Do you have a broad or narrow musical taste?

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Riikka · #1 Post by **Riikka** » Mon 23 Jul 2007, 5:35 pm

There are many people I know who keep saying that they have such a wide musical taste, they happily listen to "almost any" music. They might have a nice collection of miscellaneous CDs, but yet have a slightly frightened look in their eyes when there's some obscure music played.

I am very different. I have a narrow taste. I only want to listen to my favourites, and cherish my love for pure pop. I never listen to jazz, heavy metal, classical, blues, soul, ethnic, folk, reggae, gospel or whatever. I don't have a single piece of music of those genres. I only want to hear pop with some electronic and Latin sounds. The music must sound Swedish, British, Italian or Spanish, otherwise I won't listen to it. It must be from the 80s or at least sound like it could be from the 80s. I'm not hiding this fact, but sometimes I feel as if it was more 'cool' to like many different types of music. I'm known as difficult to please in this matter. I can't even play the radio very often because only the maximum of 5 % of music played pleases me. I would just end up switching the radio channel constantly. There's no way you could think I would effortlessly listen to a new record bought by my friend, because the chances are small that it happens to be my favourite music.

So, I am intolerant towards different musical styles, but there's a good side there too: it makes me a devoted fan. PSB have done the impossible and broke the ice for me; I could enter their world and I love their music. My taste might be narrow, but it's very deep. It's important to me like a best friend could be. If I changed my musical favourites, it would be like changing my whole personality - my favourites are more fixed than my hairstyle! People who are no fans of anybody can't understand this, as they think it's a waste of time. But I must have a musical home. I feel very, very anxious if I'm forced to listen to music I don't like.

Which type are you? And how do you think other people have reacted to it?

Very · #2 Post by **Very** » Mon 23 Jul 2007, 7:16 pm

I like electronic pop especially... but I also listen to other genres, even classical music and jazz or latin.

What I don't listen to is: hip-hop, rnb, heavy metal.

BlueSwan · #3 Post by **BlueSwan** » Mon 23 Jul 2007, 7:54 pm

My motto is: any music is better than no music at all.

I have a very broad taste in the sense that I will rarely dislike a good song, simply because the genre isn't my cup of tea. In general I don't like opera, but I do like certain opera songs and the same goes for pretty much all genres that I don't like.

One of my favourite bands is Dream Theater - a progressive metal band - despite the fact that I don't like progressive metal much as a genre.

Radiophonic · #4 Post by **Radiophonic** » Mon 23 Jul 2007, 9:43 pm

My tastes fall into 60s pop (Tony Hatch, girl groups, Dusty, Motown, John Barry), 70s cheese (Disco, US West Coast), 80s synth (all the usual suspects....

) and Lounge (Peggy Lee, Dean Martin). I also look out for those chilled compilations featuring stuff they play on TV adverts (Royksopp, Groove Armada, Mono, Goldfrapp).

Plus Bowie, Kate Bush, Giorgio Moroder, Japan....

glennjridge · #5 Post by **glennjridge** » Mon 23 Jul 2007, 11:05 pm

I like everything except

jazz
opera
country
bluegrass/folk

Fugitive1979 · #6 Post by **Fugitive1979** » Mon 23 Jul 2007, 11:13 pm

Heavy Metal.

Hip-Hop.

Most RnB.

Boy bands.

Anything else is music to my ears, especially electronic music. I hate to admit it, but even that bitch Lily Allen is starting to grow on me slightly.

glennjridge · #7 Post by **glennjridge** » Mon 23 Jul 2007, 11:42 pm

she's got nice legs also

Fugitive1979 · #8 Post by **Fugitive1979** » Mon 23 Jul 2007, 11:48 pm

glennjridge wrote:she's got nice legs also

I know. I found out when I ended up watching the "Alfie" video at work one day.

Deschanel · #9 Post by **Deschanel** » Tue 24 Jul 2007, 12:58 am

I think the older you get, the more your tastes broaden and expand, and it's a brilliant thing actually.

I really loved electronic dance music to the exclusion of all others when I was in my teens and early twenties. But a cultured person shouldn't ever shut themselves off from the vast amount of music, past and present, out there. And we're lucky enough, more than any generation or society before us to have all of it available to us through technology.

I love PSB, I love electronic dance music. But it's a tiny corner, and one should be open to different art forms, i think. I've grown to love jazz, but GOOD jazz, not watered down shit. I've learned to love classical and opera and Irish traditional and swing and old Broadway tunes like Cole Porter.
It took me a while to even like rock n roll. I was in my twenties before realizing how excellent the Beatles and Stones and Bowie and Led Zep are. My marijuana habit helped immensely.

But expanding your tastes are a big part of growing as a person. I'm 38 now, but I know there's a vast amount of music waiting for me to discover, for the rest of my life. Fantastic.

Riikka · #10 Post by **Riikka** » Tue 24 Jul 2007, 6:55 am

Deschanel, good for you, but I don't think I could ever reach the same. I don't even try.

Whenever I like some music, it's not only "music" for me - I listen to everything that is behind it. So, when I like PSB, it's of no use to try to introduce other electronic pop bands to me. It's not the same thing! I'm almost as interested in the artists' biographies than in their music. And I can't be interested in everybody's histories.

When I hear a good song, I necessarily need to know when it was made and by who, and who is that artist actually. Not just the name, but rather how it fits into the whole music scene...

My preferences in music are similar to those for people in general. I can't just "hang around" with people I hardly know. I must know someone thoroughly and enjoy the company, otherwise there's no sense in it.

Pertan · #11 Post by **Pertan** » Tue 24 Jul 2007, 6:58 am

amandote wrote: What I don't listen to is: hip-hop, rnb, heavy metal.

good point there.

btw, Most people who says they listen to everything
they are listening to radiomusic channels and whatever plays there.

Most of them arn't genuine music lovers IMO.

raggatwin · #12 Post by **raggatwin** » Tue 24 Jul 2007, 9:24 am

I like music full stop. I'm afraid I like most of the genres mentioned above Hip Hop Rnb and Country. I also like electro pop, classical, Dubstep, drum and bass, deep house, dancehall, easy listening and some world music. I bought a CD the other day by an Israeli artist called Yasmin Levy. It's called La Juderica and it's an exploration of Serphadic Jewish musical heritage, taking in Arabia, Spanish, Portuguese and Turkish influences, it's really good. Oh and yesterday I bought Shirley Bassey's version of Get the Party Started.

There are two type of music; good and bad.

dVTB · #13 Post by **dVTB** » Tue 24 Jul 2007, 10:32 am

As long as it has a melody, I'm in. I mainly love pop, rock and dance. And sometimes a bit of classic, reggae, hard rock, ambient, jazz etc.

I hate monotone dance remixes, as well as black metal music; only produced to make noise instead of music. I also dislike hip-hop (for the lack of melody) and R&B, since it's too predictable.

In general, I consider my taste to be quite broad, but I know very well what I like and don't like.

raggatwin · #14 Post by **raggatwin** » Tue 24 Jul 2007, 10:37 am

I like hip hop for the way they create sopundscapes through layering. Not all Rnb is cliched. Jill Scott Erykah Badu, D'Angelo and Amerie are good examples of Rnb that dosen't follow that nauseating, wailing, sex fuelled, money fixated formula.

dVTB · #15 Post by **dVTB** » Tue 24 Jul 2007, 10:54 am

raggatwin wrote:I like hip hop for the way they create sopundscapes through layering. Not all Rnb is cliched. Jill Scott Erykah Badu, D'Angelo and Amerie are good examples of Rnb that dosen't follow that nauseating, wailing, sex fuelled, money fixated formula.

Let's agree to disagree...