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How has your music taste changed over the years?
Posted on 2/25/13 at 10:37 am
Posted on 2/25/13 at 10:37 am
Thread two on day one. Might be pushing the limits, but after being a lurker for quite some time, I've got some things I'd like to talk about 
Anyways, this is an interesting - and for some, embarrassing - topic to discuss. I've listened to some bad tracks in my life. Here it goes.
Phase I: Childhood - Van Morrison, The Beatles, and The Rolling Stones are all I can recall my parents playing as a child. Downhill from here.
Phase II: Elementary school - Pop hits like N-Sync, the Backstreet Boys, etc. Basically anything that came on a local pop FM station. Can't say I'm proud of it.
Phase III: Middle school - I got super punk rock here. Simple Plan, Eve 6, Good Charlotte, Blink 182, you know the deal. Set up for a nice transition into...
Phase IV: 8th grade and on - It started with Modest Mouse. Heard them from a friend, and fell in love with the style of music they played. It opened the doors to bands like the Black Keys, Built to Spill, Dispatch, State Radio, Neutral Milk Hotel, and just about every other mainstream indie band (ha I know, oxymoron). I also renewed my love with classic rock - though I never lost my love for the Beatles - and started getting into Zep, Rolling Stones, ELO, the Band, the Doors, Fleetwood, and most other big named classic bands. Other than the Eagles whom I dislike with a passion.
How about you? How has your taste changed?
Anyways, this is an interesting - and for some, embarrassing - topic to discuss. I've listened to some bad tracks in my life. Here it goes.
Phase I: Childhood - Van Morrison, The Beatles, and The Rolling Stones are all I can recall my parents playing as a child. Downhill from here.
Phase II: Elementary school - Pop hits like N-Sync, the Backstreet Boys, etc. Basically anything that came on a local pop FM station. Can't say I'm proud of it.
Phase III: Middle school - I got super punk rock here. Simple Plan, Eve 6, Good Charlotte, Blink 182, you know the deal. Set up for a nice transition into...
Phase IV: 8th grade and on - It started with Modest Mouse. Heard them from a friend, and fell in love with the style of music they played. It opened the doors to bands like the Black Keys, Built to Spill, Dispatch, State Radio, Neutral Milk Hotel, and just about every other mainstream indie band (ha I know, oxymoron). I also renewed my love with classic rock - though I never lost my love for the Beatles - and started getting into Zep, Rolling Stones, ELO, the Band, the Doors, Fleetwood, and most other big named classic bands. Other than the Eagles whom I dislike with a passion.
How about you? How has your taste changed?
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Posted on 2/25/13 at 10:50 am to Rock of the Lake
4th grade - savage garden, chumbawamba, spice girls, aqua
5th grade - lfo, semisonic, 98 degrees
6th grade - eminem, limp bizkit
7th grade - slip knot, korn, system of a down
8th grade - weezer, green day
9th grade - smashing pumpkins, NIN, rage against
10th grade- Phish, Pink Floyd, Led Zep
11th grade - CCR, Waylon Jennings, Tom Petty, Modest Mouse
12th grade - Radiohead, Grateful Dead, les claypool, Beck,
Freshman year of college - Sts9, Lotus, Umphreys Mcgee, The Disco Biscuits....the rest is history.
5th grade - lfo, semisonic, 98 degrees
6th grade - eminem, limp bizkit
7th grade - slip knot, korn, system of a down
8th grade - weezer, green day
9th grade - smashing pumpkins, NIN, rage against
10th grade- Phish, Pink Floyd, Led Zep
11th grade - CCR, Waylon Jennings, Tom Petty, Modest Mouse
12th grade - Radiohead, Grateful Dead, les claypool, Beck,
Freshman year of college - Sts9, Lotus, Umphreys Mcgee, The Disco Biscuits....the rest is history.
Posted on 2/25/13 at 10:52 am to Rock of the Lake
Pretty similar actually
Childhood: Classic Rock like the Beatles and the Stones, was really into Paul Simon still to this day.
Elementary: Pop hits like N'Sync. No Strings Attached was the first full length album I ever bought
. I bought a single of All the Small Things by Blink 182 before that
Middle School- I was pretty all over the place got into metal for about a month then I got Modest Mouse and Franz Ferdinand's albums and it all went downhill from there.
High School- Listened to mainly mainstream indie stuff and got really into reading music blogs and discovering new music. Had a jam band phase and got into folk, cajun, and world music.
Now I listen to everything I am a cajun/zydeco DJ for KLSU and listen to a lot of indie stuff and pretty much whatever floats my boat.
Childhood: Classic Rock like the Beatles and the Stones, was really into Paul Simon still to this day.
Elementary: Pop hits like N'Sync. No Strings Attached was the first full length album I ever bought
. I bought a single of All the Small Things by Blink 182 before that Middle School- I was pretty all over the place got into metal for about a month then I got Modest Mouse and Franz Ferdinand's albums and it all went downhill from there.
High School- Listened to mainly mainstream indie stuff and got really into reading music blogs and discovering new music. Had a jam band phase and got into folk, cajun, and world music.
Now I listen to everything I am a cajun/zydeco DJ for KLSU and listen to a lot of indie stuff and pretty much whatever floats my boat.
This post was edited on 2/25/13 at 10:53 am
Posted on 2/25/13 at 10:54 am to Big Lake
Metallica Load was the first album I ever purchased. Not bad for a fifth grader. My mom almost flipped her shite about it.
Posted on 2/25/13 at 10:57 am to Citizen Kane
First ever album is an embarrassment - Backstreet Boys, Millennium
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea was my first post-childhood album. And my claim to fame.
They're the shiz
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea was my first post-childhood album. And my claim to fame.
They're the shiz
Posted on 2/25/13 at 10:59 am to Rock of the Lake
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In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
One of the top albums of the modern era.
First purchase I can remember after learning there was "good" modern music was Arcade Fire's Funeral in 2005 (it came out in '04). I have run that disk into the grave.
Posted on 2/25/13 at 11:01 am to Big Lake
Like most kids it was mainstream thru elementary... and to some degree, mainstream is always in your consciousness...
Mine was kind of a natural progression from Punk Rock in middle school to college/post rock in mid late eighties, to indie and alt country of the early-mid nineties (using broad terms here)...
Over the last twenty years or so, Ive probably gone back through every genre of music and mined through a lot of the forgotten bands... Im 100% sure I have missed a lot of stuff...
Now days, I think I just listen to "good" music, whatever it may be... I have many opinions on what that is or isnt, as well...
I will say that the older I get, the need to listen to the angry, aggressive music of my past, gets less and less... but I still have it in me
Mine was kind of a natural progression from Punk Rock in middle school to college/post rock in mid late eighties, to indie and alt country of the early-mid nineties (using broad terms here)...
Over the last twenty years or so, Ive probably gone back through every genre of music and mined through a lot of the forgotten bands... Im 100% sure I have missed a lot of stuff...
Now days, I think I just listen to "good" music, whatever it may be... I have many opinions on what that is or isnt, as well...
I will say that the older I get, the need to listen to the angry, aggressive music of my past, gets less and less... but I still have it in me
This post was edited on 2/25/13 at 12:00 pm
Posted on 2/25/13 at 11:05 am to Rock of the Lake
quote:
Rock of the Lake
You make some pretty solid posts for only having 9.
Modest Mouse's Good News for People Who Love Bad News and Franz Ferdinand's self-titled album made me do a 180 in my music tastes will always be sentimental about those two.
Posted on 2/25/13 at 11:09 am to TFTC
First song I ever heard as a kid was "sober" by tool. Only band that has ever truly mattered to me. Could live without the rest.
Posted on 2/25/13 at 11:10 am to Rock of the Lake
quote:
How has your taste changed?
not much here, i think it just expanded. my first album was kiss alive.
Posted on 2/25/13 at 11:13 am to Rock of the Lake
Not much has changed for me. I have always liked hard rock/metal and hip hop. What I listen to most fluctuates though. About 5-6 years ago it was mostly rap. Now I'd say I listen to about 75% rock.
Over the years I have become more appreciative of classical music and blues type stuff.
Over the years I have become more appreciative of classical music and blues type stuff.
Posted on 2/25/13 at 11:14 am to WorshipTheBengal
quote:
First song I ever heard as a kid was "sober" by tool
I had short Tool phase my middle school teachers didnt appreciate my shirt with the Alex Grey Tool art on it.
Was big into Mastadon for a while but that stuff is just too heavy for me now.
Posted on 2/25/13 at 11:15 am to WorshipTheBengal
quote:
First song I ever heard as a kid was "sober" by tool. Only band that has ever truly mattered to me. Could live without the rest.
I love your dedication man. But there are other great ones out there. Namely, apc
Posted on 2/25/13 at 11:20 am to RonFNSwanson
Can't say I've ever been a fan of metal, other than one song:
Limp Bizkit's Break Stuff
Always liked this song for some odd reason. Doesn't fit my taste in music nor my personality, but I like it. Get's me pumped up
The hardest rock I like stems from Led Zeppelin II and IV along with the heavy tracks that reside on The Beatles White Album (Yer Blues being my favorite)
Limp Bizkit's Break Stuff
Always liked this song for some odd reason. Doesn't fit my taste in music nor my personality, but I like it. Get's me pumped up
The hardest rock I like stems from Led Zeppelin II and IV along with the heavy tracks that reside on The Beatles White Album (Yer Blues being my favorite)
This post was edited on 2/25/13 at 11:21 am
Posted on 2/25/13 at 11:43 am to Rock of the Lake
Birth to 5th Grade: Country and classic rock
6th-Sophomore year of college: Shitty pop culture garbage, rap, punk, and other lesser known stuff of the same mold. A lot of slow depressing acoustic shite.
Junior Year of College until about 25: A lot of jam bands and hippy shite
25 to now: A wide assortment of every genre, but only what I think is the best. A lot of stuff that really doesn't fit into any certain criteria. A lot of it is country or blues influenced, but also jam out to electronic stuff. Still don't enjoy country though.
6th-Sophomore year of college: Shitty pop culture garbage, rap, punk, and other lesser known stuff of the same mold. A lot of slow depressing acoustic shite.
Junior Year of College until about 25: A lot of jam bands and hippy shite
25 to now: A wide assortment of every genre, but only what I think is the best. A lot of stuff that really doesn't fit into any certain criteria. A lot of it is country or blues influenced, but also jam out to electronic stuff. Still don't enjoy country though.
This post was edited on 2/25/13 at 11:46 am
Posted on 2/25/13 at 11:51 am to Tds & Beer
It was too long ago for me to break down by grade. But I definitely have become far less concerned with the "rules" and I've grown more eclectic in my tastes. I also no longer listen to hardcore, as I've sort of aged out of it. It's just too relentless, though I still like it in small doses and I have tons of it on my iPod.
Posted on 2/25/13 at 11:58 am to Rock of the Lake
As someone said--solid music board posts for a noob!
WELCOME! Now go over to the OT and get reamed!
Your is similar to mine--started with a mother who listened to the Beatles, Carole King, the Allmans Eat a Peach Album. Was into the singer/songwriter thing early and still am.
My first album purchase, however, was more embarrassing--the Partridge Family. At least there was a cutie in that band, as opposed to a boyband!
Older brother got into rock bands, I evolved in middle/high school to Zep and all the classic rock bands (Grand Funk was one of my favorites!) (child of the 70's).
80's--college and grad school--all that 80's synth shite I can't stand now (IMO the equivalent of electronic today), along with the occasional "new" rock band--REM, U2, etc. who I still listen to.
Now-still the classic rock stuff buy my absolute FAVORITES in my middle age are:
THE BLUES--from the old Robert Johnson stuff to the Allmans to bluesy rock like Black Keys
NEW ORLEANS MUSIC--particularly piano. I grew up on this stuff. I go days where all I listen to are Dr. John, Professor Longhair, Henry Butler, Jon Cleary and Joe Krown. So much so that my 16 y/o son plays it and even appeared on Treme.
Also a big Buffett/Beach Music fan since my LSU days. It started as a dorm thing, and led to a lifestyle that now has me with a tiki bar in the backyard.
WELCOME! Now go over to the OT and get reamed!
Your is similar to mine--started with a mother who listened to the Beatles, Carole King, the Allmans Eat a Peach Album. Was into the singer/songwriter thing early and still am.
My first album purchase, however, was more embarrassing--the Partridge Family. At least there was a cutie in that band, as opposed to a boyband!
Older brother got into rock bands, I evolved in middle/high school to Zep and all the classic rock bands (Grand Funk was one of my favorites!) (child of the 70's).
80's--college and grad school--all that 80's synth shite I can't stand now (IMO the equivalent of electronic today), along with the occasional "new" rock band--REM, U2, etc. who I still listen to.
Now-still the classic rock stuff buy my absolute FAVORITES in my middle age are:
THE BLUES--from the old Robert Johnson stuff to the Allmans to bluesy rock like Black Keys
NEW ORLEANS MUSIC--particularly piano. I grew up on this stuff. I go days where all I listen to are Dr. John, Professor Longhair, Henry Butler, Jon Cleary and Joe Krown. So much so that my 16 y/o son plays it and even appeared on Treme.
Also a big Buffett/Beach Music fan since my LSU days. It started as a dorm thing, and led to a lifestyle that now has me with a tiki bar in the backyard.
This post was edited on 2/25/13 at 12:23 pm
Posted on 2/25/13 at 12:07 pm to Rock of the Lake
I watched a lot of MTV as a kid in the 80s. I liked pretty much all of it but preferred the heavier rock. Bon Jovi, Aerosmith, Motley Crue, and Ozzy were some of my favorites.
Then GnR came along and I really liked that but wanted something heavier. Metallica's video for One set me on a path for looking for heavier stuff. I still listen to Metallica, Pantera, Slayer etc almost as much now as when I was 15. I can enjoy old Bon Jovi and Motley Crue on the radio but I don't listen to them regularly.
Then GnR came along and I really liked that but wanted something heavier. Metallica's video for One set me on a path for looking for heavier stuff. I still listen to Metallica, Pantera, Slayer etc almost as much now as when I was 15. I can enjoy old Bon Jovi and Motley Crue on the radio but I don't listen to them regularly.
Posted on 2/25/13 at 12:11 pm to parrotdr
quote:
As someone said--solid music board posts for a noob!
WELCOME! Now go over to the OT and get reamed!
I have more to talk about over here
... For now anyways This post was edited on 2/25/13 at 12:27 pm
Posted on 2/25/13 at 12:15 pm to Baloo
double postin laggin arse computer
This post was edited on 2/25/13 at 12:16 pm
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