How eclectic is your taste in music?

I am 70 years old and like punk, post-punk, 'indie', intelligent metal, roots and dub reggae, some hard rock, some 'pop' for sure, some hip-hop. I don't dislike classical music as long as it's instrumental. But I don't much care for jazz, country, blues, however great those genres are for people who appreciate them. Just not to my personal taste. No Fleetwood Mac, Eagles, Boz Scaggs, and such for me, either. 

I like both kinds, Country and Western.

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What I’ve listened to today:

Diesel and Dust - Midnight Oil

Kind of Blue, Sketches of Spain - Miles Davis

Live at the Fillmore West - The Allman Brothers Band

Tosca - Maria Callas, Giuseppe di Steffano, La Scala

As an aside, I’ve gotten much more into opera lately since I wound up with $200 store credit at a place that sells complete operas on LP for $0.95 each. They’re kind of a crapshoot as to condition but enough of them are excellent to keep me going back  

Started off as a ProgRock teen, made fun of " Opera"....and Punk...and Rap

......moved to San Francisco....hung out at Caffe Trieste( a beat caffe, with an Opera Jukebox)... Learned to love Opera,...went to Art School with Punks, and learned to appreciate their angst and expression......was baffled at first when a friend gave me a copy of Bitches Brew....but absorbed it after a month....and swung hard into Jazz.......saw Don Cherry at Keystone Corner....and began my " World Music Explorations".....which takes me to my fascination with Okinawan harmonies......and early Korean folk/ shamanistic songs, reinterpreted by bands such as SsingSsing....and LEENALCHI..........check them out on YouTube....

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I listen to a wide range of music. Everything from Mahalia Jackson to Lamb Of God. What I don't like is "quirky" music that can lack skill... musically or vocally. An obvious example would be The Sex Pistols or other punk or post punk bands,. B-52's/Ramones/The Clash/Talking Heads and Lou Reed are examples of music I have little or no interest in. 

Pretty much (I think)

I regularly play jazz, rock, classical, Bossa Nova, calypso and electronic and fusions of these.

Occasionally pop and blues.

Rarely country swing

Never country or hip hop.

There is a fine line between eclectic and indiscriminate.

I tired of the usual audiophile warhorses a while ago. I have "best" pressings of many- I devoted time, attention and money to acquiring those before prices got completely nutty and clean playing copies were harder to find.

Thanks to a tip from someone who is very into "prog" rock, I got turned onto spiritual jazz and bought as much of it as I could find based on research- some of it is obscure-private label, some on Strata-East and a few other collectives from the period, fetches big money. Only a few have been reissued: Bobby Hamilton’s Dream Queen is definitely worth buying. Cut by BG from the tape, allegedly. The OG is crazy money.

I also listen to early heavy rock that is now labelled as "proto-metal." Some of it is obscure. I listen to a lot of different stuff. I’d say my weakest area is opera, since it is staged and I don’t attend the live performances. I have thousands of good quality classical records that I only occasionally pull out: I dumped over 12k records before I moved in 2017 and since then, have been acquiring things I want. Most of it is older. Some reissues. I’m not big on "audiophile" for the sake of it, especially when I’ve had multiple copies of the same record. I’ve done shoot outs. Sometimes the older copy is better, sometimes, the standard reissue kills. Part of this depends on how much the record has been reissued--many times, the copy I’m buying was a one and done- may 1,000? I dunno.

I’m always open to hearing something new. Part of it is a question of time- and access is key.