How has your music habits changed since HS?

[wonderwort]

What has changed about your listening to music habits after H.S.?

In HS I was 90% more involved in music and the music scene.

In HS , I'd used to watch Mtv all the time . Im a child of the late eighties and early 90's so I used to listen to Casey Kasem top forties count down every week.

As an adult I spend very little time and effort following music.

 

[AlmondMilk]

I spend more time listening to most kinds of music. I haven't been able to get into country music, though.

 

[MMMonsterBoy]

High School was the time when my musical taste began to shift. I added more pop music, indie music, and a few other exposed sounds. I just started taking risks with new sounds that I had never heard growing up. Nothing has really changed since, though I think I've become a bigger "rock" fiend. Experimental metal and the like.

 

[ixthrock]

The music and the way it is handled has changed more than my habits.

In HS, we had deejays, and the studios contained actual vinyl, or little tapes. The deejays were live, and passionate about the music they played. There were "mainstream" pop stations, country music, talk radio and christian stations, classical music, and - "hard rock," which, in HS, began to incorporate "new wave." ACDC, Judas Priest, Led Zeppelin, the Who, CSN, Pink Floyd - all relatively easy listening elevator-type music now, was then cutting-edge and "New Music." Around the time the country music scene suffered a sea change, and the "hot new breed of country music" became old pop songs from the seventies, radio stations also became more and more canned. You never hear the voice of the person actually sitting in the studio booth - he just plays tapes of "deejays" and specialty shows - morning shows, "request" shows, drive home shows, countdowns - all pre-recorded and piped to member stations, and the monotonous, abbreviated playlists of today's pop stars who are all groomed and grown like crystals in a laboratory to fill a particular marketing niche.

There's only a couple of truly live stations in town - one is the college radio station, and it is one of the top five college radio stations in the country. Their playtlist is diverse and new and definately not "mainstream." I don't like everything they play, but I definitely learn more about the new directions true musicianship is taking than I ever will by listening to canned pop or star-forming "reality" TV shows...

 

[PreTTy PeTe]

Yea I loved The Runaways


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and now I love Joan Jett and The Blackhearts


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[Paws]

Where's the "I'm making my own music now" choice?

 

[ShavedBare87]

During high school I listened the regular rock stuff (Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Nine Inch Nails, etc). I'm still a huge Megadeth and Nine Inch Nails fan but as far as keeping up with that rock scene, like the newer bands that are coming out, I lost all interest.

My interest has gone on to ambient music, mostly because it's the style of music that I like writing. I kind of do a style of progressive, industrial mixed with classic ambient vibes.

One of the most influential projects I've heard is called Solar Fields. I recommend them to anyone seeking a "different" style of music.

 

[freefall]

I started to listen to classical music seriously in HS.
And less pop popular music.

 

[FPNY]

I like disco more now than I did then. I was in hs is the 70's so disco was popular. I was more rock and roll then than I am now....

 

[Queerwitch]

My taste in music hasn't exactly changed. I like a lot of genres, such as '60s (Beatles, Jefferson Airplane, Monkees), '70s (Styx, Abba), and '80s (Ramones, Bon Jovi, Pat Benatar, Olivia Newton-John, the Go-Gos), some disco, 90's various artists (Nirvana, Chumbawumba, Madonna's "Ray of Light" album, Cher's "Believe" album), techno, and Celtic music, with the more recent addition of opera metal (Nightwish) and Subo to the mix.

With few exceptions, never have liked hard rock, heavy metal, jazz, hip-hop, rap, or most country music. Not big on classical music, either.

The way I listen to music has definitely changed. With Youtube/VEVO and iTunes, I very seldom listen to the radio (other than in the car), and almost never buy a CD.

 

[MoufOfKhaos]

I'm no longer a "closet fan" to what I love, and I no longer find the radio useful(most of the songs I like can't be found in the top 40 no matter how hard you look).

I support the scenes(metal, soul, rock mainly).
I see the shows.
I expand my musical mind and muscle.

My genres have stayed mainly the same, except that I don't listen to hardly any new rap(well, hip hop mainly, I wouldn't call what's out now rap, per say), hardly any punk at all(the only scene I flat out don't like nowadays), or much r&b.

 

[J-23]

I've embraced the fact that I'm a pop fiend. When I was younger, I'd try to convince people that I was a rock or hip-hop fan, then I'd turn around and secretly listen to Britney or Spice Girls.

I'm unashamed of my tastes now, though, because I know that dance music is what pumps through my veins.

 

[andyspete]

I freaking love music. It is the soundtrack and backdrop of my life. Sometimes with me, things center around certain songs. I love listening to music from when I was growing up. Those songs are so sentimental to me. My older brother and I share a passion for music and are constantly searching for those ulitmate songs from back in the day. He listened to my iPod yesterday and told his daughters that their uncle had some of the coolest music on the planet on his iPod. I happen to agree.

 

[LilVirgin]

in high school was a metal head and today still a metal head...

 

[ronboy]

Since high school, my tastes have broadened.

I listen to a wide range of different music now.

In high school and college, it was whatever was popular.

Now I listen to the music I like, no matter what it is!

 

[wonderwort]

For the LONGEST time , I just ASSUMED that appetite and interest(for music) PEAKED in the teen years and declined after HS . (my story.)

You know what they say about ASSUMING.

 

[jmadaf]

I'm a classic rock&roll person, but also love jazz, r&b, old soul, but am open to other musicI like at least one song from all the other types.

 

[flechaverde]

I've definitely embraced much more since HS. I can say without a doubt that my taste has gotten better with age. I still listen to the same types of music. I'm a huge hip hop fan, but I'm also quite eclectic. I have embraced some more classic rock music in the last few years though. More of the Beatles, Heart and Fleetwood Mac have graced my iPod

 

[TaigaStar]

I was never a music freak in HS, but once I became more and more knowledgeable about J-Pop, I found a genre that catered more to what I enjoyed, and then I incorporated more and more different genres over the years.

 

[frankfrank]

In high school, the only music I paid attention to was the stuff that was in the "Top 40" and played on rock and roll radio stations.

As I much later went into the biz of selling old music, I've opened up to all types of musiques I formerly paid no attention to. I'll listen to anything from old rock and roll, to classical, Punk, gospel, techno, country and western, big bands (and earlier!! all the way back to 1895 or so), native music from around the world, jazz, comedy and novelty, soul of all kinds, etc.