[mrhat]

Nah I like a lot of music, dark included. Metal and hip hop mainly, plus some punk, trance, mainstream pop, and a bit of random stuff.

My preferences are sometimes seasonal, or just change over time. In the winter I find that I really listen to more black metal for instance. For one month I'll listen to a lot of metal on shuffle and skip other stuff, and then it will change. Happier/lighter songs are good for what they're called, and darker music usually is more complex and is listened to for the complexity.

[tenken]

I think all introverts tend to listen 'dark music'. In that case, INTJ's tend too.

[Kearley65]

I like rock (not the heavy screaming crap), some country (not the new crap pop/country mix that plays on the airwaves today), and I can also listen to some rap and electronica (but I will not put it on by choice, can listen to it though).

[SeverusSin]

Can't stand any form of "Metal", "Death Metal" and all that thrashing noisy stuff, it just upsets my chi. I do however like sad, foreboding music and epic orchestral scores. I also enjoy darker, more chill or reflective hip hop etc. Anime soundtracks have some of the best "feels" in terms of atmospheric moods.

I do like upbeat and vibrant sounding music as well but in MUCH smaller doses, whereas the dark, moody and serious songs tend to do it for me at anytime. Repetitive orchestral based hip hop productions are good for creative thinking, I use them write up story narratives to these loops, along with aforementioned music. I find they help me to build up scenes and images in my mind.

[Brambleshire]

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	. My pferences are sometimes seasonal, or just change over time. In the winter I find that I really listen to more black metal for instance. .

Black metal and winter are like milk and brownies. Brownies are delicious, but they are soo much better with a cold glass of milk.

Affirmative. I love dark music. In fact I love dark everything. I am innately attracted to whatever is dark, morbid, occult etc. my favorite season is winter, grey rainy days lift my spirits, I can't explain it. I'm not even goth out anything, I'm your pretty average hipster.

the music I listen to the most is black metal and witch house. Especially atmospheric "winter & mountains" black metal. Its so beautiful, so intense, and so nourishing to my imagination. Its also very varied, there's a different type of black metal for almost every mood. My other genres include garage, progressive hip hop, and huge swathes of electronic and indie/hipster music.

[DSCH]

I like my music to be very sonorous or resonant, but not necessarily dark. Something about progressions employing numerous parallel 4ths and 5ths is highly stimulating.

Some examples:

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[Scriabin221]

I like a lot of very dark music. Some of the music I make is quite dark. I like to employ a lot of octatonic and whole tone scales. I'm very into minor seconds and tritones as well as very open perfect intervals. I listen to quite a bit of Leo Ornstein who made some insane atonal monstrosities such as this.


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Gotta love tone clusters.

Most composer have a very dark side to their music. Even Bach. Especially Bach. Chopin's Funeral Sonata listened to the whole way through is a great experience.

[Mezmorizor]

I'm pretty bipolar about my music choices. I love dissonant compositions like anything Brian Fernyhough has ever written, but I'm also known to listen to jazz and pop(though I go for covers with pop because auto tune annoys the hell out of me, I can hear the actual pitch correction easily). I also enjoy pretty much anything chaotic like the Rite of Spring, Grosse Fugue, Angels in the Architecture, Symphony in B flat-Hindemith, etc.

I doubt you'll find any correlation between personality type and music choice though, environment likely has a bigger impact.

[nashburn8]

I like Eric Burdon and the Animals. When The Beatles were singing "Love Me Do," the Animals were singing about a house of sin in New Orleans.

[NeverWhere]

Ever since I was old enough to really start picking my own music to listen to, I've been drawn to music that you could call dark. I listen to lots of metal, hardcore and some screamo, especially where the lyrics explore 'darker' themes (such as suffering and how people cope with it). Over the past year or two, I've been listening to more avant garde and atonal type music as well.

Not everything I listen to is dark: I do listen to a good amount of folk and even a little pop. However, it seems that even with folk music, I prefer more minor melodies to the brighter tunes. I don't think I'll ever be able to enjoy your typical upbeat pop/dance music.

[Nietzsche]

I only listen to black metal or classical music. The black metal I listen to is predominantly dark, while the classical is rather uplifting.

[GrlSailorAngele]

	Originally Posted by Othesemo To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. I like my music dark, yes. Not attention-seeking, thrashing, and unbearably loud. Think Danse Macabre or Rite of Spring.

Impeccable choices.

[silicon212]

This is about as dark as it gets with me, however I do tend to enjoy stuff like this.


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[SilasGTBronte]

My music choice tends to be classical music, Gregorian/Orthodox chants, Buddhist chants, so a bit more on the side of mellow, softer, and contemplative. Occasionally some of that general pop music IF it is more original or different.

[zeroemission]

	I think all introverts tend to listen 'dark music'. In that case, INTJ's tend too.

NOT THIS ONE!

ugh the music all the INTJs were listening to in one music thread was HIDEOUS! i like upbeat and bouncy instrumentals best. i kind of feel like an outsider even in my own personality type for that.

this particular instrumental about sums up my take on what makes music good:
grossenhosen (don't let the name fool you)

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it never fails to lift my spirits

i did get into punk in high school, probably more out of peer pressure than anything, but i always gravitated more towards new wave. i think going to see the dead kennedys in concert in the mid 80s was my last official punk act.

i connected much more with old school hip-hop as in anti-gangsta get OUT of gangs and apply your energies into self improvement and still consider myself a hip-hopper at heart and am offended by gangsta crappers trying to steal the name of my culture and do the opposite of it, not that i had much respect for the weakest element of the original 4 ever. the first time i heard rapper's delight, i instantly hated it and still think it pretty much sucks.