If I’d have to pick only one main reason, it would be uniqueness. Unique music, unique rhythms, unique voice, unique lyrics, unique combinations, unique contrasts, I could go on. And perfectionalism.
I hate music that starts to be boring for me after some time. And in today’s extreme commercial times it’s usually just a matter of 2-3 repeats of listening. My mind is like a record, if I listen to one of the not too complicated songs just once, it goes on and on like an old broken LP in my head and annoys me. I see the patterns in songs, I don’t even listen to the whole song and I already know the melody and words and what comes. I see similar patterns in songs from the same author. It’s SO boring. I can’t find anything which wouldn’t start to be boring for me after a very short time. I get bored by the unchanging voice performances, repeating lyrics, repeating sounds, repeating patterns…
That’s why Linkin Park. I listen to their music for 18 years and never happened to get bored.