Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 1745110)

I was initially just being a little trolly.

Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 1745114)

Man, I wish I had OCD.

Originally Posted by JGuy Grungeman (Post 1745116)

We're having an OCD-People-Only party at my house tonight. 90 people are coming. People are required to arrive every minute, on the minute, between 7:30 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. My friend Jordan will be here at 8:14. He's bringing 4oz. of Fritos.

Originally Posted by Terrapin_Station (Post 1745546)

Originally Posted by elphenor (Post 1745608)

IRL I try to avoid talking about music with non-musicians at all costs

its just not worth it maaannn

I've learned to compartmentalize my audio fetish

Originally Posted by elphenor (Post 1745777)

Not at all

But at this point most people who really like music are involved in the creation of some version of it

What I mean is I talk about music with the people I jam with but never bring it up around friends (what little I actually have) and co-workers

I very quickly sound like a rambling madman

Originally Posted by Terrapin_Station (Post 1744166)

I do. It always seems weird to me when I run into people who seem to believe that no one can listen to or especially like "everything."

Obviously, that doesn't mean that one has heard every album, every artist, etc.--there's too much music in the world for anyone to have heard literally everything.

And I know that a lot of people who aren't big music fans will answer "everything" when you ask them what music they listen to or like.

Also, I have preferences of course.

But I listen to a like a huge variety of music, stuff from every genre, really, maybe with the exception of some genres that are extremely obscure that have only a few artists in them. In those cases, I just don't know about the genre. But I'm familiar with a ton of obscure stuff, too.

I regularly, equally collect music from 39 to 50+ genres depending on how you count them--those are my favorite genres, and I listen to and like plenty of music from plenty other genres aside from those, too. Some of my favorite genres are extremely broad--they have tons of subgenres. I like all of it.

I have thousands of artists in my collection and many thousands of albums. I've yet to run into a genre where I don't like some music that falls under it. I like the vast majority of music I hear at least a bit. There are really no artists I hate. Even the few things that I'm more indifferent towards I regularly listen to if they're in my collection, because almost everything grows on me/I've gone from not caring very much for something to liking it a lot plenty of times in the past. In fact, that almost always happens.

I also don't really have any clear hierarchy of favorites. I tried to make a list of all of my favorite artists one time and it ended up being somewhere around 2000 different artists. If I try to say my "top 100" of those, it ends up being at least a few hundred. I can't narrow it down more. I like a ton of stuff equally. I can't really name favorite albums by particular artists because if I like them, I usually like all of their albums about the same amount. There are a bunch of artists I like with large discographies where I'd give every album a 10/10. It's the same for songs. It's impossible for me to name favorites. I'd have to just randomly list songs. I tend to get into whatever music is playing at the time. My only requirement is variety.

So it's way easier to just say that I listen to/like "everything" when someone asks, because it's pretty accurate--and who wants a list of 50+ genres and thousands of artists?

Originally Posted by Dylstew (Post 1745599)

Is it so hard to list some preferences? Even if you like a lot of stuff I can't fathom liking everything equally and listening to them in equal frequencies.

Originally Posted by Terrapin_Station (Post 1746044)

Here's my list of genres that I concentrate on. I put equal emphasis on collecting each category. They're divided up in idiosyncratic ways that reflect my preferences. There's some overlap because of this, and some genres are extremely broad. Each line is a category. The slashes on a line usually mean that I take turns between concentrating on each (so the first time through the list I'll do the leftmost genre on that line, then second time through, the second one on that line, etc.) The genres sharing a line I think of as related in some way, and in a couple cases, it's simply different names that more or less the same stuff is known by.

I like all of these genres equally, and because I collect them per this list, I pretty much listen to them equally, too:

1. afro cuban jazz
2. ambient/drone/noise
3. art pop/sophistipop/zolo
4. avant prog/RIO/zeuhl
5. bluegrass
6. blues
7. blues rock/boogie rock
8. broadway/showtunes
9. bubblegum/teen pop/radio disney artists/top of billboard charts
10. circus/carnival/mechanical music
11. comedy stand-up/comedy music
12. country/western
13. country-rock/americana
14. dance/disco/"club music" (all dance-oriented/club music in other words--IDM, house, techno, etc.)
15. experimental
16. folk/singer-songwriter
17. funk
18. fusion
19. gospel
20. hard rock
21. hip-hop
22. jazz
23. latin
24. metal
25. modern classical (from the 20th century on)
26. nu metal/groove metal/funk metal/rap metal/rap rock
27. pop
28. pre-baroque classical music
29. pre-rock pop (pre 1956)/pre-British Invasion rock (through 1963)
30. progressive rock
31. punk rock
32. psychedelic rock/psychedelic pop
33. r&b
34. reggae/dub
35. rock
36. soft rock/yacht rock
37. soul
38. southern rock
39. western classical music
40. world music