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How adventurous are you with music? (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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Personally, I think I’m pretty adventurous. I love music and my library has thousands of artists across dozens of genres like classic rock, new wave, Motown, smooth jazz, shoegaze, drum & bass, prog rock, hip hop, and more. Hitting ‘shuffle all’ is a recipe for absolute chaos.

I love finding new artists and connections between them (solo projects, supergroups, samples, etc), and every 5-10 years I discover a whole new genre and enjoy going down the rabbit hole. I have all-time favourites, but listening to the same thing for too long drives me crazy.

By contrast, my wife only ever really listens to 2 or 3 different artists and somehow never gets bored of listening to the same few albums on repeat for literal years.

Where do others fall on that spectrum? Do you feel the need to constantly seek out new music, or are you the kind of person who prefers settling into a groove long-term?

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[–] 1 point 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

You think you're musically adventurous, and you are better than most, but most of your music still features a back beat, making all your different types just splinters of popular music. You are basically listening to only one kind of music, only one genre.

A truly musically adventurous person is listening to multiple GENRES, like classical music, jazz, world music, indigenous folk music, etc., and then exploring the splinter styles among those genres.

I started listening to classical and jazz as a teen. When my friends were flipping burgers or bussing tables, I was earning date money by playing in a 15 piece big band, playing big social events. Then I got a degree in Music History, and went to work for a record company handling all the interesting music that didn't have a back beat.

I'm old now, and I long ago stopped listening to musical "styles," it's all just music to me now. I can play Bach, Pink Floyd, Charlie Parker, Led Zeppelin, Beethoven, Mongolian Heavy Metal, and some John Feahy finger picking, all right in a row, and not have any sort of musical whiplash. I get bored listening to the same stuff.

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