what kind of music do you listen to?

Siquros said:
People hate talking to me about music... I'm quite opinionated and stating that you like Hoobastank and Nickleback will get you nowhere with me. So pretty much, if you want to maintain a friendship with me (outside the internet of course) you either have to avoid music with me or be open enough to listen to what I like (which is superior).
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Well, you can imagine my relief when I looked up to the thread title and realized this was not the "apply to become Siguros' friend" thread.

notice: The above is the only thing I am actually directing at Siguros, and it is italicized because I mean it to be sarcastic/humorous. The rest of the post is just an observation of something I find interesting/funny.

In all honesty, I enjoy everything but what I mentioned in the last post... Strangely I don't base my days around the music I listen to... so if something of poor musical quality is on the radio or a cd, I don't really care.... I let it go; I have slightly more important things (new daughter, job, mortgage, schooling, wife, etc) and therefore don't lose much sleep over it.

I love music snobs though... I find it so funny that many people only enjoy artists as long as those artists are basically broke/unsuccessful... as soon as they 'make it big' they are 'mainstream' and no longer cool. Personally, I like the artists I listen to to find success... But, everyone has to have SOMETHING they're into, and if it's music of the indy/cutting-edge/largely unknown type, then that's all cool... I try not to look down upon people who do not understand advanced mathematics, don't enjoy matrices and linear algebra, and who do not program in multiple computer languages since I know that's not everyone's thing... If someone tells me "I really enjoy Visual Basic, it's such a great language" I judge whether they're specifically interested in learning some of the reasons it's not the right tool in most cases, and knowing that in most cases they are indeed not interested in having that conversation, I leave them to enjoy what they enjoy.
 
Mostly Death Metal and Grindcore.. stuff like Cattle Decapitation, Vital Remains, Cryptopsy, The Berzerker and Decrypt.
 
calaran said:
I love music snobs though... I find it so funny that many people only enjoy artists as long as those artists are basically broke/unsuccessful... as soon as they 'make it big' they are 'mainstream' and no longer cool.
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I don't really care if a band is popular or not. I just seem to find "unpopular" music better. The reason unpopular is in quotes is that now with the advent of the internet and file sharing, there really isn't such thing as a completely underground band... a lot of indie bands are almost just as popular as stuff that gets played on MTV, they just get less exposure.

The thing is though, bands are mainstream for a reason, and the qualities that make a band mainstream are usually what I don't enjoy. Take Death Cab For Cutie for example... an alright band, they made some decent music on an indie label, had a pretty large following, and then with their latest album Plans they got signed to a major label. Plans is garbage. Because they're popular now? No, because the music took a serious nosedive in quality. I'm also not going to go up and talk about how much I love Death Cab For Cutie, because then I'll get some teenage girl asking me if I love Good Charlotte and Fall Out Boy too. I just avoid the whole connotation.
 
Siquros said:
Stuff about music snobbery that makes sense to me for the first time.
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Thanks for that... notice none of that was in italics, I seriously think you explained something I've not understood for quite some time. I can see how they become mainstream because of a certain sound/quality they have, and that is, granted, probably less quality than some other bands... I don't listen to music to judge the quality of their writing or performance really... I just listen because it's background music... I used to really listen the Beatles a lot (I'm not trying to push them as super-high quality music, just that I actually listened to the music and cared what the music sounded like) and I enjoyed them because I liked their musical style... from start to finish even though it changed a lot.

Anyway, seriously, thanks for clearing that up, and I guess I have no more points in this conversation.
 
Man, Siguros. For being what seems to be a self-proclaimed musical connoiseur you have horrible tastes in your expertise.

Prettymuch every non-derivitive hardcore band has moved on to musical genres and songwriting that requires talent or at least a less sheeplike fanbase.

Not saying derivitive is a bad thing; but more that hardcore is basically the preliminary groundwork for a band looking to become something. Not the end product of said band.

Screamo and Hardcore stuff is a lot like the legos of a toddler's, who as a result, becomes an architect.
 
i saw flogging molly play at the avalon in boston on friday, and it was the best show i've ever been to. the briggs and the dead pets were the openers. the dead pets were really good, but flogging molly was effing amazing. i recommend them for anyone who likes a good, high energy show, and loves to mosh :D
 
I like CCR, Jimmy Buffet, Elton John, Beach Boys... =D

My radio in my car has a wide range of presets. They are mostly pressed in order to find a station playing music of any type instead of talking.

I possess and listen to over a dozen CDs os Vivaldi, Bach, and Mozart. I have Guns and Roses. I have Chumbawumba. I have KMFDM, and Fear Factory, Sister Machine Gun, and Gravity Kills. I have Depeche Mode and Tears for Fears. I have many 80s pop hits collections.

I listen to what I like when I feel like it. When a band starts to suck, I don't listen to the the ones that suck. I still treasure the ones that do not. For people that it really bothers to have a favored band to go bubblegum, then I usually reccomend that they listen only to bands in which all the members are dead. That way, the risk of the band doing something stupid is greatly lessened.




Now, if I were in a band, I would release a CD of Viagra jingles if the payoff was good enough. Bands are exactly like prostitutes, labels are exactly like pimps. You have to take the fast payoff, the bigger, the better, as quickly as you can. Then, get out before your assets fade. Just like an old prostitute, playing a prom 15 years after your number 1 single is not a pretty sight.
 
I like and appreciate all music. Mostly because I grew up listening to anything, plus I was a band geek and played Saxophone for 9 years..

But when I am by myself in the car, all I listen to is Metallica.

Otherwise, I'll listen to 80's music, classical, big band, and Neil Diamond with my wife. She hates Metallica :p
 
I listen to a bit of everything, but I'm mostly into hardcore, grindcore, indie, etc... also a lot of Jazz (I'm in a jazz combo). Some of my favorite bands/artists are The Fall of Troy, John Coltrane, Thelonius Monk, Champion, With Honor, Mewithoutyou, Hewhocorrupts, Tower of Rome, Glassjaw, HORSE the Band, The Locust, Comeback Kid, Modern Life is War... I could go on and on.
 
Rock music, hard and pop, old and new, metal and glam, instrumental but almost no screaming, funk; not all of it or even most of it, but a lot of the bands within. Classical music from the baroque (sp?) period, no opera. Jazz with a lot of innovation and solos, no swing, little of the New Orleans style. Almost no country or rap, no polka. I don't like all music even from the bands I like the most.

Bands? Sure I'll stand up to some ridicule: Rush, Thin Lizzy, older Sabbath (Ozzy and Dio), Kansas, Sister 7, In Flames, Sevendust, Dark New Day, Steve Morse, Bela Fleck, Fate's Warning, Dawn Over Zero, Liz Phair, Frank Zappa, Led Zep, older Aerosmith, Joe Satriani, Dream Theater, and other crap.
 
ah music - one of my favorite topics

I am what most folks would call the old fart metal head
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with particular emphasis on guitar
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I've been playing guitar and in bands for *egads!* over 20 years.

I really enjoy guitar driven metal and rock. Some of my favorite bands/artists are
Black Sabbath
Frank Zappa
Venom
Clutch
Lord Weird Slough Feg
Pink Floyd
older Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Metallica, Slayer (before Somewhere in Time, Turbo, Black album, South of Heaven in order)
 
I mostly enjoy progressive and power metal:

Blind Guardian
Dream Theater
Demons & Wizards
Rhapsody
Iced Earth
Queensryche
Symphony X
Iron Maiden
Rammstein
Dio
Metal Church

Also enjoy other stuff as well:
Queen
Yes
Rush
The Beatles
Scorpions
Electric Light Orchestra
Bad Religion
Rage Against the Machine
Cake
Live
KMFDM
Clive Nolan and Oliver Wakeman (these guys have done a few "rock opera" arrangements, in particular their "The Hound of the Baskervilles" album is excellent)
 
I like all music and usually just throw my computer on random and let the 9k or so songs just play...

But my fav bands atm are
Fallout Boy - liked them before they went big
Nelly - when I like to get the heart pumping
Greenday - never left this band since my school days
Nirvana - for those winding down times
Mattafix - liked their Big City Life.. its catchy
Black Eyed Peas - fergy.. come on whats not to like :D
AC/DC - been around so long and I grew up on this music
Foo Fighters - though not as much now with their new stuff..

so yeah those would be the ones that keep rotating on my playlists but not limited to it though..
 
rabb makes my heart go pitter patter... violins + banjoes = <3

my music taste is pretty much indie/hippy jam band/jazz/blues....

broken social scene
built to spill
phish
stan getz
dave brubeck
soulive
arcade fire
death cab for cutie (i've liked them for the past 5 years...shhh)
enon
nick drake
emiliana torrini (acoustically, sounds exactly like nick drake)
ben folds
of montreal (prefer older...cherry peel = fantastic)
neutral milk hotel
sigur ros
at the drive-in
mars volta

http://www.last.fm/user/sl4ck3r/
 
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