How should I describe my music taste?

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These are some of my favorite bands and artists and I need help describing allover taste in music. Some people describe themselves as EDM/Dubstep, some people describe themselves are Goth or whatever. So I need help trying to describe my taste in music in one or two words.

The Birthday Massacre
Aesthetic Perfection
Blood on the Dance Floor
Dot Dot Curve
Damone
The Devil Wears Prada
Miss FD
Millionaires
Davey Suicide
The Used
Eclipses for Eyes
Aiden
Alkaline Trio
Angelspit
Anti-Flag
Arcade Fire
Arch Enemy
As I Lay Dying
The Ataris
Atreyu
Aural Vampire
Avenged Sevenfold
Ayria
BABYMETAL
Bad Brains
Balzac
Blaqk Audio
Blink-182
Bloodhound Gang
Blue Oyster Cult
Bright Eyes
Bullet for my Valentine
Bury Me in LA
CircusP
Cobra Starship
Combichrist
Creature Feature
The Cure
Danzig
The Darkness
David Bowie
Deathstars
Deftones
Depeche Mode
Deuce
DHT
Dir En Grey
Dope Stars inc.
Dresden Dolls
Eighteen Visions
Evanescence
Eve 6
Faderhead
Fall Out Boy
Fear Factory
Five Finger Death Punch
From Autumn to Ashes
Garbage
Good Charlotte
HIM
Haley Rose
Halifax
Hawthorne Heights
Hole
Jack Off Jill
The Jade
Jakalope
Jeffree Star
JJ Demon
Kagamine Rin
Kerli
Kill Hannah
The Killers
Kittie
KMFDM
Left Spine Down
Less Than Jake
Lollipop Lust Kill
London After Midnight
Lordi
Macbeth
Mankind is Obsolete
Marina and the Diamonds
Marilyn Manson
Matchbook Romance
Meg & Dia
Mest
Metro Station
Mindless Self Indulgence
Miranda Sex Garden
The Misfits
My Chemical Romance
No Doubt
Nu’Est
The Offspring
Panic! at the Disco
Paramore
The Pink Spiders
The Police
Powerman 5000
Rancid
Santa Hates You
Shiny Toy Guns
Silverstein
Simple Plan
SKOLD
Slipknot
Son of Sam
The Sounds
Stabbing Westward
Stellastarr*
Static-X
Story of the Year
Stefy
Strange Boutique
Sugarcult
Sum 41
Hatsune Miku
Megurine Luka
Switchblade Symphony
Swandive
Tokio Hotel
3OH!3
The Used
William Control
Zeromancer
Die Form

I would describe your music taste as eclectic! And that is absolutely frigging awesome. And the Switchblade Symphony? YASSSSS! Your music taste is exceptional.

I used to like some the those bands, but it didn't describe what I feel. So, I like Christian music and adult contemporary music now.

Judging from the names I recognize, I would say your tastes center around progressive rock and punk, with a swath of metal thrown in.

I like rock pop, rock, heavy and metal music
I dislike rnb, disco and rap.

Guess my tastes are sort of eclectic, in a heavy music variety. A lot of music I listen to are bands then pop groups.

I do not think it really falls into a particular catagory, I saw a lot of like metalcore and othercore lol I don't know what they are all called, but that is largely derived from punk/hardcore punk though I think its sort of become its own kind of genre...But then you have David Bowie, some more electronic sort of stuff like combichrist and The Dope Stars(great band by the way)....and Manson, and some I guess you'd call it pop punk of the late 90's-2000's....is there a style out of those that is your preference?

I mostly listen to metal so consider myself a metalhead, but I also listen to a lot of other music especially if its psychdelic...metal is just my main passion in music. But one does not have to fit into a particular music subculture/scene...to enjoy the music. For instance I do actually like quite a lot of goth/punk/post punk but would not consider myself a goth or punk.

I agree with the comment above, it doesn't have to fit into a category indeed, although different styles fit under genres.

Likewise, I don't label myself either. Although if someone does listen to a majority of music, they would class themselves as goths, metal heads, punk rockers ect.

I don't think clothes define what people listen too, you could get a goth that may listen to lady gaga and someone that wears casual clothes, listen to doom metal lol.

Sounds like even if generally people enjoy one particular type of music, a lot of people will still listen to another type of music.

I go through phases, but the best way I could put it is to simply say I'm "alternative". I listen to metal, industrial music, synthpop, punk, grunge, trip-hop, breakbeat, ambient music, noise, prog, symphonic music, and a bit of classic rock. I like a fair amount of older mainstream music, but not so much of the new stuff.

I despise bubblegum pop, I think 99.9% of dubstep sucks, and I don't really care for straight rap or hip-hop, though I don't mind it mixed with rock or metal. I'm not big on country music either, though I don't mind it when a rock band does a country song every once in a while, and I acknowledge that country had a major influence on the roots of rock 'n roll.

Now, if I had to pick a favorite genre, I'd probably have to say industrial. I <3 Nine Inch Nails, Skinny Puppy, KMFDM, Ministry, and Front Line Assembly. Rammstein, Marilyn Manson, and VNV Nation are pretty good as well.

Mostly rock alternative, with bands like They Might Be Giants, Bare Naked Ladies, Devo, The Flaming Lips, and such.

As mine when I was 13.

Proper terms being "Nu-Metal".

It's interesting to see that a lot of people on here , like rock music, ambient metal ect

Awesome!

Sorry for bumping an old thread, but I really had to say this..

You like Alkaline Trio, KMFDM, and Marilyn Manson?
They're my favourites. I don't find many people who like all 3.

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Well you have quite a lot of different kinds going on there, so its a varied music taste...I guess its most all rock music(using it as a blanket term as I could point out more specific kinds of rock in the list) or electronic/industrial music.

Are there any specific kinds that are more meaningful than others...like I am obsessed with metal, I like other music but can't do without metal.

In conclusion , your music tastes is classed as being eclectic.

Anything I can play on the piano/keyboards. Which is limited now because I have Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.