abstract music and AS

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This may just be me but i thunk there's a possibility it may be something to do with AS. I tend ot like Abstract or unusual Music be it the vocals, the over all sound, or both.

Examples I'm a big fan of King Crimson, Pink Floyd, T.V on the Radio, and Tricky among others. all of which don't sound like your usual bands. Don't get me wrong I do enjoy other bands and artists that are more conventional But I really enjoy the odder sounding ones.

So I was thinking sure it's my personal tastes but can AS also play into it? It's known People with AS are usually considered "strange" and generally "unusual" sounding music seems to always appeal to me. So can Stranger tastes in music and other media be a possible sign to AS? sure not a tell tale sign by any means but still a possible sign. What are your thoughts?

I'd say stuff like that is a lot more focused and emotionally intensive. As well its from people who are different, have had a different lifestyle, and they're putting something out there that they have to offer - something thats different, very authentic, and something they've been dying to get off their chests. The very fact that they're chasing their own sound tends to be a clue that they had a specific internal vision in terms of what they wanted out of themselves, their sounds, and when the music seems like its put together real solid you can see where they delivered on it and didn't let much really get in the way.

That's not to say that you won't have more traditional bands who are very good but I think they tend to work off of a slightly different dynamic all together.

I love bitpop myself. Have a listen at some of the free music at www.trash80.net and see if it's "Abstract" enough for you. :p My favorite track is "pain fade down"

I'm into Rock en Espanol. Some of the bands I like are mainstream but a few might not be.

Of course, there are aspies that religiously listen to the ultraprefab pop music on the radio. But I too find awkward, quicky, left-field music endearing. I don't know if it's a love for the abstract, but maybe an appreciation for the imbalance, assymetry, and ambiguity that also permeates our own lives as aspies. Whether we attach to the familiar or to the strange, music provides to some of us a world we can find shelter in.

I like moody pretentious music.

I am kinda like that, I like unusual sounds or patterns, dissonant chords and abstract in electronic music.

I like the Beatles psychedelic songs like Strawberry fields.

I listen to a lot of seemingly unstructured music that is not considered 'accessible or amenable' to pop music conventions. Stuff like Peter & Caspar Broztmann, The Boredoms, Sun Ra, The Residents, Doc Vor Mirran, Arabonradar, Art Ensemble of Chicago, SWANS, Acid Mothers Temple, Faust, Sunn 0))), etc.

I like Alternative punk....not that unusual.

I'd just say that people with AS are generally just less worried about trends and such like and so they will go their own path regardless of what's popular. That can mean running alongside or parallel to mainstream media.

I am a huge fan of 'abstract' expermential music, and im pretty much the only person i know that does, im sorry but the perdictable low brains stuff on the radio just doesnt cut it for me, for example im really into the 'farout' psychedelic stuff and noise rock

A lot of that stuff I can't listen to. I like The Beatles Psychadelic stuff, Floyd, Iron Butterfly and stuff like that, but some newer experamental stuff drives me crazy. I want to pull my ears off it irritates me so. I'm your run of the mill Metal Head, Classic Rock person. I also like Classical.

Yeah. I agree with this.

The music I like tends to the kind that nobody can directly put into one single genre because it mixes together so many different influences.

For example plenty of people would call Marilyn Manson industrial/gothic except people who listen to industrial/gothic, who would call him "pop," except people who listen to pop music would hate having him associated with their genre (prefering to listen to Britney and Justin Timberlake), so then people try calling him alt-metal or nu-metal or something except he doesn't sound anything like KoRn or Disturbed. Some people would say he's just a rip off of Alice Cooper and David Bowie, but I don't like Alice Cooper or David Bowie but love MM.

And what of Evanescence? Same deal. Can't just be called pop, can't quite be called nu-metal, but not goth rock or classical, and not quite symphonic metal or gothic metal either, though they have elements of all of these things. They obviously have a Kurt Kobain influence, but they don't sound anything like Nirvana.

And Dimmu Borgir? Certainly not black metal, but someone who doesn't listen to black metal would think they were.

Bands that stick too closely to the confines of one genre don't interest me. In any given genre that I like, there will always be the flagship bands that have had a lot of influence and a lot of hits to the fans of that genre and what not; I'll often not like these bands all that much.

Most (but CERTAINLY not all) of my favorite bands tend to have a relatively large fan base, but tend to be too dark and/or depressing to be all that popular, leaving the masses of genre purists to despise them and denounce them, saying that these bands do not represent the genres as a whole. At VampireFreaks.com it's practically a sin to even mention Marilyn Manson unless to say "He's not gothic and I hate him!", since they're so sick of the media calling him "gothic," which is fairly interesting since the VF group with the most members is its Marilyn Manson fan club. And what fan of black metal doesn't hate the living s**t out of Dimmu Borgir? I adore Dimmu. I adore Marilyn Manson.

I don't care that they have some popularity, I don't even care for the "pop stylings" that such bands have. I just like them because I like the way such bands SOUND...I tend to dislike totally indie bands because they often have bad sound quality, and not as advanced sound layering. I like Dimmu, for example, because of the dark symphonic elements, which it pulls off really well. Great sound, and great songs. I don't call that pop stylings. I call that quality music. If you need proof of that, consider that I also very much like Sleepytime Gorilla Museum and Dark Sanctuary and The Kovenant, three bands that aren't the least bit popular but still have a very clean, well developed sound and use it to create memorable songs.

ive been a longtime fan of both Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Aphex Twin, and now i am really starting to get into Animal Collective. i also really like a lot of experimental downbeat stuff like DJ Shadow (even though his last effort was a big departure and wasnt very good).