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My own musical tatstes have changed greatly over the years, for instance...

I used to be a big Jimi Hendrix fan, but now I prefer more acoustic orientated music like Donovan and Nick Drake. I used to despise 1980's corporate rock type stuff, but now find myself listening to early Foreigner(gasp!!!). I'm also a big fan of early Progressive Rock, something that would have made me vomit circa 1990.

Anyway, what music have you liked but now dislike, or what music did you use to dislike but now like?

[psydoll]

I don't really dislike anything that I've liked before - anything cheesier is amusing now and the rest of it reminds me of happy times gone by

As mentioned in another thread though I have grown more and more interested in folk, electronica and hip hop as the years have progressed from a mainly rock and metal starting.

[Untitled]

my music taste hasnt really changed

i've just opened up to more different genres

i still listen to the cheesy pop i first got, to the metal i now love, to the indie i grew into and now the oldie classics

I used to be into really crap nu metal bands and bland inde stuff, which thankfully i dont do now.Other wise my tastes have just widened to include the music i listen to now.

[Alex]

I first started listening to metal (anthrax, 'tallica, gnr) and hendrix when I was about 8, then got into hardcore and grunge, then into listening to more metal bands and heavier metal, started getting into prog (tool, king crimson) and electronica towards the end of school. Since coming to uni i listen to a lot more electronic music (gabbacore shall become a musical genre!), moderate amounts of jazz and prog and usually tons of fairly complex or heavy music. I still like most of the music I always did.

On a side note, I borrowed a live cd today from tchai featuring al di meola, john mclaughlin and paco de lucia and it's absolutely fucking stunning.

[Alan Cynic]

I've always prided myself on having a wide range of musical taste, but when I was a teenager I used to have a blind spot for country stuff. Now, however, I love Townes Van Zandt, Gillian Welch, Charlemagne etc, and have, over the years come to appreciate Hank Williams, the Carter Family, Dock Boggs etc.

Currently my blind spot is metal, but I'm fully prepared to come round to it before I die!!


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[ragudave]

My musical tastes are always evolving. I used to be quite narrowminded - i.e. just metal / thrash / death / grindcore etc then I started listening to John Peel then Andy Kershaw, Giles Peterson, John Cavanagh, Peter Easton, Pete Tong etc etc. Listening to loads of diverse radio DJs got me into loads of other things such as dub / old blues / jazz / Beefheart / The Fall / techno / jungle / electronica et al

Reading the NMTwee and latterly Wire has also broadened my musical tastes, especially given the range of free CDs that Wire supply.

Going to gigs also tends to broaden my horizons and of the course the web allows access to a whole new range of anoraks who are obsessed by music. On another message board I contrbute to I am always swopping tapes / Cds with a bunch of people I have never and probably will never meet. I think I probably have 15 or 20 Cds from people I have traded with...

Dave

[lepeep]

I remember being told by the English "tutor" in the college of commerce (Holburn street), that I "won't be listening to that rubbish when I am older" (she was referring to Godflesh, Ministry, Cop Shoot Cop etc).

I asked why not, she said "because it's a load of cacophonous rubbish, only young people listen to loud angry music when they are young"

My reply was "What bands did you like when you were young ? (the Beatles) Do you still like and listen to the Beatles ? (yes), And, did your parents / Elders like the Beatles when you were my age (No), Did they think you'd grow out of that "rubbish", (err...Well, yes, but the Beatles are different to that noise you are listening to...) "not to your elders...."

I'm with PsyDoll, a good music fan's "taste" can only grow, expand and accommodate new styles...I'd never be embarrassed about the stuff I listening to when I was younger...(Run DMC, Prong, B-Boys, Coroner, Anthrax etc...all solid foundations to me!)

"only young people listen to loud angry music when they are young"

as opposed to when they are old, in which case they wouldn't be young people...

[City_of_Angels]

i like a lot of different bands/artist's.......but i mainly just listenin to punk, like Poison Idea, The Distillers, Rancid etc...the first band i really got into was Nirvana , but im sure a lot of ppl say that hehe, when i was about 10 and all i ever listened to was Grunge bands.....these days my music taste is mucho larger * Wooo!! *...Hey don't s'pose anyone likes a bit of Elvis Presley by chance??