Do you have eclectic taste in music?

[Black Dream]

I'm the kind of person who pretty much only wears metal / punk band t-shirts so most people assume that's all I listen to. To disprove that here are the first 10 songs that played when I threw iTunes on random just now.

1. Human Hair - The Night Terrors
2. Helter Skelter - The Beatles
3. The Crystal World - Locrian
4. Anwwn - Glenn Danzig
5. Icehouse - Icehouse
6. Evil Woman - ELO
7. Helpless - Neil Young
8. Shut Me Down - Rowland S. Howard
9. Sad Dark Eyes - The Loved Ones
10. Invokation - Horseback.

I'm not sure if that qualifies as 'eclectic' but yeah.

 

[rumdumconundrum]

Well, my iPpod is mostly filled with a mixture of Punk Rock, some R&B, happy hardcore, hardcore techno, Heavy Metal, Melodic Death Metal, Classical, electronica, jazz... So yeah, kind of.

 

[The_Echo]

Probably, yeah. Much more so than when I started getting into music.

Currently, my library includes such varied music as The Black Dahlia Murder [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRUJU1G1VJY] (melodic death metal), Gogol Bordello [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKpgb2WrGo0] (gypsy punk), Caravan Palace [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TIkl-6xemw] (electroswing), Muse [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfGhlVcrc8U] (prog rock), Scissor Sisters [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMSbBFy-KNI] (electroclash/glam rock), Breakbot [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6okxuiiHx2w] (nu-disco), Working for a Nuclear Free City [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0ktQlN3jJ4] (shoegaze), Watsky [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M1L15hpphQ] (hiphop/rap), Lemon Demon [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjCyVfBiwpE] (geek rock), Pendulum [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPUQx0WjoCE] (drum and bass), Anamanaguchi [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o-t7YyPUrE] (chiptune), Eisbrecher [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjO1bMHbDpY] (Neue Deutsche Härte), Exist Trace [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZjlIKiCj3g] (visual kei), Groove Armada [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KABmnF2T6M] (big beat/trip hop), I Am Abomination [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZ0jJPHmpSk] (post-hardcore), Jim Noir [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8witflCytuE] (indie rock), Panzerballett [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkeTiQZx6TE] (jazz metal), Sugar Ray [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plT0F_UUBKU] (alt rock) and Less Than Jake [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qddvfPhxjBU] (third wave ska).

And my absolute favorite band of all time, HIM [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W1_SsAWevM] (love metal).

[Hyperlinks lead to example tracks.]

I also have a number of soundtracks, including the soundtracks for the Spyro trilogy, Sonic Rush, Katawa Shoujo, Katamari Damacy and We Love Katamari, every Kingdom Hearts game, Shadow of the Colossus, Catherine, The World Ends with You, Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt and Digimon: The Movie.

In addition, I unashamedly love quite a bit of '80s, '90s and early-'00s pop music, and other ridiculous things, like Slam Jam remixes. I've got a Kyary Pamyu Pamyu [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzC4hFK5P3g] album sitting on my hard drive, waiting to be listened through.

 

[revjor]

You are more eclectic than them sure, but you are limited in some way that a neighbor of mine here in Seattle would scoff at you for. So don't worry about being a hipster. You got a long way to go to reach the top of that heap of douche. Keep blasting your different tunes at your undifferent friends, eventually they'll like one and become different too. Then you can get married and have tons of babies.

I've found that actively trying not to be a music hogging Gollum creature is the surefire way to avoid the pretentiohipstadouche trap.

So I put my phone on shuffle and pulled the first ten songs. LETS GET MORE DIFFERENTER.

Spoiler: My phone is stupid and the shuffle don't make no sense.

Daaaayum I like that playlist.

 

[Kenbo Slice]

I'd say yes. How many people do you know that have Cannibal Corpse, The Beatles, Megadeth, NSYNC, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Arch Enemy, Parkway Drive, My Chemical Romance, and Underoath in their libraries?

 

[Something Amyss]

Windows Media Player lists my "unplayed" music (which is most of it right now, as I did a fresh install of Windows 7 only a month or two back) as over 3,000 hours worth of music. Even assuming some level of redundancy, and the fact that some of my mom's audiobooks (Which I burn for her because she doesn't do well with computers) got in there, I think it's safe to assume I have a fair amount of variety in my tastes. And this is mostly paid-for music; I pick up the occasional freebie or sampler, but I had to like this music enough to buy it for the most part.

That being said, what I listen to most is far less varied. Queen, The Who, and other British rock of various subtypes and eras tag teams with Boston-area Alternative rock to dominate my playlist, probably most closely followed by folk. My go-to playlist includes a couple Japanese tracks (largely rock, theme songs from anime, such as Tekkaman Blade's "Reason" and Bleach's "D-Technolife" or whatever it's called), some random singles I can't fit on any other playlist, metal (of various flavours but largely a similar theme; Iced Earth, Within Temptation, Type O Negative all off the top of my head), a couple pop tracks, some Reggae (almost exclusively Calton Coffee-era Inner Circle), etc, etc, etc.

It's still somewhat diverse, but not quite as much.

Granted, that's for when I'm oot and aboot. When I'm at home, I routinely put my library on shuffle and listen to whatever comes up. There's still a lot of alterntive/rock, but less of a percentage of a whole. I guess my biggest thing is I like options, and more music and styles gives me more options, even if I might not choose them on any given day.

Good to see people who listen to more than just one genre on here. It kind of gets annoying to see metal discussed ad nauseum.

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

Very...

Spoiler: My music tastes

Spoiler: Tim Hecker

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Spoiler: Venetian Snares

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Spoiler: Rhapsody of Fire

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Spoiler: Anti Nowhere League

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Spoiler: Infected Mushroom

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Spoiler: Lana Del Ray

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Spoiler: M83

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Spoiler: Ghostpoet

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Spoiler: DJ Hixxy

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Spoiler: Deltron 3030

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Spoiler: Pink Floyd

and so on... Many, many, many more! Lots more classic rock, metal, electro, trance, chillout, hardcore, punk, drone, ambient, Dub Step, D&B, Glitch, classical... I won't go on! My 160gig iPod is now over full, and I have to do the horrible task of taking stuff off to add more! :/
It's entertaining looking on iTunes too, when it lists the music by time... 41 days at the moment!

 

[someonehairy-ish]

My average day's musical venturings are likely to include Gojira, Eminem, Radiohead, Vivaldi and Daft Punk.

I'm going with yes.

 

[Raikas]

I think a lot of the people who have fairly narrow tastes just have fairly narrow musical experiences - I've met people who grew up in small towns or rural areas where they were lucky to get 1 or 2 radio stations so they just didn't have much experience of anything else (less of an issue now with all the online options, of course). I think those people could easily think they had eclectic taste but still sound like someone with narrow tastes to someone with broader experiences.

Personally I have fairly varied tastes (a look at my top 50 most played list includes electro-industrial, r&b, and baroque opera among others), but I don't think that's unique of people who either live in larger cities (or have access to them), have travelled, or who are over a certain age. After all, the more you hear the more you're likely to find more music that you like and - the wider you travel, the more you hear and the older you get, the more you hear, and so on.

 

[wuggles]

I like mostly R&B or rap, but I also occasionally listen to ambient, pop, and classical.

 

[In Search of Username]

I feel like my musical tastes are very varied, but when I think about it, all of my absolute favourite stuff tends to fall under fairly artsy/pretentious rock and metal of various kinds, generally no older than like the mid-nineties. I listen to all kinds of electronica, hip hop, classical music, all the way to more experimental stuff like drone and dark ambient, and I listen to a wide range of stuff from the sixties up until now, but all my absolute FAVOURITE stuff tends to be contained within a much more narrow area.

tl;dr: I appreciate a wide range of music but always keep coming back to a fairly small selection of bands.

For the record iTunes says I have 70 days worth of music on my computer, but my library is a mess so not sure whether that's accurate.

 

[shootthebandit]

I like pretty much everything with the exception of:

A) metal that just sounds like incoherant screeching. I dont care if you call it black metal, dark metal, shiny metal, rusty metal, or cant believe its not metal (seriously why have so many genres for the same thing) In my opinion its metal that needs some WD40 because its screeching. If you like this stuff you must have so much angst or are a young child who just wants to piss off thier parents. If you were my child id put justin beiber on in the car and give you a lift to school so your angsty mates reject you, you little cretin

B) generic manfactured pop. Im looking at you JB, 1D, jessie J and basically anything thats getting cycled round the charts at the minute

C) anything recommened to me or performed by pretentious arseholes. They use phrases like "mainstream" "underground" "you probably havent heard of this band before". Im all for unique different music but i have no time for pretence no matter how good it is

 

[Julius Terrell]

I'm very narrow-minded when it comes to music. But within these specific genres opens up lots of sub genres to love.

It's either Classical or Electronic music or nothing at all. 99% I can't stand lyrics. To me they are useless. Our 12 step tonal system is far better at conveying feeling than anything that can be deciphered by human speech.

Classical Music
1. Symphonies
2. Instrumental music (Piano Sontas..ect)
3. Choral Music
4. Ballets

Electronic
1. Techno
2. D&B
3. Ambient
4. Speedcore
5. Chiptunes (8 bit and 16 bit)
6. IDM
7. Glitch (related to IDM)

I know I'm missing other electronic music genres, but I can't think of them at the moment.

 

[Daniel Ferguson]

People like that annoy me.

I like rock, punk, metal (a little), alternative. I sometimes like pop but it has to be really good (it tends to have to have a bit of a rock vibe anyway). These are all similar, but they are their own genres, although rock covers all of them. They merge together like Voltron. Or something. I am probably not eclectic, but I'm probably more eclectic than those in the OT. Probably. Just a bit, anyway.

 

[Wickatricka]

Lil Wayne, Drake, and Nicki minaj they are defiantly in my top five. The way their voices flow and the music have real meaning. I have like 10 posters of each of them in my room. Seen them in concert like 5 times. Very fond of the generation of music it appeals to me.

 

[HoneyVision]

Ohhh yes. I have the most random taste in music.

Love Electronic, Soul, RnB, Pop, Rock, Punk Rock, Rap, House, Hip Hop, Techno, Classic, Reggae, Jazz. There is very little I don't enjoy, but I'm naturally more inclined to enjoy Jazz, Soul and RnB more than Rock and Metal. In fact metal is the only kind of music I will refuse to listen to, cuz I think it sounds like crap.

Of course I have my favourite and not so favourite artists within each genre. Refer to avatar for my all time fave <3

 

[Angie7F]

I go from Anison, Ali Project, J-Pop, Kpop, Metal, industrial, dub, Pop, musical theater, hip hop, R&B, 80s, 70s, 90s hits, V-kei...and vocaloids.

Is that eclectic enough?

 

[Sehnsucht Engel]

Yeah, I'd say so. My favourite genres are industrial metal and ska, but I listen a lot to trance, techno, rock, alternative, punk, rap, reggae, and other metal too. Those are the genres I listen to the most but I can still love some songs that doesn't fit into any of them. There is quite a bit of variety within metal, rock and techno as well. I like some classical music, but it's nothing that I listen to regularly, the same with game and anime music.

 

[CrazyGirl17]

I suppose so, considering my Ipod playlist contains music by he following:

Linkin Park
Evanescence
The Dave Matthews Band
Mumford and Sons
Of Monster and Men
Gorillaz
Flogging Molly
Queen
Daft Punk
Utada Hikaru

And that's just a handful of bands/groups/singers I have!