Madda

Nice thread!
Well, when I was a kid I only listened to my older brother's stuff which was almost poppish Alternative Rock such as U2, R.E.M., Coldplay, Oasis ecc., and a few songs I discovered by chance on my own, but it wasn't a true listening of music.. I mean, I was only listening to my brother's stuff, but never searching for "my" music on purpose.

Then, at the age of 13, my interest in music grew and I started searching for my own music. Gradually, I moved from my brother's poppish Alternative Rock to strictly Hard/ballad Rock and Metal of the 80's (the first band I really loved was the Guns N Roses)

Then, after a couple of years, I realized how much the "hard rocker/metalhead with backcombed hair" character was ridicolous. I felt like a living stereotype, and that kind of music was getting boring. That's when, at the age of 15, I discovered Indie Rock and became an hipster. I started listening to Sigur Ròs, Belle & Sebastian and many italian unpopular bands.

Thank God, I stopped being an arrogant genius-wannabe at the age of 17, when I discovered Electronic music. Before that, I thought that everything that wasn't in the boundaries of Rock, wasn't music in the first place. But when I discovered Burial, Kode9, Cooly G, The Space Ape and all that culture, I felt like I was born again, I realized how much overrated the Indie Rock scene is and how much people loath "mainstream" genres without even listening to them. Until now, I've been digging not only Electronica, but also Jazz, Blues, vintage Rock of the 50's and 60's, Funk, Soul, Reggae, Hip Hop, Pop.. Even Ethnic and World music. The list is too long. Let's say that currently, I enjoy everything that has either a soulful vibe, a funny/danceable rhythm, a bluesy mood or a deep and futuristic atmosphere.

If I wanted to be as brief as possible, I should've said that I moved from white music to Black music.

Norg

my musical taste started off has a seed an grew to a very large tree with many branches ............


uhhh

Baby years -85-92 I grew up in Houston Texas the music scene is decent here got a mixture of everything being such a large and diverse city my Mom and pops were the hippie generation and listened to everything from that era the rock stuff the Funk stuff and the POP stuff

92-94 -Kid years - being has how I had a older sister I would gravitate towards what she liked at the time ... and it was around the time of the Gangsta rap or when Hip hop exploded ...I just remember the East coast rap the west coast rap and some of the RNB and Latin stuff she liked

94-99 Older Kid - finally looking to stuff of my own so basically to the rock stuff my dad liked and the Hip hop stuff my sister liked and mixed that mug together and came up with the first cd I bought with my own money ..Prodigy -fat of the land it also helped around this time NU metal was exploding so yeahhh...

00-04- Teenager years - yep around this time I was still rockin dat CD walkmen and a few years later got my first Ipod dat Phat ONE lol around this time I was lookin to mad explore in terms of heavy music I was lookin do go darker in heavier ...Black metal to death metal to Grindcore to freaking avent grade bit electronic bit metal strangely kinda at the same time from the melodic side I was lookin to go lighter and more beautiful

04-2010- While I was doing that I still had my love for hip hop in my back pocket ...but I wanted to explore more music (on a side note I never considered my self a metal head or rock head even tho it was my roots I enjoyed it and then moved along and not get bogged down in it) anyways it was time for the next step World Music Jazz music Latin country and Oldies 1910-1930 JAZZ being the keyword cus that genre is MASSIVE

2010-2014 ... Around this time finally started to buy a lot of vinyls due to EDM exploding got into that and more into everything electronic music and breakbeats ..Nowadays I obvs just like everything and just lookin for good music but I find my self going back and finding some of the hidden gems 1930-2009 because current music is ok but yeahh

some of the gateway stuff to me or stuff that just stand out has a key moment in terms of artist


90's Hip hop

Black Sabbath/Led zeppelin/Beatles/all the rock and metal stuff from the 70's and 80's

Grunge and Alt rock

KORN/Deftones/Sipknot/

Down/eyehategod/Crowbar/Pantera

Sayer/Malovent creation/ Morbid angel

Dimmu borgir/Nile/ Berzerker /Norweigin Black metal

and the melodic stuff well strangely MF doom a few of his samples are the most melodic stuff that got me into melodic stuff lol

EPOCH6

Childhood - 11 Yrs. Old: Little interest in music, parents listened primarily to classic rock.
2004 - 2005: First guitar. Guitar teacher eases me into pop rock / punk. Green Day, The White Stripes, Good Charlotte, The Casualties, Goldfinger etc.
2005 - 2006: Entry level teenager metal. Sabbath, Slayer, Judas Priest, Lamb of God, Children of Bodom, Slipknot, Cannibal Corpse etc.
2006 - 2008: Gravitate more towards classic metal. Judas Priest, Saxon, Sabbath, Deep Purple, Rainbow, Motley Crue, Metallica, KISS etc.
2008 - 2009: Gravitate towards thrash metal, especially modern thrash: Vektor, Warbringer, Carnivore, Havok, Artillery, Demolition Hammer etc.
2010 - 2011: Gravitate towards crust punk / hardcore: Wolfbrigade, Inepsy, Instinct of Survival, Pisschrist, Poison Idea, White Lung, Victims etc.
2011 - 2013: Discover John Zorn / Boards of Canada. Completely leave metal / punk behind, exploring experimental / electronic music. IDM, breakcore, drum & bass, and instrumental hip-hop.
2013 - Present: Relapse into sludge / hardcore / classic rock but maintain deep interest in experimental and electronic music.
Current taste in music as of last night: http://i.imgur.com/Xg8EQna.jpg

Funny how so many of us spent so long trapped in rock n' roll, overdosed on it, and then just dived head first into experimental / electronic music for something completely different.

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Up until 8: whatever my parents played. My dad's hair metal, my brother's boy bands, my mom's...whatever.
8: Weird Al. Always Weird Al.
13: Started using music taste as a method for socializing and fitting in. Got really into alt. rock kind of stuff. AFI, MCR, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Muse, System of a Down.
14/15: Discovered prog and more experimental stuff. Mars Volta, Captain Beefheart, Frank Zappa, 70s Genesis
16/17: Starting really getting into western 'classical' stuff in accordance with my increasing involvement in classical piano. Beethoven, Debussy, Chopin mostly.
18-20: Like most things after I started college, I stopped caring about any sort of direction or actively seeking new music. Whatever I come across.

Sure I'm missing 97% of the major names and genres I got into but eh what can ya do.

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1966: 5 Years old - First Record Player. First records - Beatles/Rubber Soul & a Roger Miller greatest hits record (Dang Me, Rollerskate, etc).
1967: Consciously asked to buy my first record - Beatles/Yellow Submarine. Mom is afraid it's about drugs, but buys it for me anyway. Go mom!
1968: Mom remarries, Step-Dad turns me on to Hank Snow, Johnny Cash, The Beach Boys Jim Kweskin's Jug Band. Eclecticism abounds.
1973: Junior High School - Meet my best friend (to this day) and we discover the joys of Aeorsmith, Led Zepplin, Ted Nugent, Etc.
1974: Spending summers with Bio Father - turns me on to Pop Jazz (Michael Franks, Chuck Mangione, Spyrogyra) and Real Jazz (Coltrane, Miles, etc.). I prefer Real Jazz but notice Pop Jazz seems to draw a lot more tail. First lessons of Puberty.
1975: High School - Discovery of POT occurs, along with heavy rotation of bands like Rush and Yes. This is not a coincidence.
1976: Already deeply disillusioned with the state of musical affairs. Even in High School, I thought Journey, Boston and Styx were shyte bands. Fortunately, this year, I also discover Bowie, Roxy Music and Be Bop Deluxe and am saved,
1977-1979: Birth of New Wave - Bands like Devo, Talking Heads, The Police, The Cars and many others start popping up. It is a glorious time.
1980-1982: Deejay at Community Radio Station. At the same time that I am discovering extreme weirdness like the Residents, Beefheart and my beloved Throbbing Gristle, I'm also learning all about trad music through Duke Ellington, Django Reinhardt, Harry Smith and many others. I got an intensive musical education during these years.
1986-1991: Ping ponging between extreme/industrial music and traditional blues and jazz. Big drinking and drug period for me. Not sure if this had an influence on my musical tastes. Got to a point where I was only listening to music from the 30's. Probably as close as I came to becoming a 78 collector. Horrors!
1992-2001: Got to travel the world during these years. Just listened to whatever I found wherever I went. Swedish Disco, Shanghai Lounge Music from the 40's, Aboriginal Didgeridoo workouts and a particular emphasis on Japanese girl garage bands from Osaka. Happily managed to avoid AOR so popular at the time: Counting Crows, Hootie, Dave Matthews, etc.
2001-2011: Stop traveling, resume (vinyl) record collecting and discover downloading all at once. Proceed to try and download every song ever made. Spend rest of 'oughts' listening to anything and everything. Another big part of my musical education happens here.
2012: Turn 50 - Midlife crisis consists of suddenly going back and re-discovering 80's metal - Non-stop barrage of Judas Priest, Dio and especially Iron Maiden.
2013: Mid-life crisis continues. Now it's all about 90's Gangster Rap - Become a HUGE Wu-Tang fan. Metal love continues - I discover Thrash, Doom, etc.
2014: More of the same. Wu-Tang Forever. SLAYER!!!! etc...starting to really get into Soundtrack music - 70's Giallo, Sci-Fi, etc. Happy to see all these new, high quality vinyl versions of favorite records coming out but not happy about the prices. This can't be sustained.

Not sure what is in store next but I'm ready for it!

Wpnfire

How did your current taste in music evolve?
I really like riffs and slow, complex sections of improvisation (not solos) first-and-foremost, though I also like songs that are singable at the same time. My dad provided the emphasis on the former with his love of and expansive collection of jam-based improvised live psychedelic albums that he owns. He also has a few experimental albums and some improvised jazz albums like Keith Jarrett. He was big into the Zap man, though I've never been able to get into Zap aside from Hot Rats.
On the other side, my mom provided the lyric-driven/pop influences like Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen, Hootie & the Blowfish, along with my sisters who provided mainstream radio music (hence the singable part) like Blink-182, Green Day, Linkin Park, Sum 41, Dropkick Murphy's, Yellowcard, Coldplay, etc..


Where did you start out?
My dad was huge into folk, psych. and power pop, and I have very little in common with him actually. He was more an influence in the types of music I listen to, rather than the genres or bands (see above). My mom was a huge influence and she is basically the same as Brik's mom, though my mom likes more rock and pop stuff and only dables in country. I had 3 sisters who listened to mainstream bands and tons of boy bands like N'Sync et al. One of my sisters diverged from the others and likes Green Day, Blink-182, Linkin Park, Dropkick Murphy's, and she's probably the closet member of my family music wise. Everyone in my family like the notables like MJ.


Which genres and bands were the turning points?
Metal in general was the turning point. At 14 I discovered SOAD and Linkin Park, but Metallica was the one band that changed everything. Once I looked up "Sad But True," DragonForce and "Hangar 18" looked like mere peons that only served to introduce me to a video of Hetfield banging his long-haired head and playing crushing drop-D tuned riffs on guitar as Ulrich pounded away on the drums. It was awe-inspring.

Nothing was the same after that.

This past year I discovered Metallica proper along with the rest of thrash metal, and basically the entirety of extreme metal is now at least somewhat familiar to me.

Daft Punk and Kanye West's "Heartless" were also turning points, although I have not had time to analyze where they fit in.

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Zhanteimi

I've always listened to the music I like all my life (duh!), but at the beginning of this year, I started out on a music odyssey, which meant I'd listen to anything I ran across on music review sites. It's been a wild trip, and I've expanded my tastes so much that they're unrecognizable from what they were a year ago.

Kedvesem

I heard Metallica for the first time last week. (Don't laugh. I'm serious.)

I actually quite liked it. I had never really thought I would care for "screaming music", as I considered it, but they had melodies, too. As my big brother explained it to me, "You like Guns 'n' Roses. Well, for testosterone, substitute darkness. That's Metallica."

So I knew I would like it. And I did.

(And Guns 'n' Roses were new for me this year.)

Chula Vista

Which Metallica did you check out? Hopefully it was the earlier stuff like Ride the Lightning or Master of Puppets.

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ronenklo

Started with linkin park. Later became metal. Later got into classical rock, and now I listen to everything