Is "What kind of music do you like" a hard question sometimes?

[rcrush]

I think it is cause all the stuff on my ipod is all over the place just really random stuff. And I'm usually not in the mood to try and figure out if I have a favorite. It'd be easier just to show people my ipod but I never carry it around with me.

Is it the same for anyone else?

[MrScorpio]

1. If you have all day, I can let you know what kind of music that I like

If my prior YouTube posts might be a clue

[Iggo]

2. I'm with Scorpio on this one.

It ain't the question that's hard. But sometimes the questioner, unless he has all day, wishes he never asked me.

[mac56]

3. Depending on the context

the question may not mean what it appears to mean. People with even slightly adventurous tastes could go on for hours answering the question. No, when I've heard the question asked it's more of an "icebreaker" question. The asker isn't wanting a catalog of your favorite songs or artists - s/he's more likely asking for a representative sampling, to see if you have any common ground upon which to start a conversation. Kind of like "what are you reading these days?" or "seen any good movies lately?"

[ghostsofgiants]

4. Haha, I always have people look at my iPod when they ask me, as i have it on me at all times.

It's usually met with "I've never heard of any of these bands." Which is the reaction I usually expect.

[Inchworm]

5. "I like it all" is my standard answer

If asked further I explain that if it's good it's good and that can be anything from country to baroque.

:hi:

Edit: Great is great too ;)

[astral]

6. What I'm hearing now is the Gene Harris Quartet

I had never heard of them before. I just discovered "Pandora," and told them I like the Turtle Island String Quartet. I said make me a radio station "Kinda Like THAT."

They are totally blowing me away -- awesome stuff I'd never have known I liked, so far it's about six groups that are PERFECTLY up my alley, and I am addicted to the station and can't turn it off.

I just discovered searching online for free internet music 'cuz I decided to give Thunderbird another try and it said, well, how about Foxy Tunes?

. . . . now my next project will be plugging my 'puter into my stereo. Yeah, I know, a few years behind most of ya on this stuff!

So, for posterity, here are the other groups I'm talking about today:

Didier Lockwood
Joe Venuti
Tony Rice & John Carlin
The Hot Club
Gaucho
The Spider String Quartet
Michael Camillo & Tomatito
John Zorn

I swear, if I was rolling in the dough, I'd go buy one of EACH of these artists, and just zone on nothing but this music for about a week.

Okay here's one that sounds familiar, who is this?

Paul Desmond

This one may not quite fit PERFECTLY into my tastes as the others, going by this song.

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Otherwise, I got a thrill punching in "Leonard Cohen," and also "Randy Newman" and getting a buncha cool songs or old favorites by other artists streaming along one right after the other.

I like!

[Radical Activist]

20. pandora is cool

you have to mess with it to keep it from getting repetitive and stale. But its worth it if you do.

[ACTION BASTARD]

7. I'm all over the place except for country, most hip hop, polka and

that drooling taint, Philip Glass. Fuck you Glass. Seriously, fuck you.

[mvd]

8. Yes - my taste is also quite varied

I tend to say what genres I concentrate most on - classic rock, singer/songwriter, pop/rock, indie/pop, rock, folk, folk/rock(and folk/pop), power pop, and Christmas music.

[PM7nj]

9. I hate when I am asked that.

I will usually just give a smart ass answer like "good music."

[MrSlayer]

10. Not really, since the immediate answer is Metal.

I like all kinds of other stuff but I'm first and foremost a Metalhead.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

11. No, I tell them I listen to everything, which is true.

Recently, I played Buck Owens, followed by Tricky, DJ Food and Bill Evans.

[Mojambo]

12. Not really. My musical taste is quite narrow.

Indiepop, powerpop, punk, folk-pop/punk, bubblegum and tweepop.

I generally don't stray far from those confines.

[Tom Kitten]

13. I just say I have eclectic taste

I like Anonymous 4 and Charlie Parker and Les Baxter and Johnny Cash and Fela Kuti and some garage rock and some punk rock and some new age (like Ishq)and generally stuff that expresses something that caters to my high standards...Britney and Ashley I'm sorry are exempted...

[leeroysphitz]

14. I like Retro -fusion -gospel -jazz -techno -reggae -breakbeat.

And ONLY Retro-fusion-gospel-jazz-techno-reggae-breakbeat.

Don't try to pawn any of that Retro-fusion-spiratual-jazz-synth-reggae-breakbeat crap off on me.

[blonndee]

15. It's ALWAYS a hard question for me.

I listen to old country, folk, electronic, "classic rock," classical, pop, "alternative" (whatever that really means--all my stuff that doesn't quite fit, I guess), etc.

My students ask me this question all the time and I can never really answer it with specifics. My Willie Nelson poster and my Kurt Cobain poster I have taped up in my classroom might give them more of an idea, though.

[Danger Mouse]

16. I mention bands rather than genres.

Since I am not limited by genres.

[DS1]

17. I'm all over the place, right now I like this type of music

http://www.portinteractive.com/apparently.mp3


but I also love Slayer and Pantera and Orbital and NIN and Massive Attack and Pink Floyd and The Beasties and The Animals and Mariyln Manson and Tool and Ferry Corsten and Garbage and Puscifer.

[Patsy Stone]

18. Yes

And I can never answer the question, "What's your favorite band?" either.

[enigmatic]

19. Yes and no

I play everything (and I mean, "everything") on my overnight radio show, so I'll listen to pretty much everything, musically.

I just played in a row "The Grand Tour" by George Jones, "30 Seconds Over Tokyo" by Pere Ubu, and a speech by a drunken John Wayne at a Young Republican dinner in the early 70's; that was fun :D

[DarkTirade]

21. ... yeah, I don't think I CAN explain what kind of music I like.

[Broken_Hero]

22. Its not to hard for me to pin down what

what Genre I like the best, and thats Heavy Metal....but I like just about all music, some days I'm in the mood for some Fear Factory, other days I'm singing along with Peter Cetera(chicago days)...I'm all over the place when it comes to music, except jazz/blues...

[ZombieNixon]

23. Kind of.

The easy answer is "metal." The slightly more in depth answer is "melodic death metal," though I like metal of many kinds from death, black, and thrash, to power, progressive, and symphonic. The real answer is a wide range of things including metal, punk and hardcore, Celtic, folk, and world music, movie soundtracks, and jazz fusion.

I can never answer the "favorite band" question, either. When asked, I can usually get it down to two, and then be unable to choose. :P

[Systematic Chaos]

24. It's easier for me to list what I DON'T like. Takes less time that way.

I dislike almost all country music, unless it has a strong rock influence and doesn't sound like right-wing claptrap.

I dislike gangsta rap, meaning the type that promotes gun violence and pimpin' ho's and blah blah blah. I got turned on to Immortal Technique and Brother Ali here at the DU and have begun to appreciate rap and hip hop in ways I would not have otherwise thought possible.

I dislike most opera because I can't stand the singing, and it especially doesn't help when you have to read along with English translations a lot of the time while you listen.

I dislike most early rock 'n' roll. To me most of it is like "Commercial Yesterday" or the Greatest Generation's equivalent of Britney Spears and whoever else is really popular on top-40 radio right now. Or to put it another way, it was all very formulaic and about the $$$$$.

As already stated I think top-40 for the past 21 years has been one big festering shit pile. 1987 was the last decent year.

Oh, and Van Morrison's voice peels the paint off my walls so none of that.

Just about everything else is great! :P