have a look at the way your music tastes change
do you just go with whatever's fashionable? are you horribly fickle?
do you just go with whatever's different? are you pointedledly alternative?
has your music taste not really changed in the last decade? do you actually like the music?
i would say i have gone through
3 major shifts in taste, if you get me. (and without coming full circle)
is this the
"raz goes indie" thread?
have you renounced the metal?
erm
was ist indie?
oh i see...
you're devoting the next year of your life to happy hardcore.
fair play to you.
My music tastes
don't "change", there's enough room on my shelf for my new records and my old ones and I listen to all of them. I've never understood the NME mind set of only liking what's cool and NOW, and the idea that the moment something new comes along you have to disown everything you listened to before because Now Surely It Must Be Shit (with the exception of the few "classics" which receive special dispensation from Conor McNicholas, allowing you to revere them for all time). Life's too short to pretend.
I think
I started with the most populist stuff and have got more 'specialist' (though in a fair few different genres) as my life has gone on.
10 years ago I'd have probably loved Kaiser Chiefs. Jesus...
i used to listen to a lot of heavy music
and i still do, but i also now listen to lots of acoustic and "indie" music
i think the change came because as far as i felt metal was reaching a bit of a dead end (as it does everynow and again) so i went looking for new interesting sounds i hadn't heard before
yeah i've
gone through a genre shift as well. I used to love ska, then hardcore but now i'm more into punk rock and electronica. I don't think I have ever followed a trend for "a certain band" though. Maybe Test Icicles a bit, but even they are starting to get on my nerves.
all this said..
The All American Rejects new single is kinda tolerable. Amazing what the death of a member can do for a band.
someone died?
i hate to admit it but i think theyre new single is very catchy
massively...
my music taste has changed massively over the past through year.s iT's both broadened and narrowed. I like a lot more music than i did, and I listen to a huge diversity of music from noise (Geisha) to bluegrass (The Be Good Tanyas) through electronica, prog, surf, punk, improv, drone, folk, rockabilly...
but at the same time my tastes have narrowed - ie the bar has been set higher. bands/artists have to met more criteria, and be of a higher standard, before I like them. I'm more discerning. I'm less likely to go for stuff that's gimmicky than I used to. I also prefer live music to recorded music now (with a few exceptions)
i have got progressively heavier and more intricate in my listening habits
but still less than 3 my indie.
my music taste
hasn't changed much in the last 15 years.
But it changed a lot between 15 and 20...
5 years ago
I loved nu-metal. I was 12. I've always loved bands liked Muse, Ash, Feeder. I've found that instead of replacing them, my taste just gets broader. This past 2 years alone, I've started to get into Jeff Buckley, Radiohead etc. I even love the Misfits now. In short, I still like music I used to love. But alongside that, even better stuff has emerged
for me
I just add to my music taste and collection. I still listen and like the music I heard when I was really young and growing up.
I guess that most people and websites recommend me alternative music, whihc thusly makes up around 2/3 of the new music I hear. But overall, whatever I hear and like makes up my taste.
Music evolution of me:
0-10 - Thought music was boring. Liked the occasional classical music tape that came with the Reader's Digest
10-13 THE BREAKTHROUGH (part I). First album - the Proclaimers. Second - Jesus Jones. Lucky enough to have a super-fine indie rock show on every evening on local radio station. Got into pre Brit-pop Brit-pop (Carter, Kingmaker, Wonderstuff, Blur, PWEI, Neds etc).
13-16 GRUNGE Local indie rock show plays tracks off nevermind. Coincides PERFECTLY with teenage angst years. Soundgarden & Alice in Chains provide gateway to heavy rock/metal. Godflesh and the Judgement Night soundtrack becomes obsessions. Still listening to Blur.
16-18 In mourning for death of grunge. Now listening to hip hop, blues, fugazi, dEUS, metal, Blur
18-21 THE BREAKTHROUGH (part II) University friends aquaint me with Aphex Twin, Pavement, Matthew Herbert, Jeff Mills, Jimmy Cliff, Napalm Death, Squarepusher, DRUM N BASS etc. Still listening to Blur.
22 + Listen to Blur.
Certain albms change the way I think
Primal Scream - Vanishing Point showed me that I was being too narrow minded and started getting me into more dancey stuff. My collection has been getting more electro-ish since then.
I still like some chart indie and I'm a ig fan of all that electroclash stuff thats been floating about.
So, i guess it kinda evolves, but doesn't radically change.
0-10 - listened to whatever my parents did (classical and 60s MOR mainly)
11-13 - my pop years - to start with it was Steps, Spice Girls, B*witched and that kinda stuff - and later on less embarassing stuff but really whatever was on the radio
14-16 - getting into rock music and increasingly less mainstream stuff. This coincided with us getting digital and thus starting to watch MTV2 and Kerrang. I liked a bit of nu-metal, a lot of pop-punk (which to this day I retain a big soft spot for) and some indie. Falling in love with music and buying 20 CDs a year.
17-present - in love with indie rock, post-rock, power-pop, singer-songwriters, gradually heavier stuff, and yes, still pop-punk. A constant and ever widening search for new, better and more obscure bands, fuelled by my discovery of DiS and Pitchfork and other such sites. Completely obsessed with music and now buying more than 50 CDs a year.
i find i just go through phases
of looking into particular eras. My taste is largely based around the same 10-15 bands that will always be far and away my most listened to, but i look at eras and movements like the garage and psychedelic scene in the 60's, been listening to a load of The Sonics, Lollipop Shoppe, 13th Floor Elevators, The Kingsmen, Question Mark and the Mysteria, Unrelated Segments, Count Five and reading about them at the same time makes it all the more rewarding, god bless Allmusic
i dont follow trends
i now like avant garde metal, post rock, hardcore punk, punk rock general progressive rock and bits and pieces of other stuff. compared to nu-metal and a brief spell of emo. anyway no-ones perfect. anyway my taste isnt following fashion at all, its called growing up, no one likes the same things forever, especially the things they liked in the teenage years, i used to like some shit, and im not going back there.
and people who like something becasue its fashionable dont like music as much as they claim to, well either that or they are lazy.theres my invaluable contribution done and dusted. i lost my point, so yeah.
PS can you delete the bands on your profile, i went a bit rating crazy
no
you can't... you can only change yr rating. list them as 5/10 if you want to denote indifference.
My 'taste' as such kind of changes every month, as in my purchases will just mirror what's floating my boat at the time, but it kind of goes in cycles. For example, last month I bought a load of electronica for the first time in about nine months while this month sees me on having a bit of a folk obsession.
The introduction of Fopp into my life a few years ago along with the discovery that Amazon marketplace shits on Ebay kind of allowed moulded my buying habits like this. I hardly ever buy new music (I suppose unless there's an impending gig where I have to hear all their latest material), I'm perfectly happy just making sure I'm aware of what's big and listening to it on streaming or whatever until it comes down in price.
I should
proof-read more.
read books
when i was a kid radio was dire. it was books that turned me onto music. robert palmer's deep blues meant a lot to me. once i heard howlin wolf that was it. however much you like black frances or even kurt cobain - next to the wolf they're wimps. they're great artists of course but the wolf was a force of nature. before the books it was too shameful to admit
_
I just listen to whatever its cool and fashionable to like. Sometimes, if I find a really cool band, like the Strokes, i'll read about them on Google and come on messages boards and talk about how they were influenced by Television, even though i've never heard of Television.
"i now like avant garde metal, post rock, hardcore punk, punk rock general progressive rock and bits and pieces of other stuff"
^ Wow - that sounds cool! What kind of shoes do you wear to those gigs? Can you wear anything??
since forever i've listened
to U2, kinks, stones, dire straits, the who, etc etc as my parents were big music buyers. that's pretty much all i used to listen to till i got to the age of 10 and started listening to the radio. at that point i was into all that pop stuff, but to be honest i think i was doing it more to fit in with people at school who liked boyzone/whigfield... underneath it all i always listened properly to bands from the 70s. then i got really into Blur and bought the great escape which i listened to non-stop. i went through a huge dance phase when i started clubbing. then at about 16/17 started listening to nu-metal stuff... god i still cringe... going to uni opened a lot of musical doors for me to many genres - being thrown together with people from around the country with completely opposite music tastes was really good. we all influenced each other, and i would like to think now that i can appreciate most types of music - if they're good or they stand out that is. so, from classical-pop-indie-metal-emo-hardcore-grime.... anything goes. yep.
Sorry about the essay.
0-7 THE BABY YEARS (1970-77) - I seem to remember using my parent upright hoover as i kind of microphone stand. I
would perform Elvis and Jim Reeves (miming all the words) hits for my family.
8-10 THE EARLY YEARS (1978-80) - My older sister rought home a new boyfriend in 78. He was a punk rocker. WHenever
my sister was babysitting me, her boyfriend would come armed with a bunch of 7" singles. These included Sex Pistols,
Ramones & Stiff Little Fingers. This was to be a key moment in my road into music.
11-13 PUNK, NEW WAVE & POP(1981-83) - This was a really cool time for me. I was mainly listening to Madness, Adam
Ant, Bad Manners, Specials, Undertones and Buzzcocks.
14-17 THE BOOM YEARS part 1 (1984-87) - Things really took off here. I got into loads of new music, especially indie
and goth during this period. Bands like Bauhaus, Joy Division, Sisters of Mercy, Pixies, Throwing Muses, Thethe,
Soup Dragons, Cocteau Twins and The Birthday Party. I was buying CD/LP's every week. More and more all the time. I
couldn't get enough.
18-20 THE ROCK YEARS (1988-90) - I was still listening to tons of Indie, Punk and Goth. However i got into a lot of
classic rock during this period and started hanging out at rock clubs. Bands i got into Led Zep, Deep Puple,
Sabbath, The Who, Lou Reed, Stooges, Velvet Underground, Jefferson Airplane, Rolling Stones.
21-26 THE WILDERNESS YEARS (1991-96) - Due to peer pressure from a few friends i took an E and went to a rave
all-nighter. Well this kinda took over my life for a while and i stopped buying NEW guitar based music. All i could
think of was rave tapes and rave music and raving on a weekend. I even became a DJ/MC for a couple of years.
Towards the tail (94/95) end i stated listening to a lot of HIP HOP like NWA, Icecube, ICE T and the Notorious BIG.
27-30 THE HORRIBLE YEARS (1997-2000) - I had problems in my personal life and was recovering from my Rave/Hip Hop
years. I just couldn't seem to get into anything new at all. This was a very depressing period both personally and
musically. I just played all my old CD's.
30-35 THE BOOM YEARS part 2 (2001-06) - THANK FUCK FOR THIS PERIOD. Someone lent me the White Stripes album 'White Blood Cells' and order me to play it. I did and fell in love. That was the moment i had been waiting for. I've bought more CD's during this period than my whole music buying carreer put together. I'm into more diverse music than ever before. I don't think there is a single genre that i don't like.
ISN'T MUSIC FUCKING GREAT?
I was
gonna reply to this thread, but after that blinder from Marco anything i write'll just suck...
Basically, me and The Warn seem to be living parallell lives, band by band, year by year... except less obsessed by Blur
Cool
Glad you came through your saturn return ok dude! Good stuff.
I started
writing a great post with more embellishments than The Warn and Marcofella. By 13 it was already about 500 words, so I abandoned reply. In synopsis:
0-9: Parents' music/b-boy/hair metal
10-12: Metal and classic rock
12-13: Madchester and first 'indie'.
13-15: Alternative, grunge, rock, metal, rave.
15-16: Industrial because no-one else liked it. Indie/Alt. once I'd cheered up.
16-17: The Pot years: Kyuss, Monster Magnet; Hip-hop (Soul Assassins style)
17-18: Goth metal. (Couldn't get laid).
18-21: So-Cal punk, Nu-Metal, Ska, Cheese (I was at Uni). The late 90s really sucked!
22-23: Ironic lounge. What a twat.
23-26: World music, Manu Chao, still Ska. Missed the 'new rock revolution' due to being in Afghanistan (Hindi - pop).
26 - now: Revisiting the early 90s. Contented!
ironic lounge?
superLOL
my taste hasn't changed a great deal
although i would say it's got broader (CLICHE ALERT) and a lot of what I used to listen to five/six years ago makes me cringe. but then again i grew up in a small town and had limited access to music that wasn't what was "in fashion".
At the moment
I just go through phases of getting obsessed with different areas for a few months, then I move on to something else and eventually go back to them. Or something like that. My current obsession being old school electro/hip-hop. I get obsessive about stuff really easily and one phase ends when I find something else to get obsessed about.
Not sure how I could list that, but I used to be into DnB and garage stuff when I was at school, then punk, and then uhm, everything else.
So yes, horribly fickle.
Over the last two decades...
my music taste has broadened, rather than changed. I can still put on things I bought as a 14/15 year old, like The Smiths and understand what I loved about it at the time.
hmm
0-13: s club 7, backstreet boys, boyzone etc
13-16: the NME years. white stripes, the von bondies, muse, the beatings, jj72 etc
16-17: trying to keep up with my friend luke and becomng steadily more pretentious
18+: liking what i like and giving everything a fair try whatever i've heard about/by a band before.
summary: have become less of a wanker thanks to music.
I disagree on that last point
;-)