[rkm]

Post your personality type and your charts

I'm interested if there is any correlation between personality typing and musical taste.

Me:
Myers Briggs - INFP
Enneagram - 4w5
My Charts - http://www.besteveralbums.com/usercharts.php

I tend to like a lot of literate Singer/Songwriter stuff, Americana, mystical/spiritual, Jazz, some avant-garde, art rock/art pop, the work of individuals over bands, anything melancholy...

[rkm]

Here's a Myers Briggs test

https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test

Here's an Enneagram test

https://www.eclecticenergies.com/enneagram/test.php

[SquishypuffDave]

INTP 9w1. Can definitely see a connection between my enneatype and my predilection toward spacious ambient atmospheric ego-disintegrating timbral soundscapes, since my unconscious psychic defense mechanisms involve a compulsion toward states of peaceful inertia.

I've done a lot of work with the Enneagram, not so much with Myers-Briggs. Just retook that Enneagram test out of curiosity and got equal weighting for 5w4 and 9w1, which isn't at all surprising since I've often gone back and forth between 9 vs 5. If you subscribe to the tritype theory I'm probably 9-5-4, which is "triple withdrawn". Although I think those sort of minor distinctions can be used to distract from the key psychological work that needs to be done.

[HazeyTwilight]

INFJ 4w5. Knew about Myers-Briggs and being INFJ for over a year, now. Only just recently took the Enneagram test, so I'm still trying to figure out what that says about me. But from what I have researched, apparently, I gravitate more favourably towards evocative sonic exploration (which explains why I like music with atmosphere, improvisation and colourfulness) and resonating lyrics (which explains why I like more tender music). It doesn't explain why I like certain genres (punk rock and metal mainly), but I think that's part of being an "individualist" Enneagram type, I guess.
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[babyBlueSedan]

I've always tested as ISTP, and this being the first time I've done an enneagram I guess I'm equal parts 5w4 and 5w6. Interestingly this time on Myers Briggs I tested nearly equal parts thinking and feeling which seems out of place with what I know about myself.

Musically I enjoy idiosyncratic songs that still fit into conventional pop music structures. I find jazz, electronic, classical, and krautrock mostly impenetrable. I used to put a lot of weight on clever, thoughtful lyrics but care less about bad lyrics every day, though instrumental music still largely bores me. Hard to say if this accurately reflects my personality or not, but that I still get the most emotional impact from lyrics and not the music seems to fit.
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[albumceleste]

I always score in between INTJ and INTP. It's like a 50/50 probabilistic thing.

Don't know how it relates to my musical tastes or if it does at all (though I tend to like minor key mood a lot more than festive major key moods. Maybe that has a correlation with the "I" ?).
Other thing that I tend to like is pulsating rythmic music of any genre. eg: Steve Reich; Beethovens 9th symph 2nd mov, op59 no2 and No 15 am quartets final movements; Rolling Stones' Play with fire or Dylan's 4th time around, etc etc

On Enneagram I just took the test and scored 5w6. Don't know what does it mean as I never knew of that test until today.

[rkm]

For those not familiar with the Enneagram, the thing that I find helpful about it compared to Myers Briggs is that it describes directions of integration or disintegration, rather than a sratic state. If you look at an Enneagram graphic, each type is connected by a line to two other types. I'm a type 4 for instance, and acting somewhat like a type 1 brings about my best self, but acting like a type 2 brings about my worst self.

I'm not familiar with the tri-type theory, but sounds very interesting.

[RoundTheBend]

INFP-A this time around, but I have also tested INTJ.

Also it reported:

You are most likely a type 5.
Taking wings into account, you seem to be a 1w2 or 2w1.

Not sure how I'm a 5, yet 1 or 2 with wings of 1 or 2?

Here's my overall, but decades are in my sig:
Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by sethmadsen

[RoundTheBend]

Interesting that so far we have only Introverts. My brother is an Extrovert and a huge music lover, but the thought came to mind that introverts often like to bring things in instead of blurt things out... so makes sense that music lovers would more likely be introverted. Comfort zone is to not be the center of attention, rather the music. But again that was just a thought - Extroverted brother is huge music lover too.

[rkm]