How diverse is your music taste?

[mvd]

Poll question: How diverse is your music taste?

I'd rate mine as "very." I love both pop/rock from younger artists and indie such as The Painkillers, while at the same time liking country. Not into hip hop except for a couple artists, and also not big into modern R&B (I like Jill Scott, Alicia Keys, former TLC, En Vogue, the late Aaliyah, Usher, Musiq.) I'm not into death metal, much of pure punk, Creed and clones modern rock, some of the pop/punk bands that multiplied (Good Charlotte, Sum 41, New Found Glory, newest Blink 182 music,) Dashboard Confessional-type emo, rap/metal, reggae, and techno.

[JohnKleeb]

1. growing

I used to only listen to classic rock, occassional reggae, and classical music, but I've listened to a lot of new stuff as of late, been liking what I hear, Ive actually liked some country music, altern country that is, I enjoy it.

[Wat_Tyler]

2. Everyone will vote extremely, of course.

No-one wants to admit to being closed-minded.

I voted not-at-all to restore balance.

[drumwolf]

29. so did I.

I hate to be an asshole about this, but I'm not impressed whenever someone tries to tell me how diverse his/her taste in music is. My observation has been that EVERYONE thinks they have diverse taste in music and are open-minded to every genre. Bullshit.

Okay, in one sense, they're right: nobody today listens exclusively to one single genre anymore, given the incredible diversity of musical styles readily available to the public. But simply listening to multiple musical genres doesn't necessarily make you knowledgable or open-minded about music, especially if you only listen to the most mainstream end of each genre. I had one customer at Tower Records once who claimed that he had diverse musical taste just because he liked Green Day (punk, but the Top 40 end of it), Garth Brooks (country, but the Top 40 end of it), and Eminem (rap, but... yadda yadda), while I politely held my tongue.

What's more, my experience has been that many people who say "I listen to everything" are often the least knowledgable about music and probably just listen to what's on the radio and the charts. I've actually come to respect people more if they admit upfront that they don't listen to every type of music and specify what genres they are most partial to.

If you looked through my CD collection, you could find many different musical genres represented to some degree or another, but the solid majority of it is either indie rock, punk rock, techno/electronica (with a sizable minority of reggae and experimental/avant-garde, and a smattering of jazz and hip-hop). Yeah, it's diverse to a certain degree, but not as much as it could be. I rarely ever listen to country or classical, and I NEVER listen to folk/bluegrass or gospel.

[drumwolf]

31. oh, and one more thing.....

I have a friend who's been in a couple of different bands and gigs with other musicians on and off all the time. And he tells me that whenever he's holding auditions for a musician and someone tells him "I listen to everything" or "I like all music," he considers it a red flag, not a positive sign.

[redqueen]

38. Project much?

[mvd]

40. Agreed

I mean, everyone? I often listen to "Left Of Center" on Sirius satellite radio because I can easily determine the mainstream albums I want to buy. Personally, I respect the open-minded listeners. Because even if you are an indie fan, there could be something in top 40 that you like.

[drumwolf]

60. you missed my point.

Hey, I respect the open-minded listeners, too. But claiming to be an open-minded listener isn't the same as actually being one.

And I wasn't dismissing anything and everything that's top 40. I like my share of popular rap (2Pac, Snoop, Biggie), and I've got a nice little collection of MP3's of hits from the '70s and '80s (particularly the disco and soul stuff). My point was, too many people are ONLY familiar with top 40 stuff and yet they think that their tastes are "diverse" just because they skim the surface of many different genres.

[mvd]

61. But you said "everyone"

That's why I said what I did. If this post is how you feel, that's fine. I've had different experiences meeting people who say they like everything.

[ButterflyBlood]

65. lol, I agree!

I listen to Portishead and Pig Destroyer, and I still consider myself narrow-minded as fuck.

[redqueen]

3. Extremely

Love Guthrie and Slayer... Mozart and AC/DC... French Canadian Folk and Tejano... there's nothing I don't like except that insipid Christian 'music'... I mean gospel's one thing, but that's just CRAP!

[mvd]

5. Oh I forgot to mention Christian music as..

a type I'm not into. :puke: Gospel is much better - I agree.

[tigereye]

69. agree a lot of people here have very eclectic taste

if I went to my CD music shelf... and record pile.. and tape stash.. there is a lot of old jazz, and folk from around the world, and World beat and African and South African, and Capt. Beefheart... and punk and alt and indie and the MP3 stuff. I don't have any rap ( except Linton Kwesi Johnson), but I have DelaSoul and other blended soul outfits. I also like Bad Brains and Joni Mitchell. I am not really a techno or trance person, but my husb. is. Top 40, not really, and metal is not really my thing, but I try to be open-minded.

[eyesroll]

4. Apathetic.

There's very little I truly hate, very little I truly love.
Most of it makes good background. (I realize I'm in a little tiny minority here.)

My hearing's all screwy anyhow.

[Magrittes Pipe]

6. I like all good music, regardless of genre.

;)

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

7. I have a whole section of iTunes for klezmer

[JuniperLea]

56. hehehe

have you heard dick dale's rendition of 'hava nagila'?

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

67. I have - I downloaded it from Napster in 1999 - I thought I was the only 1

[AndyTiedye]

8. I Only Like Music I can Dance To...

...but I'll dance to just about anything.

[fudge stripe cookays]

9. Everything from....

The Afghan Whigs
Ned's Atomic Dustbin
Rosanne Cash and Mary Chapin Carpenter
Old 80s Two-tone
old Josephine Baker, Django Reinhardt
70s funk and TK Records stuff
Abba
cheesy 70s disco
Debussy or Beethoven
Neil Young
Bob Marley and Burning Spear
Dokken (I know...you can point and laugh now)
Alex deGrassi and Ottmar Liebert
Cocktail Lounge stuff (50s and 60s)
all types of power pop
80s/90s rap (LL Cool J, Bell Biv Devoe, Salt n Pepa)
Joe Ely and Darden Smith

Working in a record store for any length of time, you learn to develop a liking for just about anything that doesn't irritate you, giving you a well-rounded appreciation of all types of music.

FSC

[mvd]

13. I'm also into power pop, and some artists you mentioned

I forgot to say that I'm quite discriminating when it comes to dance/pop.

[fudge stripe cookays]

14. Yay! Which ones? n/t

[mvd]

19. Rosanne Cash and Mary Chapin Carpenter,

Neil Young, and power pop such as Cheap Trick, The Bangles, The Cars, New Pornographers, Kay Hanley, etc.

[Swede]

10. I like Ennio Morricone and Filter

Loreena McKennit,BLue Oyster Cult,Korn, Johnny Cash,Blue Rodeo and Jean Sibelius.

[gospelized]

11. i can go from

folkish indie-rock like Belle and Sebastian, to spazz/grindcore like The Locust, to underground rap, to Johnny Cash, to Bollywood to Bach.

i said extremely.

[frylock]

18. who are some of the underground acts you like?

I'm always looking for new artists. :hi:

[gospelized]

20. rap?

my favorite is my friend Subtitle. http://www.benbarnes.net/Unstoppable-High.htm

also check out Weekend Science Experiement, and The Coup.

[frylock]

24. thanks..

I'll check those out. If you get the opportunity, check out The Forest Fires Collective. Mountain Brothers Self:1 LP is worth investigating as well.

PEACE!

[bif]

12. I like just about everything except rap, disco and country

[a_random_joel]

15. Right here!!!

Classic Rock.

Hip Hop.

Funk/Disco/Old School

Techno/House/Drum N Bass

Goth/Industrial.

New Wave.

Trip Hop/ambient

Some Punk.

Oldies e.g. Motown

Jazz.

80s pop.

Reggae.

Classical.

Lounge/Instrumental/Mood music.

Dr. Demento stuff...


On edit... almost forgot BRITPOP!

[frylock]

16. ultra-extreme..

I have music ranging from Woody Guthrie, Ween, R.L. Burnside, Dillinja (DnB), lots of underground Hip-Hop (I'm an unapologetic backpacker), to the Jazz greats. I even have Johnny Cash, though I typically don't care for C&W at all, certainly not Country-Pop. I also have a ton of Blaxploitation movie soundtracks in my collection. I love music!

[mrbassman03]

33. Ween rocks!

You drive me crazy with that boogie oogie oogie oogie... rockin!

[JuniperLea]

57. pushin' little daisies

cracks me up!

[bobbobbins]

17. my musical taste is extremely narrow.

in that i only listen to music that doesn't suck. Which doesn't leave much

[tech3149]

21. I can enjoy anything

except opera and some urban contemporary. I prefer acoustic instruments with vocals.

[mvd]

22. I don't like some "adult contemporary"

Meaning Michael Bolton, much of Celine Dion, Jessica Simpson, Christina Aguilera, Mariah Carey, Richard Marx, etc.

[frylock]

25. smooth jazz either..

that krap might be smooth, but it ain't Jazz!! :puke:

[JuniperLea]

58. i love opera!

pagliacci rocks!

[Redleg]

23. Fairly diverse...

I have over 500 classical CDs
I have quite a few rock/hard rock/R&B/pop type CDs (~ 300)
I have a decent collect of blues CDs (~100)
I have a growing jazz collection (~ 50)
I have two country CDs (The Best of Marty Robbins and Willie Nelson's Milkcow Blues)
I have a handful of "metal" CDs
I have a few CDs of "world music" (two of them of Tango music)

I have no rap, hip-hop CDs or techno-music CDs.

Damn, now I know where all my money has gone!

[Spider Jerusalem]

26. Extremely.

Let's look at my CD collection:
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Beethoven, Charles Mingus, Johnny Cash, Tom Waits, Nick Cave, the Smiths, the Pixies, Massive Attack, Bad Religion, the Clash, Public Enemy, Aphex Twin, the Streets, Phillip Glass, David Bowie, Einsturzende Neubauten, Nina Hagen, Die Fantastischen Vier (German hip-hop), Bjork, Shonen Knife, Elvis Presley AND Elvis Costello, Steve Earle, Junior Brown, Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, Nina Simone, a couple of discs of 14th and 15th century madrigals, Frank Sinatra, and a lot more besides...I tend not to restrict myself to a genre. I'll listen to just about anything as long as it's good (or as long as I think it's good, which comes to the same thing). Most of the currently popular music doesn't fall under this heading, though, since it tends to be bland, insipid, soulless garbage...

[jpgray]

27. Extremely narrow-minded--bigoted even

Just by reading the subject of this thread I can tell that all the music you've ever listened to is shit, and as a result what you call 'good' is actually bad, and therefore I am the only true arbiter of aural goodness in perpetuity throughout the musical universe.

[mvd]

28. LOL!

[Rambis]

30. I have

Merle Hagaard
Test Department
Motorhead
Traditional Scottish and Irish music up the yingus
Too much Grateful Dead
An assortment of Gregorian Chant
Ani Defranco
Sex Pistols
American Grafitti sound track
Down by the lazy river by the Osmunds 45rpm
Depeche Mode
Jerry Jeff Walker Viva Terlingua
Ed Saunders
Not much jazz other than bitches brew and Brubeck
Lots of bluegrass
Classical I like but the wife has that stuff
XTC
Clash
The story
CSNY
NY
Bubble Puppy

[timtom]

39. Without looking at your profile...

you're a Texan, aren't you?

[Rambis]

68. Nope

I have driven through and once they found out I wasn't down there to get a job people were pretty friendly. Iowan by birth union til I die.

[mrbassman03]

32. Listening to KEXP helps...

Different genres throughout the day, I can go a few days without hearing the same song! Lucky to be in Seattle, but you can listen to it at their website.

[Forkboy]

34. I'd have to go with very

extremely would be wrong because I simply can't listen to most pop music,but I do listen to everything else like death metal,punk,jazz,blues,techno,industrial,hip hop,classical,even a dash of country.

[mvd]

35. Here are all the genres I love

Classic rock (my #1)
Big band
Rock
Power pop
Pop/rock
Folk
Folk/rock
Modern rock
Country
Motown
Older R&B
Alt-country
Indie/lesser known stuff
Classical

[IronLionZion]

36. I listen to stuff that would shock you

but I guarantee we could find something to agree on :toast: :headbang:

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

37. I selected "very" although some might disagree

I love opera, and all types of so-called classical music from the Baroque period to 20th century ultra-experimental. I grew up simultaneously listening to and imitating Jimi Hendrix guitar solos while in my attic rock band while also playing classical violin in school orchestra. I now play jazz guitar semi-professionally and listen to a variety of jazz. I love blues, folk, ragtime, dixieland, and even military marching music. I like older pop artists like Frank Sinatra, Sara Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, and Tony Bennett. I love the pop music of previous centuries, including Stephen Foster tunes, tin pan alley tunes, musicals, and even the 19th century pop tunes of the great French songwriter Paul Delmet (gorgeous tunes kind of in the romantic and lyrical Stephen Foster style). I love most hard rock, Satanic rock, Christian rock, grunge, techno, pop, Flamenco, Algerian Rai, traditional Yiddish, Arabic, Chinese and Vietnamese music, Gregorian chants, sea chanteys, prison road gang chants, Native American ritual chants, African American spirituals, Gospel, church hymns...almost everything done with expertise in its genre.

I have to admit however that with the exception of a few, I generally don't like hiphop/rap or reggae, and, with the exception of a few great talents like Hank Williams or Johnnie Cash, I don't like modern country & western at all although I like bluegrass. Sometimes I listen to Mexican Ranchera Music on the radio but I just can't get into it for more than a few minutes (and I speak Spanish fluently). Sorry, for anyone out there who digs it.

[grannylib]

41. Everything from Bach to classic rock to current stuff, with a little jazz

and some new age thrown in.
If it's got a great melody, or non-cliched lyrics, or outstanding arrangement, or whatever, I probably like it.

If it has sampled stuff, or rap, or if I can hear it coming a mile away, windows a'rattlin', then I probably don't.

[Tom Kitten]

42. I hate music.

It has too many notes.
I do like that one song by John Cage, 4'33"...
Plus there was an album by Marcel Marceau that came out in the 70s that was pretty cool. But that's about it...
Simon and Garfunkle should be sued for false advertising. "The Sounds of Silence" is anything but! x(

[JVS]

43. Not at all. It very clearly divides that which sucks from what doesn't

[ZeroOne]

44. 0

Dave Matthews Band & Led Zepplin, Bitches!!

[NightTrain]

45. Among the time and genre spans in my record and CD collection:

My oldest recordings were made in the 1890s (That's right, the 1890s!); my most recent recordings are brand spanking new--Steve Earle's THE REVOLUTION STARTS NOW, for example.

Among the genres represented in my record and CD library:

Adult Pop
Bluegrass
Blues
Comedy
Country & Western
Disco
Doo-Wop
Exotica
Funk
Fusion
Gospel
Hawaiian
Jazz (including numerous sub-genres)
New Wave
Novelty
Original Cast albums
Movie soundtracks
Progressive Rock
Punk
R&B
Rockabilly
Soul
Teen Pop
World Music

[mvd]

47. You are extremely diverse!

:thumbsup:

[Kenneth ken]

46. not at all

diverse. I only like good music. If it isn't good, I don't like it, if I don't like it, it can't be good. :D

[Swamp Rat]

48. Josquin DePres, Jellyroll Morton, Villa-Lobos, Debussy, The Beatles, Louis

Armstrong, Jackson do Pandeiro e Pixiguinha, Devo, Arvo Paart, Liduino Pitombeira, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Stevie Wonder, Pink Floyd, Tom Zé, Sivuca, Manuel De Falla, Luiz Gonzaga, Bach, Yes, Stravinsky, Fats Domino, the Sex Pistols, Beethoven, the Rolling Stones, Miles Davis, Tom McDermott, Palestrina, Duke Ellington, Black Sabbath, Monteverdi... et al ad infinitum

TÔ
(Tom Zé/ Elton Medeiros)

Tô bem debaixo pra poder subir
Tô bem de cima pra poder cair
Tô dividindo pra poder sobrar
Desperdiçando pra poder faltar
Devagarinho pra poder caber
Bem de leve pra não perdoar
Tô estudando pra saber ignorar
Eu tô aqui comendo para vomitar

Eu tô te explicando pra te confundir
Tô te confundindo pra te esclarecer
Tô iluminado pra poder cegar
Tô ficando cego pra poder guiar

Suavemente pra poder rasgar
Olho fechado pra te ver melhor
Com alegria pra poder chorar
Desesperado pra ter paciência
Carinhoso pra poder ferir
Lentamente pra não atrasar
Atrás da vida pra poder morrer
Eu tô me despedindo pra poder voltar.

Eu tô te explicando pra te confundir
Tô te confundindo pra te esclarecer
Tô iluminado pra poder cegar
Tô ficando cego pra poder guiar

[AntiCoup2K4]

49. I'd rate my musical tastes as fairly diverse.

I can go from the Grateful Dead to the Dead Kennedys without mental decompression. Hell, I'll listen to just about anything except boybands and disco. Basically, if music has something to say, be it rock, rap, country, or whatever, I'll listen. I've tried to gain more of an appreciation for classical in recent years, but as someone who is always listening to lyrics, it's hard getting into a music format which is mostly intrumentals, and those that do have vocals (opera) are usually in German or Italian, and I speak neither language :( But I haven't given up yet.....

[warrens]

50. I like BOTH kinds of music

Rock AND roll.

I'm kidding. I like everything from The Ramones to Sebelius. I do NOT like most light jazz and big-hat country and teeny pop and deathmetal.

I DO like power pop, punk, bob, hard jazz, some rap, some urban, experimental, free-form, alternative (whatever that means), worldbeat, reggae, Afropop, alt country, 60s rock, glam, glitter, and all sorts of weird stuff.

But mainly I like what is turning into mainstream these days. The Velvets, Stooges, Kinks, The Move, Ramones, Subhumans, Mekons, Pavement, more Ramones, Steve Diggle, John Cale, Clash, The Ex, Waco Bros, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Doll by Doll, Teenage Head, Dwight Twilley, Pere Ubu, Bongwater, The Fall, Glenn Branca, the Dolls and offshoots, and a million more I can't think of off the top of my head.

Looking back, that ain't very diverse.

[St. Jarvitude]

51. I will listen to anything except for fake punk, country, and Van Halen

Some operas don't cut it for me either.

For example, just today I've listened to Yo-Yo Ma's recording of the Saint-Saëns, Kid A by Radiohead straight through, Led Zeppelin, and a few clips from Steve Burn's (yes, Steve from Blue's Clues) debut album, Songs for Dustmites.

[St. Jarvitude]

52. Oh, and no teeny-bop and no Christian rock

I forgot to include some of that stuff.

[shingashong]

54. I agree with everything except Van Halen

well, OLD VH- like 80s, david lee roth halen. LOL.

I can't stand teeny bop, Christian, pop punk, and country music. ESPECIALLY country! It all sounds the same!!

[shingashong]

53. You sound like me

I like everything from Bone Thugs N Harmony, TLC, Twista to AFI, System of a Down, to Andrea Bocelli, The Temptations, you name it.

You should have seen the look on the guy's face when I said "I'm looking for AFI & Twista". His eyes bulged and said "wow, that's a difference!!!">>>LOL!!!

[JuniperLea]

55. at the risk of raising a red flag or trying to appear open minded

music i like:

led zeppelin
sinatra
howlin' wolf
unida
the hidden hand (anything wino has been in!)
diana krall
black sabbath
hank williams
hank III
lorretta lynn
blue oyster cult (i have regular political arguments with buck dharma)
josh groban
wagner
engelbert humperdinck (both)
tom jones
biohazard
hellacopters
turbonegro (god they RULE!!!)
masters of reality
roxy music
jethro tull
fu manchu


i could go on and on... i have an insatiable appetite for music.

[UpsideDownFlag]

59. extremely...my kazaa ranges from johnny cash to KMFDM to Eva Cassidy

and on. the only music i havent gotten into is rap.

[ButterflyBlood]

62. not in the slightest

99% of what I listen to can be classified as at least one of the following:

punk
indie
hardcore

stuff I like that falls out of that equals Radiohead, Weezer, Nirvana, Portishead, Massive Attack, and that's basically the end.

Now some might say its diverse because Rites of Spring doesn't sound anything like Born Against who doesn't sound anything like Superchunk who doesn't sound anything like Breather Resist who doesn't sound like anything like The Replacements who doesn't sound anything like The Coachwhips which doesn't sound anything like ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, but I don't count it as such, because most people who like those bands like the whole range of styles encompassed. So I consider myself narrow minded. I also don't like anything pre-80s

P.S. There is no such thing as "Dashboard Confessional-type emo"

[enigmatic]

63. The stuff on my radio station pretty much confirms my wide taste..

I play, and listen to, everything. Except Opera; yucccccch..

[donheld]

64. i listen to everything

from classic rock, easy listening, R & B, Alternative rock, hiphop and even some country, and rap

[cleofus1]

66. i am diverse...

I love everything from the association to the sex pistols...

this is my latest disk I burnt from I-Tunes


A Brand New Me Dusty Springfield
Call Me Astrud Gilberto & Walter Wanderley Trio
Come Clean Hilary Duff
Come Softly to Me/Hushabye Astrud Gilberto
Heaven Los Lonely Boys
I'll Never Fall in Love Again Dionne Warwick
I Say a Little Prayer Aretha Franklin
I Want You Back Jackson 5
Little Things Billy Gilman
My Guy Mary Wells
My Kind of Girl Matt Monro
My Love Petula Clark
Silver Threads and Golden Needles The Springfields
Someday We'll Know Jonathan Foreman, Mandy Moore
Soul Deep The Box Tops
Stranger on the Shore Acker Bilk
Summer Samba (So Nice) Astrud Gilberto
The Love You Save Jackson 5
The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise Mary Ford
There Goes Another Love Song The Outlaws
Undecided Beryl Davis,Django Reinhardt & Stéphane Grapelli
Walk or Ride The Ditty Bops
Wear Your Love Like Heaven Donovan
Will Tomorrow Ever Come Dance Hall Crashers
Wrapped Up in Books Belle & Sebastian
You Turn Me On I'm a Radio Joni Mitchell

I'm not diverse becouse I want to be. I am diverse becouse I am compelled.

[regularguy]

70. Not Diverse. I limit myself to the notes "A" and "C#".