How eclectic is your taste in music?


Most, if not all, of my best friends in life have embraced different forms/styles/types of music.  

The music ranged from Jazz to Classical to some Rock and others...even some more classic, early country. 

Do you enjoy various music styles or are you more focused on a type or two?....And how/where does the 
music of this season fit in?  I find Nat Cole doing Mel Torme's  "The Christmas Song" comes very close to nearly everything I love about music. 

And I have gotten over people thinking the title to that song is "Chestnuts Roasting"....I no longer have the urge to burn down their tree...mostly. 



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If the music is made with heart and skill, I really don't care what the genre is.  From opera to chamber music to punk to pop to soul to jazz to MOR to hip-hop, etc., etc., etc., if the delivery is compelling enough I can't help but listen.  My music collection covers all genres. Love show tunes, too.
“One more, once!” (Count Basie) :

**** There are only two kinds of music, good music and the other kind ****

 -  Duke Ellington
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Couldn't agree more. Variety is the best thing about it.
Tool, LP, Ronstadt, Coltrane, Puccini. As long as it is recorded well, it's all good.

I’m all over the map of genres depending on my mood. For me, I know a song is timelessly beautiful if I get that tingling down my spine. If it happens once it will happen every time. I’m getting that feeling as I type this listening to the 36 minutes version of the Grateful Dead’s Dark Star on “Celebrating Jerry Garcia and the Days In Between”. I get that tingle every time I hear “shall we go, you and I while we can...throooooough the transitive nightfall of diamonds” (“Live Albums Collection”, “Live Dead” as I’ve always known it, has my favorite version, though, where the engineer is best balanced. Funny to think it was an afterthought album because they had to make a contractual obligation last minute). Sweet musical bliss. Transcendence.