"Aspie music"?

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It mostly depends on the flavor and color of the noise for me. I like quite a few genres, but rock is definitely at the top. The noise of Nirvana, White Stripes, and NIN(!) actually comfort me. But when I hear most modern hip hop I want to crawl out of my skin. Go figure.

And yet I'm just as captivated and appreciative of softer melodies from the likes of Elliot Smith, Joshua Radin, and Nick Drake to name a few.

I listen to showtunes. They're my special interest. That makes up the bulk of what I listen to. I like most music, though. I like the band Quietdrive, they're kind of a pop-punk. I also like Tori Amos, Joni Mitchell, Kate Bush and Sarah Brightman.

I am listening to The Doors (Absolutely Live) right now and it is great. I like The Doors (The Doors) for going to sleep. I like electronica and prog rock too.

Mostly, my collection is Eurasian fusion music, and jazz.

I think that there are as many musical tastes, as there are people on WrongPlanet.

It's just taste. Enemin is my favorite music artist. I can relate to his songs more than those of anyone else.

growing up I listened to nirvana, korn, alice in chains or n e thing grunge because it seemed to make sense because I'm from a town near seattle where it is always raining/cloudy...(ferry ride away)

i've always liked the oldies.....(catchy and possitive)

i'm an avid underground rap collector though I know most mainstream artists 90's-2005

as I get older I find it increasingly hard to listen to any of the new music because whether it is the alternative I used to listen to or the rap I now listen to I can only dig back in time....todays music doesn't make alot of sense to me though it's not as if I'm old at the age of 21....maybe it's the aspie in me clinging to what I know well...which is 90's music.

I listen to a variet of stuff from 60's, 70's 80's 90's 00'S, pop, rock, electro but my main preference is metal

Music - how would I have survived without it? I craved it since I could remember. I was like a sponge from the start.

I think every genre has it's gems, and I don't have a huge dislike for any of them except that I only like small samplings of country. I like rock, heavy metal, punk, blues, jazz (depending), RnB, opera, old school rap (or the modern rap artists that were influenced heavily by it, like Eminen or Snoop Dogg), 50's doo-wop, show tunes, some dance/techno, etc, etc., but rarely top 40 (or at least while they are still in the top 40 ). When I was a teenager, I really despised the hits, and only listened to music 20+ years old. By the 90's I liked what was happening, and now it's slimmer pickings, but there's always something I get excited about, whether 50 years old or brand new.

I grew up in the 70's and 80's. Maybe it's because I had three much older siblings, all of whom had different tastes plus my parents had theirs as well, and music was always playing in our house and I had a stereo (record player) in my room since about five, but I just appreciate it in all forms when it's done well. I used to care about lyrics and such, but they hardly matter at all now.

I'm lucky in that I had been introduced to a lot of older music (early blues, jazz, RnB, etc) via my boss (and good friend) at a second hand record store during my 20's. It was awesome to be in a place where it was all about the music, and the conversations were like none I've had since...but I digress!

As for "noisy" stuff, I love it. It didn't start out that way, as I had avoided heavy metal and punk as long as I could, thinking it was awful. But the more I listened (on my own), the more I realized how cathartic it could be. For example, I loved Nirvana back in the day, but there were certain songs that had feedback moments or were really "painful" to hear, lyric or vocal wise, and the sounds would pierce my very soul, like fingernails on a chalkboard. Instead of fleeing from the "pain" I embraced it, became it. Hard to explain. I find it really...I don't know...revitalizing?!

I don't think there is any "Aspie music", as such though.

I dislike Pop and Rap/RnB mainly because its commercial and manufactured. There are no emotions in it, the artists seem to care more about profit than their fans. And unfortunately in the consumer society we live in, music that has no meaning is appreciated by the general population. I love Ambient, Space rock, and Chill-out music. I also appreciate Aphex Twin kind of stuff because I see it more as an art-form rather than something you just mindlessly put on

I really, deeply identify with the music I listen to. The strangest thing is its the music without lyrics tend to be more meaningful to me; it puts me on another planet. And as most aspies here know, feeling as if on another planet is a deeply spiritual experience that is enjoyed


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hm.

i think we're all pretty different in our tastes here.

but i tend to like quite a few things .. here's some stuff i like:

- ambient, for the trance feeling
- any guitar based rock that's ethereal or psychedelic
- good solid rock and punk, for the angst
- industrial, same reason, angst & energy
- rock with a good guitar hook, odd time signature, or something that otherwise holds my interest as i follow along with it
- anything with a good groovy low end, like hip hop and funk; i guess this is because i like to "feel" the bass

music is very emotionally evocative for me, and since my emotions as real time reactions to life experience are a bit wonky and elusive, i have always leaned very heavily on music to bring me there. so i like a lot of different things. it's very therapeutic.

I like Rammstein, Metallica, Ozzy, Sabbath, Smashing Pumpkins, Marilyn Manson, and a lot of gothic from the 80s/early 90s.

But my favorite of all time is Pink Floyd, oddly enough. I hate noise, but I love Floyd despite their freakish love of random sound effects. The three hundred alarm clocks all going off at once on Dark Side of the Moon... that does this to me every time: . And there are a bunch of such horribly-noisy moments on all their albums. Still my favorite band ever though.

Rap doesn't generally focus on the structure of the sound, bland walls of undifferentiated beats just don't do it for me.

If I want simplistic musical structure, I'll listen to The White Stripes, or the song that has been stuck in my head for several days now (Irrational Number, Paul Nordquist, link in "songs that remind you..." it's easy as... 3 point 14159 265 35 897 93 23846 264 338 3279...), if I want complexity I'll go pick up a NIN remix halo, like 6 or 10.

Mostly I like good drums, fun to sing lyrics, and good production that takes surround sound systems appropriately into consideration.

If music stirs a reaction in me then I will fall in love with it nevermind the genre...
music to me doesn't produce a synthesia experience ,but it makes me feel like fluid....like I'm lost to something beautiful and makes me feel "right" if that makes sense...