How long did it take for your current taste in music to evolve?
 

I can't really answer, as I've only been truly exploring music for a couple of years, and my tastes are still evolving. But:

When did you discover your genre of choice?

When did you discover your favourite band/artist?

When did you last discover a new genre?

Would you consider your tastes set in stone?

Overall, how long have you held your current tastes?

I don't have a genre of choice. I love a lot of different genres.
I don't have a favorite artist. I have boatloads of favorite artists.
I'm not sure how to answer this. I'm not sure what counts as discovering one.
Definitely not. They're constantly evolving and expanding.
A day? Like I said, they're always evolving.

wow uh my answers are basically the exact same as Jansz

Honestly, from 16-30 brother has been a very wild musical ride.
I think its honestly more a question of when your desire to stop discovering music kicks in.
It hasnt happened to me in my heart but in my day planner yes its come to a stand still right now. I don't have the time, like I used too.Makes me sad

I think this is what stands out about people here. They still want to discover new music. I was basing this on an article I read which said the average person's musical taste is set by age 20. Evidently MB members are not average people. ;)

Yeah, I'd say my taste has evolved a lot since I was 20.

I can't really answer, as I've only been truly exploring music for a couple of years, and my tastes are still evolving. But:
I'm in the same situation, but I'll reply anyway.

When did you discover your genre of choice?
I try to listen to as much different stuff as possible, but mostly it's metal and indie/alternative. I discovered metal when I was eleven, I think. Not really sure. My dad and I were at a mall, and I think we were discussing music or something, I don't remember. Suddenly he asked if I liked Metallica (even though he's not the biggest metal fan himself), to which I replied "no". He asked me if I liked rock music, I did (Queen and Springsteen), so we went into a music store and he spontaneously bought me the Flight 666 live album by Iron Maiden (my dad's cool). It was the heaviest shizz I had ever heard, but at the same time it was hella catchy. I didn't start listening to metal for real until a couple of years later, though.

When did you discover your favourite band/artist?
I didn't know about The Smiths until a while after I registered here.

When did you last discover a new genre?
No idea.

Would you consider your tastes set in stone?
Nope, I want to try different stuff.

Overall, how long have you held your current tastes?
I don't really have an answer. My taste is constantly changing.

Personally, my tastes have changed over my whole life though I will admit the rate of change has slowed down over the past decade. The biggest reason why is that I've virtually every style of music there is so little new stuff surprises me anymore.

I first "discovered" music late in middle school, which is probably pretty late for a lot of people on this site. I got into it pretty quick, but it wasn't until I really became a Metallica fan and learned about thrash metal that my obsession began. Ever since, the vast majority of music I've listened to has been metal, and most of that of the eighties variety. I've since branched out to a lot of different kinds of metal, but that kind of eighties metal will probably always be the core of my musical Bible. For a while I was a metal-only guy, but around my early twenties that dam broke, especially after I started posting on this site, and I've been opened up to a lot of alternative and the kind of art rock and proto-punk that was alternative before "alternative" became a thing. Lots of stuff other than that: hip hop, pop (the ****tier the better), punk, classic rock, and even a bit of country and electronica/techno/industrial/whatever more recently. But metal is still my mistress, with alternative running a respectable second.

I call bull**** on your dad. I remember you saying that your parents were all anti-devil music. Now I find that your dad tried to get you into metal on the sly? I'm gonna guess that your mother is really the anti-metal one and your dad's a closet headbanger. Next time you're both home alone you should blast some Judas Priest and see what happens.

I tried doing this but I did just end up writing what Jans posted already.

My dad listens to rock music, though not metal (unless you're right about him being a closet headbanger). I don't think he's even religious, and both my parents know that Iron Maiden is barely more satanic than The Beatles. But my mother is Christian, and she knows that a lot of extreme metal is Satanic, anti-Christian, gory etc., so she's not that comfortable with me listening to black/death metal. But that mostly means I have to listen to Burzum with headphones.

:beer: Honey if you could have seen what I used to listen to back in the day, you'd all dissown me.

That's because you aren't looking in the right places.

There was a short time in middle school where my favorite band was Limp Bizkit. Come at me.

:laughing: I wish I could come at you bro... But I have some serious muiscal skeletons in my closet!

Since I've registered here my taste in music is no where near what it used to be. My favorite band was The Icarus Line because they were balls to the wall rock & roll, break ****, do drugs, that sort of thing. I went through more than a few phases. I got started with VU & Beefheart, dipped into the really challenging stuff first. I then got really into Slint & June of 44, Gastr Del Sol and a few other post-rock math-rock type stuffs, and for some reason a lot of Pavement and Silver Jews... and then Loveless hit me, and shoegaze & dream pop become primarily what I listened to. I went back to really weird challenging industrial stuff like TG, and went through a 60's, 70's folk, garage rock phase with a psychedelic revival phase right after. I had a small doom and screamo phase thrown in there at some point too, but they were very brief. I was really into lo-fi stuff like Lau Nau, Fursaxa, Flying Saucer Attack, Jessica Bailiff, and Light until maybe a year or two ago, and then Electronic music hit me full fucking force. I think I started listening to a lot of Stereolab, then Aphex Twin and u-ziq somehow popped up into there. Right now though I'm still in my electronic phase, who knows when it will end, but I keep finding more, and more and I haven't gotten bored or found something else to grab my attention yet.

Sorry if this is so jumbled, but I've been through so many phases, and I know I'm missing a few in there, and these periods have crossed over each other and it's just hard to remember what goes where. It's almost frustrating trying to remember.

The first tune I can remember really getting passionate about was Paper Lace - The Night Chicago Died. I was in 3rd or 4th grade. After that it was Bohemian Rhapsody (5th grade), and then from there it went to Bad Co - R&R Fantasy. By the time I hit HS I was into Rainbow, Black Sabbath, and the like. Iron Maiden, and Slayer type stuff were next, and then I discovered guitar instrumentalists like Satriani, Vai, and Eric Johnson. By this time I was 19-20 or so. I delved a bit deeper into the guitar world with Segovia, Parkening, and then went to the jazz side of things with Stanley Jordan, and Frank Gambale styles. I discovered how much I really liked the blues around this same time too with John Mayall - Have You Ever Loved A Woman via Eric Clapton kicking things off in my head. That pretty much stayed with me for quite a while until bands like SOAD and Godsmack came along. Then came Buckethead. I was stuck on the Bucket for a few years, and now I'm into Derek Trucks, and rediscovering some Southern Rock, and even some Motown and Funk. Like Janz, it's constantly evolving.

So my taste in music now is very very different than it was when I was just getting into music, but to be honest in the last 5 or so years it has barely changed. I went through phases that's for sure, but now all my phases kind of combined into one. I started by liking whatever my parents listened to, then when I was like 8-12 my early developed tastes were what was popular on modern rock radio. (I liked Linkin Park a lot)

I went through a brief classic rock phase in middle school before I evolved into my tastes now. Basically now, I don't have a genre of choice, and I still have the same favorite bands I had sophomore/junior year of high school, so I guess that's my answer.

When did you discover your genre of choice?

i got into Alternative at the beginning of the 90's
Mainly through bands like Nirvana, Sonic youth and Pavement

When did you discover your favourite band/artist?

Around 97 or 98 i think a friend of mine recorded the 'Death to the pixies' album for me on a tape assuring me i would luv it.
At first i didn't like the album but over time The Pixies grew on me until i somehow became a fanboy.


When did you last discover a new genre?

Not too long ago a friend of mine introduced me to Django which messed up my whole outlook on music and guitar playing, i never liked Jazz much but for some reason i luv Django's swing jazz.

Apart from Frank Black i can say Django is my biggest music influence. i wanna play like them one day

Would you consider your tastes set in stone?

Not at all, in fact lately im really into rap and hip hop music a i don't really know why but i don't fight the urge

... yeah I'll be the first one to admit there was a time where my music taste had settled.

And I have to say I am ahead of the curve because my taste was set by 12 to 14 years of age. :)

I guess most people here see themselves not having their taste in music set by age 20. I don't see myself as an average MB member, who are in turn as you pointed out "not average people. ;)" So maybe I should be clumped in with the average people (but 6 to 8 years ahead of them) or maybe be a music nerd's nerd, but like Milhouse said: "I'm not a nerd, Bart! Nerds are smart." ... hence my dilemma. I don't know where I stand. :confused: I feel like an average Joe, but I have no way of telling. :(

I see the whole thing differently. I find my taste basically remaining the same. On the other-hand I find that it's an endless process for exploring the types of music I already like. I understand music is constantly evolving, but even with that in mind the newer bands I discover take their inspiration from the same styles of music I already know about and like. So in short: I see new music as a newer interpretation of old music.

Around 14 years of age.

About 12 y/o, maybe younger.

I learned a little more about a few sub-genres that I over-looked but I haven't found a whole brand new and different genre I haven't heard before and liked it.

Sometimes I feel that my taste is etched in stone. There are some things I can not listen to 24/7. I'll listen to it when I am in the mood for it then be done with for a while. I don't see my taste as branching off in new directions to unrelated genres of music I haven't heard before as much as fluctuating among the things I already like. Still I have to be in the mood to listen to it.

I hold on to what I like. I might not listen to it constantly, sometimes I put it down for a while and pick it up later. But basically everything I then I like now.

ohhhh fun

I was 13- Green Day made their comeback with American Idiot. I won't lie I loved them and through their older stuff I came across a lot of waaaaaaaay better older pop punk bands from the buzzcocks to descendents to jawbreaker, dillinger four, and all sorts of newer stuff. Nirvana also were a huge gateway band as well. Somehow find my way into goth territory a year or so later and got really into 80s post-punk/new wave/etc.
Hard to say. FIDLAR have been my favorites for a while, before them it was Jawbreaker, before them The Cure, before them Nirvana. I tend to get attached to a band for a couple years and then move on to a new one.
Ah. I'm pretty much a punk worshipper at heart it's really hard for me to sit still long enough to enjoy anything else.
I think I'll always be a fan of punk music or music that's in some way informed by punk so yeah.

Since I was 13 but I don't listen to some stuff I used to like. Not because I don't like it, just doesn't have the same effect anymore.

Weeeeell, the first artist I ever really loved was probably Gordon Bok, an amazing local songsmith. That was when I was about 2? He had a song-story with a boat, a seal-woman, and an evil, talking wind, how could I NOT love it. (Now, I listen to it and realize it's a fantastic work of art!)

My tastes are now heavily avante-garde, lots of classical, jazz, prog, also metal, folk, world, eletronic, rock, noise... And I'm still finding new things every week to love.

Sooo, I guess about, 22 years and counting?

The day I find my one and only genre, and where my taste stops developing, is the day I'll know I've stopped learning as a musician, as a composer, and especially a listener and lover of music.

Keep exploring, keep discovering, keep expanding!

Whuut a Mainah??!

Eyup, sho thing, dude-bub-guy! Might be only 'bout a millon of us heyah now abouts, but we still heyah, don't you worry now, deyah.

For me at the moment it's mostly genres related to Punk, Rock, Metal or Ska, but I've barely scratched the surface in all the things those genres have to offer.
Eventually I'll go to other genres like Blues or Jazz.

I think my taste is constantly developing the more I listen to music.
I'd say it really started expanding and changing when I was about 15, that's when I started looking for more and more music. 11 was when I really started listening to music in the first place.

My music taste compared to half a year ago is already pretty different, despite still being in the same 4 main genres.

I just listened to Brian Wilson's Imagination for the first time in about a year. Way back in 2012, it was my favourite album, and pretty much the only thing I listened to. I fully expected to hate this somewhat cheesy pop music. But… I still love it every bit as much! It's not my favourite album anymore, but I'd still have to put it in my top ten. I am sad at how much his voice has deteriorated, though. He sounded weak, even in 1998. :(

I agree with the general ideas of Janszoon post. However, I would consider HipHop my main genre. It's not something I always listen to but it's the one genre that has always been a part of my life.

I forget if I've already crushed your spirit, so I'm going to Grammar Nazi you anyway. I've seen "hop hop" written with a space, or with a hyphen, but never without either one or the other. I'm also going to say that you need a comma in-between "to" and "but" in your third sentence.


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Hop hop rules.

When did you discover your genre of choice?

My genre of choice is the general avant-garde, which makes it difficult to pin it down since it's such a wide umbrella term. I guess Mr. Bungle was the first band that I listened to within the genre at six years old. However, I started seriously delving into the crazy stuff after a friend introduced me to Frank Zappa when I was fourteen.

When did you discover your favourite band/artist?

I was fourteen when I first found Captain Beefheart based off of last.fm recommendations. It wasn't until I was fifteen and on the verge of sixteen that I started to "get" him, though.

When did you last discover a new genre?

I'm not sure, I've been well aware of the genres I listen to for a while. I guess I discovered black metal free jazz by making it I guess, because I haven't heard other bands play in that style.

Would you consider your tastes set in stone?

Of course not.

Overall, how long have you held your current tastes?

My current tastes are ever-changing, like everyone else said.

I was hoping someone would be able to provide another example of the genre. I'm very pleased.

I find it annoying when people tell me ''I listen to everything'' as if they don't have a preference, and then they barely know anything about music I like at all. I mean, I want to listen to as many genres I like as possible, but I've spent so much time listening to Punk, Rock and Metal and I've barely scratched the surface for all three, except for Punk.
I mean, sure, if you look at different bands in my library, it's varied, but atm 90% of the bands fall under some form of rock.

I hate how ambiguous it is, what that tells me what someone gives me that answer is that they're looking to come off like they're educated about everything, and don't want to seem like they possibly might be ignorant about a genre. It's not really a good icebreaker either, so it really gets on my nerves when I try and pry a bit to get a favorite genre, or what they're listening to currently and I get something like "I don't know". I'm guilty of not being able to answer what I'm into in a broad sense, and I try not to come off as pretentious when music comes up in conversation either. I try stating what I'm into at the moment and that it's a current phase, but I listen to so much more than that. I do have preferences, but they change all the time.

I talk about music a lot, different genres, sounds, but the moment I'm given a broad answer or question about it I get confused or scared. GIVE ME SOMETHING TO WORK WITH GOD DAMNIT!

These days when queried on music preference, I say powerviolence and black metal in a very serious tone.

Exactly, it's so annoying, it stops the whole conversation.
I get it, music taste is hard to tell in just one sentence when there's probably a lot of different things you've listened to and that it changes, but don't dodge every single question, at least tell me something.

In my experience, the people who say that are the type who are just starting to explore music, and are branching out enough to feel superior to other people, while still being too ignorant of just how much music is out there to know just how narrow their taste really is. Either that or they're just mediocre music fans in general with an inferiority complex.

I wonder if saying "I listen to lots of things" or "i like Yellow Swans and Immolation" is more of a conversation killer. It has nothing to do with feeling above anyone else, it's just a safe way to cover more bases without being immediately pigeon-holed. Should I be listing off every genre I like listening to?

There's a difference between saying "I like lots of things", and "I like everything." One is vague, the other is pretentious.

meh. if someone says either I just take them as the same. I wouldnt assume someone is trying to impress me with their "vast music knowledge" by speaking so vaguely.