Music at 16 years old

[Jeff]

What kind of music did you listen to when you were 16? My friends think I'm weird because I like listening to jazz, new age, and lighter forms of rock (Porcupine Tree, Platypus, etc.) Hard rock and metal just seemed to get boring for me all of a sudden.

[btweensunandmoon]

i first got turned onto dream theater when I was around that age. My other faves were Extreme, testament, led zep, and metallica.

[.Matt.]

Shred and Metal. Other genres as well, but these were the main ones.

[Break Zero]

Lets see.. I'm still 16 for another 2 weeks...

Heavy Metal!! Namely Thrash. Can't be without my Megadeth, Testament, Overkill, Metallica, Anthrax, Exodus, Kreator, Suicidal Tendencies...
But its any kind of Metal. Nevermore and Tool (well, Tool are semi-Metal...) are my favorite bands. Others I adore are Fates Warning, Type O Negative, Strapping Young Lad, Faith No More Dream Theater, Amon Amarth, Death, Dio, Black Sabbath, Himsa, Helmet, Anathema, My Dying Bride, Immortal, Napalm Death... Countless, countless others.
I also like my Grunge/Sludge. Alice in Chains, Down, Corrosion of Conformity, Melvins, Soundgarden...
And Punk, Hardcore, Ska... Agnostic Front, Floorpunch, Catch 22, Suicide Machines, A Life Once Lost...
Everything else... I Mother Earth, The Smashing Pumpkins, Rush...
The musicians... Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Yngwie Malmsteen, Eric Johnson...

This doesn't even cover 1/10th of my list of bands/artists/musicians I listen to.

[davester1234]

hmmm. 16?

Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Extreme, Metallica, Ozzy Osbourne to name a few.

[Petie]

Same as Davester, but throw in Stevie Ray, Pink Floyd, Tommy Emmanuel, and massive doses of Megadeth and Alice In Chains.

[pawel]

Hmm, miscellaneus rock and metal: Metallica, Pantera, U2, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Muse, Radiohead, some Satriani...Living Colour. RHCP, REM, Dire Straits, Cream, Zeppelin, Soundgarden

I also listened to a lot of blues and jazz: Buddy Guy, Muddy Waters, BB, Clapton, SRV, Mike Stern, Medeski Martin & Wood, Al di Meola, Miles Davis, Coltrane, Herbie Han****...a lot of it came from my father, who was a big jazz and blues fan, so It all grew on me at a pretty young age

Most of this I still listen to, but I branched out in different directions by now, on one hand getting into Death Metal, on the other into more Jazz, Fusion etc..., and also recently started listening to some singer/songwriter acoustic music, electronica, some world music etc...

[SuperJemBoy]

Since I've had guitar lessons, my mind has opened to every other type of music imaginable. Metal/Shred is still my main love but I listen to loads of other music. Take some albums off my WMP playlist for example:

Original Hardcore:The Nu Breed (Dance/Happy Hardcore)
Alien Love Secrets
Children Of Bodom - Follow The Reaper
N.E.R.D. - In Search Of...
Foo Fighters - One By One
P.O.D. - Satellite
Cypress Hill - Skull + Bones
Hendrix - Voodoo Child Greatest Hits

I also have stuff by Britney Spears, Ja Rule and 2pac and loads and loads of Metallica!

Joe

P.S (I'm 16 just now )

EDIT: How could I forget! I love electroclash/electronica style stuff like Scissor Sisters, Felix Da Housecat and stuff like that. I don't know too many artists because I only usually here it when my brother is home (he loves that stuff)

[Joel Lyndgohrd]

At 16 it was Vai, Zapppa and Satriani. Didn't really listen to anything else.

[Two hands31]

Some Vai, some Dream Theater, Lots of Tea Party and I Mother Earth, some Korn, some Metallica, some Incubus, some Linkin Park, etc, etc, etc.

[matt_cater]

at 16 i was a big green day/blink 182/nirvana freak, and was into punk..
then i heard Fade to Black by metallica and realised that metal ruled, then i heard steve vai playing and am now an instrumental freak

[krizz]

Originally Posted by matt_cater

at 16 i was a big green day/blink 182/nirvana freak, and was into punk..
then i heard Fade to Black by metallica and realised that metal ruled, then i heard steve vai playing and am now an instrumental freak

ayay man, that's exactly the way it went here...Nowadays I really kick on virtuosity applied to good music; it doesn't really matter what instrument (well, guitar ofcourse rules ). And there are A LOT of good musicians out there, with 90% of them underestimated...

[vaijem777]

I had extremely strange tastes when I was 16 (at least in comparison to my friends.)

Even though I had gotten my first Ibanez a couple of years earlier, I was still into non-guitar oriented music. As a kid, I had a HUGE vinyl & 8-track collection (still do actually!). I was majorly into the Beatles & the Beach Boys. I've always been floored by the great vocal harmonies that Brian Wilson put together. I was an all-out Beatles freak too. Then I found my mom's Led Zeppelin and Cream albums and started to get into more guitar-centric stuff. Eventually, I became addicted to concerts and got into G'n'R, Skid Row, VH, Ozzy, etc. I was 17-18 by that time, and G'n'R were at their peak.

I'm still a sucker for "Pet Sounds" or "Rubber Soul" though

[bpd111]

When I first started listening to *my own* music, I liked Eddie Rabbit and the Spinners! LOL! Then I bought Queen's The Game after hearing Another One Bites The Dust. Soon after that a kid sold me some records that included J. Giel's Freeze Frame and VH's Women And Children First. Soon after I bought every VH record that came out. Then came Judas Priest, Ratt, Motley Crue, Dio, and a couple Ozzy records. Before I knew it, I was an 80s hairband freak! Still am.

[Algiman]

I must be getting old - had to think about this for a long time! I think I was going through a huge Rush phase at the time. Moving Pictures was rarely out of my CD player.