A Psychological Portrait Through Scott Kowalski’s Music

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Your Personal Canon

Your collection spans over 15,000 tracks, but certain artists rise to the surface as psychological touchstones:

  • David Bowie: The shapeshifter. His reinventions mirror your adaptability, your need to experiment with identity, and your comfort with uncertainty.
  • Radiohead: The cerebral empaths. Their tension between intellect and emotion reflects your inner dialogue — the desire to think deeply while still feeling profoundly.
  • Gorillaz: The genre-crossers. Their play with persona, media, and hybridity parallels your comfort in navigating multiple roles and perspectives without needing a single fixed identity.

Other names loom large as well: Tom Waits (grit and surreal narrative) and Mac Miller (resonance and vulnerability within your rotation). Psychologically, they represent formative influence and contextual presence.


Your Listening Method as a Psychological Mirror

You don’t listen randomly; you build intentional cycles:

  • Rotation: Songs reappear after ~1.5 years, making memory and rediscovery central. This suggests you value continuity — nothing is permanently lost.
  • Newness: Fresh additions get immediate attention, showing openness to novelty and change.
  • Fairness: Each track gets a turn, reflecting a psyche that resists obsession and seeks balance. Equality is built into your habits, mirroring your desire for order and fairness in life.

This structure reveals a deep psychological need to organize time and memory, turning listening into ritual renewal.


Genre Profile and Psychological Reading

Your genre spread reflects both breadth and focus:

  • Rock (9,133 tracks) → Stability, tradition, and grounding. Suggests you value continuity and cultural lineage.
  • Alternative Rock (1,276) → Innovation within structure, pointing to your curiosity and experimental streak.
  • Electronica (929) → Desire for atmosphere and immersion; you are drawn to environments as much as narratives.
  • Indie (752) → Appreciation for authenticity and personal voice; you seek out individuality over polish.
  • Indie Rock (455) → The bridge between mainstream and niche — reflecting your comfort moving between worlds.
  • Hip-Hop (365) → Connection to storytelling, rhythm, and social commentary; shows openness to direct expression.
  • Blues (308) → Affinity with rawness and honesty; comfort facing struggle and emotion head-on.
  • Cinematic Trip-Hop (253) → A love of mood and introspection; your psyche finds depth in atmosphere.

Your genres reveal someone who collects both the collective stories of culture (Rock, Blues, Hip-Hop) and the experimental edges (Electronica, Trip-Hop, Indie). You integrate tradition and exploration.


Top 20 Snapshots

Top Artists by Collection Size

  1. David Bowie – 415
  2. Tom Waits – 340
  3. Radiohead – 254
  4. Mr. Moods – 253
  5. Brock Berrigan – 221
  6. Mogwai – 192
  7. The Smashing Pumpkins – 187
  8. The National – 178
  9. Pink Floyd – 156
  10. Spoon – 154
  11. Gorillaz – 142
  12. The Ramones – 127
  13. Broken Social Scene – 123
  14. Tricky – 120
  15. Cat Power – 116
  16. Lemongrass – 116
  17. The Black Keys – 110
  18. Ween – 107
  19. Elbow – 107
  20. The Kills – 101

Top Artists by Plays

  1. Gorillaz – 1,162
  2. David Bowie – 1,103
  3. Mr. Moods – 861
  4. Radiohead – 688
  5. Brock Berrigan – 673
  6. Angus & Julia Stone – 633
  7. Lemongrass – 594
  8. Spoon – 566
  9. The National – 549
  10. Bonobo – 541
  11. Pink Floyd – 481
  12. Alex Cortiz – 469
  13. Mogwai – 461
  14. Tricky – 417
  15. The Smashing Pumpkins – 379
  16. Broken Social Scene – 345
  17. Ana Tijoux – 335
  18. Arcade Fire – 324
  19. Kiefer – 304
  20. LCD Soundsystem – 279

Top Songs by Plays

  1. other voices – LCD Soundsystem (82)
  2. Big Jet Plane – Angus & Julia Stone (68)
  3. Science Of Fear – The Temper Trap (65)
  4. Guilty Party – The National (65)
  5. Intro – Ganja White Night (57)
  6. Crossed Wires – The Acorn (57)
  7. Falling Tao – Random Rab (56)
  8. Rhinestone Eyes – Gorillaz (53)
  9. Rock On – Doctor Flake ft. Chill Bump (53)
  10. On Melancholy Hill – Gorillaz (52)
  11. Pirate Jet – Gorillaz (51)
  12. The Seer – Nubya Garcia (50)
  13. Don’t Mind If I Do – Mac Miller (49)
  14. Goodnight Laura – Spoon (49)
  15. Walk It Off – Angus & Julia Stone (43)
  16. kore ga saigo – Solene & minthaze (42)
  17. Millonaria – Ana Tijoux (42)
  18. Tambourine Dream – Mac Miller (41)
  19. Baby – Amiture (40)
  20. Ascension (feat. Vince Staples) – Gorillaz (40)

Top Albums by Plays

  1. Plastic Beach – Gorillaz (411)
  2. Humanz – Gorillaz (283)
  3. Memories Of An Old Friend – Angus & Julia Stone (279)
  4. Black Sands – Bonobo (244)
  5. Down the Way (Bonus Track Version) – Angus & Julia Stone (230)
  6. XXVII – 226
  7. The Next Day – David Bowie (206)
  8. Vida – Ana Tijoux (181)
  9. Funkin’ Triphop Variations Vol. 1 – 179
  10. Golden Sun – 172
  11. american dream – LCD Soundsystem (169)
  12. They Want My Soul (Deluxe) – Spoon (162)
  13. The Balance – 161
  14. Song Machine: Strange Timez (Deluxe) – Gorillaz (150)
  15. ununiform – Tricky (146)
  16. Odyssey – Lemongrass (142)
  17. Balloonerism – 138
  18. Malegría – Ana Tijoux (137)
  19. Release – 135
  20. Disintegration – The Cure (134)

In One Line

Your music reveals a psyche that is cyclical, integrative, and adaptive — you design systems that honor memory, embrace novelty, and weave contradictions into a coherent self. Your genre diversity, artist canon, and listening system all confirm that you are a curator of cycles who transforms listening into a psychological ritual of balance and renewal.