Musical History.

I don't remember where I saw this recently but someone has loosly attempted to track their listening history, their evolution of musical tastes.

Let us begin.

I was born in 1981 so I'll start around 1990, I was cognitive enough by then to know I was listening to something, i think?

1990

The Simpsons
Sing the Blues
Odd choise but incredibly entertaining.

Mariah Carey
This is where some of the gay started to come out.

1991

MC Hammer
I believe I even had Skidz pants.

Paula Abdul, Janet Jackson- more gay.....

1992

Kris Kross
My best friend and I wore cross colors over-alls, with one starp unbuttoned and rapped to the infamous duo.

1993

I drift from trying to be ghetto to more of a hippee/ grunge.

Musicians are now more numerous and include

Nirvana
Toad the Wet Sprocket
Pearl Jam
Green Day
Grateful Dead
CSNY
Phish
Journey
Styx
(some of these do not go together I AM aware)
Madonna (of course there would be gay in here too)

This taste in music lasted most of high school

(Lets skip to 1999)
1999
My Senior yr of HS

Still basis of music though now has come to include a plethora of swing music as I have dove into and underground circuit of rockabilly nightlife. Most nights we would hang out in an abndoned school swingin' learning some of thee most unsafe lifts one could imagine.

Young women at the helm of a skinny 17 year old being flung through the air like a rag doll in attempts to look the most compelling while maintaining a beat and footwork.... Good times though and nobody died :-)

Add to list;
Blues Traveler
Dave Matthews Band
Britney Spears
Christina Aguilera
Nsync
Backstreet Boys

I got gayer as I grew up...

Fall 1999
Start of college, same tast in music just more hip hop now.

2000
The year I came out...

Now we introduce really gay music, house music.

Now i'm driving in my '87 Chevy Caprice classic bumping the finest in vocal house whilst navigating deadly snow squals.

Little tid about University...It Edinboro University Of Pennsylvania, 20 minutes south of Erie, PA. IN A SNOW BELT!!!!

Some nights you lay to rest and wake up with a snow drift barracading you in your residence leaving you no other option than to call a friend to dig you out or climb out of a window. Then try to find your car in the parking lot.....

There is also the persistant danger of passing out in a snow drift on the way home from the bar...as my roommate once illustrated. (He lived) All in all a grand ole time.

As I said LOTS of house music.

We also introduce;
Tori Amos
Ani DiFranco
Dar Williams
Sophi B. Hawkins
Liz Fair
etc.

All the great lesbo-type musicians (i even bought a pair of birkenstock clogs)

I am going to stop the list there as it has remained the same only of course adding indie artists along the way.

Eric Himan
Levi Kreiss
Christopher Dallman

And not indie;
Patty Griffin
Bloc Party
Muse
Flaming Lips


I could overrun this website with music that I listen to But I will leave it at that and you can guess what goes along with it.