Jemma's Music Shrine

Foreword

Welcome to my brand new music shrine! It is totally a work in progress, that is your warning.
Following this year's Spotify Wrapped I feel it necessary to make a shrine to my own music listening and document it all. Music is such a vital and huge piece of my life and is intertwined in each thread of my life. Documenting this is documenting my life, my true feelings are always in the music. I will be splitting this page up into different types of sections.
I'll start with the "archaic" days, which will be any music I remember listening to up to fifth grade. I might further split this up later. Then each section will be split into years, starting with 2019. Within the year sections there will be splits for each grade I was in. All these will be linked in the side bar. I will also have my playlists that I still have linked within the different sections.

The Archaic Days

This section is mostly based on loose memories, really any morsel of music I can remember from childhood

Early on in life I remember very little. I remember bits and pieces of Fleetwood Mac, CDs my Dad burnt for my Mom (like his special mixes or Francesca Battistelli). Almost all my memories of music come from my parents CDs at this time. Every day on the way to preschool I INSISTED that we listen to The Donnas' Gold Medal album. It was my favorite album, they were and still are my favorite artist, and my favorite song was the track it's titled after, Gold Medal. Also my Dad would play random punky songs such as Descendents' Enjoy and The Cramps' cover of Surfin' Bird. My Mom on the other hand would occasionally play George Clinton's Greatest Funkin' Hits and a LOT of Carole King's Tapestry and poppier Beatles songs.
While I was at school on the school computers I would listen to stuff like the Pokemon X album and the Lego Ninjago Movie and Lego Movie soundtracks. I also listened to this stuff at home, and the Club Penguin: The Party Starts Now album.
I also got into some classic rock and old pop hits due to the radio. This would then get me into the Spotify 80s Hits playlist and would carry me into some of the music of 5th and 6th grades.

2017

Fifth Grade

Fifth grade was when I guess you could say I had a "musical awakening". This wasn't just some change in mindset or anything, it was that I got a little CD Player for my birthday (I wanted one so I could listen to The Donnas' Gold Medal outside the car).
With this gift, my parents decided to let me have free range over their CD collection. This opened a lot of doors for me musically because with the two of them combined it was a very diverse catalog, but my Dad gave me some pointers based on my liking of The Donnas. His recomendations were The Muffs (a few of their albums he had), Bangs's Tiger Beat, and The Breeders' Last Splash. He also showed me some random albums like A Tribe Called Quest's People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm and other albums I can't currently think of. I also was listening to a lot of The Beatles' weirder stuff such as Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and The Magical Mystery Tour (courtesy of the public library system). At this time I really didn't use Spotify too much, except at school or on my parent's accounts.
Back on my parents' CDs I found bands like Bikini Kill and dug into that while my Dad also showed me some Led Zeppelin albums such as II and III. My brother would later on get me into Houses of the Holy.
This section is currently unfinished because I'm sure I'm forgetting something.
I also remember listening to a little pop music playlist my Dad created that I would listen to with him including stuff like Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez, and Carly Rae Jepsen.

2018

Sixth Grade

Sixth grade continued my musical awakening. I don't remember too many specifics. I definitely started getting into The Beths' Future Me Hates Me because my parents' friend got them into it and then I got into it.

2019

Sixth Grade Contd.

While I don't remember much of sixth grade except the drama, I do have my Top Songs 2019 from Spotify. This probably includes some stuff from seventh grade, but the stuff that seems more sixth grade to me thats on there is a lot of 80s Hits, Beatles, The Beths, Michael Jackson, The Donnas, and of course Crab Rave (it was 2019).

Seventh Grade

Seventh grade brought big changes to my music taste. The first half of seventh grade was in 2019, and the stuff I was getting into was still mostly the same as it had been in past years (anything from 5th grade forward), but with some new artists from my parents' collection such as Bratmobile and more albums by A Tribe Called Quest. I also was picking up stuff from the library like Hall and Oates Greatest Hits and ELO's Greatest Hits. I was also listening to a band called Girl Friday.
Around this time I also started getting really into Queen because my girlfriend at the time was super into them.

2020

Seventh Grade Contd.

The biggest musical changes of seventh grade came when the pandemic struck. This shift began Friday, March 13. I started to dig into some new CDs I had never found before in my parents collection, some of which I had memories of. These CDs were George Clinton's Greatest Funkin' Hits and The White Stripes' Get Behind Me Satan. These two CDs made me dig deeper in both directions. After hearing Greatest Funkin' Hits for the first time since childhood I got really into all sorts of stuff by Parliament and Funkadelic. This also led me into getting into two CDs of James Brown (a random playlist my Dad burned years ago and the album Spank).
Soon with the pandemic I would spend hours listening to music on my MP3 player at night while reading comics. I soon got into the radio on there and found a music I had never considered: Blues. This radio station's midnight mixes got me into artists like Robert Johnson, Mamie Smith, and Cream that would help shape my music listening. I also got really into Stevie Wonder and the Minecraft soundtrack and Disasterpiece while doing school work in the quarantine.

Eighth Grade

In eighth grade I continued down the path I'd set in seventh grade. I was still locked in at home. This is where I start to have really vivid pictures of what I was listening to. Because of the radio I got into Jimi Hendrix (but specifically his bluesier stuff), I dug deeper into The White Stripes listening to almost all their discography (but mostly Elephant and White Blood Cells got ingrained in my taste at this time), went really far down the Riot Grrl rabbithole, started to find bands like Cumgirl8 on the website maximumrocknroll.com (I can proudly say I've been a Cumgirl8 fan from the beginning!), lots of Billy Joel, more Beatles, Aretha Franklin, Son House (because of the radio), Super Blues compilations I found at the library, Madonna, Sam Cooke, Neil Sedeka (all courtesy of Spotify), Muddy Waters, and the original Fleetwood Mac. This was the year my music really exploded and flourished.