How has your taste in music evolved over the years?

[Jedthehumanoid]

Great list Sally, here's a present...one of my favourite songs by two of my favourite performers

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Let's hold fast to the dream

[Sally]

Great list Sally, here's a present...one of my favourite songs by two of my favourite performers

Let's hold fast to the dream

That's some seriously good music!

[Frigga]

Snug, I like this song by Nightwish, what do you think of it? My feelings won't be hurt if you don't like it.

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My taste has evolved a lot over the years. In my teenage years it was Christian artists like Amy Grant and Sherry Keggi (sp) and Geoff Moore and The Distance. Then after I stopped being a christian, I floundered to find my own voice so to speak. Fiona Apple, Tori Amos, Sarah MacLachlan, Vertical Horizon, Bloodhound Gang, Korn, The Goo Goo Dolls, Blink 182, Kid Rock, Alanis Morissette, Loreena McKennitt, No Doubt, Capercaille, Sheryl Crow, are among the ones that pop in my head when I think of my late teen years. Then I met my future husband when I was 19 and he introduced me to Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Metallica, Megadeth, Motorhead, and The Beatles. Then I didn't listen to any of my own music for many years hardly at all, I suppressed my own musical tastes to suit him. And we very rarely listened to music. Then back in late 2009, I finally stuck up for having my own voice and started listening to the radio again, and found some bands that I really liked, and I bought some of their albums. I forced him to listen to my music, as a way to assert my sense of myself. I now have a large collection of artists that I really have liked in the last few years: Rammstein, Disturbed, Shinedown, Chevelle, Mastodon, Slipknot, Nightwish, Apocalytica, and Tool are some of the bands that I appreciate now. I still listen to all of the other music as well, because I still like them. My collection just grows is all.

Never deny yourself to listen to what moves your heart, because to deny yourself that, you surrender a part of what makes you, you. Music is the outward expression of our inner souls, and what moves you, shows how you are in your heart.

[Duskfall]

It has improved greatly over the last years, especially since I started playing in a melodic death metal coverband during 2006-2008.

Throughout the years you always learn something new about music with all those influences flying around.

I am however openminded to music, although I find hiphop and rap to be utter crap in my opinion, the same goes to most music with -core suffix.

[rhiannon]

I still listen to every genre I have ever liked in my life. The real difference now is simply that my list of genres keeps expanding the older I get. In general I will still listen to music of the following categories:

1. 70s hits....reminds me of the innocence of my childhood. I love the stuff!

2. 70s old school disco.....loved it....then hated it once I became a stoner/metal head....now I like it again and will still listen to it on occasion

3. Melodic rock.....bands like Styx and Journey were staples in Junior high I still like them today. Just not in their current incarnations.

4. Classic/Progressive/Hard rock....bands like The Beatles, Zep, Floyd, Alan Parsons, and Sabbath all have a special place in my heart. Many others could be added to this list, and I still listen to them today. Included in this genre also is 80s Metal

5. 90s grunge....although I was never fully involved in the scene, despite my LIVING right in the thick of it at the time of its inception (Pacific NW), there are a few bands of this genre I truly respect and still listen to. AIC, Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots, Nirvana, Mad Season, etc....are all fantastic.

6. 90s dance/synthpop....still like it and will still listen to it Even a few of those gay boy bands out of the late 90s like Back Street Boys and NSync....LOL!

7. Industrial/Goth/Darkwave/Newwave/Ambient/House.....I kind of mix all these genres together because all of them became popular with me right about the same time.....late 90s-present. It is this collection I find that much of my own musical taste overlaps with Sturmwalkure's I probably listen to these genres more than any other....many of the bands are from Northern Europe, actually

Basically, I love the music you hear at Raves....lol!

Anyway....I listen to everything. Sometimes, I even listen to Celtic, Classical, or Early Music.....if in the right mood.

Now there are also genres that are SHIT and worthy of demolition forever....all of which I have ALWAYS hated:

Rap
Hip Hop
Country
Bluegrass
Jazz
Blues

Though I respect the contribution some of the above genres have made to the development of rock n roll music....I nonetheless cannot stomach listening to any of them. They are, quite literally, vomit-inducing to my ears

[sturmwalkure]

Rhiannon, I as well despise Rap, Hip Hop, Country, Bluegrass, Jazz & Blues. Though when I was 12 listening to some mainstream rappers like Eminem didn't seem like a bad idea. Otherwise, nowadays I consider (rap = the mentally retarded attempting poetry). It's just so obscene, crude, and animalistic. It is the very antithesis of creativity and art. On the complete contrary, rather...

[sturmwalkure]

It has improved greatly over the last years, especially since I started playing in a melodic death metal coverband during 2006-2008.

Throughout the years you always learn something new about music with all those influences flying around.

I am however openminded to music, although I find hiphop and rap to be utter crap in my opinion, the same goes to most music with -core suffix.

Good music is like apples, you have to throw away the core.

[Siginulfo]

Well...

Commercial music - Punk music - Rock music - Hard Rock music - Metal music (lots of genres) together with ancient and modern folk music.

[Lithium]

When I was a little kid I listened mainly to traditional folk and popular Bulgarian music. When I started surfing around the internet I started listening to Evanescence, Avril Lavigne, Nightwish and Within Temptation. After that I discovered the real symphonic/gothic/doom metal and I fell inlove with it. I was also very interested in ambient/paganfolk/darkwave music. My idols were Emilie Autumn and Liv Kristine and I guess they still are. Nowadays I enjoy all of the stuff I did before, nothing has changed much, maybe I just mixed all of my older music periods. My current obsession is Lana Del Rey.

[Quorra]

I can admit my taste of music used to be pretty bad. Until I was about seventeen my taste primarily compromised of popular music--- *gasp* Shakira, the Black Eyed Peas (poo) and Evanescence. I didn't become musically enlightened until I was about nineteen. I thought Within Temptation, HIM etc were gothic music, LOL! Then I went through a period where I listened to Russian 'popsa' music--- basically noise with shrill vocals and stupid lyrics. I was obsessed with everything about Russia and unfortunately listened to the worst Russian music. XD I used to get a lot of confused Russian people asking me why I listened to Dima Bilan, Virus etc on Last.fm. After that I hated Russian music since I got sick of the bad artists I listened to so I listened to a lot of electronic music like The Knife. I was obsessed with 'electropop' such as Little Boots, unfortunately Lady GaGa (Lord Caca) was one of the "artists" I listened too. I can say in the past two and a half years my taste in music has been refined tremendously. When I was twelve I listened to Britney Spears, NSYNC etc but did I know any better? NO.
Is anyone else here embarrassed of the music they used to like? I am ashamed of liking a few indie bands a few years ago just because they were British and anything at the time that was British was good to me even though it was the most cliche, lame "indie" music imaginable. Before that I listened to a lot of lame grunge, nu-rock and riot grrl. I can't hear any of this kind of music without getting aggressive. What was I thinking? I think that our musical tastes to change and for the better as we get older maybe? I am not even going to mention when listened to the lamest hipster bands despite the fact it was torture for me, oh wait I did. I am kind of glad I am past all that. I listen to music 3 to 12 hours a day depending on how much I am at the computer.

You didn't say what you listen to now. But I can guess.

I'm the opposite. I always listened to alternative music as a teenager. Now I only like some dancy stuff in the major key.

That alternative music, grunge and metal music(if you like that) is the greatest tool of the cultural Marxist to demoralise you. Turn it off. Now. Put on something happy and mainstream. It might even save your life .

Even the album covers on "Alternative" music are ugly and depressive cultural Marxism.

If I hear music which makes me slightly melancholic, I bolt. I just got up this instant to turn of the TV because it's was playing some wistful, leso nonsense.