Have to recommend spending time with The Everly Brothers and The Browns if you're eager to return to the period musically. It's impossible to listen to their close harmonies and the yearning in their lyrics, and not imagine a young Brian taking notes.
Though not my jam exactly, the Everly Brothers are deeply underrated outside of music circles. And indeed, they were deeply influential in the late 50s. (Simon & Garfunkel were another to benefit from their influence, as their cover song on Bridge Over Troubled Water indicates)
Not familiar with the Browns, I'll have to check them out though when it comes to non-jazz pop music of the 50s, "that old time rock & roll" tends to be what I like. (Though I won't say no to some classic country or calypso)
Jazz from the 50s-60s, R&B from the same era. Don't much go for orchestral classical, but I like a good strings quartet, or solo piano arrangement. I like vaporwave as writing music: early-internet sonic textures have a chokehold over my millennial soul. I write to opera sometimes too: Maria Callas, or Kiri Te Kanawa.
Lofi is a more contemporary genre I've been dabbling in for a few years now. I'm intrigued by how flexible it is; how virtually every other major genre has a lofi subgenre that pairs with it. And it's typically got the right sort of aesthetic for urban life.
Have to recommend spending time with The Everly Brothers and The Browns if you're eager to return to the period musically. It's impossible to listen to their close harmonies and the yearning in their lyrics, and not imagine a young Brian taking notes.
Though not my jam exactly, the Everly Brothers are deeply underrated outside of music circles. And indeed, they were deeply influential in the late 50s. (Simon & Garfunkel were another to benefit from their influence, as their cover song on Bridge Over Troubled Water indicates)
Not familiar with the Browns, I'll have to check them out though when it comes to non-jazz pop music of the 50s, "that old time rock & roll" tends to be what I like. (Though I won't say no to some classic country or calypso)
What kind of music do you like?
Jazz from the 50s-60s, R&B from the same era. Don't much go for orchestral classical, but I like a good strings quartet, or solo piano arrangement. I like vaporwave as writing music: early-internet sonic textures have a chokehold over my millennial soul. I write to opera sometimes too: Maria Callas, or Kiri Te Kanawa.
Lofi is a more contemporary genre I've been dabbling in for a few years now. I'm intrigued by how flexible it is; how virtually every other major genre has a lofi subgenre that pairs with it. And it's typically got the right sort of aesthetic for urban life.