Your Musical Stages of Life
 

Not sure if there is a thread like this, didn't really know what to search for to find out. But I wanted to see everyone's musical stages they went through as they have aged. Feel free to be as in-depth or basic as you like. I know what a lot of people here listen to, but I am interested in what you used to listen to as well, it's pretty interesting sometimes. Even if it's embarrassing. :yeah:

5th Grade: I remember listening to Kid Rock, Limp Bizkit, and Korn. My best friend was Korn fan. I also remember wearing FUBU and Independent T-Shirts...and having dyed hair. Significant Other by Limp Bizkit was on heavy repeat through middle school.

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Middle School: Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory, Staind's Break the Cycle, Will Smith's Big Willie Style & Willennium. Along with more Limp Bizkit. Also a lot of Blink 182.

I got Jiggy.
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9th and 10th grade: Oasis, mainly What's the Story Morning Glory, and everything by Nirvana. Also a lot of System of a Down's Toxicity. Still know every song on that album, I loved it.

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11th and 12th grade: 90s one hit wonders, fell in love with Brand New, also listened to Taking Back Sunday after years of making fun of their fans, other bands like Armor For Sleep, Senses Fail, Bayside, etc. I was like an emo-jock. Senior year listened to mainly Brand New, Taking Back Sunday, and then started listening Alkaline Trio

By far my two most listened to CDs through high school:
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Freshman year of college: Heavy, heavy doses of Alkaline Trio.

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Sophomore year: Introduced to the golden era of rap, started at first by listening to a lot of Biggie, Nas, and Deltron.

Ever since: 90s rap mainly. MF Doom, Nas, Biggie, Tupac, Mobb Deep, Eminem, Wu Tang Clan, Mos Def, Immortal Technique, etc

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-I'll be editing this post as I think of other bands I liked a lot back in the day.

When I was a child, I listened to a lot of brit/europop. Ace of Base, The Spice Girls, S Club 7. At thirteen, my friend shared Blink182 with me, and I began a pop rock/pop punk phase which lasted about 5 years. Brand New's The Devil and God came out, and with it came an alt rock phase including Muse and Radiohead, the latter of which led to everything else. That's about it.

Ehm...
0-12: Classical music, bit of reinhardt, morricone
12-14/15: Top 40 crap. Britney spears, some trance
15-18: Punk, metal, got some interest in 60's and 70's rock/pop
18-now: Pretty much everything. I really developed in the past 10 years :).

I have a very VERY bizarre growth in music. I honestly had little to no interest in music until a few years ago:

Early Childhood - Teenage late Teenage years : Videogame music found in Squaresoft RPGs, Classic rock my dad used to listen to really loudly(Deep Purple, Sabbath, 70s type stuff. He's a guitarist so eh...). Metallica which my brother was really into, and that's about it.

Late Teenage Years - Early adult years: Bizarre flirtations with grunge(Had a massive obsession with Alice In Chains. You'd never think it of me now). I really got big into System of a Down, White Stripes, and some commercial rock that was big at the time. Albeit, not into most of the stuff my peers were into. My brother was always blaring NIN, and Tool which I never got into even to this day.

Discovering Avant Garde/ Early Adult years - two or three years before now: I barely knew of Patton. Strangely enough, it was from being introduced to a handful of scene kid bands from a guy who I knew for a very short period of my life, and I got a taste of bands like Dog Fashion Disco, and Tub Ring. Of course, I was so ignorant to any form of experimental music I thought these bands were extremely unique, and doing something really trail-blazing. That is, until after reading about thirty million times of them being called Bungle ripoffs I got into Bungle. Which, you think would have been a revelation to me, but it wasn't.

The real revelation came when I was searching for anything that was labeled as 'Avant-Garde'(not knowing what it was at the time). I found something called 'Naked City'. From there, I downloaded the discography, and listened to the album Naked City which had a massive effect on me not listening to any jazz, grindcore, relatively little surf, etc. However, that wasn't the big thing. When listening to the next album 'La Grand Guignol'(Which essentially is Torture Garden with a 30 minute track at the beginning, and a few less songs), and it blew my mind.

The songs were all 30 seconds long, and at a speed that I have never heard before. Shifting genre to genre with such ease, and no adherence to trying to be rocky, or cool. This was a group of nerds, led by an oddball awkward Jewish guy doing some of the most mind bending metal I've heard at the time, and not caring to even take it that seriously. Guignol/Torture Garden still to this day has a massive place in my heart, consistently one of my favorite albums of all time. Where commercial music always disinterested me for being so formulaic, and samey, this is **** that really stood out.

Then - now: An explosion of interest in music of all varieties. A few years before that I'd be the close minded ****head who said "Oh yeah, Death metal guys, they just burp.", or have relatively no interest in Jazz not knowing what it is. I kind of liked classical, but I didn't really know it. Since then, through massive reverse engineering from influences to influences, I have discovered everything from Miles Davis to Gyorgie Ligeti to the other group that really reshapped my life Magma. Not only that, I started listening to more genres that I normally would have thought are "so bad they're teh funny" like death metal, black metal, grindcore. Doors opened to Behemoth, Locust, etc. I refound my love for videogame music, and finally felt comfortable admitting it as comparable to it's mainstream counter-parts, and now, I still like AIC but they make me feel dirty.

Now, I spend a large LARGE portion of my day trying to educate, and build an encyclopedic knowledge of the music I felt was sort of stolen from me by mainstream filters. Japanoise, Avant-Jazz, No wave, Rock In Opposition, Zuehl, Art Rock, Prog Rock, Jazz Fusion, etc. Music I knew I would have adored as a child if I would have just had exposure to it.

Don't be a snob, man. Tell us what you liked. No shame.

Alright I'll give this a go.

0-6: Stuff my parents played...some Simon & Garfunkel, Dylan, Billy Joel, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Mellisa Ethridge, Jazz like Ella, Duke Ellington, Cole Porter too.

6-10: Teen boy band pop, Backstreet Boys, 'Nsync, 98 degrees

10-13: Nu metal and commercial rock, Linkin Park, P.O.D., Default, 3 Doors Down, Red Hot Chili Peppers etc. A short classic rock phase with bands like Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Grateful Dead etc. Then a huge Nirvana and Green Day phase until I graduated middle school.

14-18: Folk and independent rock/pop, bands like Bloc Party, the Decemberists, Death Cab For Cutie, Sufjan Stevens, The National, Tegan and Sara, The Mountain Goats, Iron & Wine, Okkervil River.

Present: A lot of DIY music, it's kind of hard to explain to people. I got really into lo-fi folk pop and folk-punk thanks to bands/musicians like Madeline Ava, Watercolor Paintings, Johnny Hobo and the Freight Trains and Ghost Mice. Then recently its been emo/screamo/rap mixed with the same folk pop and folk punk, bands such as The Saddest Landscape, Snowing, Circle Takes The Square, Brand New, Suis La Lune, P.O.S. (and pretty much the entire Doomtree collective). Oh yeah and I also went through (and still enjoy) a huge Twee Pop/C86/indiepop phase at around this time last year.

So that's pretty much it I think...not too bad.

This thread was a great idea.

0-13: Video game music, Joe Hisaishi
14-15: Led Zeppelin, Boston, Pink Floyd, Greenday, etc (basically a few classic rock bands - at this time my mom was trying to get me to listen to music so I could "fit in" with others my age)
16-17: AC/DC, Velvet Underground, Jimi Hendrix, White Stripes, Stevie Ray Vaughan, BB King, Buddy Guy, Robert Johnson (listening to SRV began my interest in blues)
18-Present: Everything. I've got a ton of experimental/avant-garde, a lot of classical music, jazz, hip-hop, art rock, etc. Trying to expand my view on music at this point. This is when I became obsessed.

i'm gonna slice this up in two ways.

as a listener

i started with mainstream stuff - first cassette i ever asked for was Lionel Ritchie's Dancing on the Ceiling. for whatever reason as a little french kid growing up in a little french fishing village that predominantly listened to nothing but bluegrass and old country i found myself always listening to funkier beats. lots of DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince tapes, as well as Young MC.

then i heard the Red Hot Chili Peppers in late 1990. which then lead to a widely expansive listening palette of alt-rock throughout the rest of high school. though for whatever reason i did also end up owning the entire Kim Mitchell discography on cassette. :usehead:

then college came along just as the whole P2P thing was tearing wide open all over the place. from post-rock to experimental electro and free jazz it was all there for the pickings. but looking back at it all, the funky beats have ALWAYS been there tickling my subconscious and making my head nod / foot tap / hips groove / whatever.

at this point i don't care that much anymore. i like what i like and don't really feel a driving urge to find the next great thing. it seems rather common place for musical expansion to develop in that same way and i think it's reflective of the way the modern educational system doesn't at all prepare individuals for the pragmatic realities of working for a living and continues to encourage idealistic growth like it matters for something. within those confines its a lot easier to spend the time necessary to sift through new material and to share ideas with others. the net does offer that to a certain extent as well but it's never quite the same as being in the same dorm room and sharing a bottle of good stuff while discussing great music.



now for the musical stages as a musician.

from the first day i got my first guitar on Valentine's Day 1993 it was covers and chops (LOTS of RHCP / Hendrix / Soundgarden / Metallica / Smashing Pumpkins). nonstop, just poring over every single bar of tab in any magazine i could get my hands on. it was 2 years before i had the opportunity to really play with others for the first time and i'll always remember how horrible and useless i felt by only knowing how to play along to cds. if we decided to try playing a cover i could NAIL it and get props, but if one of the guys just wanted to sit and strum G, C and D for a while before changing it up to A, D and E i was useless. i couldn't do squat. not that it mattered much, i moved again shortly after that session and wouldn't get a chance to play with others for another 3 years. so i stuck to playing along to discs.

by '98 i was in college again and we were having a dorm party one fine Friday night and this dude happened to be sitting on my floor and asked if i had a bass. i hand it over and he asks me if i know any Jane's... so we kick into the Mountain Song, except he doesn't really know it, but that night, it didn't matter, it was ON! another lightning bolt for the old noggin. one of the people hanging out in the room described it as a 'musical orgasm' when we came down. that's the exact point when improvising became my focus over practicing chops along to a cd.

from 2001-2003 it was all about trying to get a band started. what a mess. huge learning experience though.

2003-2005 was barren. felt so burnt from the failed band situation along with other personal crap revolving around music (both the art and the industry) that i didn't pick up anything for most of 2 years. the 'only' music i made in that time were a pair of sessions with a good friend where he basically begged and pleaded with me to make anything with him - so i 'played' the drum machines. i also saw it as an opportunity to forget everything i had learned - kind of like learning the rules so you can break the rules.

2006-2008 full improv freak out mode. spent at least 1 full night a week doing nothing but absolute improv. experimented with various setups as a way of creating and establishing my own sound eventually resulting in the light / dark stereo split. far more concerned with the overall sonic output than the specific tonal note coming through.

2008-2010 - another hiatus of sorts. the jam room flooded and we all went separate ways, not that it wasn't going to happen anyway (when only 1 of the other 3 guys you play with is 100% behind you it's not going to work out in the long term). i took this time to learn the rudiments of the one instrument that had eluded me to this point and ironically enough, the one that draws me into music the most - drums.

2011 - ? - now that i have acceptable abilities on my instruments of choice i'm hoping to get my hands dirty on the recording side of things just a little. nothing major, nothing pro, just a clearer reflection of my existence through the loudness of light.

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0-11: RADIOS ARE PLAYING STATIC I WANT TO DRAW ON PAPER THERE'S A GUITAR FROM WHEN I WAS 6 IN THE CLOSET AND I HAVEN'T TUNED IT IN A MERE HUNDRED FORTNIGHTS!!! AHH, CHILDHOOD IGNORANCE!

12-13: Discovery of Green Day leads one down the road of the faithful 'punk law upholder', having yr. ideals reupholstered by fellows on the Runescape forums who say "Green Day is AWFUL... Nirvana is wayyy better" is a terrible way to come to terms with yr. lack of musical knowledge, but it suits the situation well. Where did all of this Billy Talent and AC/DC come from? I dunno, but your dad sure likes the latter, and listening to it on the radio while riding to school every morning is too much fun.

14-17: Everything goes a rye. You discover Pink Floyd, and in that very moment, you have cheated yourself out of the beauty of childhood arrogance. No more will you listen to music personally on its artistic merits, but you will form an unquenchable thirst based on an endless pursuit of understanding more. Your shell of ignorance, she's gone, but so is your bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Without the ignorance, there is no bliss. In a perpetual state of commotion and chaos, constantly diving your toes into new things, understanding new textures n' colors, WHERE DO LED ZEPPELIN'S GUITAR SOUNDS COME FROM!?!?!? What is this 'hipster term'? Man Man, great band! Phish are solid as well... Animal Collective - I heard they're hipsters but oh wait, their music means the world to me so HERE WE COME! What? Music gets more obscure than simply indie? Rating things? Why put numbers on things? Oh well - I join in the charade, at least for the current moment. Stars of the Lid - thank you, I found peace with my inner self and I don't want to move for a while. Bob Dylan, no thank you for now but I will seek out your wisdom when the days grow drearier. I don't want to be a poet but I'd like to wax poetic - I can't not be upset with this situation, can I?

0-10
Classic rock and 80s pop. Because I had an older brother who was into stuff like Pink Floyd, Rush and Led Zeppelin, and growing up in the 80s I was obviously surrounded by 80s pop.

10-12
I buy my first tape, REM's Document, which begins my love affair with college rock (aka alternative rock). Siouxsie & the Banshees, Love & Rockets, Bob Mould, Jane's Addiction, Red Hot Chili Peppers, INXS, etc. are favorites during this time.

13-18
At thirteen I hear Ministry's Land of Rape and Honey for the first time. I had never fully been able to get into the thrash and death metal most of my friends listened to, now I've found something loud that clicked with me. Tastes go from industrial and goth to punk and hardcore. Favorites during this time: Ministry, Nine Inch Nails, Godflesh, The Cure, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, Pigface, Bauhaus, Sisters of Mercy, Suicidal Tendencies, Gorilla Biscuits, 7 Seconds, Scratch Acid, etc.

19-23
Like a lot of people, this is a time of big musical expansion for me. I get into the more experimental side of industrial, plus jazz, bluegrass, cajun music, afro pop and rock en español. Some favorites during this era: Foetus, Swans, Tom Waits, Miles Davis, Benny Goodman, Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, Cafe Tacuba, Prof. Longhair, Motorhead, The Church, Trans Am.

24-29
A move to a new city expands my music horizons further. I get a lot more into things I only dabbled in in the past like hip hop, IDM, trip hop, indie rock, electroclash, metal and low-fi. Favorites at this this time: The Notwist, Busdriver, Mr. Lif, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Flaming Lips, Grandaddy, Amon Tobin, Kid Koala, The Microphones, The Swirlies, RJD2, Fischerspooner, The Faint, Meshuggah, Pig Destroyer, Nick Cave, Madlib, Dalek, Autechre, Cornelius, Rocket from the Crypt, Aesop Rock, Solex, Man-Man.

30-present
Moving from coast to coast four times, getting married, being unemployed, going back to school, landing my first job where I'm actually in charge, and a bunch of other life changes seem to have had a big impact on my tastes. In contrast to my tastes in years past, jazz and metal have become two of the biggest categories of things I listen to. I continue to expand my tastes in the realms of hip hop, electronic music, experimental, 60s and 70s pop, and now even classical, which had always been a huge obstacle for me in the past. Recent favorites: Shining, Electric Wizard, Art Blakey, Charles Mingus, Behemoth, Boris, Ufomammut, Neurosis, Sleep, High on Fire, Charlie Haden, Chick Corea, Clifford Brown, Sun Ra, Edan, Ice Cube, Tribe Called Quest, Digable Planets, Unsane, The Book of Knots, Kool Keith, Suicide, Cage, Esquivel!, Battles, Psychofagist, Fleetwood Mac.

Sounds fun!

0-7: I listened to whatever was on the radio pretty much, but enjoyed New Age music. I always loved it when the Pure Moods commercials came on. I especially liked Native American music and owned an album from Cusco, 2 from Sacred Spirits, and a few other ones that weren't tied to any one artist.

8-10: Started to listen to what my brother Matt listened to, which consisted of Counting Crows, Deftones, System of a Down, Dave Matthews Band, Eminem, and Tupac. All of that, in addition to still liking Native American music, along with my budding interest in Electronic music. When I was 9 I heard this track, and really started me in the direction of all things Electronic.



11-14: Still enjoyed all the stuff I got from my brother, but started to lose interest in New Age material. I started to listen to more metal. As I Lay Dying, Mudvayne (only really liked L.D. 50), The Black Dahlia Murder, etc. Started to REALLY get into Trance music, and pretty much enjoyed everything I heard.

15-18: Still listened to metal and the stuff from when I was younger, and began to appreciate New Age stuff again. I had a fateful encounter with Black Metal, and we were smitten. I sort of gave up on most of the other stuff I had, except for Toxicity and L.D. 50. I started to branch out from Trance and began to listen to Progressive House and Hardstyle.

19-now: Still enjoy most of the stuff from when I was younger, but I'm more picky. In the last year or so my tastes exploded. In addition to New Age, Black Metal, and Electronic music, I've begun to delve into Hip Hop, Post Rock, Modern Classical, Ambient, and any sort of weird oddities I end up finding.

0-11: Basically video game soundtracks. Never really listened to the radio.

11-13: A huge obsession with classical music, which involved me listening to my school's CDs and becoming obsessed with the 2 Fantasia films.

13: Started to like rock music. Mostly listened to mainstream pop-punk (a.k.a. Fall Out Boy (my most listened-to artist at the time) and Green Day) and nu-metal (mostly Linkin Park). I was also obsessed with classic rock like Pink Floyd. Around a couple of months before I turned 14, I got a Muse album, which started to take me away from the mainstream music I once loved. To tell you the truth, I grew out of my old FoB-obsessed self quickly (as I really only listened to them for a few months).

14-Present: Got the full grasp on the fact that there really is a lot of music out there. My taste evolved pretty quickly to appreciate a lot of genres and artists. This was also the time when I also started my (almost) year-long lurking on MB before I joined.

0-8: I was brought up listening to my mom's music, predominately. That meant anything from the 70s and 80s was likely to be played, along with whatever was currently mainstream in the alternative / rock world. Near the end of these years, I was introduced to a band my mom was really digging - you may have heard of them - Nirvana. I also apparently wore out two of my mother's cassettes during these years; one was Rod Stewart's Unplugged and Seated. The other was some Elton John greatest hits compilation.

9-12: At this point in my life, my mother finally allowed me to pick out my own music. I listened to a lot of the poppy stuff (Backstreet Boys, Hanson, Spice Girls, etc.) that my sister who is a year and a half younger than me (along with many of my school friends) were listening to. My favorites during this time, however, were Blues Traveler (first CD I ever bought), Jewel, Savage Garden, and some cassettes that came with a walkman cassette player my dad found at a yard sale: Oasis, Counting Crows, Soundgarden, Nirvana, Silverchair, and Smashing Pumpkins were amongst the titles.

13-14: This was my miniature rebellious phase. I chose to wear black, called myself a nonconformist, expressed disdain for the establishment (but more importantly in my eyes, Avril Lavigne) and listened to nu-metal, hardcore, punk, metal, and hard rock. Throughout this phase, however, I was really getting into Queen, a band my mother owned a greatest hits album of and would occasionally play throughout pretty much my entire childhood. I also started listening to rap and hip-hop at this time, as my father was going through a midlife crisis and thought he was young and hip.

15-17: My classic rock phase. I listened to a lot of the stuff I'd listened to previously, and was more open to new kinds of music. What I loved above all else, however, was classic rock, particularly Queen, The Who, and The Beatles. This opened me up to a little bit of prog as well, allowed me to get into some indie and alternative stuff, and listen to pretty much anything I could get my hands on.

18-23: Phish happened. In searching for great music in my late teens, I'd come across The Grateful Dead and heard constantly that there was this shitty band out there who "ripped off the Grateful Dead". I had to hear it for myself, to properly hate said band. Turns out, I didn't hate said band at all. This period of my life has been spent still listening to anything and everything I can get my hands on, be it classical, jazz, blues, kraut, prog, rap, pop, punk, metal, indie, folk, opera, etc. I really will listen to anything someone gives me to hear at this point in my life with a completely open mind. Hopefully, I get more music knowledge as the years continue to pass and never turn into a total snob. That's what I'd like NOT to happen in my musical evolution.

0-10 - Really whatever came my way...mostly from my parents (obviously). Talking Heads, Yanni, Harry Belefonte, and Creedence seem to have burned their impressions into my head.

11-13 - The "finding my way in music" phase. Limp Bizkit, Korn, Disturbed, Mudvayne. If all it had was a chugging riff that anyone who has played guitar for a few months could come up with...I was there.

14-15 - I slowly begin to realize there is amazing music out there. Once I realized how ****ty most of the bands I was listening to were, I started assuming most modern music was total crap. My solution was to look to music in the past. Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, and of course Pink Floyd were on heavy rotation in these years. One exception is the Red Hot Chili Peppers...but they are pretty old as well, I guess.

16-18 - My true musical awakening. I discovered the Smashing Pumpkins at 16. At that time in my life, they spoke to me on a level that I had no idea music could. The music was exactly what I wanted to hear. The lyrics all sounded as if they were for me. Where had this band been my whole life? What if there is other totally different music out that can speak to me like this? From then on I would listen to anything that seemed mildly interesting. Other favorites from this time in my life: The Mars Volta, Radiohead, Blur, the Cure...the list goes on to this day.

The years after that leading up to now are really just me exploring music as much as I can. I have had phases of different genres. That went:

Blues (I had to get back to my Memphis roots at some point)
Progressive Rock (Pink Floyd was awesome...so others had to be too, right?)

There was a year here where not only did I not discover a whole lot of new stuff - I really didn't listen to much music at all. It was a very strange year for me.

Electronic (mostly chill stuff, though. I discovered Boards of Canada and all of the sudden the world of music seemed so huge again)
Indie (sure, I've liked indie bands before this phase but this was the phase where I decided it was pretty much all I wanted to listen to)
Shoegaze (this obsession continues to this day)
Psychedelic Rock (this is pretty much where I'm at right now)

0-9: Whatever my Mom or Dad liked basically. For my Mom Top 40's Pop(Avril Lavine, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilara) for my Dad, ****ty radio country and ****tier French Pop.

10-11: Green Day baby. American Idiot was huge at this time and my cousin gave me his copy of the CD. I really liked songs from that album, but I could never listen to the whole thing without getting bored. Then I got into Weird Al. He was pretty much the only artist that my friends and I listened to for around 6 months.

11-12: This was my Grunge period. I heard Nirvana through Weird Al's "Smells like Nirvana" then looked up "music like Nirvana" and from there it was on. This is when I started buying CDs and really loving music. I got all the classics Nevermind, Ten, Dirt, Badmotorfinger, etc.

13-14: Pretty much exclusively 80s and 90s Emo and Screamo. Sunny Day Real Estate, Rites of Spring, Mineral, Iwouldsetmyselfonfireforyou, I Hate Myself, Fugazi, etc. I looked up Emo on Wikipedia for some reason and saw that Rites of Spring was the first Emo band, so I decided to listen to them. I really liked them so I decided to listen to Sunny Day Real Estate. I loved them and I had to get the album Diary. I remember going into Calgary, and buying it from a CD store. Listening to it on the way back blew my mind. In the top 20 experiences I've ever had with music.

14-now: After my phase with Emo I had a sudden realization that you don't have to listen to one genre. this is when I started listening to some different music genres, that make up the bulk of what I listen to now. I like a lot of Indie, Rap, IDM, Thrash, Math Rock/Core, and Classic Rock, with bits of other genres sprinkled in. There's a lot of genres I haven't explored yet, and I look forward to doing that, with the help of Music Banter of course!

0-10: I was into a little bit of anything at this point. My aunt taught me to sing a couple of different country songs almost as soon as I learned to talk. So I guess that's where my music journey started. Anyway, my dad's always loved music and we listened to music together a lot. I know the three biggest things we constantly listened to were:
The Offspring's Americana album.
Limp Bizkit - Faith
and
Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet With Butterfly Wings.
also when Marilyn Manson's The Beautiful People came out when listened to it regularly.

11: At 11 I got into bands like Green Day, Fall Out Boy, and those other bands that were big around that time. I only listened to them for a while but I thought Green Day and American Idiot were the greatest things since sliced bread.

12-16: At the age of 12 when I really found the internet I started to hear things I'd never heard before. I remember the song that truly turned me on to metal, Black Sabbath's War Pigs. I would literally sit in front of my stereo with this song blasting on repeat I love[d] it. Once I was established myself a metal listener I progressed into thrash metal and mostly listened to thrash. At one point I kinda feel out of the metal world for a couple months and when I returned jumped completely backwards and became a doom metal freak. Wow, so much about what I likes changed in the last four years its near impossible to keep up with it and type it. Uh, I guess my metal taste just progressed all over the place. I also got into a lot of punk, along with classic rock, rock n' roll, and other odd and end bands. I mean to give you a strict time line would be impossible. Uh, I guess I just kept getting suggestions from people I talked to regularly on the internet and that help me tastes to continuously expand.

You may be wondering about my love for Hank and other classic country and folk and also the blues. Well, my mom has always loved classic country, well 60s country, and I kinda followed in her footsteps with picking up on country only I took it a step further and checked out Jimmie Rodgers and Hank Williams and fell in love with both of them at the same time and continued to check out country musicians I didn't know. The blues and folk music just kinda fit right in for me because I like my country to be kinda like the blues and like my folk to be fairly country, lol.

Sorry I done such an awful job explaining it was kinda difficult for me to follow lol.

Also, I'm not really ashamed of anything I previously listened to because previously listened to things helped me to build my taste up to what they currently are and in five years I may look back and say the same thing about what I'm currently listening to because I will be moved on.

0-16: Just a bunch of ****. My favorite childhood song was 'All Star' by Smash Mouth, but I also listened to some classic rock, rap, etc. The one song/band from this period that I still listen to:



16-18: I discovered the Red Hot Chili Peppers. The first song I remember falling in love with was 'Can't Stop'. From there, I bought their greatest hits CD. For the remaining years of high school, I listened to 90s alternative entirely. If it wasn't from that period, I didn't give it a chance.

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18-Present: Guess what? There is other music out there from an era other than early 90s alternative. I don't know if it was just because I was in college and spent a lot of time sitting around listening to music, but I was much more willing to try other things, ranging from Black Sabbath to Parliament to The Clash to A Tribe Called Quest to Defiance, Ohio to Kanye West.

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I was a late bloomer! :D

0-12 top 40 radio and alternative rock station every now and then. Also a lot of easy listening from my mother. Sting, Moody Blues, Rod Stewart.

12-16 I went into my rock stage of my life during this time. My first cassette I got was a red hot chili peppers album Blood Sugar Sex Magik, IIRC. When I was able to buy my own cassettes my first purchase was Green Day's Dookie. I swear I wore that tape out. I would listen to some hip hop every now and then from mtv but it was mostly alt rock that I was playing. I would get songs from the alt rock radio station I was listening to and make my own mix tapes. ahh the memories or recording a radio station on a cassette.

16-22 i was too busy with graduating from high school and getting ready to go into the Navy that I lost track of the music world for a bit and went back to listening to top 40 radio only. I did have a special place in my heart for nu metal though. Linkin' Park, P.O.D. , Papa Roach, Limp Bizkit, Saliva, etc. While I was in the navy I was oblivious to the whole entertainment industry. I had no idea what music, movies or tv shows that were coming out or hot at the time.

22-27 At the beginning, I discovered Nightwish and jumped head first into symphonic metal. I picked up lacuna coil along the way, Katatonia, Within Temptation. Oh and my special love for Evanescence. During this time , I had some really good friends giving me some new music that I wouldn't normally listen to. Two bands that I remember vividly is Tiger Army and AFI.
I had more time now to take recommendations and discover music for myself on the interwebs so my taste spread across so many genres. Brand New, Mars Volta, 30 seconds to Mars, Funeral for a friend, 36 crazyfists, Mastodon, Matchbook Romance, Matisyahu, Papoose, Iron Maiden, Rush, Patrick Wolf(thanks to ethan), Weezer, Van Halen, Valient Thorr, The Transplants, Tsunami Bomb, T.I. , Ne-Yo, 50 Cent, Ludacris, Nelly, Soundgarden, The Sounds, Daft Punk, DJ Tiesto, Crossfade, Coheed and Cambria, Avenged Sevenfold, Big and Rich, Dio. Okay I think you get the point, I listen to a lot of genres and I'm very open to new things as long as it sounds good to my ears.

0-13 During these years I didn't listen to music that much. Only what was on the radio or the stuff my parents occasionally listened to (so not that much of anything)

13-16 I started to listen to more music. I started to like System of a Down alot and after that I started to listen to alot of metal. Stuff like Opeth, In Flames, Katatonia etc. and also some metalcore stuff. I listened to alot of metal during my teen years actually. It started with more mellow stuff and later I was into more extreme metal like death metal. I also liked to listen to alot of Empyrium which was a German folk metal later neo-folk band. I still love Empyrium alot.
When I was sixteen I started to listen more varied stuff.

17-20 I found post-metal. I really loved Callisto and Cult of Luna (I still do). And because of post-metal I started to listen to alot of post-rock. Post-rock is very dear to my heart (I have my own post-rock band also) I love bands like Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Ef, Sigur Rós, Pg.Lost, Ioseb, A silver Mt.Zion. During this time I also started to like alot of indie stuff. By this time I had also stopped listening to metal since I couldn't really connect to it anymore.

Lately: Right now I'm still really into post-rock (and stuff that in my opinnion goes great with it: ambient, drone etc.) and indie. I've also started to listen to alot of lo-fi, anti-folk and indie-folk. I really love Daniel Johnston, Jeffrey Lewis and stuff like that. DIY lo-fi bedroom projects are also really nice. Oh yeah and I love emo/screamo stuff like Mineral, Suis La Lune, Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) etc.

Great thread.

0-10 : Whatever was playing on the radio and some CDs and tapes that were passed down to me from my other brother and sister. One band stuck out the most:

10-14: I started listening to a lot of metal, this was the age where I picked up playing guitar and started covering a lot of classic licks and full songs that I found in Guitar World whenever I could get my mom to buy me an issue. Two bands stuck out the most though, still two of my favorites:


15-17: Scremo, Grindcore, other types of metal, and first glimpse of hardcore punk.
Bands that stuck out:


17-present - The last few years have been filled with a crazy amount of exploring. Hip-hop, Electronic(progressive house, indie dance, hard house ect.) Indie, ambient, jazz, 80s pop, funk, folk, and math rock.
Bands that stuck out/still are:

I'm a big fan of all three of these! :yeah:

Okay, let's see...

4-7/8
80s pop. I found this "Fantastic 80s" compilation album we had at home and for the first time I started to enjoy to music. I had no idea what Wham! and Rick Astley were saying, but it didn't stop me from singing along! Later I, by chance, found this cassette with Billy Joel's River Of Dreams on it. It was lying out in the car, and whenever I was sitting in the passenger's seat, I played it. My parents must have really hated it after a while.

8-12
I discovered soul music, and southern soul has remained one of my favorite genres of music until this very day. I mean, could there be anything more awesome than In The Midnight Hour, Knock On Wood, Stand By Me and (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay? No way! My parents also bought me a Ray Charles compilation album, and, as you can see on my last.fm page, he's still one of my favorite artists.

12-15
Nothing much happened, really. I started to listen to some classic rock and stuff.

15 (a year ago) - present
My interest in music really started growing. Before Christmas 2009 I decided to start being more of an album-oriented listener. And so I also came to the conclusion that I should start to collect my own CDs. Since then my taste in music has expanded a lot, I listen to a lot of jazz and classical music as well. Still, there's lots of music for me to discover. Electronic music, for instance, is a genre I have absolutely no clue about.

This is an awesome background in music tastes. So unique, so what are your favorite groups/musicians?

Well, I mentioned Ray Charles. I still love him. I'm also a huge fan of Miles Davis' work, Kind Of Blue is perhaps my all time favorite album. I used to like Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin a lot - and I mean a lot - and though I still like them, I have sort of grown tired of them and hardly ever listen to them anymore. Bands and musicians I have been enjoying more recently are in particular Black Sabbath, Television, King Crimson, Yes, Van Morrison and Funkadelic. There are many more also, of course, just check out my last.fm profile. (:

Age four: Whatever dad was listening to
And that included his Fatboy Slim CDs. I would force him to put them on because I thought they were the best. I didn't really have a musical taste apart from that, i guess. I kind of remember liking that Barbie Girl song.

Age five: Dayvan discovers Pink Floyd
I got tired of Fatboy slim after a while and decided to see what else dad was listening to. At the time he was listening to Pink Floyd and /i was suddenly obsessed with them. My favourite album was Animals and I always sat down with my gameboy and my DSOTM tshirt listening to Sheep on repeat.

Age Six: Dayvan finds her cousin's happy hardcore CD
This was a bad period of my musical life. I actually like happy hardcore. I'd rather not talk about this because I'm too embarrassed. I stopped listening to pink floyd and picked up Children Of The Night instead :/

Age seven: Dayvan's dad moves to alberta, turns towards mom for music
That's also the year that Hot Hot Heat's song Bandages was all over MuchMusic and the radios. I was OBSESSED with that song. I used to sing it really off-key with mom because she knew that I really liked Hot Hot Heat. I also liked the Walkmen and The White Stripes, and used to beg mom to play We've Been Had for me.

Age Eight: Dayvan discovers Tegan And Sara
This is when I started to formulate my own taste in music. I listened to Tegan and Sara and I started to formulate my own taste in music, but I still clung to the rock bands my mom listened to in the past.

Age Ten: Dayvan Tries to fit in
Now, I started to be uncool at the age of ten. I started to lose interest in tegan and sara and started liking whatever was on the radio. and halfway through this phase, I just stopped caring and moved on, and started liking the music I liked when I was eight again.

Age Eleven: Dayvan discovers BOC and Battles
I was surfing around on youtube one day, and I noticed that there was this almost magical song playing in the background of some guy talking about video games or something. It was full of twinkly guitars and sharp drum machines and I instantly fell in love with it. I soon found out that the song was called Dayvan Cowboy and it was by Boards Of Canada and I began searching for more of their albums. Once I wasted half of the year drooling over them, I decided to check out the people on their label. Well, Battles just released an album and the amount of hype that was going on made me want to check it out. When I heard it, I didn't like it. It was atonal, it was weird, and it wasn't conventional. I put it down for about a month and then I decided to try it again. I gave it a listen, and I finally got it. They had this technical, complicated and unusual sound that intrigued me, and I kept going deeper into it and I thought it was the best thing since sliced cheese!

Age 12 or 13 or something: Dayvan checks out Animal Collective
I was listening to CBC Radio One and they were going on about the best albums of 2010. I turned it on and I heard Animal Collective's song "Summertime Clothes" and instantly fell in love with it. I started exploring more "best of '09' albums and I found out about **** Buttons. Their album Tarot Sport blew me away, and I kept exploring more and more music

Age 13 (pt. 2): Dayvan lets go of her indie rawk past and finds new artists.
This is when I stopped caring about Hot Hot Heat and Tegan and Sara and moved on. I was looking forward to discovering new artists and in order to do that, I needed to let go of the past.

Age 14 (present): Dayvan steps out of her comfort zone
I'm listening to music that eleven year old me could never appreciate. I evolved musically in a manner that was fortunate, and I can now tolerate louder, more complex, more abrasive music. So, I'm lucky that evolved that way instead of giving in and listening to The Stills or something.

that is the end.

Right i'll give this a shot:

0-8
I don't think i really cared that much about music, i was too interested in football, cars and silly stuff. When i did listen to music it was just what ever came on the radio that stood out to the ears of a young fecker.

8-13
My affair with music starts here. My sister and i learned how to tape songs off the radio and i started to listen to stuff like Oasis, Blur, Stereophonics, U2, Travis and Ocean Colour Scene as well as compilations such as Now That's What I Call Music.

13-15
Now the real fun begins. Having grown tired of those chart rock bands, and on becoming an angsty teen, i felt the need to listen to something a bit louder and more rebellious. And my idea of loud and rebellious was, erm, Green Day, Sum 41, Blink 182, Papa Roach, Korn, Feeder and Nirvana (I still listen to Nirvana to this day). I also used to watch Kerrang! tv a lot.

15-18
Zero goes somewhat metal. My discovery of Metallica led me to bands like Iron Maiden, Anthrax, Slayer, Pantera, Machine Head etc. I also started to grow my hair long, wear rock t-shirts and hoodies along with silly baggy jeans and skate shoes and just hang around town and skate. Also during this period i discovered bands like Jimmy Eat World, Funeral For A Friend, Finch, Lostprophets, AFI (who were my favourite band for about 2 years, grunge bands like Alice In Chains and Pearl Jam. I also used to listen The Strokes, The White Stripes, RHCP and QOTSA for a while.

18-21
In my last year of school my friend introduced me to The Cure, getting into them opened me up to another world of music. When i started college i got into more indie and alternative rock stuff like the Smashing Pumpkins (who are still my favourite band to this day), Pixies, Joy Division and The Smiths among others. I still listened to quite a bit of metal during this period and i started listening to Mastodon, Opeth and Tool.

21-24
I really started to branch out into different styles of music in the past few years, mainly thanks to this fine establishment. I started getting into electronic stuff like Air, Massive Attack, Boards Of Canada, The Chemical Brothers etc. My biggest musical discovery though was shoegaze and although i had heard My Bloody Valentine before, i really came to my senses as to what they were doing and they blew my mind. This lead me to bands like Slowdive, Ride, Pale Saints etc. Indie and alternative still play the biggest part in my musical taste although i have ventured further underground, always looking for something new, and if i was to list out bands i've discovered in recent years i could be here all night.

0-10

I remember listening to what was currently big at the time along with some music my family introduced me to. Back Street Boys, Lou Bega, Eifel 65 and The Police filled up this time.

10-14

I was introduced to classic rock through the radio. I was convinced that no music except music from circa '60 - '70 were considered 'real' music. Methinks everyone goes through this phase at least once in there life. It was very typical of me to be listening to Queen, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix Experience, Rolling Stones and CCR at this time.

14-18

During high school my tastes changed drastically. I don't know what happend, but I got into Nirvana my sophmore year then I liked Marilyn Manson and Nine Inch Nails for awhile. Then near my junior, senior year I really got into Radiohead which in turn got me turned onto more electronica after hearing Kid A. Then I jumped all over Indie music such as The Shins and Arcade Fire and still listen to classic rock occasionally Pink Floyd being a favorite along with the first band I actually liked The Doors. Then underground psychedelia/prog Chrysalis, Love, Emerson Lake and Palmer ect. And right now I'm discovering new music of different genre's all the time.

Then And Now: Describe Your Music-Loving History
 

6-10 I listened to pop groups like the Spice Girls, B-witched and S-Club 7. I then discovered The Rock Radio Station and discovered groups like Metallica, Black Sabbath and more.

At 13 I remember walking my nana's cats after granddad had died and really got into dance music and the club mixes on Saturday nights. I listened to my cassettes where I taped them with remixes by Kyle Minogue and The Eurythmics.

The Nu Metal thread reminded me of all the bands I've out grown. For example when I was 14-15 I was a huge Korn, Manson, Arch Enemy, Blink 182 and CKY fan. I went through a stage of trashy rock (anti-pop) but developed into some more sophisticated rock by 16, such as the Stones, Uriah Heep, Cream, Deep Purple and Pink Floyd. I think my main reason for the more heavier/angrier music was to coincide with my rebellious nature. Later on I felt more connected to music that spoke to the soul not just to the mind.

From 17-19 I was a big fan of English groups like Oasis and U2, and began to really get into electronica such as Fat Boy Slim and Robert Miles. 90's Techno/house was my main collection. Of course I was always into the mainstream stuff that my dad put me onto from his days of rocking out.

Now (23) I'm still collectively into the 60/70/80's rock but my dominant taste is for electronica groups such as Deadmau5, Aphex Twin, Daft Punk and many others (just mentioning the well known ones). I have gained a huge appreciation for my native music which largely dominates my journal particularly in the dub/reggae/roots/drum and bass scene which I believe are some of the world's best. Fat Freddy's Drop is a great example which I know many members on here agree with. I have also dabbled in Jazz (Sadly only Miles Davis), Classical (Mozart, Beethoven and other composers), French (Julien Dores, Edith Piaf) and more alternative music (E.g. Placebo, Muse).

I would like to continue exploration of indie music which I do enjoy and other crazy alternative groups. I am a big fan of trip hop and groups like Crystal Castles which I can't even figure out what sub group they belong to. I've also been exploring older hip hop music like Notorious BIG and Tupac. LOVE BIG.

Edited due to seeing past content. :D

lol I have about three or four Tony Hawk soundtracks myself. Most of the punk bands i know from the past or liked are on those soundtracks.

something like this:-

1-4 - 60s rock - Beatles, Rolling Stones, Tommy James & The Shondells, Ventures, etc

5 - 7 - 70s Chinese pop - Teresa Teng, Wang Ching Yuen, Fei Yi Ching, Liu Wen Zhen

8 - 11 - disco (Funkytown, Ring My Bell, Dance, Little Lady, Dance), ABBA, Grease soundtrack, Bee Gees

12 - 15 - synthpop - Duran Duran, OMD, HUman League, British Top 20, NWOBHM - Iron Maiden

16 - 18 - JAMC, Smiths, Talking Heads, Velvet Underground, extreme metal - Carcass, Napalm Death

19 - 21 - Ramones, rap (Public Enemy, De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest), early Madchester (Happy Mondays, Stone Roses), hair metal, Chinese pop

22 - 25 - mostly indie Britpop, NIN, Stooges, The Who, The Kinks

26 - 30 - Drake, Van Morrison, Gram Parsons, Byrds, mostly folk-rock and country-rock

31 - 35 - didn't really get into anything, wasn't buying CDs cos was in a pretty bad patch, but did check out Sigur Ros, Arcade Fire, Muse, Franz Ferdinand, Kaiser Chiefs and Mew

36 - 40 - eclectic, but mostly Beefheart, prog, post-hardcore, melodic death metal, jazz-rock

eek! lets see...

1-10=classic rock and motown.
11-15-metal/indie rock
16-18-techno/hip hop
19-now-indie rock/black metal/punk

Up to the age of around 10 I listened to a combination of whatever my parents listened to, whatever music was on WWF wrestling (although I only heard it on WWF programs and games) and video game music.

Then I found Nu Metal, mainly because Limp Bizkit had a song on the Mission Impossible film that I liked, and then had another song that was used by The Undertaker again on WWF wrestling. I also found UK garage, because alot of kids I hung around with were big fans of it. This would have been at around 11 years old, and lasted a year or two.

At 13 IIRC I started to listen to hip hop alot more, outside of the few songs I was hearing on the radio. Stuff like Nas, Notorious BIG, 2Pac, NWA etc. This carried on for the last few years of secondary school, with my hip hop knowledge expanding further and further.

Then I stopped paying much attention to music, I was getting jaded with alot of the hip hop I was hearing, it all felt like the same stuff over and over again just with a different person with the chains and throwback jerseys on. This was between the age of 16 and 17, but didnt last longer than 6 months at the most at which point during an afternoon of music channel hopping I saw Slayer's Seasons In The Abyss video. That was it for me, I straight away started looking for more videos by Slayer, but they were rare. So I bought the album instead, and then RIB and SOH as well and went from there. I discovered and developed a taste for death metal and black metal as well, and soon became an elitist that would only listen to metal.

Then at 21, so last year, I met a girl who was wonderful to hang around with, and I had so much fun talking to her. But she didnt like the same music as me. I started to be a bit more tolerant of other people's music tastes because of her, and ended up listening to all of the music I had previously listened to before on top of all of the metal I now liked because thats where music conversations with her inevitably led.

So I am at the point now, where I like what I like, and dont really care what anyone else likes anymore. There are only two types of music to me now, good and bad.

Quite a few stages

1 Music of childhood. Overheard on radio, didn't know the name of the songs often but melodies stuck with me. 70s

2 Chart music period, first half of the 80s. Listened to chart music and loved it.

3 Mid 80s to early 90s - Listened to classical music.

4 Mid 90s up to 2000. Listened to far more older popular music. Listened through classic albums and works of great songwriters. Looked at a bit of jazz and still some classical as well (such as the complete Beethoven, Mozart and Bach).

5 2000s The internet age. Now I hungered after music from all over the world. Mainly concentrated on older music from places. Looked at quite alot of Japanese and Korean music, looked in depth at past US (including pre-war) and British chart music. Looked at countries from all continents but particularly the far east, Europe and South America.

Six years or so ago looked in depth at italo disco

Five years or so ago looked at alot of modern classical music / and experimental / modern jazz music.

3/4 years ago started really getting into modern Thai music.

Looked at more of the music on blogs, particularly 70s music such as singer-songwriters.

end of last year and this year - started exploring in depth music of the 2000s, also started to catch up more with 90s music. Greatly increasing my exploration of albums and my understanding of many different genres of popular music.