grindy

Nah, I won't. Would be understandable.
Let's see what happens.

Pet_Sounds

Thanks! I actually enjoy people's reactions when I tell them my age (narcissist much?), so I don't make it painfully obvious. You might be shocked to learn that Josef K is also fourteen and Briks is fifteen.

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grindy

All right....

Born 1987.
First influences were my father's tastes. Grew up with lots of russian music, mostly so called russian rock. Also The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Deep Purple Rainbow. Some classical music, like Vivaldi.
Listened to all that throughout my childhood.
When I was thirteen I got my first stereo and started buying music. At the same time I started to watch music television. I got into Limp Bizkit, Bloodhound Gang...
I also got into Hip-Hop. Before I thought it's just some stupid talking. And one day I was listening to "The Real Slim Shady" and it got to me. Yep. Eminem.
I like hip-hop ever since, but it was seldom the focus of my attention, reappearing from time to time, and then being buried under other tastes.
Gradually I moved from rock to metal, with Marilyn Manson as my link between the two. I was a huge fan of him. When I was about sixteen I was into the whole extreme metal thing, black metal, death metal, grindcore.
I was also really into punk, mostly german punk. All those rebellion really appealed to me. My friends were mostly punks and metalers.
Then it got interesting. Through grindcore I found Naked City and was immediately mesmerized by all this screechy sax thing. At the same time, through progressive death metal i got into progressive rock and then pretty fast into avantprog and zeuhl. Also krautrock, since many progressive sites also discussed it. Can, whom I disliked at first listen, became my favourite band and still have a special place in my heart. When I was eighteen I got into electronic music. We were always at drum'n'bass and goa parties and that's what I liked. But I quickly moved on to Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Venetian Snares...
But back to the non-electronic music: From avantprog it was an easy step to free improvisation, because people like Fred Frith were doing both. And of course Naked City brought me to the world of John Zorn, and from there to all the free jazz stuff. Then it gets confusing. I was mostly listening to free improvisation, but also got into classical music and found my love for tuvan and mongolian throat-singing. During the last 2-3 years I've still been a fan of all the "weird stuff", but gradually came back to listening more conventionally melodic music as well. For the last year I've been mostly emerged in progressive rock, mostly King Crimson and Van der Graaf Generator.

Well, that was a lot. And a lot of mistakes as I see, but I'm to lazy to be my usual grammar nazi self now.

grindy

I would have been proud, too.
Didn't come across Josef K yet, but Briks also seems older.
Thank god I was never someone who was bashing "the youth of today" so I don't have to feel ashamed now.

Pet_Sounds

Our evolution is pretty similar so far. Were you born in the Soviet Union?

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Pet_Sounds

The youth of today could use some bashing sometimes.

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grindy

Yeah, in the Ukraine.

I think the stupidity of the youth throughout all of history didn't and doesn't change much. Nothing wrong with that, although I guess I would like to slap my teenage self if I'd meet me somehow.

Machine

Born in 1999

1999: Steady stream of garage rock and 60's psych (Velvet Underground, The Beatles)

2001: Neo-Psych, Alt Country (The Flaming Lips, Uncle Tupelo, Wilco)

2003: More garage rock and experimental music (Kraftwerk, Stereolab, Death By Chocolate, Everything But The Girl, Velvet Underground)

2005: Krautrock, Psych, Experimental, Soundtrack (Can, Neu!, Faust, Cluster, Ennio Morricone, Stereolab)

2008: First time I started to branch out on my own Classic Rock, Rock, Heavy Metal (Metallica, Guns N' Roses, An Endless Sporadic)

2010: Grunge, Post-Grunge (Nirvana, Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots, Pearl Jam)

2012: It was the end of this year I heard Radiohead for the first time completely changing my taste in music for the last 2 1/2 years. Metal, Nu-Metal, Thrash Metal, Death Metal, Funk Metal (System Of A Down, Opeth, Primus, Megadeath, Slayer, Radiohead, Tool)

2013: This is where things started to get really diverse for me musically Experimental, Prog-Metal, Prog-Rock, Psych, Post-Rock, Shoegaze, Post-Metal Drone, Indie Rock (Opeth, Tool, Radiohead, The Flaming Lips, Sigur Ros, Tortoise, Porcupine Tree, My Bloody Valentine, Arcade Fire, Sonic Youth, Public Image Ltd., Pink Floyd)

2014: and here we are now. Folk-Punk, Bebop, Experimental, Industrial, Alt. country, Neo-Psych, Electronic, Krautrock l, Hip-Hop, Jazz Rap (Andrew Jackson Jihad, Wilco, The Flaming Lips, Can, Swans, Oneotrix Point Never, Cloud Nothings, MF DOOM, Tyler The Creator, Miles Davis, Outkast, Radiohead, NIN, Ink Siblings, Beck)

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listen to me stroke my delay pedal

ever wanted to hear death grips songs... but they're acoustic? me neither.

grindy

I can really relate to that. Reminds me of a lot of my steps, minus the embarassing (although I'm not embarassed) stuff.
Aso reminded me, that I forgot Radiohead and SOAD, whom I loved when I was 16-17.
And I'm not even going to say anything about people appearing older than they are at this point anymore.

Mr. Red

I was not a frequent music listener/fan until about two years ago.

The Clash got me into rock
Death Grips, Captain Beefheart, and Charles Mingus got me into Jazz, and avant garde.