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Has your music taste changed as you got older?

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I hear lots of people say this and it isn't really true for me but in a nutshell I liked rap when I was younger then rap rock, then hard rock then nu-metal then metal. Now I'm at a point where it's staying the same IMO metal is a progression an you get to a certain point where there's no more genres to discover because you've heard it all. That's where I'm at right now I have a preference for extreme metal Black,Death,Grind etc etc. But I also like most gnres of metal but I prefer mostly extreme because other genres don't really do it for me I've been listening to black metal eo much that my ears are attuned for it and that's what I like most.

So have your tastes changed?
 
Yes.

I was into punk rock and related stuff when I was teenager, but find most of it sophomoric now. I probably started branching out of that when Kid A by Radiohead came out.

I still like The Stooges, and The Ramones, but that's all.

Lately, really, I've only been listening to Frank Zappa, and David Bowie and Prince.

When it's workout time I've usually been playing Motörhead recently.
 
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Ive picked up a lot of things over the years but I always go back to the jams I loved from when I was a teenager and early 20s . All of those songs have memories attached to them and it always makes me feel good to put that shit on.
 
Yes and no.

When I was an adolescent and actually started purchasing my own music, I started with the Stones(I had heard Sum 41 and I exhausted this CD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Shiny_Tunes_5 when I was 10-11), then started listening pretty regularly too my local Rock radio station(only good thing to listen too where I live), then got recommendations from friends and my uncle about Rock bands, then I moved on too heavier shit, the Traditional Metal/Thrash Metal then slowly began too get into the extreme shit, all over the course of like 3-4 years, the beginning of my teen years. I listened too a bit of rap, like Eminem back in grade 7, back when 8 Mile came out and he was all any little white kid could talk about, but I found him to be kinda over-rated, I dunno, anyway.

I've been a diehard fan of Metal ever since and I'll never stop listening too Metal(although there was a period in my early 20's where I barely listened too music at all and just lived and breathed MMA fandom) but I've really opened my mind greatly since then.

When I was a teen, I was under the impression that Rap music was tasteless garbage that took no talent(for the most part anyway) that Pop music was pathetic and boring and that Metal basically was the most bad ass, kickass and artistic music there was(it's still number 1 for me, but I don't look at Rap and Pop the same way anymore, atleast, not so much). I like alot of Popular music of today now actually.

I also used too look at clean vocals in Metal as kinda sissy for awhile, or, atleast Power Metal style vocals and the subject matter as fucking sissy, but I've completely changed my opinion on that, now I live for well written vocals, sung by a talented singer.

I've given electronic music more of a chance too. I always liked Daft Punk from back in the day and I'm really not a big fan of Dubstep(I have no idea about different genres or anything, don't really care like I do with Metal either)

I still hate Country for the most part though, I don't think I'll ever enjoy that stuff, not like back when I was just a youngster going on Road trips with my Dad and Country and Soft Rock and Enya were the only genres of music I knew existed(that's not really true, I had obiously heard of many styles of music, but I didn't really own much of my own music until I was 12). I listened too alot of it before I reached adolescence and I'll just say, my opinion of the genre has been formed already, there's not much about Country that I enjoy, nor ever will I'm afraid and I don't think that makes me close minded at all, I've heard alot of country and I know I don't enjoy it, having dislikes as well as likes are perfectly natural.

Anyway, I've expanded my horizons since my teens and am open too pretty much anything(except Country... unless like, it's Garth Brooks or something), doesn't mean I like anything and everything, the music still has to connect with me and Metal will always be my number 1 genre, but most genres I'm open too.
 
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As a Metal fan, you always hear people "grew out of it" or say stuff like "I see you're still a child listening too that crap" or "It's just a phase, you'll grow out it"

All of these things are absurd. Or well, I'm sure some people "grew out of it" but I question whether they ever were that much a fan of it to begin with, really.

I've heard some say Metal is for children, but what the hell is Rap then? How is it any more "mature"? In fact, alot of the stuff I've heard on the radio over the years is basically written for children in mind.

Metal and Rap are both deeply artistic genres, but they have their share of awful and immature music, like any great genre.

At the end of the day, these are just people who want to feel like there's an age restriction on enjoying good music, like, somehow, once you reach your 30's and have a few kids, you're supposed to stop liking the stuff you enjoyed for the last decade and a half of your life and "grow the fuck up" and listen too... what?

Cuz if Country or Pop music is supposed to be the most mature forms of music out there... well, I laugh at the notion.
 
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As a Metal fan, you always hear people "grew out of it" or say stuff like "I see you're still a child listening too that crap" or "It's just a phase, you'll grow out it"

All of these things are absurd. Or well, I'm sure some people "grew out of it" but I question whether they ever were that much a fan of it to begin with, really.

I've heard some say Metal is for children, but what the hell is Rap then? How is it any more "mature"? In fact, alot of the stuff I've heard on the radio over the years is basically written for children in mind.

Metal and Rap are both deeply artistic genres, but they have their share of awful and immature music, like any great genre.

At the end of the day, these are just people who want to feel like there's an age restriction on enjoying good music, like, somehow, once you reach your 30's and have a few kids, you're supposed to stop liking the stuff you enjoyed for the last decade and a half of your life and "grow the fuck up" and listen too... what?

Cuz if Country or Pop music is supposed to be the most mature forms of music out there... well, I laugh at the notion.
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Agreed fully they think metal is an adolescent thing it's pretty insulting to me that people think that for some people it's a phase they get into because they feel rebellious and want to piss off their parents most of them grow out of it or never really explore it. But for a lot of people metal is a lifestyle it's who were are it's not a phase or fad it's what we love I mean there are 60 year old metalheads lifelong too man I don't see myself not liking this stuff when I get into my 30s im going to be listening to it to well to my 60s and to the day I die I'm a lifer and so it Is for a lot of people
 
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Agreed fully they think metal is an adolescent thing it's pretty insulting to me that people think that for some people it's a phase they get into because they feel rebellious and want to piss off their parents most of them grow out of it or never really explore it. But for a lot of people metal is a lifestyle it's who were are it's not a phase or fad it's what we love I mean there are 60 year old metalheads lifelong too man I don't see myself not liking this stuff when I get into my 30s im going to be listening to it to well to my 60s and to the day I die I'm a lifer and so it Is for a lot of people
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Exactly.

I'll always love Metal. Nothing, outside of a Fight Night(but that's still number 2 in comparison) makes me feel more alive than a great song from one of my favorite bands. I'm never giving that up.

Best genre there is.
 
I still listen to rap music at 36.. and I still listen to alternative.. my favorite band went from being Pearl Jam (who I still love) to the Strokes.

I used to listen to metal a lot when I was younger and really don't all the much now.... but I still appreciate listening to some Slayer or Six Feet Under from time to time.

So I guess my musical tastes changed for sure.. but I can't really I grew out of anything completely.
 
Yeah and no,

I still listening to the bands I grew up listening too, such as KSE, A7x, Hatebreed, HIM etc.
But these days I like what I like.. if Rihanna or Bieber drops a big tune, I'll listen to it no problems.

I'm really digging everything The Chainsmokers are doing atm for the popular type music, when it comes to metal or metalcore the best most recent band I'm enjoying is Any Given Day.. and not because they sound a lot like Howards Killswitch.
 
Yes. Now...

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a course.

basically it went from glam rock and classic rock to heavy and grunge to death - make my ears bleed, please and thank you. Now I'm old and music seems to have stopped progressing years ago I find myself just enjoying certain well done songs rather than entire genres.
 
To an extent. Actually, I would say it's more that my sub genres have changed instead of the entire genre itself.
 
yes, i have virtually completely changed what i like now to what i liked when i was younger

i used to love the dance scene back when i was younger, but also had my roots in the like of the Rolling Stones and Tom Petty and things like that

went through a period where i loved popular groups and started branching out to what other people told me about

i now love a lot of acoustic, folk, blues and soul music, which is a far cry from my dance, britpop and classic rock upbringing

good music is just good fucking music

i've been a member on this site for forever, and didnt know there was a friendly music forum on the go....damn
 
Sometimes I wonder if I will grow out of extreme metal by I dont see that happening ever I'm a lifelong metalhead
 
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When I was growing up...
I fuckin hated when my dad
put on jazz, or Elton John or
Santana or Yes. Used to make
faces in the car & demand that
he put in my Kriss Kross or
Ice Cube tape. He always told
me I'd grow up to like all that
stuff. & he was right. When I
was in high school, around 16,
I discovered good hip hop & from
there, my mind was opened to
jazz, through samples. Yes &
Elton john, I caught onto a little
later (drugs). So he was right.
I still don't like santana though.
I'd rather listen to afro beat or
Latin American music. Fusion
type stuff is still a hit or miss
 
I've always had a preference for metal and I always will. But as I've gotten older I've learned to appreciate all forms of music. If what your doing, is unique, creative and honest, than I can dig it.

I will never have time for premanufactured contrived bullshit that is pumped out like Macdonalds hamburgers though.
 
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