Describe how your favorite music genres have changed over time

[AdamDamon]

Have your favorite genres of music to listen to changed over time? Or perhaps you’ve always enjoyed hearing the same genres of music the best? Either way, feel free to share!

If you'd like, you can also elaborate regarding why you think your favorite genres have changed or remained more consistent.

Cheers!

[Sebasty]

Oh man I feel I'd have to be 50 to document any substantial changes in my favourite genres : ) I'm only half that age..

I did notice trap influences suddenly coming in and spreading like wildfire and it's still a style that's being flirted with by many artists. I do like a healthy dose of trap, always in moderation as all good things should be.

oh wait I think I misread your question 😅

When I got my stereosystem in, I think 7th grade, I really started listening to music a lot. So it was commercial pop music, but also EDM. House and trance were very popular, and for some reason I grew more attached to electronica than I did to pop or rock.
My internet connection was very poor. Existent, but near-impossible to do a proper deep dive into music with, so music I heard from the radio is all I knew back then. At some point it did improve so I could listen to lower quality youtube videos.

My current music taste started taking shape back in 2015 or so, when Spotify kept introducing me to downtempo music and artists from Ninja Tune the label. I picked up Amon Tobin back then, and through him I learned more about neurofunk, halftime and bass music, genres I love to this day. Liquid funk as well, but mainly from other artists like Alix Perez.
I don't generally define my music taste by genres since individual artists I love may do completely different music that's outside the scope of "bass music" for example, but what I can say is that my taste tends to expand more than it changes its direction.

[AdamDamon]

Thanks for sharing, @Sebasty! I think it’s nice that your music taste tends to expand more than change direction, and that Spotify has introduced you to some of your favorite artists these days.

I’m glad to have discovered lots of artists on Spotify that I still enjoy listening to as well. However, since I began listening more to stoner rock and heavy psychedelic rock music than any other genre (around 2018), I’d say that my music taste hasn’t been expanding as much as becoming more focused on these two often-overlapping genres. Usually nowadays, when I discover a new song that I like which represents a genre outside of stoner- and psychedelic rock, it represents one of these aforementioned styles of music as well.

I’ll share a a bit more about how my music taste has changed over time: I don’t think I started listening to music for fun until I was in high school, when I had my own computer so I could browse iTunes, and I started listening to genres such as progressive rock (Rush, Pink Floyd, Yes, Jethro Tull), prog metal (Dream Theater, Mastodon), old-school metal (Iron Maiden), power metal (Blind Guardian, Dragonforce), along with some bands in the stoner rock genre (Dead Meadow, Danava, and Sleep come to mind, although I didn’t know this was a term for their music style back then).

In college I got into the American “jam bands” music as it was popular among some friends, and I enjoyed concerts primarily by Phish and other jam bands who would play concerts nearby. I also got more interested in reggae music, from hearing bands like John Brown’s Body who were based in the area and would play concerts as well. Then in my Master's program, I started using Spotify and listened to a lot of jazz (I’d say mostly free jazz, modal jazz, and jazz fusion) by artists like John Coltrane and Miles Davis, as well as sometimes Indian classical music, although I remember continuing to listen to jam bands often during that time as well.

Some time after my Master's program, I started getting music suggestions on Spotify for bands that I’d now recognize as some combination of psychedelic-, space- and stoner rock (Ozric Tentacles, 35007, Mantra Machine, and Monomyth come to mind as bands that I discovered relatively early on within these genres) and I was really impressed. I’m not sure why, but since then I think I’ve tended to appreciate bands that fall within the “stoner-psychedelic-space rock continuum” more so than I appreciate artists in any other genres, despite exploring other genres that overlap with them sometimes (such as post-rock, doom- and sludge metal).

Cheers!