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This is in response to this Rick Beato YouTube video
The premise of the video is really just:
>"I love heavy songs, but as I get older is my taste in music going to soften? Will my hearing affect how I listen / feel the music?"
He then ends with the question of:
> "Have your tastes changed over the last 10, 20 years? If you're 30 years old do you like the stuff you liked in college or highschool but not any current music?"
Sortof. When I was growing up I was listening to the local rock / alternative station. It played a lot of grunge, alternative rock, and into the 2000s NuMetal. A selection of bands from this time are: Rage Against the Machine, Soundgarden, Incubus, Linkin Park, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chain.
The local music scene in my town (and much of the East Coast) was moving from punk/hardcore into post-hardcore, ska, and emo. A lot of the shows I would go to in middleschool fell into one of these three categories it seemed. But also discovering music on the internet really opened up for me at this point. So I was discovering bands in each of these genres that weren't necessarily getting any radio play. A selection of bands from this era are: Muse, Funeral For A Friend, The Aquabats, Saves The Day, Ween.
Into high school the internet became an even bigger resource - but I also left my small hometown and expanded my tastes even further. I had picked up guitar in middle school so I was also meeting other people who played and getting better and learning more songs - so I started listening to more classic rock, at least more seriously. Plus the iPod, so I was accumulating music from my past, and the stuff I was discovering through my friends and the internet. My tastes didn't really change but just widen the bands within the taste I was aware of. A selection of bands: Tool, Psychostick, Glassjaw, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Cream, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zepplin, Ten Years After, Paul Gilbert, Racer X, Pink Floyd.
In college Metalcore started to gain popularity and were bands my cousin was really into. I also discovered genres like post-rock, dubstep, I got back into electronic music like Moby and Daft Punk. The Tron Legacy soundtrack blew my freaking mind. Relative to my earlier years I feel I didn't do too much discovery. This was mostly compounding on my existing tastes. My first year of school I was really involved in the local music scene on my campus but fell out with that crowd (and the venue got shutdown/stopped putting on monthly shows). And then I got really focused on school and being introverted.
So looking back through time... yes? There were bands and genres I don't really mesh with (NuMetal) as much - but the bands I truly liked (and not just heard on the radio) are still in my rotation.
I honestly wasn't intending on making the previous section so verbose. But I was digging through my old music folder on my hard drive and just came across tons of old files from CDs I ripped in school, to music I downloaded. What stuck out most was some EPs of local college bands that I heard back in school.
That was only 10 years ago. I can't imagine 80 year old me not rediscovering Tools or Racer X and not having fond memories.
The goof of this entire question is the idea of a retirement home where in the lobby instead of some big band or jazz (like we think of because we still picture our own grandparents as the "old people" and their contemporary music) we hear Metallica or Rage Against the Machine.
But Metallica and Rage Against the Machine weren't playing in the lobbies when we were young either!
Reality is, with the way music consumption is going, someone not even born yet is going to be working the sound system at the retirement home and just search for a playlist that is "popular music from the early 2000s" which will most likely relate to chart performance which means adult contemporary and pop which was NOT metal.
Yes, but that is the unfun answers. As I get older, I get access to newer types of music (RetroWave (ironic?)) and exposed to genres I hadn't had the opportunity of discovering (Doom metal). But will I stop liking the music I ahve been listening too for the past 30 years? Probably not.
Hearing loss, and high end dropping out most likely will affect my consumption - but I would be interested in seeing a study where if the frequency lost is enough to actually impact nostalgic music? Would my brain fill in the gaps?
A few years ago I went to Stockholm, Sweden for work where I lived there for a month. I was living alone, so after work I had time to myself and was browsing wikipedia and Spotify discovering connections between bands and genre histories. One of the ones that really jumped out was emo - since it was a genre that had a resurgence when I was young. I discovered bands like The Anniversay and Jets to Brazil that have at least two albums that I really love now. I spent that entire trip basically listening to 90s and 2000s emo bands rediscovering the genre and while only a few bands stuck it was a lot of fun.
Writing this post I was thinking about how I discovered music throughout my life. I can certainly say having access to essentially all music at my finger tips via the internet and for free with services like Spotify. I certainly have broadened my musical horizons way further than I did when I was a kid.
But I do miss the immediacy of things like radio. My entire childhood I had radio by my bed that I would tune to my favorite station and fall asleep to. I drive home from school listening to the radio with my brother and Dad. I had no control over what I was hearing (to an extent) so was forced to "discover" new music. However, the pool was a lot smaller. Most radio stations had a pretty fixed setlist (not as narrow as today) so throughout the week I wasn't really getting too much exposure.
I use Spotify today as my primary music platform and take advantage of its features to try and discover new music. Using their album/artist radio to try and find new artists in a similar genre is how I've discovered so many Doom metal bands.
But discovery still exists in its simplist form: socially. I have a playlist that is 575 song and over 46 hours long that my friends and I drop songs we like into. One of my favorite artists of the last few years I found by going to a concert where they were an opener (Kanga). And sometimes by chance on Youtube in a related video (usually a KEXP performance).
I don't know about Rick, but I can't see myself abandoning old genres as I get older. And if I ever get the opportunity to play some extreme metal for some unsuspecting child, I will 100% take it.
But as for the true question of this post: How about you? Has your music taste changed? Do you see yourself listening to the same stuff now as when you're 80?
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