This is a quick history of my tastes throughout the years.
Very first of all, as early as I can remember, my house was always filled with the sounds of the beach boys, simon and garfunkel, the mamas and papas, and occasionally the beatles. I remember those pretty well and I still like all of them, ha!
Then fast forward to when I was 13 or so. I think the very first cd I got was the orchestra soundtrack from jurrasic park. Kind of odd. Then I remember loving spin doctors, the cranberries, and live. I still like throwing copper
Anyway, then my best friend was into gangsta rap: snoop dogg, ice cube, tu pac. That phase was short lived and so we both went on to like an interesting mix of good and bad rock: pearl jam to eric clapton to don henley to guns n roses to the doors to queen to kiss (ugh). So honestly, overall, not a bad start.
In the 90's it kind of went everywhere- I remember getting sugar ray's lemonade and brownies album with this naked chick on the cover. had to hide it from my mom. I remember liking nirvana and pearl jam alot. Then it was basically anything alternative like weezer, better than ezra, seven mary three, sponge, oasis, our lady peace, stone temple pilots. One friend told me about this band rage against the machine- I listened to them and thought, wow this kind of sucks. His voice is wierd. But on listen two, I was hooked. Couldnt get enough of them.
Then came high school. This brought about my ska, punk, alternative era- where I really got into music-some good. some bad. First of all ska became big for me during that whole explosion: of course mighty mighty bosstones and the mad caddies (still love them!). I liked buck o' nine and the pilfers and save ferris. Then came an obsession with 311. (got to admit that I still like them. Like I own all of thier cds.. and some bootlegs. I realize this may have ruined all credibility with some people haha) But of course then I got into all the pop punk stuff like mxpx and the ataris (ughh) , blink 182. Also face to face, rancid, bad religion, nofx etc. Never got huge into green day. Best bands discovered during that era= limp (not bizkit), no knife, fugazi, the pixies.
On the alternative side it was smashing pumpkins, tool, incubus, ratm.
On a side note, I also got into the short-lived neo swing revival- i liked the cherry poppin daddies, big bad voodoo daddy, royal crown revue (which I still like and listen to now and again!)
Then came a short, but dark phase that I do not wish on my worst enemies- listening to korn, limp bizkit, slipknot. Later on, probably the worst thing I've ever listened to and liked is a band by the name of
Hawthorne Heights. holy hell, i dont know what else to say.
But out of the darkness came a light which lead me to led zep, radiohead, saves the day, miles davis, the strokes, the deftones, frank sinatra..
And then from there it gets confusing and messy but I pretty much keep it simple- i listen to what I like.
currently Im listening to someone still loves you boris yeltsin, thrice's new one, vampire weekend, brother kite, broadcast, nujabes, sun kill moon, this will destroy you, fleet foxes, etc.