Another one of those conceptual MD threads.

Basically, I've been thinking about how our music tastes fit into to our wider tastes, and whether tastes in other areas influence what we enjoy in music.

I'm sure plenty of exceptions will crop up in this thread, but for me it seems there is a general correlation between the kind of things people like overall and what they like in music. Specifically with how lowbrow/highbrow their tastes are. I can't, for instance, imagine someone who has generally highbrow tastes, reads Proust, watches Bergman movies, likes abstract visual art and then listens to happy hardcore. Where as your stereotypical college student who likes touchy feely liberal things generally seems to gravitate towards blog rock, and your no-nonsense trash-TV loving folks love their disposible, digestible pop music.

These are obviously stereotypes but I do find there's a general bar of artiness/depth/subtlety in people's tastes, and that carries through into their music. I can't think of any incongruity in my own tastes.

Do you think there's a case here? Do we look for certain properties in all art and entertainment, or are our preferences compartmentalised, with what we like in music completely divorced from what we like in other areas?

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I think this is more or less true. I would fall into the blog-rock listening inquisitive type, but even my guilty pleasures are consistent in some way. Mandy Moore and the Ghostbusters movie - pop culture for the greatest common denominator.

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Yeah, I generally enjoy stuff that's off the beaten path. I follow this forum quite a bit, so immediately my tastes in music are difficult for most to relate to, but I really can't stand blockbuster movies, I don't watch television (don't even know what's popular anymore), and I could go years without following the local sports teams here in Detroit.

I'm just a rock climbing, trance listening, classic novel reading chemist.

I think it's probably because some people have a desire to seek out weird/unusual/different things, and other people want to have the same thing for lunch every day.

On a related note, it's interesting to see how good indie movies usually are but how much indie music usually sucks.

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Hm, I don't really know how to answer this.

My musical tastes are so widespread it's hard to try and link it to any other taste of mine. Then again, I've always found hard to find a "favourite" in anything (movies, food etc.) so I suppose your theory sounds about right.

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J I can't, for instance, imagine someone who has generally highbrow tastes, reads Proust, watches Bergman movies, likes abstract visual art and then listens to happy hardcore.

*raises hand*

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Originally posted by d-miurge This must-read explains it all.

Sounds like straightforward Marxism to me, although admittedly that's going on the Wikipedia write-up alone.

Mr Mystery: maybe you shouldn't think of your musical tastes in terms of genre but rather think about what you generally like in music. When I was listening to your classics mix, even though you dropped some varied tracks in there, they didn't seem wildly disparate, and I could hear you like certain things in your music, regardless of genre.

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> Dance:Love:Hub Afterparty (The Return) 23.11.24

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Mr Mystery: maybe you shouldn't think of your musical tastes in terms of genre but rather think about what you generally like in music. When I was listening to your classics mix, even though you dropped some varied tracks in there, they didn't seem wildly disparate, and I could hear you like certain things in your music, regardless of genre.

I guess one could look at it that way but then again there's a million tracks that didn't make the cut that thickens the plot even further

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Originally posted by Mr.Mystery I guess one could look at it that way but then again there's a million tracks that didn't make the cut that thickens the plot even further

Of course. I'm not suggesting there's one broad thing people look for in everything that unites all their tastes.

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> DI.FM 26th Anniversary Guest Mix [Progressive House]
> Live @ Dance:Love:Hub London, 11.10.2025
> Higher Peaks [Progressive House]
> Dance:Love:Hub Afterparty (The Return) 23.11.24

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