How diverse is your taste in music?

[aslco]

anything with a bassline or emotion. Cavallera rustica or something like that is a fave track of mine and its classical. I like paramore, muse, sigur ros, cancer bats, enter shikari, jack johnson, jose gonzales, coldplay then hip hop like Jay Z or eminem i like jazz, blues and fok too. Not to forget dubstep, trance etc. I think i could put a favourite song of mine to each genre

 

[Fisk]

It's true. Everyone says they have diverse music tastes, but few do - which means when people actually DO have diverse taste you don't believe them!

 

[chrisd]

I like a fair few but Brit Pop is out (I like the Beatles too much to tolerate rip-offs)

Isn't that a slightly strange attitude?

 

[simisker]

Isn't that a slightly strange attitude?

Not really. It means you also dismiss about thirty years of children's songs, and I'm sure we can all see the benefits of that

 

[Furton]

It isn't. I'm very ignorant of other music, apart from Indie or good rock bands I'm not interested.

 

[reflux]

Went from Sugababes: About You Now into Slayer: Raining Blood the other day.

I love my rock but will listen to anything melancholy, whatever the genre.

I am a super emo at heart, but I don't paint my nails.

 

[Naffa]

Well, technically 99% of modern music is a rip off then as practically every chord progression, melody, hook or whatever, has been done at some point in history.

As for my taste in music, I like virtually every genre of music bar trance. Now, I don't mean dance music, I love dance music, techno, hip hop, house and what not, but I actually cannot listen to dance.

But I love jazz, rock, blues, classical music (notice the lower case c), dance, hip hop (especially east coast hip hop like the Sugarhill Gang, I LOVES it!!), country (Jerry Reed, man that guy is a hell of a guitar player), metal, folk, pop, techno, and everything in between. I love great melody, it's what makes music music for me.

I LOVE music soo much that I think I would rather be blind than deaf.

 

[Dan.m]

I think this is just proving my point

EDIT: Damn you, Dan.m!

Ha i beat your theory with a minute to spare!

Nah but i do think your point is a valid one

 

[Auraomega]

I listen to quite a fair few genres of music, I'll listen to most stuff in clubs and what not, but to be honest what I play at home is generally more goth oriented, I don't mean heavy screamo lets slit our wrists crap, but old Sisters, Bolshoi, Gene Loves Jezebel stuff and the newer darkwave bands like the Crüxshadows.

Decades from 60s - 00s
Dance styled; EBM, trance, future pop (worst genre name ever...)
Old(er); Old goth rock, post punk, old rock, old metal, new wave, death rock, darkwave, punk
More extreme? styles; metal, harsh EBM, industrial
Chillout; prog trance, trip-hop, classical, neo-classical.
Misc; folk

Typical day for me involves some of this, this, this, this (warning most boring music video in history!) and this.

 

[THMRK]

Classical, blues, jazz, hip hop, pop, punk, hardcore, metal, rock n roll, folk, country...pretty diverse I suppose.

 

[alexakasloth]

In a way I am, in a way I am not. I love to chill out and listen to folk, blues rock, punk and pop punk and a bit of rock, more recently though i've started listening to more DnB, Dub and older hardcore (one of my friends is really into hardcore and jungle, I love listening to those vinyls!) but I don't feel that I can associate with classical, RnB, jazz or hip hop so much.

 

[Fenris]

Funny mix of things.

I don't even know what to call a lot of it, my taste ranges from bands like Incubus, Fools Garden, The Decemberists, Jack Johnson, Bob Schnieder, Flogging Molly to stuff like Covenant, VNV Nation, Pride and Fall, God Module, Grendel, XP8, Wolfshiem, Decoded Feedback, Third Realm, Assemblage 23, Fuker Vogt and then a few throw backs like Dream Theatre, Breaking Benjamin and Foo Fighters....

Favorite bands right now, Fools Garden, Cat Empire, Incubus, Assemblage 23, Bigod 20 and XP8.

The only genres I literaly refuse to even give a chance are Hip Hop and any form of rap, and Dub Step because neither are music and if I want my ear canals raped I can always crack open a Psyclon 9 album.

 

[THMRK]

Funny mix of things.

I don't even know what to call a lot of it, my taste ranges from bands like Incubus, Fools Garden, The Decemberists, Jack Johnson, Bob Schnieder, Flogging Molly to stuff like Covenant, VNV Nation, Pride and Fall, God Module, Grendel, XP8, Wolfshiem, Decoded Feedback, Third Realm, Assemblage 23, Fuker Vogt and then a few throw backs like Dream Theatre, Breaking Benjamin and Foo Fighters....

Favorite bands right now, Fools Garden, Cat Empire, Incubus, Assemblage 23, Bigod 20 and XP8.

The only genres I literaly refuse to even give a chance are Hip Hop and any form of rap, and Dub Step because neither are music and if I want my ear canals raped I can always crack open a Psyclon 9 album.

If you refuse to listen to hip hop you're really missing out. Some of the underground/independent stuff is so far removed from the public perception of hip hop that it actually has far more in common with punk music (in terms of style and ethos) than anything else. None of this bitches, hoes, drugs, guns and gangster BS.

Seriously, some of the artists are utter genius and you do the genre a disservice but not giving it a chance.

 

[Shamikebab]

Some of the underground/independent stuff is so far removed from the public perception of hip hop that it actually has far more in common with punk music (in terms of style and ethos) than anything else.

Well that's another thing to put me off

 

[semi-pro waster]

If you refuse to listen to hip hop you're really missing out. Some of the underground/independent stuff is so far removed from the public perception of hip hop that it actually has far more in common with punk music (in terms of style and ethos) than anything else. None of this bitches, hoes, drugs, guns and gangster BS.

Seriously, some of the artists are utter genius and you do the genre a disservice but not giving it a chance.

Artists like C-Rayz Walz and Saul Williams are just two that I've recently bought albums from and it's all about the clever wordplay and good music for them.

I'd say that I've generally got quite a diverse taste in music in that I've got a wide selection that I can listen to and they're currently all in my playlist but realistically there are some artists and some genres that I won't give the time of day to ordinarily so they tend to get skipped.

 

[Turtles]

not that diverse

hip hop - dnb - certain breaks, electro, dubstep + paramore

 

[MikeHunt79]

I like many kinds of music, but I go thru phases of listening to one or two types of music...

Right now I'm listing mainly to the type of music signed to Planet-Mu, mainly breakcore and dubstep, but I also listen to stuff like Mars Volta, Frank Zappa, QOTSA, Kyuss...

I'm always trying to keep an ear or for something different tho, there is so much good music that is pretty unknown right now... If anyones in Bristol tonight, I can recommend Milanese, he's awesome live.

 

[Arjun806]

I guess mine isn't diverse as some peoples.. mainly listen to House, Techno, Breaks, Dubstep, Liquid Drum and Bass, Hip Hop and Grime.

 

[THMRK]

Artists like C-Rayz Walz and Saul Williams are just two that I've recently bought albums from and it's all about the clever wordplay and good music for them.

Exactly! And that's my point, the sort stuff they do is more punk rock then any punk band going right now. They're truly DIY and uncompromising about their vision. Anti-mainstream and such like.

I'm not suggesting they SOUND punk, just that they very much share the same ethos and ideals.

 

[Ricochet J]

I'm quite a Regggae and Ragga fan. Dancehall and non gangster hip hop come next on the list. Grime is up there somewhere. But my roots above all else is always being played, that is Bhangra.