Post your taste in music throughout your life.

[Arcadio]

7-10 years old: Latin pop and rock.
Early teens: Eurodance. It was extremely popular in South America.
Mid-teens: Alternative rock, some metal.
Late teens, early twenties: techno, some metal.
Mid-to-late twenties: mostly metal, some techno.
Early thirties: mostly metal, reggae, some classic rock.

 

[Mixolydian]

My music tastes have never changed. Classic rock, smooth jazz, new age.

 

[purbeast0]

i pretty much like everything except country. back when i was in highschool i pretty much only listened to rap though.

 

[irishScott]

Meh, my tastes have never really changed so much as expanded.

Started off with kid stuff.
Added classical and some specific classic rock (mid-late elementary school -present),
added 90s alternative rock (6th grade - present)
added most of the rest of classic rock (high school - present)
added modern pop, reggae, techno, some dubstep and rap/hip-hop (college - present)

I still listen to it all. Not a huge jazz fan but I don't mind it.

 

[dighn]

classical, jazz, classic rock, electronica

funny how it mirror the actual historical progression of music

 

[irishScott]

classical, jazz, classic rock, electronica

funny how it mirror the actual historical progression of music

Makes sense given who a lot of us were raised by.

1. Parents expose their kids to educational music/kid stuff, often including at least some classical.
2. Parents expose kids to their tastes. With the previous generation, that's usually classic rock and/or jazz.
3. Kid grows up and discovers modern stuff that parents shy away from.

 

[skyking]

I grew up in a house with a piano, folk music and rock on the record player in the 60's.
I never shook it
I lost interest in the contemporary pop/rock in the late 90's pretty much.
Picked up on Classical and Jazz, then Blues. Learned to tolerate what passes for country these days.

 

[CurseTheSky]

I listened to a bit of my parent's music when I was young (CCR, Allman Brothers, Boston, Rolling Stones, etc.). When I was old enough to really care about music, say around middle school age, I started listening to rock / metal and haven't changed since.

 

[lxskllr]

Early years. a bit of everything, but favoring hard rock. Favorite groups - Beach Boys, KISS, Grease soundtrack.

Early teens Top40. Favorite groups Bruce Springsteen and... Dunno. I guess I listened to more singles then. Can't think of many standout groups.

Mid-late teens. Classic top40, classic rock, Oldies. Favorite groups anything from the 50s-early 70s.

Everything after is added to the previous. I go through periods where I favor types of music, and it could be anything from African to klezmer to jazz. I currently don't have a preference. I've been playing my collection on random, and it all sounds good. Just exited a period of post rock and ambient.

I dislike urban music, modern Top40, and modern country. Almost anything else is up for playing.

 

[irishScott]

Might as well post this here, best rendition of Simple Gifts ever (don't worry if you're not into ballet, the dancers and bells are only around for the first minute or so, and it transitions multiple times).

240p audio doesn't do this justice: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mvewRB9CN4&list=PLEe7Oo04OmRTEStYKt1_KpyycoZnhNU6D&index=26

 

[lxskllr]

Might as well post this here, best rendition of Simple Gifts ever (don't worry if you're not into ballet, the dancers and bells are only around for the first minute or so, and it transitions multiple times).

240p audio doesn't do this justice: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mvewRB9CN4&list=PLEe7Oo04OmRTEStYKt1_KpyycoZnhNU6D&index=26

I forgot, I also tend to favor instrumental music :^D

Good clip. Not a huge fan of the vocals, but I dig the brass.

 

[Triumph]

Metal.

That is all.

 

[edro]

I used to like grunge/post grunge as a kid/teenager.
Moved on to heavy metal in college/post college (Tool, Slipknot, Trivium).

Now in my thirties, I am back to 90s rock and grunge. (Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, STP, Alice in Chains)

Of course, I have always loved classic rock. (Zeppelin, Floyd, Who, etc)

 

[Anubis]

Metal.

That is all.

this

 

[KeithTalent]

Grew up on a diet of Punk, Metal, and Rap and those remained my favourites all the way through my life until now (probably in that order of preference too), though I injected some electronic and indie music along the way. I've pretty much always disliked pop and classic rock.

KT

 

[IronWing]

Pre-teen = pop, rock
Teen = rock, folk
20s =+ blues, older R&B, black gospel, African blues, central Asian, Sephardic
30s =+ Middle Eastern, shape-note, early music, polyphonic choral,
40s =+ Eastern European folk and early music

 

[TridenT]

Metal.

That is all.

I'd like to say this... but it isn't true.

As I've aged, my musical taste has only expanded. I used to not really like blues music in the same way that I didn't like rap/hip-hop. And then I learned how to dance to blues music and danced with some pretty cute chicks. Suddenly, I have an interest in it. Not going to get into how hip-hop happened. Anyway, I like country too! Country, hip-hop/rap, most electronica (Although a lot of electronic dance music blows, IMO. I'm just guessing this is only because I don't listen to it when I am high as fuck), classical, rock, metal, pop, golden oldies, whatever... a lot more than I used to. However, I grew up listening to oldies and country mostly in the car. Somehow I listened to the popular stuff elsewhere. I don't know how, honestly... because my parents didn't ever really play it and I didn't listen to the radio.

It's basically went from not having a strong interest in many bands to:
"Ermahgawd, I like a lot of good music. LISTEN TO ALL THE MUSICS. MUST KNOW ALL THE GENRES."

 

[crownjules]

Up to 10: Whatever my parents were listening to, mostly oldies or classical.
11-13: Pop, R&B, some rap
14-25: Metal and alternative rock
25-present (31): Appreciation for all styles of music, but mostly listen to some form of rock.

 

[CraigRT]

I grew up in the 90's (Born in 81) so I pretty much have always liked 90's music.. However as many people my taste has broadened as well. I can listen to almost anything minus horrible pop and some brutal country shit.

The rest is fair game as long as its not a horrible extreme.

 

[BurnItDwn]

0-6 -> Wheels on the bus
6-10 -> Ice Ice Baby
11-15 -> Thrash
16. Discovered Death Metal.

Now I am 33. I listen to mostly prog metal, black metal, death meta, and stoner rock.

I also occasionally listen to Dub, Reggae, Delta Blues, Chicago Blues, Blues Rock, Dixieland, Bebop, Dubstep, Hardstyle, Speedstyle, Psychedelic Rock. Some other music as well.

 

[Dedpuhl]

to 13: Pop/Radio and Weird Al
14-24: Alternative/Hard Rock
25-35: Heavy/Progressive/Death Metal

My progression from Pop to Death Metal happened like this:

Michael Jackson > Weird Al > RHCP > Nirvana > NIN > Metallica > Megadeth > Opeth

Discovering Opeth in 2005 completely shifted my focus into a heavy metal direction.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

~0-4: Chrissy and the Alphabeats
5-9: video game soundtracks, grunge/alt rock, pop-punk, almost exclusively via ROCK 105.3, plus some of my mom's classical albums when reading
9-12: discovered Alice Cooper and Metallica, switched to hard rock and heavy metal, but only listened to a handful of CDs, only listened to the radio for an NPR jazz hour thing when reading before bed
12-15: started branching out within metal, still listened just to the classics (Metallica, Megadeth, Maiden, Priest, Dio, etc) but it was more than just the same album over and over
16-18: got into more underground metal stuff, both in literal obscurity and extremity (more death metal than black metal), also started taking my first steps into some off-the-wall/harsh/difficult non-metal stuff like Swans, NoMeansNo, etc, as well as really getting into all of my mom's funk and R&B stuff
19-present: kind of a continuation of previous, metal still makes up the majority but I'm beginning to call myself a fan of noise rock, the earlier new wave bands, 70's progressive rock, and other genres

 

[CPA]

Metal.

That is all.

Almost this, with a slant towards Thrash Metal. I do like me some Rush, Heart, Fleetwood Mac, Blondie, Pat Benetar, Van Halen and few other Rock bands. That said if every band ceased to exist other than Iron Maiden, I would be happy until the day I die.

 

[xanis]

I listen to everything, always have. Though in my early teens I listened to a lot of stuff like Blink-182.

 

[almightyobo]

I dont remember the ages but it went like this

youngest - disney movie sound tracks, the lion king specifically

then came the oldies from listening to Fox 97 every day on the way to and from school, this got me hooked on the Beatles specifically and I was on a HUGE beatles kick for many many years of my childhood. My dad had lot of their albums and I had memorized tons of their songs word for word

early teenage years was the the worst. I liked the Spice Girls, Aqua, Coolio, Will Smith LOL.. I did always continue to listen to the beatles

middle school/early high school I started listening to more kinds of rock. Chili Peppers, Audioslave, Foo Fighters, Weezer, Aerosmith, Metallica, all kinds of Rock

once I discovered marijuana as a sophomore I also discovered what I consider some of the best artists of all time.. Pink Floyd, Zeppelin, Allman Bros, Grateful Dead, The Who, Jefferson Airplane, The Doors.. so many more but those are the typical go-to's.

I am 25 now and since graduation I just sort of bounce around from all kinds of genres. I listen to much more hip hop and rap now, both old school and new. Im a huge Widespread Panic fan. I also enjoy listening to different up and coming local artists. My town has a huge music scene so Im into all types of different types now and never listen to anything exclusively like I did when I was younger