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Has your taste in music changed much over the years?

  • 03-01-2015 11:57PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,401 ✭✭✭


    I started listening to dance music in the 90's, that was my first love.
    Then it was trance and hard house.
    Then I went through a heavy metal phase.
    After that it was rap.
    Then indie rock.
    Now I'm back listening to the electronic stuff again. It seems I've gone full circle.

    How about you?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    Listening to a lot of visual kei the last couple of years, so been pretty consistent for a while.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    ^^^ I'm guessing when you signed to boards you were a rammstein fan?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    Used to listen to that "happy hardcore" sheet when it was once popular Scooter and the like *shudder*.

    These days mostly New Age like Kitaro, Mike Oldfield, etc. I am on a bit of a Sting and the Police run at the moment. So many hits!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    Not really, I never had tastes as such, just liked what I liked. Still very much the case today.

    It's probably a sad fact of middle age though that you do assign a particular - but not complete - importance to nostalgic music as you get older.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    I started listening to dance music in the 90's, that was my first love.
    Then it was trance and hard house.
    Then I went through a heavy metal phase.
    After that it was rap.
    Then indie rock.
    Now I'm back listening to the electronic stuff again. It seems I've gone full circle.

    How about you?

    I'm pretty much the same to be honest! throw in a bit of classical and trad in there too for good measure


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    ^^^ I'm guessing when you signed to boards you were a rammstein fan?

    Still am! :D

    I guess I listened to a lot more Neue Deutsche Härte back then, but just not as many bands captured my attention like Rammstein and Oomph! did.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    Links234 wrote: »
    Still am! :D

    I guess I listened to a lot more Neue Deutsche Härte back then, but just not as many bands captured my attention like Rammstein and Oomph! did.

    I've only recently started t download some of their songs onto my iphone. Listened to them, slipknot, korn, Metallica etc when I was a first year in school up till I left in '07


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 40,059 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Yes in that its broadened - I'm happy to listen to certain acts that I'd not have given much time to 20-30 years ago. Still no to fecking country and Irish though! and anything which involves a white boy/girl warbling with fake "emotion" through autotune.

    Still an old school rocker at heart though.

    Oh and down with shorts wearing nu-metal.

    and X Factor type acts obviously

    and Michael Buble style showtunes singers.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    I've only recently started t download some of their songs onto my iphone. Listened to them, slipknot, korn, Metallica etc when I was a first year in school up till I left in '07

    If you enjoy Rammstein, then Oomph! might be worth a listen to ;)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,651 ✭✭✭PropJoe10


    I was a music snob ten years ago, still am now, and have no intention of changing that!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    You had everything you wanted in the early 90's all genres blossomed

    we were actually blessed as kids growing up at that time whether you were into one type of music or another,it was all there on the radio from Ebeneezer Goode to Enter Sandman,we just never realised at the time all that would end

    what the kids have now is autotuned souless corporate garbage dressed up as a song

    thank god for youtube so we can escape it all


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭dd972


    Exponentially better, gone from liking U2 as a kid in the 80's to hating them and not listening to them ever.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,740 ✭✭✭the evasion_kid


    Started off listening to thrash metal, then into punk and my obsession for american hardcore grew from that.these days I'll listen to practically anything from hip hop to classical but I'll always go back to listening to hardcore it kinda suits me


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    Ruu wrote: »
    Used to listen to that "happy hardcore" sheet when it was once popular Scooter and the like *shudder*.

    These days mostly New Age like Kitaro, Mike Oldfield, etc. I am on a bit of a Sting and the Police run at the moment. So many hits!

    Wanna check the microphone, wanna check the microphone, I wana check I wanna check.....

    Was good at the time though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,423 ✭✭✭cml387


    I got a bedside internet radio a few years ago and decided that Classic FM would be peaceful bedtime listening.

    Every night at 10 they have their smooth classics section.

    I heard music hat I never would have even thought of listening to before. Vaughan Williams for one.

    So yes it's true.As you get older you will veer towards the classics and it's a worthwhile journey.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 57,077 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Used to dislike Country & Irish but now I detest it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,598 ✭✭✭Duff


    Pop-Punk when I was in my early teens

    Indie in my late teens.

    French electro/disco in my early twenties.

    I'm mid-twenties now and listen to all of the above still with some house and hip-hop (Kendrick Lemar, Danny Brown, ASAP Rocky) thrown in.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,401 ✭✭✭Mister Vain


    You had everything you wanted in the early 90's all genres blossomed

    we were actually blessed as kids growing up at that time whether you were into one type of music or another,it was all there on the radio from Ebeneezer Goode to Enter Sandman,we just never realised at the time all that would end

    what the kids have now is autotuned souless corporate garbage dressed up as a song

    thank god for youtube so we can escape it all

    Well yeah the X Factor has produced a lot of that crap, but there are some good modern choons now too if you're willing to do a bit of digging. The rock/metal music seems to be dead now. I haven't heard a good rock song in ages.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 564 ✭✭✭ChunkyLover54


    dd972 wrote: »
    Exponentially better, gone from liking U2 as a kid in the 80's to hating them and not listening to them ever.

    I still listen to the odd U2 song, in the same way I still occasionally listen to Nirvana, R.E.M., Metallica, Alice in Chains, The Doors, Oasis, The Police, The Beatles, etc.

    The one genre that I have completely obliterated from my music collection is....<shudder>...Nu Metal.

    Korn, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park....dreadful stuff.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,857 ✭✭✭BionicRasher


    Started of with things like The Cars, loved ZZ Top, progressed to the Smiths, The Cure and even was in to wearing bright orange puffa jackets at the odd rave and hoped around to Scooter on many an occasion!! finally found The Doors and from there it branched off in to all sorts of weird and wonderful stuff. Never was in to metal all or traditional stuff really.

    Now I listen to classical to relax and unwind but my playlist contains many a gem from all genres including 60's thru to brand new stuff and I even like some of the catchy tunes that are mass produced by all kinds of talentless youngsters these days.

    Once its a sing along cathcy tune I will listen but some songs do make the hairs on my skin stand on end and no matter how many tines I hear them they make me fell great.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 40,059 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    cml387 wrote: »
    I got a bedside internet radio a few years ago and decided that Classic FM would be peaceful bedtime listening.

    Every night at 10 they have their smooth classics section.

    I heard music hat I never would have even thought of listening to before. Vaughan Williams for one.

    So yes it's true.As you get older you will veer towards the classics and it's a worthwhile journey.

    The English pastoral school "the Lark Ascending" etc is something I like when I listen but never think to spend any real time on.

    the


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 503 ✭✭✭Kat97


    Completely changed.

    Used to only listen to techno/pop music until I was about 15. The top 40 tracks.

    Now Ill listen to all kinds of music.

    RHCP, Foo Fighters, Green Day, 5sos, Guns n Roses, Coldplay, Bon Jovi, Dire Straits, Kings of Leon, The Police to name but a few!

    Quite like the new One Direction album -Four too :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,728 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    Nope, not really. I always listened to a broad range of music but ultimately have fairly narrow taste. Alternative rock is what I've always loved and always will.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 29,964 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    Music pretty much stopped for me about 7/8 years ago

    Now I'm in a timewarp of classic 70s-early 00s rock, pop and dance. Gotta love mp3s and the Internet


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    Wanna check the microphone, wanna check the microphone, I wana check I wanna check.....

    Was good at the time though.

    Back in the UK IREEEELAND!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,086 ✭✭✭TheBeardedLady


    Not really, no. Always liked Indie rock/electronicy kind of music. Only thing that has changed is the fact that I can't listen to half of the miserable **** I did as a teen - can't relate to it at all now I don't feel the whole world is against me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,728 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    Not really, no. Always liked Indie rock/electronicy kind of music. Only thing that has changed is the fact that I can't listen to half of the miserable **** I did as a teen - can't relate to it at all now I don't feel the whole world is against me.

    I've got some good news and some bad news...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,086 ✭✭✭TheBeardedLady


    Earthhorse wrote: »
    I've got some good news and some bad news...

    Haha! :)


  • Posts: 17,735 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    _Kaiser_ wrote: »
    Music pretty much stopped for me about 7/8 years ago

    Now I'm in a timewarp of classic 70s-early 00s rock, pop and dance. Gotta love mp3s and the Internet

    This is me, though every now and again a modern song comes out and I quite like it. Not often though.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭foxy farmer


    Growing up in the 80s and 90s I liked Simple Minds, Big Country Gary Moore Bon Jovi Bruce Hornsby Def Leppard. Rock type mostly. All gone by the wayside now. Hardly every hear their music being played now. Liked the dance music at that time too. Within the last 10 years Ive developed a liking for classical music. That and Scottish Pipe Bands. Pipes and drums always make me stop and listen. An off shoot of this would be Saor Patrol Albannach and Clanadonia. Quare names but great stuff. Wouldn't have a clue what's in the charts now. I'd listen to Radio shows at the weekend that play particular genres Electric Disco Friday Night 80s etc.
    X factor The Voice etc have ruined music in my eyes. Artists come and go now like the wind. A few years and they're gone.


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