Evolution of your taste in music

[ad8]

I don't know if this belongs to Other Bands, but I'll post this here anyway.
I kinda feel like Betty and can't really think of a really good thread. But right now, I accidentally listen to a song that I discovered about 2 years ago. And I liked it back then. That made me think of the music I used to listen when I was like 12 years old. The question is:
What kind of music did you listen to when you started listening to music?(with listening to music I mean buying cds or downloading stuff, etc.)
Do you still like it/can you still relate to it? Or do you rather laugh about it?

I used to listen to random compilations/chart music when I was really young. My first "real" album was Sing When You're Winning by Robbie Williams. On the one hand, it seems ridiculous, but on the other hand, there are many memories coming back when I think of that time.
(sorry for the long post)

[findout5]

I still relate to the stuff I heard as a kid (teen) - hell, I'm in this board right now! But my tastes are broader nowadays. I listen to stuff from all genres, and have a thing for songwriting!

[Al Coholic]

I don't know if this belongs to Other Bands, but I'll post this here anyway.
I kinda feel like Betty and can't really think of a really good thread. But right now, I accidentally listen to a song that I discovered about 2 years ago. And I liked it back then. That made me think of the music I used to listen when I was like 12 years old. The question is:
What kind of music did you listen to when you started listening to music?(with listening to music I mean buying cds or downloading stuff, etc.)
Do you still like it/can you still relate to it? Or do you rather laugh about it?

I used to listen to random compilations/chart music when I was really young. My first "real" album was Sing When You're Winning by Robbie Williams. On the one hand, it seems ridiculous, but on the other hand, there are many memories coming back when I think of that time.
(sorry for the long post)


I don't know if this has anything to do with the topic, but I kinda feel like ad8 has an awful avatar. Just terrible. RiceTigers sounds like an organization for gay asian guys.

Anyway yeah... I used to listen to the Offspring a lot. They were my favorite band. That should about sum it up

[ad8]

I don't know if this has anything to do with the topic, but I kinda feel like ad8 has an awful avatar. Just terrible. RiceTigers sounds like an organization for gay asian guys.

Anyway yeah... I used to listen to the Offspring a lot. They were my favorite band. That should about sum it up

Sorry, but... are you drunk?

[Duskygrin]

None detectable whatsoever. I like what I digged at 12, and if I could go back in time my 12-year-old self would probably dig the music I discovered in later years.

[PilZ-E]

Ugh, I used to listen to a lot of bad music. I can't really recall any of it. Mostly chart stuff, only singles. Now I only listen to albums and it is stuff I genuinely like. Honestly, I'm not even sure I liked a lot of what I used to listen to at any point.

[ForkZ]

i uhhh... listened to the offspring but yes it changed alot... then it went back to the offspring i was listening to shet like avril lavigne*gags*

[adombomb222]

I don’t really know if I liked music before I heard the Offspring for the first time when I was six. However, I didn’t get into them at first. I remember owning and listening to a lot of the “Now That’s What I Call Music”, I owned like two Backstreet Boys albums and one Bare Naked Ladies album.

A lot of the music on the Now albums I still like and listen to and have epic singing moments with my sisters and friends while driving. The Backstreet Boys is something I can laugh about right now, but if you put one the record I owned, I could probably still sing most of the lyrics. I quickly fell out of liking the Bare Naked Ladies.

I first really got into music and the “punk” scene when I was watching a flash animated cartoon online and the a few songs from Sum 41 were on it, I remember looking up the band and buying the album, “Does This Look Infected” a few weeks later. After That I rediscovered the Offspring and for a pretty long time those were the only two bands I listened to. I think I was going through my brother in laws album case and he let me take some CDs, that’s how I got into Slipknot and System Of A Down.

[Oxygene]

I've liked guns n roses since I was 10, I think I was always more rock oriented.. I remember my first favorite song (when I was like 3, or 4) an italian song by a band called Ricchi e Poveri called Voulez Vous Danser (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTbdqmHQ8Ms)
After that when I was like 6, 7 or 8, that switched to Dire Straits Walk of Life (www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrjBddCTCmk)

After that came welcome to the jungle and you could be mine ... and when I was 13/14 I started with Green Day Dookie and over to Offspring. It's been the same for 15 years now pretty much :)

[Thomas]

For a period of about 7 years, Smash Mouth's Astro Lounge was the only cd I ever owned. (Why I felt the urge to buy anything else is beyond me).

During 8th grade, I kinda did a lot of experiementing with a lot of (bad) music. Good Charlotte, etc. Getting into high school, I played A LOT of Offspring, then the Beatles and Zeppelin, then more and more classic rock, until now when I listen to basically whatever I'm in the mood for, no matter what the genre.

[Sofinch]

I always loved Offspring songs because when I was young my older brother always listened to them and now I'm the one
but when I was around 6-9 years old I especially loved the songs of the French artist Alizée
later I loved hearing bands like Within Temptation, Nightwish, Lordi (lots of Finnish bands) and No Doubt, and most bands with female vocals
and now, well you see ... Punk Ska Rock (and now I prefer male vocals)

[DexterB]

My taste of music is very very wide. When I was al little kid (5 years) I used to listen to Roy Orbison. I would grab a guitar and put on sunglasses and jump around the house like an idiot. Yeah I know ... Later when I was 6-7 years my best friend who is 4 years older than me came to my house with an amazing cd called "Smash", ofcourse it opend a new world for me. Whenever I listen to smash, great memories come back to me. so since 1994 I am a huge fan, number one reason are the great lyrics. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating, and I still do. Although I am a huge fan, I also listened to other music, top 40 music. After that came genres like dance and r&b. But mostly I listen to Rock, Poppunk and things like that. I'm cool with it

[Al Coholic]

For a period of about 7 years, Smash Mouth's Astro Lounge was the only cd I ever owned. (Why I felt the urge to buy anything else is beyond me)

HEY NOW, YOU'RE AN ALLSTAR! GET YOUR GAME ON, GET PAID!
and all that glimmers is go-o-old....

Dude I kinda wanna call you all-star from now on.

[Nina]

On the one hand, I loved the Backstreet Boys as a child. The other side of the coin was growing to love The Offspring. Yeah, strange.

I got into the whole alternative/rock thing. I loved it for a couple years. But now I am back to loving mainstream pop music and charts. I mean, I always have, but I havent listened to rock music (especially none-mainstream) in forever now. Lately I'm a lot into pop music of different countries, like Korea, Japan, France. Even Persian music. It's just so fun. I am tired of meaningful songs, I mainly long for fun music to dance and sing along to.

Next goal: Learn to dance to latin American music. I think I can do it!

I bought this (http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=BpdZJADVE4o) DVD set from my birthday money.

[0r4ng3]

My taste in music had no such "evolutions" until 2002, when I discovered The Offspring. Up until then it was a bunch of mutations (I had a pop phase, a rap phase, then a nu-metal phase). From 2002 until I think late '04 or perhaps early '05 it was strictly pop-punk, y'know, stuff like blink-182 and Green Day.

At that point I borrowed my brother's Rock Against Bush CDs and discovered a lot of other punk bands like Bad Religion and Descendents.

My taste in music has been in steady evolution ever since I discovered stuff like last.fm and, well, these forums. I couldn't place it in any specific category, which I like. It's not as diverse as most people's, but hey, that's evolution.

[Thomas]

HEY NOW, YOU'RE AN ALLSTAR! GET YOUR GAME ON, GET PAID!
and all that glimmers is go-o-old....

Dude I kinda wanna call you all-star from now on.

*glitters


but yeah, to this day, I still listen to that cd regularly. Not only was it ridiculously catchy all the way through, but from a musical standpoint it's absolutely incredible.

[jacknife737]

The first stuff that i listened too was 90s pop stuff, ie Aqua, Prozzac, ect; then i bought Americana, which changed everything.

Still, even then i went through a stage, where i liked a bit of "nu metal", and generic alt rock. After that i started discovering a lot of the 90s punk stuff; such as Bad Religion, Nofx, Rancid. Next i started getting into ska.

And now, i'm mostly into the newish style of pop-punk, ie Dillinger Four, Off With Their Heads, Lawrence Arms, Alkaline Trio, Gaslight Anthem, ect, ect, ect.

I was also into hip-hop for about a week in 2005, but i'll still only listen to Public Enemy, or Beastie Boys.

Edit: Smash Mouth; the nostalgia is killing me! It's really too bad, that kind of dropped off the face of the earth after that, that record was really, really fun.

[Thomas]

The first stuff that i listened too was 90s pop stuff, ie Aqua, Prozzac, ect; then i bought Americana, which changed everything.

Still, even then i went through a stage, where i liked a bit of "nu metal", and generic alt rock. After that i started discovering a lot of the 90s punk stuff; such as Bad Religion, Nofx, Rancid. Next i started getting into ska.

And now, i'm mostly into the newish style of pop-punk, ie Dillinger Four, Off With Their Heads, Lawrence Arms, Alkaline Trio, Gaslight Anthem, ect, ect, ect.

I was also into hip-hop for about a week in 2005, but i'll still only listen to Public Enemy, or Beastie Boys.

Edit: Smash Mouth; the nostalgia is killing me! It's really too bad, that kind of dropped off the face of the earth after that, that record was really, really fun.

Their self-titled cd was actually quite successful. They've released 3 cds since Astro Lounge, and they have another one scheduled to come out in 2009.

And no, I am not ashamed to admit that I still love Smash Mouth.

[IamSam]

I kind of have a large musical evolution. I use to listen to Christian rock music and country almost exclusively. Now I don't listen to those at all.

EDIT: And ditto with what Thomas said. I still listen to Smash Mouth.

[0r4ng3]

Now I wonder if there are people on the Smash Mouth forums saying "The Offspring? Oh, I loved Pretty Fly back in the day! Too bad they dropped off the face of the planet after Americana. It was a fun, nostalgic phase."

[Thomas]

Now I wonder if there are people on the Smash Mouth forums saying "The Offspring? Oh, I loved Pretty Fly back in the day! Too bad they dropped off the face of the planet after Americana. It was a fun, nostalgic phase."

I bet it's some sort of parallel universe over there. I have heard that despite Astro Lounge selling WAAAY more albums than their follow-up Self-titled album, they all seem to think that it's their best album.

Smash/Ixnay, much?

[0r4ng3]

Speaking of which, I always thought that "Walking on the Sun" and "Staring at the Sun" were kind of similar. Which one came out first?

[Oxygene]

Speaking of which, I always thought that "Walking on the Sun" and "Staring at the Sun" were kind of similar. Which one came out first?

I think somehow they both came out second actually.. It was a break through in newtonian physics I believe :)

[jacknife737]

Their self-titled cd was actually quite successful. They've released 3 cds since Astro Lounge, and they have another one scheduled to come out in 2009.

I know they've made a few records after Astro Lounge; i didn't enjoy any of them however. I also didn't know their self-titled was successful, can't understand why though, i only really liked that "Pacific Coast Party" track.

[Thomas]

Their self-titled had their cover of "I'm a Believer" and that one basically exploded in popularity.