Re: Am I going to listen to metal when I’m 80?

I see metal sort of like the evolution of classical music just as pop is the evolution of folk music.

Pop/folk is steady rhythms, repetition, catchy hooks.

Metal/classical, and I def include mathier and proggier varieties in here, is music more as a journey, less four to the floor and more of an, uh, soundscape, IDK.

I know peeps think I’m sarcastic when I say I like metal since I’m also so into opera and ballet type music but there are some great metal records out there.

I’m def gonna listen to my rock records as long as I have ears. Black Sabbath, Showbread, Ling Tosite Sigure, Wolves of the Throne Room, Dead Weather…

My taste in music has definitively been evolving but it’s been an additive evolution rather than a replacing evolution. As in I like more stuff now.

There is this scene in La-La Land where the chick says she doesn’t like jazz and the dude kinda patronizingly takes her to listen to some jazz and then she likes it. I love jazz now (which is why I saw the movie in the first place), but, before I “got” it, I didn’t, and I’m pretty sure listening to the performance in that scene in the movie wouldn’t have helped. It’s an absolute banger of a track and I love it—now—but it’s also typically jazz, based on the circle of fourths rather than the circle of fifths. Before I “got” jazz and its own approach to scales, I was like “why do they keep playing ‘wrong’? Why do they play off-key all the time?” Yeah, yeah, I know, I was being eurocentric and gross. But once it clicked I was like “holy smoke this groove kicks!”

Doesn’t mean I tossed my Bach records out the window. Just means I like more stuff now.