Has your taste in music changed?

Frank Z

I'm sure most of us remember the music that our parents listened to when we were all kids. Mine weren't really big on music, but they still liked to tap their toes when something they liked came on the radio. Mostly it was typical 50's & 60's stuff wth a bit of country thrown in on occasion. I even went on a C&W bender in the late 70's/early 80's for a while...I'm glad that it was short lived though! I still love early Rock-n-Roll and have my kids hooked on it as well, no rap or hiphop allowed in my house....ever!! But as the years have gone by I find myself listening to more jazz/blues/classical than anything else.

So how about you folks? Any major shifts in music preference?

Ron-P

Nope. Grew up on the 80's and still crank'em.



Peace Out~:D

PolkThug

I did the heavy metal thing in the early and mid-eighties. Then around '87 switched to 'gangsta' rap. Through in a little grunge in '90. I still listen to rap, but I also very much enjoy lounge music (ie Swingers soundtrack).

ntculenuff

i still listen to just about everything but country..still have all my cd's (just cant let go of them) rap, glam metal, heavy metal, speed metal, classical, blues, jazz and so on..
what i have been listening too the most in the last 12 yrs is electronic music , techno, mainly dj mixes..

pixiedave

As a teenager I listened to Floyd Zeppelin and The Stones. From 1986 through 1995 I was "on tour" following The Grateful Dead and listen to very little else than San Francisco Psychedelia. Since then I have discovered the Canterbury Sound, such as Daevid Allen and Gong. Somewhere along the way I went through a jazz phase and a hard core blues thing. These days (since the 40 licks tour) I again listen to a lot of Stones and have rediscovered Yes.

Pauly

Was into the rap and hip hop for a while and enjoyed the classics and blues/jazz but latley i have been listening to nothing but the classic's..

Zepp - Fav by far, SRV and double trouble, Jimi , Allman, Johnny Winter, Beatles etc.....go figure i am ony 26

organ

I used to listen to stuff like Nirvana, Silverchair, The Tea Party, etc.

For the past 4 years and until now I'm still hooked on European black/death/goth/operatic metal. I think my taste is here to stay now. I also love classical and opera as much as metal.

Maurice

jdavy

I love the early 80's. Give me devo and Oingo Boingo anytime. I do like other music but the 80's are the best and allways will be. I think we will allways want to be a teenager again. Hey Dick Clark can do it, so can we. LOL

reeltrouble1

I listen to more Jazz now than when I was a teenager, last night went from Billy Idol to Frank Sinatra to Toby Keith to Diana Krall.

Yesterday afternnoon in the car with the wife it was Oldies time.

Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, get their time after work.

So much music--so little time.

:cool:

danger boy

well my tastes have changed since high school.. in hs i was listeing to groups like Judas Priest and the like. (late 70's)

After that i got more into classic rock and 80's music. The 80's music was just pure fun nonsense.... electronic synth pop. Pet Shop Boys, Depeche Mode, Smiths, Billy Idol, Tears for Fears, etc.

I didn't care to much for music of the 90's.. but there were some good stuff.. so during most of the 90's I would listen back to my roots of classic rock.

Currently... i like most everything except Rap, Hip Hop, and country. I listen to Diana Krall, to Sinatra, to BTO, to Red Hot Chilli Peppers, to No Doubt. and of course. i'lll never give up classic rock.

Billm57

listen to a little more traditional jazz in the last 10 years or so..when I was a teenager I was heavily into fusion jazz (Larry Coryell, Mahavishnu, Return To Forever, etc..) but not so much traditional although a few underground stations would throw on on some Coltrane or Miles at times. Still like to listen to all the old prog rock and regular rock from my teen years of the early to mid 70'S

jd45177

I was 8 yrs old when the Beatles hit the States, I was very much into the english bands and I've always listened to rock. I went through a two year period in the early 80's when I listended to a little country, like the Statler Brothers, Conway, Cash and Emmy Lou. Thank God I'm back to my roots. Up until 8 years ago, it was pretty much all the Who and the Beatles and maybe 30% other bands. Fot the past 8 years, it's been 5% Broadway musicals, 5% classical, 10% Christian music, 15% the Who and Pete Townshend, 15% other and 50% U2.

amulford

I grew up to the music of sixties & seventy's rock. My older brothers & sisters turned me on to alot of excellent music of the era. I went through a phase of rap and gangksta for a while. Went nuts with the metal in the eighties. Now I'm still into the rock and metal, but have started to delve into blues, jazz, a little coutry and some hard core classical. I can't really say my tastes have changed, for I still enjoy all of it. I'd put it more like my tastes are expanding.

One thing has remained constant throughout:

I LIKE IT LOUD!!!

Strong Bad

I grew up on the original Van Halen and all the big hair bands.

Now, since I've been DJing for about 2 1/2 years I've been exposed to a much greater variety of music. I've grown to like club mix music and remixes.

Of course, that will never take away my true love of the classics like Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd.

ninerbj

I consider myself lucky enough to have grown up with an older brother that enjoyed "different" music. In the early seventy's when I was just a wee young thing, I heard my brother once say, "Quad is the way to go". lol
When he left the house to experment with sex, drugs and rock in roll from the back of his customized van, I was left with his collection of albums. Some that stick out...
Spooky Tooth
Todd Rundgren
Frank Zappa

So, here is this 12 year old kid, cranking tunes from Zappa in his bedroom while his mother banged on the bedroom door telling him to turn the trash down...(zappa's Dina Mo Hum) (bet her forty dollar bill couldn't make her ****) lol

I loved Kiss, Elton John, Zepplin, Van Halen, April Wine...the list goes on and on.
Now I am 41 years young and my tatse have changed a bit. I still like the old classic, but have discovered new tatse like The Tragically Hip, and have fallen back in love with the music of Rush.

Music makes the world go round....I take what I can get.

Frank Z

Excellent respones from all!! Keep 'em coming.

mantis

Great Question....

I listened to alot of Barbra Striesand when I was youg due to the fact my mom was a big fan.Disco was big so the Be Gees where big.I started playing Guitar when I was 9.It was 1979 and punk was big.My uncle was in a punk band and I played with them on stage at the Trenton City Gardens at the age of 12.
Planet Rock I was into and that type of music along with Led Zepplin,The Who and Niel Young.

Then the early 80's came around and Heavy Metal I was all about .Iron Maiden,Dokken,Metallica,Twisted Sister,Ratt,Poison,Warrant,Heavens Edge,and such.

Today I still have the edge,but I find myself listening more to Jazz and Lorenna Mckennitt.Evanscence,Nickleback and such new bands I like.

Dan

So yeah My taste has changed as I'm getting older.I gues you could say my tastes are getting more seasoned.I enjoy high quality musicans.I always have but from a different prospective.

Topher

I am listening to Iron Maiden as I type this, same type of music I have liked since the 80's. I grew up with rock/metal (I am 25) and although I went through a few different phases, I have always stayed grounded in my rock/metal. Although occasionally I do enjoy listening to much different things; Tori Amos, Natalie Merchant, even some Garth Brooks.

Jstas

Nope, I still don't like opera.

I'll listen to anything else though. I can't stand the stigma people place on music because of the "genre" it is "categorized" as. If the musicians have talent and I like how the songs they play sound then I'm sure as hell going to listen to it.

I also remember the music my parents used to listen to...mainly because I still listen to it myself.

braveheart

My taste in music has expanded more than changed. I love the Allman Bros., The Rolling Stones and much of the classic rock genre. But now I enjoy Sinatra, Dean Martin, lite jazz at certain times. I gage it on the occaison or mood Im in. Lately Ive been listening to more progressive rock on the car radio which mixes many different artists. I dont care for rap and hiphop though.

Pablo

Still listen to the same stuff I've been since high school (class of 80). Zeppelin, Allmans, Floyd, Santana, The Dead, Stones, Ect... Now I like it more on DVD (but loud). But I have expanded a little and enjoy anyone that seems to have a bunch of talent (mostly guitar). Just saw Brian Setzer's Christmas show and it was fantastic. Doesn't seem that anyone new really has the staying power of the old ones. This summer I try to get and see some of the "out of retirement tours" for Yes, Rush & Tull. (Already saw the last 5 "finial come back tours" of the Who and the quadrafinia tour. So I will skip the next [although I don't know why they would do something with half the band gone, and a quater of them deaf). Just goes to show, if these guys can still come out and sell out a few nights at mid sized place (they can probably still sell out the garden), what kind of musicans are out there now?