My Music Taste Blog

Okay so I listen to so much music that I cannot physically fit everything in my profile biography, so I made this blog to explore my music taste with y'all.

First of all, I listen to a lot of music. My most used streaming platform is obviously Spotify. My largest Spotify playlist is 417 hours long and it contains 6551 songs that I have been listening to and gathering in the past 5 years. And this is not all. I also listen to a lot of underground stuff that isn't available on Spotify, so I listen to a lot more music than that.

The music that I listen to is correlated and defines the way I feel at a specific moment. My playlist is a reflection of my emotions and my memories in the last 5 years. With good and bad moments, this playlist encapsulates everything.

I will post a link if you're curious to check it.

Spotify Playlist

So the music I listen to is mood dependent. 

Another important aspect is that I listen to certain artists and bands for a long period of time, or a fair period of time and then I switch to other artists and bands, thus this is why I listen to so much music. 

I'll try to name a few bands and artists that I like and that I liked more than others over the last 5 years or more and briefly describe my relationship with their music. 

But first, I want to make a little bit of history, regarding my taste of music and how it was defined over the last 19 years that I lived in.

During my early days of life, my music taste was defined by my fathers. Since my father is also a big music enjoyer. I had to inherit this taste from someone, and that person happens to be my own father. My father, a big lover of rock, folk, jazz and blues have introduced me to this type of music from a tender age. Growing up with old classical rock, Romanian folk, jazz and blues this is the substratum of my music taste. At the most basic form I am an avid listener of rock and it's nuances. Talking classic rock international or local.

Growing up I started listening to electronic music more. In my childhood I loved EDM, Dubstep, Drum n Bass, etc. Growing up in a period when this music was the most streamed on radio, I also grew up with this music. And also hip-hop, being introduced in it by my older cousins.

My uncle and one of my cousins also introduced me to metal and hard rock. From spending a fair time with my cousin I started catching up on bands like Metallica, Rammstein, Linkin Park, System of a Down, ACDC, The Prodigy, etc.

For a brief moment in my childhood I took piano lessons, and of course, at those piano lessons I was playing classical music. My music teacher introduced me to classical music, which I hold dear to the heart.

Of course, moving into teenage, I started listening more to Rock and Metal because I also started spending a lot of time in a rocker pub from my city. My friend group that I had at that time defined the metal and hard rock side of the music taste. That's when I started listening to bands like Avenged Sevenfold, which is to this day, one of my favourite bands.

Growing up into teenage, I also started to listen to even more electronic music and that's when I found genres like Euro-Trance and House.

During my childhood, I used to spend a lot of time with my sister, who is 4 years older than me. Growing up with her and her older friends I also took on some emo music(bands like Tokio Hotel, My Chemical Romance, Pierce the Veil, Paramore, etc.) After all it was 2010-2011 that I'm speaking. In Romania, the emo scene was also pretty active in those years. I think it started to fade away in like 2013-2014 here, and that's about the time they grew into teenage while I was still a child, so I started spending more time with people my age and less time with my sister and her older friends, which some of them are even almost 30 now, so at that time they were older teenagers, and I was just a little child. 

Fortunately, I think a new emo scene starts to be defined since 2-3 years ago which is really nice.

Regardless, I want to also talk about 2020, the year of the lockdown. At that time I started becoming a doomer, I know I was pretty young to be a doomer, but even at that age 13-14 years old, I was pretty mature for my age and ahead of my years and I've always been a pessimistic person. Regardless, that's when I started listening to russian post-punk and doomer-wave music. That's about a time when I introduced myself to art-rock(Radiohead, Band of Horses, King Crimson, Coldplay, etc.)

I think that's about all that is about the history of my music taste. I think there's many moments that defined my music taste. Regardless, now I really wanna name some artists and bands that I really love, some of them that I already mentioned.

I will try to do it on classes of genres. I will update this blog later, but those are like my mains.

Rock

Art-rock(Radiohead, Band of Horses, Emerson Lake Palmer, King Crimson)

Pop-rock(Coldplay

Folk and Romanian rock(Phoenix, Valeriu Sterian, Trooper, Cargo, Timpuri Noi)

Emo-rock(MCR, PTV, Paramore, Fall Out Boys)

Russian rock()

Post-punk(Joy Division, The Cure, Kino, Egor Letov)

Punk(Sex Pistols)

Punk-Rock(Green Day)

Hard Rock(Metallica, Slipknot)

Christian Rock(Skillet)

Metal

Nu-metal(Linkin Park, SOAD, Limp Biskit)

Symphonic(Nightwish, Opeth)

Metalcore(BMTH, Three Days Grace, BFMV, 3 Doors Down, 30 Seconds to Mars)

Gothic(HIM, Theatre of Tragedy, Elysion, Sirenia)

Progressive Metal(Avenged Sevenfold)

Melodic Metal(Death)

DBSM(Lifelover)

Electronic

EDM(Avicii, 2010s EDM typically)

House(2010s House)

Trance(old 90s-200s classical trance)

Dubstep(Skrillex, Deadmau5)

DnB(any 2010s DnB)

Classical

Romantic Classical(Chopin)

Hip-hop

Drain Gang(Anything Drain gang: Bladee, Ecco2k and all of them idk)

Cloud Rap(Chris Travis)

Experimental Hip-Hop(Death Grips)

Hip-hop(MF Doom, DMX, etc)