At what age did your taste in music crystallize?

I went through just about all the lame cliks and fazes teens have. From wigger topunk to lame ass "juggalos" thinking i had to choose one to fit in. It wasnt until my senior year in highschool i decided i don't give a shit what people think. I like some of everything and i dress how i like. You teens out there, don't let other people make you think you need to like 1 kind of music or act/dress some way to fit in. Do your own thing and people will respect it.

14-16 (currently 22). My favorite music was the stuff I heard in video games, and still is. The music varies, but chiptunes, electronics, and instrumentals are where it's at. My tastes don't change, I just discover new tracks I haven't heard before.

My cement crystals dried and solidified in 1997 (I was 12) when I saw silverchair on their freakshow tour. I loved that music, although silverchair copped a lot of shit at the time, so it wasn't really all that "cool". Then I got heavily into Nirvana, naively hoping to one day see them play live. Not realising Kurt Cobain had been brutally murdered* roughly 4 years before. It would be the first of many teenage disappointments.
I liked the DIY ethic left by punk rock. And I still like anything kinda dirty or off-kilter like Sonic Youth, Polvo.

But like most people, my taste has opened up a lot, although over-produced, unnaturally perfect and predictable music will never do it for me :)

*Not really.

I began noticing a distinctive preference around the age of 12. Travel by car and long, daily commutes with nothing but my imagination and a portable CD player helped to solidify the salt. In the beginning, I had only a few CD's: Now 1, Incubus and Creed. One enforced variety, one blew me against the grain and Incubus became my favorite. The Incubi were the perfect companion to my fantastical imagination.

Soon after, I was fisted by System of a Down's musical video "Chop Suey". At first moment, I thought my ears and mind were being raped, for I was enjoying a song about the death of angels. I fought it at first and changed the channel, but quickly became a willing vigilante in the succession of screaming men, pounding drums and guitar rifts. The chaos within me had awoken.

I believe AFI was the next major step, age 13. The wonderfully catchy tune of "Girl's not grey" was the hook, but I soon began to hear rumors that this album was a "sell out". Not knowing and haphazardly caring what the phrase meant, I sought truth from the past and purchased the album 'Black Sails in the Sunset'. Although I didn't truly learn the connotation of the word 'sell-out' that year, I became appreciative of the former album as a wonderfully concocted concentrated whole, whereas the catchy, new album contained only a couple unsubstantiated catch tunes. I still liked both, but definitely preferred black sails...

I could go on, but the laundry isn't going to wash itself. The rest of my taste expanded, and continues to expand from these few essential years.

My seemingly cemented taste in music is alternative and neo psychedelic rock which I got into in my early 20s. Fuck. As if I have early 20s.

Random but when I was really young I remember liking Kiss because of my older brother. He had these huge posters of them and they would scare the absolute shit out of me. But their music was good. Kind of. Heavens on fire is still a damn good song so fuck you!

That aside it started with watching Much Music and listening to whatever the radio played in the mid 90s. I know this because the videos for wonderwall and street spirit were always playing and both reminded me of each other. I always felt lonely watching either one. The first four Oasis albums and the first three Big Shiney Tunes were my childhood. Or the end of it. Then middle school came and with it bad choices...

Limp Bizkit? really? What the fuck was wrong with me?

I'm 20 and I think mine is still developing. However it slowed dwon a bit once when I reached college.

I think mine is either still developing or it's too soon to tell. Until I was 14 or 15, I liked any Kerrang! magazine music: radio rock and poppy emo, highly produced pop punk and music with heavy metal aesthetics and identifiable pop sensibilities. My favourite bands were blink 182, Green Day, My Chemical Romance and Slipknot. I still have posters.

Fast forward to now. I still like some popular rock. I love punk, and some of the same pop punk songs I loved before, but I want it to feel more authentic and untamed and less poppy in a lyrical and sonic sense. I still like some heavy metal, but I gravitate much more to grindcore and less to radio metal. I really like ska music. I like some rap music which I never would have liked before, and some top 40 pop and EDM. I appreciate post-rock and classical music and trip-hop and dubstep and emo and classic rock. But it's still changing. If you asked me two months ago I would never have mentioned grindcore, for example. I'd like to understand jazz more, but at the moment it's still a mystery to me. Maybe that will be next. Or maybe this is it, and my taste is forever what it is now.

I voted in my twenties, since i slowly start to settle down in alternative genres. Hip Hop, Rock, Metal, Electronic, Folk.... Really love bands like Archive or God is an Astronaut, Nujabes and Betwen the burried and me and opeth, to name some.

When I was a teenager, I essentially despised all modern music and purely listened to older music, mostly rock/metal. Around 18/19, I started becoming more accepting of current music and I've found a lot of good stuff within in the indie genre. But my taste for music ranges from Celtic to Chopin; from The Beatles to Of Monsters and Men.

Probably 16 was when I stopped going through legit phases. I've always been open to new artists and styles, though.

I have like GN'R and Motley Crue since I was like...10. Lol.

elevator music

Dont understand what you mean by crystallize but I did have a distinct change from age 11-14. The only difference is that the music got harder and faster though and when I was a kid it was really soft. I listen to metal, pop, rock, alternative, techno, dub-step, video-game music, remixes of piano music, Whatever creature feature is, hiphop/rap(if its clean).

I like the Sex Pistols...

I was 10. Aladdin soundtrack and Meatloaf Bat out of Hell 2: Back into Hell were my favourite albums. That's where it all begun for me with music.

It never has. I like lots of different things and don't feel I need to tell people what those things are.

My interests on music have become broader over time.

Still developing

I listen to a lot of things and there have never been any major changes in taste, but at the same time it's not the same as it was when I was younger

Around ten or eleven.

When I was 13-14 I decided I diddent want to follow the crowd any more and like all the pop girly music my freinds did, I descoverd my chemical romance, blink182, green day, velvet revolver, panic at the disco and falling in reverse they are still my favrouts

I'm in mid 20's and my taste is still evolving.
here are some of the genres I've liked starting when I was 9 in right order: 1-classic rock 2-punk 3-grunge 4-hard rock 5-hair metal 6-thrash metal 7-doom metal and black metal 8-jazz 9-50's and 60's 10-experimetal 11-J-rock 12-shoegaze and dream/noise pop 13-indie

you grow up by evolving!

I'd say that it evolved to what it now is when I was about 17 or 16. It's hard to remember. Some of things that I liked as a child, I no longer like now. Most of the things I detested then, I now love. My musical taste is an ever evolving process. It would be nice to see where it goes to as I age.

It never really cemented. As a child, it was an odd sort of 90's pop and a few classical numbers. Then, it was country and contemporary Christian, then, approaching adolescence, it became more aligned with post-grunge and nu-metal. Throughout adolescence, I embraced styles such as:

Post-hardcore, modern emo, old school emo, pop punk, Britpop, grunge, classic rock, metal (NWOBHM, black, death, thrash, doom, stoner, prog, etc.), jazz (free form, fusion, bop, etc)., classical, showtunes, prog rock, experimental, blues, instrumental, alt rock, indie, and electronic.

These days I mainly listen to:

Classical, opera, electronic, jazz, house, d n' b, classic rock, folk, pop, and experimental. It'll be different by the end of this year, probably.

11-13. I never listened to the radio except in my mom's car and she played mostly 70s music, which I still don't really like much of. I like 60s and 80s music though. I pretty much always listened to the kind of music I listen to now, because my dad was always playing obscure techno/house downloaded off the internet from its early days, I just never appreciated it as a kid. I remember being about 13, having the original iPod shuffle and it being full of things no one had ever heard of, it made me feel cool, haha. But I still love a lot of what's on there today

I find my taste in music to be pretty flexible most of the time. It has changed/evolved throughout the years yes but, I still find myself being fairly open to liking different types of music. When I mean fairly, there are exceptions.

At the age of 14-16 I liked what everyone else liked, I liked to be in a certain group, listened to mcr, taking back Sunday ( makedamnsure is still a great track) funeral for a friend, slipknot, I honestly didn't listen to a band unless I'd heard it from someone else but brand new I still love and actually saw them last month

For my 16th birthday my uncle got me infinity land by biffy clyro and I fell in love with it, the time changes, the alternative song structure was all New to me yet it was heavy enough to keep me interested

For a few years I mainly listened to biffy, brand new and alexisonfire until I discovered radiohead at the age of 18, kid a is what got me into experimental and challenging music, it wasn't until I heard in the aeroplane over the sea by neutral milk hotel ( sorry for bringing them up again haha) that I fully embraced music, itmade me feel I had years of music to catch up to, it made me want to seek out the other greats, modest mouse, my bloody valentine, interpol, king crimson, death grips, wilco, built to spill ect

As I've discovered bands like my bloody Valentine and death grips I realised that I want a lot of my music to challenge me.

I'm still not sure if my taste will change though, it's only been relatively recently I've gotten into hip hop like Danny Brown and pusha t plus Kendrick Lamar is one of my favorite artists, I hope my taste never stays the same, there are going to be many sounds in the future and I hope I'll be open to them

This is hard for me to answer. I like many different genres of music and none of them I can say are really my favorites. I have a tendency to favor one genre of music for a while and then move on to another, and I'm always discovering new genres. I can tell you used to like rap music as a kid but began to hate it in middle school, and a lot of why I liked it was like what you said, I wanted to be cool. Although there are definitely some rap songs that I enjoyed as a kid that I still enjoy listening to today. I never was a huge fan of pop music and I'm still not.

I don't know. Musical taste questions are always the hardest for me.

I voted 14-16, but honestly it's always evolving.

My main genre is rock, but I also have lots of diversity in my collection too. Much of my musical tastes were influenced by my older sister. Some of my favorite songs today are some of the ones I can remember listing to when we were younger and she used to download a lot of music onto the family computer.

I had my defining moment during 10-12 grades in highschool. I was 15-19 during those periods. I knew what music I liked before then, but this was when I decided to start my own collection. Before then I had always had to borrow from other people's collections. I used to listen to the radio a lot, so what I would do is write down the song name and artist whenever I heard something I liked. I started off with a very modest collection of about 200 songs or so. I went through a stage where I ran out of money to pay for the music, so I was downloading a lot of music from youtube and stuff.

Now, I am into buying CDs. I really enjoy listening to albums as a whole instead of always just listening to the individual songs. With the albums you get so much more of the vibe, what the musicians were going through when they made the music and everything. It is really amazing.

I'm currently a little under 1900 songs in my collection. I am rather obsessed sometimes, and when I think about it, I don't really know anyone else that listens to music like I do...

I prefer stand up comedy to music.