What Makes Us Connect With Some Music Artists But Not Others?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2024
- With so many amazing music artists in the world it’s hard to connect with them all, but why is that? Why are we drawn to one artist more than another? What factors play into it besides the simply love of music? For this episode of the Sound Exchange Sessions, Anthony and I explore a multitude of factors that we believe play a role in why we connect with certain musical artists but not others.
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The fact that we have our own ideas for what our favorite songs are about makes us feel like we're not the only ones who feel that way. We are not alone.
Music is something that moves you, something that hits you at the core of your soul and your heart.
Music is life! 👍
Another great video, took me years to finally appreciate CCR/John Fogerty, this years release of CCR live in London finally got me into CCR.
Great post, Brendon. 💯
And thanks to Anthony for not killing you.
Yet, lol. Not sure what that comment of Anthony was about several videos ago but imo Anthony seems to be a cool cat and dig his comments/commitment to your posts, Brendon.
how I got to Ratt: I used to love MTV from the time I was at a party somewhere at a restaurants and some older kids had it on in the bar and I saw my first video 'Electric Avenue' by Eddy Grant and fell in love with music. for the next few years from 1982 through the summer of 1986 are my favorite years of music. I remember the Round and Round video but never bought that album - instead I had Twisted Sister, Quiet Riot, Thriller and the Footloose Soundtrack. my parents made us move in Sept 1986 from one part of town to another so I got to take the bus to Jr. High and High School 6 years in a row except for the 2 week tease in September 1986 when I just had to walk across the street to the High School. I had to make all new friends as my two best friends went to different High Schools - the kids from the old neighborhood treated me like we were rich and too good for them, the kids from the new neighborhood treated us like we were poor because my dad drove to the city in a beat up Volkswagen, on top of that, we used to have cable from 1979 but my stubborn father refused to pay a $10 hookup fee out of spite in the new house so for my entire High School years 1986-1990 I had no MTV - which is the equivalent today of not getting an smartphone for your teenager...and added to the "the new kid is poor" spectre - I had to catch only snippets of videos on Casey Kasem's Top 10 on Saturday morning and they also had a late night show called Friday Night Videos. I finally did make some friends about a year later and around 1989 I would have them record Headbanger's ball for me on a VHS tape once in a while. so I was early and late to the game with Ratt and missed most of the stuff in between so my first Ratt album was Shame Shame Shame, Loving You is a Dirty Job and of course Nobody Rides for Free from the Point Break soundtrack. but now I love all the stuff that came between.
hahaha... I paused the video and typed this and then the next two albums you talk about - Twisted Sister, Quiet Riot, - I played those to death too, but mostly only the side with the hits on Metal Health and the first 3 songs on side A of Stay Hungry and the first two songs on side B.. so basically all the singles plus Stay Hungry, Burn in Hell and Slick Black Cadillac... and I only listened to Love's a Bitch with my dad's headphones on cause I didn't want my mom to hear it and take it away
Brendon and Anthony is a great team!
Thanks! 👍
*Mood & personality plays a role in music choices. Let's face it if you're..*
Depressed and angry...you'll listen to Heavy Metal or Punk Rock
Depressed but not angry... you'll listen to Goth or Shoegazer music
Happy & social...you'll listen to Pop music
Like to party and dance?.....you'll listen to dance/electronic music.
If you play a musical instrument....you'll like Prog Rock or Orchestral music.
If you like street culture or Gangsta wannabe.....you'll like Rap.
Like to smoke weed ?.....you'll listen to reggae & dub reggae.
Hi Brendon, Anthony! Guys you are awsome and funny and upfront, all of the way and I Definitely love together in your these vídeos. And today you made the unexpected. You spoke of my favourite band: Oasis! And of course I loved them un the nineties and the next decade until splitting in 2009. Their solo careers keep on being succesful. Liam solo first and second albums truly rock for me. Liam is still Liam, a rich corcky preak in trainers. Noel is the conceated looking at you down his shoulder. I love Liam though, yet historia face remains an open book, he does not describe nor dissapoint anybody with all his swagger. May I recommend his first studio álbum: As You were. The most succesful one is Why Me Why Not. Still need to hear Come On You Know several times but there are some killers i also like. Ayer so many vídeos and band sugestions i just wanted to give you at least one in return. Brendon, Anthony, Merry Christmas to you and your dearest ones around. Thank you for making my life happier through your channel.
Thank you Jose! I’m glad to hear you’re enjoying the content so much. Have a safe and happy holiday! Oasis Rocks 👍
The one album I played on Tape it’s a-ha s album “Scoundrel Days”
I love the imagery in rock and metal. Kiss got me started in rock and roll. Ghost is phenomenal live with all the imagery and showmanship. More bang for the buck. Ghosts writes killer songs. Best lyrics I've heard from a band in a long time.
I can honestly say that different music has hit me at different times throughout my whole life. I was not allowed to listen to rock and roll from about 1976 to 1980 something even though I still snuck it in and listened to it. I remember hearing Journey's Don't Stop Believin', while sitting in the backseat of my dad's car with my sister, One night at a red light. It was coming from a Honda Goldwing that pulled up to a red light one winter night down in Houston. I was a teenager in turmoil and love and just really in a down and out, oppressive at home environment and I was 14 years old. When I heard the guitar and the vocals on that song it lit a fire inside of me that has never been quenched. I don't know how I got so lucky but that red light stayed red for about 9/10 of the song. As that Goldwing took off when the light turned green, I can still remember hearing the ending of that song and I had to figure out who that was. That song spoke to me at the time like no other music had ever done even though I loved music since I was a little kid.
Music is a soundtrack to our lives. Led Zeppelin, already disbanded, I started listening to and loving soon after that Journey DSB experience. I can remember specifics of the first time I heard specific songs. It's a nostalgic memory that sticks with you for life.
But as we get older, and even if our tastes in music change a little, we usually hold on to that stuff that lit the fire under us because of the memories I think. But you always need something new that will bring a new feeling or memory to you I also believe. I've been through some dry spells where nothing was really speaking to me and then all of the sudden kaboom. An artist you never heard or maybe something you had heard but never paid attention to hits that mark in the heart.
A buddy and I used to analyze this back in the 1980s. You could never explain just how specific music and songs could bring back what we called "the feeling". You couldn't make it appear when you wanted it but then maybe something in life would happen and then you'd hear the song that brought that feeling to you in the past and it would hit again. You always wanted to be able to bring it back whenever you needed it or wanted it but it didn't work that way.
The one thing that saddens me today is that so much of the modern music doesn't have anything in it that brings the feeling at least to me. I'm sure for the younger generation it might? But there are certain artists that I've heard, believe it or not Feist was one of them and especially the bootlegs of her live shows, that took me back to that same 1981 feeling by not only the melody and soulfulness in the songs but by the lyrics as well. It gave me that same Journey and Led Zeppelin feeling that the music did back in the days when it was new to me.
I'm looking nowadays for that new music or music I missed from the past that will bring the feeling back again. I hope I haven't become too jaded through the years and now The feeling is gone? It's harder for music to reach through and touch the heart like it used to. I do think that can happen with age and life experiences sometimes. And that's why we keep buying the re-releases of the music we love I think.
Very interesting topic guys! And listening to this video, it takes me back to when me and my friend used to analyze and discuss the same exact thing back when we were in our late teens and early twenties 👍 One thing I am convinced of is that whatever is going on in your life, whether it's joyful or sad, the music that speaks to you will be different at the different times. It doesn't mean you don't like other music at the same time but it just doesn't hit you the same way. And everybody has something different that will reach and touch them at whatever point in their life the feeling hits them. And I personally think that sometimes just feeling sad and hearing the right music is a good thing for the soul. You don't want to be stuck there all over the time but it is good to have stages in life where that kind of thing happens and the music opens the heart up and speaks to you in a way It might not otherwise. The one thing I do know is I will always love music and I pray that "the feeling" doesn't ever completely disappear from my life.
Brian in Fort Worth 🎶
For a long time I couldn't stand compilation albums. It was something dissatisfying with hearing songs from different albums that I can't really explain. Propably having to do with the sequencing differing from the original albums and differneces in sound and production. Today though I can listen to compilations and take it for what it is.
I don't like the incomplete feeling I get from a comp, compared to a studio album. Hard to explain for sure. For me, live albums have always been the better type of compilation.
@@daniellothgren157 yeah, I also prefer live albums over best of/greatest hits.
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Agree, 1000%.
Do like compilation cds if the artist has say so on material on it. Record label puts songs on it seems like a money grab, imo.
great video!!
Thanks! 🙏
the comment about "after 50" is SO true! thank u gentlemen, & merry christmas & happy holidays
What a great tee Brendon 🤟🤟🤟
For some reason when I hear a great band for the first time I can easily remember where and when I was at the time. One good example is a band called Tangier. They were from the Philly/New Jersey area. Heard their song "On the Line" playing on the Columbus, Ohio rock stations and I really liked it enough that it hooked me in to go see them at the Newport Music Hall in Columbus in the spring of 1990. Loved what I heard and even scored a free cassette of their debut "Four Winds" at the show when the band threw them out in to the crowd. Loved it so much I went and bought it on cd and after 30+ years I still love that cd. Really bluesy rock with a David Coverdale sounding singer. Any time I put that cd on now it takes me back to my college dorm hearing that song for the first time and it takes me right back to that night seeing them.
That's my neck of the woods - Columbus. I remember the old 92-X playing "On The Line" during the summer of 1989, and I'm sure the iconic Q-FM-96 played the song, also, but if (Q-FM) ever played it, then it was played less than it was on 92-X. And "On The Line" was never played during ANY of Q-FM's A to Z specials. I couldn't remember the name of the song until I looked up Tangier when the All Music Guide home page had a section called Charts and Awards (they have since eliminated that feature.) That's when I remembered the name of the song. I remembered the name of the band, but not their hit song. And "Four Winds" is a great album. Have its reissue on CD.
@@davej.meister5421 Nice! Loved that music scene back then. I frequented the AlRosa, Mean Mr. Mustards (they had an awesome weekly night where they played the Cult, Sisters of Mercy, etc) and the Newport. Have you heard of American Dog? Came out in 1999 and hung around for 15 or so years. Great band from Columbus.
@@chuckm670 I've heard of Salty Dog.
I can remember as growing up listening to the likes of Tommy Roe & The Ventures with mom and sister around til I was alone , at 5 in 1969 , then learned how to work the cabinet record player or 8 Track player , when able was dipping in sisters stash of Hendrix, Joplin, The Doors, etc. then became addicted to Black Sabbath and Fleetwood Mac , then to Kiss and Ozzy Osbourne then 80's hit going to close to 20 rock/metal concerts , my favorite artists changed over the years , most of my favorite artists are in their 60-70 or passed on , then graduated to my favorite artist Joe Satriani first heard in mid 90's. I consider myself an old shcool Rocker/Headbanger hard to get into music after 2000 thou I experiment to find music or artist I enjoy that just me at best and most likely wand change . Brendon Love you and Anthony's chat and topics together , Merry Christmas !
Great video. I just take exception to the comments about concept albums and rock operas. These bands like painters have to express themselves in different ways. It may not be to everyone’s liking but it’s what they’re feeling at the time. Tommy, The Wall, Operation Mind Crime, The Crimson Idol, and dare I say The Elder are all solid achievements. Of course topic wise the lyrics may come across as forced in trying to convey the concept or theme of the album but IMO those are all solid efforts. In fact many times, the result of those albums is a back to basic approach for the artist on the next album.
8:15 so many songs and bands I got into from hearing a song in a movie... of course the BIG ones like Survivor Eye of the Tiger comes to mind and just about every great 80's movie had a Kenny Loggins song on it... Extreme 'Play with Me' from Bill & Ted (which led me to buy their 2nd album when it came out and it came with a free concert ticket to see them and some band no one knew yet named Alice In Chains was opening up) the soundtrack to the movie 'Shocker' got me into KISS, Alice Cooper, Megadeth and Bonfire
another artist I got into by movie song (and I hated country music up until then) was Chris Stapleton who has the end credit song from 'Hell or High Water'
another one I got into the opposite way, went to see Mr. Big and Electric Boys at 6 Flags Great Adventure in Jersey. I heard a song I recognized from 1480 Z-Rock called 'Taking Me Down' during sound-check as we were outside waiting to go in and it was Hardline with Neal Schon from Journey on guitar. they ended up being he middle band and they were great and I bought their debut CD 'Double Eclipse' the next day. watched the Brandon Lee movie 'Rapid Fire' in the theater a few weeks later and they had TWO other Hardline songs in the movie - a few months later they played a club on Long Island and I got there early to get tickets before the show and met the singer Johnny Gioeli who still has one of the best hard rock voices in music to this day (his brother Joey was the rhythm guitarist - they had been in one of the LA house bands named Brunette that almost made it and Neal was dating or married to their sister) and we chatted with him for about an hour in front of the tour bus which was parked in front of the venue on the street because it was a small club. we talked about the Brandon Lee movie and how the band came about - it was basically a merge of Brunette and Bad English when they both spilt up during the Journey hiatus he told us to hang out after the show and we did and met and talked to the whole band (half of them are in journey now) I got autographs, guitar picks and one of Deen Castronovo's drumsticks - we did shots with them - Neal and I were both a little wasted by then and I mentioned I loved the blues guitar solo he did during the show and he started talking for 20 minutes telling me how much he was into blues... - sadly Hardline broke up a few months later and then Neal released a solo blues album - I hope I didn't break up the band LOL (it's a shame but it was the wrong time - that album would have been a monster hit if it came out 3 years sooner - 'Hot Cherie' is the greatest song ever). Johnny sings for Axel Rudi Pell the last 15 years or so, has solo albums, did all the music for Sonic the Hedgehog with another band called Crush 40, re-did Hardline a few times but with all new members and Deen also sings now too for a few Journey songs and for Revolution Saints
Rip Terry Hall
He will be missed but not forgotten
I think as far as the gimmick thing I sort of agree with you - what makes KISS great is - yes it's a gimmick but it's also NOT a gimmick because they were the first to do it... everyone else who did it later on was a gimmick - but I preferred them at the time without it because they didn't have it when I got into them (Hot in the Shade Tour at The Garden because I wanted to see Slaughter and Winger) - I fell in love with KISS that night and I'm honored that it was Eric's last show ever before he died - I remember being afraid of KISS when I was 6-7 years old because of the makeup and the fire and the tongue so my favorite version of KISS was when I first got into them when they had Eric Carr and Bruce Kulick and then with Eric Singer (who I was a fan of from Badlands)... now I love the old stuff too and the makeup but only when it's the original 4 members.... my personal choice: I'd rather see KISS with Bruce and Eric Singer without makeup and see Ace as a solo artist than see Paul and Gene in makeup without Peter and Ace
Had to subsribe again my phone went belly up
Sorry to hear that. But at least you got an early holiday present!
Fun topic. My top 5 favorite artists: Sting, The Beatles, Elton John, John Mellencamp, John Denver.
Things important to me: good lyrics, the melody, and a good vocal performance.
Here are some artists who are talented, but don't enjoy listening to: Whitney Houston, Celine Dion, Taylor Swift, and Beyonce.
I don't like heavy metal or rap. Most of this is too intense for me.
I gravitate toward music that makes me happy, but still like a good protest song. When an artist writes a song that helps me understand an important issue. A few examples:
1. Rain On the Scarecrow, John Mellencamp
2. Beds Are Burning, Midnight Oil
3. U2, Sunday Bloody Sunday
An angry or sad song can be beautiful.
as far as album cover art goes... I had a connection at the time, my uncle knew someone at Atlantic Records and she'd send me free CD's and tickets (STP at Rosaland) and one of them was Sugar Ray's first album 'Lemonade and Brownies' with Nicole Eggert naked on the cover but my psycho girlfriend got jealous and stole it from me - I hate band photos on the insides of the albums that the band and roadies took on tour that are of the band with their pants off or peeing or doing stupid stuff - they didn't age well at all
Interesting topic. 😎👍
Glad you enjoyed it
I also discovered Oasis just last year. This led me to Gin Blossoms, which led me to other bands I missed in the 90's. I hated grunge so to me 90's music was tainted. It's only been recently I've discovered some great non grunge bands from the 90's. But who knows in time maybe grunge will speak to me. I'm open to it.
It took me over 20 years to get into death metal. I always liked black metal, but death metal was just boring. A few years ago I heard Death's "Evil Dead" with its haunting intro. That's when I got it. I had a few Death albums before this, and they too finally clicked. Going back to the very origins of the genre helped.
Took me awhile to get into early Paramore when they were an indie rock/power pop band (their latter day music is nothing more than glorified electropop.) Then I heard about singer Hayley Williams actually being influenced by Geddy Lee and Rush (one of the band's early influences.) I took a listen to a couple of their heavier songs with some guitar solos (most notably the smash hit "Decode" from that horrible Twilight film) and I actually liked them. I could actually envision Geddy singing these songs with Rush for whatever reason. I actually did hear the Rush influence in these songs. It finally connected with me. I doubt if Paramore's latter day music will connect with me. And like Geddy and his voice, Hayley Williams (along with her voice) is an acquired taste for many fans of traditional rock 'n' roll music. Paramore is not one of those rock bands you would ever hear on a rock station. They're more of an alternative band.
I’m roughly the same age as both of you . I found with slipnot, korn they were after my time . Just never got into them or to be honest gave them a chance. Agree regarding the masks.
Nickelback seemed too radio friendly and not one thing or the other for me
Other bands that I never connected with are
Kiss
Queen
Def leopard
Anthrax - that has since Changed with spreading the disease and among the living
The other side of the coin, I was never into slayer in the 90s did not connect - now I love them and have all their albums
Back then I’d only like bands that I discovered myself, if my mates were into them before me, then I wont go near. I have grown up since, I promise.
The main thing for me it’s the music and how it sounds. Starting at 4:33 on with the video…
It is a matter of personal opinion
I have to feel some conncection to the vocal apart from the song and lyric. Often there are vocals that some people love and I have a hard time with. Rush, Styx, Journey people love, but I never cared for the vocals. Same with Bryan Adams. Then there's some I love that some people don't. Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, Chet Baker, etc. Then there are some vocals that usually are acceptable but not great, Jeff Lynne, George Harrison that I like but don't thrill me. Metal belters and punk screamers never did anything for me. It's like fingers on a chalk board. Mick and Keith are another example for me. Some Stones songs which could have been monster hits if Mick did the vocal went to Keith and are good, but kind of just lay there. Occasionally wind up occasionally as their B hits.
You mention trading cassettes with your brother, what do your brothers think about your music collection now ?
Good morning guys! A band with a gimmick that, although I'm not a huge fan, they have a few entertaining songs that I enjoy is GWAR. The first time I heard them on an "underground" radio station out of a suburb of Chicago, early 90s, and it was just hilarious and that song stuck with me (Slaughterama). Do you consider S.O.D. a gimmicky band?
What about King Diamond and his corpse paint? Or any of the better black metal bands that wear corpse paint (thinking Celtic Frost)? Does their makeup or persona change the way you feel about them? Both are favorites of mine!
This is interesting subject matter. I liked QR but hated TS. I think a lot of it pertains to life experience and if one identifies with similar experience in the music and lyrics. If we were face to face I could get into quite a conversation.
Im gonna go with the music. 😂
Nice RATT shirt...😁🤘
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Madonna is one of those artists. She’s trying to “fit in” to every decade. It’s like she’s forcing it to sound the way the music of the time and that totally does NOT work for me. Before 29:59
you talk about how album art can be a downer…the third Jackyl album is great but the cover is terrible
I don’t mind the other guy but he swears too much