How your music changes ..

[prowler]

hello

 

[SinHarvest24]

When i was 5-9 yrs i used to listen a lot of reggae. It was mostly because reggae at that time was in it's prime and well everyone around was playing reggae. Then slowly rap started to crawl into my life. It think it was mostly Tupac/Dr. Dre/Snoop Dogg/Eminem that made me switched from reggae to rap. I was into rap for a pretty long time (from about 10-16yrs). After rap came rock. I transitioned into rock via Linkin Park. LP was awesome. Before i know it, i was a full-blown rock junkie. I do however enjoy the occasional pop song that's playing everywhere. J-rock is slowing tempting me but there's far too few good bands. Rite now i like rock, alt. rock, j-rock, and country/folk-songs somewhat.

 

[KingdomBlade]

I didn't listen to music till was about 13, so a year ago. My musical taste isn't the most developed since I don't tend to follow genres. I like a lot of music, that's it.

If I had to check it, the genre I have most is progressive rock and alternative rock, mostly from 90s and the 2000s, and some classic rock, dance pop, rap, RnB, techno (well, just a tiny bit), OSTs from Movies (and some games), classic, metal, and other stuff. So.. yeah. Never went through phases or some shit. Well, maybe for that one month when I listened to emo stuff a lot, though I never really became "emo", I just liked the music. I have Lady Gaga, Muse and The Beatles in the same playlist, so you can see that.

 

[Satangel]

From me it changed from pure rappers like Eminem and D12 to the more female rappers like Usher, Chris Brown, Ne-Yo, ....
It's still female rappers now, love it. No Justin Bieber or Lil Wayne though.

Yeah and a half later, totally changed to the likes of Netsky (Belgian mothafacka!) and Rusko

 

[frogboy]

Not quite the change you're talking about, but my music seems faster when I listen to it at night.

 

[Hells Malice]

My music tastes have stayed identical from when I first posted till now.

 

[emigre]

When I was younger I listened to the Manic Street Preachers, the Clash, New Order, Pre- 98 Suede and other good bands.

Now I am older I listen to the Clash, New Order, Pre- 98 Suede and other good bands.

Just fixed it. Postcards from a young man was fucking horrible.

 

[FAST6191]

Loss of interest in anything- not really. I am perhaps slightly less inclined to put up with things (both within the genres I more frequently find but that leads into the paragraph below.
However I continue to click around in the hopes of finding new things and frequently do. Better yet it seems music types can be somewhat broader/more specific and say where 20 years ago should I want to hear a song about a dragon I might have just about found a handful where today I have the choice of hundreds covering an entire spectrum. Whether this counts as a slide into "instant" gratification or an unequivocally positive step I will leave the pondering of to a later day (some like to bring up the lack of a cultural focal point here which I am not convinced the lack of is a bad thing). It also means my collection has ballooned somewhat so the random track playlist spits out certain songs less even if the proper playlist has not grown in proportion to the library.

I will however have to say where ten years ago I would have gone to the gigs of various bands in a heartbeat I might not today and my willingness to put in serious time and money to getting to gigs as well as my capability to do it has only increased- I still go to as many and then as now gigs for any genre are as likely to be filled with oiks in less than full control of their mental faculties. I am not quite sure what this means and may be as close as I get to changing tastes.

General observation- high school and such periods in life bring with it a desire to belong to a group and groups seem to have a musical identity (mods, rockers, ravers, punks, hippies and need I go on) which might "mandate" another genre remain closed to you. Once this has passed (it usually happens but not always) tastes have a habit of broadening or indeed metal blocks have a habit of dissolving.
Unfortunately I can not claim to have escaped this entirely but my lack of concern for such divisions has caused friction at various points.

 

[Domination]

Spoiler: Unnecessarily long wall of text

I've got to say my music evolution is pretty linear. When I was younger I never did listen to much music, maybe a few local or Taiwan pop stars now and then, but its not even often I listen to them. Then I met the internet.

The internet really changed me as a person in the whole too, actually, but I won't go into that. The internet allowed me to listen to music from all over the world. In the beginning I only listened to some shitty stuff like Simple Plan, some stupid rap stuff and the occasional hard rock bands like Bon Jovi and Aerosmith. Then there was Rise Against, etc. It was more sparse and mainstream than what I listen to now. The frequency I listened to music increased, but it still wasn't a lot.

I was also started getting into anime back then, and that was when I started to fall in love with Japanese music, particularly J-Rock. I listened to L'Arc-en-Ciel extensively, and some other stuff like GLAY, Abingdon Boys School, T.M. Revolution etc. The generic mainstream J-Rock stuff of course.

I guess the J-Rock was what really got me into Rock and really guitar-based music, and I started to get more into Bon Jovi and Aerosmith and Daughtry and stuff, you know mainstream generic hard rock. Coincidentally, it was also around that time that I bought Guitar Hero, which introduced me to more music, and I fell in love with Black Label Society, Ozzy Osbourne, etc.

Long story short I got more into rock and all, and started to explore genres. I found The Who, Black Sabbath, Metallica, Nirvana, Beatles, Sex Pistols, Deep Purple Foo Fighters, etc. And most importantly I found Led Zeppelin, still one of my favourite bands today. And after listening to Black Sabbath, Metallica and stuff I got more into metal and listened to Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Megadeth too. That was my 'old-music-is-better-than-everything-else-phase'.

Then some time later, for some reason, I tried listening to Muse and Radiohead. Best decision of my life. They were so fucking brilliant and I started exploring modern music again. I listened to a lot of alternative rock after that. Red Hot Chili Peppers, more Foo Fighters, QotSA, RATM, Coldplay, etc.

I tried exploring music even further after that, being a usual wikipedia surfer and seeing Muse classified into a 'new prog' genre, I decided to look into some of those bands. OH MY FUCKING GOD. Oceansize didn't particularly grow on me at that time, but they were pretty good to me, along with bands like Dredg and Amplifier which I listened to occasionally.

Then I decided to listen to more Prog, and I remember seeing a lot of good things about Dream Theater, I listened and I fell in love, then I listened to stuff like Rush and Porcupine Tree too. Its sad that Pink Floyd still seems seemingly bland to me today though.

After getting more into prog and alternative rock, I guess I went back to listen to more Oceansize, and it really really really grew on me. Frames seemed like the most amazing album ever (still is). I guess this was what really got me into prog and experimental music. Then I see stuff about Explosions in the Sky and I listened to them, beautiful! Then I also started listening to Post-Rock. When I got more into instrumentals, I also started listening to Shred guitar etc.

Then around this year, I tried listening to Death Metal seriously after putting it off for so long, and I realised my tastes grew enough for me to like it. It grew more and more on me, and I started listening to Opeth since it's one of [m]NeSchn[/m]'s favourite bands, and I have to say its worth it. I'm still more into Progressive and Technical Death Metal today than normal Death Metal though.

I still listen to a lot of Alternative Rock nowadays and I have to say, I'm completely rid of that 'old-music-is-better-than-everything-else' mentality now. The complexity you can find in modern music is mind blowing, modern music is full of polished gems with a lot of diverse musical influences and is much more complex than older music. It's like you can find 'Rush-level' bands easily today.

I have to say I have grown very deep into rock and metal music and I've been trying to get into Jazz lately due to listening to stuff like Atheist, but Progressive music is still my favourite. I think my tastes have changed and/or expanded a lot.

tl;dr Generic regional pop -> A lot of random mainstream stuff -> J-Rock -> Hard Rock/Heavy Metal/Punk Rock -> Alternative Rock/Progressive Rock/Post-Rock/Shred Guitar/Progressive Death Metal

Mostly just rock and metal, but if you listen attentively you'd see they are wildly different in many aspects. But I'm mainly a prog rock/metal and alt. rock guy nowadays.

 

[FireGrey]

I'm not anti-music I just don't listen to it.
I do like some songs and music but i generally don't seek them out.
Somehow game music appeals to me most (mostly when i've played the game)







You smoked weed o.o

 

[retKHAAAN]

I think people take their genres a little too far nowadays...

Progessive indie death pop
Alternative neo underground

...

I won't break genres down any further than the following categories:
Metal
Rock
Country
Pop
Hip-hop
Rap

 

[xist]

I won't break genres down any further than the following categories:
Metal
Rock
Country
Pop
Hip-hop
Rap

Folk off!

 

[4-leaf-clover]

When i was still like 12/16 i always listend to Hip hop rap and that kind of crap....
But now i listen to all kinds of music... For me genre doesn't matter now If i like the song i listen to it.

 

[Hells Malice]

I think people take their genres a little too far nowadays...

Progessive indie death pop
Alternative neo underground

...

I won't break genres down any further than the following categories:
Metal
Rock
Country
Pop
Hip-hop
Rap

The only genre that really gets abused is metal.
Every single metal song is a different subgenre of metal. It's insane. They're like fucking snowflakes.

 

[PolloDiablo]

I always listened to metal... but few years ago I stop caring about new bands, I only listen to my favorites albums and nothing else

now Im into 70's/80's progressive rock (Rush, UK, Genesis, Asia, Rick Wakeman, all that good old shit), a couple of OSTs (like Motoi Sakuraba), The Police and... eurobeat... yeah... eurobeat

 

[xist]

The only genre that really gets abused is metal.
Every single metal song is a different subgenre of metal. It's insane. They're like fucking snowflakes.

I don't really understand how Rap and Hip Hop are different enough to warrant separate categories. (in Old8oy's example)

 

[Wizerzak]

I'm not talking about my personal tastes here but it seem to me that these are the stages everyone seems to go through with music:

Young kid-early teen: General charts music
Early teens (for about 1 year): Rap / hip-hop stuff that's 'way cooler' than normal charts music
Mid-teens: Metal stuff, because it's 'less mainstream' and 'better than normal music' (about 50% of people get drawn into this)
Late teens: 60s / 70s / 80s rock - it's 'real' music and 'the good old stuff', people revert to this and feel safe by joining the crowd and saying they listen to the 'good old rock' as if they have a very good taste in music

IMO, overall people are too self-conscious of what they listen to for fear of being weird / not cool enough / not unique enough. It's like we're all living with this one big lie about what classifies as good music, when in fact no one actually has a clue.

 

[retKHAAAN]

I think people take their genres a little too far nowadays...

Progessive indie death pop
Alternative neo underground

...

I won't break genres down any further than the following categories:
Metal
Rock
Country
Pop
Hip-hop
Rap

The only genre that really gets abused is metal.
Every single metal song is a different subgenre of metal. It's insane. They're like fucking snowflakes.

I don't know... Pretty much anything "electronic" has its own genre...

Can't be bothered to list any so feel free to check out the ridiculousness of it in on this wiki page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_electronic_music_genres

The table of contents doesn't even scratch the surface of what's on that page...

 

[xist]

The table of contents doesn't even scratch the surface of what's on that page...

Whilst that is an example of insanity, that page does include sub-genre splits within genre's. Most normal people would end up just using the 25 genres to class their electronic....yes it's still a lot, but there's an argument for it when the genre's do sound different and can be told apart.

Electronic isn't really something l listen to that often but in Metal terms it's like comparing Grind to Nu Metal to Black Metal....they're poles apart and to class them under the same banner is a misrepresentation of the differing styles.

So yes i think Genre's have gone a bit crazy, but i'd argue that sometimes there's definitely a call for a more complex breakdown of styles, especially when you're delving into new music.