h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Yeah, everyone says that. Unfortunately, I am yet to see a genuinely eclectic record collection.

B

If I could spell facetious confidently I would make the facetious comment that there are no records in my music collection - only tapes and CD's ...

However dyslexia aside (sound out the letters I have used and you will probably get to the word ...)

and side tracking again - who thought it was a good idea to give a condition which makes spelling a real problem such a difficult name to spell ....

To the point - is my music collection eclectic? Well it is certainly very varied and contains some very unusual things - but the trus answer lies in what you consider to be ecclectic ...

So here is a question for you - what would make a music collection eclectic?

At least some of all the following:

Baroque Concertos
Classical Symphonies
Romantic Preludes
Post-Romantic Fugues
Something Heavy by a 20th-Century Russian
Ragtime
Blues
Country & Western
Hot Jazz
Cool Jazz
When-does-the-tune-start jazz
Folk
Ballads by Crooners
Rock n' Roll
60s Garage Rock
Proto-Metal
Prog Rock
Motown Soul
Heavy Metal
Disco
Glam
Reggae
Punk
Post-Punk
Ska
New Romantic
NWOBHM
80s Synth
Indie
Happy Hardcore
Grunge
Goth
Dance
Dub
House
Gareth Gates

OK - so it's not an entirely serious list, but that is a condensed history and I think it's pretty eclectic.

B

* takes a considered look at the list *

Baroque Concertos - Check
Classical Symphonies - Check
Romantic Preludes - check
Post-Romantic Fugues - check
Something Heavy by a 20th-Century Russian - small check (for completeness only)
Ragtime - check
Blues - big check
Country & Western - check
Hot Jazz - check
Cool Jazz - check
When-does-the-tune-start jazz - more commonly known as free jazz - including some with Debbie Harry!
Folk - small check
Ballads by Crooners - check and then the Robbie version too!
Rock n' Roll - check
60s Garage Rock - not sure (memory going but they say if you remember the 60's you were not there - does that apply to remebering the music in your collection when you are not old enought to have been there?)
Proto-Metal - ?
Prog Rock - check
Motown Soul - check
Heavy Metal - check
Disco - Check
Glam - check
Reggae - small check
Punk - bigger check
Post-Punk - check
Ska - not much on CD but Check
New Romantic - Check - was a child of the 80's
NWOBHM - what?
80s Synth - check
Indie - check
Happy Hardcore -
Grunge - check
Goth - check
Dance - check
Dub -
House - check
Gareth Gates - you must be joking!

Adds
Gregorian Chant
Modern Jazz
Piano Jazz
Lots of different versions of crossover music
60's

Oh and lots more that I cant begin to classify

So does that count as eclectic?


So what keeps your ears happy?

Like you, I've given up trying to describe my record collection.

Currently, my best description is 'music that makes other people say "Oh - that's a good tune"'.

At the minute I'm on a big Bob Dylan kick. But I'm quite happily interspersing him with the Propellorheads, John Coltrane, Iron Butterfly and Rachmaninov's 4th piano concerto.

Oh, and fyi: NWOBHM = New Wave of British Heavy Metal (Iron Maiden, Whitesnake, that sort of thing.)

B

Oh dear I have an eclectic+ listening colection

Yhat is original list + Lighthouse Girl's estras

Even Gareth Gates?

B

What classification is Gareth Gates under?

He's under the classification of 'Gareth Gates' at the bottom of the list.

B

You mean it under A



Ashamed to admit to
I have some of those..

OK I can add NWOBHM = New Wave of British Heavy Metal Check

Now Iron Butterfly I dont know ...

Iron Butterfly were the authors of 12-minute heavy rock classic In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida. You may have seen it on the Simpsons, where Bart substitutes it as church organ music under the title 'In The Garden of Eden'.

B

I dont get to watch much TV - think I am still at work when the Simpsons is on

From here in America, the only musical genre I mostly dislike is country, and there are lots of exceptions there. I'm not too interested in music, though. Once in a while I sit in the car with the radio blasting, and that's about it. I like classical and jazz, but don't listen to them much at all.