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[onewheelwizzard]

Nujabes
Beck
Gnarls Barkley
Michael Jackson
Lupe Fiasco
Saigon
Amplifico
Jurassic 5
Broken Social Scene
The Bishops

You probably grew up in a house with a bunch of people who liked music that was cool enough for you to keep around.  Music that successfully replicates the feeling you got from the cool music you listened to growing up is now your favorite.  You're a little bit stuck in the past this way, but the idea that non-retro new music can also be cool has just recently started to grow on you and you've gotten a taste for stuff that you're pretty sure is underappreciated.  Most of the music you like is stuff that makes you think that not only are the musicians you listen to talented, but they also have very good taste in music themselves.

The chances of finding someone in your life who actually listens to all the same stuff you do are virtually insignificant, but the chances that you make new friends based on the fact that you listen to one or two certain specific bands are much higher than they are for anyone else you know ... and it seems to be a different band every time you make a new friend.

You're probably more likely to be interested in DJing than making music with instruments, but if you get into one you'll inevitably get into the other.

Nobody would ever be able to tell what you listen to from the way you dress.

[GreyGabe]

Basically My top listened-to bands:

Porcupine Tree
People in Planes
Trans-Siberian Orchestra
ISIS
Within Temptation
Lacuna Coil
Posthumous E.S.
Tom Waits
Tool
A Perfect Circle
Ashes Divide

[Jawshooah]

I must say onewheelwizard, your analyses are very insightful.

[onewheelwizzard]

I kinda like doing this.

Basically My top listened-to bands:

Porcupine Tree
People in Planes
Trans-Siberian Orchestra
ISIS
Within Temptation
Lacuna Coil
Posthumous E.S.
Tom Waits
Tool
A Perfect Circle
Ashes Divide

You get annoyed when people around you smoke too much pot (and it happens often).  You've tried it yourself, and it was kinda cool, or at least weird enough to be interesting at first, but it made you way too paranoid so you decided not to anymore.

You almost never hang out with girls and when you do, if you don't know them, you feel awkward.  However, when you make friends with girls (and you have a couple times), you become very very close to them and if romantic attraction develops, it does so only after a long time (and they probably get attracted to you first even though you don't know it at the time).  Hanging out with a bunch of girls at a time basically never happens for you, but it's never occurred to you that that might be weird, so you're OK with it.

You have secret desires to mosh at shows really hard but you're too physically fragile for it to be safe.  It's OK though, because a lot of the shows you go to don't have mosh pits anyway, instead people just stand around (half of them with their eyes closed, bobbing their heads) and maybe a few people up front are moving around.  You're OK with that too.

[Darkbluerabbit]

Please see me for further details as to how you can obtain Correct Musical Taste™, if this is a thing you desire.

Does Correct Musical Taste™ involve giving up Meat Loaf?
This is very important.

[20 jazz funk greats]

In person, you're relatively quiet when the subject of music comes up, because nobody really knows what you're talking about whenever you get excited about something.  However, constant reinforcement from a variety of sources that you have specifically sought out for the sake of sharing thoughts about music (aka the internet) has you convinced that when you get excited about music, you have a better reason to than anyone else.  You're usually right, but this approach hasn't really quite yet coalesced into any kind of defined taste per se, and in between this, your enthusiasm for the music you listen to, and the fact that most of the talking you do about music is on the internet, you haven't found anyone yet who you can hang out with and just listen to music to with.  Since music is such a large part of your life, you sometimes despair of ever finding a close music buddy, and perhaps an abnormally large proportion of what you look for in a partner has to do with their musical tastes.

this describes me perfectly even though it was written for alex c.
except i don't really date people based on musical preference because if i did, i'd end up with someone like tommy. but i would secretly like to have a boyfriend who appreciates the fall at least.

[GreyGabe]

Onewheelwizzard, you are really good at this! Except for the second part of the pot thing (I'm actually too paranoid even to try it...), you have it spot on. How are you doing this? I find it slightly unnerving.

[onewheelwizzard]

My secret is that I only do it with people whose musical taste reminds me of either myself or someone I know.  Then I zero in on precisely what it is about that person I know (or myself) that makes me like those bands, and extrapolate on that.

For instance, you listen to ISIS, Tool, A Perfect Circle, and Lacuna Coil, so you like really intense/distorted rock (hence secret desire to mosh), but you also listen to Trans-Siberian Orchestra and Porcupine Tree (which screams "nerd," and therefore, "probably physically fragile" and "not friends with lots of girls but good friends with a few").  The part about the paranoia/annoyance regarding weed comes from the fact that you DON'T listen to music with a heavy bottom end or a heavy psychedelic influence, which you inevitably would by now if you liked getting high.

I draw all these conclusions from comparing you to myself, a friend I had in the first couple years of college, and guys who wear shirts with prog-rock bands on them (you are not one of them, they are usually bigger than you and have long hair and possibly neckbeards).  At least one or two of your friends in high school probably have/had bad acne and probably wear/wore button-down shirts with airbrushed artwork of dragons (or maybe even anime characters) on them.  Those are the ones now wearing prog-rock t-shirts, and you went a different direction and you probably wear dark solid colors almost exclusively.

[MrBlu]

You probably grew up in a house with a bunch of people who liked music that was cool enough for you to keep around.  Music that successfully replicates the feeling you got from the cool music you listened to growing up is now your favorite.  You're a little bit stuck in the past this way, but the idea that non-retro new music can also be cool has just recently started to grow on you and you've gotten a taste for stuff that you're pretty sure is underappreciated.  Most of the music you like is stuff that makes you think that not only are the musicians you listen to talented, but they also have very good taste in music themselves.

The chances of finding someone in your life who actually listens to all the same stuff you do are virtually insignificant, but the chances that you make new friends based on the fact that you listen to one or two certain specific bands are much higher than they are for anyone else you know ... and it seems to be a different band every time you make a new friend.

You're probably more likely to be interested in DJing than making music with instruments, but if you get into one you'll inevitably get into the other.

Nobody would ever be able to tell what you listen to from the way you dress.

Well screw me running.

The only thing you left out is specifically which family members. Oh, hey, I'm not unique.

[Ballard]

Someone do me!

[sean]

Stereotype me, folks.

The Dandy Warhols
The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Asobi Seksu
The Jesus and Mary Chain
Spacemen 3
Spiritualized
Elliott Smith
Sloan
The Replacements
King Khan & The Shrines
Ambulance Ltd.
...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead

You own several leather jackets, a few pairs of Ray-Ban sunglasses, and an acoustic guitar with a single-coil pickup installed.

[onewheelwizzard]

Gene, I tried to but then I realized that I already know enough about you that it wouldn't work.  I ended up drawing more on conversations I've had with you than on what the list itself was telling me.

It did, however, suggest that you are self-conscious about being white.  You should listen to some DJ Shadow or Del Tha Funkee Homosapien or something.  George Clinton and the P-Funk All-Stars, at least.

[sean]

Dont worry I'll do gene too. i feel like i know too much so i tried to forget the various things i knew.

your friends dragged you to the basement punk show and you were like okay this is kind of fun but five minutes later you were like fuck this shit i wanna jump around and sing and not get punched in the face. So you went to the store and picked up a jazzmaster or a strat and were like okay im gonna start an awesome band and you would up playing some kind of cool rock music. then you were like oh hey ill just play shows in my living room and you did and and all the hipster kids came and it was pretty fun cause they all did their little dance in place thing as you jumped around and sang and your bassist totally did a power kick during the show.

after that you wandered around the city at 3 in the morning looking for a 711 because you wanted tasty snacks.

[onewheelwizzard]

I'm starting to fall into a groove here, it's letting me stretch a bit more.

Do your worst (my top 10 weekly)
    
Igor Stravinsky   
Autechre   
Boards of Canada   
3     
Chopin
Paco de Lucía
Porcupine Tree   
Kyuss
Kreator        
Antonin Dvorák
Venetian Snares

You are a fantastic student in math, computer science, and possibly even physics.  When you get into relationships, they last for a very long time and tend to be quite serious ... but at the same time, your breakups are not as over-the-top and dramatic as the breakups of many of your more commitment-phobic friends.  You might be a really highly classically trained musician (perhaps a violinist?) but even if you're not, you almost certainly know the names of a few that nobody else would know.

You tend not to be especially emotive and many of your friends look up to you for your cool head and balanced worldview (they also think you are smarter than they are and most of them are probably right).  However, you shy away from giving people advice because you secretly identify as a relative social outcast despite your reliable, if reserved, competence and eloquence in social situations.

[BrittanyMarie]

Someone stereotype me, demmit.

I ALREADY DID.

[Liz]

Oooh oooh oooh, do me! Someone do me!

1  Okkervil River
2  Andrew Bird
3  Shearwater
4  Low
5  Regina Spektor
6  Daft Punk
7  Death Cab for Cutie
8  Margot & the Nuclear So and So's
9  Bright Eyes
10 of Montreal
11 Stars
12 Neva Dinova
13 Mark Lanegan
14 Jens Lekman
15 Jonny Lang

[BrittanyMarie]

Lots of people keep saying "do me do me". If no one has stereotyped you yet, it probably means they either know too much about you, or not enough about the music, or it's sufficiently varied enough that it is too hard to stereotype. Also Control-F-ing your name on each page if you don't care enough to read the other posts will help you see if someone has stereotyped you.

I think this thread is harder than the one in 2006 because in that one I was one-word summarizing people left and right because I didn't know them at all.

[ruyi]

Alright, do me for shiggles. Here's my 15 most played artists from Last.fm (including my iTunes play history)

1. Relient K
2. Emery
3. Metallica
4. Linkin Park
5. Disturbed
6. Breaking Benjamin
7. Stryper
8. The Beatles
9. All That Remains
10. The Smashing Pumpkins
11. Rammstein
12. The Sleeping
13. Journey
14. Hootie & the Blowfish
15. Rascall Flatts

you are a christian

[Ballard]

Ooh I missed the one Chris did of me. I'm too broke to own any of those things but I'm dying for a pair of Wayfarers and I guess I want a leather jacket.

Actually my friends dragged me to the local ska show and I was like fuck this and then I met some New York hipsters and it all went downhill from there.

[Gilead]

Oooh oooh oooh, do me! Someone do me!

1  Okkervil River
2  Andrew Bird
3  Shearwater
4  Low
5  Regina Spektor
6  Daft Punk
7  Death Cab for Cutie
8  Margot & the Nuclear So and So's
9  Bright Eyes
10 of Montreal
11 Stars
12 Neva Dinova
13 Mark Lanegan
14 Jens Lekman
15 Jonny Lang

It's almost 100% certain that you find quiet skinny boys with messy hair very attractive, you also probably like boys with glasses.

My list:
Beirut
The National
The Modern Lovers
The Mountain Goats
Nina Simone
Jacob Borshard
The Exploding Hearts
Buddy Holly
Neutral Milk Hotel
Tilly and the Wall

[michaelicious]

Most of the time when you put on music it is for bonin'.

[onewheelwizzard]

Oooh oooh oooh, do me! Someone do me!

1  Okkervil River
2  Andrew Bird
3  Shearwater
4  Low
5  Regina Spektor
6  Daft Punk
7  Death Cab for Cutie
8  Margot & the Nuclear So and So's
9  Bright Eyes
10 of Montreal
11 Stars
12 Neva Dinova
13 Mark Lanegan
14 Jens Lekman
15 Jonny Lang

You probably like to think of yourself as living on a spectrum, one side of which is filled with dreamy romanticism, late-night cuddles with a boy who can appreciate a romantic comedy (possibly starring Sandra Bullock, and definitely anything with Minnie Driver), and having love songs written for you.  However, the other side of the spectrum (which is the side you probably like to act as if you're on all the time) is filled with whiskey (straight, no ice, maybe even swigged from the bottle), jaded single men who don't say much, sit in smoky bars on weeknights, and just happen to be cooler than anyone in a 10-block radius (and are drastically underappreciated for it), and parties where drunken makeouts aren't awkward the next day because everyone's actually just in it for the reckless fun of it all.  Your I-know-how-to-have-fun persona is frustrating for the hopeless romantic side of you, because it's the side that all the boys seem to like (and the hopeless romantic side of you is the side that cares more about being liked), but you're starting to realize that the hopeless romantic side of you might be content to wait until the right guy comes along.  (Watch out for yourself if that romantic girl inside you ever feels as if her time has come ... she'll be setting herself up for a fall.)

[MrBlu]

Gene, I tried to but then I realized that I already know enough about you that it wouldn't work.  I ended up drawing more on conversations I've had with you than on what the list itself was telling me.

It did, however, suggest that you are self-conscious about being white.  You should listen to some DJ Shadow or Del Tha Funkee Homosapien or something.  George Clinton and the P-Funk All-Stars, at least.

Is that supposed to make it better or worse?

[onewheelwizzard]

What I meant by that was that he should listen to some music that doesn't make him feel like a poser (because those artists are OK for white people to like) but doesn't make him feel painfully white either (because those artists have cred with black people too).

[BrittanyMarie]

OWW's stereotype of Liz is actually me, I think!

filled with whiskey (straight, no ice, maybe even swigged from the bottle),

I DO THAT

jaded single men who don't say much,

this describes every boy I've loved!

sit in smoky bars on weeknights,

okay so fargo just banned smoking in bars, but still. I do that

and just happen to be cooler than anyone in a 10-block radius (and are drastically underappreciated for it),

(this one actually isn't because I hate myself)

and parties where drunken makeouts aren't awkward the next day because everyone's actually just in it for the reckless fun of it all.

I kissed 53 boys in one night once!

It's even more accurate because of the last part because at this very moment I am heartbroken! Awesome! o/ OWW

[Be My Head]

I'm starting to fall into a groove here, it's letting me stretch a bit more.

You are a fantastic student in math, computer science, and possibly even physics.  When you get into relationships, they last for a very long time and tend to be quite serious ... but at the same time, your breakups are not as over-the-top and dramatic as the breakups of many of your more commitment-phobic friends.  You might be a really highly classically trained musician (perhaps a violinist?) but even if you're not, you almost certainly know the names of a few that nobody else would know.

You tend not to be especially emotive and many of your friends look up to you for your cool head and balanced worldview (they also think you are smarter than they are and most of them are probably right).  However, you shy away from giving people advice because you secretly identify as a relative social outcast despite your reliable, if reserved, competence and eloquence in social situations.

You're mostly right on the personality aspects, I'm working on the musicianship (drumming lessons 4+ years, and now guitar, hopefully a music degree afterwards). But, I would say I never had the drive to be any good at math, however I do enjoy a little programming here and there, and I liked physics when I took it.

Hey, I thought these were supposed to be demeaning in some way. I like this.

[BrittanyMarie]

It WAS supposed to be; OWW is just creepily intuitive that he's actually dead on for most people, which is kind of awesome.

And I guess I never meant it to be demeaning at all, teasing maybe, but not actually mean. No one really has so much, I think one person tried to be funny and said something like why do you even listen to music, but there have also been people saying just you have good taste which is equally as boring I guess so whatever!

[Kevin Barnes]

Fuck you BritannyMarie

fuck youuuuuuuu

[Ballard]

Joe, not really at all. I love hip hop, old school R&B, soul, etc.

But they are the kind of thing I will get the urge to listen to in spurts. I just listed off my top Last.FM artists for the purpose of this thread and those happen to consist almost entirely of white boys with guitars (and one very large dark dude in the form of King Khan).

[Liz]

It's almost 100% certain that you find quiet skinny boys with messy hair very attractive, you also probably like boys with glasses.

This is shockingly accurate.

You probably like to think of yourself as living on a spectrum...

This is how I wish my life would be. But I guess it is pretty close!

[Ballard]

This is shockingly accurate.

fyp

[ruyi]

Here is my list:

Amadou & Mariam
Billie Holliday
Curtis Mayfield
Hercules & Love Affair
Joan Baez
Little Dragon
Maurice Ravel
McCoy Tyner
Perfume
Sergei Rachmaninoff

Mix of things that I am only recently getting into and things that have been soaking in my brain for a while now.

[BrittanyMarie]

Fuck you BritannyMarie

fuck youuuuuuuu

Sorry Kevin Barnes, I like Cherry Peel a lot but come on my name was right there. RIGHT THERE.

[Kevin Barnes]

Amadou & Mariam
Billie Holliday
Curtis Mayfield
Hercules & Love Affair
Joan Baez
Little Dragon
Maurice Ravel
McCoy Tyner
Perfume
Sergei Rachmaninoff

You are young, but you are very thoughtful. Others often remark that you are "wise for your age" or an "old soul". In general you keep a level head and you have an air of sophistication about you. You are a very good and attentive friend to people around you who are confused or agitated. But you don't mind cutting loose every once in awhile. You are on your way to a professional career, but what you'd really like to do is travel.

[Tom]

^This is quite possibly my favourite joke account.

[Emaline]

You're rather intelligent despite your crude humor and piercings?

this is probably true. Good job!

[BrittanyMarie]

I wish Kevin Barnes' avatar was of his dick instead. It took me a while to see what he did there though

[Kevin Barnes]

I wish Kevin Barnes' avatar was of his dick instead. It took me a while to see what he did there though

Baby, you can be my crowd-level camera, and I'll be your Bruce Springsteen.

[Josefbugman]

Erm, sorry to bring this up, but can I repost my "list o' artists I like"? Lots of people posted and mine got lost in the scrum, ofcourse I don't mean to if it irritates other people, so I won't if you guys don't think its relevent/worthwhile/liable to indce hilarity. Again, sorry.

[David_Dovey]

OK let's do this

Overall
2 Many DJ's      
Killswitch Engage
Opeth
Daft Punk
Ulver
Tool
Between the Buried and Me
Funeral for a Friend
Porcupine Tree
Fugazi

and for shits and giggles let's have Last 12 months as well          
2 Many DJ's
Fugazi
Spiritualized
Girl Talk
Minutemen
mclusky
Opeth
LCD Soundsystem
Future Of The Left
Mogwai

Anybody who does a description based on what they already know about  me will be murdered.

[BlahBlah]

My top artists:

Guided by Voices
The Olivia Tremor Control
of Montreal
The Beatles
Radiohead
Sonic Youth
Pavement
The Fall
Girl Talk
Pixies

I hope that I also have Correct Musical Taste.

[imapiratearg]

My top artists:

Guided by Voices
The Olivia Tremor Control
of Montreal
The Beatles
Radiohead
Sonic Youth
Pavement
The Fall
Girl Talk
Pixies

I hope that I also have Correct Musical Taste.

You are a rather upbeat and optimistic person for the most part, but occasionally slip off into daydreaming or get lost in idle thought, which can make you seem like a space-case.  You generally see yourself as having a more sophisticated musical taste than those of your peers.  You also enjoy just straight-up rocking out sometimes because, what the hell?  You like to live it up.

[valley_parade]

Top artists of the past seven days (ignoring the Al Franken audiobook from the mediaf!re thread):

Silkworm
Fugazi
Beat Happening
Sol Invictus
Spiritualized   
Big Black   
Deerhoof      
Broken Social Scene   
Silver Jews      
Yo La Tengo

As you can tell I basically get all my music from this forum.

You still suck at life, and your guitar often attacks you as a way of saying "look, we know Deerhoof sucks, NOW STOP LISTENING TO THEM".

  This sweeping generalization brought to you by the QC Anti-Deerhoof Society.

[Drill King]

So um, I wanna play!

Nina Simone
!!!
Battles
Micheal Franti
John Lee Hooker
 The Beatles
 Modest Mouse
 Musicals(hairspray, miss saigon, evita!, RENT, grease, My Fair Lady, Spring's awakenining, etc)
 Radiohead
Beach Boys
Gym class Heroes
 Sublime
Benny Benassi
 Of Montreal
 Queen
 Mika
 Cat Power
 Billie Holiday
 Beck

I um, yeah.

[Josefbugman]

do you like carousel! The musical as a seperate thing from the music.

Generalisation: You have a very skittish personality and have music to match every occasion, but in general the music is quite happy meaning you probably have quite an optimistic outlook no matter what.

[Ballard]

I will never forget Mika for this no matter how sugary his voice is.

[Scandanavian War Machine]

my top 14 tracks are all Mr. Bear and Black Moth Super Rainbow, with the exception of one Black Keys song.

[Ballard]

^ Live to burn, burn to live.

[Drill King]

I will never forget Mika for this no matter how sugary his voice is.

Link work does not

[Ballard]

It works fine, maybe your browser is butchering it?