I did, I got a cup of piss on my head inside the first few minutes. Even though I am a fan just like you, I hate the ones that are like 'Oasis the best rock n roll band since The Beatles.' Both amazing bands, don't get me wrong. But music lives and dies with them two as far as a lot of Oasis fans are concerned because they're too ignorant to explore other stuff. I still love Definitely Maybe and WTSMG though, more than most albums. I've got drunk to them albums, I've had good times with them albums, played football with them albums, them albums have been the soundtrack to many summers.

i probably started like most here, getting into indie rock first and branching out from there. however, i never really caught onto the latest wave of it (stuff like Animal Collective & Grizzly Bear) and it's somewhat lost its appeal on me. i still listen to the occasional indie album but i find myself enjoying it less and less, and not much (if anything) from the past decade.

since then i've been poking into earlier music, more specifically post-punk from 1980 onwards. most of what i consider my "favorite" music is of this era: bands like PIL, Swans, Foetus, Mission of Burma... recently i've been developing a taste for '60s psychedelia and underground hip-hop, but i can't really speak extensively about either and my knowledge is somewhat limited.

i am open to all kinds of music, but i can be extremely picky about the garbage i force myself to listen to. :)

What? Country isn't plain and boring, man!



I don't listen to a whole lot of country, but the country I do like (stuff like Chet and Jerry here and Earl Scruggs), I love. :)

Well that's not the ONLY reason I don't like it.. it's a more a summation of reasons and that's just one of them. Another is that when I hear it just reminds me of rednecks drinking at a pig roast.. which there's a lot of around here. It's like.. living in the country, listening to country which revolves around lyrics written about living in the country. It's all really redundant. Of course, not ALL of them sing about it but if they don't.. I still don't seem to enjoy it. I really can't pin down any one reason.. it's just not for me. I do remember enjoying some songs from the O Brother Where Art Thou soundtrack but that was bluegrass and folk. Not enough to research it any further though.

Throughout my childhood I was afraid of growing up, and I saw music as a means of growing up. My mom would always play Jazz like Diana Krall and Miles Davis for me and I had hated it. I can remember being on some forum in around 7th grade and there was a post about Smells Like Teen Spirit. I had heard the song before and immediately couldn't get enough of it. I can remember listening to the 3 Nirvana songs over and over again for weeks on end and this went on for around a year until I opened up to more Grunge. I was the biggest Kurt Cobain fanboy ever (and nowadays some of my old self is still prevalent.) and would get personally offended when people talked about Nirvana in a negative way.

Then last summer I went to one of my best friends house and he had just found this genre that was completely new to me, hardcore punk. He played me Pay To *** by Bad Brains and at first I didn't like it all that much, but knowing that Bad Brains was one of Dave Grohl's favorite punk bands I kept listening and it finally grew on me. From there I got a hardcore punk compilation album (American Hardcore) and got introduced to some more bands from there (Like Circle Jerks and Flipper.)

I'm not gonna bore you with all the details about when and how I got into all the bands I like today, but MB has had a major impact on what I listen to and what I respect. I'd call Nirvana and Sublime my favorite bands, Punk wise I'm into a lot of 80's hardcore punk like descendents, Black Flag, and Minor Threat, but I also really like the Angry Samoans and The Germs.

As of now Ska-Punk is my favorite genre with Operation Ivy being my favorite out of that genre. From Ska-punk I got into Skacore (Or crack rock steady) and really like bands like Choking Victim, Leftover Crack, and INDK.

I still like some Grunge too, Alice in Chains and Soundgarden have always been kind to me along with Green River. and although they aren't Grunge Dinosaur Jr is up there in my favorite bands.

I like a lot of Ska too, The Specials, Pepper, The Redskins and The Toasters being some of my favorites.

I also like a lot of Noise Rock and Math Rock or Mathcore, some of my favorites being Lightning Bolt, Hella,and Shellac.

I like some folk too, I'm big on the Bright Eyes and find Wingnut Dishwasers Union to be highly underrated Folk Punk.

And I guess that's it, I see my taste as pretty bland although I may dip into some genres that aren't so popular I tend to like the most popular bands out of that genre.

tastes like chicken

^ troof

My tastes at the moment are pretty well defined, though I'm always trying something new.

Unlike some here, I was into mainstream rock, metal along the lines of Queensryche and classical music starting off. Early in high school though, I got into progressive rock and jazz related music, with Pink Floyd and Yes hooking me into the old stuff from the genre while groups like Frost* and The Tangent and Mars Volta kept me interested in the here and now. My mom's interest in groups like Chicago and The Beach Boys also made me want to explore more pop and jazz-rock, so those genres followed suit.

However, over the last two years I've really begun to branch out. Although I still love jazz and proggy stuff to death, I'm finding that industrial, folk, electronic and soul are the genres I've been gravitating to most in terms of pure interest, and to a lesser extent dub, hip-hop, post-rock and death/black metal.

Although I don't consider myself having bland taste in music, I feel that there's always room for me to expand my tastes, which is why I'm glad I joined MusicBanter last year. You guys are awesome! ^^

It either has to rock , groove or confuse the hell out of me.

That's why post rock can go fuck off

I pretty much got into music when I was 12, and I listeneds to basically pop punk, and post-grunge/alternative bands like Fuel, Creed, Coldplay, Chevelle, etc. which makes me cringe now. I also had a very brief hip hop faze, even though I really only used to listen to Eminem and Snoop Dogg. My tastes changed slightly at 15 when I started getting into pseudo-emo and metalcore bands like Hawthorne Heights, Taking Back Sunday, Story of the Year, As I Lay Dying, Unearth, and Atreyu just to name a few.

My tastes really changed a year later, when I got into heavy metal, and paticulary thrash and power metal. This was also when I completely lost interest in just about anything I listened to before other than some metalcore. Then about a year later, I started getting into glam metal as well as some 70s-80s rock/hard rock. Then when I was 18, I started really getting into 80s new wave and synthpop which to an extent would lead to my current interest in electronic dance music.

Recently, I've been hardcore into house and trance music along with some cheesy eurodance, and some drum & bass like Dieselboy, though I still listen to alot of rock and hard rock (though mainly from the 70s and 80s) and metal, along with 80s pop. I'm even starting to get back into some of the pop punk and metalcore bands I used to listen to a while ago along with some I would've never listened to in my metalhead days.

Diana Krall is to Miles Davis what Nickelback is to... good music.

And I like Diana Krall...