I have a crazy unusually broad taste in music. Is that ok?

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There is nothing wrong with liking a wide variety of things music or otherwise.

Oddly enough, I know a good handful of aspies who like a wide variety of music. I myself am one of the picky ones, but if I hear a song from another genre that somehow fits with my tastes, I'll like that one song at least.

Exactly! What's wrong with liking a wide variety of music, or books, or movies, or people . . . it's all good! I think it indicates an open and curious mind, the best kind of all!

I, too, can appreciate and enjoy a wide variety of music (and books, movies, people, etc).

My music collection covers all the genres (save for the most obscure, I suspect).

I like classic rock, pop, heavy metal, grunge, alternative, country (and all the country sub genres), classical, new age, children's music, world music, just to name a few. Sure, I gravitate to one or the other at certain times in my life, and overall I prefer rock over, say, country. But what I listen to depends on my mood.

I say, give all the beautiful varieties of art--whether it be music or whatever--a chance. How else can you figure out what you really like??

Oh I like both kinds ... Country and Western.

I'm making a CD now of -

*New World Orchestra- 1812 overture Buketoff arrangement with augmentation of pipe organ
*John Williams- the march from "1941"
*SNO w/Naemi Jarvi- "battle on the ice" from Alexander Nevsky
*Laurie Johnson, London Studio Symphony Orchestra- "first men on the moon"
*London Philharmonic w/ Sir George Solti- "mars" and "Uranus" from The Planets Suite
*Boston Pops Orchestra w/ John Williams- "Superman March" and "Imperial March"

QFT

I'd like to think I have a broad taste in music, but not exactly eclectic, as I tend to lean towards one genre most of the time (Metal), though I will give any artist/song a fair listen regardless of genre. If I don't like a particular song from an artist, but I sense potential that other songs may be more my liking, I'll skim other songs by them until I determine whether or not I will continue to listen. If I like a song, I will listen to it over and over no matter what genre (I'm not a fan of 80's pop, but there are songs that come on the radio that I will sing along to when they come on...which tends to surprise/amuse my wife). I played drums in a band for 6 years and we played anything from old country (George Jones), to, at the time, new country (Toby Keith), to rock (Collective Soul, Tantric) and classic rock (Pink Floyd, Lynyrd Skynyrd).

Throughout my life, I've always been a fan of rhythmic music. I listened to rap as a kid in the 80's (the advent of gangsta music as the popular sound turned me off, so I kicked back with "old skool" stuff like Run DMC). I can stand pop for a short while (usually not too long, though), but country usually isn't an option (there are always exceptions - like songs with humor a la Toby Keith and Big and Rich). In general, I flock to "thick" music like Metal, specifically Melodic Death Metal and Thrash Metal. I love the combination of thick guitars, heavy riffing, double bass and keyboards normally associated with MDM, and I love the strong beat, hard riffing, marching/groove style of Thrash metal. I also like a few punk bands (like Rise Against).

Vocals have never really interested me. For some they're the main part of the sound and are supposed to stand out, but to me I like them as part of the harmonics and overall sound. I don't generally like albums full of high-pitched wailing or growling/grunting found in some forms of metal. While the musicianship might be top-notch and intricate with a sound that I can get into, the vocals actually distract me and kill the enjoyment of the sound. Again, there are exceptions as I like Carcass (who pretty much defined the MDM sound) and bands that do growl/clean tradeoffs.

I'm also a fan of classical, jazz, and big band. Again, it's a thick sound with many elements melding to produce a vibrant sound. I played sax (alto, tenor, baritone) in concert band, jazz band and orchestra in elementary and junior high school and even transposed 2nd and 3rd trombone parts for my tenor sax to beef up the lower brass sound in our band and orchestra.

I do love the sound of organs and synthesized keyboards, especially pipe organs, harpsichords, wurlitzers, clavinets and hammond organs. Any song from any genre that has these instruments in them I will usually take a liking to. I can sit through a piano recital, though if the songs are generally whimsical and fluid rather than hard staccato I will tend lose interest (think Elton John playing Goodbye Yellow Brick Road vs. Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting)). I appreciate the whimsical and fluid pieces, because I personally cannot play the piano (although I've tried), and I marvel at 10 fingers moving at once to produce a brilliant sound, but most of it reminds me of bedtime music.

I like all kinds of music with very few exceptions. I sometimes find myself getting into a song that for whatever reason kind of makes me feel uneasy. I can never pinpoint why a sound or word sequence will do that to me, but I'm drawn to it. Lately I've been listening to more Balam Acab, Blue Foundation, Aesthetic Perfection, Chthonic, Daughter Darling, Delerium, Vitalic, Utada, Tsnm's mixes (dj I think I found on soundcloud), Sunday Munich, Saltillo, Birthday Massacre, Cass Mccombs, The Cure, Depeche Mode, Cyanotic, Dot Allison, Ego Likeness, Eths, Portishead, Fleetwood Mac, Lady Gaga, Florence and the Machine, Flunk, Unter Null, Smashing Pumpkins, Ronald Jenkees, Richard X, Rammstein, Freezepop, God Module, Skip James, Vince Giordano's Nighthawks, Gnarles Barkley, The Heavy, In Flames, In this Moment, Radiohead, Pretty Lights, Poets of the Fall, Johnny Cash, Infected Mushroom, KMFDM, Laura Veirs, Lovage, Lunascape, MSI....and so on. ^^0

When folks ask me "who's your favorite rockband?" I usually reply "its a toss up between

Led Zeppilin, and Earth, Wind, and Fire."


They usually respond by just starring at me like I'm nuts because thats considered an odd

combination for some reason.


Go figure.

very few people seem to get my preference for Wurlitzer and carillon recordings.

Music is a bit of an obsession with me. I am almost always listening to music, and it has become a memory bank of sorts for me. Looking at mu itunes I have 275.75GB of music. This consists of 36,401 songs; 3,018 Albums and 396 Artists. I have fallen for all kinds of music at various points in my 40 years for various reasons, and I have found that any music I have ever loved I always do... and it seems I always will.
I have lots of stuff from the sixties; The Turtles, Byrds, Cream, early Kinks, Hermans Hermits, and so on. This is a lot of stuff I heard because it was what my mom listened to. I became a huge Buddy Holly fan from watching the made for tv movie with my mom back in the day.
I still have all the threash and hair metal I grew up with as a kid. Iron Maiden, Alice Cooper, Motley Crue, Poison, Slayer, Testament, Motorhead, Pantera, LA Guns, and so on and on. SO many of these bands we saw as teenagers down in Cincinnati and hung out with afterwards.
Then there are the things I listen to the most often. Tom Waits! I can listen to him at any time and within minutes I am writing drawing or painting. Morphine, Pink Floyd, Pink, lots of Classical, Savatage, Neil Young, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Jimi Hendrix (my guitar god trinity)Bob Dylan, Muse, Arctic Monkeys, Conor Oberst, M Ward, Soulfly, Juds Priest, Zeppelin, Sabbath, The Violent Femmes, Albert Davis, King, Red Fang, Monster Truck, Creedance, Orange Goblin, Clutch, Wallflowers, and on and on and on.
As for "Is this ok?" When has being open-minded been wrong?

A few years ago, I went to a a local independant music store for my payday CD acquisition spree and I got:

1. Black One by Sunn 0)))
2. Super Roots #6 by The Boredoms
3. Pica Pica by Peter Brotzmann
4. You've Come A Long Way Baby by Fatboy Slim

The kid who was ringing me up looked at what I was getting, and looked at me, and told me that I have incredibly strange tastes in music. --I take that as a compliment.

if I went to that same store and asked for my usual stuff he'd throw me out.

I have very diverse taste in music. I can't stick to one genre for long.

Over the years I've liked and listened to -
Bollywood (obviously as I'm from India)
Pop/Rock (60s to 2000s; hard rock, bubblegum, indie, whatever)
World Music (Latin, African, Celtic and more)
Electronic (90s-2000s)
R&B (60s-70s)
Classic Country
Rocksteady, Ska, Reggae
Some blues, classical and other things that I can't recall right now.
If I want to elaborate - like subgenres, subsubgenres, artists - each one of these will take a paragraph.

Genres that I'm sure I haven't listened to or liked -
Straight-up Jazz and Indian Classical I don't understand.
Hip Hop themes and words turn me off, though really I dig the sound.

Mozart, Bach
Django Reinhardt, Artie Shaw, Bix Biederbecke, Cab Calloway
Steve Reich, Mad Dog Mcrea, Luar Na Lubre, Hightown Crows, 808 State, Manuel Göttsching, The Prodigy, Depeche Mode, Unicorn Kid, Green Nuns of the Revolution, Hallucinogen, Iron Maiden, Primus, Smashing Pumpkins, White Zombie, Kidneythieves, Lords of Chaos, Polar, Gilbert and Sullivan, World Entertainment War, DJ L'Embrouille, Free Dominguez, Yatsuhashi Kengyo

Without having too many examples from any one genre, and limited to what I could find on Youtube.