[BRussell]

Pick 3 or 4 of the following:

classical
blues
country
dance/electronica
folk
rap/hip-hop
soul/funk
religious
alternative
jazz
rock
pop
heavy metal
soundtracks/theme songs

scoring:
classical, blues, folk, jazz = reflective & complex
inventive, active imagination, value esthetic experiences, consider themselves to be intelligence, tolerant, and reject conservative ideals

alternative, rock, heavy metal = intense & rebellious
curious about different things, enjoy taking risks, physically active, consider themselves intelligent

country, religious, pop, soundtracks/theme songs = upbeat & conventional
cheerful, socially outgoing, reliable, enjoy helping others, see themselves as physically attractive, relatively conventional

dance/electronica, rap/hip-hop, soul/funk = energetic & rhythmic
talkative, full of energy, forgiving, see themselves as physically attractive, eschew conservative ideals

This is my own simplification of this test. The original article is here.

[Spook E]

Heavy Metal
Hip Hop
Classical
Electronica

How can anyone truly enjoy country music?

[Rumor]

electronica
heavy metal
rock
funk

[porieux]

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[ghporter]

Classical
Jazz
World
Rock-lots of it, but not the stuff that they're calling "alternative rock" today-I'm talking Led Zep, Aerosmith, ELO, Styx, etc. REAL rock in all its forms.

I guess that makes me either extremely complex or really messed up... I'll go with that!

[Railroader]

"Oh, we got both kinds. We got country *and* western" -BB

Rock
Alternative
Country

Most preferably, alternative-rock-country.

BTW: You left off blue-grass, which most certainly is NOT country.

[ghporter]

My 7th grade English teacher was in a REAL Bluegrass group-straight out of the hills and everything. Hard to believe someone like your 7th grade teacher could be cool enough to have a record out on the shelves!

Bluegrass is part of the heritage of country, but a part that's getting less and less attention, while so much of country is still about getting drunk and doing stupid stuff (that the singer KNOWS he shouldn't do but does anyway) without enough musical collateral to make it worth it that I just don't bother with most of it. But anything by Willie is worth listening to. Anything at all.

[Railroader]

Originally Posted by ghporter

My 7th grade English teacher was in a REAL Bluegrass group-straight out of the hills and everything. Hard to believe someone like your 7th grade teacher could be cool enough to have a record out on the shelves!

Bluegrass is part of the heritage of country, but a part that's getting less and less attention, while so much of country is still about getting drunk and doing stupid stuff (that the singer KNOWS he shouldn't do but does anyway) without enough musical collateral to make it worth it that I just don't bother with most of it. But anything by Willie is worth listening to. Anything at all.

Here's a place you need to get to if you ever get back to Michigan:
http://www.lansing.com/creolegallery/concerts.html

And also attend this festival:
http://www.wheatlandmusic.org/home.asp

And if you stop into Elderly at the right time you can catch some awesome guitar playing. Any self respecting guitar player in Michigan and the surrounding states makes a pilgrimage every year or so.
http://www.elderly.com/

[porieux]

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[BRussell]

Originally Posted by Railroader

And if you stop into Elderly at the right time you can catch some awesome guitar playing. Any self respecting guitar player in Michigan and the surrounding states makes a pilgrimage every year or so.
http://www.elderly.com/

I've never been there, but I've ordered a number of things from them.

[Railroader]

Originally Posted by BRussell

I've never been there, but I've ordered a number of things from them.

Make the pilgrimage! You'll be very glad you did.

It's in a nice little pocket of Lansing. A few blocks from the state capitol, Lansing Community College and Cooley Law School.

[Salty]

I like at least one in every category... does that make me superman?

[Mithras]

blues
folk
country (on the bluegrassy or Emmy Lou side, not the Nashville side)

if i had to pick three. so what does that mean? I'm a liberal?

[voodoo]

Another day, another demonstration of the worthlessness of psychology. OK, to be fair.. another demonstration of how little psychology has to do with actual science and how much more it has to do with scientology.

Equally science-related.

Of course, I can only assume this defining of personalites through music genres is just for fun, like the astrology section in my local newspaper..

I think I could accept psychology better if it would stop claiming to be science and move to the more proper section of philosophy or even art.

Leave real psychology to biology.

V

[Kerrigan]

Psychology is a laughably easy major, so I doubt much important research comes from that field.

[Dakar]

I got one of each, but that kinda of diversity happens to me a lot.

[CollinG3G4]

Hmmm...I'm going to have to say: classical, electronic, soundtrack, jazz.

[pyrite]

rock
alternative
heavy metal
soul/funk