to notice that every person thinks they have 'eclectic taste in music'? What, all of you?

[BelfastRingingOutForXmasBloke]

Everyone looks at their iPod and feel proud that they have a bit of classical, bit of country, bit of metal, bit of folk, bit of indie .... SNORE

I, however, definitely DO have eclectic taste in music.

I listen to Coldplay AND to U2.
I listen to Duran Duran AND to Spandau Ballet.
I listen to Robbie Williams AND to George Michael.
I listen to Madonna AND to Lady GaGa.

Not only that, but I've got a Best of Johnny Cash and also an Eminem album.

None of you have my range.

Anyone willing to admit they DON'T have eclectic tastes in music?

I don't know what I am. I don't have an ipod, barely onto CDs from vinyls. The CDs currently in the car are:

Lady Gaga
The Dubliners
Carmen
King's College Christmas Carols
Alice Cooper
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat.
Cascada

There's that too. As Roy Walker would say, the clues are there.

Avenged Sevenfold
Barbra Streisand
Buzzcocks
Dead Kennedys
Diana Ross
Jay Z
Kenny Rogers
Luther Vandross
Marianne Faithfull
Pink Floyd
Quireboys
Shakin Stevens (wtf???? )
Whitesnake

Shakin Stevens doesn't make you eclectic, it makes you in need of an intervention. :o

It must have been on an 80's album that I downloaded for a party... well thats my excuse and I am sticking to it!!!!

Oh! He's joking. Sorry OP!

What kladdkaka said

In the end most people will have a bunch of English language, Western music from the last 50-60 years. I'll start to get impressed when people say they have music from all over the world, from various centuries, and in various languages.

ROAR at Shakin Stevens intervention patrol

I'll start to get impressed when people say they have music from all over the world, from various centuries, and in various languages.

King's College Carols has O'Come All Ye Faithful in Latin. Do I win?

yes, and what about thingie, that bloke

Ricky Martin

he's so last century, non

I think she's joking

I don't think about it, tbh. I like what I like. Let me just read a few cds from my stack over here

adele
dolly parton
muddy waters
jessie j
elton john
fleetwood mac
pink
ladysmith black mambazo
shania twain
mussorgsky

Thing is, different music suits different moods. It would be pretty dull listening to the same sound all the time, surely?

You Are Being Entirely Reasonable.

I don't know why so many people feel the urge to elevate their music collection like this.

Jessie-who-likes-music-that-sounds-nice-and-who-has-the-courage-to-admit-it

Unlike a lot of people, I can spell eclectic and I know what it means.

But I am not sure I would say that I have a taste in music, let alone use a word like eclectic to describe it. Music just isn't very important to me.

I find that people who say they like "all sorts" of music tend to mean that they don't really like music at all.

I too am achingly narrow in my taste. I only really listen to The Divine Comedy & Lady Gaga although I do like a bit of BNL & The Eels now and then. Occasionally a touch of Muse.

My friends always say:

" we are having a party, everybody bring some music! Apart from Chandon please"

Zillion, I would disagree with that, tbh. I am passionate about music. My first love is blues. I step into a song, iyswim, and it's like I'm there, in the story. Music is beautiful. A truly great song, or singer can make you feel the song.

I mean, joe cocker - can't sing a note and if you watch those hands, you see that he is playing instruments away to himself! He's not singing a song, he is the song. And even though he's possibly a worse singer that Brian The Singing Miner, there's just something in the way he becomes the song that is so moving. For me, anyway.

Then there are times I want to play the soundtrack to jesus christ superstar and it makes me cry.

Then there are times I feel frazzled and a bit of classical music soothes me and it feels so great.

And then there's times I'm driving along and want to sing along to some mindless pap

I don't think that loving many different styles of music means you can't be passionate about music, not at all.

i've got an eclectic music collection

kraftwerk, gary numan, heaven 17...all the eclectic musicians

I like what I like (which FYI is all great ) and couldn't give a mince pie-filled-glittery-snow coverd fuckio how anyone could or would describe it as.

I like good music and believe every artist has at least one good tune in them and that includes Coldplay!

Eclectic is such a shit word.

I listen to Charles Anazvor and I'm not ashamed about it. Should I be?

I also have Carla Bruni - so beat that!

I have no music taste. At all.

Seriously. To say "I have a taste in music" means to have things you like and things you dislike.

I like everything. Screamo RUHUFHU bands, Sum 41, pop, rock, jazz, free jazz, classical, dubstep, rap, bass, R'n'B, mainstream pop, alternative pop, showtunes, spoken word, country and glam rock.

I really will listen to pretty much ANYTHING.

I once went to a Christy Moore and Faithless concert in the same week, both equally enjoyable.

Most people do have songs in different langues, if you count Enrique's/Sharkira's songs, sung in Spanish.

It is people who sing Christmas Carols in German that are the real numptys (unless they are German).

My DH really is eclectic taste - proof? The pirate shanty phase. Oh yes.

I like anything with a catchy tune, so not really eclectic at all!

Well I've got Radiohead and Muse on my playlist. So nerrr.