The evolution of your taste

Paedantic Basterd · 11-26-2016, 11:42 AM

I guess my interest in music started when I was a kid when I would go through my mom's cassette collection and pick stuff out to play. Then I'd stand on her pool table and pretend I was a singer and it was my stage. This was ages 6-10.

From my mother I inherited Ace of Base, Celine Dion, KD Lang, Allison Moyet... and I never picked up the Bowie or Fleetwood Mac or anything like that because I was a GIRL and I can only perform GIRLS SONGS DUH, but those guys were in there and probably would have saved me from taking the scenic route to interesting music.

From there I used to watch this Canadian top-10 music program on our kids' network that played mostly britpop, and this was right when the Spice Girls exploded. From this I got S Club 7, the Spice Girls, Atomic Kitten, J Lo, the Backstreet Boys, Vitamin C, etc. At this point, I was too tall for the pool table, so my barbies were pop stars.

Eventually the Hit List went off the air and so I turned to my Canadian music provider (Much), and my friend introduced me to the music her brother listened to (which included Blink-182, Sum-41, Linkin Park, Rammstein, Avril Lavigne, etc.) so I did that whole thing where I abandoned fakey pop music (lol) for people who played in bands and wrote their own music. This was at about 13.

And then at 15 someone gave me a mix tape at school that included a pile of stuff from the pop punk/emo movement (My Chemical Romance, The Used, Brand New, Taking Back Sunday) of the oughts which I was NATURALLY swept up in as a tragic and misunderstood teenager.

And from there I discovered pirating music, so further interest in music was not really catalyzed by anything in particular. I just listened to a lot of things and as I grew older, I abandoned certain things (My Chemical Romance) and remained interested in others (Brand New), which led me to more things that I kept (Radiohead) or abandoned (Muse).

Having the annual mixtape is one of the neater things I've done with my time though. For most tapes you can kind of draw a path of how things progressed and you can pick out specific songs that led to the majority of the content on the subsequent tape. There are also some hilarious years where none of the content makes any sense at all. It's fun. I enjoy doing it.

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Ol’ Qwerty Bastard · 11-26-2016, 12:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Paedantic Basterd

Eventually the Hit List went off the air and so I turned to my Canadian music provider (Much), and my friend introduced me to the music her brother listened to (which included Blink-182, Sum-41, Linkin Park, Rammstein, Avril Lavigne, etc.) so I did that whole thing where I abandoned fakey pop music (lol) for people who played in bands and wrote their own music. This was at about 13.

OMG I remember when you couldn't turn on Much without hearing In Too Deep, I Miss You, or Fat Lip.

Also it's funny you mention Brand New because I discovered them when I was 12 or 13 through my sister's old mixed CD collection. A lot of my early taste in indie/alt and emo came through stealing her CDs.