How much has your taste in music changed?

by **Peacelia** » Sun Jul 29, 2012 8:26 pm

When i was little i used to listen to Mexican music like cumbia and stuff like that. Then later on i went with all that crappy pop music until finally i woke up and saw there's real music out there and went with soul and jazz. After that i encountered psychedelic rock and punk. Now most of fav bands are punk, classic or hard rock.

by **Shadyrya** » Sun Jul 29, 2012 8:28 pm

Used to like pop/electronica. Now I like post-hardcore.

La Dispute, FTW

by **Nazi Flower Power** » Sun Jul 29, 2012 8:53 pm

I used to listen to a lot of classic rock and psychedelic music. Then I went through a synth-pop phase and a punk rock phase.

These days I am into industrial rock, especially if it has German lyrics, but I also listen to some gentler stuff for the variety.

by **Mad hatters in jeans** » Sun Jul 29, 2012 9:32 pm

by **Ragnarsdomr** » Sun Jul 29, 2012 9:45 pm

Hugely so. Two years ago I would've never dreamed of listening to non-classic rock as my main source of music.

Now I'm fully ingrained with folk, field recordings, swing, DnB, some avant garde classical, and more. All thanks to the glorious lands of the internet.

by **Faolinn** » Sun Jul 29, 2012 10:16 pm

Not all that much.I'm still mostly a rock guy.Though I have a new found interest in certain forms of jazz and new age music.

by **Conserative Morality** » Sun Jul 29, 2012 10:19 pm

I use to like a very narrow selection of rock and orchestral music.

Now I like a wide variety of things. It's difficult to find a genre I don't like.

by **North Wiedna** » Sun Jul 29, 2012 10:31 pm

Top 40 > Classic Roc > Prog > a ton of shit

currently really into noise and hip hop

Last.fm · by **Cosumar** » Sun Jul 29, 2012 11:10 pm

My taste in music has changed a lot since I first joined NS.

Two years ago, my favorie music was post-grunge, hard rock, alternative metal, and nu metal. That type of stuff, with some classic rock and grunge mixed in.

Now, I am exploring a MUCH wider variety of music (hip hop, jazz, folk, prog, punk, etc.) and have come to find that metal is my favorite genre. Right now I'm in a bit of a black metal phase.

by **Frenequesta** » Sun Jul 29, 2012 11:23 pm

Not much, I've always been exclusively a classical/jazz sort of fellow. Sure I've listened to some classic rock here and there, but why listen to that when I can get far more emotional power from the former?

by **Winland** » Mon Jul 30, 2012 3:24 am

Ever since I can remember I've liked 90s punk and metal - Green Day, The Offspring, Sublime, Rob Zombie, Marylin Manson, etc. For a while I got REALLY into SOAD, never creamed over a band so much in my life. Then a friend showed me Rammstein and I got a fetish for foreign languages. I started to acquire a taste for extreme vocals by listening to Avenged Sevenfold, As I Lay Dying, and Trivium as I went to bed. Then my sister-in-law got me into black metal, melodeath, and folk metal, and now I'm into all kinds of random, eclectic, international metal. So I guess my musical taste never really changed so much as expanded.

Never really been into country, pop, or rap. Oh, and R&B makes my ears bleed, not in a good way either.

by **Zaras** » Mon Jul 30, 2012 3:31 am

I started off grounded in rock/alt-rock/metal/electronic music, but I haven't really abandoned anything. The only thing that's "changed" per se is that I've expanded the amount of stuff I listen to, my love of shoegazing, dream pop, slowcore, space rock and psychedelic rock in general has become more pronounced, and thanks to my friends' influence I'm much more of a fan of female singer-songwriters (mainly Tori Amos, Kate Bush, PJ Harvey, Lisa Germano, etc.) nowadays.

Oh, and I like Björk now, whereas my stupid 13-year old self hated her. (Damn I was stupid.)

by **Empire of Vlissingen** » Mon Jul 30, 2012 4:28 am

I like Rock and Metal.

by **Olthar** » Mon Jul 30, 2012 5:00 am

I used to like most music.

Now I like most music, but slightly more than before.

by **Ryanisking** » Mon Jul 30, 2012 5:02 am

Pop to pop rap to gangster rap

by **Wind in the Willows** » Mon Jul 30, 2012 5:03 am

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by **Dimoniquid** » Mon Jul 30, 2012 5:05 am

Well, I used to listen to old-school punk, back in the eighties, since that's what my dad brought me up with. Then, I gathered a taste for a lot of different types, other than punk.

by **Krakosov** » Mon Jul 30, 2012 5:14 am

i used to listen to rap and other mainstreem music in the late 90s and early 2000s when mainstreem music didnt suck as much ass as it does now.

now i listen to classic rock, psycadellic rock, prog rock, prog metal, jazz, blues, russian coir music, orcestral music, and so on and so forth.

by **Samuraikoku** » Mon Jul 30, 2012 5:22 am

Heavy metal. Punk rock. Anime and Videogame OST. The Beatles.

So it has always been, so it will always be.

by **North Wiedna** » Mon Jul 30, 2012 5:34 am

Zaras wrote:Oh, and I like Björk now, whereas my stupid 13-year old self hated her. (Damn I was stupid.)

I need to start listening to Bjork.

Wind in the Willows wrote:They're much better than all the shitty pop these days.

I'm so sad they banned all non-pop music after the eighties.

Last.FM · by **Corrian** » Mon Jul 30, 2012 5:35 am

I've always, from a very young age, had a varying taste of music. I loved this song when I was like 6, and still love it to this day (I'm 17 now). But then I look back at some of the things I loved as well, and I go "Why the hell did I like that shit?'. This is where my thoughts that children of the age of 6 don't really deserve believable opinions on music.

So yeah, I listened to things like Radiohead, Eyvind Kang, even Afghani Metal, and so on, at around the age of 13 and beyond. My dad showed me Sigur Ros jokingly as 'music to wake me up', and they became my favorite band as well. Those are all fairly different from each other. I lurked around on YouTube for new music here and there, still pretty much ignoring mostly mainstream stuff, though there was still the mainstream song here and there I liked. (I also liked this song for a while an awful lot, and now I kinda shake my head at liking it so much. I still don't mind it...but my obsession was silly. There was another one that I went through a phase with that I don't even like anymore really).

Now, my brother introduced me to Spotify last summer. I will forever thank him for that. It tends to make searching for music MUCH easier then YouTube, and I gained a lot of music quite quickly. Then, I started posting here on NationStates more, and within just a few months alone, my music variety has expanded even more immensely, and I've already loved a huge variety, from dark, sad, happy, extremely mellow, extremely upbeat, and so on. I have over 200 playlists on Spotify now (they need a better freaking sorting thing already), but some are like "Icelandic Music Playlist", and that sort, that aren't really one specific artist....a lot are, though, that I still need to go through. Like Mogwai, The Album Leaf, The Black Keys, and about 50 to 100 others that I probably still need to go through and decide what I like, if not everything they've done. Since Spotify, my love for music has grown so much more, and i explore new music all the time. And I already loved music, and listened to it every day. I'm so going to go broke when I start making my own money, because I love a vast variety of games, movies, shows, music, AND books.....

by **Metanih** » Mon Jul 30, 2012 5:39 am

So much. For a while I liked alternative rock, then moved to pop crap, then went to some soft rock, then hard rock, punk, etc. Now I will listen to almost anything under a variety of genres, punk, electronica, dubstep, metal, hard rock, etc.

by **Radiatia** » Mon Jul 30, 2012 5:41 am

When I was a kid I hated all music, as the only thing I'd been exposed to was crappy pop (plus I grew up in the 90s - the dark age of music).

Then I dscovered I quite liked techno, and then I discovered metal and haven't been the same since, with the majority of my music collection being either metal, techno or industrial.

Of course as an adult I've come to appreciate other genres as well, and these days I have a fairly open mind towards music. I like what I like, and if it doesn't actively make me vomit then chances are it's a good song.

Last.FM · by **Corrian** » Mon Jul 30, 2012 5:52 am

North Wiedna wrote:I need to start listening to Bjork.

Here's some to get you started (At least wait for the end that kinda kicked my dad and I in the pants...in an awesome way. The Spotify version is even better). She has quite a large variety. My family and I have been pretty much Bjork fans for quite a long time as well. She is very strange with her videos and whatnot, but they are extremely artistic.

by **Zaras** » Mon Jul 30, 2012 6:24 am

Corrian wrote:
North Wiedna wrote:I need to start listening to Bjork.

Here's some to get you started (At least wait for the end that kinda kicked my dad and I in the pants...in an awesome way. The Spotify version is even better). She has quite a large variety. My family and I have been pretty much Bjork fans for quite a long time as well. She is very strange with her videos and whatnot, but they are extremely artistic.

I'd say just dive in with Vespertine directly. By a long shot that's the best album she's ever made for me. Debut shows its age a bit too obviously, Post has her worst song, and I love Homogenic (All Is Full of Love <3) but it's ultimately just a notch or two below Vespertine in sheer "OMG MIND BLOWN"ness.

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