Music Preferences over Time

I don't make music, but I'm sorely curious to study it from a neuro perspective. Namely, how music preferences change over time with individuals, and how auditory-related cortical structures change with respect to this.

So, my request for you lot is to give me a brief recap of your experience with music. Genres, artists, styles, etc. What did you listen to as a child, teen, and as a young adult? Are there certain sounds that you've grown more accustomed to over the years? Some that you couldn't stand at first but now seek out regularly? How much did your environment play a role in all this (e.g. peers, family, location)? Try your best to connect the dots.

Say as little or a much as you want. I'll be taking notes haha.

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I used to be a loner and listen to lots of the IDMs. Not sure if correlation = causation. Nowadays I listen to lots of hip hop because I just wanna bump tha whip. Lots of Autechre bumps in tha whip though, so they are totally still in rotation.

Michael Jackson>Metallica>Opeth/Eazy-E>Aphex Twin>World of IDMz and shit

Age 0-6 - Children music, stuff like xuxa

6-10 - The Simpsons

10-14 - stuff like Shakira (i come from a latin country, this is what my parents listened to so i was stuck liking that kind of music 'till i started thinking for myself)

14-16 - Slipknot, metal music (angry teenage years)

16 - Present - electronic music (i was never into it but then i listened to some aphex twin and realized there is more to this genre that meets the ears. Pretty much changed my life, now is one of my goals in life to make music)

20 - present - 60's rock music (for some reason i decided to go back in time and listen to these old bands i thought they were shit, i felt in love with so many of them like the doors, beach boys, hendrix, jefferson airplane)

i am much more open minded and less cynical about music now (unlike my metal angry teen years), i am not afraid to listen to new stuff anymore and i am more accepting of people likes.

0-6: Kriss Kross, my parents' Prince albums

7-10: generic MTV alt rock

11-17: Outkast, Korn, Jay-Z, The Roots, Tool, Slipkmot, just loads of terrible metal and mainstream Rap

18-22: Talking Heads, The Velvet Underground, P4K indie, Aphex Twin, Gang of Four, lots of 70s Post Punk, lots of Post Rock

22 - present: lots of ye olde Warp classics, Burial, Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, "home listening Electronica", some US Black Metal bands

0-12 - nothing, maybe some old school rap...

12-16 DNB, Jungle, tech house, some idmz

16 - present - IDMZ, any music that sounds good

I posted a long breakdown of my tastes/habits over time in a similar thread.

I can say this to sum up...everything comes full circle. I've had points where I was voraciously listening to new music, sometimes in a negative superficial and obsessive manner, and other times when I would be very content focusing on favorite artists or re-exploring music I knew and loved in the past.

For me now it's a healthy balance of finding new and interesting music (a challenge to me as like other WATMMers I've listened to some very obscure and experimental music) and having no qualms playing the same old favorite albums. And the nice thing is I know what I like and why I like it, so it's easier for me to pinpoint music I still get excited for (for example I still geek out over lo fi house, drone, ambient, dark electronic, pysch, exotica, extreme metal, space rock, reverb-y country, and niche stuff like vaporwave). Also, becoming involved with cassette tape culture has been very rewarding for my passion of music in all aspects. There's so much good stuff being made and old music out there to be discovered.

  On 6/2/2014 at 3:03 AM, joshuatx said:

I posted a long breakdown of my tastes/habits over time in a similar thread.

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I could write an essay on this, I'll try to be succinct (edit: nvrmnd)

0-9: listened to what my parents liked and latched onto some more than others - R.E.M., U2, Nirvana actually, Beatles. Listened a lot to old Disney music and was a huge Weird Al and Rutles fan, so much so that a lot of 80s pop songs I like I heard via Al's parodies.

 

10-12: mostly radio alternative rock and top40 hits I liked, was a lot more into movie soundtracks and a few VGM osts, very little listening actually

 

13-16: found some hip-hop and punk I liked via video game soundtracks, started actually buying a few albums for myself only, like Smashing Pumpkins, The Toadies, old Weezer, Radiohead, Pink Floyd, Zeppelin, etc. Liked Daft Punk and some UK garage hits but never explored it much. Amnesiac might of been the first album I really listened to that no one else knew. Means a lot to me because I played it out when I was in a rather depressed period of my teenage years.

 

17-18: Finally started getting into music seriously. Found a comp of British psychedelic rarities I really liked. Explored old albums my dad had stashed away from the early 90s. Got into Chemical Brothers (via a MTV compilation my dad had actually) and from there... big beat, house, and old hip-hop. That summer I bought theRichard D James album, Bjork's Homogenic, and a DJ mix by Goldie. Huge turning point. I know exactly when I first heard of Aphex Twin through a friend, who simply said "this shit is nuts" as he torrented RDJ's discography. Bought the RDJ album after that. Now he doesn't even listen to Aphex anymore.

 

18-20 - My tastes and listening habits became a huge part of my daily life. Went to college and wasted hours and hours downloading a plethora of music of all genres. Browsed allmusic.com, bought music review mags, and later found pitchfork.com and music blogs. My university had a super-fast, invite only, p2p network. Also went to gigs for the first time. It's really crazy, my wife and my close friends all were huge music fans and went to concerts all the time as kids and teens, and I never went to any until college. Ironically, I went from asking people for music recommendations to answering questions about band and artist recommendations in a matter of a year, if not less. I became very obsessive with listening to new and different music. (In the past, I would read extensively on history or things like classic cars and military equipment, etc, this filled the same void) Karma hit too, because I was quite superficial and downloaded a ton of content..and all of those hard drives crashed...helped me purge though. See I realized, in retrospect, that I became quite pretentious and annoying at one point. I'd listen to say, Merzbow, some ironic hipster band, or some Sonic Youth bootleg, or some shitty dance-punk single, etc. and realize years later I didn't actually enjoy any of it. On the other hand, certain friends of mine tried getting me into screamo and post-hardcore bands like Taking Back Sunday, and I never did (I tried, kinda). Have the last laugh in that regard.

 

It's hard to explain, but this is the last year or so where I have super nostalgia attached to the music I heard at the time. Up until say 2005 or so, I can very clearly associate albums and songs with memories of when I first heard them. For instance, I hear Interpol's Turn On The Bright Lights and I go back to memories of being a carefree college freshman. Same with childhood and various songs/soundtracks. Doesn't work anymore. I still have songs I'll associate with memories in say, 2008 or 2009, but it's less intense and a different kind of memory association. It's just fine, but it's notably not the hyper-nostalgic feelings I get with older music recollections.

 

20-present: became an electronic music fanatic, figured out I didn't like crappy dance tracks and mediocre indie rock. Lot of early dubstep, old d'n'b, techno, electro-house (since become bored of that), and of course IDM/Braindance.

 

Last few years: very much focused on electronic music, follow specific labels and artists. I don't try to force myself to listen to a lot of different stuff like I use too, before recently I would download dozens of mp3s daily (I'm pretty sure I have ever mp3 Pitchfork.com shared in 2005 on a now dead hard drive somewhere) and before that torrent hundreds of albums a month. Streaming DJ mixes and release previews is much easier. My tastes are refined but I'm open-minded. I find myself disliking very little but loving very select things as well. It's kinda nice being content with what you hear and latch onto and not trying to get behind hyped bands. I feel like I have more personal attachment to artists I really like, instead of trying to say I "like" a slew of hip bands and artists.

I can say this to sum up...everything comes full circle. I've had points where I was voraciously listening to new music, sometimes in a negative superficial and obsessive manner, and other times when I would be very content focusing on favorite artists or re-exploring music I knew and loved in the past.

 

For me now it's a healthy balance of finding new and interesting music (a challenge to me as like other WATMMers I've listened to some very obscure and experimental music) and having no qualms playing the same old favorite albums. And the nice thing is I know what I like and why I like it, so it's easier for me to pinpoint music I still get excited for (for example I still geek out over lo fi house, drone, ambient, dark electronic, pysch, exotica, extreme metal, space rock, reverb-y country, and niche stuff like vaporwave). Also, becoming involved with cassette tape culture has been very rewarding for my passion of music in all aspects. There's so much good stuff being made and old music out there to be discovered.

RE your "full circle" comment, fully agree. I'm coming back to tons of music I listened to when I first discovered electronic music (don't laugh... things like Deep Dish, James Zabiela... Goldie... etc) with a whole new appreciation for it.

Recently rediscovered James Zabiela's Blue Room Mix... was pleasantly surprised to see he has remixes done by "the black dog" and boards of canada on there. It's funny, I never used to trainspot, and loved this set when it came out (2002)... Turns out I was listening to some of my favorite artists (now) back then and didn't even know it.. =/

Got Guitar Hero for xmas around age 9 or 10> led to a major rock phase (van halen was a biggie) till 11ish> got into Led Zeppelin around then as well> Arcade Fire and other entry-level indie stuff around age 12 (but the main band I listened to was Pinback, and they've stuck with me the whole way) - also a lot of Green Day, which I now despise> Animal Collective, Atlas Sound, Radiohead, Crystal Castles around 12 and 13> I think I was 13 or 14 when I listened to Boards of Canada for the first time> early 2012 was a huge period of discovery for me> kept developing and listening to increasingly offbeat and noisy/experimental stuff (conquering Draft 7.30 was a proud moment for me, I remember) as well as a shit ton of shoegaze> continued listening to similar stuff up till now> developed a taste for hip hop early last year as well> now (at 16, nearing 17) I listen to a variety of shit: hip hop, broken beat, idm/elm/whateveritscalled, shoegaze, ambient, noise, etc. Recently went through a huge Broadcast binge - these past few weeks I've found myself listening to almost nothing but J Dilla.

Age 0-6 - Whatever someone older than me was playing, plus kids records like Chipmunk Punk ( ). My first exposure to electronic music was in Kindergarten, when our teacher let us robot-march around the room to Kraftwerk's We Are The Robots. That was THE pivotal point in which my musical tastes were defined, and I can still feel what I felt then as I write this 29 years later.

6-12 - Listened to almost no music, nothing moved me, and I liked mainly whatever came out of the Apple II and Commodore 64 I was learning to use. Computers were massively important to my professional and personal lives, music was paramount. My mom accumulated 3 Wendy Carlos albums (Wendy deserves MAD RESPECT by all of us!) - Switched On Bach, Tron, and A Clockwork Orange - they were epic! Other than that, no music really meant anything to me, it was just background radiation.

12-Present - Electronic music, almost exclusively. Starting at age 12 I've had unfettered access to modern computers, modems/BBS systems, Compuserve/Prodigy, and then the internet. Once I downloaded my first MOD file (u4ia (Jim Young, UK)), it was all over and my musical universe became infinite. A few all-time favs are Rephlex/Warp, AFX, UNKLE, Tipper, Wisp, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Drexciya, Plaid, Squrepusher, Kelpe, BoC, Mrs Jynx, Telefon Tel Aviv (RIP Charles Cooper), Yunx, Autechre, Two Lone Swordsmen, Ochre, Radioactive Man, Orbital, Kilowatts, Tangerine Dream, Machine Drum, Global Goon, to name a few. I also partied a lot and have heard plenty of mainstream trance and electronica. I have paid ongoing attention to over 300 artists over the years...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXa9tXcMhXQ

0-7 Spongebob Squarepants movie soundtrack

8-14 A lot of classic rock due to watching the movie School of Rock, and playing Guitar Hero. Mainstream pop and rap, a bit of metalcore

14-present Started getting into music with Radiohead, soon after listened to Pink Floyd's entire discog, moved onto Sublime, and then even more prog. Only this year is when I started getting heavily into music. End of summer had a lot of Zappa on heavy rotation, once school started I started listening to electronic idm stuff. Devoured Aphex Twin and BoC's discogs, moved on to indie artists, post rock, and neopsychedelia ala Animal Collective, GY!BE. Heavily into Swans right now, and I'm also into Weezer, and some other emo bands.

Chanson pop as a child, briefly mainstream rap, all kinds of house & techno at school. Then i pretty much threw education off the window to heavily dip into music world, added all kinds of "underground, counter-culture" styles to my resume including previously loathed guitar-based music, jazz, academic stuff. Was heavy into avant-garde of XX century, Neue Musik as the deepest shit possible, will still blow you off the ground with some Sciarrino and Furrer. Added isolated ethno stuff from all over the non-modern world to balance the books. Ambitions stopped and i settled around mostly electronic music & similarly minded non-electronic discussed here, though i tend not to return to previously loved stuff, if i left it somewhere on the road. I think i'm a reflectionist rebel type, fuck types!

0-11 I have always had a thing for electronic music, I didn't really listen to music much during this time tho

11-13 Trance and EDM stuff.

13-16 IDM, breakcore, gabber, noise, ae, BoC. In that order

17-present I have gone into a rampage listening all kinds of music, from salsa to hip hop to rock to whatever. I still enjoy electronic music the most tho.

I grew up listening to radio pop shiz and "oldies". The music I liked most were movie soundtrack music, cartoon theme songs, and commercial jingles. And then like, somewhere in my brain over a few years in elementary school was a mix of Boyz II Men, C&C Music Factory, Kris Kross, all that kind of shit and radio shit. Then in middle school+, listened to shit like Nirvana, Janet, Jurassic Park Soundtrack, Rednex, Mortal Kombat soundtrack, started getting heavy into J-Pop until like 1999-- a standout from that era was the Speed Racer ting by Alpha Team, which a friend gave me on cassette when I was in 7th grade. Then fucking Tyler Bollinger stole my tape, motherfucker.

From 8th to 10th grade, music listening became more and more techno-ish (with the addition of more rap-- noteworthy was Bone Thugs-n-Harmony)

My music listening became primarily electronic based after buying Atari Teenage Riot's Sick To Death EP in 1997. That was seriously the first thing I ever heard that made me go OH FUCK since fucking Kris Kross' Jump (ahaha). It absolutely blew my mind, and I felt like it was the first time ever that a music felt so right to me like, "I NEED THIS RELEASE". Around that time I downloaded Hasty Boom Alert from a Hotline server, and then my whole world BEGAN HARDCORE-- because it was at this point that I realized that there are no real genres and music is just MUSIC and one could just express whatever the fuck however the fuck with music. Before that download, a lot of my listening was drum n bass, techno, trance, house, but then it became mostly IDM electronica-esque whatever until 2002 or so. From 2000~2002-ish, my electronic preferences became more and more geek tech, so like Bodanstandig 2000 was the shit. Come to think of it, some of the "opening up of the unlimited world of music" might have to do with buying a sheet of acid and tripping ballz around this time.

Then from early 2000 to 2007, I listened to more classical-- tons of jazz, tons of bossa nova, Iranian music, Indian music, plus the same ol electronic stuffs.

For the past several years, still mostly listening to "new" electronic shit, but I listen to anything nowadays.

I grew up with a few keyboards and tape recorders and voice changer shit, etc., and I musically wanted to be something like Jan Hammer (Miami Vice theme was nutz to me back then), but I didn't start writing music until Kris Kross' Jump (ahaha.... da fuk). So I started writing horrible rap shit. Then in 1996-7, someone uploaded Re-Birth to my Hotline server, and that's when I started making electronic music.

I'm missing a lot in there, but that's the gist.

The End

oh yah- forgot to mention this one majorish thing: at the time I was listening to lotta jazz and lotta bossa nova, I was also listening to lotta classic rock / psychedelic rock. This connects to when I bought my first guitar in 2005. Eventually, playing guitar got me to start making music that was not "electronic".

  On 6/2/2014 at 3:06 AM, StephenG said:

 

  On 6/2/2014 at 3:03 AM, joshuatx said:

I posted a long breakdown of my tastes/habits over time in a similar thread.

  Reveal hidden contents

I could write an essay on this, I'll try to be succinct (edit: nvrmnd)

0-9: listened to what my parents liked and latched onto some more than others - R.E.M., U2, Nirvana actually, Beatles. Listened a lot to old Disney music and was a huge Weird Al and Rutles fan, so much so that a lot of 80s pop songs I like I heard via Al's parodies.

 

10-12: mostly radio alternative rock and top40 hits I liked, was a lot more into movie soundtracks and a few VGM osts, very little listening actually

 

13-16: found some hip-hop and punk I liked via video game soundtracks, started actually buying a few albums for myself only, like Smashing Pumpkins, The Toadies, old Weezer, Radiohead, Pink Floyd, Zeppelin, etc. Liked Daft Punk and some UK garage hits but never explored it much. Amnesiac might of been the first album I really listened to that no one else knew. Means a lot to me because I played it out when I was in a rather depressed period of my teenage years.

 

17-18: Finally started getting into music seriously. Found a comp of British psychedelic rarities I really liked. Explored old albums my dad had stashed away from the early 90s. Got into Chemical Brothers (via a MTV compilation my dad had actually) and from there... big beat, house, and old hip-hop. That summer I bought theRichard D James album, Bjork's Homogenic, and a DJ mix by Goldie. Huge turning point. I know exactly when I first heard of Aphex Twin through a friend, who simply said "this shit is nuts" as he torrented RDJ's discography. Bought the RDJ album after that. Now he doesn't even listen to Aphex anymore.

 

18-20 - My tastes and listening habits became a huge part of my daily life. Went to college and wasted hours and hours downloading a plethora of music of all genres. Browsed allmusic.com, bought music review mags, and later found pitchfork.com and music blogs. My university had a super-fast, invite only, p2p network. Also went to gigs for the first time. It's really crazy, my wife and my close friends all were huge music fans and went to concerts all the time as kids and teens, and I never went to any until college. Ironically, I went from asking people for music recommendations to answering questions about band and artist recommendations in a matter of a year, if not less. I became very obsessive with listening to new and different music. (In the past, I would read extensively on history or things like classic cars and military equipment, etc, this filled the same void) Karma hit too, because I was quite superficial and downloaded a ton of content..and all of those hard drives crashed...helped me purge though. See I realized, in retrospect, that I became quite pretentious and annoying at one point. I'd listen to say, Merzbow, some ironic hipster band, or some Sonic Youth bootleg, or some shitty dance-punk single, etc. and realize years later I didn't actually enjoy any of it. On the other hand, certain friends of mine tried getting me into screamo and post-hardcore bands like Taking Back Sunday, and I never did (I tried, kinda). Have the last laugh in that regard.

 

It's hard to explain, but this is the last year or so where I have super nostalgia attached to the music I heard at the time. Up until say 2005 or so, I can very clearly associate albums and songs with memories of when I first heard them. For instance, I hear Interpol's Turn On The Bright Lights and I go back to memories of being a carefree college freshman. Same with childhood and various songs/soundtracks. Doesn't work anymore. I still have songs I'll associate with memories in say, 2008 or 2009, but it's less intense and a different kind of memory association. It's just fine, but it's notably not the hyper-nostalgic feelings I get with older music recollections.

 

20-present: became an electronic music fanatic, figured out I didn't like crappy dance tracks and mediocre indie rock. Lot of early dubstep, old d'n'b, techno, electro-house (since become bored of that), and of course IDM/Braindance.

 

Last few years: very much focused on electronic music, follow specific labels and artists. I don't try to force myself to listen to a lot of different stuff like I use too, before recently I would download dozens of mp3s daily (I'm pretty sure I have ever mp3 Pitchfork.com shared in 2005 on a now dead hard drive somewhere) and before that torrent hundreds of albums a month. Streaming DJ mixes and release previews is much easier. My tastes are refined but I'm open-minded. I find myself disliking very little but loving very select things as well. It's kinda nice being content with what you hear and latch onto and not trying to get behind hyped bands. I feel like I have more personal attachment to artists I really like, instead of trying to say I "like" a slew of hip bands and artists.

I can say this to sum up...everything comes full circle. I've had points where I was voraciously listening to new music, sometimes in a negative superficial and obsessive manner, and other times when I would be very content focusing on favorite artists or re-exploring music I knew and loved in the past.

 

For me now it's a healthy balance of finding new and interesting music (a challenge to me as like other WATMMers I've listened to some very obscure and experimental music) and having no qualms playing the same old favorite albums. And the nice thing is I know what I like and why I like it, so it's easier for me to pinpoint music I still get excited for (for example I still geek out over lo fi house, drone, ambient, dark electronic, pysch, exotica, extreme metal, space rock, reverb-y country, and niche stuff like vaporwave). Also, becoming involved with cassette tape culture has been very rewarding for my passion of music in all aspects. There's so much good stuff being made and old music out there to be discovered.

 

RE your "full circle" comment, fully agree. I'm coming back to tons of music I listened to when I first discovered electronic music (don't laugh... things like Deep Dish, James Zabiela... Goldie... etc) with a whole new appreciation for it.

 

Recently rediscovered James Zabiela's Blue Room Mix... was pleasantly surprised to see he has remixes done by "the black dog" and boards of canada on there. It's funny, I never used to trainspot, and loved this set when it came out (2002)... Turns out I was listening to some of my favorite artists (now) back then and didn't even know it.. =/

 

Zabiela is a legend, nowt wrong with his music.

His original "4" promo mixes are still outstanding. Not a big fan of his most recent Renaissance mixes but his earlier stuff was great especially when he was still supporting Sasha & Digweed.

Age 6: Commercial techno-ish stuff influenced by EBM. Oasis - Wonderwall.

Age 10: The Rolling Stones.

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Age 11: Videogame music. Sonic 3, Donkey Kong Country 2, One Must Fall.

Age 14: Jean Michel Jarre, Air.

Age 15: Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Depeche Mode.

Age 16: Autechre, Plaid, Boards of Canada, YMO, Esplendor Geométrico, Throbbing Gristle, Coil.

Age 17: Local indie rock. The Cure, Gang of Four, Joy Division, Wire, Bauhaus, Sonic Youth, Radiohead, My Bloody Valentine, Dinosaur Jr, Tortoise.

Age 18: Front 242, Skinny Puppy, Legowelt, Dopplereffekt, hardcore punk, Massive Attack, Boredoms, Boris, Talking Heads, Can, Carl Craig, Oval, Einstürzende Neubauten.

Age 19: Akira Yamaoka, Lantern Parade, Japanese reggae.

Age 20: Björk.

Age 21: Jorge Ben, Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Cornelius, The Durutti Column.

Age 22: Amon Tobin. John Coltrane.

Age 23: Detroit techno, Brian Eno, Stravinsky.

Age 24: David Bowie.

Age 25: Devo, OMD, Human League.

Age 26: Photodementia.

I dunno, I think my musical taste has more or less always been constant since I started playing videogames, but I gradually discovered stuff and followed trends.

  On 6/2/2014 at 10:11 AM, poblequadrat said:

Age 6: Commercial techno-ish stuff influenced by EBM. Oasis - Wonderwall.

Age 10: The Rolling Stones.

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Age 11: Videogame music. Sonic 3, Donkey Kong Country 2, One Must Fall.

Age 14: Jean Michel Jarre, Air.

Age 15: Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Depeche Mode.

Age 16: Autechre, Plaid, Boards of Canada, YMO, Esplendor Geométrico, Throbbing Gristle, Coil.

Age 17: Local indie rock. The Cure, Gang of Four, Joy Division, Wire, Bauhaus, Sonic Youth, Radiohead, My Bloody Valentine, Dinosaur Jr, Tortoise.

Age 18: Front 242, Skinny Puppy, Legowelt, Dopplereffekt, hardcore punk, Massive Attack, Boredoms, Boris, Talking Heads, Can, Carl Craig, Oval, Einstürzende Neubauten.

Age 19: Akira Yamaoka, Lantern Parade, Japanese reggae.

Age 20: Björk.

Age 21: Jorge Ben, Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Cornelius, The Durutti Column.

Age 22: Amon Tobin. John Coltrane.

Age 23: Detroit techno, Brian Eno, Stravinsky.

Age 24: David Bowie.

Age 25: Devo, OMD, Human League.

Age 26: Photodementia.

 

I dunno, I think my musical taste has more or less always been constant since I started playing videogames, but I gradually discovered stuff and followed trends.

oh, and by the way: when i was a kid, like 6 or so, my mom used to work at one of those birthday party places for kids. she'd make sandwiches, clean the place and most importantly she moved puppets sometimes. one of those was a giant dragon, and as it appeared on stage, "the robots" by kraftwerk played. i remember recognising it when I first listened to die mensch-maschine as a teenager!

Also I forgot P-Model and Susumu Hirasawa! Massive fan since I was around 21-22!

yeah, my aesthetic tastes haven't shifted over time either. I've just found more stuff that does the same job.

Reading through this thread it's like:

Okay, I guess a lot of us are around the same age...

Okay, well- I guess I'm like 10 years older than this dude.

Okay, wtf-- I'm like 20 years older than this dude.

Looking forward to reading the list where someone states they got into electronic music from L-event when they were 9.

p.s. Also, imagine what your musical tastes would be like if you ONLY listened to KWS' Please Don't Go for 20+ years.

metal -> psych -> jazz -> ambient -> idm -> all of the above

Massive over simplification, ages are rough estimate:

[10yrs] Michael Jackson >

[13yrs] Red Hot Chilli Peppers >

[15yrs] Tool >

[18yrs] Queen Adreena >

[20yrs] Melvins >

[22yrs] Venetian Snares

(I'm now nearly 32)

with all the obvious other things at the same time (NIN while Tool, RATM while RHCP, Aphex while Queen Adreena, Eternal While MJ) and lots of other things (Demdike Stare while Snares, Wesley Willis while Tool etc.)

Repressed quiet housing estate in England, boring parents, vapid culture, surrounded by sadistic repressive schoolkids, moved out at 17 to another town, some kind of goth: angsty, contrary, miserable, interested in spirituality and philosophy (in a generic sense, meaning of life stuff, not the people who wrote books)

Neurologically is a bit harder to define - depressive, stimulus hungry, anxious, intelligent, antisocial, curious, drugs at the Queen Adreena point (in rougly this order: Acid > Weed > Ecstasy > Mushrooms > Speed > Coke > MDMA) - have always avoided antidepressants, while knowing that I would probably be prescribed them. Uh, used to practically live on sugar, is that worth knowing?

My tastes didn't exactly change - I think I just gradually found what I was looking for - though I haven't quite found it yet, for me there's still this inexplicable divide between the rock version of what I want and the electronic version

  On 6/2/2014 at 11:23 AM, peace 7 said:

p.s. Also, imagine what your musical tastes would be like if you ONLY listened to KWS' Please Don't Go for 20+ years.

There are many people like this. Well in that the greatest hits cd from whatever year they were 17/18 is the soundtrack to the rest of their life. They play it at their wedding, they'll play it at the something for the oldies section of their children's wedding.

  On 6/2/2014 at 11:32 AM, delet... said:

 

  On 6/2/2014 at 11:23 AM, peace 7 said:

p.s. Also, imagine what your musical tastes would be like if you ONLY listened to KWS' Please Don't Go for 20+ years.

 

There are many people like this. Well in that the greatest hits cd from whatever year they were 17/18 is the soundtrack to the rest of their life. They play it at their wedding, they'll play it at the something for the oldies section of their children's wedding.

 

Sounded sad at first, but I guess this is happy. It'd be awesome to be so pleased with just a few tracks. ...like when Eric Prydz' Call On Me came out, I was singing that on loop in my head for awhile. It was pretty fun.