[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

I was talking about music to someone the other day, and he told me that "I've probably got the most eclectic taste in music out of anyone you'll ever meet." True, his taste in music is indeed eclectic, but so is most people's. I've probably had 50 people tell me they have the most eclectic taste in music ever. I just find it amusing that SO many people think this about themselves. Like just about everyone who likes more than one kind of music.

So, here's the question. Do YOU think that you have a more eclectic taste in music than most other people?

@Assail: This is not a dig at you, your conversation about music just made me think about having this discussion from a couple of days ago.

[Assail]

Raymond Luxury Yacht, on May 6 2009, 02:14 PM, said:

I was talking about music to someone the other day, and he told me that "I've probably got the most eclectic taste in music out of anyone you'll ever meet." True, his taste in music is indeed eclectic, but so is most people's. I've probably had 50 people tell me they have the most eclectic taste in music ever. I just find it amusing that SO many people think this about themselves. Like just about everyone who likes more than one kind of music.

So, here's the question. Do YOU think that you have a more eclectic taste in music than most other people?

@Assail: This is not a dig at you, your conversation about music just made me think about having this discussion from a couple of days ago.

Haha no worries, I voted that I did. I probably don't, but hell, why not?

[Obdigore]

I voted the bottom one.

I will listen to just about anything (except new rap and all country) and probably enjoy it, if it isn't terrible.

Flight of the Bumblebee to Saliva to The Doors to old Snoop.

Of course, I don't listen to like hindi music or aborigional stuff, so I doubt I have the oddest taste in music around.

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

I wonder how many people should vote for #2 but won't...

[Macros]

I find people that classify themselves as X kind of music person are those annoying music snobs (yes offense intended )
I listen to music fullstop, (excepting jazz, its discombobulated noise, and most cRap, as its, well cRap, and some old style diddly dee country and wobbly annoys me) sure most of my albums are rock, nearly all of them, but any off my burned cd mixs have very little rock and alot of pop stuff you hear on the radio.
I have a pretty eclectic taste, but to say I'm the most eclectic music taste around would be folly.
Do I listen top indian folk music? German industrial metal (actually yes, but we'll ignore that) peruvian flute bands?
I'm sure theres someone somewhere who might, but most people who say this are tits, who impulse buy whatever they see then try to justify it

[Assail]

Obdigore, on May 6 2009, 02:17 PM, said:

I voted the bottom one.

I will listen to just about anything (except new rap and all country) and probably enjoy it, if it isn't terrible.

Flight of the Bumblebee to Saliva to The Doors to old Snoop.

Of course, I don't listen to like hindi music or aborigional stuff, so I doubt I have the oddest taste in music around.

This reminded me of The Beatles, The Who and the Doors. Just some more that I listen too. Hahaha. My bad, wrong thread!

I've listened to some cool stuff. It's hard to really try everything, lots of unsigned bands out there that you'll never find on iTunes or Limewire.

This post has been edited by Assail: 06 May 2009 - 10:01 PM

[Cougar]

I think the question goes to the root of the human tendency to try and believe that they are special and unique. I like metal, punk, hardcore, folk, some rap, classical, dance, pop, psychedelia. A solid cross section of what's out there but nothing particulary strange. I don't like world music or jazz, never jazz, the only bloody music that exists entirely for the benefit of the players.

[Koryk of the Seti]

i always thought i had a pretty varied taste in tunes but if i really think about it maybe its not so out of the ordinary. i like metal, punk, rock, hardcore, blues, jazz, classical, rave, bluegrass. well really anything that is good but thats not really out of the ordinary as most people if they are given the chance will like songs from all different genres'. so really having an eclectic taste in music just depends how many different kinds you have been introduced to in your life.

[Tiste Simeon]

German & Scandinavian underground progressive death metal -> 1920's Swing Jazz and Skee-Bop -> Rachmaninov -> Flamenco Acoustic guitarring -> 1970's psychedelic space rock (and the modern equivalent thereof) -> Jewish "Oriental" metal -> Chilled out ambient alt rock -> 1970's & 1980's classic rock -> Christian death metal -> Big Band Jazz -> Opera metal -> Ludovico Einaudi.

So, yeah, pretty darned eclectic.
Of course, my taste is completely outside the "popular" range as it were, so most people think I am very narrow minded because I don't like the stuff I am told to like, following the mindless drones as they listen to exactly the same thing as everyone else... So yes you can call me a snob if you want, but I really don't care.

[Coco with marshmallows]

in fairness to the jazz players, i actually like some jazz.

a little bitches brew by miles davis? Or some Duke ellington?

hell yes i'll listen to that.

Its the stupidly overblown, obviously deliberately discordant jazz that I (and most people i think) don't like.

[amphibian]

Assail, on May 6 2009, 05:20 PM, said:

This reminded me of The Beetles, The Who and the Doors. Just some more that I listen too. Hahaha. My bad, wrong thread!

It's "Beatles". BEAT-les. That's not particularly varied - although it is generally good music. You'll get all three bands played within two hours on any '60s greatest hits radio station anywhere.

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I've listened to some cool stuff. It's hard to really try everything, lots of unsigned bands out there that you'll never find on iTunes or Limewire.

That's called "being a hipster". Stop it. Relax. Find what you like and follow it. Don't associate liking with being signed or not. That should be essentially irrelevant. Go see live shows and enjoy yourself. That's what it's all about. That and sex.

I have something like eight or nine thousand songs spanning a few genres of music in various forms - plenty of CDs, lots of digital, a few vinyls and a smattering of cassettes. Some of my close friends are well into the twenty or thirty thousand mark and there's more distant friends who have near-museum quality archives.

I've hung around enough professional musicians and true experts in specific fields of music to know that while I have a pretty good working knowledge of the giants in most fields, I know diddly-squat in comparison to them. Try talking to someone who knows of and has every single Miles Davis bootleg and live show out there. Or Polvo. Or someone who's trying to save Eskimo throat-warbling from extinction. It's just... mind-boggling sometimes the stuff out there and how deep some people go into it.

That being said, I don't like techno much, as the only exposure I have to it is when it's blasted at too loud volumes in clubs I'm not drunk enough to be in usually. But I'll bop along if a friend puts some on.

This post has been edited by amphibian: 06 May 2009 - 09:44 PM

[Tiste Simeon]

I love jazz in all its progressive sod-the-conventions glory. I love the really funky stuff from bands like the blessing, I love the New Orleans blues jazz, I love the fast swing of Count Basie, I love the slower jazz of Ella & Louis, I love Dixie jazz, I love the Big Bad Voodoo Daddy Jazz, I love the Paul Anka covering rock swing jazz... I love that many progressive metal bands incorporate jazz elements and fusion into their music, with crazy polymetric timepieces and synchopated blast beats with jazzy metal riffs... It's amazing!

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

Tiste Simeon, on May 6 2009, 02:33 PM, said:

Of course, my taste is completely outside the "popular" range as it were, so most people think I am very narrow minded because I don't like the stuff I am told to like, following the mindless drones as they listen to exactly the same thing as everyone else...

You do realize that by rejecting everything "popular" you are allowing mainstream opinion to shape what you listen to just as much as someone who listens to only "popular" music? Completely accepting or completely rejecting all popular music are just opposite manifestations of allowing the masses to decide what you do and don't like.

Just saying.


Not that you're the only anti-popular person to fall in that trap. The whole signed vs. unsigned, indy versus popular debate spawns the same thing.

This post has been edited by Raymond Luxury Yacht: 06 May 2009 - 09:55 PM

[Cougar]

Hey. Amphibian, Leave the Kid alone.

Though it is called being a hipster...

[Assail]

amphibian, on May 6 2009, 02:42 PM, said:

Assail, on May 6 2009, 05:20 PM, said:

This reminded me of The Beetles, The Who and the Doors. Just some more that I listen too. Hahaha. My bad, wrong thread!

It's "Beatles". BEAT-les. That's not particularly varied - although it is generally good music. You'll get all three bands played within two hours on any '60s greatest hits radio station anywhere.

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I've listened to some cool stuff. It's hard to really try everything, lots of unsigned bands out there that you'll never find on iTunes or Limewire.

That's called "being a hipster". Stop it. Relax. Find what you like and follow it. Don't associate liking with being signed or not. That should be essentially irrelevant. Go see live shows and enjoy yourself. That's what it's all about. That and sex.

I have something like eight or nine thousand songs spanning a few genres of music in various forms - plenty of CDs, lots of digital, a few vinyls and a smattering of cassettes. Some of my close friends are well into the twenty or thirty thousand mark and there's more distant friends who have near-museum quality archives.

I've hung around enough professional musicians and true experts in specific fields of music to know that while I have a pretty good working knowledge of the giants in most fields, I know diddly-squat in comparison to them. Try talking to someone who knows of and has every single Miles Davis bootleg and live show out there. Or Polvo. Or someone who's trying to save Eskimo throat-warbling from extinction. It's just... mind-boggling sometimes the stuff out there and how deep some people go into it.

That being said, I don't like techno much, as the only exposure I have to it is when it's blasted at too loud volumes in clubs I'm not drunk enough to be in usually. But I'll bop along if a friend puts some on.

Are you really going to jump on my back because of a typo? Have you got that much of a hard-on for the Beatles that you're going to type a sentence correcting me on a misspelled word on the INTERNET? Wait, why am I asking this question?

What the hell are you talking about? I said it's hard to try everything in the eclectic sense. One cannot truly say they've got a huge variety when they've never listened to it all. I've found what I like, and I'm going to keep searching down genre's to find more music that I like. I'm sure as hell not going to stop because some guy on a forum called me 'hipster' for looking for music I like to listen too. Please, show me where I clearly stated that being signed or unsigned has anything to do with liking a band. My point was that it's hard to find music that I like to listen to because a lot of bands are unsigned and thus you won't find a lot of good music widely distributed.

Don't think I don't enjoy myself, and please, don't patronize me because you think what I do concerning what music I listen to is wrong. Which it isn't because you missed my point ENTIRELY.

Why am I arguing?

For making me type this, amphibian, you get a /facepalm.

This post has been edited by Assail: 06 May 2009 - 09:57 PM

[Obdigore]

The Phoenix Inn Music Thread:

Seriouser Buisiness than I would have thought.

[Assail]

Obdigore, on May 6 2009, 02:56 PM, said:

The Phoenix Inn Music Thread:

Seriouser Buisiness than I would have thought.

Oh you have NO idea. Lol.

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

Easy guys. Assail, I think Amphibian missed your earlier post in a different thread listing all your music likes, and thought you were saying that simply liking the Bootles and Doors made you eclectic. If you had meant that (but you didn't, I know) he would have been right to call you on it.

Amphibian, I think you indeed might have missed his point.

No fighting in my thread, you big meanies.

[Assail]

Raymond Luxury Yacht, on May 6 2009, 02:59 PM, said:

Easy guys. Assail, I think Amphibian missed your earlier post in a different thread listing all your music likes, and thought you were saying that simply liking the Bootles and Doors made you eclectic. If you had meant that (but you didn't, I know) he would have been right to call you on it.

Amphibian, I think you indeed might have missed his point.

No fighting in my thread, you big meanies.

Haha sorry for that hijack, I've been doing this a lot lately. I think it might have to do with the Contest.

Just for you, amph, I'm editing my typo

[Cougar]

Listen to the Leviathan Yacht; don't make me come in here.