Is it eclectic, or is it normal?

[BrabusMog]

Just listening to my iPhone on shuffle has allowed me to listen to the following songs in the last 20 mins:

The Game - Money

Swedish House Mafia - One

Maverick Sabre - Look What I've Done

Bombay Bicycle Club - Cancel On Me

Quite surprised to go from rap, to house, to ska/hiphop, to indie.

Do you feel you are a diverse listener or do you stick to one or two genres?

[Egg Chaser]

I tend to only listen to 2 genres, drum & bass and dubstep. I rarely listen to anything else.

[RemainAllHoof]

Well... I listen to... new age, classical, funky house, trance, drum and bass, jungle, old skool hardcore, rock, death metal, alternative and emo.

At the moment, the albums I have in my car: Cowboys From Hell (Pantera), a couple of A State Of Trance podcasts (Armin Van Buuren), some Tytanium Sessions podcast (Sean Tyas), Karmacode (Lacuna Coil), a Don FM hardcore broadcast from 1993 and Scouting For Girls ().

Edited by RemainAllHoof on Monday 6th June 00:19

[alfa pint]

My range of preferred listening does not include any dance music, any rap music (gorillaz is about as close as I like), any R+B, any modern soul, any trance ste, any drum and bass or similar or much in the way of metal or country and western.

My genres are indie / indie rock (TV on the Radio, Twilight Sad, Vampire Weekend, Sonic Youth, Noah and the Whale, the National, Interpol, Editors, Joy Division, Eels etc, classic rock (Queens of the Stone Age, Led Zep etc), bit of prog rock (marillion, pink floyd) ska (specials and old jamaican ska), classical (beethoven, schubert, bach, mozart), opera, blues, grunge, punk, 60s soul and northern soul.

I'm still unlikely to hop from classical to rock in the same day though. Tend to be in the mood for one sort of thing over another and stick to that for the day, so I don't shuffle by all tracks, just shuffle within a genre or pick a favourite artist / composer out.

[Evangelion]

I like both forms of music. Prog and classical.

[Thurbs]

For me a good song is a good song no matter what genre it is from.

Mind you there is plenty of st out there.

[300bhp/ton]

Egg Chaser said:

I tend to only listen to 2 genres, drum & bass and dubstep. I rarely listen to anything else.

Have you ever tried music though??

[BrabusMog]

300bhp/ton said:

Egg Chaser said:

I tend to only listen to 2 genres, drum & bass and dubstep. I rarely listen to anything else.

Have you ever tried music though??

I hear the American stuff is quite good, surprised you're not aware

[Stu R]

I've got everything from classical and opera to punk, metal, rock, indie, britpop, rap, RnB, soul, blues (many variations of), electronic, dance, trance.. yadda yadda yadda, you get the picture I'm sure.

The only thing I'm really lacking in any volume is current chart music, but even then there's bits and bobs

Eclectic enough for me

[300bhp/ton]

BrabusMog said:

300bhp/ton said:

Egg Chaser said:

I tend to only listen to 2 genres, drum & bass and dubstep. I rarely listen to anything else.

Have you ever tried music though??

I hear the American stuff is quite good, surprised you're not aware

To be fair and completely honest, I have no idea what dubstep is? however I suspect it's not quite my thing...


As for your original question I guess I should answer. I don't think I stick to a genre I like variety, but it does tend to be music played by bands and not computer generated. And usually not just a singer/singers taking credit for the entire song/music. So my iPod usually has a mix of bluegrass, country, rock, hillbilly, heavy metal, rock n' roll, folk, jazz and so on.

[Gompo]

I'd say my tastes are fairly eclectic, there's not a lot of genres where I dont like any songs.. I think we had a similar topic a few weeks back?

To be honest the original post doesnt strike me as particularly eclectic, in that I've heard each song without actually liking any of them (so basically on Radio 1/have wide appeal) apart from the SHM track that I do enjoy.

[davepoth]

I have a deliberately obtuse music collection, with funk from Iran, beat music covers in Polish, Ethiopian rappers, as well as normaller stuff.

It's part of a bet I have with a friend of mine. Although it's quite mind expanding.

[Egg Chaser]

300bhp/ton said:

Egg Chaser said:

I tend to only listen to 2 genres, drum & bass and dubstep. I rarely listen to anything else.

Have you ever tried music though??

Well it'd be a boring world if we all liked the same things, wouldn't it? I probably dislike whatever music you like too, it's called opinion..

300bhp/ton said:

To be fair and completely honest, I have no idea what dubstep is? however I suspect it's not quite my thing...

To be honest, for most people it's not 'their thing'. Most people absolutely hate it and says "it's not even music", but I love it. Like I said, it'd be boring if we all liked the same things. Search for the dubstep thread if you want an example of what is.