The_Reverend_M
More bass, vicar?
bluestreak said:
*pretty much agrees with DJing compadre*
How diverse is your taste in music?
- Thread starter Lisarocket
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*pretty much agrees with DJing compadre*
Lisarocket said:Wouldn't expect any less than that from you Dub
Was your taste as diverse back in the day before the 'try before you buy' aspect you get with downloading?
always - when i was about 14-15, i liked prog, punk, indie, folk, metal, dylan and 60s stuff, arab music (long story), etc etc etc
eta: this was in the early 80s, so that's why i haven't included a lot of stuff that didn't exist then, ok?
Orang Utan said:"I'm considerably more eclectic than yow"
well it was just a coincidence cos it was what i was doing then..
how sad is this - i was trying to divide up various files on the player and i've ended up allocating acts according to what stages they'd play at Glastonbury
Jazz World, The Glade, Acoustic, Other etc..
Jazz World, The Glade, Acoustic, Other etc..
In some respects my musical taste is quite diverse but in others it's rather limited.
billy_bob
Air of bewilderment model's own
I like country AND western.
There's not much you can say in a thread like this that doesn't make you sound up yourself. It's a choice between:
Well, I've just programmed the entire works of Whigfield, Einsturzende
Neubauten and Count Ossie into my mp3 player...
Oh, I don't really think in terms of genre...
Really? Liking Van Morrison and Chrome makes your tastes diverse? I hadn't thought about it....
There's not much you can say in a thread like this that doesn't make you sound up yourself. It's a choice between:
Well, I've just programmed the entire works of Whigfield, Einsturzende
Neubauten and Count Ossie into my mp3 player...
Oh, I don't really think in terms of genre...
Really? Liking Van Morrison and Chrome makes your tastes diverse? I hadn't thought about it....
Dubversion said:how sad is this - i was trying to divide up various files on the player and i've ended up allocating acts according to what stages they'd play at Glastonbury
Jazz World, The Glade, Acoustic, Other etc..
indescribably sad
Dubversion said:
Me too. I blame Peel.
I always found not being into one particular style to be a bit of a problem when I was that age. I think musical tastes were generally a lot narrower and corresponded to whichever early/mid 80's youth cult you'd aligned yourself with.
There was definitely a period in the late 80's when I noticed friends and other people my age becoming decidedly more eclectic musically. Probably the drugs...
Kameron
Kamoceratops
I was briefly tempted to make a list of genre's but I can't figure out what use that would be, I'll pretty much take it as red that in every genre that has more than a few hundred tracks to its name some one who loves that genre can dig out a track that I will like and someone can find one that I loath.Orang Utan said:"I'm considerably more eclectic than yow"
How about we just look at my last.fm artists for the last week since that I can't fake. It is a list of every single track I played, I can't edit it so only the cool ones are there, just the ones that will make me seem more hip while dropping my may be slightly embarrassing foibles like say having a soft spot for chumbawamba.
So up front, stripped bare Last week I listened to:
I think my diverse credentials are safe.
Idaho
continuity character
Did you interpose long waits and lots of jostling betwixt the songs?Dubversion said:how sad is this - i was trying to divide up various files on the player and i've ended up allocating acts according to what stages they'd play at Glastonbury
Jazz World, The Glade, Acoustic, Other etc..
Lisarocket
In bed with me dinner
billy_bob said:
Shall i get the thread locked now since you've covered all the points then
ICB said:Bunch of amateurs.
No one's mentioned classical, opera, modern atonal, minimalist or medieval plain chant yet.
Mainstream sheeple
ahem..
Dubversion said:
ICB said:Bunch of amateurs.
No one's mentioned classical, opera, modern atonal, minimalist or medieval plain chant yet.
Mainstream sheeple
Yes, that's the sort of thing my dad would say... he loves what he says is inaccurately called 'classical' music (since classical in fact only refers to one period) and he would prefer to call 'serious' music (a slightly daft term in itself, I know, but it's not my term). He finds it hilarious that people divide what he essentially regards as pop music into so many zillions of genres. Mind you, when he (and other hihg-minded musicians) talk about it, they do have some scientific rationale for their views - e.g. the 4:4 beat, which I believe is almost universal whether it's pop or metal or whatever...
I have a tendency to go back in time rather than forward, I have to say. I'd say the stuff I like is diverse though - from Edith Piaf to System of a Down, motown to PJ Harvey, all manner of stuff. I tend to like something, then look at where it's originated or contributors and follow that up. Blues and rock are very close to my heart, as well as country
Lisarocket
In bed with me dinner
Dubversion said:how sad is this - i was trying to divide up various files on the player and i've ended up allocating acts according to what stages they'd play at Glastonbury
Jazz World, The Glade, Acoustic, Other etc..
Was just thinking about that as a classification system. Surely you had problems fitting (stuff off your list) Mastodon, Christina Aguilera and Throbbing Gristle onto a 'stage'
I suppose Christina is Pyramid?, but Mastodon and Throbbing Gristle i'd have problems with unless there's a new Rock/Industrial stage this year
Mastodon unplugged on the acoustic stage
There's a thought..Would you not agree the more eclectic your musical taste the more open minded you are as a person?
People I've met who just like one genre music tend to be the narrow minded types.
People I've met who just like one genre music tend to be the narrow minded types.
Lisarocket said:Was just thinking about that as a classification system. Surely you had problems fitting (stuff off your list) Mastodon, Christina Aguilera and Throbbing Gristle onto a 'stage'
I suppose Christina is Pyramid?, but Mastodon and Throbbing Gristle i'd have problems with unless there's a new Rock/Industrial stage this year
Mastodon unplugged on the acoustic stage
i've got a couple of cheats - like i also have an ICA folder, and a Donington folder. it's mostly glasto though
Lisarocket
In bed with me dinner
ramjamclub said:
Totally agree. Different styles with different lyrical content would give you a wider point of view. I think it's to do with age too. When i was 14 and i loved just rock music everything else was 'total shite'
My music taste is very diverse, however, I am drawn to mainly 'black' music (except garage). Think that what comes from being raised on Northern Soul.
I always say that I like all music except for heavy metal.....I think that's a fair assumption, mind you I hardly have any rock either.
I always say that I like all music except for heavy metal.....I think that's a fair assumption, mind you I hardly have any rock either.
Agree with the diversifists...there is usually something to appreciate in every variety of music, the best of each genre is usually worth listening to and one should not write a style off just because you heard something claiming to be 'x' and you didnt like it. I just keep adding to the library as I get older, more recent discoveries have been folky and classical, past obsessions as I have aged have been the beatles/60s stuff, ska/two tone, metal, indieschmindy and house and techno....(althgough on the whole having mostly eased up on the druqs I find I havent the frame of reference for much new dance music).
chazegee said:From silence all the way to pink noise
When does music, no longer become music
When it's one of your albums.
dirtysanta
Original Casual
i can only describe my taste in music as schizophrenic.
The_Reverend_M
More bass, vicar?
saucisson said:
... rolling with this, has anyone heard any good Trance?
Lisarocket
In bed with me dinner
chazegee said:From silence all the way to pink noise
When does music, no longer become music
I do have trouble 'getting' albums that are silent to make a statement. It's not really music if you can't hear anything surely
Who did the silent album again? Edit: It was one song aparently (i thought it was a whole album) by John Cage
Interestingly, while i was looking for the answer i found this
http://www.chartattack.com/damn/2002/07/0404.cfm
Bloody ell John Cage may own the rights to silence
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