What Music do you listen to?

[quote name='SneakyPenguin']okay i know everyone has thir own opinions on music, based on the varied styles present in this forum, but is it really neccessay to call all music you hate crap? other people may like that style. im just saying maybe we should only say what we actually listen to. that IS what this thread is about[/quote]

*applauds.* Took the words right out of my mouth. Personally, I have a diverse taste in music, so all of you who are saying "this music sucks" or "that style is crap" should be able to find at least one reason to think that I don't have any taste in music. I say, live and let live.

Anyhow, I listen to a lot of classical (I actually play classical guitar, although I'm really out of practice right now), especially from the Baroque and Romantic eras. I also listen to some "nu-metal," especially Linkin Park and Evanescence. (Is Evanescence considered nu-metal? I'm horrible at categorizing non-classical music. Heck, if anyone wants to, feel free to try to explain to me the different categories of rock music. I honestly don't know what is considered what.) I've been meaning to get into other, more "hardcore" metal groups, but I hate buying CDs if I'm not sure if I'll like them (I'm a cheapass, duh) and for complicated reasons I can't download Kazaa on this computer right now to "try out" any music.

I also like jazz, although I don't really listen to it often, and I listen to a lot of anime/videogame soundtracks, especially from Final Fantasy and Castlevania. And I like Dave Matthews. And I recently started getting into the Beatles. And Enya. And techno. Like I said before, I basically have a diverse taste in music.

(edit: ohh, forgot to mention the cowboy bebop soundtrack!!! how did I forget that?! :))
 
i am from texas so I mostly listen to dj screw and swisha house slowed and chopped rap music and freestyle rap from houston texas
 
::bows::

thank you. wow enya and linkin park. THATS a mix. but not so much as marilyn manson, then moby. i have actually gone from country to metal to techno to rap to rock to classical to j-pop in a few songs
 
[quote name='"NuRon"']what kind of band is breakdance vietnam?[/quote

sorry for not responding sooner..

eh....they dont sound like anybody else I listen to...if you care for any of the bands I listed you may like them. Their debut albumn is due out in April, its on an indie label.
 
i like rap and rock mainly: my fav. albums right now are Perfect Circle(thirteen step), outkast : big boi cd, and Twista Kamikaze
 
Counting Crows quite possbile the best band ever also if you ever get a chance to see them live you should it's a Once in a lifetime experience.
I also Like alot of Old School Punk Like Opperation Ivy.
 
[quote name='MorganWebbLover']Counting Crows quite possbile the best band ever[/quote]

That's the funniest thing I've ever heard.
 
[quote name='"xSic315"'][quote name='"MorganWebbLover"']Counting Crows quite possbile the best band ever[/quote]

That's the funniest thing I've ever heard.[/quote]


amen to that..

311, thrice, deftones, alkaline trio, afi, nofx are currently playing on my custom soundtrack games

edit: hmm.. cant seem to get this whole 'quote' business down..
 
Calm Down Little boys or I'll have to tell your momy that your staying up past your bedtime again. You little kiddies wouldn't know what good music was if it crawled up your ass and died. Go listen to some Rap shit or some top 40 crap.
 
[quote name='JackSuper'][quote name='xSic315'][quote name='MorganWebbLover']Counting Crows quite possbile the best band ever[/quote]

That's the funniest thing I've ever heard.[/quote]


amen to that..

311, thrice, deftones, alkaline trio, afi, nofx are currently playing on my custom soundtrack games

edit: hmm.. cant seem to get this whole 'quote' business down..[/quote]

You should be one to talk. :p
 
[quote name='wakeandbake']Metal,Metalcore -ASLD,Hatebreed,tool,unloco,dimmuborgir,chimaira. that kind of stuff.

ALL OTHER MUSIC IS REAL GAY[/quote]

i'm not going to name all the bands i like just to sound cool, but i would like to mention a few things i have noticed from reading this thread. it's funny how some people think they are listening to really obscure or "cool" things. the guy who was like "whoever knows who rammstein is is cool" is an example, since, you know, rammstein was all over mtv and the radio a few years ago. not saying anything bad about the band, just pointing that little tidbit out.

i'm going to leave all the rap kids alone because rap is the only thing that i can not tolerate and don't believe should exist, but that's just my opinion.

i'll also mention that country is cool, as long as it isn't that "young country" garbage that gets played on the radio and is popular, and you know what i'm talking about.

and then there's the kid who said that thursday, thrice and coheed & cambria sold out "the scene", which i think is both right and wrong. these bands are on majors (or on labels distributed majorly) and therefore are marketed to tremendous numbers of people, but that doesn't necessarily make a band a sell out. as far as i can tell, all three of those bands have made the same types of songs (you can debate whether they are good or bad all you want, that's not the point) that they did when they released their early stuff, so it's not like they changed to make money (a good example of a band that HAS done this is glassjaw). the only real "sellout" band i can think of in that whole "punk" scene (let's face it, there isn't any real punk anymore anyways) is rancid, who signed with warner brothers records but had a part in their contract that said warner wasn't allowed to put their logo or name on anything, basically trying to deceive people into thinking they weren't on a major, and although it shouldn't matter, they should have just been honest about it.

but the kid that takes the cake is the one i quoted, whose statement is actually kind of funny when you look at it. unloco is totally a rap band, and rap is not metal. chimaira used to be a rap band, so they are not metal, no matter what roadrunner wants to market to you this week. the only thing i could come up with from the "asld" abbreviation was "as i lay dying" bu since it isn't an accurate abbreviation, i'f i'm wrong i apologize for saying what i am about to say. as i lay dying is whiny sweater metal, and while it isn't really that bad, it's just so generic it's disturbing. hatebreed is weightlifter metal, like pantera, just better. tool isn't metal at all, but that's ok, since tool is still a good band. and finally, dimmu borgir is totally metal, i mean, anybody that would wear spiked shin guards like that are totally metal.

i propose that there be two sub-genres of music with guitars: rock and metal. that's it. you don't need any "emotional post-hardcore math rock-grind" or "super-duper-more indie than pavement and yo la tengo-combined rock". you don't need classification. i don't need no instructions to know how to rock! it either rocks or it's lame. the end.
 
thatstoobad - I really dont think glassjaw changed their music because it was the ml debut at all. their previous albumns were different from each other in my opinion. I dont think much of bands that rehash the exact same songs without ever evolving creatively, especially whne layign it opn the line with a major debut. (that could go both ways though)

anyway thats just my take on your thinking there.
one other thing, I cant see how any of those styles of music can be lumped into "punk"
antiflag is about all that comes to mind when I think "punk" maybe a small assortment of gutterpunk mohawk bands.
 
[quote name='thatstoobad']
and then there's the kid who said that thursday, thrice and coheed & cambria sold out "the scene", which i think is both right and wrong. these bands are on majors (or on labels distributed majorly) and therefore are marketed to tremendous numbers of people, but that doesn't necessarily make a band a sell out. as far as i can tell, all three of those bands have made the same types of songs (you can debate whether they are good or bad all you want, that's not the point) that they did when they released their early stuff, so it's not like they changed to make money (a good example of a band that HAS done this is glassjaw). [/quote]


What I was implying about Thursday, Thrice and Coheed wasn't about them "selling out the scene" and getting popular. I know that I do listen to enough a lot of popular acts (Tool, Justin Timberlake, etc.). The bad thing about those bands getting popular is the fact that the punk/emo/indie underground has transformed like when Nirvana hit. A large majority of the bands are striving to make themselves sound like marketable so that they may get signed or whatever. Geez, I play in a band, and it seems like every show we play there's a band that sounds like Thrice or Thursday. It's beat. Whatever happened to diversity or originality?
 
[quote name='MorganWebbLover']Calm Down Little boys or I'll have to tell your momy that your staying up past your bedtime again. You little kiddies wouldn't know what good music was if it crawled up your ass and died. Go listen to some Rap shit or some top 40 crap.[/quote]

Wow. Look below.

[quote name='xSic315']Favorite artists:
Buckethead
Camp Kill Yourself (CKY)
Godspeed You Black Emperor!
Led Zeppelin
The Mars Volta
Mike Patton
Pink Floyd[/quote]

And your comment about rap was very ignorant. Listen To Jurrasic 5, The Roots, OutKast, Beastie Boys, NWA, etc and call it crap. No wonder you think bands like The Counting Crows are the best.
 
[quote name='dustinttt']What I was implying about Thursday, Thrice and Coheed wasn't about them "selling out the scene" and getting popular. I know that I do listen to enough a lot of popular acts (Tool, Justin Timberlake, etc.). The bad thing about those bands getting popular is the fact that the punk/emo/indie underground has transformed like when Nirvana hit. A large majority of the bands are striving to make themselves sound like marketable so that they may get signed or whatever. Geez, I play in a band, and it seems like every show we play there's a band that sounds like Thrice or Thursday. It's beat. Whatever happened to diversity or originality?[/quote]

i agree. there's money in whiny music, so bands like that are being shot into the mainstream. and since that happened, now you have all these new bands forming (whether it be signed bands, local bands, whatever) that sound exactly the same as every other band. it's just an oversaturation that's really inevitable when a new style of music gets popular (or at least a style of music that hasn't really been opened up to the mainstream before). so yeah, i agree with you there. you want to know what happened to originality and diversity? it died, because the kids realized that all they needed was black shaggy hair, bad sleeve tattoos and a song that sounds like a little boy crying in his room because his first girlfriend broke up with him at the skating rink last friday night.

oh well. music's dead.
 
I listen to all types of Metal. Black, Heavy, Thrash, Death, Grindcore, Goth, Doom. I also listen to Lil Jon & the Eastside Boyz. Get Low and I Don't Give a F*** are awesome tracks.
 
A Perfect Circle is my favorite band right now. Their lyrics are just genius, and Billy Howerdell is a amazing on the guitar. As far as other rock bands go, I don't particularly like too many of them. Taking Back Sunday is definitely at the top of my list, as is Sublime, Linkin Park, and Blink 182 (not their newer stuff, though).

I used to love rap, but I really don't like alot of it now (most hated: Chingy, anyone with "Lil" in front of their name, and Ja Rule). Lil Jon is kinda of an exception to that Lil rule. I can't stand anything where he actually talks, but on songs where he just does the beat, throws in an occasional Yeah! or Okay!, and let's someone else do the rapping, I usually like it. Anything where Nate Dogg does the chorus I find I usually like. And alot of people hate Eminem (wasn't too fond of him myself to begin with), but The Eminem Show album was pure genius. I don't think he'll ever be able to top it.

As far as anything else goes, don't really like too much country (aside from Garth Brooks and Tim McGraw), can't stand classical stuff, no techno, no pop (few exceptions), and no oldies (again, few exceptions). I love listening to Final Fantasy music while I'm driving.
 
I think Glassjaw just got more talented and were able to implement better production, so they were able to produce a mature, more musically valid album. They were making most of those songs before they were signed to a major label.

If you listen to their early work and compare it to EYEWTKAS it shows a dramatic change as well.

Some current favorites are:
Ed Gein
Into The Moat
Nuclear Rabbit
Every Time I Die
Mars Volta

Some perpetual favorites:
Ol' Dirty Bastard
Zao
Dillinger (Calculating Infinity and anything before)
Glassjaw (EYEWTKAS and anything after)
At the Drive-In (Relationship of Command only)
Yasunori Mitsuda
Rage Against the Machine
 
Clutch - I highly recomend them... actually you may have heard them if you have watched Viva La Bam. I like most experimental bands, recently I have become interested in a rock version of traditional mexicano music, the song and band in particular is MALAGUENA SALEROSA - Chingon.
 
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