Where did your love of music come from?

Music is a huge interest of mine. I've been listening to it ever since i can remember. It intrigues me the numerous genres out there and how people come to discover such music.

My question is: where did your love of music come from?
And where do you discover new music?

My love of (good) music began thanks to my dad.

Music is also a huge interest of mine. I like how there is something to fit every mood. I'm always on the lookout for new bands, artists and genres to listen to.

My love of music came from both my mom and dad as they were both always listening to music. My mom being more into electronic dance music and my dad being into rock music. I find that my tastes are similar to theirs but also extend a lot further.

I used to use last.fm to discover new music because I could type in a band I liked and it would play similar bands to them. I don't use it so much anymore so I usually just find new music by browsing youtube a lot.

My love of music started when I got into choir at school. If I was having a crap day at school or issues at home, going to choir class was usually able to pick my mood up at least temporarily. I wasn't particularly close with that many of my choir classmates, but all of our different voices being able to blend together was always beautiful to me. That's what's stuck with me and it's my favorite thing about music. I love how people can come together like that, whether it's with their voices or their instruments, for the sake of making something personal and beautiful.

I find a lot of music from looking through the YouTube recommended section. I like the favorite music thread on this forum too for finding new music.

I think my love of music came from mostly my Dad's taste, he likes everything from Beatles, Grateful Dead, Led Zeppelin, to Kinks, The Who, Cold play, Talking Heads, Tubes, ect. I was mostly influenced by his taste in music so much he even burned songs from those bands into blank cds where I listen to them on my cd player. I think the best part about the music is that it somehow takes you out of reality and into another world. I sometimes get lost in my own world listening to music I really enjoy, to the point where I play them over and over again. although some people get annoyed by that though. I've been interested in using my own radio station one day to use my own music for the rest of the world who hasn't listened to.

I don't know where it came from, but I've been an avid music listener since an early age. Creating my own music has helped maintain mypassion

How can I learn to love it less? Just bought another stack today :/

It came from listening to rock stations on the radio. And friends in school who introduced me to bands I never heard of. I still keep in touch with some of them. They were into rock and metal.

I grew up listening mostly to Country music and continue to love it with a break in the late '90 listening to the boy bands.

where did my love of music come from?

from an instrument.

Somewhere inside me. Not many things like my love to music I like about me. Besides loving books, writing and language learning. I am also easily bored.

I discover music thanks to the possibility of being able to write reviews. That's what I do for 19 yrs now. Same for books and movies / tv series.

Also started learning guitar but only had a teacher for a month or two, stopped visiting and was satisfied with learning / playing for myself only. Except some tries to be in a band which were nice experiences but also made clear to me that I am not meant to be in a band. I also tried ukulele, but stopped shortly after it and never restarted it again (yet).

I'm embarrassed, but here goes: I don't think I love music.

There are songs I like but I've never felt that music was a passion. Even the genres of music I like the most I don't usually like until I've heard a given track a number of times. In some moods the music doesn't do much for me at all.

Almost no music interests me particularly the first time I hear it. Best case scenario is that I learn to like it later but then, as I said, my mood still swerves a lot.

I'm dead inside.

EDIT: Maybe I was a little hard on myself. Take this with a grain of salt.

I know another individual who also does not care much for music. It isn't much your thing; no worries. Different forms of expression resonate with different people, and that is okay; good, even.

State_Of_Trance said:

I'm embarrassed, but here goes: I don't think I love music.

There are songs I like but I've never felt that music was a passion. Even the genres of music I like the most I don't usually like until I've heard a given track a number of times. In some moods the music doesn't do much for me at all.

Almost no music interests me particularly the first time I hear it. Best case scenario is that I learn to like it later but then, as I said, my mood still swerves a lot.

I'm dead inside.

EDIT: Maybe I was a little hard on myself. Take this with a grain of salt.

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I love music mainly metal music. But I love every sub genre of metal. I began this love when I was 11 and my cousin introduced me to Metallica, Iron Maiden, AC/DC, Megadeth, Pantera, and Slayer. I eventually grew into heavier stuff like Slipknot (my favorite band), Chimaira, White Chapel. Just a lot of bands and now I have a near full ipod with metal music. Lately I've also been getting into rock.

Where did my love of music come from? Probably the soundtrack to the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, as weird as that sounds.

I used to love that show as a kid, had the soundtrack on tape. So I think that has been a subconscious influence on my musically taste. And it must've done, because I've loved rock/metal music since I was 12.

Kinda weird how I got into that sorta music really, my mum introduced me to Guns N' Roses after I heard November Rain, then Bon Jovi - because my mum is a huge fan of them. My sister bought me a Greatest Hits compilation by Iron Maiden.

Then, one day, when I was 14, a friend and fellow classmate at my school gave me 2 albums that changed my musically tastes forever... And Justice for All by Metallica and America's Least Wanted by Ugly Kid Joe. First time I put the Justice album on, I had the volume on my stereo turn up quite a bit and the bass boost on, not aware that first track, Blackened, actually fades in.

From there I got into Rage Against the Machine, Pantera, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, Slayer, Megadeth and more. But I also liked some of older stuff like Roy Orbison and Chuck Berry. Jimi Hendrix, obviously. A bit of hip-hop, mostly yer 80s stuff, like Run DMC and Beastie Boys. And I'll leave it at that, as the rest of my musically tastes are guilty pleasures.

And I also used reading the "Thank Yous" list in the CD booklets by my favourite bands at the time to find new bands. Remember that shit, people of a certain age? :bigsmile:

Probably sounds silly but i grew up with Disney movies so...knew (still remember some!) a lot of lyrics, was singing all day...i pity my parents (while traveling, they had to listent to me whether they liked it or not since they couldn't leave the car haha)

Something-Vague said:

I know another individual who also does not care much for music. It isn't much your thing; no worries. Different forms of expression resonate with different people, and that is okay; good, even.

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Maybe.

I've grown up knowing some really sophisticated types. Shakespeare, classical music, painting -- all kinds of so-called "acquired" tastes. These folks are into a fair amount of more "common" things like movies and whatnot as well, but they often give off a strong hipster-like vibe that suggests that popular things are a waste of time. They drop references to old books and seem to disapprove if you don't catch them. They've made subtle and sometimes not-so-subtle suggestions that they don't think that the kind of stuff I'm into is worthwhile.

On the one hand, to a certain extent, I agree that there's a lot of awesome stuff in the world and you do have to invest some effort in developing a taste for it. For example, I read a lot more books than I used to. So there's an acquired taste.

On the flip side, if you take the mentality of acquired taste-ism to an extreme, the logical conclusion is becoming some kind of robot who just consumes whatever is on the list of "good" things and rejects anything else even if it's a lot more meaningful to me personally. And that's no fun at all!

Regarding music, I stand at the crossroads of acquired taste-ism and like-what-you-like-ism. I don't know where to turn.

As I said, various forms of expression resonate with different people. Some people remain closed to certain types of music, movies, and so forth, but that isn't necessarily a matter of what touches them deeply, but what will only ALLOW themselves to listen to, whether they enjoy it intensely or not.

What I was trying to say is that if you're not a huge fan of music and have tried getting into it, there's no problem with that. You prefer other hobbies or methods of communication/expression, and that's okay. Especially if you acknowledge that others' tastes aren't necessarily bad, but just not what you prefer.

That being said, I do know the people of which you speak. While I myself am not drawn to mainstream pop or country music, I do not automatically discount it either.

You like what you like; it's only when you close the doors to liking other potentially positive things or judge people for their taste in music, movies, etc. that there might be an issue.

Something-Vague said:

As I said, various forms of expression resonate with different people. Some people remain closed to certain types of music, movies, and so forth, but that isn't necessarily a matter of what touches them deeply, but what will only ALLOW themselves to listen to, whether they enjoy it intensely or not. [..] it's only when you close the doors to liking other potentially positive things or judge people for their taste in music, movies, etc. that there might be an issue.

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I can dig that. In fact, I've been thinking something similar recently about people disliking stuff because they never allow themselves to consider it.

I just got more & more into it, from mainly my late teens onwards. Often it (& the grog of course) was the only thing that "soothed my poor tortured soul". Thru all those times, i was able to experience the only love/peace/etc i think i'll ever have, as in real life things just never "went there", still don't & probably never will. :bigsmile:

State_Of_Trance said:

Regarding music, I stand at the crossroads of acquired taste-ism and like-what-you-like-ism. I don't know where to turn

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I have developed the acquired taste of classical music, over many years of listening to it due to wanting to listen to it (usu as its very gentle/soothing - good for my common "fragile" mental/emotional state)