Anyone else have strange tastes in music?

[Locut0s]

I'm not a big music lover to begin with let's start off with that. And what I do like is mostly world music or classical music (bach,mozart etc...). That's not to say though that I don't like ANY more contemporary music. But my tastes are so damn eclectic that it's impossible to know what I'm going to like. I have bits and pieces of everything from rap to disco to rock and more. I like quite a lot of 70s music (though again not most of it). I like cold play, red hot chilli pepers, gnarls barkley,2pac etc etc... Thing is that I often come across a song that I like and then track down what else the artist(s) have done and find that I hate almost everything else they did. I find that the one track I like happens to be the black sheep of their career (the one song that's different from everything else they did). This happens all the time. Anyone else like this?

Here's a list of the songs I have on my Ipod right now:

Coldplay - Viva La Vida
2 Pac-2Pac- I ain't Mad At Ya
2pac - tupac - dear mama
2pac thug life - Bury Me a G
Bach Suite For Solo Cello No 1 In G Major, Violin, Cello Concertos -Jacqueline Du Pre
Bach, Johann Sebastian - Air on a G string (from Suite III), BWV 1063 -- [Yo-Yo Ma, baroque cello; Ton Koopman, conductor, organ, harpsichord; The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra](
Beatles - John Lennon - Imagine
Chuck Berry - Johnny B Goode
Coldplay - Clocks
Coldplay - The Scientist
Coldplay- Fix You
Dr. John - 'IKO IKO'
Eric Clapton - Cocaine
Eric Clapton - Tears In Heaven
Gary Jules - Mad World
Gnarles Barkley - Crazy
Gnarls Barkley- Smiley faces
Huun Huur Tu - Eshten Charlyyry Berge (It is Hard To Be Parted From A Friend)
Huun Huur Tu - Kombu
Huun Huur Tu - Oske Cherde (Foreign Land)
Huun Huur Tu- Kongurei
Huun-Huur-Tu -The Orphan's Lament
James Taylor - Fire and Rain
James Taylor copperline
Jim Croce - Time In A Bottle
Jimmy Hendrix - Purple Haze
Kanye West -Love Lockdown
Katy Perry - I Kissed A Girl
Katy Perry - HotN Cold
Madonna - Hung Up
Madonna - Music
Malka Moma - Little girl
Malvina Reynolds - Little Boxes
Marvin Gaye - Whats Going On
Miserere Mei, Deus - Allegri
Mozart - Ave verum corpus
Nina Simone - Ain't Got No , I Got Life
Pan's Labyrinth Song
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Cant Stop
Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Scar Tissue
Sam Cooke - A Change Is Gonna Come
Screaming Jay Hawkins - I Put a Spell On You
Simon & Garfunkel - Scarborough fair
The Beatles - Let It Be
The Beatles - Hey Jude
The Beatles - Yesterday
The Quran - Ezan

Short list but strange selection no?

 

[pontifex]

I've got stuff from Industrial to prog rock to traditional scottish/irish music to Russian rock.

I don't listen to rap, country, emo crap, or pop music, like Britney Spears or backstreet boys.

 

[brblx]

i've got music from all sorts of genres that i generally hate. specifically, though, there's good stuff everywhere.

i can pretty much peg myself to a favorite genre, though- prog rock and it's derivatives. perhaps it's a function of that genre's diversity that i like anything from classic to rap to jazz to some pretty brutal metal.

edit: with your list up, i'd say listen to more hendrix and less coldplay. ;P

 

[lxskllr]

I have a fairly wide range of music I listen to. Here's some of the groups on my Sansa. I'm going from memory cause I don't feel like going out to the car to get it :^D

Sigur Rós
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Lester Young
Duke Ellington
Glenn Miller
Joy Wants Eternity
Ronnie Earl
Various Doo Wop
Louis Armstrong
Beach Boys
Beatles
AC/DC
Set Fire to Flames
Cat Nights Begin
Soft Morning City
Boris Kovac
Artie Shaw
Brian Setzer Orchestra
ZZ Top

 

[Rubycon]

Some may say so but I like to explore. There's so much stuff out there to miss by limiting yourself to what radio plays. I guess it helps to know folks that are in the biz too.

 

[lifeobry]

Short list but strange selection no?

No, not really. Strange would be if you only listened to traditional Japanese koto compositions interpreted by renegade Scottish bagpipers.

 

[grrl]

Strange probably isn't the best word, eclectic, maybe, but most of the songs on your playlist read like selections from "Best of" CDs.

 

[SWScorch]

I've been told I have pretty strange taste in music. My passion is metal, especially melodic and progressive death metal, but I also love country, bluegrass, jazz, classic rock, klezmer, zydeco, classical and even a little bit of technco/electronica. It's always interesting when I shuffle my songs and go from some brutal death metal to Kenny Rogers or something.

I don't have a tendency to like only one song of a particular artist though. Usually if I find a song that I like, I will purchase the majority of the artist's catalog and most of the time thoroughly enjoy it all. But I love all kinds of music so it's tough to find music that I don't like (Limp Bizkit and Nickelback would be the two bands I can think of that I truly detest; everything else I can at least tolerate).

 

[DangerAardvark]

I have these 4 folders right next to each other:
Buddy Rich
Cat Stevens
Chris Cornell
Common

Skip to the J's and you'll find:
Jimi Hendrix
Joe Rogan
Judas Priest
Jurassic 5

 

[BlueAcolyte]

That music isn't weird at all, just diverse.

When most people my age are listening to death metal, punk/ska, or pop, I listen to rock from the 80s/90s, industrial, techno, trip-hop, and other electronic music. Ehh.

 

[VinylxScratches]

THere's nothing strange about that list.

 

[Oceandevi]

ug music snobbs alert.

Just listen to what you like.

 

[Northern Lawn]

I only like greatest hits, not into bands anymore. If I had to choose one it would be RUSH but even they haven't put out any good music in 20 years.

 

[olds]

I listen to lots of music except:
Classical, opera and blue grass.

My mp3 player has Tool, Patsy Cline, Lady Gaga, Pink Floyd, Flo Rida, Eagles, Ke$ha, Asia, Eminem, AC/DC, Bad Company and many, many more artists.