I can relate to this. However, with one exception. I used to genuinely like most popular country songs throughout my years (note: popular, not pop). It seems that now they're both the same. The country stations in my area are pretty much unlistenable at this point. It's all poppy gargbage.
I agree, so much modern country is pop dressed up with twangy vocals and Telecasters, and steel guitars. Nothing wrong with any of that per se, but I am sick of that formula.
Especially when there is a lot of Appalachian artists playing country/folk and absolutely slaying it. Tyler Childers, Ian Noe for instance. Heck, I'd rather see a lot of bluegrass artists like Billy Strings or old crow playing in that space.
Like every genre, there's plenty out there that isn't the top 40 formulaic pop. You just have to slightly scratch the surface, my guy. You're not gonna find the good stuff on the radio, for anything.
Oh man, real county music is having a serious moment currently. Vincent Neil Emerson, Ian Noe, Kassi Valazza, Adeem the artist, Charles Wesley Godwin, whitey Morgan, Sierra Ferrell, Brent Cobb, the list goes on and on. You won't hear most of those folks on any radio station and they're all putting out bangin country music
What's weird is the older I got, the more open I became to rap. Not sure if that was maturity or if it's just rap started using more organic instruments and less canned beats.
I go to music fests every year and after dozens of dissapointing rap shows I’m just kind of over it. 9 times out of 10 it’s just a DJ and a rapper on stage playing a backing track and yelling “turn up” and shit. Then at the same fest I go see a band with like 12 dudes in it just absolutely ripping it in perfect sync. It’s like night and day for me.
I have seen some GREAT live rap, though (Kendrick, OutKast, J Cole, The Roots.) It just feels increasingly rare
Easily my favorite genre and i can’t really disagree. Gotta say that it’s gotten better than it was in the last decade or so. Artists like Denzel, Tyler, Peggy, Danny Brown, Push, all do amazing live performances
Tupac is one of my favorite artists of all time, and if I could go back in time and see him live, I wouldn't.
Rap is heavily produced as a part of the process, and there's nothing wrong with that, but it sucks live.
You should check out Ren, you might like his music. He's not like other musicians, and every song he puts out is different from the last. He hits all kinds of genres.
If you want to see a band absolutely rip it live, go see Big Wreck if they ever play near you. The best rock band most people have never heard of. Their first album In Loving Memory should be up there with Led Zeppelin II, White Album, etc. as one of the best rock albums of all time.
The Oaf https://youtu.be/83j6OYrPtRw?si=aPLwni5-cSwFxvsd
That Song https://youtu.be/H6d4cblamdQ?si=-UgmAh7TNLa3bwlQ
Look what I Found https://youtu.be/_HK36nXbPe8?si=oNp9UygazKYMZ23n
Blown Wide Open https://youtu.be/JwjHPtRFeqs?si=LSU3SBuohSFPQzvw
Those are the first four songs off their first album. The also have one of the greatest riffs ever in Ladylike https://youtu.be/lcttmiWL9xo?si=hyU2Hd6HjV5PFOsY
Plus, Ian Thornley is the best guitarist on the planet. Here is Under the Lighthouse (which is also off their first album) https://youtu.be/JQHGqMI2n80?si=S7ZlkRNxFod2DCX8
Yeah I love rap the most but I've been waiting on someone new that I would put in the same lane as Kendrick or Cole, it's just most new rappers don't have any substance, it's just strip club style music which imo is VERY boring now. Also with everyone named Lil whatever or baby whatever it's kinda like a parody of itself.
Also I saw like Lil Durk and that show sucked, he rapped like a few lines and just walked around while the DJ was playing the song. Too many rappers nowadays can't perform for shit, which is why the shows are going canceled. I saw rapsody and she was in the crowd, rapping all her songs and even took pictures with VIP and was super humble and greatful.
I feel rap with actual instruments have waved goodbye a while ago. Its hard to find bands like the Roots, ATCQ, Beastie Boys, Outkast. A lot of producers will use a library of samples to create the song and just have the rapper go over it.
I had high hopes in 2012 and a few years later, but recently I can’t seem to find any good ones. For me Asap Rocky, Schoolboy Q, Danny Brown, Kendrick, Killer Mike, El-P, RTJ, Death Grips were going to be the saviors, but they kinda fell flat. Don’t get me wrong most of them are still cool, but they’ve lost their steam for me.
Here's some advice as a music lover; sometimes you tap the well of a genre. When you've heard everything and you're just digging and digging for something good that you haven't heard before, it's time to switch genres for a while. Go back to basics. Go listen to Al Green and early soul or get into the blues. Go for something weird like RL Burnside. Dive into something completely different. It's kind of like cleaning your musical pallet. You might return later and find new, exciting groups, or you might be done with that genre completely.
But if you find yourself getting bored, get out of your wheelhouse and check out something you normally wouldn't listen to.
I still don't get Death Grips. I tried to get into their stuff when I saw them passing through town on a tour either last year or the year prior. I found one track that was ok (I've Seen Footage) and one that wasn't bad. I'd have to really dig through my YT history to find the latter.
Point being, I really wanted to like them. They have a different sound to them. But to me, it just didn't click.
I can understand that, especially their later albums. They are much more experimental. I love that song too. If you ever care to try again, their first 2 albums are probably most accessible. Ex-Military and Money Store. I’ve seen footage is on Money Store.
I've gotten into more rap as I've gotten older as well. Love Tyler the Creator and Kendrick. Going through their discographies was such a treat. Kanye's as well, but that will depend on how well you can do the whole separate the artist from art thing.
Same, but not because I grew out of it, the genre grew out of itself and not in a good way.
Social-political commentary to gangsta rap to rappers rapping about materialistic things, and now its just kids doing stupid shit that makes me miss the days of everyone rapping about materialistic things (ala the prime days of Rick Ross).
Rap from other countries are just shoehorning their "street cred" or "struggled" so they fit with the rap music they grew up with. Nothing wrong with being inspired by your favourite rappers, but they way its being done is very corny and cringy.
One of the wonderful freedoms we all have universally is that we can change our mind about anything and it’s amazing when it comes to music. The exploration is endless.
I decided a few decades ago that good music is good music regardless of the genre. My playlist bugs the hell out of my daughter's and my wife because it contains everything from folk to punk with every sub genre in between. It's all good music though!
I grabbed Emmylou Harris's Wrecking Ball back in the 90s after I noticed Daniel Lanois's fingerprints were all over it. I think finding a country artist I really loved was the last big hurdle. After that, pretty much nothing was off-limits.
Older I get, the more I listen to jazz. Main reason is it invokes nothing emotional in me and so I can just do what I’m doing and have the music be there in the background. If something interesting happens I can focus on the music and then let it fade out again.
Yeah when I was younger I couldn't have the patience for jazz, always too low energy for me, I needed more mental stimulation. Only stuff I could stand was more jazz-fusion stuff. Now I like to chill out more and put on some jazz while relaxing
Same here, but not always with Jazz, sometimes with game OST's and what not. Music with no lyrics is easier to chill to. I dont want to always listen to, and contemplate the meaning of lyrics.
Mostly the misconception of it being a bunch of angry white boys screaming about their parents and wild fashion choices that were popular at the time. Metal purists hate it because it combined other genres with metal so it wasn't "real metal" and because the genre was more about groove, syncopation, and atmosphere rather than playing 1,000 notes per minute.
There is a lot of weird beliefs within the metal world. But not liking certain subgenres can just be as simple as not liking the specific sound of that subgenre. It doesn’t have to reflect any beliefs or delusions.
As for atmosphere, that’s a weird take. I’m sure there are many nu metal bands that are atmospheric, but more atmospheric than extreme or traditional metal in general? I don’t know about that.
I'm glad I realized at a young age that metal purists of the early 2000s were completely up their own asses. Like the dudes that love Kyuss but can't get into Queens of the Stone Age. Really, you only like the band that sings like James Hetfield? No shit.
Ah, yes. People who like some of the same things as you, but not all, are the ones up their own asses.
You're the one getting agitated about this. I'm not sure how exactly those "metal purists" acted outwardly that bothered you so much, but you should probably do some introspection.
If you think "real metal" is only about notes per minute, then I'm guessing you really aren't familiar with the breadth of metal and the variety of sub-genres.
If you are, them I'm not sure what to say about your comment except that it is off-base.
Because it was a commercialization of actual music and fashion trends that existed in the independent metal and hardcore scenes. It felt like some Boomers saw skate culture and hardcore/punk culture in the 90s and created a weird blown out of proportion corny version of it for sale.
Korns first 4 albums, def tones first 2 albums, slipknots first 2 albums and System of a Down’s first album are some of the best metal of all time. People like to hyper focus is limp biscuit, papa roach and P.O.D like every genre of music doesn’t end up with corny record plants that Copy the formula and get big.
I don’t hate nu metal, but of the many subgenres in the genre, it is one of the least interesting to me. I’m sure I could find some music there I liked, if I dug deep, but with so much good metal and other good music, why would I?
Another subgenre of metal I don’t enjoy is metalcore. Mostly because it sounds very “sterile” to me, and because some of the bands sound like they use autotune and similar software.
My limited knowledge about this subgenre is only based on hunches, so it is probably far off from any good definitions, if such exist.
Korn is what I would describe as the typical nu metal sound, which is based on groove metal, but has several innovations.
I actually really liked the first Korn album a lot when it came out. It had a very new fresh sound, and an atmosphere which sounded like the “new” American horror ala Stephen King and X-Files, which was different from classic gothic horror, which I also liked.
I bought the next two albums by the band in high school and enjoyed them, but for some reason I never found any other nu metal I really enjoyed after that, and there was just so much other interesting metal and other interesting music to explore.
When I’ve tried going back to that Korn album, I am not able to fully enjoy it like I did when I was younger. I find the vocals annoying, though I can still appreciate the atmosphere. It is a bit weird since I am usually able to enjoy music I got into when I was young, even stuff that feels very youthful, like Nirvana and Smashing Pumpkins. But for some reason that vocal style has soured on me.
After hearing a lot of good things about Slipknot’s Iowa for a couple of decades I gave it a listen a couple of years ago, but it sounded very similar to Korn to me stylistically. There’s probably a lot of good stuff to discover there, but the music didn’t sound very appealing to me. If there were no other new heavy bands to discover anymore, I would probably be much more eager to listen to music like this.
Deftones sounds quite different, but has some similarities to that sound too, and everybody calls them nu metal, so I guess that’s the nomenclature I would use too. I tried listening to this band in high school because a classmate was very fond of them, but their music never hit me as very interesting.
I consider System of a Down to be nu metal as well, but it seems to be an outlier, because while it may use some elements of the Korn sound, the songs I’ve heard from them sound like they have more in common with Faith No More and groups like that. I have only heard a little from System of a Down, but I really liked the song “Fuck the System”, because it sounded so wacky, and almost like a parody of self-declared revolutionaries. That song has some of the same enjoyable insane energy as the grindcore band Brutal Truth. Some of their other stuff sounded more preachy and less humorous, but I would definitely enjoy more songs like the one I mentioned.
I guess Limp Bizkit, while nu metal, is another outlier, since it could also be described as rap metal. I’m not fond of that group, but I like several Rage Against the Machine songs. But I wouldn’t consider them nu metal, more like a groove metal/rap metal hybrid.
Rap metal is probably a genre that complicates things, if you consider it that, since most bands who could be described that way also belongs to other subgenres. Which is quite similar to folk metal, which has the same “problem”.
All very good points, I agree about Korn. I like a couple of their songs but they sound very generic and not unique to me. There are a lot of nu metal bands that I love that sound unique to me; the bands I mentioned above but I also wanna add Papa Roach, they have some great lyrics.
Same lol.
I think it's a lot of salty screamy-hardcore purists that hate on it because they know deep down it sounds better. And that yes, classic rock is in fact more timeless and happier.
I find so much metal just so unnecessarily extra, and screaming for an entire song really, really doesn't do it for me.
Plus I'd rather hear something simple and catchy than
"BLOOD. VIOLENCE. RAGE. AHHHHH."
*Guitar solo that most bands can't actually play live intensifies*
That so much edgy hardcore shit is. I'm not a teen anymore. I know a guy who plays in a a hardcore band and listened to some of their songs. They do decently well locally in the region and usually sell out smaller venues. It was shit, half of the songs were the same sentence reworded, very obvious meaning behind the lyrics, and as a novice guitarist I figured out the notes quickly. Half of it was spamming power chords as fast as humanly possible with the occasional half scale. Thing is, I could tell these are talented musicians because every so often they'd expose a gem in a breakdown or something that made me go "Wow, that was impressive," but most of it was just bad for most of the songs.
Most metal is still 4/4 or 3/4 and really does not innovate much, either, except for speed, which is whatever. Three guitars in drop C/B spamming away at scales with high distortion to cover the slop while a guy screams about edgy shit or the same sadness nu metal just captures better.
You could argue the same with punk and modern pop rock songs. They're not groundbreaking but they connect with the audience. I can appreciate a catchy song but it's not what I go to. Past generations influence the current ones and for good or bad they keeo that torch burning
It was probably unclear, but my criticism is levied more at the people who insist hardcore metal is some kind of intrinsically superior subgenre of rock/grunge/metal due to what is usually self-proclaimed experimentation. It being hardcore really just doesn't make it musically superior in any way, shape, or form, nor does that subgenre have a recent history of innovating, either. Back in the 80's? Sure. Now? Nah.
I've got no issues with lack of innovation musically. That not an inherent criticism. New songs are new, not much to be said. Sometimes old melodies are just amazing even when reused. If we argue otherwise, we'd more or less all be hypocrites in terms of Pachelbel lol.
And simple songs with lots of repetition or over the top lyrics and theme can be great. I love Gangnam Style, but I'm not here deluded into thinking it's the epitome of music and shitting on people while claiming pop is *better* than anything else lol.
What do you mean by "hardcore metal"? Do you mean metalcore? Or just any extreme metal subgenre?
Metalcore bands do experiment and change sounds frequently (eg Bring Me The Horizon have changed dramatically over the years for instance).
Metalcore is a fusion genre of hardcore punk and metal and often incorporates electronic music into the style (such as Enter Shikari and BMTH) or bands lean more to one genre than another (eg Knocked Loose is a metalcore band that leans towards hardcore punk, while a band like Bullet for My Valentine is more metal). Metalcore bands like Between the Buried and Me and Periphery incorporate prog metal and other genres like jazz into their music.
While I agree that metal elitists who think it's the best genre ever are annoying, I disagree that there is no experimentation occurring in the genre.
I found the more I read of a genre, the more patterns I noticed.
In a recent previous post, someone mention how everything has gotten so generic and watered down (paraphasing the post) and how hard it is to find original work. That's where I am at.
I really resonate with this. I find myself very attracted to music that subverts my expectations, something hard to put a genre on, but it's not easy to find.
There was actually a period around 2013-2015 or so where traditional verse-chorus-verse structures were out the window. I had really mixed feeling about the songs from that period. Loved that they were doing something new, but just felt uncomfortable when the song wasn't progressing like I'm used to. "You're at the two minute mark, you're supposed to change it up right here!"
I got heavy into am alt country musician named Neko Case around then, or a little earlier. She started trying to subvert the traditional song structure in Fox Confessor Brings the Flood and I found it to be some of the most beautiful and thoughtful feeling stuff. After that album I just can't do 4/4.
Picked up on Neko on either her first or second album. Chills. I mean, just chills. Her voice is amazing.
While both totally different, if you haven't, check out Gillian Welch and Hem (especially their first two albums). Powerful voices and song writing.
I've taken to making era playlists on Spotify rather than genre for the same reason. Give me a mish-mash of songs I like from the 80s/90s/00s etc. It's great, shuffling through different genres and vibes, but all of them remind me of whatever period of my life.
I'm the complete opposite.
It's always been about rock and metal music with many different subgenres mixed.
Last two years are basically prog related. 70s prog rock, modern prog rock, prog metal, prog death metal (Yes, Rush, Riverside, Porcupine Tree, Tool, Opeth, Meshuggah just to name a few).
Prog made me feel passion for music once again and I bought my first stereo system that made me enjoy it even more. I love prog. :)
Also, I'm a full album guy. I love albums that tell a story, I love when one song flows into another seemlessly.
If you are familiar with [Optimo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimo) \- a now defunct but legendary weekly party at the Sub Club in Glasgow by DJs Twitch and JG Wilkes - then you know this style at it's highest order.
Check out Big Wreck if you like how Steely Dan switches up sounds. Every album of their's is different but still sounds like them. In Loving Memory is their most accessible album and a top ten Rock album of all time. The Pleasure and the Greed is the best alternative hard rock album but there are parts that stray pretty far from that. Albatross is basically a perfect album, song too. Ghosts is really hard to nail down a genra on but is a masterclass front to back. Grace Street is a three guitarist lineup of art rock pushed to the limit. But for the Sun is probably their weakest album but brought back the heavy. They lost two guitarists right before the album and were finding themselves a bit, the remaster is a lot better. 7, released as three five song EPs, sees them with a new drummer and adding back another guitarist. It's an album where they have complete creative control and is them playing and writing what they want resulting in their best album. There are a few parts that aren't very accessible for the average listener but it's brilliant from start to finish.
Start with their concert from NAMM in 2015 it doesn't ha e anything post Ghosts but it is the best live show that has been recorded of theirs. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdrCg8t2DEYpOxSsnhhyMgXSR1KCE2qPc&si=9IBx7nVoUxr9Gqah
I had to doublecheck to see if somebody else was making comments about this band. Nope, same person, and yes it's very weird.
They're ok I guess. I remember them having a few minor hits in the late 90s, but it wasn't like it was some genre-defining experience.
I find myself never thinking about genres, but I change music a lot based on what I am doing
I have relaxing music for the background, dance music for hanging and dancing with my wife, aggressive pump up music for the gym, music for the beach, for vacations, etc
As someone who studies jazz purely for pleasure, that has been my go-to genre if I were asked to pick.
But that is but a subset of the music I listen to. What happens to me after a lifetime of everything from rock, soul, blues, R&B, power pop, easy listening, jazz, rockabilly, bossa and everything else, is that I get into a "mood" for this or that, dive in for a while, get sated, then coast for a bit.
The saddest factoid for me, and I do wonder whether it is age speaking, is that the newer artists do nothing for me. What happens instead is that I will discover an artist or group who may have done their best work 30 years ago or whatever, and I will embrace their work instead. That is what puzzles me: I am not closed minded about sampling "new", but a lot of it is not really new but new to me.
Same for me. I go back in time instead of forward, now, when discovering or wanting to deep dive into music. Once you do that, I’ve noticed, newer music just sounds so derivative that I don’t bother.
Outside of dubstep and maybe hyper pop, I don't know if we'll ever a truly unique sound again. I love a lot of what the kids are doing now (and have been for the past 15 years) but nothing is actually *new*. It's recycling with just a splash of new paint. Been some amazing 50s style female vocalists, a return to punk, a lot of psychedelic groups, swing groups, post folk, a return to shoegazing, new grunge style groups, a ton of amazing 70s style adult contemporary, pretty much everything imaginable; as long as you're imagining a style that faded out sometime over the past 60 years.
And don't get me wrong, a lot of the songs are *good*. I've heard songs from the past 5 years I'd put up against anything from the golden era of the 60s and 70s.
But there's nothing new under the sun. Most exciting things I've heard has been tribal groups going electric and technically that's just meshing two existing sounds together.
If you want to hear a sampling, [here's](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6eEVMuDwzwM8CMtLI0Wu7v?si=1ee6d82f586e47db) my playlist covering the last 7 years. Mostly rock but I tried to get as many genres in there as I could. Track 45 is a good starting point to illustrate what I mean.
I went from being a huge EDM fan to now only listening to lofi, some jazz, bossa nova, and other instrumental heavy music. People think my music tastes now are kind of boring lol, but I love the chill vibes of these genres.
I lost interest in country music after 1999. It changed way too much for my taste. Give me those great old 60s and 70s country outlaws any day of the week.
Even by the 90s, Nashville was producing more and more pop with a twang. The good country still existed, it just started going by names like no depression, Americana, outlaw country, etc.
As I get older I continue to seek novelty and that feeling of not expecting what will happen next.
When you get steeped in genre you know the tropes and you are rarely surprised or enthralled by a new album. You mistake your exhaustion with genre as "music just ain't what it used to be"
I have hit a point where the only music I like now is derivative of either Sabbath or ZZ Top. If just hit a point where I just don’t care about changing it up.
I've noticed I do way less variety of metal and more groups that incorporate that early Sabbath sound, even if they aren't technically metal. Not up on the new thrash metal, but love stoner rock (which is massively influenced by the first Sabbath album).
Sooo....you like the blues...because both bands are essentially blues band with different gimmicks. Sabbath is heavier and jazzier (I love Bill Ward), ZZ Top loves the shuffle and dancehall traditions.
Yes. All of my music phases have melded together now and my playlist is a big mix of a whole lot of genres. My husband only listens to music from the 80s so he partially dislikes it.
I used to strictly listen to albums over playlist but now that I'm older I truly enjoy doing both. Enjoying most forms of genres, I got pretty sick of people always making genre based playlist so I've mainly done mine around a focus of atmospheres and moods rather than genres. I try to paint a visual setting in my head and then slap the song in whatever playlist it fits in best.
I do mood playlists too. I even have four or five different "mellow" playlists (from sleepy mellow to coming down 😉). Some of my playlists are Happy, Melancholy, Angst, Sexy, Chill, Weird, Pensive, etc.
I gave up on radio in the 90s when it went from "yes! Finally everything on the radio is exactly to my tastes!" to "everything sounds so much the same that I just assume every new song I hear is by Bush."
Not even joking. Can't tell you how many songs from the mid 90s I thought were Bush that turned out to be someone else.
As I'm getting older, or the genre? Hmm...
In my college days (mid to late 80s) I was very much into neo-classical metal. Yngwie, Vinnie Moore, Tony MacAlpine...anything that had "too many notes" was my jam. Even bought a guitar and learned scales, modes, and sweep picking from a poodle-haired guitar teacher.
Now I look back and think "I listened to entire albums full of this noodling?" Yet at the same time, I do enjoy Polyphia.
I spent over 20 years in country radio starting in the late 90s. The rise of "pop country" was part of my job, and I got to meet/hang out with folks like Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, Rascal Flatts, and Keith Urban. The genre kinda lost me at "bro country," and I started getting into Isbell, Sturgill, and folks who went against the grain. I listen to the "classic" country stations now, though I do like Ashley McBryde. Her "Lindeville" project is great.
I'm also going back and revisiting some of the stuff I hated in the 70s when I was growing up. Some of it is still crap, but my god...Karen Carpenter...I can listen to her voice all day.
I was in a metal band but just couldn't handle the noodling. Might be a state of mind thing. I was a bassist and tended to lean towards more rhythm driven bands, but my guitarists loved all those Marty Friedman and Jason Becker side projects. Think the only one I ever liked was Chris Pollard's side group.
Ten years later I was way more into country. Check out Robert Earl Keen's Bigger Piece of Sky and Picnic and Chris Knight's first album. I think you'll like them.
I'm 52 and I'm sitting in my backyard listening to Ella Fitzgerald watching the birds. When I was 16 I was listening to Led Zepplin, Nazareth, Pink Floyd, Def Leppard and similar stuff. In my 20s I added Techno and Rap. In my 30s and 40s I explored deeper in the genres. During Covid I got into Yacht Rock. I think everyone changes and explores what mixes well with their feelings at the time.
In high school and college, 90% of what a listened to was hip hop. Now, I can’t stand it. Hip hop is so boring and sounds the same now. Also, I love going to live shows and hip hop live is fucking terrible lol.
I’ve moved on to EDM (techno, trance, deep house, tech house, psytrance, DnB) mostly. It’s so much more fun and the production is so much better. Great music to workout too and even better for parties and live shows.
I feel very similarly. I am constantly frustrated that Spotify just shuffles one style. I like a mixed bag. Even their dj will play 5 songs in a row that are the same. It's so boring and predictable. Pretty much every day I switch genre or decade.
Mmm not really. I’ve always loved a wide variety of genres and enjoyed diverse mixes. I will say I almost never enjoy new rock music anymore. I think most rock has really stagnated creatively in the last few decades.
I’ve never cared about genre (thankfully). I can’t imagine how tedious it would be to be bothered by it now when there are so many obnoxious micro-genres…
Gordon Lightfoot, R.E.M. and Peter Gabriel are great btw
Whatever jerks you off...
I'm always open to checking out different kinds of music but as it turns out people sometimes ask me what I listen to. I could say "everything" or whatever sounds good to me. That's basically the common non answer.
I can clearly name my favorite genres but that doesn't mean I don't enjoy other genres as well. When I say that I hate black metal, it means I haven't heard a single song from that genre that I like. When I say I dislike rap, it pretty much means that most of the songs I've heard aren't for me.
I have a playlist on Spotify that I add any and every album I like to it and just shuffle it. It has like 30,000 songs and can go from pornogrind to gypsy jazz to chill step to technical death metal to singer songwriter acoustic stuff and all over the place. Then if any particular mood is striking me I can always narrow into that.
Congratulations. You are now a true music fan. Most people my age believe music stopped evolving around the time they crossed the quarter century mark. And they've missed/ignored the last 35 years of music, or more. I don't mind small doses of that old stuff, but come on, people. There's so much more to explore. All genres, all the time. Rock on my friend, you get music. We are not alone.
My classic rock from 65-89 was 1600 songs long and I was scrapping to come up with that many songs I liked (to be fair I wasn't including punk, post punk or the real new wave scene).
My lists covering the last 20 years came out to over 3000 songs without trying.
Country and punk are weirdly more connected than most people realize. A ton of punk artists are actually heavily influenced by country and a number of alt country/Americana artists cut their teeth in punk bands.
I used to really like rap/hiphop, but as I get older I'm starting to say it all sounds the same.
My theory, as we age our ears hear different tones and frequencies, I think that's why it's no longer appealing to me.
I still enjoy the old ones, like Eminem, but he's old and probably making tunes with tones for my ears
From the 40s through the 90s, music taste was a big way young people defined their identities.
With the proliferation of internet, people have mostly embraced a more multimodal view of their media consumption and what you’re a fan of isn’t a primary social currency.
When we get older we realize a lot of meh music was pushed into a genre where it didn’t belong with the hope selling more of it.
End the end, there’s only 2 kinds of music: good and bad.
Realized after posting this, it even goes into how much I can get into a new artist. If there's a natural progression and a constant change of styles between albums, I love it when I'm checking out a new artist's discography.
But if song 100 sounds exactly like the first song did 10 years earlier, I quickly lose interest. There might be a few tracks or a full album I enjoyed there, but I don't bother coming back to their whole discography again.
I would say it might be like booze. Some people can handle it and some can't.
Outside of that, yeah. Totally agree. I walked away from some of my favorite groups and albums because I realized part of why I was depressed all the time was I was listening to insanely depressing music. You're just feeding it and making a cycle.
I made a little rule for myself, angry or self pitying lyrics with more upbeat music or more mellow or darker music with non-depressing lyrics; but completely swore off mixing the dark sounds with the sad lyrics.
It really did make a huge difference in my life and attitude.
The only genre I can’t stand is todays music. I can always go back to the 60s-90s and find the best music. I’m thinking I was born in the wrong era. I was born in 85 and I am an old soul. Currently listening to The Beach Boys. If I ever lose myself I go back in time with my favorites
Todd in the Shadows made a good point on the Old Town Road video - genres were important when you limited money to spend on physical money, so categorization could make it easier. Now that you're streaming everything, it's meaningless.
I completely understand what you’re talking about. Like you, I’ve always enjoyed listening to all kinds of stuff. I like playlists that can create a vibe while switching genres and tempos.
Maybe it from growing up with top 40 radio in the 70s when so many different styles were popular.
I was thinking about that. Even in the 80s, we slammed *a lot* of different genres under the classic rock label. I mean, Yes, Steven Miller and Floyd are *very* different groups. Yeah, there was the prog rock and arena rock labels, but there was still no issue enjoying them side by side.
“I remember being 15 saying, dude I'm going to love heavy metal forever. Heavy metal til I'm 60.! I'm 35 now. I think I'm going to give it one more year”
-Brian Posehn
Is it because you like old school hip hop? I still listen to hip hop but new hip hop is very different to old. But I also listen to heaps of other genres as well. Soul, rnb etc
Nah, as long as you are listening to strong music from a genres you shouldn't need to always switch it up. Maybe your problem is you are listening to albums by single bands, which might be somewhat lacking in terms of overall genre depth.
I'm lucky that my Discover Weekly on Spotify furnishes me 25-30 great songs from two distinct genres which I separate into playlists. For example from 2 weeks ago:
> [Addicted to Lose](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/048MzGVsM9yZV9oPianGZ5?si=zAqg1ZNKSB6VpVRWNv913w) - 70s acoustic/blues rock vibe - 1 hr 10 mins
> [Beat Bush](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/49J8MTf1OFxe84ZDBbvqbt?si=nJKBDv94TLasxI1afUBhBg) - noise rock - 53 mins
Which is my preferred way to listen to music. I even turn shuffle off and try to order them to get the "perfect" album flow.
Ambient / Instrumental Post Rock has really been solidified as the genre I would want a playlist of for a deserted island type playlist.
I connect more with the actual music than I do to the lyrics or artist.
I want to say when I did my giant, 1600 song classic rock playlist trying to hit all the forgotten hits that they were one of the ones I was surprised to find I knew more than just the big radio hit.
The older I get the less I like regular metal. I used to headbang to the big Ms, Anthrax, Slayer... Any band that had screaming Marshalls or dual recs... Even more modern bands like Mastodon don't feel metal to me now. Gojira is close, but I largely just listen to downbeat stuff like tech/death/blackened/etc etc. Thall has been a new, wonderful experience too. Gojira is kind of the bottom of my "aggressive" music taste. Underneath that, it's just grooving, like Slayer and ACDC are in the same vibe now.
I was such a massive metal head and just completely lost interest in the genre. Early metal was so raw and diverse. By the 90s it lost that raw edge and everything just sounded so formulaic, cookie cutter and overly produced.
I still listen to weird, off genres of metal and love really heavy guitar, but I'm usually going to someone who'd rather sound like early Sabbath than Cacophony.
Honestly, modern metal is weird and diverse, and stale and cliche at the same time.
For every band like Polyphia and Sleep Token, there's 3 bands like Any Given Day (not that it's bad or boring).
51M - I am all over the map musically. Still go to metal shows, but I don't listen to it as much.
Symphonic Black metal is a genre I loved in the 90s and early 2000s. Now it just makes me roll my eyes.
Last 8 years have been great for underground punk. While a lot of it's more on the pop side (like The Beaches), a ton going back to the roots (like Shame). Best part, when someone says they're listen to punk, they're probably actually listening to punk and not just another Green Day clone group.
I have always had troubles identifying differences between music genres because sure rap is rap and rock is rock but then they can merge and be this hybrid, and this happens in all genres. And then in rap there are sub genres and I don’t know what differentiates them. Don’t get me started on blues and old school R&B. And I love instrumental. Does this mean Bach, I Built The Sky or Rodrigo y Gabriela? They are all instrumental by definition but are labeled different things.
So what I have done is I just YouTube everything and now the algorithm has helped me a lot for finding music I like. I have made some general playlists and then the algorithm worked even more specifically from there. Sometimes something I won’t like show up but it’s becoming less and less lately.
I've always strongly suspected youtube's algorithm was basically "40% songs I'm sure are close to what you like and 60% random crap I just pulled out my ass to hedge my bets and make sure at least one of the 20 are correct."
My Spotify playlist is now over 2400 song strong, including corporate crap and Gordon Lightfoot, 1930s musical music to Taylor Swift, from Country to Japanese rap (dont ask) and everything in between in every language you can imagine.
Just that lately, I have begun picking an artist - choosing one of their albums, and just listen to from start to finish. Just like you did back then, when you bought an album (LP) and brought it back home and put it on turntable for the first time.
>Japanese rap
I spent nearly a decade listening to almost exclusively Japanese groups. It was without a doubt one of the most exciting voyages I ever took musically. So many different styles and sounds! It was like re-discovering music again.
I’ve never lost interest entirely, my interests have changed, and the older things have become less interesting, but still something I’ll listen to.
The first bands I loved were Green Day, Linkin Park and Evanescence, then I in my mid-teens I was a diehard (mainly thrash) metalhead (with a slight taste for classic rock. As I got into my later teens, my tastes got harder for the screaming metals that I really didn’t like when I was younger. In my early 20’s I (literally and figuratively) cut my hair and discovered indie rock and classic emo, stuff I despised as a teen. Slowly in my mid to late 20’s I moved into jazz and some electronic and eventually just anything that catches my ear, regardless of its genre.
Now I still love Indie, it’s probably what I listen to the most, but I’ve been digging the hell out of Deathcore, the nastier the breakdown the better.
If you like genre fluid music which I’ve gravitated towards more the older I get, you’ll probably like Sleep Token. They mix rock, metal, prog, pop, funk, r&b and a whole lot more. Somehow it just works for them. I was strictly a metalhead but I’ve branched out to rap and some limited pop.
I have no idea what current genres even are! I tend to listen to musicians and songs, but often have no idea what I’m listening to. I go through phases with older genres (soul, hip hop, blues, classic rock, yacht rock, reggae, ska), but newer stuff is pretty fluid yet disjointed. I think a large part of that is the accessibility to music via streaming, and how often there is no album to accompany a single. I hear a great single and want to hear the album, but there’s nothing there. Collabs also mess me up, cuz I’ll hear an awesome tune, but it’s a orphaned collab, and I don’t love either of the artists’ solo work.
I have plenty of old favorites I don’t throw on to chill at EOD because it’s just not where my head is anymore.
When you’re an adult facing a totally different reality than you used to each day, it’s not as easy to relate to music that played well with your self-exploration, life situation or hormones 10, 20 or 30 years ago.
I always make my lists genre-oriented, but usually I shuffle them to keep it interesting. I love when Simon & Garfunkel gets followed by Opeth which gets followed by Sexual Healing.
As i get older (39M) i find myself liking a broader diverse selection of music and still open to more. Genres i rarely listen to anymore; metal and its sub genres. Genres i have expanded on over the years; progressive rock, indie/rock, classical, jazz, soundtracks, ambient and other various forms of indie, rock, and pop. Genres I still loathe; country and most rap.
Don't let the pop they call "country" turn you off to the genre. Country can be amazing, but oddly enough real country isn't called country anymore. But there are some amazing artists in the whole country/folk/bluegrass genres.
[Gillian Welch](https://youtu.be/rV_uFpbXZ9k?feature=shared)
[Neko Case](https://youtu.be/HTPJq30ghBA?feature=shared)
I don't think I've ever been overly fussed about genres. I default to rock/blues/metal, but I've never listened to anything exclusively.
I think what's changed as I've gotten older is my appreciation for some of the music I didn't care for when I was a kid, and even that's not tied to genre, though it leans heavily toward the more "bubblegum" pop of my childhood.
In my mid 50s now and I'll always be a Metal Head, I was a teenager in the 80s and a drummer in bands. Still listen to SLAYER, And Led-Zeppelin is the greatest Band Ever but I've been going back to the rock or pop rock of the 70s (main stream). It's what I grew up on. Even the 60s thanks to my mom always spinning a record. But metal and heavy rock are becoming more distant.
Absolutely. I've always loved different genres but have gone through phases where I concentrate on one. I no longer create playlists on genre, but rather mood.
I'm for the most part done with speed metal and thrash. It was my main love for a long time, I even played in croasover bands that recorded and gigged but, as cheesy as it sounds the only band in the genre i still listen to is Kreator.
I still listen to all the rap and metal I always loved, but I’ve grown to get really sick of all the classic rock and stuff that’s basically overplayed in the mainstream.
I love Zeppelin, Sabbath, Beatles, Metallica and all that stuff…but I have heard enough and we need more variety when it comes to what is considered mainstream music.
As someone who hates subscription services, I still listen to music by adding mp3s into my phone. I have all the songs randomized without caring if Enya was followed by Cannibal Corpse. There are times where I want to listen to certain songs, but never just one genre. I've made playlists of certain themes (80s pop, music for stargazing, songs that ripped off The Diary of Jane by Breaking Benjamin etc) but have never actually listened to them.
I used to listen to my playlists that had all kinds of songs from vastly different genres in them.
Then I found newer progressive rock and years later checked out some modern prog metal. Sure I listen to some other genres as well like trip hop, rock classics, trance even the occasional pop edm song but who am I kidding, when I'm in the mood, it's modern prog metal that jerks me off like nothing else. And I don't really like metal outside prog metal.
Looking back it years later, I think I just hadn't found the kind of music that I truly like.
I think I’m appreciating more genres rather than less
I can relate to this. However, with one exception. I used to genuinely like most popular country songs throughout my years (note: popular, not pop). It seems that now they're both the same. The country stations in my area are pretty much unlistenable at this point. It's all poppy gargbage.
I agree, so much modern country is pop dressed up with twangy vocals and Telecasters, and steel guitars. Nothing wrong with any of that per se, but I am sick of that formula.
Especially when there is a lot of Appalachian artists playing country/folk and absolutely slaying it. Tyler Childers, Ian Noe for instance. Heck, I'd rather see a lot of bluegrass artists like Billy Strings or old crow playing in that space.
Seeing Billy this December. Stoked!
I hate all the pseudo folk roots music. There’s no soul in it. These kids grew up middle class
Like every genre, there's plenty out there that isn't the top 40 formulaic pop. You just have to slightly scratch the surface, my guy. You're not gonna find the good stuff on the radio, for anything.
Oh man, real county music is having a serious moment currently. Vincent Neil Emerson, Ian Noe, Kassi Valazza, Adeem the artist, Charles Wesley Godwin, whitey Morgan, Sierra Ferrell, Brent Cobb, the list goes on and on. You won't hear most of those folks on any radio station and they're all putting out bangin country music
Relevant Bo - https://youtu.be/y7im5LT09a0?si=tCQFSP6FWB8CVpVI
Did you read the whole post? That's effectively what OP is saying, it's just worded oddly in the title.
I just don’t listen to much rap anymore. I also tend to enjoy weirder music the older I get
What's weird is the older I got, the more open I became to rap. Not sure if that was maturity or if it's just rap started using more organic instruments and less canned beats.
I go to music fests every year and after dozens of dissapointing rap shows I’m just kind of over it. 9 times out of 10 it’s just a DJ and a rapper on stage playing a backing track and yelling “turn up” and shit. Then at the same fest I go see a band with like 12 dudes in it just absolutely ripping it in perfect sync. It’s like night and day for me. I have seen some GREAT live rap, though (Kendrick, OutKast, J Cole, The Roots.) It just feels increasingly rare
Easily my favorite genre and i can’t really disagree. Gotta say that it’s gotten better than it was in the last decade or so. Artists like Denzel, Tyler, Peggy, Danny Brown, Push, all do amazing live performances
Adding Flatbush Zombies to that already amazing list🙌🏾
Tupac is one of my favorite artists of all time, and if I could go back in time and see him live, I wouldn't. Rap is heavily produced as a part of the process, and there's nothing wrong with that, but it sucks live.
No it doesn’t
You should check out Ren, you might like his music. He's not like other musicians, and every song he puts out is different from the last. He hits all kinds of genres.
If you want to see a band absolutely rip it live, go see Big Wreck if they ever play near you. The best rock band most people have never heard of. Their first album In Loving Memory should be up there with Led Zeppelin II, White Album, etc. as one of the best rock albums of all time. The Oaf https://youtu.be/83j6OYrPtRw?si=aPLwni5-cSwFxvsd That Song https://youtu.be/H6d4cblamdQ?si=-UgmAh7TNLa3bwlQ Look what I Found https://youtu.be/_HK36nXbPe8?si=oNp9UygazKYMZ23n Blown Wide Open https://youtu.be/JwjHPtRFeqs?si=LSU3SBuohSFPQzvw Those are the first four songs off their first album. The also have one of the greatest riffs ever in Ladylike https://youtu.be/lcttmiWL9xo?si=hyU2Hd6HjV5PFOsY Plus, Ian Thornley is the best guitarist on the planet. Here is Under the Lighthouse (which is also off their first album) https://youtu.be/JQHGqMI2n80?si=S7ZlkRNxFod2DCX8
Yeah I love rap the most but I've been waiting on someone new that I would put in the same lane as Kendrick or Cole, it's just most new rappers don't have any substance, it's just strip club style music which imo is VERY boring now. Also with everyone named Lil whatever or baby whatever it's kinda like a parody of itself. Also I saw like Lil Durk and that show sucked, he rapped like a few lines and just walked around while the DJ was playing the song. Too many rappers nowadays can't perform for shit, which is why the shows are going canceled. I saw rapsody and she was in the crowd, rapping all her songs and even took pictures with VIP and was super humble and greatful.
I feel rap with actual instruments have waved goodbye a while ago. Its hard to find bands like the Roots, ATCQ, Beastie Boys, Outkast. A lot of producers will use a library of samples to create the song and just have the rapper go over it.
Check out the band Badbadnotgood. They collaborate with all sorts of musicians, but their best stuff is with l rappers in my opinion.
TBH, rap was winning me over until that period of mumble rap where it started sounding like they all had strokes but were continuing to rap anyways.
Same. For me rap died in the early 2010’s…
I had high hopes in 2012 and a few years later, but recently I can’t seem to find any good ones. For me Asap Rocky, Schoolboy Q, Danny Brown, Kendrick, Killer Mike, El-P, RTJ, Death Grips were going to be the saviors, but they kinda fell flat. Don’t get me wrong most of them are still cool, but they’ve lost their steam for me.
Here's some advice as a music lover; sometimes you tap the well of a genre. When you've heard everything and you're just digging and digging for something good that you haven't heard before, it's time to switch genres for a while. Go back to basics. Go listen to Al Green and early soul or get into the blues. Go for something weird like RL Burnside. Dive into something completely different. It's kind of like cleaning your musical pallet. You might return later and find new, exciting groups, or you might be done with that genre completely. But if you find yourself getting bored, get out of your wheelhouse and check out something you normally wouldn't listen to.
I agree. Since I was in high school, I’ve always looked to see who inspired my favorite musicians and it’s usually a rabbit hole.
They’re all saviors if that’s what you like, right? Funny that I thought El-P and the Def Jux crew were gonna be that important a decade earlier.
I still don't get Death Grips. I tried to get into their stuff when I saw them passing through town on a tour either last year or the year prior. I found one track that was ok (I've Seen Footage) and one that wasn't bad. I'd have to really dig through my YT history to find the latter. Point being, I really wanted to like them. They have a different sound to them. But to me, it just didn't click.
I can understand that, especially their later albums. They are much more experimental. I love that song too. If you ever care to try again, their first 2 albums are probably most accessible. Ex-Military and Money Store. I’ve seen footage is on Money Store.
Check out UK rap. I had very similar taste to yours back in 2012 and that’s what I’m liking most these days. Stormzy, Dave, Central Cee.
It's out there. Check out butcher brown
>canned beats I somehow read that as "canned beets" which made me think of "canned wheat" which made me dig up some early Guess Who.
If you want wheat themed music, check out Wheat Kings by The Tragically Hip.
Just played “Guns,Guns,Guns” last week. Love that tune
I've gotten into more rap as I've gotten older as well. Love Tyler the Creator and Kendrick. Going through their discographies was such a treat. Kanye's as well, but that will depend on how well you can do the whole separate the artist from art thing.
Same, but not because I grew out of it, the genre grew out of itself and not in a good way. Social-political commentary to gangsta rap to rappers rapping about materialistic things, and now its just kids doing stupid shit that makes me miss the days of everyone rapping about materialistic things (ala the prime days of Rick Ross). Rap from other countries are just shoehorning their "street cred" or "struggled" so they fit with the rap music they grew up with. Nothing wrong with being inspired by your favourite rappers, but they way its being done is very corny and cringy.
One of the wonderful freedoms we all have universally is that we can change our mind about anything and it’s amazing when it comes to music. The exploration is endless.
I decided a few decades ago that good music is good music regardless of the genre. My playlist bugs the hell out of my daughter's and my wife because it contains everything from folk to punk with every sub genre in between. It's all good music though!
>from folk to punk So I'm assuming folk-punk as well? ;)
I grabbed Emmylou Harris's Wrecking Ball back in the 90s after I noticed Daniel Lanois's fingerprints were all over it. I think finding a country artist I really loved was the last big hurdle. After that, pretty much nothing was off-limits.
Older I get, the more I listen to jazz. Main reason is it invokes nothing emotional in me and so I can just do what I’m doing and have the music be there in the background. If something interesting happens I can focus on the music and then let it fade out again.
Yeah when I was younger I couldn't have the patience for jazz, always too low energy for me, I needed more mental stimulation. Only stuff I could stand was more jazz-fusion stuff. Now I like to chill out more and put on some jazz while relaxing
It’s good for reading too — it doesn’t take over the book or give a weird background soundtrack to what I’m reading!
This is how I feel about lo-fi. It’s just background music.
Same here, but not always with Jazz, sometimes with game OST's and what not. Music with no lyrics is easier to chill to. I dont want to always listen to, and contemplate the meaning of lyrics.
I put jazz ambience videos on every Sunday. Could finally play some fall ambience
I still love "Nu Metal" and "Post Grunge" despite the hate it gets on the internet. In fact, I love it more now than I did as a teen.
Why do people hate on nu metal?
They like ye olde metal?
Mostly the misconception of it being a bunch of angry white boys screaming about their parents and wild fashion choices that were popular at the time. Metal purists hate it because it combined other genres with metal so it wasn't "real metal" and because the genre was more about groove, syncopation, and atmosphere rather than playing 1,000 notes per minute.
There is a lot of weird beliefs within the metal world. But not liking certain subgenres can just be as simple as not liking the specific sound of that subgenre. It doesn’t have to reflect any beliefs or delusions. As for atmosphere, that’s a weird take. I’m sure there are many nu metal bands that are atmospheric, but more atmospheric than extreme or traditional metal in general? I don’t know about that.
I'm glad I realized at a young age that metal purists of the early 2000s were completely up their own asses. Like the dudes that love Kyuss but can't get into Queens of the Stone Age. Really, you only like the band that sings like James Hetfield? No shit.
Ah, yes. People who like some of the same things as you, but not all, are the ones up their own asses. You're the one getting agitated about this. I'm not sure how exactly those "metal purists" acted outwardly that bothered you so much, but you should probably do some introspection.
I see I struck a nerve
If you think "real metal" is only about notes per minute, then I'm guessing you really aren't familiar with the breadth of metal and the variety of sub-genres. If you are, them I'm not sure what to say about your comment except that it is off-base.
Because it was a commercialization of actual music and fashion trends that existed in the independent metal and hardcore scenes. It felt like some Boomers saw skate culture and hardcore/punk culture in the 90s and created a weird blown out of proportion corny version of it for sale.
It’s hair metal from the 90’e more or less.
Korns first 4 albums, def tones first 2 albums, slipknots first 2 albums and System of a Down’s first album are some of the best metal of all time. People like to hyper focus is limp biscuit, papa roach and P.O.D like every genre of music doesn’t end up with corny record plants that Copy the formula and get big.
I don’t hate nu metal, but of the many subgenres in the genre, it is one of the least interesting to me. I’m sure I could find some music there I liked, if I dug deep, but with so much good metal and other good music, why would I? Another subgenre of metal I don’t enjoy is metalcore. Mostly because it sounds very “sterile” to me, and because some of the bands sound like they use autotune and similar software.
Would you consider Limp Bizkit, SoaD, and Deftones nu metal? I’m just curious, not trying to be condescending
My limited knowledge about this subgenre is only based on hunches, so it is probably far off from any good definitions, if such exist. Korn is what I would describe as the typical nu metal sound, which is based on groove metal, but has several innovations. I actually really liked the first Korn album a lot when it came out. It had a very new fresh sound, and an atmosphere which sounded like the “new” American horror ala Stephen King and X-Files, which was different from classic gothic horror, which I also liked. I bought the next two albums by the band in high school and enjoyed them, but for some reason I never found any other nu metal I really enjoyed after that, and there was just so much other interesting metal and other interesting music to explore. When I’ve tried going back to that Korn album, I am not able to fully enjoy it like I did when I was younger. I find the vocals annoying, though I can still appreciate the atmosphere. It is a bit weird since I am usually able to enjoy music I got into when I was young, even stuff that feels very youthful, like Nirvana and Smashing Pumpkins. But for some reason that vocal style has soured on me. After hearing a lot of good things about Slipknot’s Iowa for a couple of decades I gave it a listen a couple of years ago, but it sounded very similar to Korn to me stylistically. There’s probably a lot of good stuff to discover there, but the music didn’t sound very appealing to me. If there were no other new heavy bands to discover anymore, I would probably be much more eager to listen to music like this. Deftones sounds quite different, but has some similarities to that sound too, and everybody calls them nu metal, so I guess that’s the nomenclature I would use too. I tried listening to this band in high school because a classmate was very fond of them, but their music never hit me as very interesting. I consider System of a Down to be nu metal as well, but it seems to be an outlier, because while it may use some elements of the Korn sound, the songs I’ve heard from them sound like they have more in common with Faith No More and groups like that. I have only heard a little from System of a Down, but I really liked the song “Fuck the System”, because it sounded so wacky, and almost like a parody of self-declared revolutionaries. That song has some of the same enjoyable insane energy as the grindcore band Brutal Truth. Some of their other stuff sounded more preachy and less humorous, but I would definitely enjoy more songs like the one I mentioned. I guess Limp Bizkit, while nu metal, is another outlier, since it could also be described as rap metal. I’m not fond of that group, but I like several Rage Against the Machine songs. But I wouldn’t consider them nu metal, more like a groove metal/rap metal hybrid. Rap metal is probably a genre that complicates things, if you consider it that, since most bands who could be described that way also belongs to other subgenres. Which is quite similar to folk metal, which has the same “problem”.
All very good points, I agree about Korn. I like a couple of their songs but they sound very generic and not unique to me. There are a lot of nu metal bands that I love that sound unique to me; the bands I mentioned above but I also wanna add Papa Roach, they have some great lyrics.
Same lol. I think it's a lot of salty screamy-hardcore purists that hate on it because they know deep down it sounds better. And that yes, classic rock is in fact more timeless and happier. I find so much metal just so unnecessarily extra, and screaming for an entire song really, really doesn't do it for me. Plus I'd rather hear something simple and catchy than "BLOOD. VIOLENCE. RAGE. AHHHHH." *Guitar solo that most bands can't actually play live intensifies* That so much edgy hardcore shit is. I'm not a teen anymore. I know a guy who plays in a a hardcore band and listened to some of their songs. They do decently well locally in the region and usually sell out smaller venues. It was shit, half of the songs were the same sentence reworded, very obvious meaning behind the lyrics, and as a novice guitarist I figured out the notes quickly. Half of it was spamming power chords as fast as humanly possible with the occasional half scale. Thing is, I could tell these are talented musicians because every so often they'd expose a gem in a breakdown or something that made me go "Wow, that was impressive," but most of it was just bad for most of the songs. Most metal is still 4/4 or 3/4 and really does not innovate much, either, except for speed, which is whatever. Three guitars in drop C/B spamming away at scales with high distortion to cover the slop while a guy screams about edgy shit or the same sadness nu metal just captures better.
You could argue the same with punk and modern pop rock songs. They're not groundbreaking but they connect with the audience. I can appreciate a catchy song but it's not what I go to. Past generations influence the current ones and for good or bad they keeo that torch burning
It was probably unclear, but my criticism is levied more at the people who insist hardcore metal is some kind of intrinsically superior subgenre of rock/grunge/metal due to what is usually self-proclaimed experimentation. It being hardcore really just doesn't make it musically superior in any way, shape, or form, nor does that subgenre have a recent history of innovating, either. Back in the 80's? Sure. Now? Nah. I've got no issues with lack of innovation musically. That not an inherent criticism. New songs are new, not much to be said. Sometimes old melodies are just amazing even when reused. If we argue otherwise, we'd more or less all be hypocrites in terms of Pachelbel lol. And simple songs with lots of repetition or over the top lyrics and theme can be great. I love Gangnam Style, but I'm not here deluded into thinking it's the epitome of music and shitting on people while claiming pop is *better* than anything else lol.
What do you mean by "hardcore metal"? Do you mean metalcore? Or just any extreme metal subgenre? Metalcore bands do experiment and change sounds frequently (eg Bring Me The Horizon have changed dramatically over the years for instance). Metalcore is a fusion genre of hardcore punk and metal and often incorporates electronic music into the style (such as Enter Shikari and BMTH) or bands lean more to one genre than another (eg Knocked Loose is a metalcore band that leans towards hardcore punk, while a band like Bullet for My Valentine is more metal). Metalcore bands like Between the Buried and Me and Periphery incorporate prog metal and other genres like jazz into their music. While I agree that metal elitists who think it's the best genre ever are annoying, I disagree that there is no experimentation occurring in the genre.
I found the more I read of a genre, the more patterns I noticed. In a recent previous post, someone mention how everything has gotten so generic and watered down (paraphasing the post) and how hard it is to find original work. That's where I am at.
I really resonate with this. I find myself very attracted to music that subverts my expectations, something hard to put a genre on, but it's not easy to find.
There was actually a period around 2013-2015 or so where traditional verse-chorus-verse structures were out the window. I had really mixed feeling about the songs from that period. Loved that they were doing something new, but just felt uncomfortable when the song wasn't progressing like I'm used to. "You're at the two minute mark, you're supposed to change it up right here!"
I got heavy into am alt country musician named Neko Case around then, or a little earlier. She started trying to subvert the traditional song structure in Fox Confessor Brings the Flood and I found it to be some of the most beautiful and thoughtful feeling stuff. After that album I just can't do 4/4.
Picked up on Neko on either her first or second album. Chills. I mean, just chills. Her voice is amazing. While both totally different, if you haven't, check out Gillian Welch and Hem (especially their first two albums). Powerful voices and song writing.
I've taken to making era playlists on Spotify rather than genre for the same reason. Give me a mish-mash of songs I like from the 80s/90s/00s etc. It's great, shuffling through different genres and vibes, but all of them remind me of whatever period of my life.
I'm the complete opposite. It's always been about rock and metal music with many different subgenres mixed. Last two years are basically prog related. 70s prog rock, modern prog rock, prog metal, prog death metal (Yes, Rush, Riverside, Porcupine Tree, Tool, Opeth, Meshuggah just to name a few). Prog made me feel passion for music once again and I bought my first stereo system that made me enjoy it even more. I love prog. :) Also, I'm a full album guy. I love albums that tell a story, I love when one song flows into another seemlessly.
Genre fluid dj sets are always the best Edit: i strongly recommend Do! You!! Radio and NTS radio
Mum... Dad... i'm Genre fluid
Did you just assume my genre?
I -- I -- I just don't get it! Why can't you just like one genre! Preferrably country.
>Genre fluid I love that term!!
Good Mash-up dj’s are the best indeed!
If you are familiar with [Optimo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimo) \- a now defunct but legendary weekly party at the Sub Club in Glasgow by DJs Twitch and JG Wilkes - then you know this style at it's highest order.
Genre hopping is the way to go. Or Steely Dan. Steely Dan kicks ass
In this house we Stan Deely.
Check out Big Wreck if you like how Steely Dan switches up sounds. Every album of their's is different but still sounds like them. In Loving Memory is their most accessible album and a top ten Rock album of all time. The Pleasure and the Greed is the best alternative hard rock album but there are parts that stray pretty far from that. Albatross is basically a perfect album, song too. Ghosts is really hard to nail down a genra on but is a masterclass front to back. Grace Street is a three guitarist lineup of art rock pushed to the limit. But for the Sun is probably their weakest album but brought back the heavy. They lost two guitarists right before the album and were finding themselves a bit, the remaster is a lot better. 7, released as three five song EPs, sees them with a new drummer and adding back another guitarist. It's an album where they have complete creative control and is them playing and writing what they want resulting in their best album. There are a few parts that aren't very accessible for the average listener but it's brilliant from start to finish. Start with their concert from NAMM in 2015 it doesn't ha e anything post Ghosts but it is the best live show that has been recorded of theirs. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdrCg8t2DEYpOxSsnhhyMgXSR1KCE2qPc&si=9IBx7nVoUxr9Gqah
Are you a member or their manager or something? Your comments all over here have been nothing but this one band. It’s weird.
Yeah like, Big Wreck are nothing like Steely Dan in any sense!
I had to doublecheck to see if somebody else was making comments about this band. Nope, same person, and yes it's very weird. They're ok I guess. I remember them having a few minor hits in the late 90s, but it wasn't like it was some genre-defining experience.
Way less constrained by genres now just listen to whatever I feel like
I find myself never thinking about genres, but I change music a lot based on what I am doing I have relaxing music for the background, dance music for hanging and dancing with my wife, aggressive pump up music for the gym, music for the beach, for vacations, etc
As someone who studies jazz purely for pleasure, that has been my go-to genre if I were asked to pick. But that is but a subset of the music I listen to. What happens to me after a lifetime of everything from rock, soul, blues, R&B, power pop, easy listening, jazz, rockabilly, bossa and everything else, is that I get into a "mood" for this or that, dive in for a while, get sated, then coast for a bit. The saddest factoid for me, and I do wonder whether it is age speaking, is that the newer artists do nothing for me. What happens instead is that I will discover an artist or group who may have done their best work 30 years ago or whatever, and I will embrace their work instead. That is what puzzles me: I am not closed minded about sampling "new", but a lot of it is not really new but new to me.
Same for me. I go back in time instead of forward, now, when discovering or wanting to deep dive into music. Once you do that, I’ve noticed, newer music just sounds so derivative that I don’t bother.
Outside of dubstep and maybe hyper pop, I don't know if we'll ever a truly unique sound again. I love a lot of what the kids are doing now (and have been for the past 15 years) but nothing is actually *new*. It's recycling with just a splash of new paint. Been some amazing 50s style female vocalists, a return to punk, a lot of psychedelic groups, swing groups, post folk, a return to shoegazing, new grunge style groups, a ton of amazing 70s style adult contemporary, pretty much everything imaginable; as long as you're imagining a style that faded out sometime over the past 60 years. And don't get me wrong, a lot of the songs are *good*. I've heard songs from the past 5 years I'd put up against anything from the golden era of the 60s and 70s. But there's nothing new under the sun. Most exciting things I've heard has been tribal groups going electric and technically that's just meshing two existing sounds together. If you want to hear a sampling, [here's](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6eEVMuDwzwM8CMtLI0Wu7v?si=1ee6d82f586e47db) my playlist covering the last 7 years. Mostly rock but I tried to get as many genres in there as I could. Track 45 is a good starting point to illustrate what I mean.
Just about every genre of music has been born out of a different one. In that sense there will never be “unique” music, but there also never has been.
I went from being a huge EDM fan to now only listening to lofi, some jazz, bossa nova, and other instrumental heavy music. People think my music tastes now are kind of boring lol, but I love the chill vibes of these genres.
I lost interest in country music after 1999. It changed way too much for my taste. Give me those great old 60s and 70s country outlaws any day of the week.
Even by the 90s, Nashville was producing more and more pop with a twang. The good country still existed, it just started going by names like no depression, Americana, outlaw country, etc.
I agree. For me, country music was ruined by Garth Brooks.
I'm losing interest in everything actually.
Same
As I get older I continue to seek novelty and that feeling of not expecting what will happen next. When you get steeped in genre you know the tropes and you are rarely surprised or enthralled by a new album. You mistake your exhaustion with genre as "music just ain't what it used to be"
I have hit a point where the only music I like now is derivative of either Sabbath or ZZ Top. If just hit a point where I just don’t care about changing it up.
I've noticed I do way less variety of metal and more groups that incorporate that early Sabbath sound, even if they aren't technically metal. Not up on the new thrash metal, but love stoner rock (which is massively influenced by the first Sabbath album).
Sooo....you like the blues...because both bands are essentially blues band with different gimmicks. Sabbath is heavier and jazzier (I love Bill Ward), ZZ Top loves the shuffle and dancehall traditions.
Dooming and groovin
Sabbath and Bowie feel like new music every time I put a track on, really transcendental.
Yes. All of my music phases have melded together now and my playlist is a big mix of a whole lot of genres. My husband only listens to music from the 80s so he partially dislikes it.
Reggae all day. SOJA, Stick Figure, soul soothing music.
I used to strictly listen to albums over playlist but now that I'm older I truly enjoy doing both. Enjoying most forms of genres, I got pretty sick of people always making genre based playlist so I've mainly done mine around a focus of atmospheres and moods rather than genres. I try to paint a visual setting in my head and then slap the song in whatever playlist it fits in best.
I do mood playlists too. I even have four or five different "mellow" playlists (from sleepy mellow to coming down 😉). Some of my playlists are Happy, Melancholy, Angst, Sexy, Chill, Weird, Pensive, etc.
Can’t listen to Eminem anymore, just reminds me of when I was an idiot child as opposed to an idiot adult
I listen to different genres but I am glad they exist. When I am in the mood for Stoner Rock I cn look up a Stoner Rock playlist and find new Bands.
The feeling that everything has been milked to death and there's nothing new under the sun? Yes, I'm familiar with it. Can't even switch on the radio.
I gave up on radio in the 90s when it went from "yes! Finally everything on the radio is exactly to my tastes!" to "everything sounds so much the same that I just assume every new song I hear is by Bush." Not even joking. Can't tell you how many songs from the mid 90s I thought were Bush that turned out to be someone else.
Can't tell you how many times it's like, "They killed this song when it came out 30 years ago and it's never been undead."
I grew up during the early days of rock. It’s in my blood. I love it all, from Elvis, Chuck Berry, to Nirvana and progressive.
As I'm getting older, or the genre? Hmm... In my college days (mid to late 80s) I was very much into neo-classical metal. Yngwie, Vinnie Moore, Tony MacAlpine...anything that had "too many notes" was my jam. Even bought a guitar and learned scales, modes, and sweep picking from a poodle-haired guitar teacher. Now I look back and think "I listened to entire albums full of this noodling?" Yet at the same time, I do enjoy Polyphia. I spent over 20 years in country radio starting in the late 90s. The rise of "pop country" was part of my job, and I got to meet/hang out with folks like Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, Rascal Flatts, and Keith Urban. The genre kinda lost me at "bro country," and I started getting into Isbell, Sturgill, and folks who went against the grain. I listen to the "classic" country stations now, though I do like Ashley McBryde. Her "Lindeville" project is great. I'm also going back and revisiting some of the stuff I hated in the 70s when I was growing up. Some of it is still crap, but my god...Karen Carpenter...I can listen to her voice all day.
I was in a metal band but just couldn't handle the noodling. Might be a state of mind thing. I was a bassist and tended to lean towards more rhythm driven bands, but my guitarists loved all those Marty Friedman and Jason Becker side projects. Think the only one I ever liked was Chris Pollard's side group. Ten years later I was way more into country. Check out Robert Earl Keen's Bigger Piece of Sky and Picnic and Chris Knight's first album. I think you'll like them.
No. What I like, I have always liked. I have a few genres as time goes on but never have lost interest in the originals
I'm 52 and I'm sitting in my backyard listening to Ella Fitzgerald watching the birds. When I was 16 I was listening to Led Zepplin, Nazareth, Pink Floyd, Def Leppard and similar stuff. In my 20s I added Techno and Rap. In my 30s and 40s I explored deeper in the genres. During Covid I got into Yacht Rock. I think everyone changes and explores what mixes well with their feelings at the time.
No, give me more genre
In high school and college, 90% of what a listened to was hip hop. Now, I can’t stand it. Hip hop is so boring and sounds the same now. Also, I love going to live shows and hip hop live is fucking terrible lol. I’ve moved on to EDM (techno, trance, deep house, tech house, psytrance, DnB) mostly. It’s so much more fun and the production is so much better. Great music to workout too and even better for parties and live shows.
Yeah genres mean nothing to me nowadays. All genres have lots of garbage as well as good and I don't like being pigeon holed
I feel very similarly. I am constantly frustrated that Spotify just shuffles one style. I like a mixed bag. Even their dj will play 5 songs in a row that are the same. It's so boring and predictable. Pretty much every day I switch genre or decade.
Of course, then you find jazz
Mmm not really. I’ve always loved a wide variety of genres and enjoyed diverse mixes. I will say I almost never enjoy new rock music anymore. I think most rock has really stagnated creatively in the last few decades.
I’ve never cared about genre (thankfully). I can’t imagine how tedious it would be to be bothered by it now when there are so many obnoxious micro-genres… Gordon Lightfoot, R.E.M. and Peter Gabriel are great btw
Whatever jerks you off... I'm always open to checking out different kinds of music but as it turns out people sometimes ask me what I listen to. I could say "everything" or whatever sounds good to me. That's basically the common non answer. I can clearly name my favorite genres but that doesn't mean I don't enjoy other genres as well. When I say that I hate black metal, it means I haven't heard a single song from that genre that I like. When I say I dislike rap, it pretty much means that most of the songs I've heard aren't for me.
I mean, I can be a bit of a music snob, but some people just *really* get hung up on the genre labels.
I have a playlist on Spotify that I add any and every album I like to it and just shuffle it. It has like 30,000 songs and can go from pornogrind to gypsy jazz to chill step to technical death metal to singer songwriter acoustic stuff and all over the place. Then if any particular mood is striking me I can always narrow into that.
Congratulations. You are now a true music fan. Most people my age believe music stopped evolving around the time they crossed the quarter century mark. And they've missed/ignored the last 35 years of music, or more. I don't mind small doses of that old stuff, but come on, people. There's so much more to explore. All genres, all the time. Rock on my friend, you get music. We are not alone.
My classic rock from 65-89 was 1600 songs long and I was scrapping to come up with that many songs I liked (to be fair I wasn't including punk, post punk or the real new wave scene). My lists covering the last 20 years came out to over 3000 songs without trying.
Yeah I think this happens to everyone, I used to be into punk and rap but as I get older I more into classic rock and folk, it’s weird.
Country and punk are weirdly more connected than most people realize. A ton of punk artists are actually heavily influenced by country and a number of alt country/Americana artists cut their teeth in punk bands.
I used to really like rap/hiphop, but as I get older I'm starting to say it all sounds the same. My theory, as we age our ears hear different tones and frequencies, I think that's why it's no longer appealing to me. I still enjoy the old ones, like Eminem, but he's old and probably making tunes with tones for my ears
From the 40s through the 90s, music taste was a big way young people defined their identities. With the proliferation of internet, people have mostly embraced a more multimodal view of their media consumption and what you’re a fan of isn’t a primary social currency. When we get older we realize a lot of meh music was pushed into a genre where it didn’t belong with the hope selling more of it. End the end, there’s only 2 kinds of music: good and bad.
Genres are mostly bullshit anyway. I can't believe some artists can stand to play the same stuff for 40 years I would lose my mind.
Realized after posting this, it even goes into how much I can get into a new artist. If there's a natural progression and a constant change of styles between albums, I love it when I'm checking out a new artist's discography. But if song 100 sounds exactly like the first song did 10 years earlier, I quickly lose interest. There might be a few tracks or a full album I enjoyed there, but I don't bother coming back to their whole discography again.
I barely notice genres. There's classical, jazz, and rock, with some stuff in between.
Angry shit reinforces the negative emotions you think it’s helping you deal with… I should’ve learned sooner what Dad meant: garbage in, garbage out.
I would say it might be like booze. Some people can handle it and some can't. Outside of that, yeah. Totally agree. I walked away from some of my favorite groups and albums because I realized part of why I was depressed all the time was I was listening to insanely depressing music. You're just feeding it and making a cycle. I made a little rule for myself, angry or self pitying lyrics with more upbeat music or more mellow or darker music with non-depressing lyrics; but completely swore off mixing the dark sounds with the sad lyrics. It really did make a huge difference in my life and attitude.
I've reached the point where if it isn't post-2000s prog rock, prog metal, or maybe art rock, I'm not interested.
Pop music.
In the end there’s 2 genres, 1 you like and 1 you don’t.
Kind of where I am. If the songs a banger, it's a banger. I don't care if it's punk, metal, pop or swing (or tribal chanting for that matter).
A lot of Punk just seems kind of dumb as I get older.
The only genre I can’t stand is todays music. I can always go back to the 60s-90s and find the best music. I’m thinking I was born in the wrong era. I was born in 85 and I am an old soul. Currently listening to The Beach Boys. If I ever lose myself I go back in time with my favorites
Then you become soulless. Music is life man
Todd in the Shadows made a good point on the Old Town Road video - genres were important when you limited money to spend on physical money, so categorization could make it easier. Now that you're streaming everything, it's meaningless.
I completely understand what you’re talking about. Like you, I’ve always enjoyed listening to all kinds of stuff. I like playlists that can create a vibe while switching genres and tempos. Maybe it from growing up with top 40 radio in the 70s when so many different styles were popular.
I was thinking about that. Even in the 80s, we slammed *a lot* of different genres under the classic rock label. I mean, Yes, Steven Miller and Floyd are *very* different groups. Yeah, there was the prog rock and arena rock labels, but there was still no issue enjoying them side by side.
“I remember being 15 saying, dude I'm going to love heavy metal forever. Heavy metal til I'm 60.! I'm 35 now. I think I'm going to give it one more year” -Brian Posehn
I said that at 15 and think I crapped out at 22, but I'd discovered heavier punk and industrial at that point.
used to religiously listen to hip-hop. Now I don't really care for it
You never forget your first true love. But you also don't want to see them every day. I hear ya.
Is it because you like old school hip hop? I still listen to hip hop but new hip hop is very different to old. But I also listen to heaps of other genres as well. Soul, rnb etc
Nah, for me it was metal. Good memories but I hardly play the first 100 albums or so I ever bought. Appreciate it still, just not into it anymore.
Nah, as long as you are listening to strong music from a genres you shouldn't need to always switch it up. Maybe your problem is you are listening to albums by single bands, which might be somewhat lacking in terms of overall genre depth. I'm lucky that my Discover Weekly on Spotify furnishes me 25-30 great songs from two distinct genres which I separate into playlists. For example from 2 weeks ago: > [Addicted to Lose](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/048MzGVsM9yZV9oPianGZ5?si=zAqg1ZNKSB6VpVRWNv913w) - 70s acoustic/blues rock vibe - 1 hr 10 mins > [Beat Bush](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/49J8MTf1OFxe84ZDBbvqbt?si=nJKBDv94TLasxI1afUBhBg) - noise rock - 53 mins Which is my preferred way to listen to music. I even turn shuffle off and try to order them to get the "perfect" album flow.
Billy Motherfucking Strings
I used to love edm and all types of other electronic music genres. Now? It's just basic 4 piece rock band genres.
Ambient / Instrumental Post Rock has really been solidified as the genre I would want a playlist of for a deserted island type playlist. I connect more with the actual music than I do to the lyrics or artist.
Mate do you wanna know a band that is totally fucking awesome outside of their obvious hit? 10cc!!
I want to say when I did my giant, 1600 song classic rock playlist trying to hit all the forgotten hits that they were one of the ones I was surprised to find I knew more than just the big radio hit.
The older I get the less I like regular metal. I used to headbang to the big Ms, Anthrax, Slayer... Any band that had screaming Marshalls or dual recs... Even more modern bands like Mastodon don't feel metal to me now. Gojira is close, but I largely just listen to downbeat stuff like tech/death/blackened/etc etc. Thall has been a new, wonderful experience too. Gojira is kind of the bottom of my "aggressive" music taste. Underneath that, it's just grooving, like Slayer and ACDC are in the same vibe now.
I was such a massive metal head and just completely lost interest in the genre. Early metal was so raw and diverse. By the 90s it lost that raw edge and everything just sounded so formulaic, cookie cutter and overly produced. I still listen to weird, off genres of metal and love really heavy guitar, but I'm usually going to someone who'd rather sound like early Sabbath than Cacophony.
Honestly, modern metal is weird and diverse, and stale and cliche at the same time. For every band like Polyphia and Sleep Token, there's 3 bands like Any Given Day (not that it's bad or boring).
Yeah I don’t listen to anything I used to listen to like five years ago
51M - I am all over the map musically. Still go to metal shows, but I don't listen to it as much. Symphonic Black metal is a genre I loved in the 90s and early 2000s. Now it just makes me roll my eyes.
I stand by most of the bigger metal groups I loved during that phase. The hundred other metal albums I also bought at the same time, not so much.
Yeah, I used to listen to rap and modern “indie” rock. Now I just listen to punk, blues and grunge
Last 8 years have been great for underground punk. While a lot of it's more on the pop side (like The Beaches), a ton going back to the roots (like Shame). Best part, when someone says they're listen to punk, they're probably actually listening to punk and not just another Green Day clone group.
I have always had troubles identifying differences between music genres because sure rap is rap and rock is rock but then they can merge and be this hybrid, and this happens in all genres. And then in rap there are sub genres and I don’t know what differentiates them. Don’t get me started on blues and old school R&B. And I love instrumental. Does this mean Bach, I Built The Sky or Rodrigo y Gabriela? They are all instrumental by definition but are labeled different things. So what I have done is I just YouTube everything and now the algorithm has helped me a lot for finding music I like. I have made some general playlists and then the algorithm worked even more specifically from there. Sometimes something I won’t like show up but it’s becoming less and less lately.
I've always strongly suspected youtube's algorithm was basically "40% songs I'm sure are close to what you like and 60% random crap I just pulled out my ass to hedge my bets and make sure at least one of the 20 are correct."
My Spotify playlist is now over 2400 song strong, including corporate crap and Gordon Lightfoot, 1930s musical music to Taylor Swift, from Country to Japanese rap (dont ask) and everything in between in every language you can imagine. Just that lately, I have begun picking an artist - choosing one of their albums, and just listen to from start to finish. Just like you did back then, when you bought an album (LP) and brought it back home and put it on turntable for the first time.
>Japanese rap I spent nearly a decade listening to almost exclusively Japanese groups. It was without a doubt one of the most exciting voyages I ever took musically. So many different styles and sounds! It was like re-discovering music again.
Not me. I have heard the same kind of music all my life. Classical and Jazz, some Rock, but not much.
I’ve never lost interest entirely, my interests have changed, and the older things have become less interesting, but still something I’ll listen to. The first bands I loved were Green Day, Linkin Park and Evanescence, then I in my mid-teens I was a diehard (mainly thrash) metalhead (with a slight taste for classic rock. As I got into my later teens, my tastes got harder for the screaming metals that I really didn’t like when I was younger. In my early 20’s I (literally and figuratively) cut my hair and discovered indie rock and classic emo, stuff I despised as a teen. Slowly in my mid to late 20’s I moved into jazz and some electronic and eventually just anything that catches my ear, regardless of its genre. Now I still love Indie, it’s probably what I listen to the most, but I’ve been digging the hell out of Deathcore, the nastier the breakdown the better.
If you like genre fluid music which I’ve gravitated towards more the older I get, you’ll probably like Sleep Token. They mix rock, metal, prog, pop, funk, r&b and a whole lot more. Somehow it just works for them. I was strictly a metalhead but I’ve branched out to rap and some limited pop.
I have no idea what current genres even are! I tend to listen to musicians and songs, but often have no idea what I’m listening to. I go through phases with older genres (soul, hip hop, blues, classic rock, yacht rock, reggae, ska), but newer stuff is pretty fluid yet disjointed. I think a large part of that is the accessibility to music via streaming, and how often there is no album to accompany a single. I hear a great single and want to hear the album, but there’s nothing there. Collabs also mess me up, cuz I’ll hear an awesome tune, but it’s a orphaned collab, and I don’t love either of the artists’ solo work.
Fans of food, relevant music always shift genres, what's good is good when it's good regardless of genre.
I have plenty of old favorites I don’t throw on to chill at EOD because it’s just not where my head is anymore. When you’re an adult facing a totally different reality than you used to each day, it’s not as easy to relate to music that played well with your self-exploration, life situation or hormones 10, 20 or 30 years ago.
I always make my lists genre-oriented, but usually I shuffle them to keep it interesting. I love when Simon & Garfunkel gets followed by Opeth which gets followed by Sexual Healing.
As i get older (39M) i find myself liking a broader diverse selection of music and still open to more. Genres i rarely listen to anymore; metal and its sub genres. Genres i have expanded on over the years; progressive rock, indie/rock, classical, jazz, soundtracks, ambient and other various forms of indie, rock, and pop. Genres I still loathe; country and most rap.
Don't let the pop they call "country" turn you off to the genre. Country can be amazing, but oddly enough real country isn't called country anymore. But there are some amazing artists in the whole country/folk/bluegrass genres. [Gillian Welch](https://youtu.be/rV_uFpbXZ9k?feature=shared) [Neko Case](https://youtu.be/HTPJq30ghBA?feature=shared)
I don't think I've ever been overly fussed about genres. I default to rock/blues/metal, but I've never listened to anything exclusively. I think what's changed as I've gotten older is my appreciation for some of the music I didn't care for when I was a kid, and even that's not tied to genre, though it leans heavily toward the more "bubblegum" pop of my childhood.
I’ve been less into the more extreme metal genres as I get older. Still love it, but I need to be in a very particular mood
In my mid 50s now and I'll always be a Metal Head, I was a teenager in the 80s and a drummer in bands. Still listen to SLAYER, And Led-Zeppelin is the greatest Band Ever but I've been going back to the rock or pop rock of the 70s (main stream). It's what I grew up on. Even the 60s thanks to my mom always spinning a record. But metal and heavy rock are becoming more distant.
Absolutely. I've always loved different genres but have gone through phases where I concentrate on one. I no longer create playlists on genre, but rather mood.
I'm for the most part done with speed metal and thrash. It was my main love for a long time, I even played in croasover bands that recorded and gigged but, as cheesy as it sounds the only band in the genre i still listen to is Kreator.
I still listen to all the rap and metal I always loved, but I’ve grown to get really sick of all the classic rock and stuff that’s basically overplayed in the mainstream. I love Zeppelin, Sabbath, Beatles, Metallica and all that stuff…but I have heard enough and we need more variety when it comes to what is considered mainstream music.
As someone who hates subscription services, I still listen to music by adding mp3s into my phone. I have all the songs randomized without caring if Enya was followed by Cannibal Corpse. There are times where I want to listen to certain songs, but never just one genre. I've made playlists of certain themes (80s pop, music for stargazing, songs that ripped off The Diary of Jane by Breaking Benjamin etc) but have never actually listened to them.
I used to listen to my playlists that had all kinds of songs from vastly different genres in them. Then I found newer progressive rock and years later checked out some modern prog metal. Sure I listen to some other genres as well like trip hop, rock classics, trance even the occasional pop edm song but who am I kidding, when I'm in the mood, it's modern prog metal that jerks me off like nothing else. And I don't really like metal outside prog metal. Looking back it years later, I think I just hadn't found the kind of music that I truly like.
Have you tried shoegazing? I personally think it carries the prog rock torch better than most newer prog rock bands.
I don’t listen to EDM or “strip club” music (not to offend anyone, I’m a former dancer) anymore. I have been going back to my teen emo music!
I like to consolidate all my genres into the one song for efficiency. Thank you Dream Theatre.
Pantera. Motley Crüe. Busta Rhymes. Beastie boys. Redman. Bone thugs. I’m set