The Great OcUK Rock Music Questionnaire - <14-19yr olds

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I thought this might be an interesting idea for the forum and would give a nice gauge of everyone's different musical tastes across the generations.

Basically there will be three discussion threads (of which this is the first, so give it a few minutes for the others to all be up) in which people of the set age group can post a selection of answers to music related questions. The idea is to get a broader view of what artists different generations rate and feel have made a big impact on their listening. I want to try and keep it as condensed as possible, so there will only be a few categories. If it goes well, I'll consider adding more categories later.

Age groups:-

<14-19yrs old - Link
20-28yrs old - Link
29yrs old+ - Link

On to the categories and a brief description of them:-

Age:- More out of interest to guage if there's much split within the generations.

A. Five favourite bands.

This one is as simple as it sounds. List your five favourite overall bands, not just the latest bands you like at the minute but the five bands you consistently find yourself listening to. Rate them as follows:-

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B. Most influential bands of our generation.

This one is a bit more involved. List the top five bands who you think have made the biggest contribution to music since you've been listening to music.

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C. Most influential bands of all time.

This one encompasses all the bands since Chuck Berry first picked up a guitar :) Again, top five.

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The questionnaire will be open until the 25th of August.

Once that date closes, I'll announce the winners for each age category and the overall winners based on number of votes in each category.

I'd also really like there do be some high quality discussion and reasons given for your choices. This should hopefully get some good debate going over bands who some people might not have heard before. Try and keep it as civilised as possible and don't let it turn into arguments such as 'X is far better than Y because Y suck'.

Also, try and stick to your own thread! Tempting though it might be to poke the kids or the geriatrics in the eye with your musical stick of knowledge, it'll also be interesting to see who can produce the best discussion topic!

Let the discussion commence!
 
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Nitefly said:
I need this to be cleared up, do you mean since we have been seriously listening to music? Nirvana were way before my time if you are looking at it like that... despite being around in my lifetime.

You're on the borderline age wise and plenty old enough to have been listening to Nirvana ;)

Basically limit it to bands you listened to growing up, or were around while you were listening to music but hadn't yet discovered them.

Phnom Penh - Led Zeppelin weren't really around in the mid eighties.

I agree with Woody on this one. Korn, The Deftones and Rage Against the Machine brought 'nu-metal' into the mainstream, a long time before Limp Bizkit. I also think Limp Bizkit are very harshly overlooked, as some of the stuff on 'Significant Other' and 'Chocolate Starfish' is pretty decent, and very slick production wise.

Try and have a bit more discussion and reasons for your choices along the lines of Nitefly, da_mic and m3csl.
 
j00ni said:
IMO all three of the categories are as much personal opinion as anything. Music and your experience and interpretation of it is such an intensely personal thing, that there are never going to be definitive answers. And certainly better to go with your opinion from your experiences, than to say what you think is the 'right' answer because it's what others may say, without having come to that conclusion yourself :)

Well said. It's the bands who've had the biggest impact in your listening career and have inspired other bands who you respect as well. Don't just C&P what the person above you has said if you have either never heard of or despise all the bands they mention ;)
 
You could almost be my gig buddy Carzy ;)

In other news I finally heard I got my accommodation sorted for Cavendish.
 
Carzy said:
Well if your in Nottingham next year, you can be my gig buddy :p

I've just moved into my new house in Lenton for the second year. Cavendish isn't too bad either from what I've heard but I don't know a great deal about halls like I said in the email.

When you coming across to Notts?

24th of September assuming I'll actually be able to take all the **** I'll need to take with me on a plane by then.

Mildly concerned that piles of people already seem to be talking about accommodation for second year on TSR. I don't particularly want to end up committed to living in a house with a bunch of people I don't know or even remotely like by January of 1st year.

I've already got We Are Scientists, Tool and The Bronx lined up for the first few months in Notts.
 
The survey is closed. Has been since yesterday.

It's taking a while to collate the votes so expect it sometime at the beginning of next week.
 
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