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0-5: When I was really young I mostly listened to a cd called "Örongodis" by Lars Ros, a swedish piano player. That was basically all music I enjoyed at that age.
6-9: I started getting into the Kingston Trio, I always listened to a tape that I got from my father when I was at home. At the same time, Backstreet Boys were the big thing in my school, so I listened to it. All the boys listened to backstreet boys, and in retrospective, I can't really understand how something like that could happen. I also liked a swedish artist called Nordman, folkish pop, it was better than the other things that were famous at the time, but still horrible. I remember that I stopped listening to him when I heard he had been in prison.
10-12: At this point, music was the last thing I cared about, I just listened to the radio sometimes, but I didn't *listen* to music, it was just there.
13: I started developing a taste for music, even if it was rap. Mostly decent rap at least like looptroop and similar stuff.
14: I hadn't listened to rap for very long when I first heard of Rage Against the Machine and System of a Down, so I started getting into rock music, and even some metal. I remember the first time a friend sent me a song by In Flames, at first I really didn't like the vocals, but then I loved it so much. Even though, I'm still proud of the fact that I always thought of Children of Bodom and Cradle of Filth, etc as pure garbage, something I still think. Later during this period, I tried to find as much metal as I could, always discussing it and sending songs back and forth with a friend on msn.
15: I kept listening to what I listened to earlier, but I discovered two of my favourite bands: Opeth and Isis. At first, I couldn't take Åkerfeldt's vocals (much darker growls than In Flames and other bands like that), but I learned to like it, and even love it.
16: This was the year I discovered black metal. Or well, when I was 14 a friend always sent me songs by dark funeral, but they were horrible, so I always thought it was crap. This year, I got into Burzum, Ulver, Mayhem, Immortal and some other bands. Other than the black metal, I discovered bloodbath and other death metal bands, but I tried to keep some diversity. I also started listening to Sigur Rós this year, something that's really far from black and death metal.
17-18: After having built a solid ground of musical taste the year before, I started just digging deeper into the musical genres that I like, and learning more about progressive rock and post rock. For example, I got into Explosions in the Sky, Red Sparrowes, Pelican and lots of other post rock bands. But mostly, I'm developing my metal taste, and discovering new bands.
18-??: I think I'm just continuing to explore music, digging deeper into the genres I'm into, but I'm also trying to get more open minded. I've started enjoying more acoustic music and even some fusion Jazz (ok, just McLaughlin, but everything he's touched is awesome!). And today, I would say that my favourite bands are Opeth, Porcupine Tree, Ulver, Agalloch, Katatonia, Isis, Explosions in the Sky, Bloodbath, Cult of Luna and Sigur Rós. And I'm definetly looking forward to discovering more bands and more musical styles.
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