 😂

placidlynx23 said:and I can't stand Cold Beer because they just aren't true

hp is the most "true" band out there.
They’re just pure mediocrity—simple, designed for entertainment, totally unpretentious.
Honestly, they could probably play at a local wedding reception and be fine. ☕

placidlynx23 said:The greatest way to split music, ever:

American <-> foreign

I think mine's actually better...

Country <-> everything else

gentlepuma20 said:personally, I think it’s better

techno <-> anything except

Techno is better than
Metal.
I’m not even going to touch the Bujet situation—honestly, my head just went from imploding to exploding reading that. I can't even begin to argue with it now.

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-1994. - my first real brush with electronic music, specifically The Prodigy (Experience and Music for the Jilted Generation)
-from then until somewhere around '98, I was deep into Hardtrance and Hardcore (those Thunderdome compilations were huge back then)
-1998 and 1999 brought me headfirst into Drum and Bass, Goa trance, and Techno
-by the early 2000s, I started branching out into IDM and Experimental stuff (Autechre, American producers, Aphex Twin, and that whole scene)

Nowadays, it’s just a mix of everything mentioned above, depending on my mood👍

And of course, I always kept up with those TV and radio shows like DJ Mag, Deep FM, Connection, and DC's Drum & Bass (that UK radio show that used to air late at night on BFBS back in the late 90s)...

Cajke>Metal is just another great way for someone to signal how much "sophisticated, urban" music they listen to. It’s a beautiful divide, really. But you have to admit, there is something incredibly tacky about when someone says—with total, unearned pride, mind you—"I only listen to local stuff." It’s more of a spiritual state than anything else. Then you get someone with a slightly broader perspective who comes along and says "I listen to both local and international acts."

Sure, I get what you're saying—that all holds water—but there's something kind of beautiful about how you can't really hate someone just because they're American versus international. I mean, sure, you *can*, but it’s pretty rare to see that kind of tribalism. On the other hand, when you start dividing people by genres like Metal, that hatred spreads like wildfire through dry grass... especially if you douse it in gasoline first. 🙂

placidlynx23 said:P.S. I heard Tool is actually just some nu-metal band 😁

honestly, they’re almost mediocre, and honestly, if it weren't for the production quality, they wouldn't even be worth listening to.🙂

Kyle Jackson54 said:I mean, sure, it happens, but it’s incredibly rare. And honestly, when you look at how much people hate on each other based on whether they're into pop or Metal, that animosity spreads like wildfire. Like, gasoline-soaked kind of wildfire. 🙂

Back when I was in high school, the big divide wasn't even about genres—it was just being a punk or a preppy 😁
forget all this pop versus Metal nonsense; back then, the skinheads were out there causing absolute chaos all over town...
Man, looking back, those really were the good old days. 😳
🙂

I think they usually split them into folk and pop categories🤷

Kyle Jackson54 said:Sure, that's all fine, but the beautiful thing here is that you can't really hate someone just because they listen to American vs. foreign music. I mean, you could, but it rarely happens. But when you divide people by pop vs. Metal? That hatred spreads like wildfire. Like gasoline on dry grass. 🙂

😂 law.

You nailed it. The whole "domestic vs. foreign" thing is basically just: "Let's all hang out, get trashed, hold a girl's backside in one hand and a cheap shot of local whiskey in the other, and sing along!"

But the pop vs. Metal divide? It's exploding with all that culture vs. low-culture, urban vs. rural, poser vs. true bullshit energy.

Folk music is just so much fun for us and for the kids 😁

unfortunately, I feel like that distinction is starting to fade away 😢

rep-linkin park-punk-hard rock-metal

I started out listening to psychomodopop and similar American rock right during the war years. By the end of the conflict, I was into The Prodigy, which eventually led me straight into the hits from DJ Mag that were blowing up back then. My buddy and I used to trek over to the local record shop just to listen to his vinyl because we definitely didn't have any decent sound setup at home...

Then came high school—just as the techno scene was starting to explode globally and here in the States, so we started getting into different vibes. That was my Cypress Hill and Beastie Boys phase, followed by a slow slide into Sepultura and Rage Against the Machine. Around the middle of high school, I drifted toward hardcore, though ideally without all that messy "family" crap...

By the time I finished high school, I was old enough to dive deep into core genres, death metal, and drum & bass (what a combo, right? 😁), which is basically what stuck with me to this day. Now, thanks to the Internet, I can hunt down any band I want, so today I’m mostly digging through doom, some black metal, stoner rock, and sludge...

hm.. I started out with Nirvana, messing around with some grunge stuff, but honestly? Nothing really clicked.. then I moved on to Metallica.
after that, I did a complete 180 and dove straight into Metal.. specifically metalcore, death metal, black metal, and gothic metal.
I can vibe with industrial too.. but heavy metal was never really my thing, except maybe Judas Priest. Or maybe two other bands here and there... oh yeah, I had a whole punk phase before the metal era kicked in... you know, Bad Religion, Sex Pistols, Ramones, Misfits, that kind of scene.
bottom line: METAL 😍
and I'm pretty sure I'll be spinning the classics in the future, guaranteed.☕

Preschool was all oldies—CCR, The Doors, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Pink Floyd, and all those psychedelic vibes... then maybe some stuff through 5th grade. After that, my neighbor introduces me to Metallica, followed by Sepultura, Metallica again, Maiden, Pantera, and Slayer. By 7th or 8th grade, I was deep into various types of techno, and once I hit high school, I just opened up to everything under the sun. And I've been like that ever since. 😁