# Show the breadth of your music taste with 4 songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 20, 2014, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-the-breadth-of-your-music-taste-with-4-songs/688796 "2014-05-20T03:41:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Oedipus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Oedipus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oedipus)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2014, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-the-breadth-of-your-music-taste-with-4-songs/688796/1 "2014-05-20T03:41:02Z")
Just a fun game but pretty stimulating nonetheless. Pick 4 song a from your iPod that show the breadth and depth of your regular, everyday musical taste. Now obviously I could just go on YouTube and pick up some avant garde stuff just to show off but let’s be realistic here. What 4 songs might we just hear coming from your car speakers on a regular day? ---
**Author:** ![Oedipus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Oedipus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oedipus)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2014, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-the-breadth-of-your-music-taste-with-4-songs/688796/2 "2014-05-20T03:47:13Z")
Oh lord. Sorry for the typos. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2014, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-the-breadth-of-your-music-taste-with-4-songs/688796/3 "2014-05-20T05:58:32Z")
I just chose the last 4 songs I listened to. You lucked out. The song right before Iris was by Nina Hagen. Happy Rhodes - ["Words Weren’t Made For Cowards’](http://youtu.be/Dn3LOFVH4Ks) Françoise Hardy - [“Le temps de l’amour”](http://youtu.be/gXWqz5qWYEw) Hector Zazou (with Anneli Drecker & Gerard Depardieu) - [“I’ll Strangle You”](http://youtu.be/Ydul9Cx9wl0) Iris Dement - [“Let The Mystery Be”](http://youtu.be/jP9LT5HuzrE) ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2014, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-the-breadth-of-your-music-taste-with-4-songs/688796/4 "2014-05-20T06:15:53Z")
I don’t have an iPod, but if I did I would listen to: 1. \*Dominus Dixit \*by G. F. Handel 2. \*Sympathy for the Devil \*by the Rolling Stones 3. \*The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys \*by Traffic 4. \*Rum and Coca-Cola \*by the Andrews Sisters ---
**Author:** ![Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/les_espaces_du_sommeil/32/308_2.png) [@Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Les_Espaces_Du_Sommeil)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2014, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-the-breadth-of-your-music-taste-with-4-songs/688796/5 "2014-05-20T08:24:12Z")
I don’t have an iPod either but this would be a good summary of my tastes: **Henri Dutilleux** : _Tout un Monde Lointain_ [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIS5tpVM6Sc&list=PLBD2B96BB633C2DAF&index=1](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIS5tpVM6Sc&list=PLBD2B96BB633C2DAF&index=1) **Sonny Rollins** : _Poor Butterfly_ [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CTynVEiYGY](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CTynVEiYGY) **Led Zeppelin** : _Since I’ve Been Loving You_ [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QuGiMAEqE8](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QuGiMAEqE8) **Visage** : _Fade to Grey_ [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMPC8QJF6sI](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMPC8QJF6sI) In other words: 1 - Classical Music from the Middle Ages to the present 2 - 1950s Jazz 3 - 1960s-70s Rock 4 - 1980s Pop ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2014, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-the-breadth-of-your-music-taste-with-4-songs/688796/6 "2014-05-20T08:59:27Z")
On the car shuffle, into work today, I listened to : _A Screw (Holy Money)_ : Swans _Cemetery Gates_: The Smiths _In The Days Of A Caveman_: Crash Test Dummies _Waterloo Sunset_: The Kinks Also _Lone Star_ by Norah Jones, _Hunter_ by Dido, _Solsbury Hill_ by Peter Gabriel and most of _Foundations_ by Kate Nash, but I think those first 4 cover my tastes well enough, although the latter has a better sense of how solo-woman-heavy most of my regular playlist is.\* So into Imogen Heap right now\*. ---
**Author:** ![tavalla](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tavalla/32/89_2.png) [@tavalla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tavalla)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2014, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-the-breadth-of-your-music-taste-with-4-songs/688796/7 "2014-05-20T09:29:49Z")
1. Hells Bells, AC/DC 2. Sinnerman, Nina Simone 3. Only If For a Night, Florence + the Machine 4. Spem In Alium, Tallis Scholars ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2014, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-the-breadth-of-your-music-taste-with-4-songs/688796/8 "2014-05-20T10:22:10Z")
•[Krzysztof Penderecki’s _Dies Irae “Auschwitz Oratorium,”_ Movement II, “_Apocalypsis_.”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67Sn_r9_tWA) •[The White Cockade—The US Marine Band](https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/liberty-for-all/id121471172). •[Hammering In My Head—Garbage](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we47lHnmd8E) •[Let It Go—Idina Menzel](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moSFlvxnbgk) Not actually the best selection—that’s only from stuff I’ve added in the last month. And it’s been slow, musically. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2014, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-the-breadth-of-your-music-taste-with-4-songs/688796/9 "2014-05-20T10:43:14Z")
Well, I don’t have an iPod, so I’m going to use my record collection. If you were in my living room for an afternoon, you very well might hear: 1. Glenn Branca - [Symphony no 1. (Tonal Plexus)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PNsn4umcpY) (Avant Garde (for 1980) classical) 2. Dara Puspita - [A Go Go](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0EicyKXHvY). (Indonesian all-girl surf rock) 3. Sturgill Simpson - [Turtles All the Way Down](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWx6csgGkg4). (contemporary country) 4. Stravinsky - [Firebird](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tGA6bpscj8) (early 20th classical) Less than 100 years between them. I’ve got older music in my collection, but to say that I regularly listened to the stuff older than that would be a fib, at best. I’m sure someone will beat that by a wide margin quickly. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2014, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-the-breadth-of-your-music-taste-with-4-songs/688796/10 "2014-05-20T10:53:40Z")
Begin the Beguine by James Horner I Will Not Bow by Breaking Benjamin Reanimation by Blackalicious My Maria by Brooks and Dunn ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2014, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-the-breadth-of-your-music-taste-with-4-songs/688796/11 "2014-05-20T11:05:59Z")
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto #3: Finale. Beatles: “Lady Madonna.” Kálmán: Die Csárdásfürstin (operetta) Sondheim: “A Little Priest,” from _Sweeney Todd._ ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2014, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-the-breadth-of-your-music-taste-with-4-songs/688796/12 "2014-05-20T11:51:25Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > On the car shuffle, into work today, I listened to : > _A Screw (Holy Money)_ : Swans > _Cemetery Gates_: The Smiths > _In The Days Of A Caveman_: Crash Test Dummies > _Waterloo Sunset_: The Kinks > > Also _Lone Star_ by Norah Jones, _Hunter_ by Dido, _Solsbury Hill_ by Peter Gabriel and most of _Foundations_ by Kate Nash, but I think those first 4 cover my tastes well enough, although the latter has a better sense of how solo-woman-heavy most of my regular playlist is.\* So into Imogen Heap right now\*. **Mr. Dibble** , are you on Facebook? If so, you might like [this page](https://www.facebook.com/suspendedingaffaradioshow). If not, [take a look here](https://vimeo.com/suspendedingaffa/videos). Check out the playlists. You might find some female artists you’ll like. The “mixtapes” are fairly eclectic. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2014, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-the-breadth-of-your-music-taste-with-4-songs/688796/13 "2014-05-20T11:53:23Z")
Yeah, I gotta go to my CD collection. “Quartet #8” by Shostakovich, performed by Kronos Quartet (my snooty classical choice, also my favorite bit of classical) “Eli the Barrow-Boy,” by the Decemberists (My hipster choice, a nice little maudlin tale) “Chattanooga Choo-Choo,” by the Glenn Miller Orchestra (maybe also hipster or else its opposite, the song by which I first kissed my wife) “Bound for Carolina,” by Mock Turtle Soup (my “My friends are musicians!”, a bit of traditional mountain music) ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2014, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-the-breadth-of-your-music-taste-with-4-songs/688796/14 "2014-05-20T12:23:29Z")
Namza el Din, “Childhood” AC/DC, “Whole Lotta Rosie” Fanny Mendelssohn, “Piano Trio in D Major” Shinehead, “The Truth” ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2014, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-the-breadth-of-your-music-taste-with-4-songs/688796/15 "2014-05-20T12:43:54Z")
From what is in the CD changer in the car right now Foals - [Spanish Sahara](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUyECe0OZF8) Kongar-ool Ondar [Aa-Shuu Dekei-Oo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xD-VGQGPpZY) The Orb [Aftermath](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMU7IC3EPjo) The Shaggs [Philosphy of the World](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxPsXPCR5MU) The iPod is a little more … diverse :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Snerky\_Snerk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@Snerky\_Snerk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snerky_Snerk)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2014, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-the-breadth-of-your-music-taste-with-4-songs/688796/16 "2014-05-20T12:45:31Z")
A day in the life of a Snerk sounds a little like… [U Can’t Touch This](http://youtube.com/watch?v=otCpCn0l4Wo) by MC Hammer. [Territorial Pissings](http://youtube.com/watch?v=d_UQWjx3HRo) by Nirvana. [Fitter Happier](http://youtube.com/watch?v=xK0njkATf84) by Radiohead. [Who Will Love Me Now](http://youtube.com/watch?v=pHRwWvOgcHU) by PJ Harvey. (Note - all links are to YouTube.) ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2014, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-the-breadth-of-your-music-taste-with-4-songs/688796/17 "2014-05-20T13:12:01Z")
I…can’t! I’m afraid you all will be \*\*\*eclectic-er \*\*\*than me!! 😃 (On my little 6-disc CD player - yes, old school - in the kitchen, I will usually have stuff like Bach’s Cello Suites, a Thelonius Monk CD, a Beatles CD and Rage Against the Machine, although that just got swapped for some Stevie Wonder. What do I win?) ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2014, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-the-breadth-of-your-music-taste-with-4-songs/688796/18 "2014-05-20T13:16:56Z")
“TiK ToK,” Kesha “Last Goodbye,” Kesha “Learning to Fly,” Tom Petty “My Name Is,” Eminem ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2014, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-the-breadth-of-your-music-taste-with-4-songs/688796/19 "2014-05-20T13:20:52Z")
Shuffling my MP3 player, the last four have been: 1. “Timber”, Scott Bradlee & the Postmodern Jukebox 2. “Rhapsody In Blue”, Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra 3. “Suzanne”, Leonard Cohen 4. “Skyfall”, Adele ---
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Matthew - John Denver Can’t Get It Out Of My Head - ELO Promenade (Tourists On The Menu) [from “Jaws”] - John Williams Ragtime Dance - Scott Joplin [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-the-breadth-of-your-music-taste-with-4-songs/688796.md?page=2)