Wow! Finally, a kindred soul.

I'm also a pianist. Been playing since I was 5, and I'm 16 now. If I was one of those Loony-Lovegood-conspiracy-theorist types, I would say there's obviously a cosmic connection. But I'm not, so I won't.

Do you play classical piano? I do. My favorite period is the Romantic one - Chopin, Brahms, maybe late Beethoven. I agree with you about Bach - his music seems a bit mechanical to me. I'm also a 5w4 Enneagram type, and I'm firmly convinced that the 4 part is comprised solely of my affinity for the piano. My NF tendencies come out ONLY when I play piano. I'm planning to major in music.

As for listening to music, I can listen to quite a bunch of styles... some pop and a little bit of rock are okay, as long as they're melodic and a little bit rhythmic. Of course, I also love classical, jazz, and ragtime. My favorite composer to listen to is Mozart. I don't quite know why I like to listen to Mozart but I prefer to play Chopin. Maybe I just haven't listened to enough Chopin.

I didn't say anything about surprising. And you've got to remember, music largely eludes me in all but the most basic respects as regards the creation of it. There is in my brain a place that does not seem to be accessible to me. It's a little scary as I find myself creeping up closer around the edges of the blackness of it. I always figured anything I couldn't learn was only forbidden me by my own will and unwillingness to struggle with the subject matter, but I now begin to think there is some part of my mind that is blocked by powers beyond my control. This is because things that seem like they should be very simple are a battle every time I face them. I cannot work out basic math without a struggle unless I've memorized the problems from repeated use. I can't visualize anything I haven't seen before; even if I have the components before me, I can't imagine it. I can't create a plot. I have been working on a book, and the plot is slowly evolving, but I repeatedly get caught up in tiny details and lose the big picture every time I try to work on or tell about the plot.

And music is a mystery. So from where I stand, the very fact that I can appreciate Bach enough to like him is a surprise and a wonder. Perhaps there is a safety in it for someone who has been denied by her very design the ability form a cohesive order in life. I must borrow my structure. Guys like Liszt and Debussy and their contemporaries often frustrate me.

Hi, I just noticed your post, I'm 19 and I've been playing piano since I was 7. Unfortunately, I didn't start taking ADD medication until I was 17 and by the time I was 15/16 and was expected to be practicing for 3 hours a day, I decided to quit. I wanted to study some jazz, but never got around to it, other things were holding my interest I suppose. So, I admire you, I love music and I know I have a talent for it, I will pick up the sax next year in University.

My favorite composer is Debussi, but I'm also going to start looking into some of the contemporary music made around the 50's and 60's, I believe. I've only heard bits and pieces on the radio from time to time.

I'm also sort of an NF, there was only a 4% difference between my T/F score.

I looked up Muczynski on Kazaa and nothing showed up. Suggestions?
~Tim

Yep, you're more likely to find "Brittany Spaers" on KaZaA...

What would IXTJ be, then? (I have an IXTJ as an example because IXTP would mean a perceiver who doesn't perceive anything... aka zombie )

MBTI results:
NGene, thank-you for taking the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator in emode style. _Results_

Sensing preference: You have no sensing. In fact, you are completely incapable of noticing any details in your environment. You don't notice the smell of your socks, nor do you notice the people around you fainting because of this smell.
Intuition preference: You have no intuition. You're a nit-picker who doesn't know the meaning of anything. You don't have the slightest idea of how a certain detail fits into the big picture. In fact, you don't know what a "big picture" is.
Designation: X. Incapable of perceiving any information, you seem to come to conclusions that have nothing to do with the real world and make meaningless judgements that have no value for anybody. You'll make a great bureaucrat, NGene.

Here here. Although there are some particuliar songs here and there that are cool. "Baby got Back" comes to mind.

I play bass, guitar, drums and remember enough trumpet and piano to think I could play them if a situation arised (and I had some practice time).

I've been playing in punk/hardcore bands since I was 13, so that's what's I own a lot of. But I'm pretty diverse - I played bass in my high school jazz band (got the Louis Armstrong Jazz Award my senior year), love listening to Creedence or Johnny Cash on my reel-to-reel, and would love to sit under my sister's baby grand (and zone out) while she played some Bach.

Lately I've been listening to a lot of Social Distortion, Bad Astronaut, Armchair Martian, and Hopesfall.

You had me excited there for a minute.

I actually really dig Avril. My wife and I took a couple friends to go see her when she came through town on her "Secret Mall Tour" a couple of weeks ago. Unfortunately, we got stuck in traffic and missed it.

That girl can wail. I love it!

AWW man thanks,I love it.

I've got some Emperor, I like them so far. Slayer, Cannibal Corpse, good stuff. Gwar, umm, still checking them out.

I signed up to emusic.com before they changed their download policies and I ended up with 3000 songs for about $60. So I'm still listening to everything 8 months later. emusic.com still has good pricing, I'd sign up again when I get through all these songs.


sometimes I listen to:

http://www.snakenetmetalradio.com/default.asp

you get to vote on songs to play. they have a huge library. they seem to crash a lot though.

I listen to that station. Its on my rip list,so i have every song they play.
If you are ripping the broadband stream, you can use this: http://www.ratajik.com/stationripper
and get perfect quality mp3s,even if it crashes,the mp3s are untouched.

I used to be into Black Metal.. the only Black Metal artist I really liked was Burzum and maybe a little bit of Incantation. Currently I am primarily into electronica... it's just that I haven't bought any new CD's in a long time so I'm getting extremely bored of the albums I have. I really enjoy Deep Dish but I am getting sick of their stuff right now so I need to get more albums by them.

Doesn't matter to me. I care more about the way vocals sound than what they're singing about. In fact, I don't even have to understand or relate to the lyrics to enjoy the music.

I agree, I often listen to music in foreign languages with little or no knowledge of what it's about. It's aout how it sounds, not what they say. In fact, I'll listen to two minutes of song that I hate just to get to a vocal that I really enjoy.

My friends make fun of me for downloading Chinese hip hop or German death metal ... but it just sounds so cool.

I don't really listen to rap but I know there are some great spoken word rap artists out there.. if you've heard poetry slams then you would like spoken word .. i'm going to trail off.. I'm tired.

I used to think that about country. Then I discovered alt.country. The country music you won't hear on the radio.

Oh and I agree about rap. Public Enemy was the best.

OK... I think I can relate to that... I have to warn you I am terrible at telling music types apart though... I love scandinavian metal groups. Not *only* scandinavian, but it seems that I find my favourite type of metal performed basically by scandinavian groups... I like melody with gruff vocals as well; and I like that weird, goth stuff...

On lyrics I will also agree with Amy... I care more about how the vocals sound than for what they mean... maybe because music serves basically as a backround.

Some of the guys in my band would love you. They eat this stuff up.

They're some of the smartest people I know, too.

sounds like a group suicide is in order...

How intelligent, a comeback.

But I find, as I've stated elsewhere, I like the use of ellipses at the end of a post, as it leaves so much to the imagination. Thanks for the laugh.

I love them, people always look at me strangely when I tell them SandG are my favourite all time music artists.

But I have never thought of it as an INTP thing because my mother was a folk dancer in her prime, danced for the queen and everything, so I chalked up my love for SandG to her influence.

My wife has liked them for ages and go me to listen to them. In fact, we saw them in concert last winter. Can't quite hit all the notes anymore, but still very entertaining.