These bands you loved

[Gullick]

To me no genre is 'better' than another since there is no real way of scaling music. If the argument is 'But no one likes that music' clearly someone does otherwise they'd stop making it and the music that majority of people like is mainstream, which is considered bad by the same people. To me, if one person likes it, then its good for them and not for me to judge.

I used to be into dance and rap, then I discovered Linkin Park and that led to a HUGE emo phase. Now, I listen to anything, but usually things with a happy feel, such as Angels and Airwaves or soundtracks.

Only thing I don't perticularly like is bands that are in it just to attract the opposite sex, like Cute is What we Aim for or All Time Low.

[SuperMillionaire]

Edgy, edgy, edgy!

[Inferno]

Only thing I don't perticularly like is bands that are in it just to attract the opposite sex, like Cute is What we Aim for or All Time Low.

Too much bands are mercenaries and don't bother producing sh*tty music, in my opinion. And that phenomenon sucks.

[Aurey]

All I listened to as a kid in the 90s were mainstream pop acts. When I was a tween I rejected the mainstream almost completely and started listening to a lot of the Clash and Bob Mould, then became enticed by heavier stuff like Tool. When I was thirteen I dove into the new underground independent scene that was developing, listening to stuff like Interpol, Broken Social Scene, Arcade Fire... indie rock whatever, stuff like that. Afterward I started to gradually broaden what I listened to, going into rap, hip hop, idm, electronic, to noise, and so on (thanks to music guru Necronopticous for most of the introductions btw).

Present day I would say I'm less snobbish and/or judgmental and far more open towards music. I can't say I really look into genres all that much anymore, nor that I haven't shaken my ass to pop radio recently.

[Shiny]

I'll still listen to every single band I listened to when I was younger. Spice Girls, Nsync...I don't give a smurf.

[SuperMillionaire]

Good for you, Shiny; I like a lot of that kind of music too.

[Jessweeee♪]

Really it was just my limited access to music that kept my tastes so narrow. In middle school I just had the radio (when my parents listened to it in the car) and my parent's music, so it was mostly metal, with a few other forms of rock.

Then in high school I had internet access and portable music devices and yay~

[Bastian]

The only bands that I used to listen to that I don't really like anymore are Blink-182 and Vertical Horizon (anyone remember them) and Third Eye Blind and Sum 41 and Simple Plan and . . . damn, I listened to a lot of awful stuff back then.

However, I did pop in an Eve 6 CD a couple months ago for the hell of it and was surprised it didn't annoy me.

I still love Smashing Pumpkins as much as I did when I was a kid and I still love a lot of the weirder stuff I listened to as a kid (Enya, Clannad, Secret Garden, and other world/new age stuff).

@Gullick: What do you mean? All Time Low are my secret guilty pleasure (shh! don't tell anyone!) and it has nothing to do with how smurfable the bassist is, not at all. No. . . err . . . hm.

[SuperMillionaire]

Some of that new age stuff is actually pretty good, Bastian.