So that's why normally it's pretty hard to find too many things I don't like.

What about you?
I'm not talking googling here; just things that you like that represent very different genres.

Can't say that I'm fond of many (if any) of the current music trends. I never did. Even growing up, I was listening to things that were different from my peers. I never got into the groups and bands that they did. Beat of my own drummer, I guess!

I knew you'd have eclectic tastes!

As a musician I'm probably as eclectic as they get! No, there might be someone who plays a one man band or something.
I've played in a latin band as a saxophone player, a Jazz band as a baritone sax player, a clarinet player in band and symphony, a flute player in classical groups, a recorder player in a renaissance group in costumes, a Gospel choir, a renaissance vocal group, and instrument wise that's about it.

I always wanted to play stringed instruments better. But I never managed to get into the fiddle and I don't really like violins!
I prefer woodwinds to trumpets.

In my collection now I have some Celtic festivals with Breton and Gaelic participants. I have Dan Fogleburg like malizma. I like bluegrass but don't have much here, how about Maria Muldaur?
I love the Beatles of course, I love Diana Ross from the old days.
I liked most of the major jazz artists and we'd play some of their charts.
I like big band music too, Glenn Miller and Artie Shaw. I played in the smaller stage band at school for older folks and boy could they dance!
Don't faint, I liked the Lawrence Welk show and my kid did too!
I like Dixieland too! Got to hear it in New Orleans once.
I love Elvis, and most of the things that came out of Memphis, lived there for two years.
I loved CSNY too.
Hawaiian music? I have a pretty unusual collection of hawaiian musicians and worked in an ethnomusicology lab there for a while. The Cazimero brothers, and several other groups you don't find too often on the mainland.
I love George Michael.
I am fond of Boccelli as I think he has one of the purest voices of the century. Not as fond of Pavarotti. I'm not as fond of sopranos though. I will hear no ill word spoken of Boccelli and how he's not really operatic tenor, who cares?
I love oldies, but I mean real oldies! Like Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, the classics.
I've got this Jerry Lee Lewis tape in my car that I like to listen to.
I love Sting and the police now.
I used to listen to Pentangle, and anything that used folk.
I love folk music, and ethnic varieties.

Here in France and Italy (I'm on the border) I listen to all the new and older artists.
I begrudgingly listen to Barbra Streisand, I like her voice but I'm not keen on her style.
Yes Mariah Carey is one of the faves around this house.
I know the chorus of Stan, yes indeed, as Dido has a pretty willowy voice to me.

I like Martin's "Little Chapel on a Hillside" and Sinatra both.

I like Brazilian music and the Gypsy Kings.
I love Simon and Garfunkel too. They are a mainstay here on my desk.

I have been to a Hearts concert and a Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
I like Linda Rondstadt too.

I love Dolly Parton's sweet voice, and what do people have about women who look like women? She's for real!
I like Willie Nelson too.

I guess people might find me odd, but I really do like these musicians...because for me they represent music.

do you all still respect me? Just joking...but it's true that I've always been open to new experiences in music. And when I studied languages, it just worked.

My tastes ... I love Australian Folk music, we're a pretty small breed as not many people know much more than "Click go the shears" and "Walzing Matilda". Bands like The Bushwackers, Ants Bushband and The Sundowners etc... as much of the influence of this kind of music came from Ireland and the celtic sort of music I like that as well.

My CD collection, though not extensive, is varied. Just sitting here by the computer is Offspring, Pet Shop Boys, Corrs, Green Day, Monkees .... quite a difference in music styles in that little lot!

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Originally posted by bruyere:
I'm probably pretty eclectic in my musical tastes but you might be too. Can you give me ten examples of different genres that you like?

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I hate all eclectic music.............I much prefer the 'acoustic' sound!........er.........um.........did I read that wrong?

10 genres are simply not enough.......I find different interesting things to like in all types of music!

Punk self explanatory, if anyone's read my posts
New Wave whatever that is?.......wimm, please explain?.....LOL
Trance hey, I like to dance and make silly movements with my hands!
Swing I am determined to play that trumpet solo before I die
Jazz nice!
Progressive Rock Pink Floyd started it, I like to think that The Stranglers 'progressed it'.
Grunge One day, I will visit Seattle.
Classical Nimrod by Elgar.........every rememberance day it makes me cry.
Pop Abba, Steps, S Club 7, The Rubettes............hey, what's 'PoP' short for?
Metal in all its guises!

well.......that's 10. I need another sheet of A4!

wez
Music.........it ROCKS!

I like rap but not gangsta.

I like classical music, particularly Bach, Beethoven, and Pachelbel. Never really cared for Mozart though Tchaikovsky rocks.

I love U2. I can stand boybands, but only because they remind me of a longlost friend, who would laugh his @$$ off if he could read this.

I like techno, especially that one track on the matrix. Track 4, the one with the piano. I believe it is charmingly titled "Clubbed to Death," but what can you do.

I like the Beatles. I even like Enya. They Might Be Giants rock my world, and I must confess to a certain fondness for "Achy Breaky Heart." Celtic music is also very fine, and I'm a sucker for the Scottish bagpipes.

That's 10, more or less. If you count individual bands as entire genres.

1) Jazz
2) Folk
3) Rock
4) Pop music (but I am very particular)
5) Blues
6) Classical
7) Hard Swing
8) Celtic
9) Gospel
10) Broadway

This is not in any order. I also have my definite favorites in each category. I vary from Pat Metheny (jazz) to Stephen Sondheim to Eurythmics, Styx, Benny Goodman, Dave Brubeck, Dan Fogelberg, etc.

1. 60's - (can I chuck all that in 1 category?) I'm talking Doors, Kinks, Beatles, Velvet Underground, Hendrix, Monkees (seriously!) and the like....
2. Goth and Industrial - Siouxsie Sioux, Nephilim, Heresy, Rammstein, Cure, Sisters of Mercy, Nick Cave....
3. "Alternative" - Ash, Weezer, Spiderbait, Strokes, They Might Be Giants, Radiohead, PJ Harvey, Alex Lloyd, Travis, Red Hot Chilli Peppers...
4. 80's "trash" - c'mon, it's the stuff we love but don't want anyone else to know about. Adam & The Ants, Squeeze, Billy Idol, New Order, Soft Cell...
5. Old School Punk - the new stuff doesn't really appeal to me. I'm talking the Clash, The Jam, PIL, etc...
6. Blues - Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, BB King....
7. Metal - I don't evan know if the stuff I listen to counts as metal. Maybe hard rock? Anywayz, Tool, Soundgarden, Rollins band, etc...
8. Celtic - am I allowed to write that? We have a band on Friday nights at the pub that play Celtic stuff. I love Christy Moore. On Sunday nights, they have another band with bagpipes and all. Call me crazy, but I do dig it.
9. Country - I have to do it. Man, we were bought up on Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton and the like. You have to expect some of it to rub off...
10. 50's & 60's "girls" - Dusty Springfield, Petula Clarke, The Shirelles, Diana Ross. Again, this is stuff we grew up on. But I still like!!

I once worked for someone selling fifes or pennywhistles at the Dickens fair in SF, and I used up my jigs and Christmas stuff. Took me a while to get the courage to play one of those.

Brubeck is one of my favorite all time musicians and I got to see Paul Desmond, his saxophonist in the quartet in solo.
I have about three albums for my keyboard and "Far More Blue" is my all time favorite.

Does anyone else know who David Bromberg is? I loved his stuff, I mean the guy didn't exactly have the name of a bluegrass artist did he? But I loved his "don't know much about..."

I forgot to mention hymns, just straightforward ones.
I was terribly disappointed in the Catholic church in France to hear the hymns, I figured the main point in going to church was for the acoustics!
I also sang tenor so that the Gospel singers in the section who couldn't read music much less bass clef could follow me. Handel's messiah with a woman tenor, they had to hide me.

I love Ragtime, have a couple of good ragtime easy playing books. Joplin is the best, of course.

I love the harp too.

My first and utmost favorite music form is the Blues.I'm talkin Son House,Lightnin Hopkins,McKinley Morganfield(aka Muddy Waters),Big Bill Bronzy,James Cotton,you known the "Old Guys".
Then I like the "new blues" like Tinsley Ellis,the Nighthawks,Rod Piazza,Sean Costello,SRV,etc.
But my tastes aren't limited.I love Carreras,and Pavarotti.
I dig klezmer,Ska,ragae,jazz,bagpipes,Latin,norteòo,Tejano.I like the old rock and roll from the 50's and 60's.Don't much like rap and disco.Thought the 80's rocked.There were some very inovative artists in the 80's.Especially in the engineering aspect of the music biz.
Love Patsy Cline Elvis and Hank Williams Senior.Jr.ain't so bad either!I like "new country".It reminds me of that "old" rock and roll.You know the old adage,country and blues had a baby and called it Rock N Roll!
So thats it in a nutshell.If I don't stop I'll never get any work done around here.

Bill, you sound like you're about as eclectic as I am!

Hey, how about give me two of your most unusual CD's or records or cassettes together!

Here's a duo for you, the Makaha Brothers of Niihau and Dan Ar'Brazh.
The first group is a group from the forbidden island of niihau..pronounce the i's separately. Nee ee how. It's not forbidden just private. Nothing like brothers singing in harmony.
The other CD is a group of Celtic musicians from Brittany.
Love that drone sound.

No teasing about Neil Diamond, I'm getting old ya know

Oh good gravy, loads of stuff. Anyway, if you really want to you can subdivide Pop music into a million little subcategories. House/ Techno is particularly guilty of this. Excuse the cliche, but I like anything that's good!

As before...if its good i'll listen.

Wagner's New World Symphony (No. 9)
The Smiths 'Rank'
Einsturzende Neubauten 'Stratagies Against Architecture'
Peggy Lee 'Greatest Hits'
Sonic Youth 'Evol'
Big Smith (a local bluegrass band) 'Big Rock'

I try not to use the 'shuffle' button

Angelo Branduardi, now there's a guy who you can't fit into a mould!

Django Reinhardt?

I don't know how to use the shuffle thing, I don't have that kind of set up.

I've got a King Crimson CD on my desk too. And Will Smith, and let's see, ANtonio Carlos Jobim.