(re-titled and re-posted because my wife said the original was too ridiculously pretentious)
I'm just a few years shy of 50 and have noticed how my tastes in music have broadened as I get older. No great revelation there, I suppose. But I started to think how my tastes have evolved in let's say five year cycles since being 5 years old.
Here goes:
5-10 : The Wombles, ELO, Queen, T-Rex. The latter three soaked up from older sibling source.
11-15: The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Who, Deep Purple, Sabbath, The Eagles and towards the end of that phase, Costello,Joe Jackson and John Fahey (via my guitar tutor)
16-20: Joy Division, New Order, Kraftwerk, Led Zep, The Fall and most of all The Smiths. Plus lots of Neil Young
21-25: In addition to The Smiths & New Order, mostly Steely Dan
26-30: SST bands (Husker Du, Sonic Youth, Firehose) infinitum, Fugazi, Black Flag ,solo Moz.
31-35: rediscovered The Beach Boys beyond the 20 Golden Greats LP fondly remembered from childhood, Pavement, Wilco, Smog, Will Oldham in various incarnations, Belle & Sebastian, beginning a huge devotion to Bob Dylan
36 to now: it's all gone all over the place thanks to greater acquaintance with Messers Zappa and Beefheart. They seem to have been the launch pad for so many disparate sounds ranging from Mississppi John Hurt to Bela Bartok, Joseph Suk, Thomas Ades, Schoenberg, Richard Strauss and Tom Waits.
These are just trends and I've missed out stacks of bands I love but this is the framework of my evolving preferences.
How has yours mutated over the years?
I'm just a few years shy of 50 and have noticed how my tastes in music have broadened as I get older. No great revelation there, I suppose. But I started to think how my tastes have evolved in let's say five year cycles since being 5 years old.
Here goes:
5-10 : The Wombles, ELO, Queen, T-Rex. The latter three soaked up from older sibling source.
11-15: The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Who, Deep Purple, Sabbath, The Eagles and towards the end of that phase, Costello,Joe Jackson and John Fahey (via my guitar tutor)
16-20: Joy Division, New Order, Kraftwerk, Led Zep, The Fall and most of all The Smiths. Plus lots of Neil Young
21-25: In addition to The Smiths & New Order, mostly Steely Dan
26-30: SST bands (Husker Du, Sonic Youth, Firehose) infinitum, Fugazi, Black Flag ,solo Moz.
31-35: rediscovered The Beach Boys beyond the 20 Golden Greats LP fondly remembered from childhood, Pavement, Wilco, Smog, Will Oldham in various incarnations, Belle & Sebastian, beginning a huge devotion to Bob Dylan
36 to now: it's all gone all over the place thanks to greater acquaintance with Messers Zappa and Beefheart. They seem to have been the launch pad for so many disparate sounds ranging from Mississppi John Hurt to Bela Bartok, Joseph Suk, Thomas Ades, Schoenberg, Richard Strauss and Tom Waits.
These are just trends and I've missed out stacks of bands I love but this is the framework of my evolving preferences.
How has yours mutated over the years?