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Did Your Taste in Music Evolve?

daza152

daza152

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I believe my taste in music has evolved since I got into collecting LP's. I only bought classic rock albums, to start with, and as time went by, and discussing music with all you knowledge-able people enlightening me, as to great Jazz albums and giving stuff a listen and liking what I heard, and now I fing myself liking very different styles of music that I never would have expected. For instance from beatles, pink floyd and rolling stones to Frank Zappa, Miles davis, King Crimson and Velvet Underground & Nico. Back to beatles ocasionally still hard not too..So did your taste mature, evolve or remain the same since birth :D kidding.. I went to AC DC concert 4 days ago and really enjoyed it. But don't own any of their work on vinyl....go figure.

Daza.
 
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Sure it has, though it has nothing to do with the format, lp or cd. Also, what time frame are you talking about?

Growing up in the early 80s, my tastes ran toward your harder rock, Zeppelin, Sabbath, Aerosmith, Nugent. Later I developed a taste for Pink Floyd, Bowie, Traffic and the Who.

Went to college in the mid 80s and discovered Velvet Underground, Dylan, (more) Bowie, but also branched out into 80s mainstream stuff like Prince, The Police, Squeeze. Also started in on punk/indie stuff like Ramones, Sex Pistols, Buzzcocks, Love and Rockets and Wire as well as fledgling new bands like REM, U2, Aztec Camera and the Smiths. I also eventually found my way in the mid to late 80s to Roxy Music, who, IMO, had as good a run as any band of the 70s.

By the early 90s, I got into jazz, and basically explored nothing but jazz for about 10 years.

In the middle of the 2000s, I went back to the rock music of my younger years, rediscovering some of it, finding bands I should have heard more the first time but somehow missed, and discarding some of it. Some bands still work for me, like the Who (though judging from their Super Bowl performance I wouldn't pay money to see them now). Others I have a newfound respect for, like Little Feat, the Band, Van Morrison, and Joni Mitchell. Finally, there are bands I used to like but now can't stand, like most of that hard rock stuff of my early teens, and Pink Floyd.

Finally, I have discovered current bands I really like, The Decemberists, Wilco, the New Pornographers, and the White Stripes.
 
daza152 said:
Did Your Taste in Music Evolve?
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I wouldn't say 'evolve' as that implies that it has changed when it has only expanded. My appreciation for some stuff has perhaps lessened slightly over the years as I've learned to appreciate quality a little bit better, but I essentially still love the stuff I started out listening to and just added a lot more stuff that I love as I made new discoveries. There are a lot of reasons to like music and they are all valid so although you may be in a particular state of mind at a particular point, the stuff that you enjoyed before really shouldn't be diminished just because something new (to you) came along.
 
BostonDave said:
I wouldn't say 'evolve' as that implies that it has changed when it has only expanded. My appreciation for some stuff has perhaps lessened slightly over the years as I've learned to appreciate quality a little bit better, but I essentially still love the stuff I started out listening to and just added a lot more stuff that I love as I made new discoveries. There are a lot of reasons to like music and they are all valid so although you may be in a particular state of mind at a particular point, the stuff that you enjoyed before really shouldn't be diminished just because something new (to you) came along.
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That is the premise of the question. You never outgrew or just got tired of something from your youth? I sure have.

While I still like bands that can rock hard, I just don't care for the 70s hard rock of my early teens, or, for that matter, the bubble gum music I liked when I was 10.
 
Absolutely. My interest in music has both expanded and evolved. There was time when I would never consider listenening to jazz or classical and now they're mainstays of my collection for which I devote a huge chunk of listenening time towards. It has evolved in a sense that I don't listen to many of the bands that I once did as a teen in the 70s.

I guess it's all part of getting older.
 
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Drybasement said:
Absolutely. My interest in music has both expanded and evolved. There was time when I would never consider listenening to jazz or classical and now they're mainstays of my collection for which I devote a huge chunk of listenening time towards. It has evolved in a sense that I don't listen to many of the bands that I once did as a teen in the 70s.

I guess it's all part of getting older.
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I listened to more classical when I was in high school and college than I do now, but I listen to way more jazz now.
 
theprofessor said:
Ever evolving! I'm always searching for new and obscure releases by unknown or forgotten artists.
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My tastes have always been very eclectic, was listening to lots of "real" folk music (from the '20's - '50's), Western Swing, Classical and acoustic blues way back in the '60's when my school buddies all listened to top-40 pop. Discovered FM album rock in the late '60's, but have never really found R&R to be satisfying. Early Fleetwood Mac (when they were a Blues band), John Mayall & Bluesbreakers, Long John Baldry, Derek & Dominoes, Leo Kottke, lots of Delta Blues in high school. Never really understood/appreciated the negativity inherent in '60's "folk" music (Dylan/Baez, et al).

Pretty much stopped listening to FM in the '80's through '00's in disgust, with a few exceptions, like KPLU's The Art of Jazz. Got back into LPs, then internet radio, and am in the process of re-discovering '50's jazz/standards, which really hit the spot for me, especially the vocal jazz greats. Also enjoy some World music, but unfortunately so much of it now has been infused with R&R that it may as well be R&R...
 
mrt2 said:
That is the premise of the question. You never outgrew or just got tired of something from your youth? I sure have.

While I still like bands that can rock hard, I just don't care for the 70s hard rock of my early teens, or, for that matter, the bubble gum music I liked when I was 10.
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The first rock n roll song I remember that really 'got me' was "December, 1963 (Oh What a Night!)" by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. Still love it. I was 12 then. If 'tired' is defined by how much time I spend listening to something today, then sure I'm tired of a lot of stuff. But there is just so much music and so little time, I still love all the stuff I loved as a kid and actually appreciate much of it more now than I did then. I've also embraced a lot of stuff that I wouldn't have been caught dead listening to growing up... disco, funk, Abba, Madonna, etc etc. At 15 it was heavily AC/DC, Iron Maiden, Steve Miller, Pink Floyd, Aerosmith... you get the picture. Still love all that stuff today... although I don't really spend a lot of time listening to it these days relative to what else I listen to. I still own it all and it does still take a spin once in a while.
 
I started off with classical music (as a result of classical music studies - I learned to play the violin).

From there I "evolved" into contemporary rock of the late '70s. I was never a fan of mainstream hits - although I liked some of the hits.

I could hardly tolerate soul and R&B. I could not tolerate Jazz.

As years went by, I discovered some nice Jazz ensembles and started to really enjoy the genre. Even to extremes like Wynton Marsalis improvisations.

And as the fuss about "Disco" settled, the denial at the "Soul" genre was relaxed as well. And as my journey through rock took me from acid rock to rock'n'roll to the blues, gradually I got an ear for R&B.

Yes, my taste in music is constantly evolving and that allows me to enjoy "content" I wasn't even aware of. Expanding my LP collection helped a lot, especially as some of the old releases are not even available on CDs or download.
 
The first LP I bought was in 1971 R. Dean Taylor's ~ Indiana Wants Me, on the Motown label. Bought it at the Kresge's in the Westland Mall.

Quickly learned my lesson, one hit and a bunch of worthless filler, might as well have stuck with the 45.

The second album I bought was Santana Abraxas.

I guess you could say my tastes started evolving in 71 and have not stopped evolving yet.
 
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