I listen exclusively to Acid Mariachi, and I (like most AM aficionados), am a violently moody, manic, outgoing anarchist sociopath hermit. So I guess there is something to this after all...
I listen exclusively to Acid Mariachi, and I (like most AM aficionados), am a violently moody, manic, outgoing anarchist sociopath hermit. So I guess there is something to this after all...
If that were what is on AM radio, I would start listening again.
But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong. - Dennis Miller
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I will have to go with D C Blood and JonZ. I like bluegrass, bluegrass gospel, some newgrass, early country, (before "The Nashville Sound", and what every they call it now). And an like JonZ if folks want to disagree, then thats fine. My third wife hated BG, so when I had to ride in her car she would play that 70-80's EZ rock to aggravate me. So I would aggravate her by singing every word to every song. I did not like that music but had a knack for remembering words, it would frost her butt as she did not a word to a single BG song. How lucky am I, my new wife loves BG.
I love bluegrass....do I need more medication?
Fortunately, it comes in liquid form, is readily available, you don't need a prescription, and is legal if you're old enough. The best varieties are still made in small home operations way up in the hills or back in the woods, but if you ask the right people the right way, they'll take care of you ...
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The study proves that its authors are self-creative with hard going esteem and desperately need to work out.
the world is better off without bad ideas, good ideas are better off without the world
A few questions for the authors of the study: If a person changes his or her music preferences (let's say radically) does that mean that he or she has undergone a radical personality change?...And if so, is that personality change caused by the change in music preference, or is the change in music preference caused by the personality change...or are they coincidental?
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Ed - Right there I think you put more thought into this study than did the people behind it.
Denny - Cheers!
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You beat me to it, Lee, probably because my "fever" is so bad...
Stuff like this cracks me up. There's a little truth to stereotypes, but also a little harm in them. As I'll listen to almost anything if it's done well, my preferences change depending on my mood and what's available on my 5 preset FM stations (for example, I refuse to listen to anything by Uncle Kracker on country radio, though I've got nothing against the man personally and will listen to him on other stations...it's just the principle), and...I'm just stopping there...
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Just shows to go ya that there are three kinds of people in the world: Those who divide the world into kinds of people, and those who don't.
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This study's generalities would make more sense if it were 36K college students, dont'cha think? Personally, I listen to all kinds of music and my music choice certainly depends on my mood when I cue it up.
Paul
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The Forer effect (also called the Barnum Effect after P.T. Barnum's observation that "we've got something for everyone") is the observation that individuals will give high accuracy ratings to descriptions of their personality that supposedly are tailored specifically for them, but are in fact vague and general enough to apply to a wide range of people. This effect can provide a partial explanation for the widespread acceptance of some beliefs and practices, such as astrology, fortune telling, and some types of personality tests.
i like a lot of music. reggae, salsa, classical, alternative rock, some techno, two or three rap(the rhyme intrigues me, almost nothing else) but mainly classic rock. im creative and hardworking. and i think im generous. of other qualities i dont know. oh and my self esteem is fine. not great but good.
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I pulled the original article and, as I suspected, the strength of the relationships between individual characteristics and musical preferences was pretty darn weak. So, less that 6% of the variability in preference for specific types of music could be ascribed to personal characteristics. And which characteristics were most strongly associated with musical preferences? First was age and second was gender. that means that things like self-esteem had a pretty meager link to musical preference. The findings were statistically significant because the sample studied was large, around 36,000 people who responded via internet. So, yes, the findings are credible but they're also modest (and that's not a contradiction). In other words, it's true that the factors allow the researchers to predict musical preferences better than just drawing names of musical styles randomly from a hat. But the precision of those estimates, while significantly better than chance, is still very low.
So, don't gloat or wince if you don't like the results for your preferred musical genre. Pretty weak relationships there.
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It's got more to do with what kind of music you first heard when you were 15 years old or so.
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And London never fails to leave me blue
And Paris never was my kinda town
So I walked around with the Ft. Worth Blues
I dig reggae on BG instruments. I think that correlates with my creativity, intelligence, and humility. I'm so incredibly humble that my humility level would probably kill a lesser man. Anybody got tab for "Lively Up Yourself"?
Ummm, no ... but just the other night, doing a little after-dinner around-the-table pickin', I started playing "No Woman, No Cry," and the guitarist thought I was playing "Wilin'," so that's what we ended up doing. Reggae, country-rock, it's all the same.
No tab for that, either. Not for any of that.
But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong. - Dennis Miller
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You bet it's weak, because the study is already limited to only those who would respond to an internet survey. So they're selecting from only among the types of music that those people listen to!
That leaves out at least one 63-year-old Irish-Catholic married male, plus a whole slew of folks that either A) have real lives, or B) are too busy posting on the MandolinCafe.
- Ed
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Our mistakes weren't quite so easy to undo
But by all those roads, my friend, we've travelled down
I'm a better man for just the knowin' of you."
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I like Irish Folk (Pogues) so I'm generous.......about buying drinks
Larry
LOL i listen to ever kind of music listed but i mostly listen to Indie and Reggae
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