How did you get your taste in music?

Everyone likes something different, but how did you find out what you really like?

I grew up on pop music until I was about 12, where I listened to Linkin Park. From there I started listening to other bands like Limp Bizkit and Korn. When I was on 14 or 15 I heard The Smiths for the first time. I became hooked. And more recently I've listened to even older music by the likes of Bob Dylan and Simon & Garfunkel. I never thought I'd be listening to folk music lol. Makes me wonder what I'll listen to next.

So whats the story of your musical taste?

Started listening to Linkin Park, then Breaking Benjamin, Disturbed, Slipknot, etc.

Now it's all form of cores, pop-punk, alternative, and various forms of rock.

It probably won't change that much anymore I think.

Through the game Guitar Hero, although I did like rock my life and had a real guitar before the game was out. Now I like all types of it and more metal than I used to.

It probably won't change that much anymore I think.

battlefront23

I found most of the music I like through rateyourmusic and people on gametrailers

started in the pop genre cuz my sister. then eventually moved onto some classic rock from my dad, then branched out to what i listen to now. which is rock and classic rock, with some other genres.

i actually got into Breaking Benjamin thanks to Halo 2 and Youtube. Blow me Away was the song that got me hooked on them:)

Disturbed was from that one Dragon Ball Z movie with Lord Slug:P

Offspring was from the radio

Hollywood Undead i happened to stumble upon somehow.

Paramore my friend introduced to me.

others i just came across while looking for similar artists

Some people on GS, Last.fm, my parents, and my friends who don't like crappy music.

Grew up listening to Billy Joel, Paul Simon, and The Beatles. Just slowly evolved into heavier stuff since then.

Marilyn Manson's 'Golden Age of Grotesque' album got me interested in the metal genre, but it was Cradle of Filth's 'Mannequin' that motivated to look deeper into the genre. Soon after I saw it, I bought a headbanger's ball CD.

Some people on GS, Last.fm, my parents, and my friends who don't like crappy music.

Guppy507

I started listening to a lot of music.

Listened to Wierd Al (unrelated to future music choises), and blink-182 as a kid (for the swearing :P) and after awhile for the music.
Then different mixed tapes and such my brother helped me create gave me some other singles by bands, and the Box Car Racer CD that he gave me.

Then different bands were already on my computer from my sister and brother that lead me to listen to them more (a few downloaded songs by Rancid and The Distillers, my sister's Avenged Sevenfold CDs)
and a guy I met in Junior High and I exchanged various music.

SomethingSomethingSomething.... lots of music. :)

Edit: I was actually thinking earlier today about how different my music would be if I hadn't exchanged music with that guy in Junior High... wierd.

Listening to the radio all day 7 days a week on the tire shop.... Made me switch out of hip hop. Best switch ever.

A mix of angst and sadness.

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Some people on GS, Last.fm, my parents, and my friends who don't like crappy music.

LJS9502_basic

You win this round. :x

It started with The Beatles, that was the first band I really liked. From there, I started getting other music from the 60's, which eventually led me to me liking psychedelic rock. On my search for psychedelic rock, I started listening the Grateful Dead because someone recommended them. A little later, I listened to a live Dead album, and that's when I started going back and getting live albums from many of the artists I already had, finding out they are much better. That was probably the most fun I had in a long time, because I was familiar with all the artists I was getting, but it was still completely different, it was like listening to them for the first time all over again. Also, there were several bands that I didn't get why were so highly praised until I listened to them live (namely Cream, Led Zeppelin, Santana, The Doors and of course, the Grateful Dead). I really heard the talent they had in the live music, the talent that just doesn't show in the confined studio works. Along the way of all that, I just started branching out for the sake of branching out, listening to rock, jazz, country, classical, all kinds of stuff.

Rock: Easy to relate to the songs

Ambient/new age/world/folk/electronic hybrid: My music of choice when I study. It creates the feeling that I was in some place other than the four walls of my bedroom or basement.

I started with The Offspring, then I went to the Red Hot Chili Peppers... Then I found a band called Splashdown, and it was WAY out of my comfort zone but for some reason I couldn't get enough of them. They were electronic pop with alt-rock and middle-eastern influences, and they pretty much paved the way for everything else.

When I was about 15 I met a guy on the internet who lived in a town north of mine, and we started talking on MSN. He sent me some 80s new wave and goth rock like The Cure, Sisters of Mercy, Fields of the Nephilim, The Pretenders. Some months later we met in real life (after I was certain he wasn't a pedo :P ) and he gave me The Smiths' The Queen is Dead, which was a major turning point, not only regarding my musical tastes, but in my whole life.

We continued exchanging music over the internet, in fact we still do, but I've refined my tastes so they feel less copied from him and more personal. Our tastes are still similar, but I've grown attached to no-wave, noise rock, trip-hop, twee pop and shoegaze all by myself, by browsing the internet. It's a wonderful musical relationship, we're always sending each other songs from new bands we've found, constantly contributing to broadening each other's horizons.

To give you an idea, my favorite artists right now are Sonic Youth, The Smiths, Los Campesinos, St. Vincent, Kate Bush and Björk.

EDIT: Oh yes, I have to give credit to my dad too. I have this folk-ish side, sometimes I can't listen to anything else than Neil Young or Joni Mitchell, got that from him. I influence him too though, I got him into Jenny Lewis and Sixpence None the Richer. There's some stuff he just can't stand though, no matter how hard I try. Heavier music mostly, like Dinosaur Jr, but also the whole trip-hop scene. He'll always be more of an acoustic kind of guy.

well when i was a kid i first listened to spice girls and backstreet boys :| now i listen to megadeth and system of a down :| how'd that happen i have no cluelonewolf604

Through the radio when i was 12. Kind of ironic now that I think about it. :P

I used to listen to regular Pop music and Elvis when I was a real young kid until I was introduced to the likes of Metallica, which resulted in me buying MOP, and later I started to listen to other thrash bands like Megadeth which is currently my favorite of the genre. Then I heard "The Kids Aren't Alright" by The Offspring and was hooked. So I began listening to others in the genre. After 13 years of living in my town I moved somewhere else to my mom's boyfriend's house which caused me to get kind of depressed and I ended up listening to the likes of Marilyn Manson who I still listen to now. Then I heard "Killing In The Name" for the first time which got me into Rage and other funk/metal bands such as Primus, Fishbone, and RHCP, as well as Mike Patton's stuff. Currently I'm listening to Incubus

My dad. I now listen to lots of blues-rock, and classic stuff like Eric Clapton, Fleetwood Mac, Foghat, and the Rolling Stones.

Started with Jay-Z. I used to love Jay-Z. Oddly enough, that evolved into me getting into more underground hip-hop then continuing to listen to blues, classic, psychedelic, prog, etc...Rock.

I enjoy a diverse taste in music. Theres just too much good music out there just to like one genre. I also must say..Gamespot has helped with finding some new bands/artists.

I am really not sure how. Most of the times I guess I heard lots of "That band was/is great!" and I went to check their work out.

From people here, lastfm, my friends, family, etc.

I listened to Red Hot Chili Peppers, rap, and Linkin Park when I was a little kid. Then when I was 10 I heard Iron Maiden and I was blown away. Eventually I heard Iced Earth and then eventually steered towards black and death metal. I can't stand RHCP, rap, LP, or Iced Earth anymore. KHAndAnime

[QUOTE="KHAndAnime"]I listened to Red Hot Chili Peppers, rap, and Linkin Park when I was a little kid. Then when I was 10 I heard Iron Maiden and I was blown away. Eventually I heard Iced Earth and then eventually steered towards black and death metal. I can't stand RHCP, rap, LP, or Iced Earth anymore. GTR2addict

I listened to hip-hop until my older bro moved to rock and when my dad ordered guitar hero. I also got some music here on the GS forums. Now I listen to rock and metal

My older brothers stuff got my taste kicked off around age 14... after that I just found my own way by listening to a lot of music, and reading a lot of books about music.