The role of childhood space in the development of musical taste

This is what I wrote on AusPishFish;

"Maybe one of the reasons I don’t get hip hop much is the fact that I’m used to a lot of space. Scary, empty space. Hip hop is too crowded, too urban, too busy; I can’t even begin to hear the words. I never cared about the words. Maybe. I’m used to… The sea. The sky. Great big fucking fields. My house is two minutes from fields, five minutes from seas, no minutes from skies. Maybe this is why Bark Psychosis ‘speak’ to me too. (What an asshole phrase.) Open space, twilight, moving vistas, empty heads. No heads. No company. Expanses. Big swathes of synth? I love The Streets but Skinner’s raving was done indoors, in nightclubs. Orbital did theirs outside, in fields and barns and Glastonbury, which, lest we forget (I’ve never been, though I’ve been to the Pilton Village Fete) is only up the road. Bark Psychosis may be in the city, but they’re in a church or else on the streets at night when nobody else is around, in the roads away from where the clubs kick out. Space. Huge swathes of synth? Orbital. Those enormous, synthesised vistas are like the sea, moving slowly, interlocked, life beneath them and barely perceptible. Standing atop cliffs. And such."

I think the fact that I grew up in a countryside/seaside area, surrounded by lots of space, and playing football / exploring woods / walking through fields and stuff rather than going to discos (although I did that too every so often [generally on a Thursday]) affected the way I listen to things. A lot of positive feedback i get from the blog is for when I write about walking the coast or whatever with my walkmen, and there's no doubt that this is something I do a lot, but it isn't something I imagine many other ILMers do (though maybe not through choice). Thus music with a sense of space and movement greatly appeals to me, perhaps much more than it would do to someone who grew up in an urban environment.

Dom commented that he grew up in a terraced house in the middle of a big town, and that his childhood was spent "finding things rather than exploring them", whereas mine was very much about exploring rather than finding - I think this is definitely true about the way I listen to music too; I'm much less bothered about finding new things than I am about really soaking in and appreciating the kinds of things I like.

So is this idea all a load of bunkum?