• What do you look for in music? What is musics purpose for you?
  
• How has your taste for music changed, if they have, through the years and what do you think caused this/these change(s)?
  
• Bonus Question: Have you ever played an instrument? If so do you still play? Are or were you any good? Is there anything you've thought about playing?

Music has always been the most important thing in my life. To a fault. I literally go into mood swings and/or depression when my headphones break. It's not too much of a big deal now, since iPhones come with speakers, but whenever music was gone from reasonable access for a good amount of time, I'd be ready to commit suicide! I'm so glad to be able to listen to such amazing works by so many different groups and artists and genres. Music really is the biggest part of me.

What I look for in music is something exciting! Something that draws me to create, form and mold into a work I'm proud of. Every time I hear a song, I can't help but synchronize visuals to it, and seeing if it would work! Every song that passes though my ears makes me wonder if it would be a good 'fit' for a montage. I guess that's always been within me. My tastes for music has changed throughout adolescence and adulthood, when I hear something new that I enjoy, I tend to find out who made the song and see if there are others like it! I'm always open to at least try something new in music. If I don't like it, so be it. If I do, I expand. For the last question, I did play the piano and the violin. Sucked at the piano, although I would like to re-learn that--but I was good at the violin. But when middle school ended, so did Orchestra. But anyway...I'd also love to get some guitar lesson in, too.

Many of you will recognize this line:
"Hope shines brightest in the dark, if we believe"

Who knew that a line from a song written for a video game about shooting 'aliens' would become the most powerful song in my life.

This lyric resonates with me so much right now that I got it custom printed in to a wall decal and it is above my bed where I can see it every day.

I will make another post later about my music habits / moods / likes :)

Good thread idea, I've enjoyed reading other's posts and checking out some of the musical artists they shared

(I meant to post to Raga's topic, but life happens, and now the topic is locked - I also didn't really want to 'Vagueness' it back up 3 weeks late and have the post get buried)
I compared my notes with Ragashingo's and everything lined up. I agree, that I have never seen anyone identify the first piece of music from the Arecibo mission.
Could it be an original piece put together by the Audio team, to sound ancient and Asian/Japanese influenced? Is that why it is so difficult to research and find?

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By the way, did anyone ever read into the handcannon, Guseva-C, you are awarded at the end of the Adventure/Mission Arecibo?

Flavor Text:
"You know your purpose"

I looked this up after my first playthrough all those months back in September and have never brought it up to anyone. I also have never really seen anyone else bring it up either, I don't think...
It really is a fascinating tidbit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khioniya_Guseva
(My paraphrase):
C/K/J Guseva/Guseyva was a syphilis riddled (rumor), likely manipulated, probably crazed, peasant woman, with no nose, who attemted to assassinate Rasputin by stabbing him in the abdomen, and then reportedly ran through the streets screaming "I have killed the AntiChrist!"

This weapon follows the Häkke naming convention of weapons named after famous warriors, particularly those that try to disembowel others.

Another interesting note from the Arecibo mission, and this one has been discovered and pointed out by others before, is at the beginning of the mission Ghost requests Asher check out frequency transmissions on channel 'J-1869'. Rasputin was born on January 21, 1869.
http://www.ishtar-collective.net/transcripts/adventure-arecibo

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Furthermore, If we put all of our 'Music heads' together could we work together and try to figure out what appears to be a remaining Music mystery or two in D1? (which might be tied to The Oracles in the Vault of Glass? - Rampant Speculation)
https://destiny.bungie.org/forum/index.php?&id=145820
https://destiny.bungie.org/forum/index.php?id=147370
https://destiny.bungie.org/forum/index.php?id=148176

In a matter of a few weeks that mystery will likely be blown wide open by a group of selfish minds that have been not-so-quietly working behind closed and locked doors.

James Mercer (of The Shins and Broken Bells)

(Not that any one song is remotely representative of James Mercer, his style changes A LOT even on the same album)

KT Tunstall

Dan Aeurbach—Waiting for a Song

The guy from The Black Keys, right? See, you're still with the times. No need to worry yet. I KNOW he did an NPR Tiny Desk concert very recently and I was going to grab it just now and post it for you, but it looks like they don't have it posted yet. It always takes them forever. :(

Ah, here it is. I was only looking at their YouTube channel at first, because the last time I tried to use their own web player, it would ONLY work in IE. But it's currently working fine for me in Firefox.

Thanks!

BTW, Ryan Adams was probably 17 or 18 at the time. He was known in the local scene as the kid who crashed on your couch, drank a lot, played in numerous bands, and purportedly wrote a song a day.

Am I just weird because I never really had strong affinity to either John or Paul, and tend to find myself more a fan of George and Ringo?

Not at all! I love all four. They had unique personalities, and their individual appeal goes beyond their musical contributions. Each was essential.

I just can't tell what makes most music "mediocre" versus "great", whereas most people seem to have some instinctual ability to do so.

On top of that, most people become obsessed with a particular genre or set of artists in their teenage years. I didn't.

Dan Aeurbach—Waiting for a Song

The guy from The Black Keys, right? See, you're still with the times. No need to worry yet. I KNOW he did an NPR Tiny Desk concert very recently and I was going to grab it just now and post it for you, but it looks like they don't have it posted yet. It always takes them forever. :(

Ah, here it is. I was only looking at their YouTube channel at first, because the last time I tried to use their own web player, it would ONLY work in IE. But it's currently working fine for me in Firefox.

I thought of the Beatles for example as a band that got better and better. Now I think the peak of their powers were right around Rubber Soul and Revolver. After that they became more fragmented, less focused, more experimental, and less consistent. They did amazing stuff like Sgt. Pepper, but it actually sounds more dated.

That's wicked smart, Kermit. I've always wondered why that was but I never could put a finger on it.

When I would talk to my dad about them, he always told me I was lame for preferring a lot of the earlier stuff. I consider Help! to be their best album, but I think you're right. Have you heard Let It Be...Naked? It's actually an improvement on Let It Be IMO, but it also sounds like they're trying to get back to the Rubber Soul Beatles, but they've just gone too far and can't get that back.

Anyway, my dad, growing and maturing with the Beatles, was able to appreciate their experiments and increasing complexities as a teenager, as he was increasing in complexity. Those really resonate with him because of how the band evolved with him.

For me, as a person who had the entire catalogue available at once, I know what I liked and what I didn't like as much, and I heard it all out of context. It's kept me from perhaps liking John Lennon, but it has allowed me to really really enjoy Paul McCartney, and just about everything he has ever done.

They were indeed trying to get back to something during the “Let It Be” sessions. The album was originally going to be called “Get Back.” Yes, I’ve got the “naked” version. The band was kaput, Phil Spector got ahold of it, and his production has always been controversial.

Here’s how I got into the Beatles. In the early 70s, Yellow Submarine was the movie of the week on TV. I saw it, and began seeking out “Eleanor Rigby,” without knowing its name. I bought the Yellow Submarine ST, which, like most of their soundtracks in America (more on that later), had one side of Beatles and one side of George Martin orchestration. No Eleanor Rigby. For Christmas that year I got the red and blue anthology albums, so like you, I was exposed to most of the catalog at once. I also recorded (on 8-track no less!) a 12-hour BBC production called The Beatles Story off the radio. That gave me a lot of context. For my birthday a month later, I got Sgt. Pepper. These were the first four albums I owned.

As a preteen I adored McCartney. Wings was actually topping the charts at that time. There was this older teen stoner dude in the neighborhood who would drop nuggets of wisdom on us kids now and then, he and I got into a debate over Lennon vs. McCartney.

“Paul’s obviously the most talented,” I said.

“Talent isn’t everything,” he said.

By my mid-teens I’d gone through my Lennon appreciation phase and understood what the stoner dude meant. I think John & Yoko did some wacky things, but I’ve always admired his integrity and felt like he came to his positions honestly. I never sensed he did anything to try to please anyone (in contrast to Paul), and I don’t think he ever stopped thinking, which is saying something for a celebrity. (Imagine presents a straightforward Utopian fantasy; Revolution, on the other hand, is a pretty scathing classical liberal response to some of the excesses of the political movements on his side.) He had an amazing self-awareness—he didn’t run from his demons. Listen to “Jealous Guy”—it’s quite a song. By the time some asshole shot him, I was a big fan. (Boy, was that a weird week to work in a record store.)

Anyway “Help” is indeed a fantastic album. I assume you’re talking about the British version. Because I was first exposed to the American version with side 2 being instrumentals, I have trouble judging it the same way. Nevertheless, there was a time after being exposed to the British version when I considered it my favorite, too. The last 20 years or so I bounce back and forth between Rubber Soul and Revolver.