BTown

^ As do I, I after being forced to see her live I've come to like her more, and I finally got "kind of blue" from my mom and really like it.

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NumberNineDream

I really can't figure out what I was listening to for my first 16 years of my life. I considered myself as a person with a difficult taste in music, not listening to any song on the radio. So I listened to just some of the stuff on the radio.
Then I discovered I love metal music, and the first band I listened to was Metallica. I don't know why in here, a metalhead should listen to those 3 bands: Metallica, Nirvana and Iron Maiden, and that's what I did (I really don't know why Nirvana is in this trinity). I loved that kind of music (but didn't expand my knowledge at all), and on that stage I was 12.
And with being 12, comes the stage of being a cliché pre-teenage girl, so I listened to Avril Lavigne, Evanescence and t.A.T.u, still considering myself as someone who knows in music. From the age 12 till the age 16, the only band that I loved, and still do, is System of a Down.
At 16 I joined a couple of local forums (we've got the same active users in all local forums), and as I was beginning to be one of the main active users, I kind of showed like someone who knows what the hell he's talking about, and it wasn't the case at all. So feeling how mediocre my knowledge in music was, I began memorizing the name of the bands always mentioned in all discussions. So it was Pink Floyd, The Doors and Led Zeppelin.
... I just noticed that I've been rambling stuff out of topic.

Returning to the topic:
The beginning of my quest was at 17, with Pink Floyd's The Wall, I got addicted to it. Then by mistake I discovered The Zombies. I started listening to The Beatles last year, and memorized their whole discography in 2 weeks, and that's when I realized I love the 60s music. It was then The Doors and the rest of Pink Floyd's albums. Plus I got to know Radiohead last summer, after I found out one student is obsessed with them.

And with this pathetic knowledge I joined this forum.

After few months on MB, I still think my favorite genre is Psychedelic Rock, but to that I added maybe more than 15 genres. I've even been enjoying some Electronica.

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jackhammer

Awesome and ever evolving. I will still be doing this shit until I pop my clogs I guess.

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Mojo

I can't believe i knew so little about your music taste N9D! I thought you were well into your 60's psych stuff long before you joined this site. I had you down as quite a knowledgeable listener to begin with, more so than what you seem to be suggesting you were.

And i didn't know you really liked metal either, to be honest. Damn it, those Spotify playlists could have been so much better

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Zer0

I probably have to thank my older sister for getting me started with music. When i was around 8 or 9 she'd copy tapes of Oasis, Blur, The Verve, Ocean Colour Scene and a few others for me. Including bringing me to my first ever concert which was Oasis. But up until i was 14 my music collection mostly consisted of mainstream chart-bothering rock bands like Travis, Stereophonics, Coldplay, Oasis etc.
The first major turning point was my discovery of Nirvana. With me becoming an angsty little teenager Nirvana just seemed perfect to me, they were pretty much the gateway to the music that my parents would describe as a "****ing racket", the rebellion had begun . Not long after that i discovered Metallica and metal and hard rock in general and so i went through a mosher phase up until my late teens. But i was always open to other music, in my last year of school one of my friends copied The Cure's Greatest Hits for me and it really opened my mind to how powerful, beautiful and emotional music could be.

When i left school and started college i started to get more and more into alternative rock and indie music, bands like the Pixies, Radiohead, Dinosaur Jr, Sigur Ros, My Bloody Valentine. And course MB has really opened my mind to all sorts of music. Nowdays i'm still mostly listening to indie and alternative, some folky stuff as well, but i'm getting into electronic music a bit more, listening to The Chemical Brothers, Boards Of Canada, Aphex Twin and various compilations.

When i look back there's tons of bands i can't believe i listened to. When you grow older your music tastes really do sharpen.

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Guybrush

I feel I'm learning a lot of interesting things about people. Thanks to all so far who took the time to write good answers.

To add a little more to my own story, there were some phases I went through that I didn't mention because not much from them have stayed with me. The most embarassing phase was my punk period. It was luckily quite short .. I listened to punk bands like suicidal tendencies, Blink 182 and NOFX, ugh Not extensively, but I mean it was part of my playlists. I'm ashamed cause I absolutely hate that ****e.

I also used to make a lot of music on the computer so I had an electronica phase in my late teens where I got a lot of inspiration from artists like The Future Sound of London, Prodigy, Aphex Twin, cEvin Key, Front 242, :Wumpscut:, Kraftwerk and so on.

Then I had a short goth rock/metal period (I was never a goth, but) where I listened to more The Cure, Moonspell, Love & Rockets .. I don't listen to much of this anymore, but hey - The Cure has some great songs and I put on a little Sisters now and then.

From my pre-puberty childhood, I listened to some U2, Paul McCartney, Pink Floyd, Toy Dolls, REM - you know, stuff my older siblings had basically. Some of it has stayed with me, most notably Pink Floyd.

Now you know more about me than you can probably remember.

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Mojo

Don't lump Suicidal Tendencies in with that shit!

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Guybrush

I don't listen to them anymore, but I would easily agree they're the best of that bunch.

I have no problem singing along to Franzl Lang's "Der Appenzeller Jodler", Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder's "Ebony and Ivory" or George Michael's "Careless Whisper" .. But I feel ever liking NOFX and Blink182 are the darkest stains on my record.

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NumberNineDream

That's what I thought too
And metal was the only thing I really enjoyed in my teenage years, especially Doom and Black Metal (but also I don't know much of the bands).

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Dieselboy

Same.

Grammer School: I liked oldies, which was all my parents listened to on the radio.
Middle School - I started listening to commercial rap and...alot of Weird Al too.
High School - I got into Metal like Metallica, Megadeth, Sepultura, etc. Also was into alternative and nu-metal bands. My favorite bands in HS were Bush and Rage Against the Machine.
When I got my 1st job a co-worker introduced me to Electronica and got me hooked, and that's where I've been ever since for the most part, with some metal thrown in as well.
Lately though I've really been branching out into jazz and classical as well though.


So atm, I'm probably 50% Electronica, 30% Metal/Hard sh*t, 15% Jazz/Classical, 5% Hip-Hop/Other.

^I wanted to make this a pie chart since we're talking about taste, but I couldn't figure out how. I tried to figure it out for about 30 seconds and gave up. :|