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[bubosquared]

Your Taste in Music:

80's Rock: Highest Influence

90's Alternative: High Influence

Classic Rock: High Influence

Progressive Rock: High Influence

80's Alternative: Medium Influence

80's Pop: Medium Influence

90's Pop: Medium Influence

Hair Bands: Medium Influence

Old School Hip Hop: Medium Influence

Punk: Medium Influence

80's R&B: Low Influence

90's Hip Hop: Low Influence

90's R&B: Low Influence

90's Rock: Low Influence

Adult Alternative: Low Influence

R&B: Low Influence

How's Your Taste in Music?

The top ones are fairly accurate, but further down the list it just gets silly, because I love R&B, but there weren't any good R&B bands on the ticky list. Then again, how accurate is any test that doesn't include, oh, I dunno, Dylan, or the Beatles, or indeed any artist pre-late-Sixties? I call foul! (Course, in order to accurately represent my musical tastes, the results would have to allow for a shared first place between "everything but House and Techno", so.)

Comments

[kaiberie.livejournal.com]

that was generally my thoughts - there are lots of things missing off there, and there are lots of bands IN there that I don't consider representative of genre.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah. I mean, why is Salt-N-Peppa, a more or less one hit band, on there, but U2 isn't? Where's the representatives of the Sixties folk wave? Where are the Beatles, or the Stones, or the Who, or the Doors? For that matter, where are the representatives for Reggae, World Music, Britpop, Top40 Pop (*Nsync, Spice Girls, etc.)? I know some of my tastes can be a bit obscure, but there's a lot of significant genres completely missing, with others (rap, etc.) being incredibly overrepresented.

[kaiberie.livejournal.com]

I suppose it's what they expect people that take the test to listen to, or possibly the 'meme' creator's bias...I dunno.
We should maybe create our own ;)

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Mixture of both, probably. The kind of things "kids today" would be listening to, as opposed to an actual cross-section of musical genres.

Hey, if you create it, I'll pimp it ... :D