IaSg14

Rather than get straight into blog posts about music, I'm gonna do a little one about myself and my musical tastes so you have a rough idea of the sort of albums I'll be listening to and writing about. If you can't be arsed to read this, it's Rock and Metal. If you want to know the different subgenres of Rock/Metal I favour, carry on good sir/mam/Mumford & Sons fan.
But first, a little about me in general.

Some of you might be wondering what IaSg stands for, although I imagine most of you don't give a shit.
It's a name I thought up years ago when I was still in school. I took the first letters of four words and added 14 at the end because I liked that number (don't ask). The four words were a sort of in-joke between me and my best friend.
I Am So Great.
It's not so much an arrogant boast but more a self-esteem boost. For a while, on different sites like Last.FM, I went by names like IASG14 or I-A-S-G but I remember having to sign up to one particular site that had both of those taken. In the end, the first combination that I was allowed to use was IaSg14. It just sort of stuck with all other websites so yeah, that's what IaSg14 is all about. And now that that boring fucking anecdote is over, I can talk more about music!

Like most kids in the UK, I grew up surrounded by shit on the radio. By the time I was old enough to remember songs by their name and band, it was getting on towards the late 90's. Grunge had pulled a Nancy Kerrigan on Metal and Britpop was a thing we all just accepted as a tolerable irritation in our lives, like mosquitoes or Confused.com adverts. Luckily for me, my Dad was a fan of 60's Rock bands. He played me songs by The Beatles, The Hollies, The Kinks, etc and I loved them.
However, when I was in Junior school, I was introduced to contemporary Pop. Granted there were some songs I liked and, every now and then, I still find myself listening to Mambo No. 5 - Lou Bega all the way through but I never really found myself a "fan" of anything. I would just listen to it and not feel unhappy. That's about as far as my taste went when I was 8 and I regret to say it carried on until I was about 16. I used to be one of the "like a bit of everything" tossers although I don't remember ever using those words to describe my tastes.
When I was in high school, I discovered the Guitar Hero series and it opened my world to a genre I'd previously disregarded like a Vince Vaughn film. The sort of music that I knew existed but wouldn't go out of my way to experience. Rock music. The game in question was Guitar Hero 3: Legends Of Rock, featuring a soundtrack with tracks such as The Seeker - The Who, Ruby - Kaiser Chiefs and Welcome To The Jungle - Guns N Roses. Those were the 3 tracks that I remember listening to before I decided that I wanted the game.

Within a year, I was playing on Expert difficulty and had bought myself a starter kit of Rock and Metal to listen to on iTunes. Scorpions, Living Colour, Blue Oyster Cult, the list goes on. It was from there that I started to listen to Rock music a lot more, buying Guitar Hero games as they came out and opening my taste to the various genres within Rock. However, it was my decision to make my own Guitar Hero setlist that really got me not just into the sound of Rock but the history of it too.
I looked into how Psychedelic Rock would go onto inspire Prog Rock and even Metal, or the decades and their most popular genres along with bands and songs that defined an era. I loved it, and I still do it just because I enjoy it so much. Years later and I'm sat at home on Spotify brushing up on the catalogues of different bands whilst other teens are out clubbing or getting STDs. I started several music related projects (which I'll probably go into another day on here) and the latest of which has been this blog. Hopefully it'll be just as decent as my others.
So what bands was/am I into? It's all well and good saying Rock over and over again but that's like saying your favourite food is Meat. The Rock I'm into is Rock from the 70's-80's, BUT I also like bands from the other decades. I tend to go off the original 50's Rock & Roll just because I dislike the Blues pattern that most of the songs tend to follow. However, 00's or 10's Rock songs can be found on my iPod, although the majority are probably from the 70's and 80's.

Whenever people ask who my favourite band is, I usually reply with several simply because I have favourite bands from different genres rather than one all-round #1 band. My favourite Metal band is Iron Maiden, my favourite Rock band is Lynyrd Skynyrd and my favourite Pop/Rock band is ELO. However, I also like Deep Purple, Saxon, Tenacious D, Judas Priest, Maximo Park, The Cult, Metallica, Rush and Motorhead, among others. So that's a snapshot of the crop of bands you can expect to see on here. Saying that, not all of my posts will be on old albums. Sure, I'll look into 80's albums every now and then but fortunately for me, the 10's seems to be the decade for revival.
We've had new albums from Black Sabbath, Rush, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Whitesnake, David Bowie, Def Leppard, Saxon, Deep Purple, Megadeth and others with more on the way so I've got plenty to discuss here and you've got plenty to read! If you have any other questions about my taste in music OR a request for me to listen to and review, feel free to leave your comment and I'll look at it as soon as possible. In fact, I should get some kind of gadget for this blog where you can type the name of a band and album for me to check out if I don't find the request fucking despicable (e.g. asking me to review Noah And The Whale's latest dreary puddle of cat piss).

And with that, be seeing you!