Music preferences: Wide or Narrrow?

Some would say I'm narrow minded, but I probably know much more bands than an average person of my age and country. Narrow minded for me are those who like what is in the media. There are lots of people that like a band because it is popular ou it is called alternative. I mean, in 1996, 1997, 1998, every common adolescent would hate rap, hip hop and so on. Then rap became mainstream and people started to love first Brazilian rap artists, then the foreign ones. Lots of girls who used to love Spice Girls, Britney Spears and Backstreet Boys and so on started to listen to Eminem, Nelly, etc. It's narrow minded for me. People who underappreciate music. Appreciate the fashion.

And here we have a serious social problem, that Brazilian indians and african descendants claim that a person hitting a can is social culture of good quality, refined, while a european descendant doing the same thing would be called a mental handicapped. Nothing against any social group, but I for me music has to have something to do with musical theory, harmonies, melodies, et cetera.

But I appreciate not only prog rock, but also old rock 'n roll, hard rock, some heavy metal, classic rock, blues, some jazz, some folk, some "pop" (what they would call pop in seventies, not nowadays), classical music. I don't consider it to be narrow minded, while people nowadays only like electropop, "romantic pop", pop punk, "alternative" rock, hip hop and some regional songs from each country.

And I never say something is bad without knowing what it is.

Norbert wrote: I don't consider myself close minded. Prog,jazz and classical  offer more diversity than all other genres together. Even subgenres could be very diverse. For instance Yes, VDGG and Genesis are very different altough all are listed as symponic prog.

They are different, but only in terms of "shape". I think (I think) diversity has much more to do with different backgrounds or conceptual bases. Yes, VDGG and Genesis are more or less into the same line of creation, while Primus and Sonic youth are not. I don't know if this is clear enough. If you have three different looking persons, but they all are, for example, conceptual artists, then they are not different. Not so much, at least. On the other hand, you can have three persons that are almost clones. If one is a fan of sports, the second is some kind of Hippie and the third is a Bussines man, then you have diversity. It's the same way with music. The base concept is what gives you diversity, not line up differences, like two Italian prog bands, one having a flute and the other not, but both having that very "disctintive" () Italian prog feelling. Sorry about that, you Italian prog fans.

My taste in music is about as wide as anybody's.

Friends always laugh because when they drop in, they never know what I'll be listening to. From big band jazz to obscure prog to polka to Sugar Minot to AC/DC to something that's on the pop top 10. You name a category and I can probably name at least a song that I like. Now, mind you, some music I take more seriously (I like it because I think it's good) and I like listening to cheesey stuff (for the laugh).

I rarely say anything sucks because there's likely something I'll like about a song. I consider "that sucks" to be the most unimaginative way to comment on a song... except Celine Dion, her music sucks. 

cuncuna wrote: How would you describe yourself, attached to a genre or to an era, or you music collection goes from Dean Martin to Sigur Ros...

 

W I D E. 

Very wide, I actually DO have Dean Martin and Sigur Ros records

I probably have a recording of some sort in every genre of music, there may be some artists I don't like but in general I can find something of interest in all music.

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An average person would call me close minded.Only prog and classical are the styles of music that I really love and maybe jazz. There are bands, artists from other genres who I like, but I could live without them.

I don't consider myself close minded. Prog,jazz and classical  offer more diversity than all other genres together.

Even subgenres could be very diverse. For instance Yes, VDGG and Genesis are very different altough all are listed as symponic prog.

 

   I like creative and instrumental music what includes prog, classical, classical rock, arab music ... but i think that most people would call me close minded ... but I am proud of it =)

I would say narrow...but I'm making progress,cause half an year ago for example I was even narrower.

Prog, classic rock, singing poetry, Russian rock, some old pop (ABBA, Les Paul and Mary Ford, Sinatra,...), sometimes jazz, blues, rock'n'roll (mostly Elvis) and classic music.