what type of music do people with asperger syndrome like?

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Frank Zappa should have been elected president. Phillip Glass can certainly be odd and annoying, but I like his album 'Songs for Liquid Days' - any album with the Roches on it can't be all bad!

Two entire walls of my little apartment are covered with music from floor to ceiling, one wall crates of vinyl, the other of rows of Cds. I couldn't narrow my interests down to a dozen genres. The oldest recording I have is of a piano roll rag tapped out by Scott Joplin before the invention of the gramophone. I'm waiting for the iPod with enough memory to hold every song ever recorded. Just hit random shuffle and go...it's all good, from the stupid and obnoxious to the uplifting and sublime.

Except Accept, they really suck. And Metallica, they suck AND they're @ssh@les.

I like just about everything except country, contemporary Christian, techno, and that electronica stuff. Oh, and top 40 pop. I hate that too. I don't much care for hip hop, but I do like gangsta rap. Yeah, an old lady likes gangsta rap lol! But I heard it so much played by my 20 year old son when he lived here, it grew on me. Haven't listened to any of it in a while.

At the moment I'm listening to Gregorian chant actually. Music for the first Sunday of Advent. I'm not Christian but I do like their church music.

PaganMom

Likes:
All forms of Jazz/Standards
All forms of Classical/Romantic/Baroque/Symphonic
Many forms of Rock music (1960s, 1990s)
New Wave/Music of the 80s
Avant Garde/Experimental/Minimalism (Laurie Anderson, Philip Glass, John Cage)
Bluegrass
Electronica & Ambient

Tolerable:
Some disco
Holiday music
Instrumental

Dislikes:
Contemporary religious music
Contemporary country music


M.

Recently I only listen to Placebo. But I'm gonna go see Depeche Mode in January.

Ok ... I'll admit, I like Loreena McKennitt. We saw her in Portland just before Mask & Mirror came out.

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Chronologically, my musical taste begins in the renaissance with madrigals.

My favourite period, bar none, is the baroque. I like the classical period, particularly Mozart. My interest starts to wane in the late 19th century, although there are exceptions (the Nationalists, and their ilk).

I also love show music, and a mixed bag of more contemporary stuff.

Jazz rather left me behind. Syncopation and improvisation are very difficult for me, so the form lacked appeal.

I do not like rock or rap, or anything noisey or with a beat.

I do like and collect certain settings of Catholic, Anglican and Lutheran church music including settings of

Requiem Masses
Funeral Sentences
Funeral Cantatas

Passions
Seven Last Words of Christ from the Cross
Stabat Mater Dolorosa

Lamentations of Jeremiah

Domine, ne in furore
Domine, exaudi
Miscerere, Mei Dominus
De Profundis

Beethoven's Middle and Late String Quartets

My collection encompasses the middle ages to the present.

I usually listen to one setting of a piece of music over and over again, or I listen to all settings of a particular kind over and over again, sometimes for days.

it depends on my mood. Lately, I have been listening to 'Linkin Park' becasue it is how I feel. I relate to the "In the End", and to the "What I've done, etc. I have been feeling quite angry lately

That's an odd question. I can't lump my favourite music into one genre. I can name bands/performers I like, such as The Mountain Goats, Oingo Boingo, Marilyn Manson, Weird Al Yankovic, Muse, Radiohead and , yes, I do happen to like Green Day. I also like soundtracks and songs from musicals. I also like classical music and jazz (mostly classical). I used to listen to classical music A LOT when I suffered from Panic Disorder and then I started listening to it again when I was under loads of stress because of school. I've always listened to it for my enjoyment, but it's a great way to clear your head.

Though sometimes I intentiontally listen to bad music because the pure cheesiness of it is the reason why it is good.

Honestly speaking, I think the taste in music varies greatly on this board.

But I will state some of us who are really into music, tend to veer away from top 40 stuff and like to categorize more than a NT music listener.

A few of my favorite songs, see if there is any pattern.

Tori Amos: Raspberry Swirl
Tool: Lateralus (my kind of math, a song built on the Fibonacci Sequence!)
Nine Inch Nails: Only
Led Zepplin: Immigrant Song
The White Stripes: Jolene (Dolly Parton Cover)
Lady Gaga: Poker Face
The Beatles: Here Comes the Sun
Metallica: Battery
Butthole Surfers: Pepper
Orgy: Stitches
Pink Floyd: Time
The Cure: Pictures of You
Wall of Voodoo: Mexican Radio
Foo Fighters: Everlong (acoustic)

In general I'll listen to any song by those artists, except Metallica after the black album (Load onwards), I pretend they died in a terrible bus accident and were replaced by a cover band.