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Hey guys 
I just wanted to share something that i literally just realised.My music taste has changed so much since I started secondary school in 2008 till now
Firstly. This was how I started my journey with music. It was because of Bebo. A social networking site that i was way to young for. And I had to put up a video and make a skin/wallpaper. It was that moment when i could have gone for either  j Sammy* or *Nickelback* and i sat at the screen for what seemed like forever. Then Picked Nickelback. So in a way you could say that this is where I started my journey
In 2008. I was a metal head....  Well I say metal head... I was hugely into Slipknot and Disturbed. All Mainstream stuff I didn't like to go with the flow in my school (As most like RnB and rap...etc.) So out of the 52 in my year. 4 listened to the same music as me. Which was awesome to me as we all bonded because of that.
In 2009.... 2nd year in school. Linkin Park. Linkin Park. Linkin Park. Since that year I know every song. Every lyric. Every name and what order their on in their album
2010-2011(Summer) - I got my 5th girlfriend. But the first one I ever felt in love with. She was into the same music as I was. It was amazing. She showed me avenged sevenfold. Paramore. We went to concerts together... Seriously guys. In my city. If you find a person who likes the same music as I do. Its VERY rare. So naturally I fell in love with her. Sadly she got into smoking and drinking...Which was annoying (But I was young) then....Her music changed. She listened to Some guy called Lil Wayne? and all the other stuff like that. She changed. Not just in music but in every way. So I had to end it which I was sad about. But Bleh. It had to happen.
2011-2012(January) I started to explore alot of Non-Mainstream bands. The exies. Cage for the Elephant. Rev Theory etc, and also classic Rock. Seriously. My hardrive is full of Aerosmith, Smashing Pumpkins, R.E.M. Etc. I still listen to it from time to time
Present. Have a guess. Seriously, have a guess.
Billy Joel.
I kid you not my friends. I discovered him about 4 weeks ago and he's a musical genius. Every song just sinks into me,.. It's amazing. I can't even describe the feeling. For a metal head it might be like when you hear an amazing guitar rift (Avenged Sevenfold - Welcome to the family, before the last chorus. It's awesome.) Or for rappers....Ummmm I dunno what you like. But you get the point.
It just seems so weird to me And yet awesome that my taste has evolved so much.
Any of you experienced the same thing?
-Kova
  
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Before starcraft, I was listening to all sorts of music besides metal and wubwu..dubstep
Now, kpop is in my blood...
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To me Dubstep is just alot of noise randomly put together
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Listen to Elton John, Kansas, America, CCR, Phil Collins, etc. All are good, and seem to be meshed around what you like already. Surely you have heard of all of these, if not, give them a listen! =]
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Im listening to CCR right now I must give Phil Collins a try thankz
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cool you have like a rock music listening timeline. at least you didn't go down the kpop path haha. my timeline is a little more divergent than yours.
for me personally i went through a random music phase during like 2006-2007, anything from Queen to lil wayne.
after that i ventured down into electronic music. progressive house, then dnb occasionally dubstep or trance.
then for the past 2 years i've just been listening to hip-hop. went to like early 90's g-funk first (snoop dogg, dr.dre etc) then popular rap like jay-z. after that i went into some youtube rappers. then i went into some more instrumental based hip-hop (nujabes, rjd2 , shadow). after that i went into like oldschool east coast hip-hop (atcq, digable planets). now i'm listening to some of the previous hip-hop that i like and some more mid 90's stuff.
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First couple of years in high school for me, nothing but main stream rap/hip-hop/r&b.
Then last 2 years of high school, metalcore/other metal subgenres. Basically like the music you would hear on incontrol's stream.
First part of last year, nothing but electronic music really.
Now, Kpop after discovering starcraft last summer, and some occasional electronic music mixed in every once in a while.
I wonder what's next..
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Hm, from start of highschool to now (7-8 years now?)has kinda been like:
beatles/queen + other classic rock
-> post-hardcore (UnderOATH) + modern metal (A7X, As I Lay Dying, etc)
-> p-hc + mm + classic metal (Black Sabbath, Pantera...)
-> modern metal + prog rock (Coheed and Cambria, etc) + pop punk (Blink-182)
-> mm + pr + trance (Tiesto, Paul Oakenfold, etc)
-> pr + trance + prog house (Deadmau5)
-> prog house + desert rock (Kyuss, Queens of the Stone Age, etc)
-> desert rock + classic rock + gangsta rap (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Dr. Dre, Cypress Hill, etc) + melodic death metal (Scar Symmetry, Insomnium)
-> desert rock + prog house
-> prog house + melodic death metal + other metal (black, death, etc.)
-> nothing
-> hip-hop (Nujabes ft. Shing02, etc)
-> hip-hop + melodic death metal
-> hip-hop
-> hip-hop + dubstep
-> hip-hop + Kpop
-> hip-hop
and now is like, hip-hop + Kpop + classic video game music, movie soundtracks, more hip-hop, and sometimes I mix in mau5 and Insomnium.
So I say yes
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You will probably like some of these:
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Boris - Pink
King Crimson - Red
XTC - English Settlement
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
Yo La Tengo - I am not afraid of you and I will beat your ass
If you like any of these pm me and I will give you some more recommendations. glhf
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guitar based rock to guitar based rock/metal to guitar based rock to guitar based rock
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Lololol my music journey is far better. I started with the classics like ABBA, elvis, beatles ....etc all the 80s stuff because my mum listened to it. Then i was addicted to pop because i listened to 'toxic' by britany spears (is that how you spell it?) I couldnt get enough of that song! So pop was the first music genre i really followed. Then i played guitar, electric i might add, and my first band i loved from there was METALLICA!!!!!!!!!!
I played metallica and megadeth a lot since then. From guitar stemmed a lot of phases, but rock and roll mainly (jimi H, zeppelin, P floyd, vaughn, etc) and if i had to pick, this would probably be my fav music phase
But after that, I got into jazz a lot (chick corea-spain was one of my favourites) and from there i just continued to play guitar.
Then i got into rap through eminem as a christmas present (his curtain call album or something along those lines ) and found biggie, 2pac and jay z. From there i actually went to classical music, only for a brief period though.
and now????????????? KPOP!
from sc2 obvoiusly hahaha after listening to it continuously on korean streams i have fallen in love with it, and now im here.
But i think the best part is that each of these sections of music i have grown to love and respect, and love each and every one of them. And I will keep expanding my musical taste so that i love everything, because i do love every type of music!!!!!!
(But right now,,, GO BIG BANG ! VIP! WHOOOOOOO!
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well i kinda changed aswell
From my 5th class on (like 9 years ago from now) i listened to these (in chronologic order) :
-German Hip Hop (lululuulul)
-Slipknot, Disturbed, Korn, Metallica, Iron Maiden etc
-House / Trance / Hardstyle / DnB
-Polish rap
-Hardcore, more Hardstyle, Hardtrance
-Kpop, Dubstep
-(present) Iron Maiden, Nightwish, Rap / Hip Hop (JMT, Non Phixion, Big L etc, not mainstream shit), Led Zeppelin, Trance, Dubstep and DnB, also Epic Music (Music which was used in Movies / Games / Series etc like Star Wars, Lord of the Rings)
So i pretty much listen from Rock to Hip Hop today (i prefer rap though, sounds nicer now), i dress like a hip hopper and listen to iron maiden and Nightwish, that pretty much mindfucks all the people who dont know me, but whatever.
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Yeah, I used to listen to hip hop, rock, metal, nu-metal, everything from eminem to black label society, A LOT of grundge, especially alice in chains....
And then I discovered opeth, and havent really listened to anything else for a year now. Still not tired of it, and their new album "Heritage" which I hated at first, is now almost my favourite.
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Long time lurker, finally something I can post on!
Mine has changed a lot over time, but from what I've heard it's a pretty common transition. (Well the Linkin Park -> Pendulum bit, not sure about the rest)
The first band I really got into was Linkin Park, that was I think somewhere around 2006.I think I listened to some Depeche mode too.
Linkin Park was still my favourite band up to 2009, but around 2008 I started getting into Jrock (Dir En Grey and stuff). And from that to metal(All That Remains and stuff).
Somewhere around 2009 I was introduced to Pendulum through the song "Hold Your Colour". I immediately loved it, specifically I really really liked the wobbly bass. Through Pendulum I got into some other Drum and Bass/Jungle stuff.
In 2010 Pendulum's "The Island" remix competition was happening. I got a bit more into dubstep through Statelapse's remix. But there was this one song that changed me a bit + Show Spoiler [The song] +http://soundcloud.com/remix_pendulum/the-island-deluques-glitchstep-remix
At first I thought it was god awful, but there was a tiny part somewhere in my mind saying "this is pretty interesting!". It was a really tiny part, but enough to make me listen to it again. It's actually one of my favourite songs now!
Eventually I completely stopped listening to rock, metal, jrock etc and got more and more into electronic music. I mostly listened to drum and bass, jungle, lots of breakbeat stuff. I was listening to some IDM and whatnot through Amon Tobin too.
AND THEN Day[9] happened. Holy shit, I'm gonna swear a lot here because I really need to emphasize this. I listened to one of his "Song of The Day"'s and I fucking loved it. I ended up going through every single one of his tweets to listen to all the songs he's tweeted, and I loved all of them.
So I got (and am still getting into, there's just so much to explore in electronic music it's really overwhelming lol) really into IDM, and further solidified my love for electronic music.
So here's the above text in music!
+ Show Spoiler [2006 - 2009] +
+ Show Spoiler [2009 - 2010] +
+ Show Spoiler [2011 - now] +
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Myself:
pre-2008: "I don't listen to music"
2008-2010: Only Nintendo game music
early 2011: Pony Music
late 2011/2012: Homestuck music
Still don't listen to major record company music.
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I've always been open to a wide range of music but there's still been a notable shift over the years.
pre-2009: Trance, Pop-Rock
2009-2010: Melodic Trance, JPop, JRock
2010-2011: RnB, Hip-hop (Nujabes, et al), Acid Jazz, Drum n Bass
2011-2012: Orchestra (Touhou in particular), Chillstep, Downtempo, Neo Jazz, Folk
last week: Post-rock
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Old geezer posting. You have been warned.
My story is pretty similar to OP's though, and I'm so happy to hear, that your taste in music has taken (in my opinion) a great and natural direction.
TL;DR - Long boring story saying i used to like metal as well, but now I enjoy Billy Joel, just like OP.
+ Show Spoiler +When I first started listening to music in my early teens, people were listening to stuff like T'Pau, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Genesis, Huey Lewis etc. The first albums I bought though, was stuff that stood out from this mainstream music (exactly as in your blog). I got into hard rock through Alice Cooper, Guns N Roses and later on Metallica. From Metallica I wen't into gradually heavier and heavier stuff, from Slayer/Kreator/King Diamond/Paradise Lost into Death/Sepultura/Deicide/Cannibal Corpse/Darkthrone, death/black/grind metal in general. Name a major band in this genre in the early nineties and I've probably attended a concert with them and listened to their stuff on CASSETTE TAPES - oh the piracy. Then.came.grunge. I almost instantly realized, that the amount of energy in stuff like Alice in Chains, Temple of The Dog, Mad Season, Screaming Trees, and of course mainstays: Soundgarden, Nirvana and Pearl Jam, far surpassed the energy that the metal acts were trying to achieve. Bands like Smashing Pumpkins and Soundgarden was in a way a lot heavier than all those "brutal" death/black metal acts, trying to top eachother lyrically, through macabre imagery, or simply through the speed of their blast beats or how low their instruments were tuned. I'm still a huuuge metal fan. But some of the later acts simply weren't adding anything new to the genre. The grunge insurgence delivered a fresh breath of air - with their admittedly predictable frustration with society (punk anyone? ) and youth anthem like songs, that my generation instantly embraced. I switched all my black T-shirts and combat boots for some of the ugliest clothes I've ever owned and felt renewed in this new hope for music. Bashing on crap like Oasis, Europop, and whatever else was big at the time, was a joy as well. A few years later, Radiohead released Paranoid Android, which was probably the most influential albums in my life. It completely changed how I listened to music, and is just an absurd display of awesome musicianship. It opened my eyes to more mellow music and I spread out from here in all sorts of directions wanting to check out all sorts of genres. Along the way, I've discovered everything from jazz to blues to Tom Jones, classical music, singer/songwriter stuff and "chick music", This is where I decided to dig into my parents album collection to discover awesome stuff like Billy Joel, Queen and Aretha Franklin. I've continued this trend since then, keeping an open mind to new music, and never being elitist about what I hear. This has enriched my listening experience dramatically, as I can enjoy music from almost every genre. (I'm having a hard time enjoying dance/trance and reggae, but besides that, I find some good stuff amongst most genres). These days, I consider myself an Indie music fan, but I also very much enjoy classic rock/soul like Stevie Wonder, Billy Joel, etc I'm also very much into stuff like Beastie Boys, Beck, starting to dig Dubstep as well. Quality is more important to me than genre these days. Last couple of albums I've bought (yes, some of us old people still do this) is some nineties leftovers, and some newer stuff as well - check them out, if you need recommendations: Bob Hund - Låter som miljarder Charlotte Gainsbourg - Stage Whisper dEUS - Keep You Close Feist - Metals Mark Lanegan - Blues Funeral The Pretenders - Last of the Independents (1994) Red Fang - Murder the Mountain Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes (1983) Black Mountain - In The Future (2008)
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Yea there is so much music out there. Its all very good if you can just give it a try. Im one of those listen to alot of stuff guys. (except country) I like rap hiphop the hits, rock alternative some metal. You would be suprised the music you can enjoy if you give it a try
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- Charts as a 13 year old
- Punkrock (Billy Talent more rock than punk)
- Metal (System of a Down)
- HandsUp --> House --> Deep House --> Electro
- Chillout
- Metal (Sonata Arctica -> Nightwish -> Epica)
- Drum and Bass (mainly Liquicity)
- Metal (Amon Amarth -> Metallica \m/)
- Electro (Kalkbrenner -> Eulberg -> Villalobos)
- Trance (ASOT WOOOOO!)
Over the course of 5 years.
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