What was your personal musical evolution?

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The first music I really listened to was mostly the classic rock CDs that my parents had and rock based radio that was popular when I was young. Somewhere along the line I became more interested in classical type music and then in the early 2000s I was introduced to prog by my uncle. Shortly after that I started to explore the avant-garde and more recently jazz. 

Prog, jazz, and the avant-garde really dominate my listening and buying habits as of today. 

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Man With Hat Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Collaborator Jazz-Rock/Fusion/Canterbury Team Joined: March 12 2005 Location: Neurotica Status: Offline Points: 166178	Posted: May 27 2016 at 15:51
	The first music I really listened to was mostly the classic rock CDs that my parents had and rock based radio that was popular when I was young. Somewhere along the line I became more interested in classical type music and then in the early 2000s I was introduced to prog by my uncle. Shortly after that I started to explore the avant-garde and more recently jazz. Prog, jazz, and the avant-garde really dominate my listening and buying habits as of today.
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brainstormer Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: January 20 2008 Location: Seattle, WA Status: Offline Points: 887	Posted: May 28 2016 at 22:55
	Started buying very pop focused 45s and lps from around 1969 on....started gravitating towards YES, ELP, and synthesizer music....then Genesis, Crimson and the New Wave thing happened and I liked a lot of it....all this time was also into classical and taking it out of the library.....I also had a little metal in there after about 23 but not that serious about it the last five years.....lately I've enjoyed listening to very rare music on youtube from people who didn't make it when their albums first came out (keywords rare xian folk psych) ....and the last six or seven years listening to more classical than rock, but also listen to a lot of odd and rare pop music. Edited by brainstormer - May 28 2016 at 23:07
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HemispheresOfXanadu Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: June 28 2012 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 4339	Posted: May 29 2016 at 00:39
	Classic rock/rock/country/pop rock/country/rock-ish pop (a lot of radio, a lot of my parent's massive CD collection) 60s pop ('Saturday Night Oldies' on this one radio station) My first CD: Elvis - E1vis Stuff my parents liked from Napster (same as above, really) (Made a bunch of awful compilation CDs with Napster-ripped music ) Second CD: 4 Non Blondes - Bigger, Better, Faster, More. Third CD: Collective Soul - Youth Didn't listen to stuff personally but believed if it was on the radio, it was good (yes, that includes pop) Didn't listen to stuff. Radio songs are all about sex. Argh. Thought pop music was intentionally comedic and nobody actually enjoyed it. Never listened to a single extreme metal song but thought it was for angsty teens. Suddenly Rush. 70s prog, and any Rush (got into them just before Clockwork Angels, and bought it day-of) Lots of Jethro Tull Lots of extreme metal Lots of jazz fusion and Beardfish Somewhere around here I apologized to radio music. There's music in many genres that is good, some on the radio, some will be sexually lyric'd. Lots of Devin Townsend Lots of post rock, Canadian rock, metal, Mars Volta, stoner rock Electonic, art rock, post rock, metal, hard rock, neo prog that gets Twittered at me Currently on a bit of a 90s kick Edited by HemispheresOfXanadu - May 29 2016 at 00:43
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