How has your taste in music evolved?
By santau
@santau (223)
United States
February 10, 2008 11:42pm CST
how has your taste in music evolved throughout your life? I am just wondering. Growing up I loved country because that is what everyone around me listened to. Then someone introduced me to MTV and I became a huge Hanson fan lol. Since then I have changed from genre to genre. Now I listen to just about everything, even stuff that isnt mainstream.
4 responses
@beinola (45)
• United States
11 Feb 08
I really like your question. Music is so much part of my well being. In my teen days (and this will reveal my age), I loved the Ramones, Patty Smith, Led Zepplin, Elvis Costello, UB40, Nick Cave, Bob Marley (still do). Even though I still love to hear those old songs and keep up with Cave, I love all the old jazz musicians now: Coltrane, Armstrong, Blakey, Miles Davis. I like old tango music, Jhango Rhienhart. In the female vocalist department: Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Bjork (think I'm spelling her name wrong), Natalie Merchant. There are others I just love. I guess I don't just stick to one thing. I saw a movie recently, Paris, Je t'aime, and I ordered the soundtrack!
@santau (223)
• United States
11 Feb 08
One of the only genres of music that I have never really been able to get into is jazz. I have never liked it. Its not that I have never heard it either. I have listened to Coltrane and Davis and Armstrong and that but never was able to get into them. Sad I think because you can just listen to them and hear the musical genius.
@beinola (45)
• United States
12 Feb 08
Jazz is more of an acquired taste. It helps to know its history. Also, with Jazz you have to remember the sounds are isolated. It's really about melody, then the other instruments come in, but really serve as a background. I guess the equivalent is listening to a great singer (the voice comes first), and the music is "behind" the voice.
@crazynurse (7482)
• United States
11 Feb 08
I would have to say that yes, my taste in music has evolved as I have grown older. As a young teen, I primarily liked top 40 hits which were pop and rock. I laughed at my parents music of the past (big band sounds, jazz etc). As I have aged I have come to love pop sounds that were earlier than my era, big band and swing, jazz, alternative and just about anything but country! I love music and have it on constantly in my home.
@santau (223)
• United States
11 Feb 08
Growing up I liked what was popular. I did not really expand my interests from what was on the popular radio stations around my area. Thanks to my friends and the internet I now have learned to like so many things I thought I would never like before. Broadway, techno, classical, celtic, classic scottish, bluegrass. You name it I have probably listened to it and found at least something from it that I liked.
@Mondoh (147)
• United States
11 Feb 08
Mine does... & here's a theory why...
I "imprint" certain events, times & feelings onto whatever my favorite song is at that time...U know how U find a new song U really like & U track it down, buy it on iTunes, play it over & over for awhile, then start slacking off on it. It becomes part of UR library... Years later, U can hear that song & it takes U right back to that moment, person, or event U imprinted on it. That's how I roll..LOL.
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@santau (223)
• United States
11 Feb 08
I know exactly what you mean. I do that all the time to and I don't even realize I'm doing it. If I hear a song that I haven't heard in awhile, I get a feeling and remember something from somewhere earlier in my life. An example is Give it to Me by Timbaland, Nelly Furtado and Justin Timberlake. Whenever I hear this song I just feel my self driving around in a town that I used to live in when this song is popular. I feel like I am there again in the same warm sun with the windows down listening to that song.
@catriana13 (245)
• United States
11 Feb 08
Well, as a child I found myself listening to the music my older brother and my dad liked, which happened to be hard rock, what we now call classic rock, and things like that. Such bands as Black Sabbath, Alice Cooper, Pink Floyd just to name a few. I've pretty much continued to listen to those same bands and musicians, but added many new ones to the list. Everything from 80s hair bands to hardcore heavy metal has found its way to that list, and a bit of classical music, celtic music, and others that I can't even classify. I'd say my taste in music has not only evolved, but has seriously expanded.
@santau (223)
• United States
11 Feb 08
I like rock from the 70's but not so much the 80's. The 80's are a time in history that I usually just skim through because (i think) a lot of the music wasn't really that good at all.
My best friend got me into celcic because she loves and and listens to it all the time. She probably has just about every celtic CD you can have...well she has a bunch of them anyways.
