The Tracks Of My Years - Part 6
Age 25-30, 1997-2002
All of the above. It’s probably a sign of growing old when we continue to listen to what we listened to when we were twenty. But I take some comfort that people who are in their twenties listen to bands that sound a lot like the stuff I listened to ten years ago. I mean, Coldplay sounds a lot like Counting Crows, Dave Matthews Band sounds a lot like Crowded House.
I made some rediscoveries, like Manic Street Preachers did it again with “Everything Must Go”, a blistering ode (in my mind at least) to impermanence and consumerism. Foo Fighters’ Learn to Fly does melodic rock better than anything I’ve heard.
I started listening to different types of music, like country (Look Heart, No Hands by Randy Travis, Dixieland by Steve Earle And The Del McCoury Band), zydeco (Beast of Burden by Buckwheat Zydeco or anything by the Bluerunners), Bluegrass (Foggy Mountain Breakdown by Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs), marrabenta, the rhythmic guitar music of West Africa (Aids by Mabulu), rock steady (Get Out Of My Life Woman, Byron Lee and the Dragonaires).