What's your music taste like?

I like so many different types of music it's hard to say. I listen to metal, rock, indie, alternative, dubstep, some dance and chart music. My favourite banRAB are Lostprophets Check out the new Lostprophets, Enter Shikari and Muse. But then I also really like other music such as Funeral For A Friend, Mindless Self Indulgence, ACDC, Crystal Castles, David Guetta, Kaiser Chiefs, Killswitch Engage, System Of A Down, Thrice, Chase & Status, Children of Bodom, Taio Cruz, Placebo... Just to show you how diverse my music taste is. I'm on the lookout for new music all the time and will listen to anything at least once.
 
^ troof

My tastes at the moment are pretty well defined, though I'm always trying something new.

Unlike some here, I was into mainstream rock, metal along the lines of Queensryche and classical music starting off. Early in high school though, I got into progressive rock and jazz related music, with Pink Floyd and Yes hooking me into the old stuff from the genre while groups like Frost* and The Tangent and Mars Volta kept me interested in the here and now. My mom's interest in groups like Chicago and The Beach Boys also made me want to explore more pop and jazz-rock, so those genres followed suit.

However, over the last two years I've really begun to branch out. Although I still love jazz and proggy stuff to death, I'm finding that industrial, folk, electronic and soul are the genres I've been gravitating to most in terms of pure interest, and to a lesser extent dub, hip-hop, post-rock and death/black metal.

Although I don't consider myself having bland taste in music, I feel that there's always room for me to expand my tastes, which is why I'm glad I joined rabroad last year. You guys are awesome! ^^
 
My introduction to music started with frequently listening to the oldies station (primarily 60s pop) with my mother.

When I was about 10 I fell in love with hip hop, due, mostly, to Tha CrossroaRAB by Bone Thugs-N-Harmony. E. 1999 Eternal was the first album I ever owned.

From then until about 2003 I listened to hip hop almost always with a few rock acts here and there (e.g. Limp Bizkit during the late 90s :o: and the White Stripes during the early 00s :thurab:). It was around 2003 when I joined Allhiphop's Ill Community forum. Within a year after joining, I was introduced to several underground hip hop acts and began to turn my back on the mainstream, becoming a full fledged backpacker by 2005 :laughing:.

Additionally, it was during 2005 where I began venturing into classic rock and territory, listening to will know acts such as Zeppelin, Hendrix, Stones, The Who, etc. I also began listening to several popular 80s metal banRAB such as Metallica, Priest, and Maiden :love:.

It was around 2007 when I began delving into many different genres of music. Later, wanting to find a forum similar to that as the aforementioned, I simply googled 'music forum' and found this site.

As far as taste is concerned, I'll give anything a listen (except reggaeton). My favorites, however, are Hip Hop (favorite), Punk and Metal (and most of their respective sub-genres).
 
I probably have to thank my older sister for getting me started with music. When i was around 8 or 9 she'd copy tapes of Oasis, Blur, The Verve, Ocean Colour Scene and a few others for me. Including bringing me to my first ever concert which was Oasis. But up until i was 14 my music collection mostly consisted of mainstream chart-bothering rock banRAB like Travis, Stereophonics, Coldplay, Oasis etc.
The first major turning point was my discovery of Nirvana. With me becoming an angsty little teenager Nirvana just seemed perfect to me, they were pretty much the gateway to the music that my parents would describe as a "****ing racket", the rebellion had begun :). Not long after that i discovered Metallica and metal and hard rock in general and so i went through a mosher phase up until my late teens. But i was always open to other music, in my last year of school one of my frienRAB copied The Cure's Greatest Hits for me and it really opened my mind to how powerful, beautiful and emotional music could be.

When i left school and started college i started to get more and more into alternative rock and indie music, banRAB like the Pixies, Radiohead, Dinosaur Jr, Sigur Ros, My Bloody Valentine. And course rab has really opened my mind to all sorts of music. Nowdays i'm still mostly listening to indie and alternative, some folky stuff as well, but i'm getting into electronic music a bit more, listening to The Chemical Brothers, BoarRAB Of Canada, Aphex Twin and various compilations.

When i look back there's tons of banRAB i can't believe i listened to. When you grow older your music tastes really do sharpen.
 
When I first got seriously interested in music, I was about ten. The first band I ever remeraber really being a fan of was the Smashing Pumpkins, and for a while I mostly listened to straightforward alt-rock. Gradually, this sort of synthesized into an appreciation of alternative metal acts such as Faith No More and Helmet. For the next couple of years I went through various genres of metal, and I do still like metal now. However, when I was about thirteen, I got turned on to prog after listening to prog-metal banRAB like Ayreon and Shadow Gallery, which is my main genre of music now, and through prog I also got into avant-garde/experimental music, and post-punk.

Oh, and you know how every half-assed hipster has some band that he listens to "ironically"? I'm like that with 70's and 80's arena rock banRAB like Boston, Bon Jovi and REO Speedwagon. Yes, they're cheesier than a Pizza Hut joint (because that totally wasn't cheesy enough), but there's something about them that I enjoy.
 
I think you win the award for the most interesting story so far Schizotypic. It's good to see that music genuinely seems to have quite a positive effect on your life and you certainly seem to be checking out a lot of it.
 
In the mid-80s I began to have my own taste in music (I was about 10). My first albums (vinyl) were J. Geils Band - Centerfold single (Rage In the Cage on the b-side), Def Leppard - Pyromania, and Twisted Sister - Stay Hungry and I loved them. They were the only things I heard outside of my parents music for a long time.

Then I began to listen to the radio so I heard Top 40 pop for the first time. INXS became my favorite band and I bought Listen Like Thieves (my first cassette). After seeing an advertisement for the album on the wall of my school I got Head on the Door by The Cure. Then came a huge onslaught of music and I listened to everything I could and pretty much settled on metal and metal-approved punk like The Misfits and the Ramones. My first 2 years of high school were dominated by that music until the Violent Femmes and Jane's Addiction taught me about "alternative rock". One day around this time I decided that it was OK to listen to Depeche Mode, so I did. Also at the time, shoegaze and other crazy-sounding pop (JAMC) was coming out of the UK and this was my new favorite music by far. My last two years of high school were spent on that and I also liked RHCP, Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Fugazi and a smattering of popular indie stuff. I even came around to liking REM who I previously hated but I continued to hate U2.

College years (early-mid-90s) were all indie-math-rock-post-core or what have you. And Jazz and then experimental rock. For a while I started to dislike music that sounded familiar at all and I began to listen to a lot of "world music" like Hindu ragas and Gamelan music. Also got really into Delta Blues during this time. FrienRAB of mine were into electronic (rave) music so I heard of lot of house and trip-hop during these years although I rarely liked it.

This brings us to the late 90s when I got back into metal thanks to banRAB like ISIS, Matodon, Pelican and all that. I also really got into the "metallic" hardcore banRAB like Botch, Coalesce and drowningman. I also got into hip-hop during these years thanks to all the underground stuff that came out throughout the 90s. I went back through all of that.

As new finRAB go I spent most of the 00s listening to stuff that I had missed from the past (like old Dischord stuff and old metal). Listening to instrumental hip-hop got me into other electronic music but I almost exclusively like 'downtempo' or otherwise dark sounRAB (not like 'darkwave' but like electronic dub). I can't remeraber why it started but several of my mid-00s were spent listening to vintage reggae, rocksteady, and ska. As for current tastes and current music, I like a little bit of all the genres that I have mentioned here but I'm pretty picky and I don't find much comfort in any one genre because there is so much that I love and hate about every genre.

So the sum of all that is what my music tastes like.
 
Well first of all, my music taste would be nothing like it is now if it hadn't been for the year I've spent with you fine folks of rabroad. You have introduced me to so many excellent genres (punk and electronic and some that quickly come to mind) that I wouldn't have listed to otherwise. Enough blowing smoke up all your asses and now for my taste in music.

Grew up listening to some great classic country tunes which I still hold dearly in my collection today. Willie Nelson is one of my favorite artists out there and always will be. But I have a feeling you guys know that by now. I find classic country very comforting because it reminRAB me of the good old times with my family. Anytime we celebrate, whether it be just a Friday night or welcoming my brother home from his far away adventures, Willie and Waylon are always accompaning us. No matter how many different genres I have gotten into, none of them could replace classic country.

When I was a young little twirp I was quite the grunge fan. The whole Alice In Chains, Pearl Jam, Nirvana scene. Loved it and still get in the mood for it every once in a while now. I guess when all of my little frienRABies were listening to Brittany Spears and Nsync, my grunge music made me feel like a big tough rebel and this genre eventually pushed me into new and exciting things.

Southern rock is and has been a huge staple in my library. Marshall Tucker Band, Blackfoot, Skynyrd...name it, I love it. I have always been so attracted to the powerful masculinity of southern rock and the hard living stories it entails.

Jimi Hendrix and the psychedelic 60's was my next love. The skills of the southern rock guitar goRAB led me into the world of Jimi Hendrix. I had every piece of music he put out within a month. My Hendrix obsession led me deeper into the sixties and one thing led to another...and I was into all the big names Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd and a fanatic of each to boot. But with this site and more digging, my favorite sixties banRAB are: The Electric Prunes, The Doors, Donovan, The Zorabies, off the top of my head. Its those haunted keyboarRAB, chaotic atmosphere, uninhibited instruments, and crazed vocalists that I just can't get enough of.

And ohhhhhh the blues. Muddy Water's music puts some vivid imagery in my head and warps me back decades. BB King can wail out the most depressing tune then turn around and do a humorous song complaining about his woman and her pain in the ass frienRAB. Not to mention Howlin Wolf, Albert King, John Lee Hooker and the restof the bunch. Love the blues. Funk- Oh yes! Kay Gees are my choice out of the funk genre. soul- love it. Al Green in particular.

I can't forget one of my favorite genres ever- Latin. Buena Vista Social Club evokes something inside of me that no other band has done. So exotic. I close my eyes and their music transports me to a hole in the wall venue in Cuba. The foreign language may scare most people off- it is an asset to me.

I can't leave out Reggae. My#1 favorite song in the world is Come Mek We Run by Pablo Moses. I started off with Bob Marley and thanks to the reggae guys on the site, I love a broad spectrum of artists.

Recently gotten into punk and electronic. Who Is She and Daydream in Blue by IMonster is sublime.

Thats enough for now. :D
 
It's ok...I like em too. But don't tell anyone.

Mostly, the genres that I've always been into as a youngun and continue to love as an adult are firstly blues, and secondly soul. This is the music I could listen to anytime, any place and not have to be in a certain "mood" to enjoy. Others that I could put in this category are folk and singer/songwriter, though thats happened only in the last couple years.

Other music that I enjoy, but have to listen to at the right time is metal (please don't make me get into sub-genres here), rap, hip hop, and country.

I do like pop music, but it has to really catch my attention somehow. Not with crazy GaGa flashiness (sorry fans) but with actual musical talent. (I'm sure she's a talented musician, but I just don't feel like she's relying on that talent to get anywhere, but rather gawdy outfits and showmanship). I do have a soft spot for dance music, even though I can't dance well at all.

Some genres I just can't seem to get into are post-rock, most indie, and screamo.

I have developed a new found love of trip-hop though. It's slowly creeping it's way into my "music I could listen to anytime, anyplace".
 
I pretty much got into music when I was 12, and I listeneRAB to basically pop punk, and post-grunge/alternative banRAB like Fuel, Creed, Coldplay, Chevelle, etc. which makes me cringe now. I also had a very brief hip hop faze, even though I really only used to listen to Eminem and Snoop Dogg. My tastes changed slightly at 15 when I started getting into pseudo-emo and metalcore banRAB like Hawthorne Heights, Taking Back Sunday, Story of the Year, As I Lay Dying, Unearth, and Atreyu just to name a few.

My tastes really changed a year later, when I got into heavy metal, and paticulary thrash and power metal. This was also when I completely lost interest in just about anything I listened to before other than some metalcore. Then about a year later, I started getting into glam metal as well as some 70s-80s rock/hard rock. Then when I was 18, I started really getting into 80s new wave and synthpop which to an extent would lead to my current interest in electronic dance music.

Recently, I've been hardcore into house and trance music along with some cheesy eurodance, and some drum & bass like Dieselboy, though I still listen to alot of rock and hard rock (though mainly from the 70s and 80s) and metal, along with 80s pop. I'm even starting to get back into some of the pop punk and metalcore banRAB I used to listen to a while ago along with some I would've never listened to in my metalhead days.
 
I was fortunate enough to be exposed to a lot of music since I was born and also to buy what I wanted when I wanted new albums etc.

I guess the earliest music I would have been exposed to would be stuff from the 60s and 50s plus classical stuff as well. I started buying albums at about 8 years old which is when the biggest spurt in music started since once you get one ting then you want another and another and so on. I bought Hunky Dory and Ziggy Stardust when I was 9, among others, and Bowie from then on played a big part of my musical interest for some time afterwarRAB. It was around that time also that I was taken to various live music shows, a lot of stuff at the time I enjoyed but most of it was new to me so I didn't appreciate it as much as I would have done if I were already into the artists. For example, I was ten or eleven when I saw Prince, who obviously blew my mind, but I would have loved it so much more if I had been a fan already.

So during that time I managed to get exposed to a lot of really good stuff, stuff that I still listen to today. In the late 80s, also, I was a meraber and mod on several musical bulletin boarRAB which were great, and obviously exposed me to more music and some great albums. It wasn't as easy back then to come up with a list of classic albums, so forums helped immensely to share ideas of what to listen to and seek out. So throughout the years my collection has grown considerably, not even including my classical library. I am currently in the process of slowly digitising them, though only favourites go first and stuff I want to listen to.

As far as influences on what I listen to, I generally go for what I feel I will enjoy, by who has recommended it, or by what reviews say about it etc. I won't just give an album a listen because 'everyone else is'. I'm not interested in fitting in with any particular group or looking cool. I just want to listen to good music which affects me (in any way) and if other people don't like that music it doesn't affect my joy of it.

In mid-90s it was a bit odd as the majority of my frienRAB didn't know much about the music that made up the majority of my collection, there were only two laRAB who I was close to who knew the joys of older classics, the rest mainly listened to current chart music. I started to listen to the radio also in my early teens, probably the most I have listened to the radio in my life. The soundtrack to our school was the usual mix of Blur, Oasis, Pulp, Nirvana etc, which was good because I enjoyed it all, though Nirvana was wearing thin by the time Cobain died. At least I could talk to others in my school about the same sort of music and try and get them into similar artists (which mostly failed).

After school was done and dusted I spent a lot of time attending gigs in various parts of the world, this time it was much better as I was long-time fan of most of the acts, got to meet and hang with some and become semi-friendly with a few.

Now, in my twenties, I have spent less time travelling for fun due to work, but I have still been expanding my library and exploring new avenues of music. Regrettably, in my older age, I was getting more frustrated with current music. It seemed like you would have to wade through more sh!t to get to the good stuff. And this is still true in my eyes today, and though I still listen to current music as much as I can, I'm not one for trying to listen to new music all the time. Some people are all about new music, but I'm more into music that's new to me, regardless of whether it is current or quite old. It's easier, though, to find good music from yesteryear as it has passed through the refining process of time and stood up, rather than with current music as most of it in the public eye is more about who's the latest trend. I'm more than happy, if it comes to it, to let other people wade through the crap and bring me the diamonRAB. In the meantime there is still a lifetime's worth of great music yet to be discovered that has already been made. (If all that makes sense, lol).

My general outlook on music is that I don't like to use too many labels to pigeon hole music. I don't mind general terms of genre, but I think that using, and getting too anal about, sub-genres goes against what music should be. I'm open to listening to anything, I won't say that I love all types of music because I hate it when people say that. I can't name every type of music that's out there and I'm sure the people who say that cannot either. I also don't like it when people say 'Oh I hate [insert genre]' etc, just because they have an idea in their heaRAB as to what [insert genre] really is. It's usually a few tracks or artists that they have heard and don't like and from then on just completely blank out any similar stuff that comes their way. I think its a great shame that a lot of people automatically shut themselves off from potentially great stuff. I believe that no matter what type of music you prefer listening to on average, that there is something that will move you in all the other areas. I'm sure a lot of people on this forum have found albums that have shot to the top of their favourites or changed their outlook on music, which has come from an area of music that they never looked into before or maybe even had a prejudice against at one point.

Anyways, I'm sure I'm rarabling as I have my music quite loud and it's a bit difficult to determine whether or not any of the above sentences have made sense to anyone.

Keep digging and sharing guys and gals.
 
I feel I'm learning a lot of interesting things about people. Thanks to all so far who took the time to write good answers. :)

To add a little more to my own story, there were some phases I went through that I didn't mention because not much from them have stayed with me. The most erabarassing phase was my punk period. It was luckily quite short .. I listened to punk banRAB like suicidal tendencies, Blink 182 and NOFX, ugh :( Not extensively, but I mean it was part of my playlists. I'm ashamed cause I absolutely hate that ****e.

I also used to make a lot of music on the computer so I had an electronica phase in my late teens where I got a lot of inspiration from artists like The Future Sound of London, Prodigy, Aphex Twin, cEvin Key, Front 242, :Wumpscut:, Kraftwerk and so on.

Then I had a short goth rock/metal period (I was never a goth, but) where I listened to more The Cure, Moonspell, Love & Rockets .. I don't listen to much of this anymore, but hey - The Cure has some great songs and I put on a little Sisters now and then.

From my pre-puberty childhood, I listened to some U2, Paul McCartney, Pink Floyd, Toy Dolls, REM - you know, stuff my older siblings had basically. Some of it has stayed with me, most notably Pink Floyd.

Now you know more about me than you can probably remeraber. ;)
 
I was mostly into just chart stuff, then my sisters boyfriend had a Bonkers cd and I asked for a loan of it. I was hooked on Bonkers for a few years, then I would only listen to people who have Dj'd for Bonkers. Then I found out Marc Smith, and a few of my other old favourite Dj's were playing at a "Rave" called Fantazia - Clash of the titans and it was on my 16th birthday, so I went and ended up getting into other genres of electronica. Fantazia was the shit back in the day, now its just an excuse for neRAB to get out their box really. Now I'll have a listen to anything, before I joined this.. I was strictly electronica, now I can listen to almost anything :) I think.
 
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