Am I insane?

I was obsessed with Lou Barlow, so you're a lot better off than I. By time you're 17 or 18 you'll be in good shape, as long as you maybe lay off the Floyd.

well no more so than i was at your age, only listening to jazz, classical and novelty songs. my first ever cd purchases - grieg's piano concerto in a, the flanders and swann box set, stan freburg's greatest, the temperance seven and a doctor who soundtrack. i was fourteen. never listened to anything beyond the 1960's til i was seventeen. still have a vast soft spot for it all. and indeed, frequently i do wander into a 1930's dance band hit while chatting to people...

eccentric but not insane... no bad thing either

KC & The Sunshine band? It's a start, Anna, though I dunno if that's the way to go. (I was good, wasn't I? I mean it's a dumb ass reply, no?)

Yes, you are off your rocker to be a fanatic about a specific type of music to a degree that it messes with simple conversations. And you will overdo it, and one day you'll find that you dislike Yes, Can, King Crimson, etc. Listen to some other music too.

I wouldn't be so commanding as A Nairn there, but I would simply note that if you love music as much as you do, personally I think embracing the potential for variety all over the map is the way to go. It seems to me that there's always much to love and much more to discover, especially if you don't approach it from a predetermined 'this is great and THAT is crap, especially since other people hate what I love and vice versa' approach. But I'm not one to tell you when or how to listen to other things -- merely to note that the possibilities are there.

Hearing music in my mind? Do it all the time. Interferes with conversations? Hopefully not, but then again I'm sure I have my moments. ;-)

As for being smart-ass, hey -- you're the one who came in with a sharp tongue complaining that rap sucked and all that! ;-) But you have stuck with us crazy characters, which is most cool.

the answer to the basic question is: yes mark, you are insane.

haha jess u haf not yet twigged that i am ALL THE OTHAH POSTAHS, not just anna and yves: THIS ENTIRE BOARD IS CREATED AND RUN BY ME TO FCK WT YO HEAD hurrah

i really hadn't put that much thought into it, but thanks for the heads up.

yes (but not for the reasons you think)

I used to like Progressive Rock when I was 13-14 years old.

Than I grew out of it, now I listen to Free Jazz all the time.

Can we copy this thread and use it for Cannabis warnings.

haha

"i suppose there aren't very many 13 year old faust fans in the world today" = best sentence ever = anna rose you are cool

Anna Rose reminds me of Yuki from Dance, Dance, Dance by Murakami, coz she is always listening to music (genesis, talking heads etc) and is also 13.

Anyway, I say embrace the internal soundtrack.

That's it. I knew I'd get some answers that just said "Yes". This thread is now officially retitled, "Is anyone as possessed as me?" because that's a bit safer.

I used to listen to free jazz,

then I grew out of it, now I listen to KISS all the time.

Anna, I think that you place too much emphasis on your age being a potentially decisive factor in your musical tastes, or at least what your musical tastes *should* be. I mean, yeah, sure it's impressive on level that you like Faust and Can, but I think you sell short thirteen year olds to suggest that they can't or don't like "difficult" music.

I'm perfectly prepared to admit that a thirteen year old is unlikely to have an enormous music collection (and correspondingly an in-depth knowledge of different styles and genres) but I think that's more to do with the amount of time and money they've had at their disposal. People, even very young people, can be amazingly receptive to lots of different stuff when they're still working out a context for music within their lives. It just depends on what their "way in" is. Should I have been proud of buying Tilt when I was 13? Something tells me not really; I probably was a teensy bit back then, but what does liking Tilt actually *say* about me? Not much, I think. And I've derived lots of enjoyment (in fact, lots more enjoyment) subsequently from music that could be considered to be antithetical to that album, *especially* in terms of presumed lack of difficulty.

So, your "way in" to music has been prog/krautrock, but just as there's no barrier to starting off liking Picasso and working backwards to Michaelangelo, I don't think you should consider yourself to be anywhere on your musical journey but at the beginning of it - and I mean that in the best positive sense (who really wants to arrive at the *end* of this particular journey??!)

"Anna, I think that you place too much emphasis on your age being a potentially decisive factor in your musical tastes, or at least what your musical tastes *should* be."
That is of course because she looks like a +40 year old man. ;-)

god, you AIMers are worse than a sewing circle...

nathalie thinx anna = me

hahah I did! I don't wanna know tho. sometimes it's more fun NOT TO KNOW. like that iggy pop is purblind (???) and that is the reason he crashes into things onstage not because he is PUNKAH or something. are you mark? come on tell us! no no don't. no do tell...

Anna Rose is as real as I am.

I am real.

i am false

13 years of fan-fare do not a person's age make.