I have a crazy unusually broad taste in music. Is that ok?

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harry Zimmerman's big "band with a beat" is on my playlist now.

I like most genres. Some people think I'm weird because I like all the set works I have to study for GCSE music. That includes western classical, jazz, expressionism, minimalism, club dance, folk rock, Indian classical, west African traditional... those are just a few of the many genres I listen to. I LOVE MUSIC.

For most NTs it most certainly not OK.
They listen to what is fashionable, and if you listen to some music that isn't fashionable, well, you're weird.

Having said that, I find a lot of songs interesting. Particularly if the lyrics are amusing. I do get bored quickly if a song is annoying or repetitive. One of the most bizarre types of music I've listened to was composed by Conlan Nancarrow, its music written for player pianos and is really odd.

Its good to have a broad taste in music....I personally listen to anything from mellow psychedelic 60's rock to Death Metal and everything in between pretty much.

I don't like new/newish country, the closest I get to country is like Johhny Cash....and I don't listen to much classical, though I don't totally dislike it. And I am not into rap/hip hop though I have heard some I can tolerate just fine.

How about this for broad taste:
60s soul music, 50's & 60's Blues, Rythm & Blues, 50's 60's Jazz (from bepop to hardbop, cool jazz, soul jazz, Latin jazz, etc...no free jazz or swing though), B3 hammond intrumentals, Black metal (all metal sub genres actualy as long as if it's raw and unpolished, but 90' BM especially , 70's 80's dark wave, 70's punk, 80's Hardcore. British invasion R&B (early stones, kinks, small faces, who etc...) , 60's Garage rock, some Oi!, Some Ska, Rocksteady,...

As long as it's real or raw and got heart i'm probably into it.

Check out my youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/Lukecash12

Welcome to the rest of music that's happened over the last several thousand years! If you're looking for broad then welcome to the world of musicology.

Any other musicologists out there?

Musicology: the general study of music, concerning one's self with things such as it's history, aesthetics, culture, acoustic sciences, and theoretical principles and concepts (e.g. "diminished third", "XIV cadence", "the Ionian mode", "counterpoint", "subject and counter subject", "the Tristan chord", "leitmotif").

I'm just an amateur musicologist who finds himself way out his depth in the field, and it's utterly glorious. There seems to be no end to what I can learn, the music I can listen to. It's pretty hilarious to me when a friend of mine tells me I'm narrow minded because I don't normally listen to a lot of modern Western music like country, rock, rap, dubstep, and whatever else there is. I normally say: "Sorry, I've kind of been preoccupied with the last thirty thousand years or so in music. Did you know that Neanderthals actually invented the flute? It was over a hundred cents flatter then modern flutes so their 'c' would have been closer to our 'b'. By the way, do you like throat singing?"

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Hahahahaha, I can be a bit over-exuberant when it comes to this. It doesn't feel like a normal day to me unless I've checked something out of the library or am currently reading something related to the study of music.

I listen to punk, pop-punk, emo, hardcore punk, post-hardcore, grunge, metalcore, death metal, viking metal, nu-metal, and some 70's rock. (I am not a particular fan of mainstream music; it bores me).
My favourite artists are:
Led Zeppelin; AC/DC; Nirvana; Jack White (and by extension the White Stripes); the Sex Pistols; Paramore; Fall Out Boy; Sleeping With Sirens; Pierce The Veil; Slipknot; Trivium; Bullet for my Valentine; Amon Amarth; Blink-182, and the Gaslight Anthem.
In my opinion, it's good to have broad tastes in music because that way you can listen to a great deal of good artists, rather than just a few in one specific genre.

I listen to Boston, The Who, Circle Jerks, Franz Ferdinand, Keane, The Shins, Pixies, Metallica, The Beach Boys, Yes, Sex Pistols, Social Distortion, Deep Purple, Samuel Barber, Antonin Dvorak, Vince Guaraldi, Chico Hamilton, Brian Eno, and a plethora of groups in between. I don't listen to genres so much as I do groups (although most of them do fall under the realm of classic rock in one way or another).