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Did Your Taste in Music Evolve?

It changed drastically for me.
Some Rock bands I cant stand anymore are Def Leppard, Journey, Bon Jovi, Foreigner, Metallica, GnRoses although none were ever my favorite.
On the other hand some rock bands I never grew tired of and some I appreciate even more now... Dire Straits, Zeppelin, Little Feat, Yes, Skynyrd, Judas Priest, Joe Walsh, Steely Dan.

Did not care for much piano Jazz in my youth now I cant get enough of Monty Alexander and Oscar Petersen.
Always loved old soul music and still do.
Classical used to bore me to death now not as bad.
Always hated rap, still do.
Love listening to certain session musicians and do not like 99% of electronic music, that is still the same.
Pre 80s country was for lame old people, I guess I became lame old people because I love some old country now but new country is shallow pop.
Blues is still great.
Bob Marley has passed 100's of my former music idols.
Death Metal annoys me way more than it used to.
 
My tastes have pretty well remained the same for 60 + yrs.Always listened to Instrumental no matter what but always listened to Rock although not the new stuff per say.Counrty has always been there but not so much after 90's.Jazz & Blues still remain as well as Classical as well:)
 
Yes. Evolving all the time. Never cared for the Beach Boys albums from Smiley Smile to Holland because I was obsessed with King Crimson, ELP, Jethro Tull, Genesis and so on. But there are some incredibly well written and superbly performed songs between the usual Beach Boys filler. Feel Flows--amazing tune. Holland has two of my favorite BB songs--The Trader and Leaving this Town. Surf's Up is my all time favorite BB single.

Then there's Sinatra. Parents were huge fans. All I heard for decades were greatest hits collections, but if you go back to the original LP's, there's a flow to most of his late 40's--early 60's records. Wee Small Hours, Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely and Songs for Swinging' Lovers, all from the 50's are insanely well recorded and the orchestral/band arrangements are beyond anything in the genre that's come along since.

Early electronica is another area that I've explored. I got hold of all of Kraftwerk's records when they were reissued a few years back. Trans-Euro Express and RadioActivity sound great and again, have a flow from start to finish. Tour de France is pretty sweet as well. Jean Michel Jaree has become another favorite.

Also gained a newfound appreciation for Cat Stevens. His songwriting is superb, and, again, all of those greatest hits collection don't do him justice. I hope they keep releasing his mid 70's records--Foriegner and the much maligned Numbers--I don't think the critics understand just how deep his songs really are.
 
I would say my music interests have expanded rather than changed since the mid-70's when, as a teen, I only liked hard rock and prog. I also liked some classical, especially when well-recorded pipe organ was involved. I still like these genres but since adulthood I have wandered into jazz and fusion
 
If your tastes don't expand, you are doing something wrong. My first job in audio was retail, and working with guys who liked pretty much everything that came out kind of made me a little jealous that I wasn't able to do that. Didn't take long to realize that music was disposable to them. It wasn't hitting them deeply, it was just something of the moment. While I still do listen to old rock, I continue to spend more and more time with jazz and classical. Streaming has been an incredible addition to my system.
 
At the moment I am listening to Joni Mitchell The Circle Game. I am stuck in the 60s and 70s music wise... and of course I have heard every one of those songs probably hundreds of times. But sometimes, a warm breeze may blow into my face and a thought pop into my head about an old girlfriend or and old car. And it feels like the first time I heard it. I wish I liked what was being released now as much-- but there is no comparison.
 
I started music with the school choir ended up a 1st tenor with a baroque chamber group, my music tastes cover Zook, terry riley to henry cow I try to always keep a ear or eye on any music scene I can find, wonderful hobby!
 
Every recording is a potential doorway into another sonic world. Coming of age in the 60's, that was especially true. Considering the fact that Switched On Bach was released during my senior year in high school and that my first ever research paper was on the subject of electronic music, is it surprising that my musical interests were directed towards both baroque music and the avant garde simultaneously? Add in the interest in Indian classical music spurred by George Harrison's Love You To on Revolver, my musical interests have been wide open since my teens. And this includes jazz. My first jazz album purchase was Charles Lloyd's Forest Flower Live at the Monterey Jazz Festival, also purchased that same year.
 
All I know is the older I get the easier my music becomes. By that I mean I listen to a lot less Rock..a lot less. No more head banging.
More classical..more acoustic guitar. When I was a teen I was not much for blues. Now I find Muddy Waters to be my one of my favs.
My quest to find different classical music is non ending. Choir, monks chanting, some African music is just plain cool and the list goes on.
But one thing I find to be absolutely offensive is RAP…just don’t see it.
 
DeadRock said:
Mine is still "evolving"...I recently bought some Cypress Hill and some The Mars Volta...in the same week...
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Those first two Cypress Hill records are pure gold. Still trying to understand The Mars Volta.

My tastes are far less limited these days. I spin something, I allow it to soak in.

Maturity, perhaps? One day I might even get into opera, show tunes, and modern rap, but I wouldn't bet on it. Pretty much anything else is okay with me.
 
Fun to discover new stuff and genre doesn't really matter. I care about the sonic presentation however and will quickly move on if it irritates. I mean, what's the point otherwise?
 
Up to age ~12, no specific personal taste, though stuff I liked from my older sister and the radio included Beatles, Doors, Ten Years After, The Band, etc. Around age 12 I saw a friend's older brother playing finger style country blues guitar and discovered Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee, leading me to all kinds of country blues and ragtime (Blind Blake, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Gary Davis...). Learned to play that stuff. Then I discovered the Grateful Dead, started playing electric guitar and went down the Dead rabbit hole, limiting most of my listening to them and related bands (NRPS, Dead spin-offs). Started listening to AM country radio in 1976, got into that whole scene but especially enjoyed Emmylou Harris. After about 1978 I became disinterested in pretty much everything I was hearing (except The Pretenders, who I really liked for some reason, and still do). I tried buying new music through the record clubs. Stuff like Stevie Nicks, Foreigner, The Eagles, Lee Ritenour, Doobie Bros... but I didn't really connect with any of it. I was in the musical doldrums until around 1990 when I saw Buddy Guy in his own club in Chicago. A life changing experience. After that I immersed myself in deep blues, 50s and 60s soul and R&B for about 15 years. Began playing the old acoustic blues stuff again and really working on that. Took lessons from Jorma Kaukonen and Larry Campbell and now I'm back listening to mostly "Americana" stuff, which broadly includes much of what I had listened to over the years. I kick myself for being close minded in the late '70s and missing out on the punk scene which was happening right in my backyard. Would've been fun.
 
Yes, even more so with acquiring more genres after starting to WAV. rip music from my original already multi-genre rather large CD collection 7 yrs. ago.
And the offering of multi-genre CDs/purchased downloads of bands that I was totally unaware of by friends to add to my growing digital music files for all day music playing enjoyment here.
 
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