Muscial Evolution

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

Hey guys,

I was just thinking about how, over the years, my music styles have changed dramatically...

The first ever band that I got into were Duran Duran, back in the day when I was a wee nipper, because my Mum and Dad were into them. To this day I still love Duran Duran, they are a good band.
But then I came across Muse when they released Showbiz, back in 1999, I was 7 and had some pocket money, the artwork appealled to me. That began my epic romance with the band, and they are still my favourite band.

But on a broader scale over the years my music tastes have continuously changed. From 1998-2005 I listened to pop and rap, like Eminem and Jay-Z etc.
Then one day, I stopped liking them, and moved onto liking rock and metal music, I hated every other type of music other than that, but like, a year ago, I started getting into dance music and electronica. Even got into dubstep! Which shocked me.

My question is, how have your individual tastes changed over the years?

[Psychosplodge]

Well there was the early years when you listen to wahtever the rents have on in the car, then the first couple of years at comp had me listening to the manufacture ****e everyone else was listening to, then I discovered bands with actual instruments and stayed there.
Personally I'll listen to heavier stuff live than I do on cd.
But the lighter stuff I listen to these days still tends to be on the metal/rock section of musical spectrum.

[Fizzybubela]

Didn't really listen to much music when I was little... that or I can't remember what I listened to. :) Now I just listen to Heavy Metal, Death Metal and Daft Punk. Amon Amarth, Crystal Eyes, Korn Luca Turilli, Manowar, Marilyn Manson Sabaton, System of a Down and Three Days Grace. :D

[Gotthammer]

I have almost seven hours of sea shanties on my itunes...

If a song's good I'll like it - I've got everything from metal to pop - I'm listening to Christina Aguilera right now whilst wearing a Summoning (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj4jj7aKZXA) tee, so yeah, bit of everything.

[Asymmetrical Xeno]

This is a bit long, but I'm kinda OCD about this sorta stuff. Sorry.

I got into music in the mid 90's when someone introduced me to metal bands such as Sepultura and Fear Factory. Sepultura's Roots and FF's Obsolete albums came out around this period and that won me over, it wasnt the type of cheese that came out in the 80's I loathed but something at the time was truely heavy and modern sounding.

I noticed Fear Factory's albums had their electronic work done by a bloke named Rhys Fulber who happened to be also part of a two-piece band called Front Line Assembly, and so I checked them out with a compilation album that came out in 98' called "Monument". It blew me away, this mix of pulsing basslines, mechanical beats and "cyborg vocals" along with atmospheric aspects that sounded like they had been Lifted right out of Blade Runner. After that I became utterly obsessed with Industrial music, and favoured the Cyberpunk styles coming out at the time like Allied Vision and Numb. This was also when I first started messing around with sounds on my dad's Win95 laptop. Before I left school, a friend of mine also introduced me to Drum N' Bass and since he knew I liked dark stuff he showed me the darker/harder side to DnB and I loved that stuff.

During the 00's my musical taste expanded again, I began to get into the electronic dance styles such as Acid-Techno, Psytrance and Goatrance which a friend introduced me to. Unlike the "Ibiza" eurotrance stuff, this stuff was actually pretty hard hitting and had good sound design so it really appealed to me. I especially loved those harsh acid leads.

At some point I also got into Hip-hop through the band Dalek, as well as justin broadrick's Techno Animal side-project. Those bands pretty much destroyed my bias against hip-hop that it was all mysognystic/violent rubbish. These newer acts made me explore the old-school side and I began to appreciate bands like Public Enemy and such. Around 06' I got back into metal with bands like Meshuggah and what is now called "djent", and that's when my own music began going into polyrhythmic territories.

This is the song that started it all :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQVSGBVimLw

Still sounds great to blast too ;)

[Deadlift]

When I started developing my own musical tastes as a young teenager in the late eighties house music was something that really caught my interest, luckily for me my friends parents owned an independent record store and a night club. I started collecting vinyl and eventually bought a pair of Sony 1210 "decks" I went though acid house, house, garage, hard house, techno, trance, electro. Moby, Kraftwerk, Perfecto, M-People, Leftfield, Sunscream, Spooky, Daft punk were just a few producers I loved, nowadays it's Deadmau5, Above & Beyound, Plump DJs and Claude von Stroke. But besides the dance music I have always loved rock too, U2, Cream, The Eagles, ACDC, Iron Maiden, Deep Purple and Sea Sick Steve and The Red Hot Chilli Peppers are firm favourites and always have been.

Basically I like most musical "genres" as long as its well produced and not regurgitated pop music. I hate pop music and always have.

I don't think my musical tastes have changed over the years, I have just gained new bands and producers I have grown to love.

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

Some nice history here guys, you have all said some pretty cool artists.

Xeno, I do love your stuff, I just don't have the money to buy it at the moment, one day though. :)

[Wolfshade]

Fortunately my Dad was a rocker, so when I was in the car with him we'd listen to Zepplin, Alice Cooper, Sabbath, Aerosmith and stuff.

My eldest sister was into the indie scene back when it was things like Pulp and Lemonheads so obviously Ilistened to that stuff, the next sister liked that and went slightly harder getting into rock/hard rock and again I liked that then she was introduced to Tool and Fear Factory (demanufacture album) so I grew up listening to that so obviously I then went heavier still looking towards black metal, heavy metal and industrial stuffs. Then at Uni I was introduced to VNV and Within Temptation and I really go into goth rock/emb and now I tend to listen to most rock/alternative stuff, though I try and avoid indie bands like the plague. Interestingly, my eldest sister started dating one of my mates and his influence had her bopping along to the more electronic gothy stuff.

All the while I listen to "classical" music, technically not all of it is from the classical period with baroque being one of my faves.

[Psychosplodge]

You let your mate date your sister? O_o

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

Grim.

[Asymmetrical Xeno]

Some nice history here guys, you have all said some pretty cool artists.

Xeno, I do love your stuff, I just don't have the money to buy it at the moment, one day though. :)

hahaha, I'm blaming your GW addiction for that :P Yeah, that's it... it isn't illegal downloading that's killing music sales, it's peoples GW addictions. All makes sense now.

[Psychosplodge]

I thought it was record companies greed? The Live music scene is doing better than ever, well till the recession hit festivals...

[Wolfshade]

You let your mate date your sister? O_o

I didn't exactly have a choice. But it's cool, they are married and it all worked out happily ever after.

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

hahaha, I'm blaming your GW addiction for that :P Yeah, that's it... it isn't illegal downloading that's killing music sales, it's peoples GW addictions. All makes sense now.

And my card gaming addiction...

EDIT: TAP 3 FOR GUTTERSNIPE!

[Godless Zealot]

My magical musical journey started with a bit of influence from the parents but most notably my Grandfather in the guise of Pink Floyd, Fleetwood Mac and I'll never forget the first time he played me Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds was terrified and fascinated by it at the same time. I listened to a lot of the chart stuff too as a kid with a passing interest in indie music which was prevalent in the 90s. Though as I hit my mid teens I heard Heading out to the Highway by Judas Priest and that started my love for rock and metal. Generally prefer the old school metal to the modern honestly though some is okay, not massively into the harder stuff like Black or Death etc. Though I don't mind the odd track, loving a band called the Meads of Asphodel at the moment not sure where they fit in the whole 'black metal' category but its a little unusual and thought provoking. These days I'll listen to a wide variety of music quite happily if I like a tune I like a tune. It rarely matters what genre its from be it rock, metal, pop, hip hop, classical what have you.