TOPIC: Question about musical tastes

So I just got back from our annual guy's weekend at the Lake and there was a spirited discussion about the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame inductees. For context we range from 34 who is the SIL of the oldest who is 59. I noticed for some of my friends, they listen to the exact same bands they did in high school, some varied somewhat, but I listen to completely different artists then I did then. It has changed often through the years. I may still go back occasionally but almost everything I listen to now is new. I can't imagine listening to the same things I did in high school or college.
What are everyone else's experience?
I know I am weird, but how much so exactly?

Grew up listening to pop, Rock and oldies . Still listen to them occasionally but have transitioned more into edm , vocal and trance melodies mostly.

I pretty much still enjoy my old favorites. I rarely (almost never) listen to new music, I'm more likely to listen to news or sports stations.

raptorov wrote: So I just got back from our annual guy's weekend at the Lake and there was a spirited discussion about the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame inductees. For context we range from 34 who is the SIL of the oldest who is 59. I noticed for some of my friends, they listen to the exact same bands they did in high school, some varied somewhat, but I listen to completely different artists then I did then. It has changed often through the years. I may still go back occasionally but almost everything I listen to now is new. I can't imagine listening to the same things I did in high school or college.
What are everyone else's experience?
I know I am weird, but how much so exactly?

I think it's pretty typical to stick to the music that was popular when you were approximately highschool age, but not everyone does.

I've had great fun administering a Music League with a group of friends as a way to get exposed to new stuff:

app.musicleague.com/home/

It's a free service that is part show-and-tell, part fantasy sports. You set up a league that runs for a number of rounds, you pick the themes for each round, each player anonymously submits a song, all players then vote on their favorites.

(It uses Spotify playlists to publish the music, so people will need to be able to use spotify)

I am mostly a fan of the rock music that came out in the 90s and 2000s. That said if a song is good from before or after that time period I am still likely to listen to it and enjoy it.

I do think we are collectively missing more songs today with people not buying albums much anymore, many of my favorite songs no one else on these forums has never heard before because it’s stuck deep in the middle of a album hardly anyone has or even heard of.

Wayne Rhodes wrote: I am mostly a fan of the rock music that came out in the 90s and 2000s. That said if a song is good from before or after that time period I am still likely to listen to it and enjoy it.

I do think we are collectively missing more songs today with people not buying albums much anymore, many of my favorite songs no one else on these forums has never heard before because it’s stuck deep in the middle of a album hardly anyone has or even heard of.

Thats more or less where I am. I graduated high school in the 80s, but am not really a fan of 80s music anymore. HS was not a fun time for me, so there is no nostalgia there. The 90s however is when I got a job, eventually got a house, made friends, helped out in a guys band met my future wife and everything seemed possible. So 90s alt rock is probably my favorite period. If I had known the bad times the Y2Ks would bring I would have appreciated it more.
Sad radio doesn't exist like it did, but youtube sort of makes up for it. After watching the webseries LARPs and seeing the bard play a hurdy gurdy, I went looking for what that was. Next thing I know I am jamming to german pirate rock and folk metal with hurdy gurdys, cellos, violins and accordions. So I guess my genre is still technically rock, but quite different.

I'm perfectly happy to listen to music readily available from my teen years. I'm also perfectly happy to listen to other music, though I'm not sure stylistically that much has changed even if the genres can be radically different in people's minds. People I worked with were quite surprised I mostly listened to country for a while, where what I've mostly listened to in recent years is more divergent in key ways as country became very poppish.

And, I think that's the thing - what I like/don't like hasn't really changed at all, it's just called something different some of the time.