ive been listening to music ever since i heard my cousins play “livin’ on a prayer” and “you gee la bad man bad man” 
on their huge sanyo made in japan tape decks – the ones with the huge integrated speakers ; this must have been in 1988-89;
my baptism into rock music was when i first heard sweet child o’mine somewhere in the year 1990. from then on i was hooked; couldnt get enuff of rock music – bought every Metallica and GnR album; tried Floyd didnt like it… however The Doors and Led Zep were to my tastes.
Also ventured into Extreme and Faith No More (once when i was broke i exchanged my imported pen and 20 bucks for Faith No More’s Angel Dust album) i still love these bands and i still listen to them.
the years slowly rolled on – the Boyband invasion came and went; i stuck to my hard rock and maybe hard rock sounding pop coming out from the likes of Def Leppard and Mr.Big or Aerosmith.
other great bands that im also fond of are Radiohead, Collective Soul , The Eagles , PearlJam…and inspite of everyone 2nd person in India knowing the lyrics of Hotel California by heart i still love this song
Rap Music i didnt pay much heed to except for maybe 2Pac or Cypress Hill (as somep Mirc/aizawlchat regulars would remember i used to use Cypress Hill as my handle) and for a short while a friend introduced me to Arrested Development; I still consider ‘Mr Wendal’ to be a classic and yes MC Hammer was also a favorite (who can forget the billowy harem type pants )
I could listen to all the above mentioned bands (and many i didnt mention) these were bands i grew up listening to all thro the 90s
and then the 2000’s rolled on and i find that im still hooked to these bands. New bands such as Linkin Park/Creed/Audioslave etc came by – some made their mark and left and some stayed on;
Bands like Linkin Park Nickelback etc make popular music and i too used to rock to their songs but their songs didnt really make for repeat listening. Even my old favorites Metallica or Aerosmith came out with albums in recent years but i find that i don’t really like listening to their new songs anymore.
Def Leppard keep putting out crappy stuff every other year ; Bon Jovi keep churning out xerox copies of sappy love songs with every album. Metallica’s St.Anger made me really angry…
what im saying here is that the music being produced lately doesnt match up to the oldies; Or is it that im just hooked to the music that was ingrained in me when i was growing up?
would this generation of teenagers and youngsters consider the new metal bands of the current generation as their “classic rock”?
even the Rap music of the 90s is better than the stuff that passes of as Rap/hip hop nowadays!
all people seem to want is some fast dance tracks to shake a leg to; the other night i caught the ‘disco’ version of the Yes classic “owner of a lonely heart” and was also horrified to see another 80s classic – Don Henley’s Boys of Summer being remixed as a dance track..
but my main question is this – is today’s music going to be considered as ‘classic’ or ‘great’ music ten or fifteen years from now?
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October 19th, 2006 at 6:18 pm
Three days after your birthday and we’re already feeling the effects.You’re growing old, kid
I feel the same about the new artists popping up all over the place. Was a big fan of Cranberries, Oasis, Alanis Morissette, etc but lately, their newer albums fail to impress. Have gone back to Tracy Chapman and old golds, and few new guys like jack Johnson, james blunt etc. Coldplay is much more consistently better than the rest tho.
And I do hope today’s music will never be considered classic, even tho the present generation wil definitely think otherwise.
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October 19th, 2006 at 6:24 pm
I think music is a part of your self…or at least a part of your development as a person so we associate some music with our memories and that’s why we say music today isn’t what it used to be, it doesn’t move me etc etc. It’s all associative or relative or whateva. So yes, like you say you’re naturally hooked to the music that was ingrained in you when you were growing up.
You don’t like Floyd? Mein Gott, The Wall was the greatest thing I ever heard in its time! And you sound like such an old man when you talk about being “horrified” that classics are being remixed as dance tracks. I’ve had so much music I’ve loved being bastarded around I’ve gotten immune to it…sigh. And some songs do actually sound a lot better than the originals like Sting’s Every Breath You Take and Puff Daddy’s remix of it, and I actually quite like Michael M Sailo’s remix of Perhkhuang etc etc
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October 19th, 2006 at 6:36 pm
thank you for your valuable inputs;
hey its a free world i dont like Floyd you dont like Backstreet Boys but i dont say Mein Gott etc etc =)
im an old man relatively speaking when it comes to rock music.. rock music is not even a hundred years old it must be like 50 years old at the most hehe and ive been around for half of those years
i still like the the Police’s version of Every Breath you take (it wasn’t a sting song – it was a The Police song
)
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October 19th, 2006 at 6:38 pm
i was a mighty big fan of Oasis when they first came out but their new offering is very average and Alanis’ new track sounds like some dance number or something.. i hate it when they experiment
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October 19th, 2006 at 6:46 pm
Yeah, they should grow old with us. Not suddenly evolve into some hep strangers
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October 19th, 2006 at 7:38 pm
I don’t know much but Slow Rock was the genre I counted as my favorite. Yea.. boy bands screw it all.
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October 19th, 2006 at 7:42 pm
Hey I wasn’t saying saying Mein Gott because you don’t like Floyd (awiha!), I was saying it to illuminate how gazooking great The Wall was
Btw, I didn’t answer your main question. (it’s the scatty way we women read things, in case you don’t know…sth to do with the way our brains works etc etc :D) I would imagine that in 10 to 15 years time, today’s music will be classified as classic trance, classic techno, classic gothic etc etc
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October 19th, 2006 at 7:51 pm
Growing up with my what she listened are the ones I listened till my liberation in 1998
Elvis, Bob Dylan, Rod Stewart, Neil Young, Roy Orbison, Rita coolidge, Dolly Parton , Joan Baez, Vanlalrauti – the few I remember.
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October 19th, 2006 at 7:54 pm
I like Pink Floyd a lot..Divison Bell, The Wall and Dark side of the moon are my fav albums…ah You are Cyprus^hill..lolz…eka…leh Lal Amos…Go to Shantinagar and by dope…smoke…and watch Pulse concert…then you will come to know…lolz…and dont tell me you dont like Queen, Nirvana, The beatles..
I think we have discusssed something like what you have mentioned about music being produced lately not matching up to the oldies.when Bob Dylan said modern music are not quite up to the mark…
Tak tak chuan..I sawi dik khawp mai..tunlai chu band tha vak hi an awm lo hmanlai band ho han compare tur chuan..Mathcbox20 te pawh an keh leh a..John Mayer te Kidd Rock te pawh han promising thin via mahse rei hi an daih lo thin…Girl sawi ang deuh hian Cold Play ho hi a lak tlak pawl tak an ni…tunlai ah chuan compete tur an nghah tawh a..an music kher lo music dang pawh ngaithlak tur kan nghah a..bakah sum te a lo tam a..ngaituah an ngah a ni ang nge….Hmanlaia band ho tam tak kha chu..music kha an life a ni deuh tops mai a…kutchhuak pawh an nghah..hla ngah hrim hrim chuan a nalh chu a tam deuh ang chu…1960s leh 70s ah chuan Bealtes leh Elvis chu mi zawng zawng hriat an ni mai..tunlai ah anni ho rawn lar se..ngaithla peih lo an tam ang..a dang ngaihthlak tur a tam sia…
Ka vai thiante kum 2000 vel atanga sap hla ngaithla ve tan ho pawn..an han ngaithlak an han ngaihthlak chuan..hmanlai music hi a tha zawk an ti ve tlat nia!
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October 19th, 2006 at 7:55 pm
I like Pink Floyd a lot..Divison Bell, The Wall and Dark side of the moon are my fav albums…ah You are Cyprus^hill..lolz…eka…leh Lal Amos…Go to Shantinagar and by dope…smoke…and watch Pulse concert…then you will come to know…lolz…and dont tell me you dont like Queen, Nirvana, The beatles..
I think we have discusssed something like what you have mentioned about music being produced lately not matching up to the oldies.when Bob Dylan said modern music are not quite up to the mark…
Tak tak chuan..I sawi dik khawp mai..tunlai chu band tha vak hi an awm lo hmanlai band ho han compare tur chuan..Mathcbox20 te pawh an keh leh a..John Mayer te Kidd Rock te pawh han promising thin via mahse rei hi an daih lo thin…Girl sawi ang deuh hian Cold Play ho hi a lak tlak pawl tak an ni…tunlai ah chuan compete tur an nghah tawh a..an music kher lo music dang pawh ngaithlak tur kan nghah a..bakah sum te a lo tam a..ngaituah an ngah a ni ang nge….Hmanlaia band ho tam tak kha chu..music kha an life a ni deuh tops mai a…kutchhuak pawh an nghah..hla ngah hrim hrim chuan a nalh chu a tam deuh ang chu…1960s leh 70s ah chuan Bealtes leh Elvis chu mi zawng zawng hriat an ni mai..tunlai ah anni ho rawn lar se..ngaithla peih lo an tam ang..a dang ngaihthlak tur a tam sia…
Ka vai thiante kum 2000 vel atanga sap hla ngaithla ve tan ho pawn..an han ngaithlak an han ngaihthlak chuan..hmanlai music hi a tha zawk zu han ti ve tlat a…vai ho pawh hian engemaw chu an lo hria a ni….
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October 19th, 2006 at 7:59 pm
Elvis..Bob Dylan..Roy Orbison..heng ho hi chu ka duhin ka ngaithla ve nasa angreng…Joan Baez chuan Bob Dylan a hla “Chimes of Freedom” tih a sak kha ka duh tops…Rita Coolidge in Jealous Kind tih nan…Rod Stewart leh Neil Young chu ka ngaithla ve zeuh zeuh..Vanlalruati chu ka ngaithlak pawh ka hre lo…Ka pa cousin a ni in ka hria…ka ni tur a ni maithei..mahse Vanlalruati hi 2 an awm a.. a tu zawk nge kan chhungte tih pawh ka hrechuang lo…lolz
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October 19th, 2006 at 8:08 pm
I don’t think you can just put down all music today as being inferior to the the ones in the past. I mean look at Norah Jones. She’s a genuine talent if ever I heard one. She’s a classic in her own right.
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October 19th, 2006 at 8:12 pm
Nothing like Pink Floyd’s Comfortably numb and Wish you were here to put you in a mellow mood. Tried to like Joan Baez but am just not into her music. The Beatles, everly brothers are eternal favourites. Can’t stand Jim Reeves tho…he is just soooo boring. Apologies to his fans if any!
Rap ah chuan maw…lol…Mr Wendall, yeah i remember that song. I just know..Mr Wendall, yeah,yeah. haha. And Snoop Dogg ofcourse, aint he the coolest thing.heh.
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October 19th, 2006 at 8:21 pm
Girl try to listen Take it Back…by Pink Floyd…its cool..
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October 19th, 2006 at 9:54 pm
I like Joan Baez! Diamonds and rusts – can listen to that song 10 times in a row..
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October 19th, 2006 at 10:06 pm
Chuvang chuan artist thi tawh hi duh mai tur – that way we can be spared the trauma of having to hear our favorite artists suddenly butchering already bad songs to bits
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October 19th, 2006 at 10:10 pm
enteh, maimawm, m ur old old friend from st.paul’s. d one u used to hunt flowers with during the short breaks
Will mail/contact u soon
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October 19th, 2006 at 10:12 pm
ok…will definitely try dat out COdy
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October 19th, 2006 at 10:19 pm
she is talented there is no denying that – but will she remembered as Joan Baez or Billie Holiday are nowadays??
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October 19th, 2006 at 10:31 pm
Goldmember, haw tawh rawh. Ti khan overtime i la ve leh ringawt ang e.Hehehe
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October 19th, 2006 at 10:50 pm
Ni maw?? Ka van hre chak tawh, min lo mail/contact vat vat la..
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October 19th, 2006 at 10:53 pm
Maimawm te chu a induh em Girl…A flower zawn pui chu ni lo mahila ..min contact/mail duh bik miah nang…eh…
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October 19th, 2006 at 10:54 pm
goldmember i agree with you……
these days…music is more or less like a fashion show or dance,…..
these so call hip hop killed the essence of music..now music becomes another fashion channel….or sex related channel….
just dig on the past to know the essence of music
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October 19th, 2006 at 11:30 pm
i`m sure alanis morissette,coldplay, sheryl crow,nirvana,radiohead,pearl jam, greenday,oasis will all be classics some day..i love pink floyd,beatles etc etc..but i love the new bands too ..they are amazing…. i love their music as much as i love beatles..cant compare music…they all sound glorious….
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October 20th, 2006 at 7:44 am
TUPAC rulezzzzz
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October 20th, 2006 at 1:05 pm
Liandingpuii rulez these dayz…:D
ka ngaithla tlut tlut mai….:)
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October 20th, 2006 at 1:18 pm
keichu ka la Elvis veng veng mai… :D…hepa hi chu la dam se chuan a chak lo reuh ngot ang.
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October 20th, 2006 at 1:26 pm
tunlai chu ka raido indigo tlut tlut mai.
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October 20th, 2006 at 4:04 pm
dear life10 – these are the 80s/90s bands and i already consider them as classic bands =)
will THEY ever be considered as classic bands who made GREAT or GOOD music!
im more like referring to relatively new bands like Nickelback/LinkinPark/Blink182/ or any other band formed in the very late nineties or early 2000s
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October 20th, 2006 at 4:07 pm
listening to hoobastan : )
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October 20th, 2006 at 4:09 pm
hoobaSTAN? is that a mix of the Eminem song STAN sung by the band hoobastanK?
ka vai sianpa in hoobastank hi lo hre sual khawp mai a.. hey MR.A whats the name of that song by Hubas Tank? ti in min ron message
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October 20th, 2006 at 4:11 pm
What category do bands like Linkin Park belong to? Y’know, the heavy metal vocal sound mixed with rap beat kinda thingy? Eng music nge an tih
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October 20th, 2006 at 4:13 pm
generally classified as NU METAL
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October 20th, 2006 at 4:15 pm
Ok! my taste for music might be like Van Gogh’s but hoobastan’s “The Reason” IS/could be a classic! : P
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October 20th, 2006 at 4:18 pm
PA METAL te tih zawk om ania
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October 20th, 2006 at 4:19 pm
it WAS called NUPA Metal but its now called NU Metal for short
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October 20th, 2006 at 4:20 pm
Hoostabank ka lo ti ve char char thin
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October 20th, 2006 at 4:52 pm
Keichu ka la mawl fal nge Prog. rock hi ka la atchilh bur mai, the like of DT, Symphony X, Spiral Architect ….blah blah tam lutuk. Ka lunglen changin Dt & Simon & Garfunkel. Ka thinrim a sosang phut chuan ka ri buaih buaih zel…..slayer,Carcass…tam mai.
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October 23rd, 2006 at 4:48 pm
alternative rock an ni mai lawm ni….
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October 23rd, 2006 at 4:52 pm
mahni mood azir zel ni mai, music hi chu….hnathawh ngaih chang hi chuan music hot deuh hi han ngaithla ila, a beat milin hna hi han thawk ila, a kal zawt zawt mai ania….kkk
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October 23rd, 2006 at 5:02 pm
kan in ang a nih chu….
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October 24th, 2006 at 11:52 am
Greetings progger!
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October 24th, 2006 at 12:05 pm
Music should be about man and his instrument. When it involves too much additional gear and computing power, then it mutates.
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August 10th, 2010 at 11:31 am
To me i like the band of Linkin Park, and many more. Their songs and their electronic musics are unique to me. Specially Chester, he ‘s actually having a perfect voice than the other oldies rock star. Think itt…..
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