I have loved music my entire life, adding to my library consistently since I started buying records with my paper route money (age 12). Early on, my parents were the main influence. Dad would spin 60s music at home (Mamas/Papas, Peter Paul and Mary, Abba, etc...) and shared his childhood 1950s rock 45s. In the car, we consistently listened to 8-tracks, all singing along (more Mamas/Papas, also Simon and Garfunkel, Fifth Dimension, Carol King...).

I have sought out music since then, switching from radio to internet when that shift came. I LOVE internet music, getting to sample first, not needing to buy entire albums, being exposed to other (not radio marketed) genres and obscure artists.

My kids and I share music VERY often (both played something new for me yesterday!). We still sing in the car and go to live concerts together. Not sure what drives what I listen to now. I just sample and see if I like it. (:

I have never stopped listening to my old stuff. Don't plan to!

GREAT post BTW... Thanks!

Nice experience & POST !!! My older siblings liked folk
in the early 70's . I was exposed to latino music in my early
years 80's . My high school was filled with rock. I did appreciate Classcal(and still do ) as a cerebral refreshment.
These various styles conflicted with my parents music,
which was big band. I was an adult before I found out that
we are not supposed to live in our role model's shadow.
The music ( attached to culture ) sets the tone - and my
"working music" is different from music that I use when in contemplation or relaxing. Rock & Latin are stimulating in
a certain way - the words and rythem allow a connection
to inner feelings that are usually buried that is WHY I don't listen to the SAME MUSIC season in season out throughout
my week. I am told that meditation music ect. benifits
the human mind because it makes us aware and focused on
thoughts we otherwise SUPPRESS or are not aware of .
I have had certain pressure to listen to what the others
listen to - and my interaction with music has and is a journey. And as such reflects me to the world around me
and the WORLD AS IT evolves to my inner conciousness.
Thanks

When I was younger my music tastes were limited to what I was exposed to. Growing up in the 80's this was primarily public radio and MTV. But now, with the internet and music streaming apps on my cell phone I can listen to a much wider variety of music.

I still listen to the older stuff from the 70's and 80's but I mostly listen to modern music. Now I have access to any genre of music and music from all around the world. There's so much great new music to be found today (if you bother to look for it). Now I listen to hard rock, pop, disco, electronic, industrial, punk, alternative, indie rock, metal, funk, dance, and hip-hop.

I don't want to limit myself to just re-listening to the same old songs I've already heard hundreds of times before. I still enjoy the songs I grew up with and can appreciate songs from before I was born, but I want to hear something I've never heard before.