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LiquidMorkite's avatar

When I was a toddler the main thing I was listening to of course was what my parents used to put on the player. My dad was born in the 60s, and his favorite was The Beatles, Scorpions, Bee Gees, ABBA, Francoise Hardy, Nancy Sinatra. Or at least that's what I remember, because they were, and still are my favorite musicians until today.

In middle school, it was around 2006-2007. It was a lot of younger rock music like emo, punk, alternative, bands like Simple Plan, My Chemical Romance, Avril Lavigne, Paramore, Green Day, they were my favorites. I don't listen to them anymore nowadays, just a song a two of MCR everytime I'm feeling it, but not further than that. Oh, and also a bit of hip-hop.

In highschool, it was dubstep, I couldn't understand why, must because dubstep musicians like Zedd and Skrillex were pretty big by that time. A bit of pop as well, but mostly I couldn't remember who I was listening too, I guess I didn't listen to that much music in highschool. And yeah, also a bit of hip-hop.

As I'm finishing high school and entering college, my spectrum has gotten big big in a very short time. First it was a bit more of rock, for the first time I started looking back a bit of older bands, glam metal, classic rock, rock n' roll, it was a mess between of big faces in the 60-70s like Led Zeppelin, Beatles, Rolling Stones, you name it; and the later generations of the 80-90s like Skid Row, Guns n' Roses, Nirvana, Deep Purple. I dived a bit deeper for some metal, but only for a short time. It got so intense during a year or two, then suddenly I just got soften down, and included some pop in my music. Lana Del Rey was my favorite, still is my most listened artist though. It's been 11 years since her first album that made it to mainstream, and today I'm still her fan. Later on I started to pick up something else like 30-40s music like folk, jazz, a bit of classic pop like The Chordettes, The Ronnettes, The Platters, and some jazz artists including Armstrong, Baker, among others.

As of today, almost being 30, I find myself listening to everything. Movies soundtracks have been included in the last 5 years since I started to watch more movies and pay attention to them. Favorite original soundtracks including Amélie (2001), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), and Scorsese's movies in the 90s, with an exception of Taxi Driver (1976) (he knows how to choose songs for his films). Classical is something else I'd go to once in a while. And last but not least, country, and Johnny Cash, because the man made his own genre.

New music been added to my playlists lately being synth pop, 80s synth, 90s hip-hop. The whole Fallout games and TV shows has enlighten me with more classic pop/folk. But the only thing I stop listening to is heavier rock music, or dubstep, can go for synthwave, darkwave and techno (if I'm outside of course), but dubstep is just dead for me. I just feel too old for that.

I've come to a conclusion is that your music taste really develops through yourself by the time, by what you're dealing with during the moment. There was a time that I started to learn how to play the guitar, I listened to a lot of folk and stuff like that. Then I started a garage band and listened to a lot of garage/indie.

Who knows what could inspire me in the future, but my playlist is surely confusing to a lot of people, lol.

A

Music is like life: as time passes, it changes. Tastes changes and mixes, bands come and go, some classics remain. Periods of calm alternates to periods of intense discovery. Every genre/band has a reason and a time for it, it makes no sense to wonder "what if I discovered that early?" or "wish I had known them early" if you didn't it probably means you weren't ready for it.

From the mix of 2000 and 2010s radio music and 80s classics, Linkin Park angst and Depeche Mode forever sound, comes the first great period of discovery when I moved away from pop and rock and delved into Symphonic Metal: it was a different sound, with these ethereal women voices pitted against the darkness and guttural growl of male singers. Nightwish, Within Temptation, Epica, Theater of Tragedy were the lead groups of such phase. Darker the descent became with Lacuna Coil, Tristania and others, a descent that branched into into the dark electronic music of the german speaking dance halls with aggrotech and EBM, to slip into the dark lyrics of Paradise Lost and similar groups. But darkness can't last forever, and from it, the progressive metal like Ayreon and God is an Astronaut, 80s inspired bands like The Night Flight Orchestra and electronic acts and weaver of landscapes like Solar Fields brought a change of air. And air would change once again as history cannot be forgotten, and it came forward, in due time, with 80s staples like Ah-ah and Toto, 70s experiments like YMO and Kraftwerk, or the saxophones of Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane of Jazz.

What I know is that it is yet to end and plenty is yet to be discovered.

M

so as a kid in secondary/high school it was only bands like Metallica or iron maiden going through college it changed abit more to grim dubstep and now its pretty much anything really enjoying country rock a lot at the moment

N

My music taste is like a rollercoaster ride, it's constantly changing! I used to be all about that pop music life, but now I'm more into indie and alternative. Give me all the chill vibes and deep lyrics. Sometimes I even find myself jamming out to classical music while I work. It's funny how our tastes evolve over time.

B

My music taste changed over the years. As a kid i loved to listen rock and pop music, but during my teenage years all I wanted to listen was rap and punk, and it awas more than music, it was the attitude and a way to face life. In my twenties punk gave way to metal, more melodic and complex, and with more possibilities about themes and subgeners. But then about I finish university, near my 30 I completly stopped listen to music, even when I am driving. I don't stopped loving music but it has become a background presence and now is 100% collateral to other media for me, like movies or video games.

T

When I was younger I used to enjoy a lot of rap, hip-hop, as well as metal. I've always enjoyed a wide-variety of music, but I find as I get older I gravitate more towards more calming music such as Lo-Fi, Drum&Bass as well as some indie genres. Even though I listen to very different music now, I still enjoy listening to my old taste from time to time.

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I'll tell you that I've always been passionate about jazz and blues music, but over the course of the year I've gone from listening to rock to bar lounge music, I think it's quite relaxing, especially on rainy days or in solitude, it makes you think. I've also re-evaluated rap in some ways, even if it's not a genre that I love, some lyrics are pleasant to listen to, let's say I've removed those prejudices that led me to criticize the genre even though I wasn't listening to it, it's always worth giving it a chance.

R

My music taste changed a lot over the years. When I was younger, I used to listen brazilian funk, but now I can’t listen to that anymore. Then hip hop was the vibe, OG ones, Eminem, Pac… . I’m a drummer, I like some rock hits, but the songs I learned to play on the drums, I can’t hear it casually because I heard’em so many times that I got sick. My taste for now is, some country, mpb, hip hop, just chill vibes.

JB

Well being born in the 90s Now albums were all the rage so my music preferences started off very varied and often very cheesy. My dad loved DeLaSoul and really got me in to the them and that helped shape my tastes towards hip hop and R&B considerably.

That said, in my early teens I went through a heavy rock phase, with bullet for my valentine, nickelback, limp bizkit to name a few. I grew out of this rock phase until Daughtry became a hit and that was followed closely by Black Stone Cherry, who I still love to this day and could happily listen to 'Between the devil and the deep blue sea' on repeat no problem.

Most of my music now though revolved around my running playlist, so I've gone full circle to a wide mix of genres again, with the likes of Tyga, RAYE, Childish Gambino and Lauryn Hill featuring heavily.

I'm always open to new music but I do have strong preferences for some of these artists even though a lot may be older releases!

LeoMo's avatar

There are times when I listen to more music and times when I don't. But I think my musical evolution has gone through some good changes. When I was younger, from 12 to 15, I listened to a lot of hip-hop, mainly boombap, and the hit songs that interested me. I couldn't define my taste precisely. As I got older, around 16 to 17, I continued listening to hip-hop, but I moved more towards trap, and I also listened to a little rock, I listened to a lot of older rock. When I was 18, I hardly listened to music. When I was 19, I only listened to one artist frequently, Joji. Now I'm in my 20s and the music I listen to the most is from some animes that I think have a good soundtrack and some songs that have left a mark on me, mainly rock and Joji.

AbyKwon117's avatar

Thinking about my musical tastes over time really makes me feel a little sorry for myself until now haha ​​but well let's get started. ♤When I was 10-13 years old I really liked a Korean band called "Big Bang" it was a kpop, hip hop/rap genre (to this day I listen to them from time to time to remember their music).

♤Then I went to listen to "Vocaloid" when I was 14-17 years old haha ​​and it has a variety of musical genres, they still listen to them from time to time but in private, I don't dare to put any of that on speakers or at high volume 🤣.

♤ When I was 18-22 years old I started listening to the "opening/ending" of animes and video games that are usually of the Jpop and Jrock genre.

♤At 23-25 ​​(my current age) I listen to a little of all of the above, along with Pop, Rock, Electronic music, etc.

We are all different and therefore we all have different tastes but what I have definitely never liked over the years is the genre "reggaeton, bachata, grupera music" etc. But they are totally respectable for people who like them.

Horror and Cats's avatar

I was a country boy in my early years and listened to a lot of contemporary country on drives with the family.

Then as a teenager I got into break dancing and listened exclusively to hip hop and rap, anything I could dance to really.

In my late teens I had some older friends who introduced me to harder rock music like Tool, Breaking Benjamin, Chevelle and Disturbed and was SUPER into that genre for basically the rest of my life till now.

I'm still very into hard rock, but I have recently (last 5 years or so) discovered what I can best describe as folk rock? Delta Rae and The Civil Wars are good examples of the genre.

Also red dirt country music has come onto my radar in the same time period. Uncle Lucius, Colter Wall, Tyler Childers, etc. It's country, but it's not the "my dog, truck, beer and girl" country. That stuff drives me nuts these days.

CMDR Henckes's avatar

So, let's start in my adolescence, where I were a little more into music, and to clarify it haven't change too much, is more new tastes, some getting out and then coming back later. But all start with rock, hard rock and metal, specially with great bands like Guns n''Roses, Metallica, Link Park, Black Sabbath and many others. And this perdure for years to my early adulthood, in this time I was very into the rock scene with some other musics that came out from other genres like Black Eyed Peas.

Entering the adulthood I keep my original tastes but I then realised the other songs I didn't listen to because of that stupid prejudice that rock lovers doesn't listen to pop or other genres. In the 2015 and years close to it I started to hear more pop songs as well, specially Sia, that catch me a lot, and I start to listen to more songs fro my country as well.

After a few years we had kind a fever of the Norse mythology and then I discovered a lot of folk Norse songs and I felt in love, and now my tastes a more Rock and the Norse folk with a few songs from other gender, pop, Bolsa Nova, Classical and even Mongolian Folk!

henhid's avatar

When I think about how my music tastes have evolved, I have to go way back to the early 80s. I was just a kid, maybe six or seven years old, and my first connection to music was through merengue. Around 1982 or 1983, it was the most popular genre in the Dominican Republic, so it was everywhere.

But at the same time, there was this big wave of American influence, and of course, Michael Jackson was at the center of it. That was my first real exposure to English-language music. I vividly remember watching the videos for Thriller, Beat It, and Billie Jean. It was impossible to miss. I even had a neighbor who owned the Thriller LP, and he’d play it nonstop.

By the late 80s, my older brother was fully into music in English, and naturally, I started following his lead. By the early 90s, we were both hooked on La X-102, a Dominican radio station that mainly played English-language songs but also supported Spanish rock and local rock projects. That was when I really shifted toward English-language music, and honestly, it’s been my main focus ever since.

Then, in the mid-90s, something else came into play. A friend of mine introduced me to a Billboard music collection that focused on songs from the 50s, 60s, and 70s. That was a game-changer. Through that collection, I discovered rock and roll, the music that defined the pre-Beatles era, and, of course, The Beatles themselves. It was like stepping into a whole new world, and it definitely shaped my taste during that time.

Fast-forward to the late 2000s, and my musical journey took another turn when I discovered francophone music. Artists like Lara Fabian, Jacques Brel, Léo Ferré and Georges Brassens completely drew me in. I got so into it that, for the past 15 years or so, it’s been a huge part of what I listen to. It didn’t replace everything else, but it added this whole new dimension to my music tastes.


Original text in Spanish, translated with AI software

L

Since today's styles are mainly prefab nonsense and an overdose of autotune, I am still listening beloved rock from the '70s: first Queen albums, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, etc. classical/opera (from Palestrina to Puccini) and soundtracks (Zimmer, of course, and Göransson from the contemporary composers). And just a few modern bands like Muse, Gojira or Machine Head.

Alex Sinclair's avatar

Thanks for sharing lebiadkin; we'll need a bit more detail if you're going to win a prize. Feel free to edit your entry.

Block9's avatar

Well… I admit that my taste in music used to be pretty terrible compared to now. I think it’s because I was younger then, and I hadn’t really explored many options. Even though I'm still young, I believe my music preferences today are much better than what I used to listen to.

Back then, I was really into K-pop. I genuinely thought it was the best music in the world, listening to BTS, Hyuna, Girls' Generation, and others. I’m not saying that K-pop is bad—it’s just that my taste has changed. Maybe it’s an age thing. Now I’m 26 (wow, so old, right?), but back then, I was around 15.

These days, I love listening to older music from the 1960s to the 1990s—pop, electronic, and some classics every now and then. I’ve really been enjoying ’80s pop, like Cyndi Lauper’s "Girls Just Want to Have Fun." I discovered it because I heard my mom play it on her birthday when I was 18, along with a lot of other adults. Ever since then, I’ve been curious about music from my mom’s time (she was born in 1975). She used to tell me that when she went to teen parties, this and other great pop songs would play. It felt like the music made her heart beat in sync with the rhythm.

Now, my iTunes searches are filled with songs from between the 1960s and 1998. Sometimes I wish I’d been born back then so I could’ve enjoyed the parties and nightlife of those years! But since I’m still young, maybe it’s just a phase, a change in my music taste. Yet, even at 26, I’m still loving this style.

yan57436's avatar
  1. My first contact with music was mainly listening to Caetano Veloso and Nando Reis, icons of MPB (Brazilian popular music), because of my mother.

  2. My uncle introduced me to rock for the first time with Angra - Nova Era, and I simply discovered a new world.

  3. I remember in 2015 there was Rock in Rio with Metallica, System of a Down, Slipknot and the event was televised for us Brazilians. There I fell even more in love with this world of music

  4. I used to watch a lot of streams on twitch, and 99% of the time the streamers were listening to eminem, it just came on my spotify and never left.

  5. I was very prejudiced against other styles of music that escaped MPB or rock and its derivations, but through the influence of my schoolmates, I started listening to a Brazilian genre called Pagode, which is close to samba, but they are different. Simply the official style of Brazilian barbecues, today I can't live without it haha

  6. My mother started going to church and we listened to gospel music every day. I believe it gives me incredible peace and I always listen to it when I need to reflect and find myself.

  7. I got to know a “new” side of rock, mainly through Arctic Monkeys

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Dydo's avatar

When I was a kid, I didn't had any music taste, just listened to what was playing in radio back then. Then, I got an acoustic guitar and a opportunity to study music on an government facility. Thanks to that... I learned how to make strings sound decent, but didn't have anything at all that I really wanted to play. So, I used to play "folk" music, whatever people asked for, like sertanejo (country-like) and MPB (Brazilian Popular Music).

At this point, my friend gave me a CD, and Snow - Red Hot Chilli Peppers was on it. I then learned that I kinda liked how rock sounds, those explosive melodies and all. I even had a RHCP cover band!

But it wasn't until my early adulthood that I would discover brazilian '70s psychodelic/progressive music was truly my thing. One day I found this band on early YouTube, Ave Sangria (Sangria Bird), and it became one of my favorites to this day, leading me to discover many others from various sub-genres.

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Here comes my chronological story about my musical tastes through the years.

  • 1971 / 1976 like a little boy l’m just remember to hear my mother singing and manny songs that l can’t clearly remember

  • 1976 / 1980 Like Dominican that l’m an living in a little town l hear manys Merengues , Salsa , Bachata , Bolero , Rancheras , Ballads and a few rock songs like Donna Summer , Jackson 5 , Nat King Cole or Blondie

  • 1980 / 1985 Was the big explosion of new Merengues group , salsa and of course Michael Jackson Thriller , Cindy Lauper , The Bangles and many’s Soundtrack especially Footlose , Flashdance or Rambo ll the list ist infinite

  • 1985 / 1990 In this moment l’m start to hear less Latino Music and more American and European like Madonna , Duran Duran , Depeche Mode , Menudo from PR (Ricky Martin was there) Mecano , Aha , ABBA and much more

  • 1990 / 1999 Michael Jackson is Back and this time he look different but we don’t care , Milli Valnilly and Modern Talking was the kings of my radio Casette , U2 and Depeche Mode was new for me but my heart get broken sometimes and slowly lm looking for Air Supply and l discover ENYA and Sinead O’connor

  • 1999 / 2005 I’m re discover the videogames , new movies and new love for this about music l’m getting closer to classic music , German and Italian singer and finally discover the magic of Queen , The Beatles , The Doors and the country music and somes Africans styles

  • 2005 / 2009 Working in a resort l’m get related with many American and European music there comes Beyoncé , Usher , Fat Boy Slim , Moby , No Dubts and many more

  • 2009 / 2014 new life married and living in Germany Rammsteim , Wird Sind Helden , Christina Stumer and of course Psy , Daddy Yankee but l discover my favorite group BROADCAST or Tiny Tin , Tori Amos , Paula Cole and more Spiritually singer

  • 2014 / 2024 (Today) being divorced and living a new life l’m starting to love the music from 60’s 70’s and off course 80’s

And today l’m hear singers that almost nobody knows , videogames soundtracks or movies/tv series themes

Chelsea Princess , Len , The Pierces , Betthoven , Mozart or One winged Angel /Sephiroth (FF7) or Megaman X music

I hope that this music taste history like us

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MQC's avatar

The first time I became aware that I had developed my own musical taste was thanks to Jean-Michel Jarre, when I was about 12 years old, in the early 90s. That New-Age music introduced me to a whole paradigm of complex electronic music; Kraftwerk, Vangelis, Kitaro, Tangerine Dream, etc... I listened to every little sound, every touch of the synthesizer, every musical variation or change...

This led me to discover classical music, lesser-known works than the typical ones we all know from having heard them a thousand times in films or TV-ads, and it was then that I discovered my passion for J.S. Bach, A. Marcello, Albinoni, etc... From that moment on I decided that, although it was perhaps a little late for me, I would study the intricacies of music even if I had to be self-taught.

But curiously I then evolved towards a type of music that may seem very different in style and form, such as Heavy Metal, but over time you understand that everything has a common thread. Because of my love for tabletop role-playing games, music about swords, spells and knights, I ended up listening to Manowar, Blind Guardian, Helloween, Iron Maiden, etc.

And again, another very common hobby, such as video games and manga, led me to discover Japanese music, mainly that of the creators of Games and Movies soundtracks; Kenji Kawai, Joe Hisaishi, Nobuo Uematsu, Ko Otani, etc. I found an indescribable balance in this type of music; classical but modern, complex but accessible.

Today I still listen to these types of music that I have always been passionate about, the old albums and the new stuff that comes out. Music is a pillar in my life, partly because I ended up studying music during my university years, and because it is obviously a big part of my daily leisure time.

SIRCAM's avatar

Imagine born in Latin American country where Merengue was the king of music and ended up loving music from other countries.

Dont judge me wrong, i still love the golden age of Merengue and of course Juan Luis Guerra and 4:40.

A friend at school (1984) told me that hearing music in english would teach me that language so i follow his advice. He was so right, yes...i learned english hearing music.

Never had the opportunity to buy vinyls LP but during the age of compact disk i manage to get every favorite music band from Depeche Mode to Michael Jackson.

Digital era was coming and i had to make some changes and convert all my compact disk to MP3 and uploaded to internet, today i still preserve all that music using Youtube Music.

Today in my 50's and since the first time i learned my first song in english i still attached to music from other countries mainly in english.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DCFG8xfRAt-

Infographic timeline of music

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Love the graphic! Boomer I nominate this for Member Monday!

TrialByStory's avatar

For a long time I didn't really have my own musical tastes. My parents listened to Oldies in the car, with an emphasis on Motown artists and the Beach Boys, and my sister got into the typical preteen pop divas and boy bands of the late 90s-early 2000's, and since I didn't have space in my room yet for a stereo, I just listened to whatever they listened to. Eventually I got a small CD player and the soundtrack to Disney's Tarzan, and that was occasionally sprinkled in, but I didn't start developing my own taste for real until middle school.

That's when I met someone who's still a close friend to this day, and he introduced me to the wonders of Metallica and Linkin Park, and told me what the frequency for our local Rock radio station was. That set my course for a good while after that. I listened to rock and radio-friendly metal. Then I started listening more to the music in games, particularly Final Fantasy, and I got into Nobuo Uematsu's rock band side project The Black Mages. Around the same time a few of us in my friend group got into Ska, and that friend who first showed me Rock music got into electronic music, specifically Hardstyle, both genres got incorporated into my growing library.

One day I was looking up information about my favorite book series, The Wheel of Time, and discovered this band called Blind Guardian had written a couple songs inspired by it. So I tracked them down and it led me into the rabbit hole that is Symphonic/Power Metal, so Blind Guardian, Delain, Within Temptation, Sabaton, Xandria, and Nightwish all made appearances in my collection. Then that original friend shifted his attention to the more bass-y end of the EDM spectrum, particularly Dubstep and Drum n Bass. And while I preferred the more melodic stuff you could find in Hard Style, I still found some of his influence creeping in. Especially when he started producing his own music (He still does so to this day as Clyde Machine, if you feel like looking him up on Youtube or Bandcamp. He also plays live sets in the VRChat club scene).

Then I got into Vinyl. I found a bundle of great condition 80s rock records at a used book sale one day and about a year later got a record player and started collecting vinyl just before the recent boom started. That's how I got into Prog Rock, via an original copy of Rush's 2112 I stumbled across (Rush is now my favorite classic band). More recently I started listening to Ghost after realizing I'd never tried them and just assumed they were hyper-screamo metal that I find grating, and realized just how wrong I was. And the most recent addition to my library is Rap. I mentioned in a previous bounty that I got into Fighting Games last year and through that rediscovered a rapper I enjoyed hearing on the Red Vs Blue season 10 soundtrack, and he's been a gateway into the wider world of the genre.

One final thing to note: None of these were phases. Every time I found a new artist or genre I liked it was additive, not a replacement for my current tastes. WHich is why I can now put my phone one shuffle and go from Wu-Tang to neoclassical to chiptune to club remixes to Master of Puppets to hornfests to Daft Punk to broadway to.....You get the picture.

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Love the graphic love music

Alex Sinclair's avatar

Podi glad you like it! Were you intending to submit this as a reward entry? (You can hit the 'reply' button if you just want to comment)

S

Firstly, i loved pop, then i got to rock, and i love retro.

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Hi Shallhall01, we'll need more detail and personal anecdotes if you'd like to win a prize.

T

Over the years, my musical tastes have changed a lot! I started with pop and rock, but now I also enjoy hip-hop and electronic music.

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