How ecclectic are your listening habits?

Someone at work noted that I have strange listening habits. I tend to mix up styles of music from CD to CD. This morning I started off listening to Wargasm. After that CD ended I put on Genesis - Duke. I guess that is an odd jump in styles.

Anyone else tend to do this?

punk to thrash to classical to reggae to luda....I like alot.

99 percent of my collection is metal, hard rock, or punk, so it may not be considered very "eclectic" but within that mix there's a wide range of styles, from hair metal to thrash to traditional metal to old school punk and so forth. So yeah, I've been known to play, say, Body Count's first album back-to-back with Warrant's "Cherry Pie," followed by Sepultura's "Beneath The Remains." It does create some odd combinations.

Mostly metal and hard rock, but I did go from Peace Sells to the cure's new album today.

Ive gone from Maryln Manson to Natalie Imbruglia to Stone Temple Pilots to Megadeth

I listen to everything from Abba to ZZTop, but I don't find that to be strange. People who really love music usually listen to the music they love without regard to labels, if you look at the Playlist thread you will notice just about everyone on this board listens to a very diverse styles of music usually within the same day.

I'm all over the place. While I mostly like harder music (glam/sleaze, metal, punk, industrial), I also have some jazz, some electronica (not a lot mind you) and lots of Celtic / Renaissance style music.

Wait until Saxon gets the comp I sent him. Some different stuff on there.

Thats one of the biggest draws of this place for me is the diversity as I tend to not listen much to metal, and find the non metal discussions fun

I was just updating the spreadsheet of my CD collection and thought I'd randomly pull off some titles around the section I was updating:

Indigo Girls - Retrospective
Lordi - Deadache
INXS - Kick
Iron Savior - Battering Ram
Joe Jackson - Look Sharp!
Jason & The Scorchers - Still Standing
Janes Addiction - Strays
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Just looking at one of mixed CDs I have with me at work here are some of the artist:

Steve Jones
UFO
The Ramones
Judas Priest
Bob Dylan
Morbid Angel
Queen
The Police

I also like Enya when I'm in a mellow mood

When I'm at work, where I listen to the most music, I pretty much stick only to heavy metal because it keeps the co-workers at a distance and it angries up the blood, which gets my creative juices flowing. When I'm home, mostly becasue of the kids now, I'll listen to blues, jazz or lighter rock (hair/arena/etc.,) especially on sattelite radio where things are more diverse than my actual cd collection.

Just added the new Michael Stanley to my CD collection list: On the same page:

Stabbing Westward
Staind
Starz
Static X
Steelheart
Steely Dan
Stereophonics
Rod Stewart

Pretty eclectic I'd say.

I have a website named No Life Til Debbie.

I'm gonna say I'm eclectic.

spectrefate wrote:

I have a website named No Life Til Debbie.

I'm gonna say I'm eclectic.

That is an understatement just look at the letter 'A' section:

Aaliya
Lee Aaron
AC/DC
Adam Ant and Agnostic Front to name just I few I choose randomly

Fat Freddy wrote:

99 percent of my collection is metal, hard rock, or punk, so it may not be considered very "eclectic" but within that mix there's a wide range of styles, from hair metal to thrash to traditional metal to old school punk and so forth. So yeah, I've been known to play, say, Body Count's first album back-to-back with Warrant's "Cherry Pie," followed by Sepultura's "Beneath The Remains." It does create some odd combinations.

pretty much the same for me. this morning i cycled through The Gathering, Kix, Darkthrone, Otep, Gamma Ray, Plan 9, & Sexcrement.

Quote :

Sexcrement

Can you imagine what that would smell like?

I like a little bit of everything. I'm a huge jazz fan, I love folk and blues, progressive rock, classical, Brazilian pop, bossa nova, fusion, drone, Indian ragas, metal, soul, funk, etc. When I was growing up I primarily listened to classic rock and metal but have been broadening my horizons ever since, I would go nuts if I didn't have a variety of styles to listen to.

I have no problems going from Duke Ellington to Slayer...

I would say that my taste in music is eclectic, but my collection is not. It is mostly rock/hard rock/metal/ heavy metal. I don't own any Jazz, Classical, Country, or Rap. And I have only one album each from 80's acts like The Outfield, Tears For Fears, or Men At Work. I respect a lot of musicians for their talent and contributions, but I just wouldn't sit down and listen to a Rod Stewart or Elton John album so I don't buy it b/c it would be a waste of money for me. The eighties bands I mentioned earlier are kept more out of sentimentality for my childhood. I can't remember the last time I played any of those. Peace.

I'll go from U2 to BURNING WITCH to KING'S X to SARAH MCLACHLAN on any given day...

I'll go from Listening to Alabama to Vengeance Rising.I'm pretty open minded about music

mc666 wrote:

pretty much the same for me. this morning i cycled through The Gathering, Kix, Darkthrone, Otep, Gamma Ray, Plan 9, & Sexcrement.

mc666 wins.

From Metallica to country/western, oh wait there's no difference! But seriously i can go from Tears for Fears and Hall and Oats to thrash or death metal.

I do at times. I could go from Soul Embraced to Wes Montgomery to African music at any given time.

I usually have certain days when I want to listen to absolutely nothing except a certain genre, so I don't change much within the course of a day. Today I've listened to nothing but Thin Lizzy, and I bet tomorrow it will be something like Weezer.