How Set in Your Ways are You in Regards to Your Music?

[Sir Kazual]

Myself, I'm pretty set in my ways with the music that I like. The only new music I buy now is if it's a new release by a band I'm already a fan of or if it's a "Super Group" that's like Black Country Communion (which sounds exactly like the music that I love).

I guess the "Grunge" era kind of killed my passion for new artists. When bands that I loved were cast aside for this new sound I admit I became pretty jaded. I guess it had to happen because metal by 1989 was so cookie cutter, it was difficult to differentiate one band from the next.

One newer band that I'm totally into is Fozzy (I know the band has five albums already).

I can't dig any of the new acts that are labeled metal in any sub-genre. The vocals really turn me off. Not the content, just the way the singers sing (which I don't call singing). If these newer metal bands made instrumental albums, that I could get into. I have so many Satriani and MacAlpine records it's unreal. Good music is good music even without vocals.

Sometimes I feel like that old guy who used to yell to get off his grass.

 

[Lynch]

I am pretty set in my ways. The music that I love from the 50s, 60s 70s and most of all the 80's is what I love and nothing is going to change that. Very little from the 90's and beyond gets much playing time from me.

I don't care for 99+% of the pop music that has come out since the 80's. Aside from Alice in Chains and some Stone Temple Pilots, grunge is truly awful; although compared to the likes of stuff like Radiohead, Oasis, and the like... grunge was incredible.

There have been a few newer (non-Supergroup) bands in the past 20 years that I don't mind and a couple that I really like, but they are far and few in between. Black Stone Cherry, Godsmack, Nickelback, Shinedown, Staind, and some others that I'm having a hard time remembering now.

 

[Khor1255]

I'm set in my ways but always ready to hear something good. I quite liked grunge because all heavy rock in the 80s was either candy ass or calastetics for it's own sake. There are a few new bands I quite like but nothing that compares to things from the very early 80s on back to the baroque period.

 

[Riff Raff]

Open to trying numerous rock and metal genres. Love Grunge, love alternative bands like Radiohead etc, and love a load of different metal genres including black and death metal. I find all that stuff to be exhilarating to listen to.
Generally speaking I am set in my ways, if a band I like puts out something I find too mellow I won't dig it depending on the band. I also hate people trying to tell me to expand as though I should be one to love every form of music out there. Sorry I am my own person and I am a proud metalhead who loves his rock n roll too with a bit of diverse stuff on the side. Ill never be one to branch out too far from what I love.

 

[Soot and Stars]

Every year I'm becoming as far away from being set in any ways as I can. My top preferences will likely always incorporate the same traits but I find there is a state of mind or reason all types of music connects with people and I find myself relating to almost everything in some way or another. In one way or another music is made to be felt and to access that over and over again is better than any drug available.

 

[Big Ears]

I am very set in my ways. I like the seventies heavy and progressive rock of my youth, like Budgie, Golden Earring, ELP, Yes, etc. Along with the music comes the imagery of Roger Dean artwork, gatefold sleeves and psychedelic light shows. I do not like punk rock, thrash, the LA bands of the eighties, bands obsessed with death and the like. If I could get away with having long hair, scoop necks and loon pants, I'd still be wearing them.

A red mist descends with the current distortion of the music I love; the use of terms like 'heavy metal' and 'prog'; progressive rock forums that are dedicated to indie bands and a hatred of Yes and ELP; and Ozzie Osbourne buying a house in Gerrards Cross and behaving like a buffoon on a reality TV show.

Every so often I give a new band or album a listen, but I very rarely get into them. Among these are Airbag (who have had a few mentions on this forum recently), Black Bonzo, Glass Hammer, Echolyn, Moth Vellum. There have been a few exceptions, such as Dream Theater, Electric Mary, Graveyard, The Quill, Spock's Beard and Transatlantic, who are probably not considered new anyway.

Several qirks exist in my taste, such as Johnny Cash, Magazine, Manhattan Transfer, Alexander O'Neal, The Temptations, Erik Satie and others, but they are all old-fashioned.

Other sixties/seventies paraphernalia like The Saint and The Sweeney TV series are repeated and I enjoy them too. There was an item on TV recently about the Ford Cortina car and it took me back to my childhood. I am very sentimental to a fault and some old rock bands, like Gnidrolog, were, and still are, crap. Some people can adapt, because I see those my age walking about, humming to hip-hop and wearing Maori-style tattoos. I wonder if young people today will be doing the same as me, in thirty-five years time, and looking back through rose-tinted spectacles at Lady Gaga, Public Enemy and Maroon 5?

Besides being set in my ways, another pleasure that comes with old age is being grumpy! :mad

 

[AboutAGirl]

Hmmm.... hard to calibrate. I'm genuinely open to new things, and yet that doesn't change the fact that I end up listening to the same old chizz time after time after time. So I definitely consider myself somewhat set in my ways, but not fully. I'm the musical equivalent of bicurious, I'm interested in experiencing the other side and giving it a fair shot, but there's no question that in the long run I'm going to be back listening to Crazy Horse and Tom Petty.

Like, yeah, I like rap a lot. I love Immortal Technique, I love Dr. Dre. But for every one spin of one of their records, I probably have 100 spins of Neil Young, 40 spins of Taylor Swift, 20 spins of The Breeders, 15 spins of Metallica. The skinny of it is, I like a variety of styles but my top favorites will always be your basic, guitar-drums-bass-vocals, chorus-driven rock-type band.

Burzum, Immortal Technique, Katy Perry, GG Allin, NON, these are favorite artists of mine without question. But they're near the bottom of the top 20 or 30, and will I ever listen to them as much as I've listened to Neil Young, Tom Petty, and Nirvana? No, I won't. There's just something intrinsic in that three-chord, pop-rock style that resonates with me on a level nothing else can touch. Even though I adore EDM and dance-pop, an electronic artist like Katy still can't topple the guitar-drums-bass motif of Taylor Swift and Paramore. That's just who I am, I guess.

I'm open to new styles for sure, and I explore different things. But it's pretty clear that my favorites will always err closer to the three chord rock outfit. Just tonight I started listening to a lot of classical music for the first time, and hell yeah I'm really enjoying it. But three months from now will I still be listening to it regularly? Nope. Five years from now will I still be listening to Tom Petty? Beyond doubt.

 

[houseofallseasons]

@aboutagirl I think that kind of variety is very positive. All too often I've read through forums where a fan of such and such a genre is flaming or trolling a fan of another genre. I think the only way that I could be "set in my ways" when it comes to music is to let my ears and mood determine whether I like it or not, and to try and love as much of it as I can. It's why I do what I do

 

[That 70s Guy]

I hate all new music. (with a few exceptions).

 

[That 70s Guy]

I guess the "Grunge" era kind of killed my passion for new artists. When bands that I loved were cast aside for this new sound I admit I became pretty jaded.

Yup I'm the same way, I hate all new music with the exception of Nickelback,Hinder and a few others that play in the classic rock style.