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| Are our musical tastes set by age 25?
Posted: 12/21/2006 5:17:51 PM | | I was talking to someone the other day and she told me that our taste in music was determined by the time we turn 25. Do you think this is true? It seems to be for me. I just can't get too enthusiastic about anything but classical and classic rock. | |
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| Are our musical tastes set by age 25?
Posted: 12/21/2006 5:24:14 PM | I wouldn't say that our musical tastes are definitely set by the time we are 25, but I do believe that we tend to seek out music in a similar vein as time progresses.
For example while I was growing up I took a real liking to Hip Hop and Rap obsessing over groups like the Beastie Boys and Public Enemy, however when I grew into my later teens I got into music that was in no way related to Hip Hop such as Nirvana (whom I still consider a great band) and groups that were influenced in ways by Hip Hop such as Rage Against The Machine (who are my all time favorite group). As time progressed and my teens turned into my 20s I got back into Hip Hop, and now it's basically all I listen to...well that and various other musical forms that are related such as reggae, dancehall, etc. | |
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| Are our musical tastes set by age 25?
Posted: 12/21/2006 5:40:57 PM | "Do you think this is true?"
Not at all.
Most people don't know what they like.....they just like what they know.
Can't say that is true for me.
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| Are our musical tastes set by age 25?
Posted: 12/21/2006 6:36:38 PM | Not at all true for me. At 25 I was listening to 90% jazz and today I listen to 90% classical. I imagine that in 5 to 10 years I'll be listening to something different (I sure hope it isn't rap).
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| Are our musical tastes set by age 25?
Posted: 12/21/2006 7:26:49 PM | | There's an old parlor trick where you guess the persons age by asking their favorite song. If you know your music their favorite song most often was released when they were age 18. I've never heard anything about age 25 though. | |
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| Are our musical tastes set by age 25?
Posted: 12/21/2006 8:49:35 PM | hmmm,when I was a teenager I liked metal..sabbath,metalica,maiden..when I was in my 20s',I listened to jazz players..howard roberts,wes,charlie christian,nat king cole,count basie.when I hit the dirty 30s :) i liked a very wide variety...about 4 years ago I meet up with some younger players in a band,they played metal and i jammed with them but my playing was more oldschool,so the drummer introduced me to the metal of today..the first band was opeth,then rediscovered slayer,mastadon,then lamb of god and a whole bunch of european metal...holy shiat metal music went very evil...lol....i like the fast agressive brutality of it and i mostly play just metal unless my girlfriend is around then i play nice muahahahahaha...
so when I was 25 i listened to jazz..now i am 37 and I listen to unholy metal..lol... :)wtf | |
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| Are our musical tastes set by age 25?
Posted: 12/21/2006 10:29:30 PM | | Actually, I think my musical taste was set at the age of 13. I was listening to bands like Depeche Mode, Skinny Puppy, The Cure etc. then move forward to the 90's then I began getting into Nine Inch Nails who were influenced by Skinny Puppy and Trent was/is a fan of DM. Thankfully, I was not one of those girls back in school who were into New Kids On The Block. I saw right through the bubble gum crap. I felt that I was a lot more intelligent in that and that I wanted something more with substance within the music plus lyrics. It also helped that I had older cousins who were listening to these bands so I had an earful. I still listen to gothic/industrial/ebm/synthpop(whatever you call it) to this day at the age of 30 plus still continuing and interested in anything new these bands release. Plus, listening to other new bands within this genre of music mainly that are influenced by bands like Depeche Mode etc. I would say over the years my taste in music has been more refined and has evolved within the genre of music I've fallen in love listening to. I have good memories connected to the music. To me it's a like a comfort zone which is why I think why certain people are drawn to certain types of music because perhaps they can relate to it somehow. I for one can never get into Hip Hop for example because I cannot relate to whatever is in the music. | |
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| Are our musical tastes set by age 25?
Posted: 12/21/2006 11:02:19 PM | | The answer is NO, your musical tastes grow and branch off into different directions, that is unless you are still wearing a Twisted Sister t-shirt from a their '86 tour. | |
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| Are our musical tastes set by age 25?
Posted: 12/21/2006 11:16:16 PM | not at all true for me. If you let yourself get into a rut like that, it can happen... but it's a learning experience.
When I was 25, all I could listen to for any length of time were afew idols. As I've come to appreciate music more, I've greatly widened my tastes.
it's like when you're a kid and the only flavors of ice cream you like are chocolate and vanilla... and if you try other things you learn to like them. If you don't, then you don't.
One thing I've learned, though... I didn't even learn to fully appreciate the music I liked the most at first, without learning to like other things along the way. | |
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| Are our musical tastes set by age 25?
Posted: 12/22/2006 8:43:08 AM | Not true!
I think you can go stale.
Myself, I hate listening to say "Classic Rock". I mean I grew up with that stuff, and know it by heart. Why would I want to listen over and over?
Its good stuff, but I appriciate the new cutting edge and the "Classics" I didn't learn to appriciate when I was in the Classic Rock age...of course it wasn't classic rock then it was just new rock. | |
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| Are our musical tastes set by age 25?
Posted: 12/22/2006 7:33:38 PM | Absolutely not!
Teens: was devoted to hard punk and new wave
Early 20s: rockabilly, psychobilly, alternative but also enya, celtic folk, loreena mck., Chris Isaak (dark stuff), industrial
late 20s: rockabilly, psychobilly, industrial, alternative and dark stuff
Ok- I admit there is a thread to above but what I always *hated* was metal. Now at 37 I am a die hard goth and death metal fanatic and I rarely listen to any of the garage stuff at all now. | |
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| Are our musical tastes set by age 25?
Posted: 12/22/2006 10:02:48 PM | | Well, I'm not 25 yet, but it doesn't seem like that would make much sense... People continue to evolve until they die. | |
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| I listen to every kind of music possible. The more I listen the more I heard similiarities.
Posted: 12/22/2006 10:13:25 PM | For example the blues shuffle beat is echoed by almost every metal band in any era, woodsmen tribes in Guinea and marching bands playing Sousa.
A early 20'sfriend was playing some hip hop for me. I'm mid fifties and I really dug it.
I must admit it has taken about a year for me to get into rap and only the stuff that doesn't slag women and swear too much.
The more I hear the more I enjoy everything.
I notice that a lot of people's ipods have Country (old and new school) rock, celtic etc.
Some people just don't go for labels. They like what they like in all genre.
Satellite radio is going to expand people's music brains. I was 18 when I first heard the blues - blew me away. | |
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| I listen to every kind of music possible. The more I listen the more I heard similiarities.
Posted: 12/23/2006 3:53:22 PM | Interesting question.
The music that I listen to now, that I am in my early fifties, I was aware of it in my early twenties. Rock, blues, jazz and world beat was what I was seeking then...and now.
Some of what I was listening then I lost the liking too, Black Sabath is one and so is anything with yelling in it. Today I seek music, not noise.
These days I listen to what I like and I am not influence to listen to anything because it's "in". I listen all the time and will seek out the artist when I hear something I like.
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Joined: 11/4/2006
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| Are our musical tastes set by age 25?
Posted: 12/23/2006 4:03:56 PM | | I think this might just depend on the individual. For a long time classic rock and metal were all I listened to. But a couple years ago when I decided to take playing guitar a little more serious, it opened up a whole new world of music to me. Now I find myself following artists instead of types of music. | |
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| Are our musical tastes set by age 25?
Posted: 12/24/2006 10:15:19 PM | 
I don't think so. Not with technology moving so quickly with music. The first album I ever bought was a KISS album when I was 8 and played it on my winney the pooh record player. I listened to a lot of 80's hair metal and rap when I was in my teens, then nirvana and techno and now, all kinds of stuff.
I have so much music that I skip from genre to genre and don't dwell on any one genre now. The exception to that is electronic music.
I am no major artist by any means but I do have 3 albums on Itunes and rhapsody and my music is eclectic eletronica. If you listen to it you will be convinced that I was on drugs making it but I don't do drugs. The funny thing is I feel like my music lets my raw emotions out and amplifies and distorts them but the process allows me to get things out and not dwell on them.
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| Are our musical tastes set by age 25?
Posted: 12/25/2006 3:47:31 PM | | It definetly depends on the individual. Some people move forward and some remain stuck. I still see people who came of age in the 80's sporting the same kind of haircuts or clothing. Others just stay open to what is going on and they have an ability to appreciate what is current without constantly slipping into nostalgia or compare the old to the new. | |
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| Are our musical tastes set by age 25?
Posted: 12/26/2006 1:16:58 AM | | I am always open to new music. In fact I seek it out. My listening tastes are widespread, but my cd player usually has some sort of rock genre in it. It's been like that since I was a kid. Well, back then it was tapes and records (must be getting old). I don't forsee my tastes changing in the near or distant future. | |
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| Are our musical tastes set by age 25?
Posted: 12/26/2006 7:07:56 AM | | No, not in my case. I've always loved music but I've acquired an ear for all kinds of music, especially over the last 5 years or so. I had a very limited 'musical appetite' in my mid-20s... it has expanded substantially since then. | |
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| Are our musical tastes set by age 25?
Posted: 12/26/2006 1:31:59 PM | | I think that maybe our attitudes towards how accepting we are of new forms of music may be set by a certain point in our lives -- how open-minded we are about listening to new forms and developing new tastes. I don't think that our preferences regarding what we actually like and dislike are necessarily set, per se. | |
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| Are our musical tastes set by age 25?
Posted: 12/26/2006 5:13:39 PM | I find my taste in music continually evolves. What I didn't like a few years ago, I love now. I can't imagine that in the next 50 years of my life, a new type of music, or a genre reinvents itself and I find that I am enjoying what I previously did not.
Except country...no way...no how...not EVER! | |
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| Are our musical tastes set by age 25?
Posted: 12/26/2006 5:47:40 PM | There's an old parlor trick where you guess the persons age by asking their favorite song. If you know your music their favorite song most often was released when they were age 18. I've never heard anything about age 25 though.
Ha! Yeah right. Most of my fave songs are from the between the 60's and 70's. Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, The Ramones, The Clash etc. Even when I was 18 I strongly prefered songs from the 90's over the ones that were out then.
My taste in music is so very varied that I don't think it's possible for it to be 'set' at all. And I'm constantly exploring different types of music and muscians. If somebody says 'hey this band is good' and I've never heard of them I'm eager to listen. I fgure that good music is good music (I just haven't found any country that I like yet lol). One thing I really don't like is how my friends are so closed minded to anything other than their tastes in music. So if there's a concert that looks interesting it's like: 'Hey want to go to the ska fest?' 'Huh...what's ska?', 'Here listen to this cd', 'That's weird...', 'Ok nevermind.'
It's quite frustrating.
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| Are our musical tastes set by age 25?
Posted: 12/27/2006 9:21:06 AM | Upon first reading this thread I didn't think I was musically inclined enough to post here. Then I got to reading some of the obscure (to me anyway) artists names and I started thinking about my own musical odyssey. I am 43 and have never been a big audiophile or anything but I have always known what I liked. I have definitely been what most of you would consider a "mainstreamer" when I was young. At 25 I was listening to Mellencamp and Phil Collins....Kim Mitchell and a little known band named Blue Rodeo as well as Tom Cochrane and Bryan Adams, etc , etc.....As I said...very mainstream. Now I also had a liking for a little known artist named Jimmy Buffett. He later went on to write a few dozen albums and become quite mainstream.....lol. I used to relish in the fact that so few people in Eastern Canada even knew his name let alone that he was still making music having only one hit back in the late 70's.
Now I find myself being quite a sheep as far as my musical tastes go. I can listen to almost anything now (except opera and extreme metal) and find something to enjoy. I tend to absorb others taste in music....All depends who I am hanging out with. A good friend of mine has a very ecclectic taste in music and has bequeathed on me a liking for artists such as Guy Clark,Junior Brown, Robert Earle Keen and a new personal favorite Slaid Cleaves. (how's that for a few obscure names...lol)
In my estimation as long as other people enter and exit my life I will never be without something new to listen to.....Here's to change, big and small. | |
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| Are our musical tastes set by age 25?
Posted: 12/27/2006 2:36:34 PM | I'm not 25 yet, but I listen to just about anything there is.. and I do go through random phases like everyone else.. I also have a group of musicians that I will listen to always.. some of them I started listening to way back in the day, some are newer additions.
Overall I would disagree with that statement, music tastes can change just like taste in food, movies, it just all depends on the individual | |
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