The evolution of your musical taste

[Spruce Moose]

Up until I was like, 16, I had no inkling of what music I like. Because I had no radio of my own, no cds, and my parents controlled the car radio(which was 50s/60s pop, which really didn't agree with me). Now I could've taken initiative and asked for some sort of music playing device for Christmas or something, but it never occurred to me because my whole life, I'd never experienced it. I never even knew it was worth experiencing. My brothers picked up a Boyz II Men and a Rembrandt CD, and Mariah Carey, and that was alright to me, I suppose, but I wasn't terribly into it, and it paled so much in comparison to things like video games that I continued thinking that music, especially modern music, wasn't anything worth my money. I was kind of in to classical from all the lessons they crammed into me in elementary school, I guess.

And then I heard all these bands in Tony awk's Pro Skater 1 and even more imporatntly THPS2. And it blew my mind. And then I got an alarm clock radio one Christmas out of nowhere. And I found a classic rock station. And it blew my mind. And then started to get an interst in music, music I liked, msuic outside my parents iron clad control over the radio(when you can't drive, you don't have much leverage over that radio). So I got a CD player the following Christmas, picked up the albums of bands I'd heard on the classic rock station or whatever video game with licensed music, and I finally developed my own taste.

Which, as it stands now, is punk rock and classic rock(including many of the bands already mentioned in this thread). Millencolin and The Ramones are probably my top bands, but I really enjoy They Might Be Giants for some reason. They don't quite fit in genre wise, but I like them.