Things You Didnt Know About Music Until You Were Older..

[Mitchell]

For the music fans of the forum: Is there anything you didn't know about music, when you were young.. or.. perhaps.. you liked a certain song.. or singer.. and didn't realize how influential they were until you were older?

For me, two instances come to mind.

I've been listening to Paul Simon since I was six.. literally. My father had the Still Crazy After All These Years album, which had the song Fifty Ways To Leave Your Lover, which was number one in Feb 1976. I used to love to listen to that album. I knew that Mr Simon was a great singer, and that the album was awesome, yet, it was not until I was 11, with the Concert in Central Park, that I realized that Simon was part of the famous duo Simon and Garfunkel, as I really never paid attention to them as a singing duo until that concert.

Another instance.

I was nearly 11 when John Lennon was tragically killed. When the news kept saying "Former Beatle John Lennon". I had an idea that Lennon and the Beatles were famous, but it was not until a few years later, in my mid teens, that I began really listening to the Beatles and Lennon's music, and I realized just how He/They as a group, changed history.

Those are my two instances.. Any others for forum members?

 

[dan182]

I know if u play some records and cds backwards u can hear hidden messages in the music and some of the messages are satanic playing music backwards is called backwardmasking

 

[Dialon]

Not really that interesting or inspiring, but when I was like 11 years old, I thought Lincoln Park was a place rather than a band. I remember when I was in school, everyone always talked about them (in my school they were popular) and I had no fucking idea what anyone was talking about.

This was back when there was one computer with internet in the house so I had little means of actually looking up what they were, and was too embarrassed to ask anyone.

 

[Wesker28]

I used to think that too Dialon.

As for what I didn't know about music until I was older that is an easy one. Most of it just meaningless noise, and very little of it has meaning.

 

[Thatsecretchord]

There was plenty of songs I diddnt realise were covers until much later on but that's about all that springs to mind

 

[realista_magica]

Believe it or not, I had no idea who David Bowie was until I listened to Space Oddity on that Ben Stiller movie and I totally fell in love with the song, I somewhat remembered it from years and years ago. When I googled the song, obviously David Bowie popped out and I was like: "who is David Bowie?" And everyone else was like: WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU? Haha. I was so embarrassed because I actually liked a couple of his songs, I just had no idea who he was. Sorry, world 😳

 

[DontAskJusTckle]

As a teenager I thought that Jimmy Page and Frank Zappa were the first to write songs in atypical time signatures like 5/4, 7/4, or 9/8. Later, I had discovered that many jazz performers of the 40s and 50s incorporated these odd time signatures from time to time. Even the theme for Mission Impossible is in 5/4.

 

[Bohemianne]

Cakewalk.

 

[kopfhorer]

I didn't know that "A Hard Day's Night" by the Beatles was one of many, many songs (by many artists) about - sex! The double-entendre flew right past my preadolescent head, and apparently a lot of radio program directors' heads as well!

 

[desdemona]

Well, my parents only listened to AM radio. I didn't know FM existed until I was about 10 years old. So I grew up listening to "oldies" as my normal music.

When I was in high school, I remember seeing a kid with a t-shirt that said "Dead Kennedys" so I asked him what he had against them... and was informed it was a band.

 

[Libertine]

When I was little in the late 50s and had various kids' 45s featuring colorful cartoons of singing animals on the sleeves (also one singing tugboat) I heard my parents listening to a record of a lady with a nice voice, and they told me who she was. A day or two later when I asked them to play the "Elephant Gerald" record again they found it very amusing. I'd misheard "Ella Fitzgerald".