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niatinari:
I suppose for me, my musical tastes are a combination of nurture and nature.  I have left behind a lot of my musical roots and almost never touch anything my parents introduced me to, although now and again, I get odd cravings for things I listened to back in the day.

When I was little I listened to a lot of classical music because I danced to it in ballet and I played the piano.  Then my sister picked up the violin and I played French horn, so it was MORE classical music (and marching band stuff).  On top of that was Christian music from my parents and Beatles from my dad, so my musical experience was not very broad.  My sister's friend was in jazz and shared some of her music, but other than that, no, I really didn't know ANYTHING that was popular when I was younger.  I am still fond of piano and string instrument pieces, and as I've said, give me the accoustic/instrumental/unplugged version of anything, and I'm pretty much guaranteed to melt.  Lute, harpsichord, hammered dulcimer, and harp are also weaknesses of mine.

In high school and college, friends introduced me to a lot of things at once (ska, punk, rock, filk, metal that didn't go over well for the most part) and I discovered Celtic music and Ceili, swing, and musicals.  Then I started liking Jpop and Jrock, which I am still very into, although I've noticed my preferences in other genres have carried over to what I'll enjoy in Japanese too.

Titan:
I think my movement into metal came alot from my personality.

When I was young I loved ancient greek legends, etc, and I guess I still do. Like someone above, I also enjoy some classical music, which I think is at least slightly evident in my metal preferances.

Basically, you'll never find an inde/pop band singing (in any decent way) about things like Greek legends, Heaven and Hell (I'm talking about in depth), Horror stories, etc, etc - it just doesn't fit the style.

I think my interest in music was also sparked from my dad's things, but most prominently by The Doors. The flashes of lightning still stick in my mind from Riders On The Storm, and it's this sort of effect that my favourite metal satisfies.

However, I don't believe that I was all that influenced by that - I think I just knew that's what I wanted once I'd heard it. I'm not saying my dad didn't influence my personality though, and quite frankly I don't want to get into whether or not my personality was formed by my parents and the outside world - that's another discussion.

Metal is a mindset, pop is a mindset. That's my take on it.

Hector Gilbert:

--- Quote from: salada ---(is it just me, or does everyone who likes drum and bass just like it instantly (or conversely: you don't like it now, you didnt like it then)? kinda the wrong forum to be asking this, but i'm interested all the same)
--- End quote ---


Actually, in my case drum'n'bass is something that I used to always listen to but eventually got half-bored with.  Eight years ago when I was about ten my uncle was (he still is) an artist in the field, and he started sending me drum'n'bass mix CDs of his and of his friends.  I always loved rhythms, but I was intensely bored by most melodic songs until I was about thirteen or fourteen and until then drum'n'bass, hard house and video game soundtracks were all I listened to.  I had brief phases with a couple of bands but a lot of that was to please my peers, I wasn't passionate about any kind of rock music at all until I was fifteen.  However, after that I began to get tired of what I used to listen to and craved more variety...

Johnny C:
Am I like an isolated case here? I discovered indie music by accident, neither nature nor nurture, really; I just double clicked on something in KaZaA that sounded vaguely interesting ("Interpol? I wonder if that's some kind of techno or something!") and wound up as an Interpol fan. I went to the library and grabbed some random CDs two years ago in December to do a school project, and one of them happened to be Wilco. I researched these myself and wound up with a bunch of bands connected to them, some of whom I checked out, some of whom I didn't. Only about a year ago did I begin to actually pay attention to music press, forum recommendations, etc.

I think sometimes it might be a deeper thing, psychologically, than just what your parents listened to. It might have something to do with openess to new ideas in general.



But I may just be blowing smoke out my ass on that last bit.

zekterellium:
i think that, naturaly, human beings like all music and it's psychological short comings that stop us. like, when i play my friends white noise they say it's hideous and unlistenable, but it's scientifically proven to be relaxing and to make you feel safe. i think what get's them is they're too busy thinking "what the fuck? i'm listening to whitenoise." instead of concentrating on what they are listening to. i don't know, if you play a kid angry music they don't think anything of it, but when you play it to someone older they don't know what the fuck is going on, at least that's what i found. but yeah, this is a pretty good topic, i reckon it'll get dead interesting before too long.

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