How have your tastes in music changed?

PrognosticMind wrote: SteveG wrote: How have your tastes in music, in prog or other genres, changed over time and why?   I'm long in the tooth, so I've had extreme changes in my musical tastes from embracing death metal after befriending some death metal groups from Florida in the 90's, to embracing world music because of Peter Gabriel's involvement with that genre's music and artists in the eighties, just to state two examples.   I don't expect everyone to have such wide reaching changes in their appreciation for music over time, but what are some your own? And why? Same camp, brother. I was obsessed with early 90's Floridian death metal almost exclusively from about 2005 to 2010, while starting to get into prog around 2008ish (Yes Fragile was the one that hooked me). From 2010 onward, I was very much into prog, but never denied myself some death metal from time to time. Death is still my favorite metal band (of any of the convoluted, pretentious sub-genres) of all time. If I had to pick one single band, it would be Yes. After hearing their discography, they are without question that one singular band that I was truthfully looking for my entire life .

I should really correct myself and say that my musical tastes how evolved and expanded over time to include death metal, world music and American and British folk rock, to go along with my first loves of hard rock, metal and prog, but I think that you got the picture.

^Great overview, Twalsh. The only thing I regret about having so many musical likes is that there is really too  little time to listen to all of the different genres, even now that I'm retired. It simply amazes me.

^Generally my plate is quite full trying to catch up on the back log, but I have discovered groups like Kayo Dot, so there are still some breakthroughs.

I just posted and already start to remember thousands of things I like and didnt put it there.

Oh, with time you'll know me better, I guess.

^Just when I thought I was out, they pulled me back in again!

10-12, really the age I started truly taking an interest in music, mostly my dad's favorite bands, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Mountain, Aerosmith, Lynyrd Skynyrd.

12-15, the metal phase, starting with early Metallica as they got played some on the classic rock radio some, gradually got into heavier and more extreme metal, Disturbed, Project 86, Slipknot, Strapping Young Lad, to Vader, Training For Utopia, Satyricon, Demon Hunter, then on to Carcass, early Cattle Decapitation, Terrorizer, Napalm Death.

15-16, started to get into all sorts of different genres, psychedelic rock old and new, Earthless, 13th Floor Elevators, Hawkwind, Kyuss, which lead to me discovering this thing called Prog. Yes, King Crimson, Frank Zappa, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Radiohead, The Moody Blues. At the same time getting into jazz, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Spyro Gyra, Pat Metheny, and rap, Clouddead, Busdriver, Aesop Rock, Gorillaz.

16-22, anything experimental, avant-garde, or strange, as well as constantly on the search for new bands in genres i was already familiar with. Not going to try and give a time line here, i'm just going to say that the genres I've gotten most head over heels in love with in this time would probably be krautrock, Guru Guru, Faust, Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk, noise/power electronics, Aube, Masonna, Sutcliffe Jugend, Atrax Morgue, Falx Cerebri, Runzelstirn And Gurgelstock, dark ambient, Lustmord, Megaptera, Contrastate, Raison D'Etre.

At the current time, a couple of my absolute favorite artists (if I have not listed them already), Tom Waits, Captain Beefheart, Throbbing Gristle, The White Stripes, Melvins, Secret Chiefs 3, Empirical Sleeping Consort, Ashtray Navigations, The Gerogerigegege, Current 93, Jonathan Briley, Hanatarash, Evil Moisture, Acid Mothers Temple, Organum, Zoviet France, and hundreds more...


Theres plenty of other artists I could have listed, and some that escape memory at the moment, but that is more or less my musical journey till now, as far as i remember it.

Edited by Sheavy - July 15 2015 at 00:53