What music did our parents listen to when we were younger, and what was the first music we ever owned? Find out right at the start of this week’s show. Also find out if either of us ever played a musical instrument. After the trip to the past, we leap to the future, discussing the musician or band that never lets us down…and the band that, when on it, is as good as it gets, but has also recorded some of the worst music out there.

From there, we delve into dislikes, leading off with the band or style of music it seems everyone says one must like, but we don’t like. Then: it’s time for a moment of hate…find out what band or musician we could do without. (And yes, we said hate. Normally, not our kind of thing, but once Christopher opened his mouth and discussed is irrational hatred for a particular musician, things took a bit of a dip into Negativeland.) You know we usually lean toward positive, though…to the point of ridiculously positive at times. We leave the dislike and hate behind and talk about music’s effect on our writing.

Music is a time machine of the mind — we then talk about the musician or band that transports us to the time we listened to them most. Find out what songs we can’t help but like, as well as our guilty pleasure tunes. (Not that we are ones to really care what people think of our musical choices, but we all have those songs that are considered bad that we instead love.)

What do we listen to most these days? How has our tastes changed — what musicians or bands did we once listen to all the time that we have simply left behind?  Find out our biggest music 180s, the bands we once couldn’t stand that we came to love. Then it’s time for the one-minute lightning round as we rattle off some of our favorite songs (and forget so many others)! The episode closes with what effect music has on us.

We’d love to hear your answers to any of these questions in the comments.

 

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