You Are Programmed To Like Certain Types Of Music
 

5 Ways Your Taste in Music is Scientifically Programmed | Cracked.com

I found this article really interesting, because when I look back to when I was younger than 14 I listened to Techno, Trance, Hard Rock, and Classic Rock. That is what I'm still a huge fan of but only in the last ten years I got into Heavy Metal, DnB, Hip Hop, Prog and Indie. My dad used to play music all the time as I was growing up like Cream, Deep Purple, The Cranberries and Canned Heat, all bands that I still love. I'm not sure whether it means you will have preferences for certain types of chords? What do you guys think? Do you like the same stuff from your teenage years?

Another example of mine past is I still adore 90's music, are you guys the same with your early years decade?

I actually saw this earlier on cracked. Great article too, I knew someone here would end up posting it.

I actually thought about it, and it kind of makes sense, too.

That's very interesting and I definitely think there's something to it :) Of course we can form new neural pathways as adults, but I'm sure the foundations are all laid in those early years just as they are for f.ex language.

I know I still listen to music which I liked when I was a kid. But I don't think this is as simple as saying if you liked The Beatles as a kid, you'll always like The Beatles (though that may be true). Rather, I think you like the sort of stuff that Beatles did. Catchy melodies, traditional times, beautiful harmonies, songs that are happy, sad or surreal. I'd think if you grew up to be an adult only listening to Beatles, you would have a preference for that sort of stuff.

I never sought out anger in music, so I feel like very angry music (often with screamed vocals) is something I often don't quite "get". It needs to appeal by melody or harmony or something else for me before I like it.

So, #2 explains why after so many years I have been 80 percent been listening to Beatles/Jam/Blur styled music thrown in with some Synth Pop, Loud Hardcore Punk, Garage Punk, and the odd used album find that no sane person would really want to hear plus a small interest in cutout albums from the 70's and 80's (now found used for dirt cheap). No matter how much I try to get into more modern styles or at least Dark Ambient (although with some success, dating back to my interest in Dark Underground Music in the Late 80's). Even though it's still quite a mix, it still makes sense.

Yeah, by fourteen, all I wanted to listen to was metal. So, my newfound love of Kate Bush, Sonic Youth, and James Chance and the Contortions doesn't really jive with that.

Man, where was this article when we were dealing with this thread?

I still listen to the same stuff I did when I was in my early teens, but only out of nostalgia.

For example I'm more than happy to listen to old metal albums I used to like, maybe even fill in some of the gaps by those bands of records that I didn't own at the time.

But I have zero interest in hearing any metal albums from the past 15 years simply because I was never really interested in listening to metal during that time and I have no emotional connection to any metal albums released in that period.

I've been listening to a lot of psychedelia, soul & jazz recently.
Three genres of music I've only been into a very short time and would never see myself listening to and had zero interest when I was 14.

If this were the case, my musical tastes would still be crappy, because I listened to almost nothing good at 14. Now, if you want to go a slightly different direction and say that I always try to push the boundaries and listen to experimental/abrasive music because I have been raised by rebellious/anarchistic parents and my tastes are all subconscious reflections of that... I could get behind that.

Wow I just read that thread, that guy just couldn't get it!

I think that some people here will be able to argue some points put forward because a lot of people here want to make that effort to expand their horizons. I think someones comfort zone, at least, is probably established by a young age.

I found the part about elevator music quite interesting. As in someone had come up with the idea of playing different music in each floor of an elevator/lift in a car park to help people remember where they are parked. I am fairly certain that this would help me and just goes to show how music can influence our memory and our thought.