chris_mills

When I was a very young child, I think I listened to rubbish pop music - S club 7 etc. I should be embarrassed by this but im not really, all I listened to was stuff I heard on the radio or from other people - or on Pop Party.
As every kid was I was also obsessed with Busted.

As I grew older, about 6 - I got a taste on music. My Dad used to listen to music like Arctic Monkeys and Franz Ferdinand, The Killers, The Kaiser Chiefs etc in the car. I think that's why I'm into that sort of music now. Around this time I also got an obsession with McFly after Busted split up. To be fair, McFly are a quite similar to the stuff I listen to now.

After buying every McFly album there was - for my Walkman (Retro swag), McFly eventually took a break so I decided to find new music I liked. This was the most embarressing period of my music taste.

I bought albums by N-Dubz, Chipmunk, Tinie Tempah, Labrinth, The Black Eyed Peas. Rap and Pop were my favourite genres. Well, if you count Tinie Tempah as rap (which I don't) then I liked Rap. I think this was because I was trying to jump on the bandwagon by liking popular chart music.

After realising how bad this stuff was, I figured Indie and Alternative Rock , maybe a bit of Pop, or Indie Pop, were for me. I now like Arctic Monkeys, Two Door Cinema Club, Ed Sheeran, Coldplay, The Vaccines, The Black Keys etc.

I'm sure if you've seen any of my other posts, you'd know that I love The 1975. Got their album and seen them live. Love them.


Well, that's the story of my music taste throughout my life, what's yours?

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Mr. Charlie

I remember when I was 5 or 6, being given (or maybe it was my parents, I can't remember) Phil Collin's 'Can't Hurry Love' on an 8-bit casette. I was obsessed with it. I've had un unhealthy love and fascination for music ever since. I say unhealthy as I'm one of those people who would rather listen to music than talk to people, I put music on to listen to, not as background noise, and get pretty annoyed when peopel start talking over it or, worse, turn it down to have a conversation. Man, that's approaching a crime in my eyes.

blackdragon123

I approve of this thread greatly.

There are four musical pillars that hold up my early childhood.
Number one were The Beatles, especially Sgt Pepper's, an album that I would play over and over and over and over and over and over and over.......and over again because I just couldn't get enough of those wacky lyrics and tasty melodies. The film, Help! was also a source of constant amusement for my young self. Such lines as "Algernon, the laser!" and

Ringo: Aaaargh!
John: What are you doing?
Ringo: Posting a letter.

will remain cherished memories until my dying day.

Number 2 is Robbie Williams (or Robbie Walliams) as he is known on a certain comedy programme. Sing When You're Winning was the first album that I considered my own and despite discontinuing my venture into the world of pop music I will always have a soft spot for Williams' music.

3 is Queen, a band whose appeal remains strong for both child and adult. I became obsessed with the song "Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy" and consider it one of the foundations that kick-started by love of music.

Number 4 is Ian Dury & The Blockheads. I was always transfixed by the wit and rough-diamond charisma that Dury commands when he sings, even though his songs discussed themes I was far too young to fully understand, as I've grown up, songs like "Itinerant Child" and "This Is What We Find" have become ever more cherished because I can recall how ignorant I was of the risqué and controversial subjects and stories being told.

Other worthy mentions are:
Roxy Music (Because of Ferry's almost cartoonish singing style.)
The Who (Which satisfied my growing taste for something heavier...)
Sting/The Police (Pleasing due to their silky vocals)
Jimi Hendrix (Because when I first heard "All Along the Watchtower" as a young boy my mind literally exploded.)
Oasis (Maybe because they reminded me of The Beatles...controversial)

Then the teenage years came and I began buying albums by: The Hives, Lostprophets, The Killers, Green Day, Franz Ferdinand, JET, and eventually...Black Sabbath!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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'Well, I'm a common working man,
With a half of bitter, bread and jam,
And if it pleases me, I'll put one on ya man,
When the copper fades away!' - Jethro Tull

daily_tune

I unfortunately also started out with pop, before discovering a few hidden gems like Manic Street Preachers and Blur.

I then moved onto Nu-Metal and later onto classic rock and heavy metal. Bands like Iron Maiden, Metallica, AC/DC and Kiss got non-stop airplay on my CD player.

I then diverted more towards indie rock (Franz Ferdinand, Arctic Monkeys etc).

Then my taste spread out even more by the time I was 17, with various heavy metal genres covered, along with indie too oddly enough.

As I went to uni and grew up, I came into contact with a lot more. Including folk-rock, blue, progressive-rock, Britpop etc.

And I'm still discovering new stuff up to this moment, and shall not plan on stopping any time soon.

Norg

well...........


-I think the FIrst music I hard was from my older sister Coolio -gangsta paradise and Snoop dogg and pop music u cee me and her kinda grew up in the same era of music only 3 years apart like 92-96 uhh Gangsta west coast east cost era of rap

-But I think obvs the seed of music for me was obvs my dad he and my mom are uhh the hippie generation kids and teens around mid 60's early 70's so yeah there were jamming Sabbath Zeppelin and all the ROck stuff

-Obvs Black Sabbath was the one that stuck out for me I was like wow

-But funny thing is my first CD I ever bought was Prodigy-Fat of the land and KORN -FTL ... prob thanks to my sister combined the electronics of hip hop with more of a heavier sound..so that obvs exicted me at the time

-After that Sabbath was the band that got me into ROCK and more so DOOM and stoner rock being since I live in texas and pretty close to New Orleans I think that scene really interested me THER NOLA stoner and doom swamp rock scene eyehategod Acid bath stuff like that but it was Sabbath who was the main influnces to those bands so yeah

-I think teen years plays a important part I was a teen around -1999-2005 so obvs I grew up in like the POP NU metal Rap era along around 2002 I would say NU hardcore and screamo and Indie Rock were rising big

-I would deff say KORN & DEFTONES & SLIPKNOT were 3 of my fav bands along with Phill anselmo & Mike patton these artist early on and the stuff all around in there sphere was what i was jamming early on and Deff KORN got me into Hip hop and rap music its funny cuzzz IDK back then some people only liked ROCK and metal and some only like Hip hop it was like tabbo 2 like both i was like Screw that i like BOth

after that i kinda went it two ways i wanted to hear the most heaviest stuff to the most Melodic stuff so it went from like

Metal to Thrash to Black and Death MEtal to Doom and Grindcore music then to like Avent grade pig squeal to just being stupid heavy with crazy noises and time changes IDK i think Grindcore and Avent grade is the heaviest it can get LOL

then i flipped it to the melodic side from like POP to electronic to INDIE to Regga to BLUES to JAZZ to Soul to Gospal to CLassical Pieces from like 1920's still trying to find the most beautiful music i can find

recently i been trying to fill in the holes getting into LATIN music Reggaton African and just tying to find music outside of America and Europe i wanna here what South America and asia and jamming 2



i could go on and on tho ...

so that's how it kinda started

after that all I can say is my music taste Grew like a tree then into a forrest

I hated and made sure I was not one of those people who were stuck on any real style of music I was always the one that wanted to learn discover and hear has much music has I can no matter what it was I just loved music

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Childhood - Beatles, Classical Music (I was learning Piano then, but liked it), and a lot of interesting things here and there. My Mother said I also liked Kiss, possibly because of the Horror Show imagery that I liked as I was into old time Horror films shown on Sir Graves Ghastly (a Detroit-based movie show), but the Pop Hooks were all there. Throw in some classic Soul due to getting a Four Tops greatest hits album at a garage sale.

Late Childhood/Early Teens - A lot of Pink Floyd (also got into the very early stuff), Rolling Stones, Who, Kinks, Yardbirds, Byrds, 60's Garage Punk, a bit of ELP, Abba (The Visitors, "The Day Before You Came" - era), plus Lene Lovich, XTC, The Police, Kraftwerk ("Pocket Calculator" was a big hit in Detroit!), more Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and more classic Motown. A lot of Power Pop too - The dB's were up there...and, yes, I had the Knack's Round Trip album - possibly my first real case of being interested in post-fame albums. At that time I was also starting to know about Punk - The Ramones were about the first for me. The Jam, though, were the best after hearing "Start". Living in Small Dot, USA and knowing of these bands was a bit lonely, but then again at least some of my small Prog interest connected me a little with someone who was into King Crimson.

Early Teens - a lot of Synth Pop due to playing Keyboards and being interested in music that featured them. There's a lot of rubbish in there, but I still respect it all as it paved a way for me. Best of the lot - Soft Cell (Still love their music as well as the non-Synth Pop Marc and the Mambas recordings), Gary Numan (Even beyond "Cars" which many people around me seemed to think was his only song), Visage ("Fade to Grey" was featured on some video show that did not last long), Talk Talk (The It's My Life album still ranks high for that time), Thomas Dolby (actually more The Flat Earth than his debut!), and even Duran Duran. At this time, someone gave me a worn copy of The Monkees' Head soundtrack which made me seriously want to see the film which I was introduced to by way of Psychotronic Magazine...my opinion changed right there and then to serious approval added on by getting their Late 1967 album Pieces, Aquarius, Capricorn, and Jones, Ltd. Guitar-wise, I was learning from The Who's A Quick One album.

By 1985 - I was getting back into Garage Punk, but also getting into a lot of Post-Punk thanks to being interested. Even good Guitar bands like Icicle Works and Big Country were of major interest. My public stance was "No room for Hair Metal", although I did like Ratt but never really mentioned it. The Jesus and Mary Chain were in my collection thanks to the one and only Psychocandy, but the real ground breaker for me was hearing The Velvet Underground and Nico!

1986/Late Teens - Thanks to having some Punk friends, I started going to Hardcore shows in a time when the real scene was dying and nobody told the Midwest. Sadly, I did not attend Black Flag's final show at the Greystone, but I did see a number of bands there starting in 1987 until the fateful night in 1988 when a drunk smashed his car in the front of the club - my first real far away concert was seeing Butthole Surfers at the Isis in Flint. Also saw the UK Subs at the Harbor, a place that was an Adult theater after being a first run house. Also, in return, I was introducing my friends to Einsturzende Neubauten, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Coil, Psychic TV, Killing Joke, lots of Garage Punk, and other delights. On the Rock side, The Godfathers were seriously paramount! Plus, I also liked some Marc Almond's solo work including the Mother Fist album. Julian Cope was also a favorite, especially Fried and World Shut Your Mouth - both the 1984 album and the 1986 song! I also attended numerous shows in Toledo as well as the Rock for No Reason festival in Indiana going home on a small amount of gas - GREAT times!

Still for all of the Punk, I was possibly more of an Indie Kid or maybe Gothic, but fate connected me to a great group of friends from a variety of scenes. Nick Cave and Jim Thurlwell were also figuring into my mix as well, and Foetus was great considering that I was going into a friend's experimental project that never really got any official release.

Early 90's - A mix of all of the above plus Talk Talk's wonderful Spirit of Eden and Laughing Stock albums. Some Indie/British Music (Ride!), and some of the darker Experimental music (Current 93 and the rest). I introduced a step cousin to groups like Coil, but must have been a bit scared although he did get into Nine Inch Nails (who's remix album Fixed still ranks high for this time).

Mid 90's - A good amount of Britpop, plus everything else. With Blur being a major interest and reading a lot of the papers (Melody Maker, MNE, Select), it was a given that I gave it a shot. Kind of like my New Wave interest, there was a lot of rubbish, but also a lot of pretty good stuff that knew how to Pop. Then, checking out Scott Walker's Tilt after already being into The Walker Brothers and the four Scott albums kind of changed a lot of my music listening...

Late 90's - Full Strength Industrial...and a bit of Black Metal (!). Times were pretty dark for me, but still trying to carry on. Still never gave up on what happened before (never can!). This is where my interest in the more Gothic and darker sides of my music listening took place. I already loved Joy Division, and Closer was listened to the most during this time.

Early 2Ks - Stopped my intense audio-only listening for a while upon getting a DVD player and getting a lot of the Exploitation films I watched back in the days of renting VHS tapes by the dozen and making the clerks wonder where I was from. A lot of Soundtrack music was a part of my life, especially the music used in the Roughie films of The 60's and composers like Riz Ortolani and Bruno Nicolai. After that run of films, I got into more artistic stuff to mix in with the B movies, but it was the Incredibly Strange Films that shaped my interest in the wild side of sin-ema. Times were getting better, too!

Mid-Late 2Ks - The best of everything I got into, plus checking out what I missed and dissed through my childhood through one Dollar albums while still checking out the EBMs and the Underground. I usually don't report too much on that - and I should, but I have started to do so with the classic sounds from The 80's and 90's.

Kanga

My Dad was into Judas Priest and Iron Maiden and others of that ilk so I grew up listening to that music also a lot of blues which I really love.

Dulce

i don't remember a moment where music took an affect in my not-so-innocent years of my life. music has always been a part of me and damn i thanked bands for it. but yea, so cheers.