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Originally Posted by gmku
So do you think our first five albums were formative somehow, shaping what we'd like to listen to, collect the rest of our lives? Any theories? Environment? Genetics? A combination of both?
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I have never figured out my taste or forced myself to like a certain type of music. Like someone else already mentioned on this thread, I too was brought up in a very musical household where there is still a hi-fi system in every room, my mum and dad played Sardinian folk songs all the time, they sang together at party time, and we always had music coming out from the tv, radio etc etc. Music magazines were a necessity as much as food and shelter. Art-making was encouraged, rather than supressed.
There wasn't a specific type of it that I would listen to at any particular time (apart for a huge crush on grunge in the early 90's).
I thought about this yesterday and it's one of the trickiest things to work out. I went through the pop music phase, indie phase, indie-dance phase, hip hop phase, rock phase, grunge phase, noise rock phase, crude noise phase, apocalyptic folk phase, crooners phase, psych rock/garage phase (to this day one of the strongest musical influences on me), electro, synth pop, world music (I hate this term), soundtrack collector phase, punk, you name it. It's only now that I've completely stopped caring about what music I listen to and just get on with it.
The only short-lived and slightly embarassing mini-phase that I went through is the new age one. It lasted only one album that scarred me for life and was buried in my mind until I read this thread. Buried, you understand, both mentally and physically.