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beandelphikiOne thing I'm really liking about Guitar Hero is that it's teaching me to love music I've never really gotten into or liked much before.
I don't have anything against rock, exactly. It's just really not the sort of music I ever listen to myself. My favourite musical genre, let's be honest, is show tunes. Which should tell you right there what sort of a music listener I am. The only "rock" in my personal collection needs to be followed by, "and roll." Think, "Jailhouse Rock" at its hardest.
Oh, and I used to listen to my parent's old cassette tapes ('70s/'80s rock and pop) when I was kid. That's about it.
Not quite sure why there's such a sizable gap in my musical education, but it basically amounts to: when I was old enough to choose my own radio stations, I listened to pop. And then only for a few years before I swore off the radio and started getting most of my musical entertainment in the form of battered cast recordings of Guys and Dolls and Annie Get Your Gun from the library.
My sister takes GREAT delight in mocking my ignorance. You've never heard of Radiohead? We'll just add THAT to the list of things you can't find under your little elevator Muzak rock.
Like I said though, I have nothing AGAINST rock as a genre. I just...haven't taken the time to really sit down and get to like much of it. And admittedly, I'll pick something else first to listen to when I want music.
But since I'm forced to listen to various rock song covers OVER and OVER in the course of playing Guitar Hero, well, I'm sort of getting to like more and more of it.
I know I'm twenty years behind on discovering, "Sweet Child o' Mine," but HEY. Better late than never? The first forty-five seconds of it are so singularly awesome that I can't even get to the rest of the song, I just keep repeating those 45.
Oh yes, and I'm getting pretty comfortable on Medium. I actually got 85% on "Free Bird" today. I think I might be able to ace it soon. I'm NEVER going to be especially good at this game (especially since I never really get time to play it), but it's way more satisfying to get BETTER at than most games.
I don't have anything against rock, exactly. It's just really not the sort of music I ever listen to myself. My favourite musical genre, let's be honest, is show tunes. Which should tell you right there what sort of a music listener I am. The only "rock" in my personal collection needs to be followed by, "and roll." Think, "Jailhouse Rock" at its hardest.
Oh, and I used to listen to my parent's old cassette tapes ('70s/'80s rock and pop) when I was kid. That's about it.
Not quite sure why there's such a sizable gap in my musical education, but it basically amounts to: when I was old enough to choose my own radio stations, I listened to pop. And then only for a few years before I swore off the radio and started getting most of my musical entertainment in the form of battered cast recordings of Guys and Dolls and Annie Get Your Gun from the library.
My sister takes GREAT delight in mocking my ignorance. You've never heard of Radiohead? We'll just add THAT to the list of things you can't find under your little elevator Muzak rock.
Like I said though, I have nothing AGAINST rock as a genre. I just...haven't taken the time to really sit down and get to like much of it. And admittedly, I'll pick something else first to listen to when I want music.
But since I'm forced to listen to various rock song covers OVER and OVER in the course of playing Guitar Hero, well, I'm sort of getting to like more and more of it.
I know I'm twenty years behind on discovering, "Sweet Child o' Mine," but HEY. Better late than never? The first forty-five seconds of it are so singularly awesome that I can't even get to the rest of the song, I just keep repeating those 45.
Oh yes, and I'm getting pretty comfortable on Medium. I actually got 85% on "Free Bird" today. I think I might be able to ace it soon. I'm NEVER going to be especially good at this game (especially since I never really get time to play it), but it's way more satisfying to get BETTER at than most games.
