How wide are you music tastes

[Sm1ffj]

Yep. How many different genres of music would you play on a radio show for example when you could play anything you want.

Mine are very wide. I go from Metal to Irish and worldwide country. Modern pop to Traditional Irish. And 50's music to club and dance. 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's.


I draw the line at classical though.

[Razzle Dazzle]

Indie/Indie pop/ Rock/ Alternative/ Britpop/ Grunge/ Surf Rock/ Electro pop/ Industrial Metal/ Folk/ Country/ Drum and Bass/pop punk/Reggae/ Dance/ Nu rave/ Emo/ 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s

[-Big Dan-]

I like music from almost any genre, but I especially like synth-rock and pop, shoegaze, industrial, hair metal, grunge and post-grunge, as well as Britpop and post-Britpop. I'm getting quite into classical music as well. The only genres I can safely say I don't enjoy at all are modern hip hop and any rock music that features screaming vocals.

[Earl Purple]

I was at Hyde Park for the last night of the proms. It wasn't all classical though, they had Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons perform a gig. Frankie Valli is now 79.

[Deleted]

I think my tastes are narrowing as I get older, which I think is a bit weird. The only new area I'm exploring more is country - I feel a trip to Nashville is required at some stage!

[borneoman]

was gonna post the same, I think that my music taste was wider when I was young, I remember buying Debbie Gibson and Pixies and then Enya and Metallica, now I mostly listen to singer-songwriter stuff and the usual pop/rock/dance

[Shireblogger]

Here is the genre count in my music collection. I'm better at sub-dividing some categories than others:-

Genre No. Tracks
Pop - Synth Pop 1026
Pop - 00s 838
Soul - 60s 821
Pop - New Romantic 805
Rock - Stadium Rock 791
Folk Pop Rock - Irish / Scots 771
Pop - Electronic Pioneers 769
Rock - 00s Indie 760
Soul - Urban R&B / Swing 758
Singer-Songwriter 750
Rock - Brit Pop 717
Rock - Alternative Rock 670
Pop - Soul Pop (80s) 658
Pop - 80s 656
Rock'n'Roll 650
Folk 606
Pop - Glam / Glitter 557
Rock - New Wave / Post Punk 556
MoR / Easy Listening / Lounge 555
Soul - Smooth 70s / 80s / 90s 543
Country - New Country 523
Pop - Adult Melodic Pop Rock 507
Dance - Rave / Trance / Hardcore / Big Beat 506
Rock - Soft Rock / Power Ballads 506
Rock - Indie 505
Dance - 70s Disco 489
Pop - 60s Beat 461
Dance - Indie Dance / ElectroClash 442
Funk 442
Rock - Country Rock 435
Rap / Hip Hop 428
Pop - 90s 426
Pop - 70s 412
Country - Country & Western 406
Rock - Punk 380
Rock - Blues Rock 370
Rock - Hard Rock / Heavy Metal 366
Rock - 60s/70s R'n'B 360
Rock - 00s Post Punk New Romantic Revival 360
Reggae / Ragga 328
Dance - House 320
Pop - 50s/60s Vocal / Surf 281
Dance - Euro Disco / Techno 262
Soul - Garage / Grime 248
Rock - Baggy / Grebo 242
Pop - Jazzy/Funky Pop 218
Pop - Boy Bands / Girl Groups (90s/00s) 216
Dance - 90s Pop Dance 216
Dance - 80s Funk 215
Soul - Philly / Funky 70s Soul 213
Rock'n'Roll Revivalist 199
Rock - Progressive Rock / Experimental Rock 186
Rock - Goth 173
Rock - Grunge / Nu-Metal / Nu-Punk 170
Rhythm'n'Blues 169
Dance - Hi-NRG 167
Rap - Hardcore / Jungle 155
Pop - Latino 154
World Music 149
Dance - Revivalists (70s/80s) 129
Jazz 119
Pop - Flower Power / Psychadelia 106
New Age / Instrumental 102
Ska 97
Country - Bluegrass 91
Drums'n'Bass / Dub 75
Blues 55
Musicals 39
Orchestral Film & TV Themes 38
Rock - Pub Rock 36
Big Band 25
Brass Band / Pipe Band 25
Novelty - Comedy 21
Ambient / Chill Out 15
Novelty - Folk / Punk / Dance 11
Novelty - Childrens 9
Gypsy Jazz 8
Charity Ensemble 7
Dance - 60s Fads 6
Opera 5
Gospel 5
Novelty - Sport 2
Classical - 17th/18th/19th Century 2
Spoken Word / Oratory 1

[Earl Purple]

Sept 13, 2016 0:23:13 GMT 1 @roos1ter said:

I think my tastes are narrowing as I get older, which I think is a bit weird. The only new area I'm exploring more is country - I feel a trip to Nashville is required at some stage!

In some ways when the music I followed was what was in the charts, I was open to the more diverse musical styles, e.g. embracing pure pop (like Abba) and punk and new wave and disco and electronic synth music like Jean Michel Jarre who charted in 1977, and then even rap when that arrived, and of course the charts in the late 70s had ELO with their mix of classical and pop and rock, as well as Queen putting their dramatic style in and Kate Bush arrived with her unusual style as well as characters like Elvis Costello, and whilst the ska revival was copying and even sampling late 60s music, they were putting their own style on it, and we did also have pure reggae like Bob Marley.

Whilst the music in my chart now is not quite the case of "they're good but they all sound the same", it is potentially less diverse than it used to be, and certainly there is no concept of "wow, a brand new sound, that's really 2016". I found, when I was playing "retro" charts, that once I reach a certain point, 1. There's loads of stuff I can't recall, even songs that reached my top 5 and 2. If I'm playing "random" oldies I won't always remember when a particular song was a hit in my chart. You wouldn't see that happen for me during the "chart" era (when my music followed the UK and to some extent the US chart). I never liked it in the past when someone arrived and got compared to some artist I hadn't heard of who they said it "derived" from, but now it's likely the big hits in my chart are only "derivative" of artists from the past. e.g. my biggest two hits of 2016, Lost Van Goghs was clearly a Queen derivative, and Sonic Boom Six from ska revival (Selecter etc.), albeit that latter song did have a powerful lyric.

Modern "dance" music is something I have never been able to get into. I can hear it and maybe enjoy bits of it, possibly during an exercise class, but it's not normally on my playlists.

[Mic1812]

Extremely wide but i draw the line at Grime and a bit of urban.

People can just turn off a radio and you wouldnt know about it.

[o]

I like a bit of classical, along with rock music, some rap songs to country, obviously guitar music, and I even have Joe McElderry and Diana Vickers on my iphone, good pop songs!
I think I'd struggle with grime as well, but there may be one song out there I'd like in that genre. I have cds on artists from every decade, 50s to present day.

[raliverpool]

My music tastes are completely all over the musical genres map. Hence my favourite music acts have the same level of diversity in musical & genre hopping.

It is far easier to mention the music I least like which is blandified anodyne music (think Chicago, Air Supply, OneRepublic ... except gone wrong) best exemplified by the vast majority of the back catalogue of Westlife. Or uninspired slowed down to a funeral pace cover version where singers over emote instead of just singing the bloody song (best exemplified recently by Calum Scott's murder of Robyn's wonderful electro pop classic Dancing On My Own).

[greendemon]

I'm still a little fussy but my tastes have broadened quite a bit over the past few years. There probably isn't a single genre I can think of where I can guarantee I won't like anything at all. I'm still not really into hip-hop, rap, R&B or acoustic singer-songwriter stuff... which does rule out most of the charts but hey My favourite genres are still indie, rock, synthpop, shoegaze, 80s pop and rock, grunge and electronica. But a few months ago I bought a Danish metal album (Myrkur for those of you who remember Lingovision) and even three or four years ago I wouldn't have done that.

One thing I do love, and always have, is classical music, especially choral stuff from the medieval and early modern periods. I'd probably take some Pérotin or Tallis over any of the contemporary stuff in my collection!

[Jordan]

Very

[Deleted]

Based on genres my taste is very narrow.

I prefer to find something low-known and/or old from pop music, which didn't heard before.
Mostly I like pure pop music, from another genres can listen female Country, Operatic pop and soft Rock.

Based on time period is wide.

It's almost all history of female pop music (from traditional Andrews Sisters to modern Lithuanian girl groups).