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Did Your Taste in Music Evolve?

daza152 said:
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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Wow.. this is an easy question to answer but if I were to really answer it, it would be a book. So suffice it to say...yes...
 
I feel sorry for you if your musical taste has not evolved. How boring listening to the same old stuff. There are thousands of worthwhile musicians and bands out there who deserve attention. Maybe you like it maybe not, but people need to open their minds to new genres and styles that will challenge theM and their taste in music.
 
I would never consider playing Country music up until about 5 years ago. At some point I watched a Ken Burns special on country music. His specials are well produced. This particular special was an 8 episode show; so it took some weeks to get through it. After the special had finished it run, I went looking for anything country. Lot of country is easily picked up at garage sales, thrift shops and flea markets. A lot of Chet Atkins became what I started finding. Great stuff. Listening to Chet, even as we communicate.
 
I grew up listening to honky tonk. From the radio at home and roadhouse jukeboxes on the weekend. Then I heard rock n roll. Dave Allen & The Arrows started me rockin’ and then Grand Funk Railroad made me look at the blues, Procol Harum steered me to classical…………..and it went on and on. Evolve? Yes. But I still love country music.
 
I started off into New Wave. Blondie, Devo, B-52s and Human League, along with Bowie‘s Let’s Dance were some of the first records I bought. Then, I succumbed to peer pressure and hair metal in my early teens followed by a dalliance with 70‘s glam and thrash metal, only to veer back to post punk, goth and 80‘s psychedelia. The late 80‘s saw me get into industrial, only to shift to shoegaze and dream pop in the early 90‘s. I skipped grunge, but got into indie rock in the early mid 90‘s, then took detours into ambient electronica in the mid 90‘s, as well as drum and bass & instrumental hip hop. That led to listening mainly to underground hip-hop in the late 90‘s and early oughts, but by the mid 00‘s, I was primarily into indie Americana and neo-retro country. By the early teens, I was into Fleet Foxes and Grizzly Bear and in the latter teens, I’d discovered Tame Impala and Temples. These days, I’m listening to a lot of everything I’ve already mentioned, plus doom and stoner metal, neopsych and steely Dan.
Every now and then, I listen to Slayer.
 
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Mine started out quite broadly and has constantly narrowed over many decades. As we get older and wiser, it would seem logical that our tastes would become more refined. Children love Swanson TV dinners, hot dogs, and Spaghettios. As they grow, their tastes mature, and some even become skilled chefs. I'll leave it at that.
 
Mostly older serious music now, from Hildegarde von Bingen up thru Bartok and some newer concert music. Emphasis in the romantic classical period Beethoven to Rachmaninoff, not ignoring Bach & Mozart.
I used to be heavy into 70s-80s prog rock, not so much now as then, but will stop for anything Mark Knopfler, and Who's Next is one album that still holds up for me. Others as well, I'd think if taking more time.
 
Mostly full circle.......started with Blues/Rock/Hillbilly Rock-ish (ie; Creedence Clearwater Revival) to Heavy Rock/Metal era to some Rhythm and Blues/Southern Rock (Marshall Tucker Band, etc.) and then back to Blues and Obscure Classic Rock where many stars were cutting their skills (like McGuinness Flint, Buffalo Springfield, Nazz, Trapeze, Cream, The Guess Who, Sweet, Starz and many more like them that most mainline DJ's would only play songs that were on the Top 100, LOL.
67 years of music........my only skips were the Dogmatic Genre called Disco that turned my stomach when I heard the Stones were bought into it's lure. If I knew how to dance (or cared) I probably would have liked it a little. Only SRV was the only good thing that came out of that excrement, IMO.
 
For Sure 100%. I like all kinds of music, and my daughters turn me onto stuff I haven't heard but I like. Man, its all good. Listening to Jeff Beck Wired at the moment. Don't ever limit yourself, you would miss out on so much. :)
 
I am open to all kinds of music these days. As I got older my taste in music broadened. Especially once the internet became a thing. The genres that I haven't gotten into is rap, punk and most heavy metal. Otherwise, I am open to about anything else. Especially foreign musical talent which is quite amazing. Heck, I don't even have to understand the language to enjoy a lot of music with lyrics.
 
I tend to believe everyone tastes evolve but you'll generally always listen to whatever you were listening to in your formative years.

For me I listened to a lot of hardcore in the late 90s through early 2000s now though that I am nearly 40 much of it is way to harsh. I still listen to a lot of 90s hardcore but it's more lyric focused instead of just loud to be loud. So my tastes have refined over the years. That is the case with other styles of music too.

I do listen to a wider varieties of music styles, too.
 
I'm in my 70's now and grew up around Jazz musicians. My parents were also Jazz fans. My mother had Big Bill Broonzy, Josh White and Lonnie Johnson LP's in the 50's as well. I eventually became a musician myself starting with Jazz then later Blues. Along with being a performing musician I've done production work for record companies, did a long stint in broadcast radio in various capacities and had my own small recording studio for a while. I also did Pro audio for several years.

Anything I listen to now is from a musician & recording engineers viewpoint. I don't consider rap to be music. Punk and metal are noise to me. Today's autotune garbage makes my skin crawl. I'd rather be on a stage performing than listening these days. In my car I listen mainly to 50's & 60's Jazz and Blues on USB flash drives. I run everything through Sound Forge Pro, tweak and remaster to my liking then save as 48k 24-bit .wav files my 2021 Toyota can play without downsampling.
 
I got hooked on Jazz when I was 17 in High School. My music teacher was playing Woody Herman's "Giant Steps" album on the class stereo system and I was mesmorized. I didn't abandon Rock, but I started shifting to Jazz more and more. By the time I graduated college, I was a full blown Jazz Aficionado. I progressed to a diversion into Smooth Jazz in the early 90s for about 7 years, then swung back to mainstream Jazz.

Lately, after decades of Jazz, the whole Jazz and nothing but the Jazz, I have gown down a Bluegrass and Americana rabbit hole. To me, Bluegrass is Country Jazz so it's an easy progression. The great thing is, I know very little about Bluegrass artists and albums as compared to Jazz, so it's refreshinng to be learning something new. Americana is such a broad category, who knows where that rabbit hole will end up.
 
Absolutely. Grew up on classic rock with Petty and Springsteen as the mainstays of my formative years. Now, in my 50s I need a different musical depth and am currently on an Andrew Bird, Cowboy Junkies and the like kick. I’m also deep diving into artists that i either didn’t acknowledge/appreciate or didn’t understand when younger like Tom Waits and Wilco. But Neil Young and Mark Knopfler will forever be on my playlists.
 
I listen to a much wider range of music now compared to when I was a teen - bluegrass, jazz, folk, blues, americana, rock...

So pretty evolved.

But just about everything is within two degrees of separation from Jerry Garcia -

So not much evolved at all.
 
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