Favorite kind of music?

Danomano89

Danomano89

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What is your favorite kind of music? Rock, Metal, Country, Rap, etc...



And i guess what are your favorite bands?


I'm always open to listening to new music, maybe I'll hear some new ones :bouncy:
 
Thrash, Death, Grind, Progressive, Technical, Melodic, Folk metal. I love me some metal. I really love Jazz-Fusion stuff too.
I also enjoy TFN's band
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It's all about Pop, Danglemango. These death metal degenerates are trying to corrupt your mind and your soul.

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Jazz baby. No question.

Funk/Soul/R&B(OLD R&B...60's through very early 80's mostly with exceptions) are a close second and Blues is a distant fifth. I can appreciate the blues but I don't really love the blues, see. I listen to a lot of classical music when I'm drawing and that's about it.
 
I've been a fan of metal since I was about 11. Started out with Metallica, and progressed to grindcore and industrial/hardcore industrial from there. Just a couple of days ago I've been out of my metal music and into Arcade Fire, The Decemberists, and other such bands. Withdrawl symptoms include: feeling better, acting nicer towards people, and caring about what the hell goes on. Although, I don't think I can stand caring much longer.
 
I'll be the weird one.

trip-hop, ambient pop, electronica, symphonic electronic, chillout, all with female vocals, no guys!

artists like.. Delerium, Conjure One, Blue Stone, Harland, Hybrid, Natalie Walker, and more stuff you haven't heard of.
 
Thrash, Death, Grind, Progressive metal. and i lil bit of nocturnal

listening right now:
Suicide Silence
The Black Dahlia Murder
Decapitated
Thee Art of Torture
Severed Crotch
Legion of the Damned

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[quote name='Dezuria']I'll be the weird one.

trip-hop, ambient pop, electronica, symphonic electronic, chillout, all with female vocals, no guys!

artists like.. Delerium, Conjure One, Blue Stone, Harland, Hybrid, Natalie Walker, and more stuff you haven't heard of.[/quote]

I only know of Delerium by grace of Tiësto.

I'm a fan of techno/electronica/house/eurotrash. Also some rap and metal thrown in for variety.
 
I like Alternative, Rock, Space Rock, Indie, Hip-Hop, Screamo, Metal and bunch of other stuff I guess. For me, if I like it, I like it - doesn't really matter the genre.... like, I know it when I hear it.

Pearl Jam is my favorite band of all time with Radiohead a close second.
 
Goth / Industrial / EBM / Synthpop / Laptop-Electro / Glitch / Powernoise

Top 10 Artists Overall from my Last.FM page:

Nine Inch Nails
Alkaline Trio
Rotersand
VNV Nation
Stromkern
Assemblage 23
Covenant
Skinny Puppy
KMFDM
The Cure

Doesn't really reflect my love for Electro-Indie
(bands like The Faint, Her Space Holiday, Placebo, Dntel, Electric President, Bright Eyes' Digital Ash CD, etc.)
 
Everything that no one's heard of, but mostly everything. It's a cliche answer, but it's mostly true when applied to me.

I have my hands in everything musically, I listen to so much music that it's now very difficult for me to remember band names, song titles, so I stopped trying, and just enjoy the songs of random bands that little to no one has heard of.

I also enjoy bands that people have heard of but not as early as I did. I remember being one of the first to hop onto many bands before they broke big. Don't like them as much now, not just because they're popular, but because they're popular, which makes it kind of hard to avoid them, and the more I hear a song in a small window, the less likely I am to continue to like it down the road. So, they start to wear on me, which is why I haven't listened to the radio in at least 10 years. Don't get off on a rant Daniel... ahem.

Anyway, to summarize... two shirts someone got me off of Threadless recently that do a good job of summing me up.

http://www.threadless.com/product/917/I_Listen_To_Bands
http://www.threadless.com/product/1036/Music_Snob

I'm not that bad, but to some I must seem that way. Excuse me, I need to get back to my Jellyfish album. :)
 
[quote name='crystalklear64']No country love :' ([/QUOTE]

Depends. I try to semantically separate classical country music (the Grand Ole Nashville style/Sun Studios stuff, early 20th century folk/bluecollar/solidarity music, and especially the fuzzy area where country blends with early rock n' roll and rockabilly) from contemporary post-1980 "rhinestone cowboy" bullshit. I refer to the former as "Country & Western" (remember when it was categorized as such?), and the latter as "Country." In my experience, people tend to equate "Country and Western" with "the good old stuff" (or just "that old crap") and "Country" with Toby "Boot Up Yer Ass" Keith, Garth Brooks, and all that horrible harmonizing-pop-songs-with-steel-guitar-lines-makes-it-country-apparently crap.

EDIT: Of course I greatly adore the C&W stuff and absolutely loathe the unnerving modern nonsense. There is good C&W still being recorded, but it's only a tiny, tiny sliver of the overall country music behemoth.

I would say "I listen to all kinds of stuff," or pull a "my favorite genre is you've-never-heard-of-it-core," but in the internet age, anyone is a click or two away from hearing any band imaginable, so it's moot anymore. What I will do is list some stuff I vaguely recall listening to on my iPod at the gym this morning. Yes, it's mostly metal, but not all.

Negative FX
DRI
Skitsystem
Krigshot
Motorhead
Jadakiss
Government Issue
John Coltrane
The Hookers
Poison Idea
The Pogues
Dead Kennedys
Joan Jett
Judas Priest
Iron Maiden
Hellnation
fuck on the Beach

...and I have Tegan and Sara and the Vince Guaraldi Trio "Charle Brown Christmas" cds rotating in my car.
 
[quote name='mykevermin']I would say "I listen to all kinds of stuff," or pull a "my favorite genre is you've-never-heard-of-it-core," but in the internet age, anyone is a click or two away from hearing any band imaginable, so it's moot anymore. What I will do is list some stuff I vaguely recall listening to on my iPod at the gym this morning. Yes, it's mostly metal, but not all.

Negative FX
DRI
Skitsystem
Krigshot
Motorhead
Jadakiss
Government Issue
John Coltrane
The Hookers
Poison Idea
The Pogues
Dead Kennedys
Joan Jett
Judas Priest
Iron Maiden
Hellnation
fuck on the Beach[/quote]

Really nice list there. Skitsystem is further proof for Sweden's superiority.
 
I mostly listen to stuff that could be under the vague umbrella of hardcore. Stuff like Comeback Kid, Blacklisted, Shai Hulud, Hatebreed, and Converge ect...
but honestly I'll listen to anything. My Last.fm for this week consisted of: everything from the Misfits to Snow Patrol.
 
Not intending to rag on anyone in particular, but I always find it funny when people say they listen to "everything," and then proceed to list a bunch of 3- and 4-piece white dude guitars/bass/drums bands.

My favorite music:

80's British fantasy leather metal
Post-romantic English tone poetry
Russian modernism
Houston codeine rap
Ellingtonian pre-fusion avant-garde post-bop
90's stoner/desert rock
"Old Man" and other Neil Young songs about life
Depeche Mode from Construction Time Again to Violator
Chicago house and the homoerotic late-period disco from whence it came
The Spinners and lesser Philly sould groups
154 by Wire
Red-Headed Stranger by Willie Nelson

My most-hated music:

Na$hville country
Backpacker indy rap
Rock music in the 2000's
White man soul patch electric blues
 
[quote name='mykevermin']the hell is this?[/quote] The kind of rap music that At The Drive-In fans read about on Pitchfork. Anticon and other groups that are almost as shitty as Anticon. I hate it all... except for the stuff El-P did in '01 and '02. That stuff is solid.

I harbor an almost equal hate for the major label rap that is listened to by the same fanbase. Jurassic 5, Talib Kweli, The Roots... fucking kill me.
 
[quote name='Dezuria']I'll be the weird one.

trip-hop, ambient pop, electronica, symphonic electronic, chillout, all with female vocals, no guys!

artists like.. Delerium, Conjure One, Blue Stone, Harland, Hybrid, Natalie Walker, and more stuff you haven't heard of.[/quote]
I know and like all of those groups. Got an email from Harland thanking me for the email I sent to her (was gushing over her two albums); can't wait for her third album to drop. Though I understand why Natilie Walker left Daughter Darling, it still sucks there won't be a second album (first one is probably THE best US trip-hop album).other genresJazz with female singership-hopturntablismambienced'n'bbreakstrancerockabilly-ish swingfirst wave skapunk (mainly classic groups)female fronted folkelectronicasome house (I live an hour away from Chicago)
 
[quote name='Dezuria']I'll be the weird one.

trip-hop, ambient pop, electronica, symphonic electronic, chillout, all with female vocals, no guys!

artists like.. Delerium, Conjure One, Blue Stone, Harland, Hybrid, Natalie Walker, and more stuff you haven't heard of.[/QUOTE]

I know and like all of those groups. Got an email from Harland thanking me for the email I sent to her (was gushing over her two albums); can't wait for her third album to drop. Though I understand why Natilie Walker left Daughter Darling, it still sucks there won't be a second album (first one is probably THE best US trip-hop album).

other genres
Jazz with female singers
hip-hop
turntablism
ambience
d'n'b
breaks
trance
rockabilly-ish swing
first wave ska
punk (mainly classic groups)
female fronted folk
electronica
some house (I live an hour away from Chicago)
Soul
Funk
Afrobeat
 
Mostly Industral Metal, Cyber Metal/Punk, London Techno and Korean hip-hop (because I need a good laugh every now and then).
 
I love all kinds of music.

New Wave (New Order, Pet Shop Boys, Depeche Mode, Talk Talk, etc.)
Punk (Richard Hell, The Clash, Ramones, Leftover Crack, Refused, and everything in between)
Metal/Grindcore (Carcass, Napalm Death, At the Gates, As Blood Runs Black, etc.)
Hardcore (Minor Threat, Bad Brains, Black Flag, SS Decontrol, etc.)
Hip-Hop (Dead Prez, Panacea, Nas (illmatic era), De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, etc.)

That's truly just scratching the surface of my musical taste. I love just about all of it.

Oh yeah, ska! Op Ivy, The Toasters, Catch-22, Reel Big Fish, The Meteors! Can't forget 'em! Then there's the Meat Puppets, The Smiths, M83, hmmm... I'll just add shit as I think of it.

myke, you reminded me about GI, great band. Dead Kennedys, of course; Patti Smith, Lou Reed, the Velvets... And while I'm not the biggest fan of post-punk, Joy Division is one of the best bands of all time, bar none.
 
[quote name='Mr. Anderson']myke, you reminded me about GI, great band. Dead Kennedys, of course; Patti Smith, Lou Reed, the Velvets... And while I'm not the biggest fan of post-punk, Joy Division is one of the best bands of all time, bar none.[/QUOTE]

And how. I'm hoping Cincinnati gets a theater release of "Control" before it hits DVD, though there's only really one indie theater that would carry it.

GI and Charles Bronson are the two acts that seem to pop up on my iPod when I shuffle it due to the number of tracks I have of each of them. Funny thing is, when I see the lil' GI album cover on the screen, I flip right past it - but when I'm not looking at it, I think "man, this is pretty good - who is it?" :lol:

[quote name='destro713']Not intending to rag on anyone in particular, but I always find it funny when people say they listen to "everything," and then proceed to list a bunch of 3- and 4-piece white dude guitars/bass/drums bands.[/QUOTE]

I forgot to mention, and I'm by no means singling you out here, but something that music folks can do to really get under my skin is to break down genres into sub-sub-sub-sub-sub minutiae such that there are more genres than bands/artists in the history of mankind. It's a tough line to tread, especially when you're cataloging the evolution of a genre (e.g., the creation of country music from many, many regional styles of music as the result of the growth of paved roads and, as a result, transportation). It's also tough because, if you rely on conventional genres, the variation becomes too much to bear (John Tesh and Thelonious Monk in the same genre screams of blasphemy!). But it can surely be overdone.
 
I agree. My genre-labeling is done partially in jest. My comment about people who say they listen to everything didn't have to do with subgenres though, it had to do with people whose internal map of the world of music is locked into some certain musical form or macro-genre. People tend to say they listen to "everything" (or the ever-popular "everything but country") when in reality their tastes are much more focused than they think, and what they should be saying is that they listen to rock music, or modern pop music, or whatever.

I mean, sure, there's a world of difference between The Beatles and Slayer as rock bands, but they're both rock bands. In the grand scheme of music they are very, very similar. They are both a handful of guys playing driving 4/4 verse-chorus-verse songs on fundamentally the same equipment.

To put it into perspective, there's also a world of difference between Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev, but most young people in America would find it silly if some old man said he listens to "everything, from Tchaikovsky to Prokofiev," because despite those guys' differences they both fit into the same pathetically narrow slice of music when you really dial out and look at the big picture. But switch it up and say you listen to "everyone, from Tchaikovsky to Slayer," and now you're getting somewhere, because you've touched on two distant points from a good 150-year chunk of Western music.

Wow, I'm an asshole, eh?
 
Nah, assholes are incorrect. And you, you're correct.

That's why I prefer saying "I listen to all kinds of stuff," rather than "everything" (and I certainly don't qualify for "everything but country," as I do like country and hate some other music - not to mention having a complete unawareness of other types of music).

I tend to have great disdain for Japanese pop acts that brutalize American rock aesthetics, American pop sounds, and have no lyrical substance. I can't think of specific examples, though some other music-related thread had a youtube video of some act that had these cats lookin' like the Stray Cats and playing something that sounded like Kelly Clarkson and her backing band, the every-Epitaph-band-ever.

Though I can't single out an entire nation, of course - some Indian pop takes on American music are just as dreadful, and Japan has a number of excellent, excellent hardcore bands.
 
Mainly dance/bubblegum pop (always where my heart is first), many variants of pop/rock (Britpop, glam/sleaze, classic, etc), and synthpop.

Favorites in the former category being Britney Spears, Jessica Simpson, Ashlee Simpson, Stock/Aitken/Waterman-produced stuff, Hilary Duff, Robbie Williams.

Favorites in the middle category being Damon Albarn's projects (Blur, TGTBTQ, etc), Graham Coxon, Mötley Crüe, The Beach Boys (and all solo projects - including Mike Love!), Andrew W.K., Faster Pussycat.

Favorites in the latter category being Vince Clarke's projects (Erasure, Yazoo, etc), Pet Shop Boys, Depeche Mode, Howard Jones.
 
I have a fairly wide taste in music, as cliche as that may sound.

Favorite artists:

Johnny Cash
Iron Maiden
Rolling Stones
Nas
Morrissey
Nightwish
The Wreckers
Danzig
Cradle of Filth
Cory Branan
Drive by Truckers
Slayer
 
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