Pitchfork does a really neat feature from time to time in which they interview a musician and ask them what music they were listening to at 5-year intervals in their lives. While I'm not much of a musician, I still thought this was a cool idea. After reading, why not do the 5-10-15-20 yourself?

Age 5 - The Beatles - Rubber Soul
When I was very young, I didn't get a lot of exposure to music, but thankfully my mom was a Beatles fan. I have a distinct memory of being around this age and singing along to "In My Life," in a car with my mom. I do remember distinctly one time when I erroneously sung the lyric as "some are dead and some are buried," instead of "some are dead and some are living," and my mom got a real kick out of it. It's still one of my all-time favorite songs despite that little mishap.

10 - Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
At 8 we had moved to Felton, Delaware, and despite it being a pathetically small town in a state with a reputation for boredom, this is where I started to listen to music on my own. In this case, I was hanging out with a 12-year-old named Jeremy, who liked skateboarding and hip-hop. I never could afford a decent board, but I did listen to the hip-hop, in between chances to play Mario on Jeremy's NES. Public Enemy was what I heard the most of, but I was also listening to Tone Loc, DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, a little Run DMC, and even some Slick Rick.

15 - Alice In Chains - Alice In Chains
My infatuation with hip-hop didn't last any longer than my time in Delaware. When I came back to South Carolina at 11 years old, I started to find new musical inspiration thanks to the grunge movement and the influence of a friend of the family. Modern Rock would be my music of choice for the next 15 years. I got my first CD player for Christmas when I was 15, and the first two CDs I got were the self-titled releases from Metallica and Alice In Chains. My mom got them for me as a gift, and she really nailed what I was listening to at the time. I liked most of what was on the air on the new rock station, which at the time was Z-102 in Savannah, GA, and these were a couple of my favorites. "Heaven Beside You," was the soundtrack to my first breakup, though I think that was overdramatizing the whole event a bit much, considering we had only been together for a day.

20 - Faith No More - Album of the Year
I was still listening to as much new rock as I could at this point, and I thought "Last Cup of Sorrow" was pretty much the most badass song in the world. (I still think it may be!) I managed to score the CD used a couple of years after the song came out, along with Angel Dust and King For a Day... Fool For a Lifetime. vulgar_prophet and I were listening to Faith No More damn near constantly for a good couple of years there, and they're still one of my all-time favorite bands.

25 - Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News
By 25 I had begun to get fed up with the same drivel they kept playing on Alternative radio over and over again, and Modest Mouse is the perfect band to illustrate where my tastes were headed musically. They had been around for years but never really established themselves in the mainstream before "Float On," and when I heard "Ocean Breathes Salty," I was hooked. It got me to open up my eyes a little more and realize that a lot of the stuff I wanted to listen to wasn't making it to the radio. I was also branching out into some more worldly music at this time, and I discovered Cuba's Orishas, Spain's Killer Barbies, and even M.I.A. before the rest of the country caught on.

30 - Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
It took a while for me to realize I liked Vampire Weekend. I first heard "A-Punk" on WBER back in 2008 when I abandoned the charred remains of 99X for better prospects on the internet. It was catchy and all, but it didn't immediately grab me. It wasn't until I got hooked on "Oxford Comma" that I realized their album was worth buying. Ever since Contra hit number one on the billboard charts, they have become more mainstream than pretty much everything else I listen to, but I'm not music snob enough to begrudge them that.