Sleepyjack

Ok, so everyone likes different music etc, but where did it all start for you and how has it cahnged to what you like now? What influenced you or conditioned you to like whatever you like now?
can you see much cahnge in the future? Cause, i daresay, that over the last year or 2 my musical appreciation and openmindedness has increased 10 fold and i ma listening to stuff i don't think i'd ever anticipate about 2 years or so back. I guess it's partly a maturity thing as well?

Basically, i first got into music when i was 11-12 or so, well when i got my first records, which were Nevermind and Blood Sugar Sex Magik. Still like 'em today as well. But basically i started with a grunge background and quickly got into Soundgarden, AIC, Pearl Jam, STP and also Metallica. I think my main influence was my brother, who mainly listened to Hevay Metal-esque stuff so that sorta rubbed on me. Plus i was, like everyone, an angry teenager, so i listened to all this heavy stuff. Then my taste extened by looking at other artists and their influences and sorta stem and branch out from there.

So now, i literally like anything, and am open to try anything else out, which is great. It's sorta like 6 degrees of seperation really, where you could probably find some band which influences and rubs off on other bands and then they rub off on others and other styles and so theres a whole connection of influences and similarities which ultimatley joins all sorts of music together. So that was a quick wrap of my music evolution

Jadey

I grew up listening to mostly rap and R&B, then brnaching out into dance/tekno. Then when I went to college I had a roommate that was my total opposite in every way, especially in musical preferences (So much for the questionnaire I filled out to match you with a roomie!). Anyway, he got me hooked on Pink Floyd (Thank YOU!!), Metallica, Megadeth, etc. Then I branched out from there on my own. Marilyn Manson, Korn, Biohazard, Suicidal Tendencies, Anthrax, Pantera(!), Slayer, Sepultura, etc. All along the way I kept listening to everything I had previoulsy listened to also. Just recently I broke up with a girl that was a Country Music fanatic so I pretty much run the gamut now.

I'm a music fanatic and with the discovery of Napster a few years ago I would sit in my office at work and download just about everything I had ever heard of (dedicated T1 lines are great!) I now have over 100 CR-R's with mp3's and somewhere around 700 store bought CD's. Everything from Patsy Cline to Type O Negative to Stravinsky to Joseph Fire Crow to El Burro Pardo.

Mr.Deflok

Of all the music I have ever listened to none has touched me the way the heavy metal riffs of Fear Factory and the ever-amazing tunes of David Bowie. This artists drive me everyday and allow me to smile when I go to sleep. If it weren't for Fear Factory (I love Bowie more but...) I'm sure I wouldn't be here today, in my final year at school I was given a view of how disgusting the world had become and how much of an outsider I was to it all, without FF I would have pulled the trigger so to speak.

I taste in music varies dramatically, at one moment I could be listening to Destiny by Zero 7 and the next be listening to Paranoid by Type O Negative.

h2ogo69

where did it all start for you and how has it cahnged to what you like now?
music started for me when i was 5 i listened to whatever my mom was in to:bon jovi, aerosmith, led zepellin, the ramones, the red hot chili peppers, nirvana... granted half the time i didnt even knwo what i was listening to...but w/e...

around 4th grade i got into hip hop... and i was into hip hop tioll about 8th grade where i discovered rap metal and pop punk... then i got into metal, punk and i all types of rock in general... then last year i got into screamo and post hardocore...since alot of these bands were basically saying what i was living this almost ook over my life... but i got back into everythign else... now im into literally everythign but country music... i can't rock it... i dunno y... but im inot everyhting now

What influenced you or conditioned you to like whatever you like now?
i kinda grew into it all... from other genres somehow... its like only natural it occurs that way... that and lately, iv felt that as a musician its important to be open minded and listen to a wide varitety of music ... so ive been listening to even more music than usual

can you see much cahnge in the future?
for myself i dont knwo... maybe fall out of a few trhings... back into older ones... im not sure

for music in general... i think the best period of music was from 1989 - 1998...after that everyhting began to go downhill... around this time bands like the chili peppers, jane's addiction, radiohead, tool, nirvana, smashing pumpkins, hum, rancid, nofx, blink 182, green day, the offspring, guns and roses, all big durign this time... all in their prime as musicans...after 1998 all of these musicans somehow declined wiht a few exceptions

in hip hop... iv seen it crumbleing ever since 2pac and biggie died, i see almost no promise in alot of these new artists and alot of the better ones form back in the day have declined a bit... snoop dogg for example... i havent liked any of snoop doggs new material... and i only see promise on some of the young rappers of today... eminem, 50 cent, outkast, the roots and a few others all make great music

partly a maturity thing as well?
i think the music that influences u the most is the music that speaks to u at the time... wehn i was into hip hop i was concerned about money and popularity/fame

when i was into nu metal i wa shaving a rough period wiht my parents

when i was into pop punk... i was lonely... noone loved me

im always into alt rock... that could be cuz of sum of my emotional problmes...

wheni was really into punk i was jsut angry...i was angry at the system, i was angry at my parents, i was angry at world...

and now that im into this screamo/ post-hardcore/hardcore thing.. its like i kwno im loved... but sometimes i dont knwo what this person wants or is even thinking half the time... half the time i dont even knwo whats going on... it is a relationship and it isnt all at the same time... and iv been an emotional wreck over this...and she has had a shit load of emotional problmes dealing wiht this as well so...it owuld make sense...