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.
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! =]
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.
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.
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
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!!!!!!
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.
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.
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] +
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.
I think this internet radio station influenced my music taste more than anything before, it got me into styles I would never get into otherwise and I got totally rid of this "repeating an album/song forever since there is nothing better to listen to" syndrome.
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)
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
- 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!)
I had an amazing response, but it got deleted by an accidental refresh i was gonna make it a new blong entry to, but i guess this sad response will have to do, mine changed from oldies to indie in about 4 years or so. i wish i would have saved my response i guess i'll have to do my first blog at 1000 posts .
Right now I'm listening to Kanye's stuff, and Yo-Yo Ma's Cello Concertos. Weird mix I guess. Both are pretty far removed from classic rock and metal, where I pretty much got started. I think people who only stick to one genre of music don't really understand music. Maybe it's just habit for them, but people who ONLY listen to metal, or jazz, or classic rock, they're fooling themselves if they think they really like music. Variety is so amazing.
On March 26 2012 02:54 Lexpar wrote: Right now I'm listening to Kanye's stuff, and Yo-Yo Ma's Cello Concertos. Weird mix I guess. Both are pretty far removed from classic rock and metal, where I pretty much got started. I think people who only stick to one genre of music don't really understand music. Maybe it's just habit for them, but people who ONLY listen to metal, or jazz, or classic rock, they're fooling themselves if they think they really like music. Variety is so amazing.
Thank god we have you here to tell other people what they do and don't "really like".
You're letting yourself get too hung up on genre labels. Just because two songs can both be labelled "metal" doesn't mean they're the same. You don't have to force yourself to listen to music you don't enjoy to experience variety.
Before that I went through rock -> hip hop -> d'n'b -> TRANCE
When I first discovered trance I immediately knew that it is MY music. Sadly, I have no friends who share my passion for trance. I was with a girl for three years who I introduced to trance and who really got into it as well so we went to clubs together, shared our favorite tracks. It was really great. But unfortunately, our characters diverged and so we broke up. And while I still listen to trance she's not any more. So I know what you mean op about the connection between change in the music taste and change in personality...
elementary: pop stuff middle school: nu metal and similar stuff, trance, techno high school: classic rock, video game music, classical uni: classical (bach through xenakis... currently on a kodaly binge)
Exploring new music is one of the coolest things that our generation often times takes for granted. But the internet has made it so easy to find new stuff, whether through Pandora or blogs or whatever.
I think it's pretty normal that people who are really into music will at some point realize that their tastes have matured and the stuff they liked when they were younger may not be as great as it seemed. But that's just because you're refining your tastes and can begin to see patterns and identify when something is generic BS vs. a masterpiece.
Personal story:
I started listening to music seriously in middle school (about 8 yrs ago), getting some alternative rock/punk CDs from friends and just listening to everything they shared with me. After a while I started to pick out bands that I liked and download their entire catalog, discover the bands that had inspired THEM and after a while I wound up in some completely different decades/genres of music. Going from Nirvana to the Meat Puppets to R.E.M. to Big Star to The Beach Boys to Kraftwerk in a couple years and lovin' all of it. And it seems that recently, the rate at which I discover really great music is becoming a lot more frequent since I'm getting better at searching. Now my hard drive is filled with like 16,000 songs and I've listened to most of it -- and I could probably give a decent bio about each of the artists.
So keep digging bro! Every time you think you've completed your collection you'll find some old blog post about a musician you overlooked.
I've been listening to rock/rock n roll since I was very young, with my parents being quite big fans of bands like black sabbath, the beatles, etc.
Then I began to listen to metal when I was like 11, which is still what I listen to most of the time. Back then it was mostly mainstream stuff though, and now it's mainly death metal. But, I listen to a lot of other music as well, be it orchestral, electronic, or what have you. Anything but pop and country, really.
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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 
Well I say metal head... I was hugely into Slipknot and Disturbed. All Mainstream stuff 
i was gonna make it a new blong entry to, but i guess this sad response will have to do, mine changed from oldies to indie in about 4 years or so. i wish i would have saved my response i guess i'll have to do my first blog at 1000 posts 
