Music Forum / How has your musical taste 'changed' over time?

Long long journey...
Eminem and all MTV stuff for Kids-> AC/DC -> All kind of 70's and so on, Led Zeppelin, Motörhead... -> Metallica -> Medieval Metal (oh yes......) -> Reggae -> Ska -> Techno -> Pretty much stuff -> Extreme Metal.

Right now it's still Reggae, Ska and Metal. But previously favorite stuff like metallica and linkin park is gone (puh....they suck to me!). Turned into more .... musician's music, im listening to no radio. As protest. So im a real anti Pop-Industry.

rap/hip hop, linkin park, limp bizkit, guano apes, rage, metallica (until today), ozzy, manson, dire straits, genesis, bullet (until today), pod, santana, everlast (until today), house, minimal, goa (until today), dub, chillout, trip hop, acid, ambient

in this particular order

Or maybe you're right. Maybe country music is just all crap.

Willy Nelson, the late Hank Williams (Sr), Johnny Cash, etc are often considered "western" which, as I understand it, is more folky and has more in common with rockabilly than modern country... I really like all three; or at least what I've heard from each of them. It's rather confusing...

As far as I can tell "country" is the name for music with 80s hair band production standards on mediocre rock bands with a pedal steel and/or violin added and a singer with a (often faked) hill-billy-esque accent going on about the usual subjects (sex, heartbreak, trucks, tractors, mix-and-match the previous as you desire). Therefore occasionally amusing, but always bad.

Anywho... I had some phases I guess...

1- Whatever Pop/rock stuff that struck my fancy for long enough without me getting sick of it/ elementary school->middle school age: Everclear (actually still pretty good), Creed (no, just no), 3 Doors Down, etc.

2- Classic Rock Phase - Late Middle School -> Early High School: Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Rush, AC/DC, etc. I was convinced that everything new was awful because all the radio was playing for 'new' stuff in my area was new U2 (meh), and post-post-post grunge BS like Seether.

3- Breakthrough- Sophomore year (high school) -> Senior Year - buys OK Computer, initially dislikes it but is intrigued... Slowly gets into that and starts searching around for buzzed about modern stuff... The Flaming Lips, Coldplay, Muse, etc fall in... Eventually leading to Modest Mouse, Wilco, The Arcade Fire etc.

4- Slow Disenchantment: NOW. As much as a really have come to love a lot of albums since college (see Give Up by the Postal Service, and Silent Alarm by Bloc Party), almost every band I adore hasn't met my expectations; except Radiohead (In Rainbows is really, really great, and the B-disk is just as much the treat to a ravenous fan such as I)... Wilco, despite being a live tour de force (seen them twice in 07, both times were incredible), has released two mediocre albums that both feature hints of just how amazing they really could be (One Wing, On and On and On, Impossible Germany, Wilco (the song)). Death Cab proved that, while they can be consistently good, they're unlikely to ever reach the heights of Transatlantisism again. The Flaming Lips post Yoshimi has been occasionally rewarding, but nothing compared to the two albums preceding it. And don't get me started on Bloc Party or Muse... *shakes head*

I still hold hope for The Arcade Fire, but "The Suburbs" is worrying me (it's fine, it just plods and is waaaaaaay toooo looong), and "Month of May" has a lot of fire that barely leads anywhere, I'm not a big fan of Neon Bible (Funeral is a goddamn masterpiece). BUT "Lenin" is goddamn fucking fantastic AND neither The Suburbs nor Month of May suggests they're headed away from the direction (production wise anyway) that I was hoping for (smaller again plz!). I haven't lost faith in Modest Mouse either... I don't really like We Were Dead as a whole (I really like about half of it), but No One's First is a solid effort. PLUS Jeremiah Green is back on drums! XD

Ride6

Hardcore (as in punk, not as in dance) and Metal were my lead-ins to the world of music. I think it is a good place to start, as I started delving into Metal more deeply I found that it had influences from not just types of rock music, but stuff like folk music, and even trance in some cases. So I suppose it was only a natural progression that I would end up listening to most things. However, inbetween those two points I started listening to experimental music, really getting deep into it.

So if you were to put my music library on shuffle you'd probably get some black metal leading into avantgarde jazz then into dubstep then hip-hop... and so on. Describing my music taste in anything other than these terms would be like describing String Theory with only a picture of Michael Bolton.

I wanted to revive this topic because one of the main things that I loved about NE circa 2004-2005 or whatever was the music forum and how active it was with Jellybones, pBob, uncle ca!ch, mantis, and everyone else. Anyway, the music forum was a major influence on my musical taste and definitely shaped how I listen to music today. I've gotten involved with college radio and have had a radio show for over a year. I listen to all sorts of stuff I could not even imagine existed a few years ago. NE helped get me into Radiohead, Modest Mouse, Flaming Lips and other "indie heavy hitters". Nowadays I listen to everything from jazz to drone to ambient to noise.

I guess my phases were like this:

MTV/hip hop - 3rdish grade - 6th grade
emo/classic rock - 7th-9th grade
"indie" - 9th-12th grade
shoegaze and slowcore - freshman year college
other - sophomore year and beyond

I wish this forum had more active music discussions like the good ol' days, but that's okay. I understand the policy about no links, although once upon a time, it was a great feature.

I have a last.fm account here if you want to check out more about my musical taste.

Mine hasn't changed, I still like the same stuff I was when I was a kid

yeah, Raffi is still the shit

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