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brian1789 and I have different tastes in music, and I was trying to figure out some of why that would be so. Part of it is that there is no accounting for taste, but it is more than that. What finally struck me are the different elements in our music choices. Generally speaking, mine tend to have strong melodies and lyrics, his strong rhythmic elements. He has many more instrumental pieces than I do.
I'm a singer. I am drawn to music that I can sing. I will often purchase cover versions of songs that are in my range rather than originals. (
calebbullen despairs of me.) I make no claim to be a good singer (and lately, when I sing I get a sore throat), but I do sing. I sing around the house, I sing in the car, I sing everywhere where I can do so without people looking at me funny. I think of music in terms of melody and voice.Brian is a dancer. Sometimes he will hear a piece of popular music and comment "Hey, that's a tango!" I will sometime ask him -- "what sort of dance is that music?" He thinks about music in terms of rhythm and movement.
I'm not sure what this says about us, but I think it is interesting.
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That's not to say I like all music by any means. But I certainly can't pin down my preferences based on categories like this. I assume there's something else guiding my choices.
Amusing observation: I don't, personally, get drunk, but I've noticed that many of my friends like "my kind" of dance music better when they're drunk. Also one friend who previously had paid no attention to my music preferences made some observation when we were playing DDR, that zie'd started out making zir own song choices but discovered after a while that my choices tended to be more fun for zie too.