# Have your musical tastes changed radically? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 31, 2013, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-your-musical-tastes-changed-radically/654408 "2013-03-31T10:43:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gleena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b3f665/32.png) [@Gleena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gleena)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2013, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-your-musical-tastes-changed-radically/654408/1 "2013-03-31T10:43:12Z")
Yeah. So tomorrow I’m going to see the Dropkick Murphys. (So excited squee so excited!) These days, my Spotify is full of Oi, punk, post punk, all sorts of things. Merely 5 years ago, it would have been full of prog - Yes, Genesis, Rush, Kings X, etc. Today…Rush, I’ll always be a fan girl, but the rest, meh. So yeah, prog to punk. Who else has had a radical shift in tastes? ---
**Author:** ![midnight-dreary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@midnight-dreary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/midnight-dreary)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2013, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-your-musical-tastes-changed-radically/654408/2 "2013-03-31T11:01:27Z")
Top 40 \> Grunge \> Goth metal/doom metal/viking metal/power metal etc. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2013, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-your-musical-tastes-changed-radically/654408/3 "2013-03-31T11:23:29Z")
Nope, just expanded. My favorite three albums at age eight – Revolver, Pet Sounds, and Get Yer Ya-yas Out!, are still my top three today (age 43). It’s just that I’ve added an appreciation for (followed by some knowledge of) one genre after another, whereas when I was eight “music” meant “rock between 1963 and 1978”. Baroque-era “classical,” jazz, all kinds of world music, Romantic-era “classical,” rap/hip-hop, American roots of various sorts, funk, several Latin genres, ska…all have become a part of me, but the core passion is still the same. And I don’t think I’ve ever fallen OUT of love of a genre – even my tolerance for heavy metal is about the same as it always was, which is to say, I can take it for maybe half an hour, once a month. (I don’t mean to imply that I like all genres of music – far from it. There are many that I cannot tolerate at all. But, if the pattern holds, I’ll surely end up enjoying a few of these now-hated genres some day.) ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2013, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-your-musical-tastes-changed-radically/654408/4 "2013-03-31T11:54:58Z")
More classical, and more blues. I’m also going back to my love of showtunes. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2013, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-your-musical-tastes-changed-radically/654408/5 "2013-03-31T17:08:55Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > Nope, just expanded. Ditto. About the only sub-genre I used to listen to a lot that I don’t much anymore is jazz fusion and even with that one I fairly recently purchased a CD of an [early example](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Burton_Quartet_in_Concert) in a fit of nostalgia ( I used to be a big Larry Coryell fan as a teenager ). ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2013, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-your-musical-tastes-changed-radically/654408/6 "2013-03-31T18:11:53Z")
No. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2013, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-your-musical-tastes-changed-radically/654408/7 "2013-03-31T19:37:17Z")
Like **JKellyMap** and **Tamerlane** , my tastes have just diversified as I encountered new kinds of music. When I was young, there was only rock (which would now fall into “classic rock”, I suppose) and country; there just wasn’t anything else to be exposed to out in the sticks where I grew up. I generally liked the former and disliked the latter. When I finally got my hands on some classical music in high school, I liked that. In college, I got into folk and jazz. After college, I started going to Ren Faires and picked up various Faire-type music like Celtic traditional and sea shanties (never got into madrigals, though). Most recently, it’s been Swing Era stuff. My typical mix-disc these days has everything from the Andrews Sisters to ZZ Top, with liberal lashings of _a capella_ pirates, anime and video game soundtracks, baroque and classical pieces, and novelty songs. There might even be a country song or two. ---
**Author:** ![PurpleClogs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f04885/32.png) [@PurpleClogs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PurpleClogs)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2013, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-your-musical-tastes-changed-radically/654408/8 "2013-03-31T19:41:52Z")
Yes and no. I listen to almost anything… Except jazz. Never have understood the total lack of melody. Lately I’ve come to love electronic. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2013, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-your-musical-tastes-changed-radically/654408/9 "2013-03-31T20:49:38Z")
My tastes have mostly expanded like everyone else has mentioned. Mostly the only stuff I don’t listen to any more is stuff I’ve heard so much I’ve completely memorized it. Up until a few years ago I only liked a few varieties of jazz, and now I like at least some examples of most varieties, and also I never liked the nu metal/rage rock of the turn of the 2000s, but its modern successor, screamo-influenced rock, I sort of like, in the sense that there isn’t much better new rock out there that I’ve been exposed to lately. (In the turn of the 2000s, there was a whole backlog of goth and emo stuff that I had yet to discover that could suffice while the airwaves were dominated by the likes of SOAD and Disturbed.) With a few exceptions. I’m not as open to new goth music as I was before, and I’m starting to get tired of power pop as well as being a bit twee to listen to very much. I’ve found myself skipping over Fountains of Wayne more and more when it comes up in my shuffle, and not just because I"ve heard it so much, I actually am turned off by its juvenility :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Gleena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b3f665/32.png) [@Gleena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gleena)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2013, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-your-musical-tastes-changed-radically/654408/10 "2013-03-31T23:01:10Z")
I guess expanded is a better way to look at it, maybe. I still like prog, I just don’t listen to it as a first choice. And I think there are some valid points to consider here in that I just wasn’t exposed to a lot as a kid - in my whitebread suburban town there wasn’t much in the way of anything other than 80s hair bands, with metal and prog seeming ‘edgy’ and ‘out there’. (And now you know my age!) I think that on reflection my tastes haven’t changed as much as I think, I just have Spotify and other sources now and as mentioned by **Ludovic** I know some songs just way too well. But conversely I’m all about the various punk genres at the moment, and I seem to go in waves these days of what interests me. Maybe it’s more my tastes have matured? All I know is that what I like now sounds a lot different that it did years ago, but I don’t hate what I liked years ago either, I just don’t bother with it. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2013, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-your-musical-tastes-changed-radically/654408/11 "2013-03-31T23:16:06Z")
> [@Gleena](#): > > Yeah. > > So tomorrow I’m going to see the Dropkick Murphys. (So excited squee so excited!) I don’t know why I missed this but I absolutely loved them in concert. People were looking at me weird when I screamed when they opened with _Cadence to Arms_, but that was because I knew they were probably going to segue into _Do or Die_, which they did! ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2013, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-your-musical-tastes-changed-radically/654408/12 "2013-04-01T00:41:56Z")
Yeah, definitely happened to me, although more under the guise of “expanding tastes.” I tend to get a bit bored if I listen to the same damned thing all the time, so I’m regularly diving into genres and time periods for years at a time, before moving on to other genres and time periods. The biggest change for me was probably around junior year of college when I really started moving away from clean, radio-friendly production to more raw rock sounds via bands like Sonic Youth, the Pixies, even the first Liz Phair album. Something about those musicians (and other bands I in the same vein I was exploring at the time) really clicked with me and expanded my musical understanding and appreciation. ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2013, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-your-musical-tastes-changed-radically/654408/13 "2013-04-01T00:43:29Z")
I think I’ve got to appreciate classical music more and fallen in love with marching music. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2013, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-your-musical-tastes-changed-radically/654408/14 "2013-04-01T00:51:08Z")
Rock & roll from the 50s through the 80s. Now it’s mostly jazz and world music. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2013, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-your-musical-tastes-changed-radically/654408/15 "2013-04-01T02:04:54Z")
I’ve always had very eclectic tastes in music. Dead Can Dance to Metallica to Steve Earle to Vivaldi. There are a few genres I never developed a taste for. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2013, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-your-musical-tastes-changed-radically/654408/16 "2013-04-01T02:54:20Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Rock & roll from the 50s through the 80s. Now it’s mostly jazz and world music. Pretty similar though I gave up on pop in the early 80s. Now I’m moving back in time musically. I’ve gotten an appreciation for Sinatra and some of the other vocalists of the 40s and 50s. And I listen to a lot more Big Band of the same era. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2013, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-your-musical-tastes-changed-radically/654408/17 "2013-04-01T13:46:22Z")
Not a whole lot since high school 20 years ago. There are quite a few classic rock artists I’ve grown tired of (e.g., Bob Seger, the Eagles, Journey), but even these acts still have a couple songs each I still like. There was a short time a few years ago when I quit listening to top 40 radio stations, but now I listen again (if only to make sure I’m not missing a Ke$ha song). ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2013, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-your-musical-tastes-changed-radically/654408/18 "2013-04-01T14:22:43Z")
Wait, you like Ke$ha? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2013, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-your-musical-tastes-changed-radically/654408/19 "2013-04-01T20:06:58Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Wait, you like Ke$ha? :eek: Sure. I mean, who doesn’t? ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2013, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-your-musical-tastes-changed-radically/654408/20 "2013-04-02T00:23:17Z")
I’ve changed in what I like over the decades. I hate the people that bash other’s music, because they are stuck in a period and genre. It does not mean I like all genres of music however. I do not bash music to people unless they torture me with something hate. There is no period of music that is forever the best. No change means it’s repetitious and eventually boring beyond tolerance. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-your-musical-tastes-changed-radically/654408.md?page=2)