The evolution of your taste
 

How did your current taste in music evolve?
Where did you start out? Which genres and bands were the turning points?
I'll post about mine, as soon as I've sorted it out in my head. It was all rather chaotic and I'm unsure about the timeline.

Nickelback :finger:

I think we've already done this
http://www.musicbanter.com/general-m...ic-evolve.html

Here we go.

2000: Born, raised on a steady diet of early rock 'n' roll, especially the Beach Boys.

2010: Hears "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" played as a piano solo, falls in love with the melody.

2012: Starts getting into popular music. Plays George Hamilton IV's Lassoes 'n Spurs and Brian Wilson's Imagination over and over again. My passion for folk begins here.

2013:
January: Rediscovers the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds.
May: Hears "Yesterday" for the first time, is consequently smitten by Beatlemania.
November: Hears the Doors' "Light My Fire" for the first time. My passion for psych begins here.

2014:
February: Joins MusicBanter. Things get crazy.

Crap. I actually try to look first whether there is a similar thread, but missed it for the second time now.
It might be worded a little differently, but yeah, it's basically the same.
Now I'm ashamed. Well, not that ashamed.

As the OP of that thread, I think they're different enough to justify keeping both alive. But don't be shocked if this doesn't get many responses.

You are fourteen? Or did I misunderstand something?
If I didn't: Respect. Not even necessarily for the musical taste (for that, too though), but for your overall style of writing and conversation. I think when I was fourteen, it would have been totally visible in my posts, if I've had internet back then. And not in a good way...

Oh right. You were the OP. I'm confused, because I still associate you with Inigo.

Also don't be annoyed if it gets closed or merged. Up to the mods of course...

Born in 1960

1969: Hear Whole Lotta Love for the first time. Instant Zep Head.

Steady diet of Zep, Sabbath, Deep Purple, Uriah Heep, Grand Funk, etc. for the next few years.

Mid 70s: Hear Mahavishnu Orchestra, Return to Forever, early Genesis, ELP , and Yes. Instant Prog and Fusion nut.

Mid 80s: Being a guitarist dove into the Malmsteen, Vai, Satriani stuff big time.

Very recently have "discovered" stuff like Spock's Beard, The Flower Kings, Marillion, Porcupine Tree, Katatonia, Opeth, Glass Hammer, Animals as Leaders, Pain of Salvation, Riverside, and a bunch of others who combine all of my earlier influences.

My iTunes is filled with albums that span the last 45 or so years.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

:laughing:

The youth of today could use some bashing sometimes.

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.

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)

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.

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.

5 - Bruce Springsteen

10-12 - The Who

12-13 - The Smiths, R.E.M., Death Cab for Cutie, Arcade Fire, Blur, the Decemberists, Pixies, the Postal Service, the Replacements, Bloc Party, Talking Heads

14 (that's now!) - Spiritualized, Nick Cave, Albert Ayler, Aesop Rock, Belle and Sebastian, MF DOOM, Kanye West, John Coltrane, the Antlers, Big Star, Built to Spill, Cymbals Eat Guitars, TV on the Radio, ****ed Up, the Fall, GY!BE, Superchunk, Neutral Milk Hotel, Jens Lekman, Los Campesinos!, The Lucksmiths, the Hold Steady, Snowman, Marvin Gaye, Modest Mouse, the Microphones, Uncle Tupelo, Spoon, Sunset Rubdown, Titus Andronicus, Tom Waits, Teenage Fanclub, Townes Van Zandt, X, the Beach Boys (along with most of the above artists - though no more Death Cab, Postal Service, or really Arcade Fire)

Wait, so you're fifteen? There are a lot of us on this forum.

Not sure about all the year numbers, but:

1999: Born into this world by my mother, a major bluegrass/country fan.

2010: I'm listening to mostly Queen and Bruce Springsteen. My dad buys me an Iron Maiden album.

2011: My tastes expand a little, and I start listening to some Beatles, Black Sabbath, and Iron Maiden, among a few others.

2012: I try to branch out. I start listening to mainstream pop punk/emo bands. I register on MB to ask stupid questions in the emo forum.

2013: My tastes mature a little, and I start to branch out. Emo is my genre of choice, but I'm getting into metal as well.

2014: Shit gets real. Who knows what'll happen next?

:laughing: I just glanced back at some of your 2012 threads. Looks like you gave Urban a few to close.

I'm trying to subdue the memories, thank you much. :p:

You're fast. In two years from The Clash to Captain Beefheart is quite a "career".

Shortly after listening thoroughly to the clash I discovered "rate your music" and discovered a few more good rock albums/bands. Afterwards, I came across Piero Scaruffi's lists of top albums which just fastforwarded me even more because I found numerous Jazz/avant garde/rock masterpieces.

I'll do a copy and paste. Since age was brought up I'm 21, if that means anything.

When did you discover your genre of choice?
Generally, my favored genre is metal (of many varieties) and it's been this way since 2010. I discovered my interest simply by listening to a lot of music but my ears followed the route to metal.
Internet radio and YouTube has been a major catalyst as an important note.

When did you discover your favourite band/artist?
Like many here, favorites is a concept that's too black and white. I will say a notable artist, Norther, was discovered first through Pandora as I was listening to my Dimmu Borgir radio station.

When did you last discover a new genre?
None of the genres I've listened to has been profoundly new, but I didn't realize the name of the music I listened to was symphonic metal until 2010. Does that count? Nor did I dive deep into it until that year either.

Would you consider your tastes set in stone?
It's fairly rigid. I still haven't been big into jazz, classical, r & b, pop, rap, country, etc. that's outside of my umbrella.
Set in stone I can't say. I reckon few people are that 2 dimensional.

Overall, how long have you held your current tastes?
2010-Present. I could travel back in time show the exact same music to my old self and I bet he would enjoy it. Before that.. Would be interesting because I listened to the local radio station and MTV as my influence.

I don't think there's any way I could accurately describe my own personal evolution of musical taste.

Its the genres that have evolved through the years. I just follow and listen to the ones I prefer.

I love quite a bit of all of this like the Uncle Tupelo shoutout.

Up until I was 7 I just listened to whatever, didn't mean much to me. Mainly what my parents listened to but I remember loving the Backstreet Boys harmonies when I was 5, but I never pursued it.

At 7 I started getting more into music, mainly what my parents listened to because my dad had upwards of 800 cds. My favourites were Metallica, POD, Zeppelin, and Black Sabbath.

At around 9, I got really into metal, mainly old school metal but there were a couple of newer artists I loved. Some favourites: Pantera, Maiden, Fear Factory, Slayer (who I wasn't allowed to listen to so I made a point of listening to them. Up yours mom.), and Alice in Chains.

I stayed on the metal route until I was about 14, and I mainly rooted around in various metal subgenres as well as some alt-rock like Seether and 3 Days Grace.

At 14 I started going back and gaining a love for psychedelic and 60s music. Some favourite artists were Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, Zeppelin, and Cream. Late in my 14th year, a friend showed me Frank Zappa's Inca Roads and that massively impacted my taste. I started digging around and trying to find crazier and crazier prog like him.

Through Hot Rats, I heard the name Beefheart, but it wasn't until I was 15 when I first heard TMR. Hated it. But I listened to Safe As Milk, got hooked, then decided out of the blue to lend TMR my ear and I never got it back. From there I explored the avant-garde territory and found John Zorn. No turning back now.

I started to really get into jazz, mainly free jazz at the hands of Albert Ayler when I was 16. From there I went headfirst and became a massive free-jazz and avant-garde lover. I also started listening to post-punk, modern classical, and industrial music. It was also then that I joined MB.

When I was 18, Goofle helped me out with demolishing my hatred for hip-hop and after a little bit I added hip-hop to the list of genres that I listened to.

Now at 20 I listen to a lot of avant-garde music and free jazz still, with a healthy dose of hip-hop, throat singing, folk, metal, psychedelic music, electronic, noise (I think I started getting into that at around 17), and blues, among others.

It's kind of hard to map out exactly when I started getting into different things, because after around 16, I really started to spread out my reach.

You got into music at 7 years old? I didn't give two craps about music until I was 11 or so.

Sure did, became an avid listener at seven and started playing at eight.

I didnt really start listening to music until my second year of highschool. I remember in junior high we had to do an assignment on our 5 favorite bands and I couldn't even think of 5. My 16 year old self wouldn't be able to fathom the shit I listen to now (or that I care about music at all really).

My first 12 or so years are basically the same as most other people. Listened to whatever was popular in the late 90's and early 2000's in the UK. Moving onto Hip Hop as Eminem became a huge star. I think the first music I started listening to which wasn't the same as everyone would be The Stone Roses. This led me to other British rock bands like Oasis, Suede, Smiths etc. when I was about 14.

At around 16 I moved onto listening to popular 'indie' bands like Kings of Leon, Cage the Elephant and The View through XFM, a radio station based in Manchester which was a favourite of my Mums. Looking back I was into this stuff for far too long, and I'm disappointed at how long it took for me to bother looking for other music that wasn't presented to me. Probably because I liked most of it (and still do). Though I did pick up a few greats like Doors, Stooges and others in the process.

So I think it wasn't until I was 19 that I looked for a site that would record my listening history. Of course that led me to last.fm.

The state of this: TomClancy11

Around 2010 I discovered theneedledrop who, to this day, is by far the biggest influence on my tastes purely by bringing attention to the world outside of popular music.

Gets Spotify, signs up to musicbanter. Rest is history.

theneedledrop has been a HUUUUUGE influence on me half the bands I listen to now I do because of him

This is my first visit to Music Banter and I can't think of a better thread to get started in than this.

Born in 1978.

My first memories of being enthusiastic about music were around 1985 when I got into the Oldies radio format. My formative years were spent listening to 50s and 60s rock and hating the music that was current. Eventually became an expert on the Beatles, my favorite band when I was 7, as was the case for most eventual pop music hounds.

1988 - Lightened up a bit about new music when I heard "Don't Worry, Be Happy" on the radio. Hey, I was a kid and that was basically a kid's song. But it did lead into my embarrassing 5th Grade M.C. Hammer phase.

1993 - Discovered Nirvana-era Alternative music. Really became a full-on grunge puppy. Worked my way back through 80s college radio like REM and Talking Heads. This is where I really started learning the history of rock/pop music. Eventually into the rock hits of my generation like Weezer and Beck and stuff like that. U2. Radiohead. Started learning guitar and formed various ill-fated bands over the years.

1995 - Beginning of my Britpop fascination. Oasis. Only kid in my small Texas town who'd ever heard of Blur.

1998 - Really turned away from rock radio again with the rise of crap like Limp Bizkit and Creed. Flirted with pop and electronica but really couldn't get into it. Spent most of the year listening to old Stevie Wonder records. Started going my own way.

2002 - Felt the garage rock movement, while pretty good, was too little too late.

2004 - About the time it sunk in that I'd never be a rock star. Checked out from keeping up with current events in music.

2009 - Realized how little hip-hop I actually listen to. Started actively trying to trace down hip hop and R&B I liked.

I've spent the last decade listening to a little of everything. I'm likely to dig out an old Byrds record as I am to listen to Jay Z. I recently went through a phase of listening to old 60s girl groups, for instance. I went through a period where I mostly listened to Outsider music. I'll put on Debussy and my newborn baby seems to love Django Reinhart style jazz. Generally, I'd say I'm an expert on pop music from 1956 to 2000. Since then I'd say I'm fairly well versed but not necessarily an expert. There are Kanye West records I've never heard. I'm not that big on the Strokes or later Radiohead.

Anyway, glad to be here.

^
You sound like you're going to fit in well; your taste isn't too bad. Welcome.

Get that kid a guitar. Stat!

Just please keep evolving. Don't be one of those people that lets their taste for musical exploration die out or freeze around a certain time period. The only time my roomie listens to music is when he is on a road trip and when he is in a mood, he will break out the same REO Speedwagon tape every time. I had a boss who had Styx Grand Illusion welded into his tape player because it reminded him of high school, the BEST time of his life. Most people don't give a ****e about music past the age of 25. Me, since I turned 50, I've been listening to nothing but Thrash Metal and Gangster Rap. You never know where your musical evolution might take you, but you need to keep stoking the fire. If everyone was a music nut, I think the world would be a better place...