What path led you to liking the music that you like?I'm a bit of a weird case. I'm a socially stunted autist who was mainly exposed to oldies and classic country at home. I almost never hung out with classmates outside of school or got invited to parties. As a result, I had very limited exposure to new music and don't have many positive memories associated with it. Now as an adult, I only listen to music from between roughly 1950 and 1980. I wonder if a lot of "le wrong generation" music fans followed a similar route.
I started getting into classical rock like the Beatles, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix in my teens.Then I came to this board in 2014 and I've been pretty much listen to /mu/core after that
>>130172005OP here, the only /mu/core album I've only even remotely liked is ITAOTS, and even they I almost never listen to it
>>130171944>I'm a socially stunted autist who was mainly exposed to oldies and classic country at homeyour parents never played music from the 80s or 90s? I also grew up with no friends and never hung out but I still listen to both old and new music I hear from people online
I grew up in my grandparents home, which had an expensive hi-fi system. My dad was constantly playing his albums on it. I was dancing to Combat Rock by The Clash from age 2, which is my earliest memory of music. As of today, my lifetime playlist consists of over 5,200 songs, which is everything I've heard and liked from that age to now. Fortunately, my dad wasn't into a lot of boomer shit, with the exception of The Rolling Stones, Zeppelin, and Queen. I was a NEET by my teens, so all of that early exposure led me to obsessively finding music and genres that satisfied my interests. I'm just a bad ass motherfucker.
>>130172208>your parents never played music from the 80s or 90s?Not really, my dad only ever listens to classic country and mom mostly likes boomer folk/soft rock and singer-songwritersEvery day to and from school I heard the local oldies station in the car, which didn't play anything post-70'sBy the time I started hearing more modern music in college, it just sounded unpleasant to me
No clue honestly, I'm the odd duck out in my family. My older sister played violin, and I thought it was a magical sound and I loved playing and listening to classical music. My mom listened to whatever was popular at the time (pop/alternative rock), my dad listened to a lot of classic metal and 80's which I thought was pretty garbage and still do. When I was really young I listened a lot to the "alternative rock" station, then I discovered the wonders of Japanese music through the internet and never looked back. In retrospect, all of the nintendo games with great soundtracks probably primed me for liking j-pop. Now I listen to more western music too but mostly stuff that was pre-80's. But I guess blaming it all on early influence of classical music and video game music kind of makes sense for what I like as an adult.
>>130172442Very interesting combination thereI was/am big into Nintendo games, but I've never been one for video game music (or soundtracks in general), maybe because it rarely incorporates the genres I'm into (classic rock, country, blues, soul, etc.)
>>130171944>I dislike certain groups of people Skrewdriver opened my eyes Skrewdriver is life Skrewdriver is love
>>130171944Grew up with classic rock and old pop songs. Started learning instruments and got into prog rock. Started writing my own songs. Eventually got sick of prog rock because it's pretentious crap. Realized that the true masters of music are those who can write complex intersting songs and compress it into a neat little package. Now my favorite band is the beatles because they really were the best in the world.
>>130171944I went from listening pretty much just to video game OSTs and stuff as a kid, then discovering David Bowie from my mom's CDs as a teen, fell in love with his music and went deep into his discography. And then I came to /mu/ to find more music and dove into /mu/core which opened the gates to a lifetime of exploring music. I wouldn't say there's one particular kind of music I've stuck with, there's not a whole lot I haven't dabbled in to at least some extent. I think getting into /mu/core and the essentials charts here made me really open to a variety of stuff, even if I don't listen to a whole lot of it anymore, I still have a lot of fondness for that stuff.so yeah, a bit of a weird trajectory, with the exception of my Bowie phase I pretty much skipped the pop/classic rock phase a lot of people seem to have before getting into the artsier/more experimental shit (and Bowie's own experimental albums helped prime me for that). I did eventually get into a lot of classic rock, but ironically it wasn't until years later after I had already been through a lot of avant garde shit. but yeah I was a weird teenager into pretentious shit and was on 4chan way too young for my own good, so I was already drifting outside popular culture. I was also heavily involved with band in school and one of the weird kids who enjoyed it, so I already sort of had an appreciation for jazz and classical stuff to an extent.>>130172691>Now my favorite band is the beatles because they really were the best in the world.yeah it's kind of funny how that goes isn't it, I used to refuse to listen to the Beatles in my heavy /mu/core period because I thought they were just basic bitch pop music and dismissed them as beneath me. it was only years later after going through all the fringe outsider music that I gave the Beatles a chance and realized they were actually the best to do it (or at least one of)
>>130171944Mostly i just wandered the globe for a time looking for the sickest riffs that i could find
>>130171944As a kid, I never cared about music at all. I would sort of vibe along to whatever just to fit in, but I'd never put on any music to listen to it on my own time. At like 14, I was randomly recommended Close to the Edge on Youtube and it instantly made me obsessed with progressive rock, which eventually branched out to various other music niches that were at no point familiar to my social circle, age group or country. I still find most popular music from all time periods pretty empty-sounding and unremarkable, including music that was played around me throughout childhood by my parents and peers.
>>130171944>I wonder if a lot of "le wrong generation" music fans followed a similar route.when i was a kid i didn't like music at all because all i was exposed to was pop dogshitthen i played gta vice city at like age 12 and i loved the songs in the radio especially flash fmso i began searching for 80s pop and rock which led to goth and new wave and now i only listen to 70s 80s stuff
>>130171944a friend at 13 got me into tool, that got me into finding stuff like melvins and such, few years later we were friends with a bunch of hippies and punks who showed us more dope music. >>130172259>im a NEET>I'm just a bad ass motherfucker.lmao what
>>130171944Being a loner with super annoying parents meant I often ended up chilling at the CD store to have a little bit of peace, ended up gravitating towards boomer rock, grunge and punk there. Started listening to dnb because I saw a cool band at the high school talent show that was only a drummer and a bassist and looked it up and still enjoyed it even though the music had nothing to do with what the band played.The one single gf I ever had introduced me to Warp Records, Ninja Tune and other similar electronic music.The rest was mostly youtube algorithm
i'll be missing a lot of details, but alasone of the only commercially owned tv stations in my country used to run commercials for trance compilation albums when i was about 10 years old.https://www.discogs.com/release/58729-Various-Trance-2000some years pass, i discover things like p2p file sharing programs and gabber music. i must have been around 12-13 maybe, bumping shit like neophyte, dj promo, angerfist, korsakoff, etc. on my mp3 player.in between all this, i also followed some of the popular stuff in my school, like linkin park, bomfunk mc's, and definitely other stuff as well.a few years later (somewhere between age 14-16), i'd discover torrenting, and the tracker called torrentz. here, one could sort entries by number of seeders, so i'd search "discography" and see what was popular. i'd download.. tool, meshuggah, porcupine tree, anathema, stuff along those lines y'know.by this point, stuff that my peers listened to was mostly stuff like soilwork, in flames, and probably other swedeath metal, so i liked rock and metal to some extent, but my torrenting discoveries had me enter some kind of prog-rock era.from a particular song by anathema.. violence, i think? i _really_ had to find stuff like it. by this point i had discovered last.fm, and could use it to find out that there's a genre called post-rock. from here, through music sharing blogs, i discovered things like god is an astronaut, caspian, and tons of other 2007~2009 era post-rock slop. by this point i'm like 18-19 years old, and this crescendocore stuff is the coolest shit ever.from that point on, i started frequenting /mu/, participating in sharethreads, making connections, doing my own due diligence in discovering new stuff, finding my own niches so to speak. i'd spend time on irc with folks like biotroll, dintoo, reverie, cease...i suppose this is where my taste solified. from here on, even like 15-16 years later, i've only really added to my tastes rather than change them.
Very interesting thread
At age 11 my music taste was the grime/uk rap of my peers, Dave, AJ Tracey, Fredo etc. As well as soundtracks to certain videogames like Hotline Miami.It stayed this way until around 15 when I decided to listen to some of the 80s pop music my dad would play like Eurythmics and Pet Shop Boys when I first got spotify. I eventually discover the Duo Naked Eyes and become obsessed with them.After I grow a bit bored of them, they only ever released two albums, I try out Depeche Mode, I liked their song Strangelove that came up in my feed once and a twitter mutual I had liked them too. I also listen to some other 80s acts like Duran Duran, New Order and the Fixx. I slowly get more into rock music, not sure what prompted this, think it was the Cure. Eventually I become interested in mainly 70s punk, Stooges, Pistols, Joy Division. Before getting into more gothic stuff like Siouxsie and BauhausAround the same time my Russian friend got me into bladee and drain gang/sbe, I still listen to a mixture of grime/uk rap/cloud rap/post-punk/rock, I rarely ever listen to 80s pop these daysbut when I do it's naked eyes or depeche mode.
>>130171944when i was like twelve used to play competitive tf2 like a fucking retard and one of the best players in my region had this fucking division bell profile pictureone day i came across the album cover for division bell and went wait a second that's that guy's profile picture. and so picked the album up was absolutely blown awayeven though nowadays i recognize it's not a very good album, it was miles above whatever shit i listened to back thenthat got me into listening the whole pink floyd discography, and after i was done with that i figured i'd just explore progressive rock as a whole so i did that for a few years as well as some /mu/core shit. i don't listen to any of this music anymore but i doubt i'd have discovered what i actually listen to nowadays if i hadn't gone through that
