How Diverse is your intense music appreciation?

Question

How Diverse is your intense music appreciation?

Answer 1

I've always loved ALL types of music since I was in my Mama's womb!!

Answer 2

I second Harley Mama's answer.

Peace.

Answer 3

A full 360. I so recharge my batteries with the music I listen too. I have over 5000 songs on my computer so it really runs the gammit. The one thing I never really liked was opera then I heard this.



WARNING: May cause leaky eyes. The way he takes this song and carries you away with his voice.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX0rQQ87iMA



And also finding something that nobody else knows about. Like you have found a little secret.:)



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riRCPiQwrI4

Answer 4

I know this is the wrong venue to do this, but I'm going to take the opportunity to do so anyway. Your appreciation and knowledge and love for music far exceeds anyone's I've ever met. I may not answer all of your questions, frankly because I just don't feel worthy of even trying because your knowledge so far exceeds anything that I know! I stand in awe of you. And that's the thing..... you don't focus just one particular genre and say that that is your one taste. You listen to everything! Your taste is so broad....... and you don't just say you like something........ You are an excellent critic because of the way you can pinpoint exactly what it is about the song, the band, the lyrics, the sound, the acoustics.... the whatever!! You hear it.... your ear is tuned into find and seek what it is that makes the song what it is.



So to kind of sort of maybe answer your question..... all those things I've said about you... I've strived for in order to have a diverse appreciation. I think it was late in my life when I started realizing what it was that I liked about music. When I was younger..... I just liked a song and seriously never stopped to reason through the "whys." But about 10 years ago........ music hit me in a very intense way. I find myself listening to "Celtic Woman" because of my awe of those amazing voices blending together to make a sound that so few can accomplish. And then I turn to Weezer because of Rivers Cuomo's brilliance with his lyrics. And Rob Dickinson's voice in Catherine Wheel mesmerizes me so that I'm lost in a world that I never want to leave. And then I listen to John Prine (who a new special friend has introduced me to) and curse myself for ever saying I could not listen to country blues. His lyrics are so spot on perfect and his voice brings a comfort I can't explain. My diversity does not compare to yours. But you are such a whiz and an inspiration to me whether you realize it or not.



Rock on Rockman!! :)

Answer 5

Dvorak to Dream Theatre

Bessie Smith to The Smiths

Hank Williams to Wendy O Williams

Gershwin to Grateful Dead



In other words almost any type of music.

I was about 5. I was raised in a family where music was first and foremost. My parents encouraged us to listen to any and every type of music we could find.

Answer 6

Quite.



I remember discovering Motown when I was just 7 or 8. I've loved it ever since and that's the start of my love of music.

Answer 7

My favourite genres are metalcore and hardcore, but I can listen to anything- techno to hip hop to classical.





Hell, even pop and country!

Answer 8

i like it when the bands can pull of some extremely fused stuff like death metal together with jazz for instance. it takes skills and guts.



i mainly like metal, but i can appreciate good pop such as Bjork.

Answer 9

Anything from Iron Maiden to Taylor Swift to Classical. If that's not diversity, I don't know what is!

Answer 10

I like anything from Pink Floyd to Slayer



I discovered this fine taste in about March of 2008.

Answer 11

My Dear Rockman,



You do have some interesting questions to say the least. And this one is a goody. IF you're talking about what you like my Ipod is probably the moest eclectic listening I have. I have soooo many songs that bring back memories and some i just love.



I have Perry Como, and Frank of course, Barry Manilow and Rod, Elton johnn and Billy Joel, Classical consists of mainly musical scores. The Godfather Theme, Gone with the Wind, Dr. zhivago, but a friend turned me on to some other classical but couldn't begin to tell you what they are or how to spell them.



I have a true love for country and western. N0t the Taylor Swift sugar coated crap you hear now but when country was country. I have Merle, Johnny, Ray Price, Bobby Bare, Conway Twitty and others. I remember my dad cleaning house to these songs on Saturdays and while i don't miss the cleaning the songs always remind me of him.



I am a true lover of bad 70's music. Okay, so there was some good songs before disco took over and yes, there is some disco that was actually good. I have Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, KC and the sunshine Band, Donna Summer, ABBA, Bread, and some little known songs like Run Joey Run, Alone again naurally, Billy Don't be a hero. The night chiago died, love rollercoaster and of course David Cassidy as what girl in the 70's wouldnt have that around. I'd put Donny Osmond on but I think my kids would really have a field day with me..



The 80's was fabulous. If you name it, it's probably on there, all those wonderful one hit wonders of yore and the great hairbands. Anything from hall and oats, air supply to warrant, poison and cinderella. Kiss and rush when they were actually rock.



I have some 90's stuff but really more mainstream things. Adult top 40 stuff.



And then we have today. I absolutely love Nickelback and Seether and I found a few by Syestem of a down that was not too bad. I like more real country. not a lover of taylor swift or kenny chsnety but George can do no wrong. Rascal Flats is still tops and Blake Shelton is great.



Music is great and you can find good music anywhere. I've recently even found a few christian songs that i like as well. I'm learning to appreicate a little rap (trust me it's just a little bit) and some hip hop as well but still a little more mainstream.



While my taste runs all over the place some of those songs i can remember exactly what I was doing when I first heard them or what was going on in my life.



I don't think I really knew just how eclectic I was till recently My son loves to remind me of this and teases me constantly about what he calls the so called "crap" on my ipod. I just let him talk and remind him that one day his kids will do exactly the same thing to him and make fun of his music too!!!



Have a good one!!!

Answer 12

More diverse than anyone I know, except for a couple yahoo friends.

After going off into the world to be on my own when I was 18, experienced lots of "forbidden" rock n' roll and the heavy stuff of our time (Hippie Generation). Bob Dylan's music is more appreciated like fine wine, as is Pink Floyd, Moody Blues and many others. There is much fine music from all over the world out there: African-Madagassi, Swahili and so on, very rich and interesting-South and Central American Latin music. Then there's all kinds of New age, Enya, Irish, British and other European. I never tire of Classical music. If a person doesn't like one composer there are many others to choose from. Of course the USA has old time Country, Blue Grass, Jazz, New Country, Acoustic, Oldies, Swing. I like it all. Never have been fond of most Heavy Metal and Hip Hop though. I credit my parents for my diverse interest in music for everything was played on the Hi-Fi as far as I can remember and my Dad played Polish music from a radio station at his shop.

Answer 13

Roughly speaking the scope ranges from ATB through U2 to Ramstein, but I guess one simply cannot help the lure for the bands mentioned :) I'd say I consider my "intense music appreciation" as diverse since I quit hard rock stuff (which was LOL about the same time I finished highschool), but I think it no more than the norm.

Answer 14

My music collection has both Cannibal Corpse and Avril Lavigne, I've got Falco, Cypress Hill, Cake, King Diamond, The Postal Service, The Pixies, and 475 other bands in there too. It's not really something I 'discovered' at any specific time, I just add whatever sounds good.

Answer 15

In the last year, I've come to realize I will pretty much listen to anything and everything. My taste goes from Hannah Montana to Lamb of God and Slayer.

I'm also a huge fan of Rammstein. Motley Crue is my favorite band. Britney spears is second on my list too.



The only band I've ever heard that I didn't like was The Devil Wears Prada. Whiny teenage boys that never went through puberty just doesn't appeal to me.

Answer 16

Truly, I am not all that diverse, I am not a big fan of classical, big band, rap or hip hop. I do love rock & country the best and I didn't discover that I liked country til the early 90's.



Have a great sunday! Rock on, Rockman!!!



♥♥♥

Answer 17

i discovered music relatively late! 0.o

probably last year of middle school

i started off with: Linkin Park, SOAD, and Nirvana

then i was a metal-head for all of freshman year: Slayer, Metallica, Dragonforce... etc

then i got into punk sophomore year: Anti-flag, Black-flag, Choking Victim ...etc

then i got into ska: Aquabats, Streetlight Manifesto, Big D ...etc



and now im a senior an i listen to, ummm almost everything

i got into indie allot this year, also into some experimental, and industrial



but right now im looking up foreign bands/artist

i really like Irish folk rock, and some gypsy jazz/rock



and after highschool ^.^ ....im just getting started

Answer 18

I like anything from Pink Floyd to All that Remains and Bullet For My valentine,



I have always liked rock.



I started liking punk rock and psychadelic rock in summer 08.

I started liking Metalcore and hardcore rap in September 08.

Answer 19

Anything from Beneath teh Massacre to Charlie Pride to the Sex Pistols to Woody Guthrie, all the way up to Hypocrisy.



About a year ago.

Answer 20

I have one custom made CD that has Bach, Beethoven, AC/DC, Beatles, Rush, Air Supply, Abba, Karl Jenkins, and Hank Jr and Sr on it, along with a bunch of others.



Even Chet Atkins and Black Sabbath and G-N-R and Twisted Sister.

Answer 21

my music taste is pretty diverse...I like pretty much anything from hip hop to death metal to jazz. except I'm not too keen on mainstream pop or country. I discovered this about a year ago.

Answer 22

Ill listen to pretty much anything that isnt rap,country,pop, R&B, Reggae, and Hip-hop





THough, most of the stuff I listen to is Classic Rock, Rock, and Metal



and i didnt really discover it, its just what i grew up listening to.

Answer 23

Very diverse. 75% of what I listen to falls roughly under "rock," though.



I've been building it up for maybe 5 years, excluding a year I spent as a scene kid listening to Fall Out Boy and Linkin Park.

Answer 24

Pat Benatar, Michael Jackson, Britney Spears (pop)to 10 Years, Papa Roach, Buckcherry(todays rock) to Motley Crue, Alice Cooper, Cinderella, Poison(glam rock), to Metallica, System Of A Down, Korn(metal) to Carrie Underwood(country) to H2O and Anti-Flag(punk)...i also love listening to the bluesy kind of music..



i got into music late...i obsessed over the Spice Girls til i was like eight then i didn't really care for much..listened to my sisters pop music until i discovered Papa Roach and Fozzy i was thirteen..i got into Punk after that and at 14(now) i got into heavy rock and glam rock..music took off at 14 for me..

Answer 25

I listen to everything from lil wayne to slayer, to rascal flats to beethoven to anything indian or middle eastern. I think it helps me integrate a lot more into my drumming. I encourage being diverse in music.

Answer 26

It's not very diverse at all but...I dont listen to much of today's rock...i dont like fob or mcr or a7x and smiliars. I hate pop, rnb, urban, techno, house and every other genre...but rock. so yeah...i can't help that the other music out there sounds like crap to me.



This all happened almost 5 years ago.

Answer 27

stuff like pink floyd and led zeppelin to stuff like AC/DC to the ramones to bob marley, to system of a down, to necrophagist and through the eyes of the dead, and most of the stuff in between. No rap and no country.

Answer 28

haha well start with rap to reggaeton from metal to video game music(f-zero legend of zelda, mario etc. cool songs)

from techno to classical from punk to latin. well

to me... its less about genres and more about the actual song.

i liek songs better, more for their sound than the lyrics too.

Answer 29

Since childhood, I've loved many types of music, and I simply added more as I grew and encountered them in movies, on the radio and through bargain bin purchases. My music collection includes:

* classical, especially Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky, Vivaldi, Mozart, and Bach

* movie scores ranging from "King Kong" (1933) and "Gone With the Wind" by Max Steiner to "Joseph Andrews by John Addison; from an array of John Williams' scores to "Conan the Barbarian" by Basil Poledoris; from Bernard Herrmann's collected scores to Ernest Gold's "Exodus"; plus Tangerine Dream, James Horner, John Barry, Alan Silvestri, etc.

* rock 'n' roll from the late Fifties up through pop // I have all of my 45s and albums from the '50s-'80s, plus 8 tracks, cassettes and CDs (not many of those)

* hard rock and Heavy Metal ranging from Warrant to Manowar, from Leatherwolf to Def Leppard, from Guns N' Roses to Metallica, from Skid Row to Queensrhyche, plus so many others, including Scorpions, Ozzy, Rhino Bucket, Fifth Angel, Killer Dwarves, White Lion, House of Lords, Nelson, Yngwie Malmstein, Dio, etc. I don't care for most death metal or "gargle" rock. I like my lyrics intelligible.

* Forties music, from popular songs to Big Band (as well as popular music from earlier decades, as far back as you care to suggest)

* traditional/ethnic music, especially Irish but including English, Scottish and Welsh, as well as many other countries // I play the bowed psaltery and have a repertoire of about 500 songs, most of them traditional melodies. Among my favorites are The Chieftains, The Irish Rovers, Tannahill Weavers, Colcannon, and many small groups most have never heard of who play at reenactment events, including Cross Rogues, Father, Son & Friends, and O'Carolan's Daughters. Someday, I'll have an album of my music available for those who ask when I play at events.

* Gregorian chants! Medieval Babes! "Weird Al" Yankovic! Josh Groban! Native American and Incan flute music! Water glasses! Hurdy gurdies! Bagpipes! Ragtime~and not just Scott Joplin! Pierre Bensusan!

* bluegrass (the "old-timey" stuff) but barely any C&W

* musicals mainly, plus some operettas (especially Gilbert & Sullivan) and operas



There are so many more I could list. I continue to add to my interests.



I have to say that I like barely any rap or hiphop, especially the brutal stuff. I used to hear good poetry when rap started appearing, but that seems to have disappeared.

Answer 30

i like rammstein and kent. rammstein is a german industrial band (industrial is kinda like metal i guess) and kent is a swedish band. they are soft with great melodies. i figured that out about 4 months ago.

Answer 31

I like just about any type of music.

I have alwayz known this.

Answer 32

pink floyd

Answer 33

well i like to listen to experimental, synthpop, indie pop, indie rock, new wave, & alternative

Answer 34

i like punk

hate rap