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i was into nwobhm & similar & had little or no time for other genre's especially pop, as it dominated radio/ television
now i have no time for nwobhm really, but have several groups i have liked since the 80's that i will always like

have a more varied taste now, don't think it will ever set though, always listening to new music

when i was a teenager there were lot bigger musical taste boundaries particularly growing up in a small town, you where either indie or house as i remember it and if the twain where to meet they'd probably have to have a fight. Then boundaries much like genre definitions got blurred and (probably bad examples but) stuff like Kid A or earlier for me in the case of a new fast automatic daffodils b side track came along and made people realise that there was more in the world than either one or the other.(i'm not sure if de la soul & cypress hill et all transgressed the boundaires or not)
then for me the early brit indie guitar became slacker american indie then canadian post rock then that de la element got mixed in with indie with clouddead and electronic became electronica and then electronic was good too which led to less clubby breakbeats and some alt country stuff started to sound less country and then 5 yrs ago son lux mixed breakbeat and indie and classical music and max richter had already made classical music sound good (something i never thought would happen as my mother was a piano teacher and i found it punishing) and now modern classical has led me in to dabblings around the outskirts of ambient/drone stuff. And i think overall the shere volume of music readily available, the lack of pressure to be genre defined, being too old to give a shit if there was pressure anyway all help to make music much more of a wonderful & beautiful thing to spend my time and money on.

5-6ish : Loved Queen
7 : Loved Lightning Seeds
7-10 : Adored Britpop
10-11 : Into hip-hop for a bit
12-14 : Got into metal/nu-metal
14 : Heard Sigur Ros on a sampler, became obsessed with them.
14-16 : Loads of listening to John Peel

Since then just loads of things really.

Up until the age of 12 I only listened to Michael Jackson and B*Witched

Between the ages of 12 and 15 if it had Nu Metal in it, then I probably liked it, had a huge infinity with Dre and Cypress Hill

16 and 18 Angular guitars please!

18 and 25 More diverse, listen to lots of genres now, I'm now happy that I can't pigeon hole my music taste anymore.

got progressively broader but has now narrowed again into a number of disconnected small channels.

(One day I'll tell you all about the evolution of my musical taste).

The first stuff I really liked were just the really big albums of the 80s when I was growing up, so your Paul Simon, your Peter Gabriel and your Dire Straits. I really got into DS massively.

GCSE/A-Level time I was fairly not into Nirvana and grunge at all but I had a fair liking for the sort of Wonder Stuff era Indie.

In Uni I then got really into the grunge bands and also into Britpop. In fact, Britpop was probably the only time I was into the current 'indie/alternative' trend.

Towards the end of Uni I got into Mogwait a little and a bit more into hip-hop-y stuff but nothing outrageous. I specifically remember not being a fan of either Godspeed type of music or Portishead.

Then I was into more American popular indie bands for a long while: Sonic Youth, QOTSA, AYWKUBTTOD, ATD-I.

Moved from those guys into the Albini sound so, obviously Shellac, but also bands like Sleater-Kinney and Mclusky, stuff that was quite stripped down in sound, raw and loud.

More recently (the last couple of years) I've really got into ambient noise and things like that, so Tim Hecker and Grouper and the like.

I think a lot of this stuff has been part of what I've liked but I'd just never listened to it. Mum used to listen to a lot of Philip Glass and Steve Reich when I was a kid and I never really got it but I gradually came to like Godspeed a lot over the last 10 years so I guess there are a lot of threads there that have come together.



I think the main thing is that I get a bit bored of some stuff. I still have a place in my heart for really loud rock music, hence loving the Metz album last year, but most stuff just sounds like something I already got into once before but at the same time I like hearing NEW stuff, hence why I'm currently enjoying Grouper and Bryter Layter and that sort of thing. I've even been developing a bit of a black metal love.

before age 9/10 - chart music, Blur, The Beatles, various things my dad played
10 - 11 - Gorillaz, The Go! Team
11 - 14 - Arcade Fire, Deerhoof, Flaming Lips, Sonic Youth
15 - 17 - Dirty Projectors, Ariel Pink - basically a combination of P4k and Uncut magazine tastes
NOW (17 nearly 18) - listen to a lot of baroque pop, 90s indie, americana - B&S, Yo La Tengo, Lambchop

I can see my taste getting more and more mellow and dad-oriented. Imagine Uncut magazine or the EOTR 2007 line up.

The louder, quieter, more abrasive, more quirky, more hardcore the better basically.

Much more dismissive (possibly incorrectly so) of newer stuff unless I can hear something that I think I'll like. It's not about working out if you like it as you hear it first, it's working out if you'll like it in a few listens time. But there's always guilty pleasures...

and middle class that it makes me sick.

I was ten in 1995. Something about the look and attitude of whats the story era oasis took me. I got into them. Its probably the last time I expereinced listening to music with any purity. I'm not sure what it is about me that was attracted to Oasis rather than the Outhear Brothers or Wigfield, which is what my contempories were listening to. But Oasis it was.

Oasis led predictably onto Beatles, Dylan etc bloody etc. I remember listening to Dylan first time (John Wesley Harding), must of been 12/13, dads fucking vinyl copy cunt that I am. It sent me, the words, the sound, still does.

Late nineties in a shit town, the music that spoke to me was ok computer, tell me your truth, fucking suede. Plus shite like Embrace, the seahorses, Kula Shaker. I thought I was cool because I didn't listen to Gala like every other cunt.

Went to uni (cunt that I am) in first half of millenium, met someone into different music to me. Took me to some gigs, fiery furnaces, they sent me. Investigated them which led me to pitchfork and all the other lap top hipster blog shite that I inevitably got into. It really is sickening. I don't listen to music now, my mind is so corrupted and inverted that I don't know how, I don't know what music is, what it is for, or what I am supposed to do with it.

11-13 Mainly Elvis with some Beatles and Bowie
13-15 Deep Purple, Motorhead, ACDC
15-20 Zep, Floyd, Yes, Rush, Tull etc
20-30 SRV, Mahavishnu, Zappa, Crimson
30-40 Pumpkins, Jesus Lizard, Mogwai, Shellac, Royal Trux, Unsane etc
40-now Pall Bearer, Meshuggah, FOTL, Kendrick, Tomahawk, Jawbreaker, Autre Ne Veut (?!?)

When I was 0-7/8ish I just listened to whatever really. It was mostly stuff that my parents listened to, along with what was popular at the time with kids my age. This basically encompassed everything from The Specials, Madness, Oasis, James, The Smiths & The Clash, to S Club 7, Robbie Williams, 5ive, Jamiroquai, Dido & Limp Bizkit.

Then when I was about 8/9ish I actually began to sort of form some kind of general musical taste, which was mostly just upbeat stuff with guitars. I was a big fan of Busted, Avril Lavigne, Good Charlotte, Blink 182 & Yellowcard pretty much then. It was mostly whatever I heard on the top of the pops and whatever my friends liked.

When I was 10 we got freeview, and with it came music TV. This was the first point in my life when I genuinely got properly into music. I'd spend hours watching it. Around this time I first heard of bands like Franz Ferdinand (my first ever gig aged 11), Sum 41, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Green Day, The White Stripes, Linkin Park & The Darkness, all of whom I was majorly into around 10/11ish. I think I listened to a lot of top 40 pop and dance and hip hop, not because I liked it, just because it was music and it was there, which was better than nothing. Then a year or so later came stuff like My Chemical Romance, Kaiser Chiefs, Foo Fighters, Feeder, Muse. I think from about 10-13 I mostly was just into whatever mainstream Rock/Indie stuff I heard on TV or Kerrang radio the occasional time I managed to bully my mum into playing it in the car.

When I was about 13/14ish the group of people who I considered "cool" at school all started wearing Avenged Sevenfold & SLipknot T Shirts, so I started searching online for those kinds of bands. I ended up actually genuinely loving a lot of the music and went through a big metal phase until I was about 15/16.

When I was 15 I discovered Radiohead, and among other things I realised that indie music could actually be good as I had gone off it quite a lot for a few years. My friend showed me The Shins, who I adored, and Bloc Party became my favourite band for a year or so. I started reading NME and paying attention to whatever bands were up and coming, and by reading reviews online of albums I liked, I discovered Pitchfork and DiS at about 16.

When I was at 6th form, I got majorly into DiS and P4K approved stuff. My music tastes started to mellow a lot and I was listening to a lot more Folk and Psychedelic stuff over bands with loud guitars. Around here was when I first started properly listening to Electronic music and some hip hop.

Since coming to uni I think my taste for loud guitars has definitely resurfaced, as I'm currently quite big on 90's post hardcore & power pop stuff, plus post rock and metal. Deftones are probably my current favourite band. I suppose I listen to more diverse stuff to, and producing music myself has helped my understand and enjoy various different types of electronic music.

However, I still hate Jazz just as much as I did when I was 9.

...chart pop - sleazy guitars - earnest guitars - motown - BRITPOP! - serious indie - electronica - jazz/hip-hop/world beats - whimsical esoterica - noise guitars - weirdness... all now on a loop.

so yeah i'm one of them listen to pretty much everything twats.

http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/music/4272736
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http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/music/4424349

Until age 10 was a mix of chart music/what my parents/lots and lots of Jacko: Ace of Base, Crash Test Dummies, Boyz II Men, The Beautiful South, Womack & Womack, The Fugees, B*Witched, Boyzone, Take That, Backstreet Boys, Celine Dion, James Taylor, The Beatles, Prefab Sprout, Blur and Bad/Dangerous on repeat.

10-13 marked the move to secondary school. Bit more chart pop and some other bits and pieces: Savage Garden, Britney, Christina, Destiny's Child, Oasis, Manics, Pulp, The Corrs, Weezer, Ash, Cornershop.

When I was 14 I found skateboarding, cue my pop-punk/nu-metal phase:
Limp Bizkit/Korn/Slipknot/SOAD/Deftones/Linkin Park/Saves the Day/Blink 182/Alkaline Trio/Sum 41.

The Vines and Weezer pulled me back into the indie fold a bit at 16/17. Started reading the NME. Got Sky, started watching MTV2, Q and The Amp (RIP). Doves, The Strokes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Interpol, The Coral, Elliott Smith, Hope of the States.

Around this time a lad I went to school and college with suggested we make each other mixtapes. His introduced me to Sigur Rós and Bjork and some more stuff. In hindsight he was a patronising douche.

When I was 18 I did it. I joined the Hope of the States forum and almost immediately my music tastes blossomed. Post-rock and Warp and a lot of indie-rock: GY!BE, Mogwai, MBV, Sufjan, Broken Social Scene and a ton of other stuff.

This post is really fucking boring isn't it?

I don't think the story of how I went from being an adolescent predominantly interested in only one very narrow (probably non-existent with retrospect) genre at any given point to a well-rounded adult who likes a bit of everything, really, is a particularly interesting one. Sorry guys. I've definitely changed in how rabidly I consume music. It used to be that I heard a song, I liked it, I immediately listened to the album it was from, then listened to everything else that band did, then listened to everything that was loosely associated with that band and deliberately sought out other bands who reputedly sounded very similar. I don't bother with that any more. It's enough to just like a single song or album by a band, or a single band within what is apparently a genre. I guess that's because I've got other things to do and identify with these days, but it freed up some time to not just listen to Explosions In The Sky rip-offs, so now I can take in whichever single artist DiS has approved from a broader remit of types of music.

DERP

I think there were a few Eminem songs that I liked but I didn't really listen to them, I think the first song I remember really liking was probably by Miley Cyrus. Then I got into Foals, and heard that they were "math rock", so thought I liked math rock and tried to listen to Don Caballero a lot. Then when I was 15 I got into post-punk and bought that book by Simon Reynolds, and then when I was 16 I got into prog rock. Now I listen to loads of stuff, although there are still massive gaps in my music taste (I don't listen to anywhere near enough hip-hop, probably)

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