Never ceases to amaze me the things you are or are not into; this one I wouldna have guessed. I dunno how you ever thought that was drums tho.
Je suis eclectic, Jake, didn't you know that?! Or as my wife puts it "wantonly indiscriminate to shameless in your mishmash of musical tastes". Her pet theory is that I only do it to escape any kind of compartmentalization and to confound people.
I certainly bring all Amazon algorithms to their limits. They never know what to make of me. To this day, I buy some CDs just because I like the "cover" art.
There is not a single song/form of music I used to like as a 14-year-old that I don't still like today. Over the decades, other music has entered my vast taste vaults as well, but never via displacing music I already liked before. It just gets more and more - diverse and in quantity.
About 20% of my CD purchases (I disdain other forms of media, for quality of sound CDs are still the benchmark among widely available media forms) cover bands I don't even like (knowing that before the purchase), I buy them for educational and analytical purposes. Another 30% are sheer curiosity and knee jerk impulse buys.
I'm as much a music scientist and anthropologist as I am emotionally attached to some music. Listening to music can both be a cerebral exercise and an emotional experience for me. Some bands can even do both.
