when was the last great seachange in you tastes?

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when did you last realise you liked a new style/genre/whatever of music?

what did you jump from (did you jump at all, or did you continue to love the old stuff too?), and why do you think it happened?

― gaz (gaz), Saturday, 1 November 2003 08:59 (twenty-two years ago)

i discovered i really, really liked 60s psychedelia a year or so ago

― the surface noise (electricsound), Saturday, 1 November 2003 11:22 (twenty-two years ago)

well mine was when i realised i needed some more definate MEANING in the music i was listening to and gave up on house music in favour depressing american alt. rock. This was about 3 years ago but in the last year or so Electronics have been slowly seeping back in, in the form of m****house.

― jed (jed_e_3), Saturday, 1 November 2003 14:02 (twenty-two years ago)

opposite of jed:
I'm more tolerant again
of loud thuggish rap,

I now realize
that "conscious" ain't always "good"--
thanks to ILM!

Don't know why I changed
but I'm glad I've been changed back.
David Banner yyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Saturday, 1 November 2003 14:06 (twenty-two years ago)

1998. Hearing Massive Attack changed my mind about the validity of manipulating samples and programs instead of being able to play an instrument.

― bahtology, Saturday, 1 November 2003 14:27 (twenty-two years ago)

my massive post-'discovery' french house /deep house/classic house/house phase was . spent a fortune, discovered about 100 fantastic new songs, endless downloading...i'm just about over it now.

for some reason i'm now in a funny sophisto-pop phase taking in 10cc, steely dan, elvis costello, prefab sprout...dunno waht's come over me.

it's been a funny couple o years.

― piscesboy, Saturday, 1 November 2003 14:51 (twenty-two years ago)

i've been living the trife life for about a year and a half now...

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Saturday, 1 November 2003 15:07 (twenty-two years ago)

A few years ago I kind of stopped concentrating on songs and started buying avant garde type stuff (though i still love bands but its not the only thing). that was a few years ago.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 1 November 2003 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

The last time I really went crazy getting into something that was new to me was when I got into jazz a few years back. All the Miles and Coltrane stuff. Herbie Hancock. Sun Ra. Thats always an exciting time - having something new to be into. I got out of the stuff I listened to in high school and junior high (mostly heavy shit), but I've been back into it lately. Just makes me happy. Good memories.

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Saturday, 1 November 2003 16:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Grime/UKG is making all my noisy indie rock look bad.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 1 November 2003 16:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I went kind of ape-shit over krautrock about a year ago.

― Debito (Debito), Saturday, 1 November 2003 17:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Yesterday I started liking bad music as well as good and today I can't tell the difference.

― jazz odysseus, Saturday, 1 November 2003 17:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Since I've come to school my tastes have shifted away from dance & rock and toward rap & noise/hardcore. I also listen to twee now. I can't explain this at all. It's like my listening time has been cornered to extremes.

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Saturday, 1 November 2003 18:09 (twenty-two years ago)

i don't think that my tastes have really changed that much over the years. what has changed, however, is public taste -- reflected in what's played on the radio. and the only things that i can stand to listen to on the radio these days are hip-hop and r&b -- AFAIC, rock (as a radio-oriented genre) is dead, or at least belongs in a ghetto like jazz.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 1 November 2003 18:20 (twenty-two years ago)

what mitch said.

discovering ilm/blogworld was a massive eye opener. now i find most indie & rock pretty agonizing, but hopefully that's a phase and the next year or so will see some evening out...

― mark p (Mark P), Saturday, 1 November 2003 19:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I reckon it was the late-breaking awareness about a year-and-a-half ago or so that electronic music didn't suck. Someone sent me Susumu Yokota's "Grinning Cat" and that was it...I had the whole Warp Records catalogue, 20 yrs of Detroit techno and so on to investigate. Better very very late than never, I suppose...

(Sits very well with your CDR, Gaz...I just received it.)

― M Specktor (M Specktor), Saturday, 1 November 2003 19:02 (twenty-two years ago)

i got the anthology of american folk music a month ago so ive been listening to a lot of weird folk and blues and stuff.

― tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Saturday, 1 November 2003 19:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Sometime in 1997, it suddenly struck me that, in spite of lack of traditional melodies, I loved a lot of electronica.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 1 November 2003 19:16 (twenty-two years ago)

60s Psychedelica (early floyd, nuggets) to Tom Waits and Indie Rock

― Meehan Ah Um (Meehan Ah Um), Saturday, 1 November 2003 21:03 (twenty-two years ago)

In 1996 I got both Screamadelica and In Sides and also Richard D James Album and from then on I have liked stuff wot duz not hav geetahrs.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Saturday, 1 November 2003 21:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I've always liked rap but in the last few months I've realized that I want more of it in my collection. I think it's AC/DC's fault.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 1 November 2003 21:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Aside from that I have an epiphany about once a fortnight. I love jazz! I love hip hop! I love Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan! I love krautrock! I love pop! I'm a child, I really am.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Saturday, 1 November 2003 21:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Two years ago I didn't like the Art Ensemble of Chicago much at all, and now I have about 20 CDs by them, including a 5-CD box.

― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Saturday, 1 November 2003 22:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I've been listening to a lot more Aussie indie pop than I probably should.

― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Saturday, 1 November 2003 22:26 (twenty-two years ago)

About a year ago: started listening to rocksteady/reggae/dub A LOT and now listen to hip hop much less frequently and almost never listen to electronic stuff (which was almost all I listened to 5 years ago or so)

― oops (Oops), Sunday, 2 November 2003 00:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I've been listening to a lot more Aussie indie pop than I probably should.

i'll be the judge of that!!

― the surface noise (electricsound), Sunday, 2 November 2003 01:13 (twenty-two years ago)

It's dawning on me that I like sound best of all.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Sunday, 2 November 2003 02:01 (twenty-two years ago)

About 18 months back when my old flatmate lent me a Lee Dorsey album. "You'd probably like funk if you listened to some of it".

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 2 November 2003 02:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Becoming more addicted than ever to combing thrift and used book stores for cheap vinyl, I've come to love disco. I never DISliked it before, I just never paid much attention. And I actually use the ILM search engine for pointers on disco stuff to watch out for.

But actually I've figured out that I like everything. There's no genre I'll turn away from. I like Whitehouse, I like Barry Manilow, I like the Cramps, I like Donna Summer, I like Deicide, I like Xavier Cugat, I like Yes.

― Hildy, Sunday, 2 November 2003 11:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Getting out of my "I hate 80's pop" phase and burrowing thru used records...about 2 or 3 years ago...Bruce Springsteen, anything Trevor Horn related, stuff like Colonel Abrahms "Trapped",Bananarama "Robert De Niro's waiting"....inconcievable a few years ago....

― Michael B, Sunday, 2 November 2003 20:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I have an epiphany about once a fortnight. I love jazz! I love hip hop! I love Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan! I love krautrock! I love pop!

Nick OTM. I can't have a sea change, since it's not a sea, it's more of a soup with too many ingredients. I am a proud purveyor of dilettantism.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Sunday, 2 November 2003 20:21 (twenty-two years ago)

This whole year has been pretty different from last year, and I do credit ILM with much of that. For one, I've actively listened to Top 40 radio for the first time in ten years; I'm also getting into hip-hop much more, both mainstream and "conscious"; in general, I find myself wanting songs to be thicker and more bass-heavy, be that Basement Jaxx or Radiohead.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 2 November 2003 21:27 (twenty-two years ago)

(The biggest sea change in my musical life, however, was between spring and fall 1993, when I went from listening to urban/R&B radio to alt-rock radio. I surprised myself how much I liked Stone Temple Pilots' "Plush" after singing along to Mary J. Blige just months before.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 2 November 2003 21:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Like Adam, I feel some sort of huge grime epiphany is on the horizon... well, it would be if I didn't have a rubbish connection. And no one has yet made me a CDR...

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 2 November 2003 22:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I found myself really liking Edgar Winter group's "Frankenstein" last night.

― A Nairn (moretap), Sunday, 2 November 2003 22:18 (twenty-two years ago)

About 20 minutes ago I started really really liking "Sing Sing Sing."

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 2 November 2003 22:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I've got to come clean about my indie rock addiction of the last couple of years. Suffering from a massive alt. rock hangover in the early 90's, I spent the better portion of the last decade convinced that nothing that good had really happened after about 1981 (except maybe Pixies, Pavement). I've since learned to love Modest Mouse, Shins, Glands, Will Oldham, Silver Jews, Wilco, etc. Thanks, internet!

But, yeah, I'm still pretty much rockist...

― Will (will), Sunday, 2 November 2003 22:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I tend to see the whole thing as like a series of corridors lined with doors.

Sometimes I open a door expecting to find another corridor and it turns out to just be a broom cupboard.

Sometimes I open a door and there's a another whole corridor full of more doors.

Sometimes these corridors turn out to be even bigger than the corridor I was already in (for example there was the great "Hey! Someone's been lying to me! There was loads of great music around before Punk!" door opening; and the "Y'know.... actually, I quite like this jazz stuff" door opening; and most recently the "Wow! Some of this 'difficult' Avant Garde stuff actually makes a lot of sense if you open your mind to it!" door-opening).

Occasionally I might leave the corridor I've been in for a while to concentrate on exploring another new corridor; but I never consciously close a door behind me.

Sometimes I get so excited about exploring a new corridor that I completely forget about the corridor I was exploring before I found it.

Fortunately all the corridors ultimately seem to be interconnected 'though, so sometimes I open a door and think "hey I've been here before"; and I might go back down that corridor and explore it a bit more than I did the previous time.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 3 November 2003 10:25 (twenty-two years ago)

You've been watching The Matrix reloaded too much, buddy.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 3 November 2003 10:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Thanks Nick - that explains why I keep being followed by those guys in suits and shades and why everything keeps going into slo-mo!

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 3 November 2003 10:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Also of course, in a certain light*, I'm a dead ringer for Keanu Reeves.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 3 November 2003 10:51 (twenty-two years ago)

* - pitch darkness, obv.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 3 November 2003 10:51 (twenty-two years ago)

About six or nine months ago, I realized that some of these laptoppers MEAN IT, MAN!

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Monday, 3 November 2003 16:01 (twenty-two years ago)

within the last couple of years my tastes have broadened again after ONLY listening to electronic/dance/ambient/trance/jungle to include tons more neat stuff. I just went into a period of hating all guitar/rock music around 93 or 94 and have only begun to come around to the idea that anything of substance can come of it.

and now I love postal service for some reason.
Makes me think of the 80's I guess.

― hector (hector), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 04:36 (twenty-two years ago)

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