Vertigo

Music from the early part of my teens consisted of whatever was in the charts at the time. As were most kids, I was just going with the flow and listening to what everyone else was. Not much of it gets played now and, of what does, there's very little that I can actually listen to.

In my later teen's, when I focused more on one style of music (rock/metal), has stayed with me.

kidney_thief

I'll second that thought--and my music library today still contains almost all of the artists I enjoyed as a teen. I guess I never get tired of anything that I liked back then. For example, this includes most of the singles that made up the American Top 40 lists during the period of 1975—1979, which was pop/disco/rock/R&B/country, etc.

I never consider any of it to be "guilty pleasure" music, just stuff that I like. Which is pretty much some of every style except reggae (and most country).

Zer0

With some artists it's hard to tell really. Some artists I listened to and still occasionally listen to, such as the usual metal suspects like Metallica, Slayer, Iron Maiden and Anthrax, I might view today as cliqued, run-of-the-mill metal bands had I heard them for the first time today. Other stuff like The White Stripes and The Strokes I might actually enjoy and with Nirvana and Nine Inch Nails there might even be a possibility of liking them.

There's some crappy stuff I used to love that I most definitely would scoff at had I heard them for the first time today. Poppier post-hardcore stuff like Funeral For a Friend, Finch and Hundred Reasons and cheesy pop-punk like Sum 41, Green Day and Blink 182. That said, one band I still enjoy occasionally is Jimmy Eat World but I probably wouldn't give them the time of day had I heard them for the first time now.

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SATCHMO

The question would seem to imply that if I heard the music that I enjoyed as a teen for the first time today then some entirely different music than the music I actually did listen to would have been formative of my listening preferences.

The best answer I can provide is some of the music I enjoyed as a teen has aged well and some of it hasn't. It's impossible to factor nostalgia out of the equation.

Goofle

It's not just about nostalgia. It's how your taste has developed over the years.

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SATCHMO

Of course, but you also have to consider that the music that you listen to during your teens is, or at least can be, very formative of your listening preferences. How do you remove a particular criteria that was formative of your preferences and treat it objectively? I can't objectively say that I would like or dislike hair metal if I heard it for the first time today, because nostalgia is only one factor that prevents me from being objective about it.

Also consider that everything that I listen to today has, in some way-- however removed from my past influences, been influenced by them. Therefore, if I hadn't been introduced to and influenced by Michael Jackson's Thriller when I was 11 years old I might have an entirely different set of criteria by which I would judge the the album if I heard it for the first time today.

The only thing that nostalgia does is make it even more difficult to be objective about it.

Electrophonic Tonic

I still enjoy the Beatles and Led Zeppelin and many of the classic rock songs I listened to when I was a teen, which dominated my musical landscape. I certainly would find some of them boring and overplayed, but the bands that I loved then I still love or really enjoy today. The bands I only kind of liked then are pretty much non-existent to me now. It's a weird dynamic since a good portion of my friends got into current music when they were in their teens and are now going back to find new music to them. I'm the opposite. They loved bands like the White Stripes, Black Keys, Franz Ferdinand and Gorillaz back in the early/mid 2000's and those are the bands I got into 2-3 years ago. Now they tell me how they really like Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath. It's a weird dynamic and I'm simplifying their music taste and my own, but it goes to show that our musical taste certainly goes through some kind of evolution.



I typed all this down when I read the thread title and thought it was asking the question the other way. Moral of the story: slow down and read the damn thread title, ET!

Hippie Mike

I was a teenager in the late 60s - early 70s. There was so much great music around then, I think I'd still like what I was listening to then if I heard it for the first time today. One exception maybe is Iron Butterfly. I used to love In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, but I heard it recently and it sounded really strange.

ThePhanastasio

I would for a great deal of it. I was more into the alternative, folk, and what-have-you in my late childhood/early teens, for the most part, and that still falls where my tastes would today.

The weird nu-metal phase in high school though - not so much. Some of it yes, still. Most of it, not really. I still do listen to a bit of it for nostalgia's sake, but that's where it ends.

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Norg

stuff I listened to has a teen KOrn.Deftones.Slipknot,Prodigy ,Nothingface , etc etc etc

I still listen to it two this day I love it !!!!!!!!!!

I love all my music my music taste started off like a seed then grew to a tree then into a forest !!!!!!!