Not two years ago, mostly alt rock (love Muse), as well as classics (Zeppelin, Hendrix, Floyd etc.) There were many others.
Since then, I've been listening to classical music exclusively.
That might sound rather odd to you, what do you think my friends say?!
About 10 years ago when I was 12-13, it was hip-hop, r&b etc. Then rock, various experiments with international music......then refined it further more. Until now, where I seemed to have gone back 2 centuries.
It's just the way I am. I used to be a snob a few years ago, criticizing other peoples' music choice (ala rock bands for kids) generic R&B etc. Hoping to inspire them to sample something better.
Now though I've got so little in common with my peers I simply don't discuss it anymore. To each their own, whatever makes you feel good then listen to it, you can't insist people feel a certain way about artistic endeavours.
I listen to classical, because accidentally I heard some in a rock song, it was my favourite part, I found out much later that it was a Chopin scherzo, so I downloaded it. From then onwards I just couldn't stop, there was a massive world I hadn't explored, and I still am.
For me, Mozarts' Requiem, Beethovens' Moonlight Sonata movements, Handels work, Rachmaninovs' Prelude....to name a few - evoke emotions in me of such power I wasn't til then aware that music could achieve.
A lot of it was heard before (you know, advertisements, films, etc.) everyone thinks they're decent tunes well enough, and may find it pleasant, even I did for a long time on the off chance they were played.
But now, I hear and feel it on such a profound level, as though the composers' soul becomes intertwined with mine - for a brief few minutes two people seperated by centuries meet in an abstract entanglement that crosses time and space.
Yeah...anyway - didn't mean to elaborate in detail on this lunch hour.
