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?
I used to think I had very eclectic taste in music. I like old rock and progressive rock and new wave and alternative and eventually I realized my ecletic music was all sorta the same kind of thing evolving through the ages. I like the rock beat but love when it has varied or unusual instruments and were melody is important and it has meaning in the songs.
Same. Genre is not important. Melody and mood is apparently the driving factor for me. I’m really here to throw Cellar Darling your way, regarding unusual instruments. They’re rock/metal. The singer’s voice is a bit soft for my expectations but then there’s the hurdy gurdy taking place of lead guitar