Poll: Has your taste in music changed over time?

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Auron225

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My dad was recently telling me (and I have confirmed this with a fair amount of people that have mostly agreed) that music he listened to when he was younger is the same stuff he listens to today. Its either the exact same artists and songs, or new artists and songs that are pretty similar.

My own music taste has changed a little over the past 6-7 years but has been more or less the same for the past few.

Has your music taste changed much? In the past few years? decade? longer?
 

zehydra

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I'd say so. When I was a kid I couldn't stand Led Zeppelin or Aerosmith or any sort of metal.

I love sludge metal now, I still hate screamer though.

In high school I got into the sort of psychedelic sound. I got into the Verve mainly, and adopted shoegaze as my favorite genre.

Freshman year of College I discovered the long-lost grunge movement from when I was only 3 years old that I never knew about. I love Nirvana and Alice in Chains now.

Recently I got into Modern Progressive Psychedelic rock: Porcupine Tree, and from them I discovered Pink Floyd.

So yeah, I've been all over the place, except for rap. I really don't like rap, never have.
 

Lilani

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A little bit. I've always had eclectic tastes, and I do still listen to everything from classical, to Celtic, to metal, to pop, J Pop, to jazz, to classic rock, to world music and dubstep, but I have lost a bit of the contempt I had for country music for a long time. Growing up in the midwest I was subjected to WAY too much country as a child, so for quite a while it annoyed the crap out of me in every form. But now I'm doing okay with it. Still can't stand certain sounds, artists, or themes, but I don't dismiss it right off the bat as much.
 

wooty

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Indeed, most of what I listen to now is barely in english. I have no idea what people are singing about but the music sounds good.
 

Fishyash

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God my taste in music changes so much. It's just the fact when I listen to something I haven't listened to before I am not too fond of it but I listen to it more and more and start warming up to it until it becomes something I listen to regularly.

Hated electronic music, even house, 3 years ago but now it is one of my favourite genres of music.

I think it's a matter of how open you are to different genres of music.
 

DanielBrown

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I guess.
1-12: Didn't listen to anything special.
13-14: Iron Maiden came into the picture. I was the poser I these days despise.
15-16: Mainly heavy metal and rock, but also a lot of death metal.
17-22: Thrash metal and Swedish Trallpunk.

Doubt my taste will change again. Found something I really love, though who knows.
Won't abandon thrash in the first place at least.
 

Lawnmooer

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My taste in music has changed quite a lot, it started out with me listening to a lot of "Emo" music (Avenged Sevenfold, My Chemical Romance, Lost Prophets ect) and went into me liking more metal (Metallica, Slipknot ect) then I started branching out into more rock and death metal and stopped listening to most of the bands I used to (Still listen to Metallica though since they're pretty good)
 

putowtin

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A bit,
Teen's- Metal, grunge
Now- Blues jazz and swing bands
 

Wierdguy

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Well... at the start I was actually affraid of metal music, yes, affraid. It scared me. I much prefered classical and symphonic music. But then after a while I started listening to some fringe metal music and eventually eased my way into it. I am now a die-hard fan of most metal music there is :D
 

Scarim Coral

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Mot really since I'm out of touch with the current Dance music songs these day and I still like listenning to anime or game soundtracks.
 

VeneratedWulfen93

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Until recently I listened almost exclusively to heavy metal and similair genres and while I still enjoy A7X and Disturbed I have pissed all of my friends off by beginning to listen to House, Dubstep, Electro house and hardcore.
 

Queen Michael

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I've got more diverse tastes now. When I was fourteen, I listened to rock 'n' roll and pop. Nowadays, I listen to rock, pop, jazz, blues, polka, indie rock, country 'n western, opera, folk music, Russian bard music, new age, classical, kids' songs and soundtracks.
 

staika

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It did when I was younger I really didn't listen to music but then metallica came into my life and I was the biggest metallica fan boy for a few years. I then got into harder stuff like scar symmetry and soilwork and I listened to a lot of melodic death metal. And today I listen to a lot of Post-hardcore and dethcore bands so my taste in music has changed quite a bit :p
 

AmzRigh

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The music I liked when I was little, I still like now. I've had the same favorite band since I was 5 -- R.E.M.

My musical tastes have certainly broadened with time, though.
 

Magnus

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Well it has in the last 25 years or so, but my favourite band is Nurse With Wound and they've been my favourite for 20 years, apologies if I do go on about them!

 

Aerosteam

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Yes, indeed.

As a person who thinks almost all modern music is complete utter bullshit I have grown an interest to music not actually as popular as any songs on the official charts and radio.

Played Fallout 3, turns out I like 40's music
Played Fallout New Vegas, turns out I like 50's music
Discovered Rymdreglage, turns out I like Techno and Bitpop
Listened to a few tracks on Newgrounds, turns out I like Dubstep when it's done right

I never knew I would actually like these genres until I discovered them on sources not entirely to do with music.
 

Jharry5

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My music taste hasn't changed so much as widened.
When I was 10 or so, I liked pop-punk like Sum 41 and Nu-Metal like Papa Roach. Whilst I fell out with that sort of thing for quite a while, I could now listen to an album without wanting to pop my own eardrums to stop the pain (and ever so often, I will do for nostalgia's sake).
As I got older, I got into heavier things such as Slipknot and Trivium, which later grew into listening to Death Metal.
It wasn't until I started listening to a punk/ska band called Rancid on a friend's recommendation that my music taste really expanded. I got into punk bands like The Clash and Gallows etc through them, and ska bands such as Reel Big Fish and Aquabats. Also, through the frontman's side projects, I got into Reggae (admittedly only a tiny bit). Again, I never stopped listening/liking earlier stuff I listened to, I just added to the list.

One thing that had been consistant was that I hated rap. Could never stand it. Then I listened to MC Lars and, surprisingly for me, I quite liked it. I got into other 'nerdcore' acts through him and also started liking a bit of Eminem too. All the while, I'll still listen to older bands/artists, as Rancid (and pretty much anything else Tim Armstrong has done) remain my favourite band.
Most recent addition to my music library? J-pop, mostly anime soundtracks. If you'd have told me three years back that I'd be listening to and enjoying that stuff, I'd have laughed. Funny how it goes.

So yeah, as I've said, my music taste hasn't changed. Just grew and expanded.
[sub]I still hate dance and dupstep though.[/sub]
 

thylasos

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I certainly listened to a different balance of songs in my early teens to my late teens, and it's different now. I still like the stuff I listened to then, but I've expanded my knowledge of genres I was previously unfamiliar with.

I've still got a few genres I just don't get along with, but then I'm not trying to force myself to like everything... just to give everything a fair chance.