I have pretty wide-ranging musical tastes, therefore I own a lot of music. I just checked iTunes, which is how I manage my music collection, and I have 118.9 days of music on my computer. I listen to just about everything. I'll give any music a chance. I find when I take a chance I often find music I just flat out love, but if I never stepped outside of my comfort zone, well I'd never found it.
I tend, if I had to say what I listen to the most: "jam bands" (The Dead for example), "ambient" (Brian Eno and Dead Can Dance [many would argue they are not "ambient"]), and "jazz" (you name it -- including "old school" big band).*
But I find I go through these musical trends. They last like 1-2 years where I hone in on some different type of music and listen to it 24/7. Lately for me it is "electronic" or "trip hip-hop."
Below the fold a little story and some amazing music.
At my core I am a hippie liberal. Dead head. Been to, well a lot of shows. A number of years ago I heard of this multi-day concert called Bonnaroo. It is a four day concert, you camp out in tents, on a 800 acre field in the middle of "nowhere TN." Six stages.
Here is a pic from that first year I went in 2005.
A huge storm coming in. Notice to the top right, even the Pirate flag was upside down, noting distress. As most people holed up in their cars I walked off to see more music. It rained so hard, I thought maybe we'd need an Arc, but the concert went on. I saw Danger Mouse play until the sun came up the next day.
Thinking of heading back to Bonnaroo for a third time this year. Was playing on the Google. This happened last year.
I now own everything they've done. And by "they" I mean one dude. In the five years since I've been there it seems the audience has gotten younger.
Here is Pretty Lights!
Enjoy .....
*I put this in quotes cause searching for music online, often it is my genre.