The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #110672   Message #3408043
Posted By: John P
20-Sep-12 - 10:40 PM
Thread Name: Have your tastes changed over the years?
Subject: RE: Have your tastes changed over the years?
I don't listen to hard rock much anymore. I just got bored with it. Still listen to a lot of blues rock, progressive rock, and fusion. I used to like almost all electrified traditional music, but now my tastes have narrowed to wanting to hear the electric instruments really playing the trad music instead of there just being a tune played over an electric groove. I had a non-jazz period for about 20 years, but I'm moving back into it now, except I've always hated free-form jazz, especially with saxophones. Medieval music seems to be a constant, as is Bach, Beethoven, and the Beatles. The only musicals I like are the ones I listened to as a kid, but I still like those a lot.

Mostly I keep adding genres. For the last several years it's been a matter of adding more types of traditional music (Irish, English, Appalachian, French, Breton, Balkan). I took up Swedish music about five years ago and that's the only type I'm currently performing, but not the only type I play around the house and in jam sessions.