When did you first realize that you liked the kind of music you do?

Question

When I was growing up, I thought I liked Country, I listened to songs by Garth Brooks, Tom Petty, and especially Hank Williams. But I never saw the fact that I was only listening to what my parents listened to. Here recently I have discovered New Rock, Alternative, Even Techno, and they just completely make me go...oh my gosh, why on earth did I listen to HANK WILLIAMS!

Answer 1

My folks listened to rock and roll on the radio and TV and we listened to organ music in Church. I liked to sing, but I never liked to listen to either.



I still sing Church music with organ, or synthesizer or guitar, but I don't care to listen to it.



When I was a sophomore in High School I had a required course in classical music. We played Till Eulenspiegel and Scherehezade and the Bolero and some Mozart pieces (but I don't remember which ones) - and I found something entirely new - orchestral music - symphonies, beautiful piano pieces. I LOVED them - but we never listened to this type of music at home.



As I grew older, and there were cassette tapes, I discovered more Mozart, then Telemann and Vivaldi and Beethoven and Handel and Haydn and Brahms....



and one day I heard chamber music - WOW!



and then Brahms variations on a theme by Haydn!!!



I realized I LOVED this type of music.



So, my friends thought I would love an opera and took me to Don Giovanni - and...I fell asleep - and No, I didn't like sopranos or tenors - I particularly did not like tenors... light sopranos OK.



Lately I have found some instrumental New Age music. When it is played well and is not too repetitive I like it. I don't have a favorite artist, but I have heard a good bit on the internet that I enjoy.



For sung songs, I really like English madrigals and Christmas songs, including international ones.



Nevertheless, it took 7 years of piano lessons (which were torture with a teacher who used a stick on arms and legs to correct errors), elementary school choir, etc. until that high school class for me to find out that I really like music. I'm just FUSSY!

Answer 2

Up until about age 10, I was influenced by my parent's music, also. At around 10, I started to be more influenced by my peers.



When I turned 18 and moved out on my own, I developed my own independent tastes. It was not always the music others were listening, to. I started to develop a taste for more alternative music, and European imports. That has seemed to stay with me, and I'm still always listening to the less popular stations to find something "newish". I do like some popular music again, also, so in that way I'm kind of going backward a bit, I guess!

Answer 3

At the age of 9 or 10 I guess is when I really became interested in music and finding things that I wanted to listen to instead of just listening to what my friends and parents did. I still like a lot of the music my mom likes though (classic rock and some bands from the 80s).

Answer 4

I think I'm a decade or more older than you! In the 50's and 60's was really hot and had teenagers going half nuts. Of course, Elvis was really hep and swung those hips. In those days, the music caught on fast and today OUR music is played on the radio and many of the younger generation listen to it.



There was the Big Bopper, the Everly Brothers, Bo Diddley, Big Bopper, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jimmy Clanton, Roy Orbison, Little Richard, Haley & the comets, and etc. AHHHH them were the days!



The music was so captivating it made want to get up and dance or sit there and snap your fingers. When I was in grammar school, they had dancing after lunch. I think about it now, that's unbelievable.

Answer 5

I grew up listening to rock and I still do love it. I went through quite a few phases where I just pretended to like what my friends liked, but always came back to rock.

Answer 6

When I was 12, My mom was metal head in the 90's and grandparents listened to 70's RnB. Im in between, I like old RnB(70's to early 00) and Rap(nothing new) and alotta Rock too. There's alotta Blues I like too though.

Answer 7

One day in Social Studies class during down-time, I asked a classmate what he was listening to on his MP3 player.. He offered me an ear-bud and through it I heard 'Dance, Dance' by Fallout Boy. I was hooked at that moment. It all began with that song.

Answer 8

i always listened to the most popular radio station, that all the kids my age listened to. it played r&b; hip hop; rap. and i grew up listening to that and liked it i guess. other genres i can stand, but i don't find as interesting to me as those.

Answer 9

When I was like oh, that's catchy.