You Can Tell A Lot About A Person By The Music They Listen To

You Can Tell A Lot About A Person By The Music They Listen To

As a young child I listened to the music my father listened to. He liked opera, big band and singers like Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Nat "King Cole," etc.  My Dad was conservative, mild mannered and risk adverse. In the forties, jazz was the music of the risk takers.

I got to like some of my dad's music. I cried when I heard operas sung by Enrico Caruso and Mario Lanza. I also like Frank and big band to this day, however, I'm far from my father's temperament - I'm an old, yet still young at heart, rocker.

In my early teens when ninety eight percent of people loved the standards by white singers, I only listened to the other two percent of the radio stations that played black music. One such station was by a DJ called Jacko. He would start his radio show by saying: "once again it's rocket ship time and the ones on board must be out of their mind."

He played songs by The Platters, The Drifters, Fats Domino, Lloyd Price, The Spinners, etc. etc. He never played songs by white singers like Bill Haley & His Comets, The Everly Brothers, The Kingston Trio, etc. etc. At the end of his show Jocko would say: "I'm like a roach on a post - too smooth to move."

I love black music because it has a fabulous beat and is easy to dance to. That music is still inside my soul today. Maybe it was that music that made me want to be different than my father (he hated rock and roll music). I wanted to be out there not behind the scenes like my father. I wanted to be a risk taker which my father was just the opposite. Listening to black music when everyone else was listening to white music, made me different. I like being non-standard.

Today I'm all over the place. I love country, the fifties and sixties oldies (including some white singers and bands), Rock and Roll, etc. If it has a great beat and I can dance to it, I love it no matter who the singer or group is.     

People who listen to country music come in two flavors. Traditional country sung by Johnny Cash, Willy Nelson, Hank Williams, etc. etc. and country rock sung by Blake Shelton, Confederate Railroad, Bob Seager, Creedence Clearwater, etc. etc. I believe the older generation still favors traditional country and are very conservative. The younger country generation and older rockers like me, prefer country rock. Since I'm not conservative, I assume most of the country rock people are also not conservative

Sixty eight percent of black people like rap music. Thirty one percent of all the people who like rap music do so because they want to put the windows down on their piece of shit car and blast their rap music, out the window, pissing off anyone within one hundred feet of their car. Only seven percent of brown people like rap music and Asian people just don't get it.  I like some rap music, but too much is too much. The groups I like most are Cam'ron and The Black Eye Peas.

Ninety one percent who listen to boy bands like Maroon 5 or singers like Justin Beaver are under twenty years old. Obviously they are so young they don't know shit about music or what's going on in the world. I hate boy band music. Only four percent still listen to Jazz most of the time. The only reason I don't like Jazz is because I can't dance to it.

Sooo, what kind of music do you like the most? Do you believe your music fits your personality? I know my music says exactly who I am - Rock and Roll fills my soul.

BTW, you're probably wondering where the hell I got all those percentages stated above. The truth is:

I Just Made Shit Up