[Closed] More music - have your tastes changed over the years?

Arrghhh - can't stop myself!
honorable mentions in no particular order:
The who - Ian Dury, lee "scratch" Perry, Yellowman, Felix da housecat, chicane, Al Green, Daft Punk
I also have had a constant interest in african music especially kanda bongo man

Edit - and of course a gulity pleasure country rock - the Byrds,etc

I was born in 84.

I loved 60s, 70s rock / punk / pop as a young teen before moving on to 90s Indie / Britpop etc

Punk, ska, two tone, punk rock and similar always permeated and I enjoyed my 3rd wave ska period at uni. Mixed this with country; especially James Taylor. A bit of drum and base, happy hardcore or whatever else when dancing for hours and hours.

Since then I've not had any real preferences. REM, White Stripes, Grateful Dead, James Taylor and Bob Dylan are my favourites with many others coming and going.

There's a theme but not too strong.

First song I liked was I Can Sing A Rainbow by Cilla Black. I guess my taste has changed a little.

I can't do a sensible answer cos everyone hates me on music threads 😥

Jump in Dez. I am sure a few folk hate my choices!
Really I like pretty much everything bar folk, rap and pretentious tuneless twaddle like bjork

Always looking for new music - I get bored of dragging the old records out.

I can barely listen to the poodle hair rock I was into in the early 80's. I bought a few on vinyl for old times sake - lordy most of it was rubbish!

Most of the above but as I've aged I'm sorry to say my tastes have mellowed, two years ago I discovered Mandolin Orange (probably because of the lovely Emily) and then Trampled by Turtles, which is full-blown bluegrass. Never thought that would happen.

I'd challenge anybody not to fall in love with this mellow cover:

The first song I remember enjoying came out when I was 3. I still love Mannfred Mann’s music.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4QN7kmOhBMw

Then far too much stuff to give an idea of what I like without missing out too much and giving a wrong impression- and I’m sure this is true for many.
Here’s some folk, rap and Bjork

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XaI5IRuS2aE

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM5_6js19eM

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BeAZ9DQZFz8

I can’t do a sensible answer cos everyone hates me on music threads 😥

DezB at least I feel you have some credibility, I just like what I like 😁.

Since we hardly ever have any classical or jazz on these threads.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-2SvMeyeOgQ

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=crpJgZxqMcg

Well, see I've never been one to be into a whole genre, or dismiss a whole genre. I mostly got into music through glam rock in the 70s, when my old man brought me home a box of T Rex records. Then da punk rock came along and I liked some of it, but it got me into reading the NME, which opened up a whole world of stuff. Started listening to John Peel who played a massive variety. But I suppose the post-punk thing appealed most, like Gang of Four, Siouxsie, then Bauhaus (bit of Goff, but they were weird and different and I couldn't stand other goff stuff, which was very dull). From Bauhaus discovered Bowie, well from being in a band with a big Bowie fan.
Now, I like everything that appeals to me ears. No such thing as pretentious twaddle, only boring old gits playing the same old guitar sounds that have been around since the 70s, but then, some of them I enjoy. No rhyme or reason for it.
Some key things

https://youtu.be/xjDLc-8tW2I

https://youtu.be/ElhAysq3O6c
https://youtu.be/_9smGkusTkM
and onwards 😆
until
https://youtu.be/gqY2CNMsFKw
tip a the iceberg

Gauss - you just couldn't resist could you! 🙂

And rap is ****ing awesome, rap and grime are among the few genres trying to do something different. Along with freaky electronic nerds in their bedrooms.

t rex and stooges - very good! I often wonder what would Bolan have become - would he have ended up a fat parody of himself like Elvis or would he have reinvented himself and grown like Bowie?

Then far too much stuff to give an idea of what I like without missing out too much and giving a wrong impression- and I’m sure this is true for many.

I fogot the whole velvet underground / lou reed era! Loads of other stuff as well

Up to today

Some long haired/pretentious stuff?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8RbXIMZmVv8

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P53dmwz0ewc

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f9GAkA7W5Qg

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r9lpLm7jwQY

Mine have expanded rather than changed. I grew up with one parent listening to country, the other soul and an older brother in to metal. I started playing bass in my teens and just began collecting music with good bass lines. That led to listening to Jazz, hip-hop, rock, reggae, blues and pretty much every other genre. Never really got in to electronica and not a great fan of most pop music. Can’t stand ABBA.

Other than that I love listening to music new and old.

Born in '68, I listen almost exclusively to music from my past- Acid House, Madchester, Reggae, Faith No More ....
Very rarely do I hear anything new that gets me going. Gerry Cinnamon's good though.

This one tune sums me up though

Music has been a massive part of my life, when CD players came out we ate beans on toast for a month as my dad went to do the monthly shopping and came back with one 😂

I began developing my own taste in music in the late 80's and began going to gigs and then clubs that my friends were doing, some were extremely successful and influential in the music industry and continue to develop new sounds. TBH, it was the more the availability of drugs that would appeal to me rather than who was playing.

I still listen to the old stuff, I've not long got a master tape of Lenny Dee playing at Pure, Summerhouse or possibly Soma in '93 (it's all a bit hazy) I've still got the connections and they share the music they've found on various apps, so my tastes are still developing.

The tune association thread has led me to some stuff if not heard and quite like, I think dezb's taste is similar to mine :-\ 😂

I’m a walking cliché - the late forties, white guy at the Grime gig. 😂

I’m glad I don’t have to go on a grindr date with DebZ - I’d have to answer “all sorts” to the inevitable question. Hopefully there’d be some sexy times beforehand.

In 2018 I got back into country in a big way and also dipped my toes and am now really enjoying Grime (probably pretty mainstream stuff though).

I didn’t really get into hip-hop till the 21st century.

Always liked different types of music& still do.
I started off as a pop kid, turned a bit indie/rock and then went to sabresonic & turned into an acid ted! Ha.
These days I much prefer electronic music, mainly instrumental tbh.
I have mucho respect for the likes of dez & dd who continue to seek out new stuff . It’s rare these days a new rock band/song gets me excited tbh.

I can’t do a sensible answer cos everyone hates me on music threads

🤣 you just have eclectic taste, some of us admire it and some of us just don’t. Doesn’t stop us from occasionally hitting play on something you’ve posted 🤠

My taste, varied but essentially similar to what I’ve always listened to. I tend to think “that’s cool, who is it” then find out who else is in that genre and head off down a musical journey.. I’ve found many a decent artist or artists that have become staple go-to listening material.

I play guitar, neo-soul/jazz so loads of artists in that genre appeal.. but mainly just to learn how/what they do and the phrasing and tones.. but I can’t listen to them day-in/day-out because it tends to sound similar. Currently listening and learning Isiah Sharky riffs, so his back catalogue is pinned in iTunes.

But that’s not the whole story.

Early listening when a kid was stuff like Parliament and Earth Wind and Fire, Disco and Funk, AWB and Bobby Womack, Creedance, Diana Ross, KC and the Sunshine Band, Kool & the Gang, Larry Graham and Grand Central Station, Sly & the Family Stone, Eagles anything on USA FM stations at the time.

Then dabbled in a bit of rock, Sabbath/Van Halen/Scorpions/Zeppelin/Dokken/White Lion and such like. Also Country, Brad Paisley/Aaron Watson/  Kenny Chesney, Folk like Kate Rusby.. There are two more favourites, John Mayer and Jason Mraz just to give you a flavour.

I am a massive fan of House Music and Deephouse, dabbled in Techno, I’ve mates who DJ House music events and it’s just awesome to throw shapes and kick your heels.. I subscribe to Soundcloud and get most of my dance stuff off there, Horse Meat Disco, Glitterbox, Defected Radio to name just a few.

And back to current favourites, well Angie Stone/Jill Scott/Erykah Badu/Solange/India.Arie feature heavily and of course my ultimate artist who I visit at least once a week .. Sade.

So, today I listened to Grace Jones then Dance/House podcasts on soundcloud and now I’m about to play guitar to Angie Stone...

🤷‍♂️

I would say in general and fairly broadly, that electronic music is my go to music. I got into house in my early teens, around when acid house was coming into the mainstream. The stuff in the charts like the Jack that House built, the Cookie Crew... Before it had settled into what house is today, so late 80s. Listening to compilation albums around the age of 14, The Greatest Hits of House, Deep Heat albums (Telstar!). Then the Orb, then rave music at college doing a-level art and sitting in this little secluded patch of trees round the back of the canteen know as 'the herb garden'. Brief foray into death metal. But also around that time, indie music, My Bloody Valentine, Lush, Curve, and hip hop, PE Ice T Icecube NWA. Nothing majorly unexpected. Also because studying art, was exposed to Velvet Underground & Nico, Early Pink Floyd (Relics), but everything had to be non-mainstream, non-sell-out, and underground. Watched Pink Floyd live in Athens one night on CH4 (probably), managed to record it, loved it. Went to a local legal rave a few times, never any of the big London raves, and never any illegal raves. Saw Radiohead before they were well known, in the Penny Theatre, Canterbury. Glastonberry in 93, missed most of Verve, one of my favourite bands at the time, as I got too hot and decided I really had to take my top back to my tent. Hardcore indeed. A year or two later, techno and trance became the thing, until I got bored to tears of 4/4 and the lack of beats. My tastes in the decades since have evolved slightly, more extreme forms of electronic music, to the point I'm not sure I even like it or not, sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. Threw out all my old rave tapes before 2000 then a decade or two later spent hours looking for tracks on youtube. Dipped into jazz, as long as it's not too.... as long as it has something about it. Never been a part of any scene, not been to a gig since... I don't know. Forever. Hate clubs. Becoming old find modern rap and trap or grime difficult and challenging to listen to, or just ******ing annoying, it just sounds like boasting and whining and misogynstic. Blah blah. /END

I like everything and anything, always have, but Bon Jovi make me a bit nauseous and the harder end of techno gives me a nosebleed.

Oh, and metal bands that take themselves seriously. Metallica, I'm looking at you. Not angry, just very disappointed etc.....

I'd say my core tastes haven't changed, but fringe stuff comes and goes. Growing up, I don't recall ever hearing my mum's favourites playing at home. But then she was into Cliff Richard and Harry Connick Jr, so that was probably a good thing! There was always music on though, and it was always dad's stuff. Mostly country and folk, with a bit of rock and metal.

Earliest music memories are Sunday evenings having dinner with the charts on radio 1. I can mostly remember Queen from that period. In my early teens my dad would record Raw Power and we'd watch that together before Grandstand on a Saturday morning (droogies, boozers, strumpets and losers... Welcome to the Kosmos 🤘😁). My first albums were Aerosmith's Get a Grip and Metallica's ...and Justice for All. Both are still favourites and get played regularly.

My mate Tez introduced me to the Wildhearts in the sixth form, another mate tried to get me into Megadeth and Pantera but they never really clicked.

I've mostly listened to rock and metal over the years, but have a soft spot for country and folk. Hate rap/r'n'b/urban music. I'm open to new stuff and try it now and again but I just don't get it. I even tried listening to a bit of grime recently, after music threads on STW (see DezB, some people do listen to you!). It's not for me. Having said that, one of the best gigs I ever went to was Everlast in 2004...

On the one hand I do listen to a lot of the same old tunes that I've always listened to, but I also listen to a lot of new stuff. Current favourite bands include Halestorm, Devilskin, the Pretty Reckless (have a thing at the moment for rock outfits with female leads), but I also like a bit of Southern Gothic country - The Devil Makes Three, The Dead South, Crooked Still, that sort of thing.

And there's always room for random stuff like 80's cheese (Men in Hats, Belinda Carlisle, Transvision Vamp, Starship, Europe) and turn-of-the millenium trance/ambient 😊

Its a lot easier for me to say what I don't like than what I do.
Too much good stuff and just a few genres I don't. Trad Jazz I'm looking at you.
What have I listened to today? Christina Aguilera, Sigrid's album, Yes (Close to the Edge) and a couple of Steinski collections. Been on the bike too much and working/listening to Parliament in action/inaction to fit music in.

70s – heavy metal boy / prog rock – long hair. afghan coat and clogs! Went to loads of concerts and saw all the big names. Now I find it all unlistenable – trite and pretentious or just second rate derivative music. Spinal tap was the final nail in the coffin. How anyone can take it seriously after seeing spinal tap amazes me. Of course a bit of punk in the late 70s.
80s – Reggae ruled my life. Jetstar / lovers rock, roots, dub. Manchester pirate radio. Twotone / 1st wave ska as well. got into a lot of soul as well with the odd flirtation with pub rock / new wave, new romantic. I did have big purple hair for a while. but mainly dressed as a young soul rebel in later 80s but in early 80s it was rude boy – black suit, white shirt, black skinny tie trilby
90s – house music took over. Mainly chicago house but also a bit of techno and trance. Still liked my reggae, ska and soul and some indie bands. starting to dress like a middle aged man.
00s – the House continued but mellowed out a bit. A lot of euro house and chillout. I was getting older. No longer dress to impress. Once desribed as looking like a post apocalyptic geography teacher 🙂
Now – I find myself rarely finding any new music I like.

That's a reasonable summary of NME covers over the years...😉

For me there's a difference between teenage passion and identification with music and bands, which even by your 20s is becoming something more measured.

Expanded rather than changed. I can even listen to (some) Country and Western now.

In 1976 a pal gave me a cassette of an album called 2112 by a band called Rush. It was the best thing I had ever heard. 43 years later they are still, by far, my favourite band.

I also still live most of the rock/metal/prog bands I was into back then, the likes of Blue Oyster Cult, Iron Maiden etc. I mention those two particularly as I've sen both live in the last year and both put on superb performances.

That said, my taste has also widened to include an assortment of other bands, singers etc. Of those Half Man Half Biscuit are way out in front.

I've also become a big classical music fan, particularly the Russian composers. Years ago someone told me that if I liked heavy metal then there was a good chance I would get into classical music as there are a lot of similarities in how the music is structured. I didn't believe them, but there you go.

Ta chaps - some good stuff there and some of you ( Gauss I'm looking at you ) need to step outside and have a word! 🙂 I shall have fun listening to some of it and some real memories brought back. Nostalgia - its not what it used to be

NME - yes a big influence. Lonesome groover my hero.

rush 2112 - I saw them live at the glasgow apollo in 76 on the 2112 tour Don't think I could listen to them now tho
Classical / metal - how about ELP - pictures at an exhibition?

started out listening to Robbie Vincent, Greg Edwards and Al Matthews output of soul, R&B, jazz funk, etc when I was about 14 and been into dance music ever since.

listened to Gilles Peterson since about 22 and now I have more jazz and blues in my tastes.

Also a fan of Benji B.

although I am a fan of most black influenced dance music I find a lot of grime to be seriously distastful.

Also never really into trance and other 'white-boy' forms of dance music - too fast and devoid of any 'soul'.

Also hi-nrg was out !

northern soul is in though.

There's tons of great music around, more than when I was younger.

lone Groover !
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Excellent. Resplendent with his stoat codpiece...

all this Tolkien, all these heads... Maybe I should start a band called the Tolkien Heads*

*Years later this became a joke

I still use the "years later" line. No one has a clue what I'm on about. From the Lone Groover's Little Red Book.

This ones for Kennyp. I did love a bit of ELP back in the day. russian composer given the prog rock treatment

Absolutely, yes.
When I first started listening to music it was SLF, The Damned, The Clash etc. Then along came Bauhaus, Killing Joke, Sisters of Mercy, Fields of The Nephilim etc. Then Nirvana, Pearl Jam, etc. Now it’s all of the above plus Beethoven, Tchaikovsky etc.
Constant throughout, though, since 1982, New Model Army.

I'm really not sure if my taste has changed that much but over the last 10 years I've definitely become a lot more open to actually seeking out and giving different music a chance than I was. I used to be very much punk/rock/meta, a bit of really aggro hiphop and techno but mostly where I had an "in" like say the Prodigy and Cypress Hill that had a chunk of crossover...

l but I think a really big part of that, was that I was still exploring all of that stuff and filling up that space in my head and spending my time and budget on it, and I just didn't feel like finding new confusing things to listen to was as big a return.

Put it another way... 20 year old Northwind would have never made the effort to really listen to sibelius or reg spector or sigur ros or king tubby or Mogwai (I had a near miss with Mogwai but it was over a decade before I followed it up), but would almost certainly have loved it, if he had. my tastes haven't changed, I just hadn't tasted it because I was still busy eating all the familiar tastes I loved.|

(and 40 year old Northwind is going to rock out just as hard to Machine Head touring their debut album which came out when he was 15)

This will take way too long ..so the shortened version ...
It started with the Beatles " Hard Days Night" with an open sponge of a mind at 6 years old ..( too many groups to name check in between then and now )
The bus is currently parked at thinking that Gary Clark Jr...is probably the best thing since sliced bread!
Also listening to Willie and the Bandits ..( crap name ) ..their new album "Paths" is worth a listen .
I've adapted over the years ..realising that my love of mainly Classic,Electric Blues & Prog rock weren't going to help at the disco ( with the ladies) back in the 70's..so my tastes also include stuff like Earth Wind & Fire , Commodores , Brothers Johnson ..Barry White, O Jays, Isley Brothers etc..
The first single I bought was The Searchers ..Needles & Pins ..the first album Tyrranasaurus Rex..first live band Emerson Lake & Palmer " Tarkus" tour at the Odeon in Newcastle...I won't claim to be at the Pictures At An Exhibition gig ( there must have been in excess of a million folks crammed into the City Hall the night that was recorded !😁 )..still discovering lots of "new" bands playing rock music ..The Virginmarys , Rival Sons, Black Coffee , La Chinga, Coop ..to name but a few ..and long may it continue ...

Wouldn't say my tastes have changed as much as I might say they've been added to. Music taste is like a big suitcase to me that you fill up along the way. Sometimes you might have to make a bit of space in there but mostly, you just keep on stuffing it in.

My early youth, two artists stand out.

I could still listen to either... 🙂

Grew up a bit and hip-hop-happened

https://youtu.be/t-Tup1s9OFE

https://youtu.be/9iepns3-Nsg

Skateboarding ran through my blood all this time and the culture naturally led you to American punk/hardcore

https://youtu.be/5pMCmu6Ov1k

https://youtu.be/8mtHaJzrpgo

https://youtu.be/ygB1g0lC-Tk

https://youtu.be/cMOAXm94VWo

Fugazi are still one of my all time favourite bands and I still listen to them amongst all the others (except maybe shaky 😂 )

Roots Reggae and Dub then got added to the suitcase when laying around at friends houses, stoned off your head was a thing.

https://youtu.be/5dyZGtsrQGA

Lifelong love of reggae since then.

https://youtu.be/bkf1Pm5o-iE

But with reggae, still the punk/hardcore

https://youtu.be/4_FTAedPPIw

I listen to way less punk these days I guess so my tastes have either diverted or changed.

Still massive reggae fan but struggle to discover much newer reggae that I like, so it's usually backwards-looking.

I think the thing for me is that music was my focus when I was young. Now it's not, and so I'm just not that excited kid anymore with the brand new record in his hand.

I like these threads though as it allows me to discover new to me things.

Six music is mostly my taste I'd say and they play almost everything. 🙂👍

Classical / metal – how about ELP – pictures at an exhibition?

Not heard it but Pictures at an Exhibition is a great piece of music, so CD is now on order. Looking forward to hearing their take on it. Ta.

And on a similar vein I still love Blackmore's take on Beethoven.

Six music is mostly my taste I’d say and they play almost everything

😱😱

Actually nah, this is pretty handy for slow phone typing. I like all kinds of music, except what they play on 6 music...

Years ago someone told me that if I liked heavy metal then there was a good chance I would get into classical music as there are a lot of similarities in how the music is structured.

I would suggest prog rock/classical have closer links. ELP (as mentioned above) and The Nice for "classical covers" (not just "Pictures"), Yes, Genesis, Zappa were all part of my journey to classical music. Classical makes up by far the majority of music I listen to and play these days, but it all started with prog rock in my teens and I still listen to a lot of that old stuff.

I like all kinds of music, except what they play on 6 music…

Really? Across all shows, what sort of stuff don't they play? Seems they have 'eclectic' pretty well covered. 🙂

kayak23 - something I have learnt on music threads over the years... questioning people about their choices or opinions expressed is pointless 🙂

Got a gig Saturday. HEALTH. Pretty thrilled as they haven't toured down this way before (or if they did it was a long time ago and I missed it!)
Gone be heavy. See I can do heavy too (of a sort)

Very true Dezb. Just interested really as to me, they cover a lot of bases 🙂👍

Absolutely anything and everything in the sixties. I/we didn’t distinguish between genres it was just music.
Less so in seventies as bands disappeared or reformed into ‘super groups’ that became less accessible both musically and physically.
Eighties I was busy.
Ninetees nah. Lost interest when bands became their own tribute band. Modern music phw.
Since then listen mainly to classical and jazz with new discoveries daily.
Current fav

See also Incredible String Band to complete the circle.

I would suggest prog rock/classical have closer links. ELP (as mentioned above) and The Nice for “classical covers” (not just “Pictures”), Yes, Genesis, Zappa were all part of my journey to classical music. Classical makes up by far the majority of music I listen to and play these days, but it all started with prog rock in my teens and I still listen to a lot of that old stuff.

That's a fair point. When I was young and first getting into music I didn't differentiate (still don't really) much between heavy metal, hard rock, prog rock etc but yes you're right, probably classical has more in common with prog than metal.

That said, I first realised I was really getting into classical music was coming home a bit tipsy (okay, more than a bit) one night and sticking the 1812 Overture on at full volume. That really was 19th century heavy metal. Still love it cranked up loud and cannons blazing.

Absolutely anything and everything in the sixties. I/we didn’t distinguish between genres it was just music.
Less so in seventies as bands disappeared or reformed into ‘super groups’ that became less accessible both musically and physically.
Eighties I was busy.
Ninetees nah. Lost interest when bands became their own tribute band. Modern music phw.
Since then listen mainly to classical and jazz with new discoveries daily.
Current fav

That piece of music is actually Italian Baroque pop music, written by a complete prodigy. How did you find that? Look up Marco Beasley if you like that kind of stuff, I emailed to ask if he had any plans to tour the UK and the man himself replied that so far, nobody has invited him.

I always thought the Baha Men were rather good

Really? Across all shows, what sort of stuff don’t they play? Seems they have ‘eclectic’ pretty well covered. 🙂

6music only have to play it and I don't like it 😁 Context init. I mean there is some shite (Steve Lamaq and interchangable indie..., L Laverne. Dad's Job. Pro Scouser. The list goes on without getting into the ex R1 brigade.) I guess I've antibodies to the notion of 'quality' music for music lovers.

Off to see snarky puppy when their world tour brings them to Manchester at some point in the distance. I think Antarctica is the only continent they miss. Oh, and Africa.

I love pretty much all genres of music from medieval stuff through to various classical bits and then on to extreme of death and black metal with stops through the all of various alternative subcultures and randomly beautiful. about the only thing that makes my soul die is really bland manufactured safe music with no real passion.

My normal musical playlists have changed over time though with less 80's goth, punk, new wave, more extreme grindcore, hardcore and most the brutal of face melting techno/electronica/noise terrorism

Another vote here for Snarky Puppy.

That said, I first realised I was really getting into classical music was coming home a bit tipsy (okay, more than a bit) one night and sticking the 1812 Overture on at full volume. That really was 19th century heavy metal. Still love it cranked up loud and cannons blazing.

Then let me recommend the Cincinnati/Kunzel recording on the Telarc label with real cannons.

I'm looking forward to playing in the 1812 this summer but sadly I understand there won't be cannons.

6music only have to play it and I don’t like it 😁 Context init. I mean there is some shite (Steve Lamaq and interchangable indie…, L Laverne. Dad’s Job. Pro Scouser. The list goes on without getting into the ex R1 brigade.) I guess I’ve antibodies to the notion of ‘quality’ music for music lovers.

Inverse snobbery.

Some interesting stuff on here. Seems like I am very much in a minority finding much of the music of my teenage years completely unlistenable now.

Sabbath, Led Zep, Rush, ELP - a huge part of my teenage years now just has no appeal.

I would suggest prog rock/classical have closer links. ELP (as mentioned above) and The Nice for “classical covers” (not just “Pictures”), Yes, Genesis, Zappa were all part of my journey to classical music. Classical makes up by far the majority of music I listen to and play these days, but it all started with prog rock in my teens and I still listen to a lot of that old stuff.

Not so sure about classical being the only link, there’s just as much of a jazz influence in the majority of Prog(ressive) music. Even Jethro Tull, mainly seen as a Prog/folk band have jazz in the mix, listen to Boureé, for example; a JS Bach tune, with added jazzy bits!

Yes have a strong jazz influence, especially their early stuff, but it’s far stronger in the music of King Crimson, Greenslade and Gentle Giant, all of whom I love, but I really don’t like jazz itself! Soft Machine and Steely Dan are also jazz-influenced.

Back to the main point of the post - I guess my tastes haven’t changed that much, more expanded through years of hearing new stuff. I’ve always liked rock, pop, folk, some classical, which has expanded to include punk, indie, some rap, electronica,just whatever catches my ear, so Massive Attack, Portishead, Goldfrapp, Aphex Twin, Orbital, then into Canadian bands like Arcade Fire, Metric, Stars...
There’s just so much I can’t keep up, every time I listen to 6Music I hear something I like, like Idols, Sleaford Mods, BC Camplight, La Luz, Ex:Re, King Princess...
There are lots that I still like from forty-fifty years ago, but others I’ve just grown out of, like Sabbath.

Tj ; )

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_zC-QYFK7Ro

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zwLBaBeo1k4

time to think again? (although I’ll admit, to not listening to Zeppelin much any more).

Seems like I am very much in a minority finding much of the music of my teenage years completely unlistenable now

Yeah, I don't really find much of it unlistenable, just hardly any interest in going back to a lot of it cos there's so much new stuff to listen to.
But then I do have a problem. Trying to find something new ALL THE TIME! It gets so expensive, buying stuff off Bandcamp and juno - just can't stop it and really don't get time to listen to the stuff I've bought enough. "Oh that's good! I'll buy that... oh er, already got it. Duh".

I still don't like country and western, but I am more open to jazz than I ever used to be.

6music only have to play it and I don’t like it 😁 Context init. I mean there is some shite (Steve Lamaq and interchangable indie…, L Laverne. Dad’s Job. Pro Scouser. The list goes on without getting into the ex R1 brigade.) I guess I’ve antibodies to the notion of ‘quality’ music for music lovers.

Inverse snobbery.

Hey there's nothing inverse about it.

(I've obviously zero to base any snobbery on, this is just habit. Music was a huge big deal to me in my late teens and isn't anymore. That's the main change. I still listen, but everything is so easy to get hold of now -unless you're a sad hobbyist, see above 😉- there's no homework to be done, unless you particularly want to, to get into a band. So it's mainly just surface listening to the music without getting hooked in and feeling part of something. Which is fine.)

unless you’re a sad hobbyist

Hiya! 😆

Dez..there is very little of the type of music that you like that floats my boat ..but man I've really come to admire your passion in the relatively short time that I've been on this forum
10/10 ..

Hello, this is my first post on STW.

Born 1958. In the 1960s at 9/10 years old I was captivated by Motown and other similar music from black (mainly) America. I'm 60 now and RnB/soul music is still my default choice and listening preference. There's something about it that just gets some people and it got me.

I've got it for life - there are others with it too, they can be seen in their 60s and 70s, shuffling round any number of soul nights around the country at the weekends, addicted for the last 50 plus years.

So no - my tastes haven't changed...

Hello newby!

Dez..there is very little of the type of music that you like that floats my boat .

I betcha there’s some crossover somewhere... Mainly because I don’t like any one “type of music”! 😊

Nice one Dero ..

Dez..it could take a while to find it though 😁

Thanks DezB and hodgynd!

I'm enjoying a Friday night beer in the kitchen listening to Vince Peach's show from Australia:
https://www.pbsfm.org.au/soultime, the longest running soul show in the world apparently.

Vince has lived in Aus since the early 80s. Notably though, he's taken on absolutely zero of the accent and is still 100% Liverpool...

Not so sure about classical being the only link,

That's not what I was suggesting. I said I thought there was a closer link between prog rock and classical than between heavy metal and classical (in answer to kennyp).