Has your taste in music changed?

Yes. I am a decade older than you, and was twelve when Bill Haley's Rock Around the Clock hit the popular music stations in Chicago... which means that I was also hearing regular ballads and big band music on other stations, so I liked some big band and jazz before I liked rock. I got fairly tired of what I thought of as bubblegum rock music and was thrilled when fm came into being and what I thought of as more interesting rock was played. I also liked blues, r&b, jazz, preferably latin jazz. and once in a while some classical.

I had a watershed event happen with our house remodel - the loud playing of top 40 (whatever) rock, for several months, keeping our main helper happy. While I love many of the cuts - oh, some Joe Cocker, the Animals, for example - I just can't listen to much of it any more, those few months killed my pop rock receptors. That was in the 90's.

Also, earlier than that, sorry folks, around about the time of The Eagles, I started to tune out, yaaack. Most of what I did like in rock was pre-Eagles.

In the meantime, I got all busy with school and work, and stopped being so glued to the radio. When I did check in, I started trying to pick up the classical stations.. usually the npr type stations that would also play 'world music'.

I remain a doofus (doof-a?) on classical, but I am still interested in it. Have even opened my ears to opera, which I spent some years shunning...

I know this is going to sound funny but I really liked classical as a kid and later on liked rock and roll, jazz, r&b, country and western.

Hasn't really changed, as much as expanded. While I used to listen to pretty much only heavy metal and rap, now I'm pretty much all over the board.

Well, I started out with the usual fare. Rock and Pop for the most part in the 60's and 70's, Beatles, Stones, Hendrix, Motown.

Disco in the 80's and the inclusion of classical, brought on by the Kramer vs. Kramer soundtrack and the incredible clarity of Luciano Pavarotti's voice. Voices and style became inportant then and I got into Streisand, Ella, Mathis, Sinatra, Patsy Cline. Also blues. I lived near Buddy Guy's club in Chicago and took in many a show.

I started listening to more and more jazz in the 90's and now I switch back and forth between classic oldies and a jazz station that plays both classic and contemporary artists.

I don't listen to much of the new stuff. The last new musical style that I really paid any attention to was new jack swing. What was that? 1985?

I've always made it a point to attempt to keep up with new music.

I've tried but I just don't likemuch of the new stuff. Everyone sounds the same to me. I do like alot of the beats used in rap music but can't distinguish the lyrics, which is probably just as well.

I notice whenever I first hear a new genre of music, I think "it all sounds the same" too. But like hearing a lot of albums that are new to you, sometimes you have to force yourself to listen to it over and over for a while before it "hits" you.

I love music, alway's have.

My taste in music hasn't drastically changed, but it has shifted. When I was 14 I appreciated the top 40 groups of the day, Led Z., The Who, Stones, but I preferred groups that were not as main stream, such as - King Crimson, Roxy Music, Emerson Lake and Palmer. But I also liked a tiny bit of classical.

Now I still like my oldies, but I love classical. Certain pieces make me melt.

The only genre I haven't taken a liking to is jazz, I have no idea why.

Paula, have you seen The Who in concert? I've seen them a couple times, they're unreal.

No I haven't. I should download Quadrophenia (spelling) though.

Hello Reyn, we were born the same year. I have always liked many kinds of music especially rock music. For many years I loathed opera…but now, I guess I mellowed, because some of it is so beautiful to listen to…

Howdy, guys! Nice to see some of my peers here.

As a couple of you, I was brought up on classical music. My parents played it in the house on their records (remember those?). Bach and Mozart mainly.

Like any kid in his teens, of course you start to rebel against that and listen to what most people at the time were listening to. If I had been a teen in the 40's, perhaps it would have been the big band stuff.

I have trouble warming up to newer music, like rap, for example. It just doesn't feel right for me. Never been a big fan of country and western either, although some artists (Shania Twain comes to mind) seem to blend styles and can't easily be pigeon-holed, as in the past. I think that's a good thing.

Nowadays, I listen a lot to the likes of Holly Cole and contemporaries. I'm terrible with names, so I won't even try to list them.

I can now more appreciate the likes and dislikes of other people from earlier generations and are more tolerant of that.

Lucky girl.

I couldn't believe how lucky! Just a few blocks away from Grant Park, I saw just about all of the free concerts, Jazzfest, Bluesfest, Gospelfest. It was great.

I can imagine! Wow.

I agree wholeheartedly and try to keep up with new music too.

Reyn, this thread is fun! Your jarring my memory and I love it.

I grew up on Engelbert Humperdink, - pleeeease release me let me goooooooo. He has a wonderful, warm voice, that song reminds me of my grammy, she always played that when I was there.

My mom LOVED Johnny Cash. The lyrics to most of his songs are tattooed in my memory.
He sure had an amazing ability to make the majority of his music sound as if there were a train a-commin'...<boom-chika-boom-chika-boom>

Luther Perkins created the familiar Johnny Cash "boom-chicka-boom" guitar style forever linked to the Man in Black, and his music. In my opinion, one cannot think of Johnny Cash without considering the simple, yet affective guitar work Luther developed (1955-1968), and (from 1969) Bob Wootten continued. Indeed, Bob continued to refine, and adapt the unique "Luther style" while at the same time retain the integrity of one of the most recognized sounds of the twentieth century."

I was lucky to grow up in a house full of classical and folk music...especially the folk music of Spain and Latin America.