How has your tastes in music changed over the years? I'm talking major stages. We've all had them. And we always will.

I'll talk about mine when I remember them all and I'm done watching a movie/sleeping.

well lets see, as i was growing up pre teen my parents used to listen to contemporary and country, so my roots were mainly with country music for along time, until TMNT came out the original movie, and my parents bought me the soundtrack for it, then i realized about hip hop, shortly after that i remember watching the thriller video on mtv and liking that. Then I remember catching my first bit of weird al, and i ended up buying the amish paradise single. for my birthday, my parents bought me pearl jam 10 and 311, which i liked so i guess at this point i progressed into rock, i remember there used to be a channel in Texas on tv, were they would play songs and it was a total request station, you would call in and type the number of the song you wanted to hear and it would eventually play, and i would listen to loser by beck a lot. we ended up moving from Texas to bristol, va and I remember cd coming out and my first cd was green day - dookie. then about 6 months later we moved to johnson city, tn and I remember the big thing with all my friends was bone thugs and harmony boys 2 men rnb was getting really popular and so was rap. after 2 years I moved to campbellsville, KY were i think i fell back into my rock/metal/rap/rnb/hiphop i listened to anything under the sun that sounded good. of course at this time napster was getting huge, so my music taste widened greatly. Then i remember getting bored with the "popular" stuff and only listening to local/underground/ non discovered bands. Me and my Girlfriend would spend hours on napster searching for bands that no one had really ever heard of in our small town. We would go to concerts of bands from our school, or from areas close by just to get something new and fresh that hadn't been done before. then shortly after that i moved to Knoxville, tn were my musical taste took a turn for rap/hip hop/rnb thats what most of my friends listened to and liked so naturally so did i, i also had a system in my car at the time, and thats what sounded best so there ya have it. now that i've moved away to Maryland and a year later i came back ehre, and i've been here ever sense I don't have as many friends as i used to so my musical taste changes from day to day hour to hour minute to minute, I like everything but refuse to listen to opera, i respect it was music but refuse to listen to it... I like heritage music like Celtic music to everything i have listed above.. just depends on my mood or setting.

Well I grew up around two things: my mother's music, more like Beatles and softer stuff, from 0-3 years old, and I suppose although I remember little of hearing that music, this is why I don't mind it now. I mean, if I was in a music store and saw a CD of Elvis's hits, I might just...well I wouldn't buy it. I know someone who has his music and I'd borrow the CD or have her email it to me in a little folder, but the point is I kind of like that kind of music. Then, ages 3+, my greatest musical influence was my father, who liked the more rock stuff like Led Zeppelin, Metallica, and more modern stuff like Disturbed and Tool. That's what I mostly listen to. Maybe a year and a half ago, I got into the more jazzy Sinatra style because my stepmother had Michael Buble (e with that accent mark over it) on the iTunes playlist and it came right after Metallica. I learned to like it through repetition since I didn't always bother to change it. Then my grandfather gets me into some country because I found that I really like Charlie Daniels. For country, though, I stick to the more rock'n'roll types than the sad cowboy types. So currently I have little interest in hip hop or rap: Rage Against the Machine is the closest I get to them, and I haven't moved on from any styles, just different groups/songs. I never did like rap, between not hearing much of it and hearing my family talk shit about it, and although I try to accept that other people will like rap, will not have people tell me that all rock is just people screaming about Satan. You can talk about that heavy screaming metal with the intense but unmelodious guitar parts and poor drum beats all you want, though.

I was born and grew up listening to rock and country and rap. My mom was the type to listen to all types of music. My stepdad listened to Limp Bizkit, Eminem, almost everything actually. So I was listening to the radio one day and heard Linkin Park, up until that day my favorite band was Limp Bizkit. So later that month I got Hybrid Theory. Along the way I lost my affinity for rap and country.At around 2004 I started hearing a bunch of new wave emo, which admittedly I really loved. I mean I don't even listen to most of that stuff any more. I still have a soft spot for Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance and The Used (The Used are actually the only band I considered emo there, though).
2005 was pure magic but I had no idea I had heard Chain Me Free by the Matches on Fuse and really liked it but in October I bought E. Von Dahl Killed the Locals but I didn't think it was that amazing, yet.

2006 with the release of Decomposer approaching I take another listen to E Von Dahl... Fell in love. Absolutely amazing, then came Decomposer which was better, much better. Then in 2007-08 I heard Say Anything, Brand New (heard of them berfore, didn't think much of them), and Muse. God I'm in love with them all.
Then just this month my Girlfriend broke up with me and to get over it I revisited Taking Back Sunday. I fell for them all over again. And I am really mad that Fred left, he made the band for me sometimes.

Anyway a quick run down of bands I still listen to:
The Matches
Say Anything
Muse
Brand New
Taking Back Sunday

some more I don't wanna list.

Lemme try to remember my progression through life... I'm sorry, this is really long.

Well I know I listened to a lot of moms music growing up. Like 80s pop and all that, still like some of it. For quite a few years, most of the stuff I listened to was stuff that my older bro listened to, as he was my main source for music, so I ended up with a mix of some decent stuff, random stuff... probably whatever was popular, whether it was rap or rock, and it introduced me to Green Day who released the 2 albums of my childhood (Dookie and Kerplunk, still love those albums), and a few songs by the Offspring AND my favourite band for many years, The Barenaked Ladies.

I still like all those bands.

When I finally came into my own [side note, it was when I got the internet], I listened to some rock (simplifying it..) like Linkin Park - One Step Closer - which was not popular at all at the time - but mostly rap. Not even good rap, minus a few rappers like Eminem who released amazing early material. But I liked a lot of that shit like Nelly... I basically liked whatever was popular, for the most part.

And the biggest change came when we were on vacation and I wanted to buy a cd to listen to. It was down to:
D12- Devil's Night
St. Lunatics (whatever their album was called)
Staind- Break the Cycle

I chose Break the Cycle because I loved It's Been A While. I remember being in the backseat of our van and the opening riff to the first one (fuck it, I'm putting it on now) rocked me really hard. The 10 seconds and then the hard riff. I bobbed my head in the back. So I listened to that cd over and over and over.

From there, I ended up buying Devil's Night and still like a bunch of the songs on it, but I got heavy into nu-metal. My gf at the time liked Slipknot and my friend Tyler liked Wait and Bleed and Left Behind, so I finally listened to them, their album Iowa and I told Tyler, "y'know... Slipknot isn't that bad." So my love for Slipknot was well on its way (I was 16). So I ended up liking bands like Disturbed, Static-X, Flaw, Spineshank, etc, some really disposable bands that I'll never listen to again, some quite good, like Flaw is great and Spineshank has a few good songs.

After that, I was supposed to go to "real metal" because that's how it goes, but I didn't really. I just got into weird avant-garde shit, which really opened my mind. Started listening to whatever I could... punk, metal, avant-garde, better rap, emo, etc. And that's where I am now. I love most genres I've heard but know there's good stuff even in the genres I'm not a big fan of... just haven't found it.

Right now I'm getting into some more jazz than before, cuz it's a genre I ignored. I liked bands with jazz-y riffs but not jazz so much. And I'll keep growing like that. I don't ignore any genres now.

well i really like the same music. i mean i still love ballads and pop songs ever since. never had changed from those kind of music.

Well until 2004 I hated all music altogeather especially rap. Since I listened to Snoop Doggs Drop It Like It's Hot I have had love for Hip Hop since. I guess something grew in me.