Does your taste in music isolate you?

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I do feel that my taste in music isolates me. I either like what older people like (I will happily listen to the music that a colleague likes - she's 68) or only know a few people who like what I do. I've also found that very few people have heard of anything I like.

I remember that when I was around 16 (or maybe slightly younger) I mentioned that I like 10cc. Someone who is quite a bit older than me, (around late 30s / early 40s) gave me a look of I'm used to that now.

In general, I will listen to absolutely anything. A few years ago, my dad went through my music collection on my computer and said "why on earth do you have songs by Glen Miller?"

I don't think my mainstream eclectic music tastes isolate me...the fact many people on the local rock scene are music snobs so don't consider you 'one of them' if you listen to music outside of metal/rock does exclude me from the 'rock' sub-culture, as I'm primarily a rocker that's somewhat irritating.

I say my answer to the poll is emphatically, yes.

So much so that I refuse to listen to music around others, or let others know what I like. If the question comes up, I answer carefully.

I don't even like saying it on here....gosh, this may be a problem...

Yeah, it does. All I listen to is shoegaze, ambient and occasionally experimental stuff. I use to listen to more rock and punk stuff but as I've grown older I can only really tolerate those three. Anything else is too loud and energetic or depresses me because I've grown very isolated and anti-social over the years. Loud, "happier" more social music makes me think of the life I lack, I like the quiet droning beauty in bands like Slowdive and My Bloody Valentine. It gives me this really nice feeling inside.

I don't think so, I'm pretty eclectic in both genre and mainstream-ness.

most of the time

It does when I listen to blue grass lot of people can't stand blue grass music

It used to as I wasn't really into music at all and it was a popular conversation topic. However relatively recently I've got into metal and as a few mates of mine in a club at my university are also fans it has helped me create more of a connection with them.

Yes, a bit. But I hardly ever talk to people about music, so it's not much of a problem. It also got better when my interest in black metal became less intense and I finally began listening to something else

Oh yeah, totally. I'm currently studying in Colombia where Salsa, Merengue, Pop, and Hard Rock are commonplace. Indie, Alternative, and Punk is what I'm into. But no one knows who The Strokes, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, or The Ramones are. Not even the people in my school know any of these bands or know the genres.

I live in a small town where most kids listen to country and Top 40. I've had several years of experience in music and I think it made me harder to listen to the kind of music people in my area. Now head an hour southwest to Madison, and there will be a lot more people with similar tastes in music as me. I listen to a lot of Alternative and Indie music, with some Folk Rock artists and even a few Christian artists thrown in. I also appreciate Classic Rock, Celtic music, and Classical music. I even like an underground rapper or two. I've been labelled as a hipster just because of my tastes in music. Just because I don't listen to Top 40 or country doesn't make me a hipster.

I don't like a lot of electronic music because it doesn't have the same drive live instruments have. Most of the people i know are fans of Electronic/Techno/Trance. Most of the stuff i listen too is either old or obscure. A lot of metal, punk, new wave and alternative, but I do not like Led Zeppelin, Metallica, Foo Fighters or Pink Floyd, so I'm kinda obscured by the rockers, too.

More so when I was younger than now. Mainly because I listened to classical and hated hip hop and some other popular nonsense.