[Closed] Music taste. Different ends of the spectrum in your collection?

my ipod contains both drum and bass and 12th century alta capella. As they say, 'I like the sound it makes'.

Im all over the shop - prog-jazz-space-opera ie Magma and Chrome Hoof, Motorik indie ie Can and Stereolab, also from Ella Fitgerald to Black Sabbath or Guapo, pastoral symphonies to Afrobeat and Salsa, deep house, techno, D&B, ambient and psy trance, it goes on and on, I love music so much it would be a sorry life without it

I like some thing from pretty much all genre, even if it's just one track. My tastes are very diverse; Verdi to Rammstein; Yazoo to Zeppelin via The Colorblind James Experience, Black keys, Muddy Waters & Erasure. I like pretty much anything.

Edit: if pushed, my 'best' musical experience was an outdoor, evening performance of La Boheme in a small Tuscan Spa town called Montecatimi Terme, whilst on my honeymoon in 2004. Just stunning.

Yeah, I've got Girl's Aloud and Autechre.
Genres schmenres,
If I like the sound, I don't care which pigeon hole it falls into (unless its as done to death as heavy metal)

Yeah my winamp library is all over the place. From current chart crap to k-pop to rock to hardcore to prog to stoner rock/metal and on to death and sludge metal 🙂 and a load of assorted electronic stuff and rap. I love music too much to just listen to one genre. The only thing I don't have much time for is modern country and trendy acoustic singer-songwriter stuff.

Johnny Cash through to Merzbow and Plastikman via Tool and Metallica.

Parkway drive at the heavy end of things, and the Dreadnoughts at the folky end of things.
I also have goth, jazz, Rock and blues. i love a good mix of tunes.

Everything from Corvus Corax to Breakbeat Era via a lot of country, folk and the odd bit of metal. But no ****ing dubstep... Ever...

I listen to allsorts but my "tradition" if you like is metal and hard rock so it's still pretty biased in that direction. Was driving around with a weird shuffle mix of sepultura, the finale to Stravinsky's firebird suite (which is as metal as ****), emmy the great and 65 Days of Static earlier today, was great.

I don't like R and B or northern soul, but I bet someone on here would say "well have you heard etc etc" and that would then confuse me even more.
I'm also not particularly keen on Kanye West but I've got to say that Black Skinhead and Gold Digger are pretty awesome.

But no **** dubstep... Ever...

you're missing out on some really good stuff though. 16bit have some amazing minimalist stuff, need a decent sub to appreciate it fully!

Johnny cash to N.W.A 😯

Everything from Dire Straits to Eminem. If eclecticism was a man, it'd be me.

I am consistently into good music like:

Carpenter, ABBA, Bee Gees and Elvis(only few songs).

Prodigy is good but you need to max out the volume to make sense of it while holding the Benelli M4 observing zombie maggots passing by.

🙂

John Adams (composer, Nixon in. China, shaker loops, Harmonium) > masters of reality/QoS/Black Sabbath.

My ipod is mainly hip hop. From puts to the simply great but underrated Geto Boys.
Sneaking in at the other end of my musical spectrum is 16 Horsepower, a country/christian rock mix thing.

In between there's Black Flag, the Beatnuts, Buena Vista, Big Audio dynamite. Anything that begins with 'b' really.

ABBA to ZZ Top, with Carpenters, Curve, Soundgarden, Burial, Kate Rusby, Arcade Fire, Mogwai, Dead Weather, Deadmau5, and a whole bunch of other stuff, apart from Dance and C&W.
Oh, and Jazz, although I really like jazz influenced stuff, like Steely Dan. 16,000 tracks in iTunes, mostly chosen because I like the sound they make, I don't really do genre's
There's classical and some opera kicking around, too.

I forgot the 'world' music. Tour/idan Raichal project, al Farka Touré and you can't beat a bit of Fela Kuti.
The only music I don't do is dance craze stuff, I stop at the ORB as that's ambient but house/garage/grime or whatever today's yoot listen to can jog on as there's too much old stuff to discover.

[i]Breakbeat Era ... But no **** dubstep... Ever...[/i]

Hmm,seeing as dubstep originally came from slowed down drum n bass and Breakbeat Era are like the pop end of drum n bass, not sure why you'd completely dismiss a genre. Unless you're thinking that bassy trance stuff like Skrillex is acutally dubstep..?
Still you don' like it you don' like it, there's plenty of stuff out there to listen to without it eh 🙂

Pyro, give this 16bit a listen. Much better than Skrillex-esque "dubstep"

I actually want to find more stuff like this to listen to so if anyone has any suggestions..

My collection contains Acid House, Ska, Reggae (love a bit of Desmond Dekker), hardcore, drum and bass, 90's hip hop, House, and then there's the Dubliners, Thin Lizzy, Slade, Boston, Duran Duran, Bonnie Tyler and the Space Monkeys (remember Chainspotting?).
And er............ (I'll whisper it) Andrea Bocelli.

Everything except jazz.

Opposing ends I guess are.

Cowboy Junkies
Autechre
Miranda Sex Garden
Wagner
Icona Pop
Hautbois
The Joy Formidable
Scroobius Pip

Everything from classical to death metal.

I like both kinds of music. Country AND western.

Blues from when ever, 70's Rock, 90's dance, no Jazz, I just don't get it, yet.

No 80's stuff apart from Marillion.

I like everything from TV theme tunes like Black Beauty to the Britpop bands like Def Leopard and UB40.

Enya followed by Glen Campbell, followed by Little Boots followed by Lamb of God. My girlfriend was baffled that that was even possible on one playlist.

NWA and De La Soul
Metallica and Pantera
Republica and The Libertines
Ferry Corsten and Prodigy
Artful Dodger and Sway.
Beyoncé and Girls Aloud.

Yep, safe to say I have a few bases covered

Vivaldi four seasons,
Slayer

no Jazz, I just don't get it, yet.

No 80's stuff apart from Marillion.

I will *never* get jazz. Tried and failed many times. Don't get John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis… anything. Guess I just don't like the sound it makes.

Marillion: oh yes. Still listening to and enjoying Fish-era. 🙂

Most of my stuff is thrash, death and black metal, but I'm also a sucker for musicals and Disney soundtracks...

Low,The Staves,First Aid Kit at one end.
QOTSA,Kyuss,System of a Down at the other.
Everything else in between.

Everything from Alphabeat to ZZTop 🙂

lots of comments along the lines of 'dont mind who its by as long as i like the sound', which is totally how it should be.

just chucking in a slight sidetrack......... does anyone dislike any music because of who its by, rather than the sound?
have to say im guilty of that. i cant stick liam gallagher, so even tho the music is something id normally like, i just cant, because of the mental image that goes with the song. if the same song was sung by someone else, id like it 😀

same goes for someone like gary glitter for instance. used to quite like his old glamrock songs, but the mental image of him spoils them now.

sad? or perfectly normal?

I have a lot of rock, heavy metal and punk, but I also really like Greek Rembetiko music which is a bit bluesy, and Arabic music. I've also got a little bit of opera.

[i]just chucking in a slight sidetrack......... does anyone dislike any music because of who its by, rather than the sound?[/i]

Of course! I mean Robbie Williams, everything about him stinks. Was getting a lift off someone the other day and Candy came on the radio.. I was close to leaping out of the moving car. Luckily we arrived and I could escape safely.

does anyone dislike any music because of who its by, rather than the sound?

Anything to do with X Factor and associated 'talent' shows.

Kill them, kill them all!