whats your music taste?

fourmations

hi all

i have always felt that boards/instruments is predominately metalheads

whats your thing? it'd be interesting to know the regular forumites tastes?

i'll start.....(with little thought..)

i love (amongst others): radiohead, dinosaur jr, pixies, beatles, the smiths, mbv, janes addiction, jeff buckley and jazz!!

i love to play: radiohead, zep, early megadeth, jazz!

ciao


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Enya

Seriously. haha, ah i like everything really, not a big metal fan tho, more rock n roll, love classical, anything i guess, not a big fan of dance and house n stuff, but ah well

ThOnda

I like interesting music with ideas. It almost excludes all pop music after 1995.
And I like to play what is easy. Just making a lot of noise with only few chord changes.
However I am listening in my car to Johnny Cash - American IV ablum. Hurt, Personal Jesus, they sound good. Very good. I shall try to find those chords.

Mr. CooL ICE

I listen to mostly metal and 60s/70s rock, with some leniencies towards lounge jazz. My bass playing style basically tries to mimic Geezer Butler and Steve Harris finger playing, while attempting to play at speeds that Alex Webster and Steve Di'Giorgio do. Drummer in my band loves his funk and always tries to get me to play some slap while jamming, but I'm completely rubbish at it, mainly due to the fact that I don't like funk enough to bother learning it properly

edit -> Misunderstood what the thread about... thought it was about influences.
Listen to: Black Sabbath, Blue Oyster Cult, Zeppelin up to Death, Cryptopsy, Necrophagist, Cynic
Plays along to: Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Slayer

Rigsby

My main musical interests are jazz and blues. Not good enough to play jazz yet, but I love playing blues. Other artists/bands I like would be Steely Dan, Al Stewart, Beatles, Kinks, and Van the Man.

I'm giving my age away here are n't I ?

deaddonkey

pixies/stripes/tom petty/neutral milk hotel/luther perkins/neil young/zeppelin/cream./john mayall

and lots of early blues, and 60s-70s americana/country

don't do conventional metal, ever.

Fingers Mcginty

Blues , Some jazz and most Rock and roll...not into the ould metal buzz

Gaspode

Personally I like just about anything really other than boy/girl band pop stuff. I just dont get jazz either, but I can appreciate the technical brilliance of some of the players.
I'll play anything too, I'm a bit of a slut that way, and I'm equally mediocre at all styles!

I think the reason there appears to be a lot metal fans here is that this is mostly a guitar forum rather than a true instruments forum, and some of the more prolific posters just happen to like heavier stuff.

Dord

I listen to many kinds of music. I figure the more the merrier!

Jazz, Reggae, Punk, Dub, 80's Pop, Rock, Metal, Rap, Ska, Rockabilly, Psychobilly....

I figure there's probably more but I can't remember everything.

leninbenjamin

I'm like to think I'm pretty eclectic. Main focus would definitely be blues, mainly delta stuff like Mississippi John Hurt, Son House and the like. but i branch out a fair bit after that... Air, Led Zepp, Tool, Sigur Ros, Ali Farke Toure, Miles Davis, Django Rheinhardt, CCR and Jurassic 5 are some of the more typical names, and i'll turn on stuff like the White Stripes, Zutons and the Strokes the odd time too.

I'm usually willing to play almost anything.

It wasn't me!

Will listen to and play just about everything. Got bored of a lot of metal, so listening to a lot of slightly lighter rock and such, as well as a lot of jazz and classical, but my taste for metal isn't gone, just narrowed somewhat. Still love the better, more exciting and more innovative bands.

So, listening to: Phil Ware Trio, Francisco Tarrega, Bach, Shostakovich, Beethoven, Miles Davis, Pearl Jam, Cynic, Atheist, Paradise Lost, Gojira, Smashing Pumpkins, to name but a few.

Playing mostly: Beatles, Cynic, Atheist, Tarrega, Pearl Jam, and some of my own stuff.

Don1

This week I have been mostly listening to (and playing): early (see good) Metallica, Thin Lizzy, and Air!!

Tastes are quite wide but mostly loud stuff is tickling my fancy of late.

In terms of stuff with guitar parts I can actually manage to play there's two streams;
Conventional guitar stuff: Incubus, Tool, RHCP, RATM, U2, Velvet Revolver, Led Zepplin, Foo Fighters, Metallica, Smashing Pumpkins, Audioslave, Nickelback, Arctic Monkeys, Green Day, Jimi Hendrix, QOTSA, Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots, PUSA,

Other: Air, Daft Punk, Groove Armada.

Apart from that it's all stuff that eiter hasn't guitar in it or has completely unplayable stuff (be it just too damn hard or a style that I would apreciate but not try to learn)

mloc

I suppose I have a bit mad taste, I like many different styles.

Examples include Dave Matthews Band, John Mayer, Hootie and the Blowfish, Counting Crows, Incubus, Pink Floyd, Rage Against the Machine, Vai, Van Halen, Disturbed, Dire Straits, Dave Brubeck, Oscar Peterson, Ben Webster. Bit of Coco Montoya for some jamming.

I also like some dance/electro such as Felix the Housecat, Crystal Method, Royksopp, Future Sound of London, Dr Lektroluv, Air, Zero 7, Daft Punk. Also some old east coast hip hop/rap.

JC 2K3

My taste is all over the place.

I have a love for music from the mid 80s - early 90s American alternative rock scene(Meat Puppets, Sonic Youth, Pixies, Dinosaur Jr. , Minutemen, Husker Du etc.).

I also love 70s classic rock, especially prog rock like Rush and Yes, though I haven't been listening to much of this recently.

I like metal to a certain extent, but how so many people can like metal exclusively and be such hardcore fans of metal is beyond me.

Recently I've gotten into a load of post punk stuff from the late 70s early 80s, especially stuff from the New York No Wave movement.

I'm also into a lot of electronic music, particularly experimental/crazy stuff like Aphex Twin or Venetian Snares, but I also love psytrance(Astral Projection being a favourite artist of that genre) and some other (generally non-mainstream) dance music.

Random bands I've gotten into in the past while include My Bloody Valentine, Happy Mondays, The Cure and New Order.

I also play recorder to a grade 8 level and along with that I have a love for some Classical, Baroque and Jazz music.

Mars Bar

Mine is generally Irish Trad-Rock if you want to put it that way
The Saw Doctors, Waterboys, Hothouse Flowers, Walls, Horslips and my other love is Bruce Springsteen

Also like Scouting For Girls, The Hoosiers, Thin Lizzy, Toto...

bombidol

Punk, Hardcore and Metal. Play all those but dabble in other stuff from time to time.

fish-head

Basically piles from the 20s to the 60s and various bits after that..

Patricide

listen to everything, some of my fave bands/artists would be: deftones, dream theater, megadeth, rob dougan, massive attack, shadows fall, fear factory and so on.

I listen to everything from avril lavigne to morbid angel and decapitated although i do avoid rap like the plague!!

Johnny Storm

IMHO popular music reached its apotheosis with the release of Secret Treaties by Blue Oyster Cult in 1974 (?)

Somewhat tragically I still like and listen to the same bands I did back in the '70s and early '80s.
eg T Rex, Roxy Music, Genesis, Floyd, BOC, Steely Dan, Ramones, B52s, early Clash etc

I still look on RHCP as promising newcomers.:)

Killaqueen!!!

I can't stand people who say they love music and that music is their life etc. when they're stuck in the 60s/70s and love only rock music because they think they're cool by wearing Led Zepp hoodies and refusing to listen to anything that was made in the '00s.

Sorry if that sounds like I'm attacking anyone - I love Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, U2 Dire Straits, Queen (my favourite band) etc. but I think people should be a bit more broad in their tastes.

I love every genre of music from classical to reggae to rock n roll to rap.

There's not enough time to be stuck in one genre - you gotta get out there and listen to something you would never listen to. If you're a metalhead go to an indie concert. If you love traditional irish music go see a modern artist etc. I love when people give me a CD (like for christmas!!!) of what kind of music they like - not just a Pink Floyd cd because they know I like Pink Floyd. There's nothing like discovering a new band/artist that is nothing like you've heard before.

Sorry for rambling on there...reading over it it sounds really cheesy and kind of random to the topic but anyway!

As for guitar playing music tastes: I almost never learn rock songs and rock music is one of my main tastes...weird...

JC 2K3

Killaqueen!!! wrote: »

I can't stand people who say they love music and that music is their life etc. when they're stuck in the 60s/70s and love only rock music because they think they're cool by wearing Led Zepp hoodies and refusing to listen to anything that was made in the '00s.

Who does that who isn't 15/16 years old?

Killaqueen!!! wrote: »

I love every genre of music from classical to reggae to rock n roll to rap.

Pfft, a load of people say that who don't really mean that in an attempt to sound "open-minded", and I'm going to assert that you're one of these people. Are you REALLY into all these different genres or do you just like the odd non-rock song and aren't critical of any genres?

I mean, who're your favourite death metal band and what types of electronic music are you into?

It wasn't me!

To be honest mate, not the place to start musical elitist squabbling. Take it to PM's if you want to be belligerent. Here is not a soapbox.

JC 2K3

I was under the impression that online fora were soapboxes......

You're also not a mod.

A thread entitled "what's your music taste?" is essentially just an excuse to show off how 1337 your taste is, what's wrong with a bit of squabbling?

John

Fairly eclectic here. When I was younger I was mainly into rock, metal (all your usual teenage suspects apart from Nirvana) and a little bit of mainstream electronic music (Prodigy, The Chemical Brothers, etc.). All of it provided a springboard into more exotic fields, my main love is experimental music (in all genres: free jazz, contemporary classical, industrial music, minimalism, etc.), folk and any music with a good, powerful pulse (although I verge towards the slower tempos, no gabba rave here). I like music with texture and feeling over more clinical, technical exercises in musicianship.

I can't really pick any major favourites as I've just attempted to and wrote out about 30 names without pausing! Artists that would have a major influence on how I approach making music would be Einstuerzende Neubauten, Neil Young, John Cage, Faust, Can and Michael Gira. Actually I'd say my guitar playing is somewhere between Michael Gira's rhythms and Neil Young's chord progressions (because I learned pretty much all my chords from Neil Young song books).

It wasn't me!

JC 2K3 wrote: »

I was under the impression that online fora were soapboxes......

You're also not a mod.

A thread entitled "what's your music taste?" is essentially just an excuse to show off how 1337 your taste is, what's wrong with a bit of squabbling?

First point, this forum is not here for you to attack other posters.

Second, so what? Doesn't make me any less right.

Thirdly, it's on instruments, a community of musicians, and someone is curious as to what sort of things other musicians on the forum play, as they are of a certain impression on the matter and want to test their theory. There is no showing off here, and you certainly don't get the right to come in and attack people who regularly use this forum in such a way when I can't recall you ever having contributed anything useful to it, so if you wish to be belligerent, this is not the place for it, and you have decided to take affront at a thread about musical taste and tendencies and assert that other posters are lying, so do everyone a favour and take your pent up aggression elsewhere.

nyarlothothep

Mostly rock, metal, jazz, industrial, prog, classical. Some punk, dance and rap tunes (mostly old stuff for each of these genres)

SxE Punk

Punk, Hardcore, Industrial, Death or Thrash or Black Metal, grindcore. That kinda stuff. Mostly fast, angry and brutal and technical is always a bonus.

Likes to play: The Mad Capsule Markets, Less Than Jake, Specials, Kings of Leon, Killing Joke, Cannibal Corpse, The Clash, Pink Floyd and other random tunes that I enjoy.

JC 2K3

It wasn't me! wrote: »

First point, this forum is not here for you to attack other posters.

Attack? It was a response to a post which put others down for not having a broad enough music taste.

It wasn't me! wrote: »

Thirdly, it's on instruments, a community of musicians, and someone is curious as to what sort of things other musicians on the forum play, as they are of a certain impression on the matter and want to test their theory. There is no showing off here, and you certainly don't get the right to come in and attack people who regularly use this forum in such a way when I can't recall you ever having contributed anything useful to it, so if you wish to be belligerent, this is not the place for it, and you have decided to take affront at a thread about musical taste and tendencies and assert that other posters are lying, so do everyone a favour and take your pent up aggression elsewhere.

You're taking this far too seriously.

Take your own advice and PM me if you think this is worth continuing.

Timans

JC 2K3 wrote: »

Who does that who isn't 15/16 years old?


Pfft, a load of people say that who don't really mean that in an attempt to sound "open-minded", and I'm going to assert that you're one of these people. Are you REALLY into all these different genres or do you just like the odd non-rock song and aren't critical of any genres?

I mean, who're your favourite death metal band and what types of electronic music are you into?

What's the cut-off point then, how many bands must you listen to until you're "INTO" a genre?

JC 2K3

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Seriously though, I was just responding to her post and making a point, not trying to derail this thread.

Timans

JC 2K3 wrote: »

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I better go find another 12 space reggae bands then..

Dregon

JC 2K3 wrote: »

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Seriously though, I was just responding to her post and making a point, not trying to derail this thread.

You failed .

Karl Hungus

Ok guys, can we get it back on topic now so?

leninbenjamin

Hiromi Uehara. thanks Karl she's brilliant.

Keyzer

I listen to all sorts of stuff but primarily vintage rock and roll, rock and blues music. So that means Clapton in his younger days (Bluesbreakers, Cream, Derek and the Dominoes), Hendrix, Dylan, Led Zep, The Stones etc.

In my younger days I was a huge fan of the Stone Roses and the whole brit pop thing, Oasis, Blur, Ocean Colour Scene etc. Still listen to them every now and again.

Recently started listening to The Band, what an amazing musical group.
If you haven't seen "The Last Waltz" yet I would highly recommend it.
Listening to a lot of folk music lately in an effort to broaden my musical palette.

More recent stuff I listen is Wilco (Nels Cline is an amazing guitarist), Sigur Ros, The National.

I think if you pigeon whole yourself musically its a really bad move, you end up stagnant. I'm always looking for something new.

SxE Punk

Keyzer wrote: »

I think if you pigeon whole yourself musically its a really bad move, you end up stagnant. I'm always looking for something new.

But then again, as far as I'm concerned, some music is just complete and utter ****e. Indie for example has very little to offer me. Pop and dance and absolutely brutal, except for hardcore drum n bass. R'n'B(the popular kind, not the type with instruments) is just sickening to me its that shallow. And emo is probably the worst thing to happen to music since grunge.


So while I am open minded, once I've made up my mind about a genre or band, thats it for them.

John

SxE Punk wrote: »

So while I am open minded, once I've made up my mind about a genre or band, thats it for them.

So you're really not open minded because if you were open minded you wouldn't just make your mind up but be able to go back an re-assess the situation. I used to hate jazz, made my mind up that I didn't like it and therefore never would. I changed my mind.

deaddonkey

quit the musical snobbery

what it comes down to is that rocknroll started with the stones and will end with the stones.


:D:D:D

It wasn't me!

yeah, but it looks like the Stones are going on forever, so as far as I can see, rock'n'roll is in good hands.

SxE Punk

John wrote: »

So you're really not open minded because if you were open minded you wouldn't just make your mind up but be able to go back an re-assess the situation. I used to hate jazz, made my mind up that I didn't like it and therefore never would. I changed my mind.

Wrong.

I'm open minded, I just have strong convictions when it comes to music. If I say someone is a sellout, or their band is ****e or has turned ****e, then they'll be that way to me until they break up, and so will any **** bands their members form afterwards.

It wasn't me!

Why?

ThOnda

Just an idea. I was thinking about "the music taste" and I have come to conclusion. I like music played "live". Mostly.
And the sad truth is, that all music up yo 80's was played in instruments by people. That makes it special.
And I also like music played live in real. It could be from swing Big Bands to Portishead in Roseland NYC live. That is music, real music.
If the musician and composer are good, I don't care about instruments, but hearing them play, it is always different than some studio albums. Most of the time.
I just like that human touch, attitude and personal excellence in music.

Giblet

SxE Punk wrote: »

Wrong.

I'm open minded, I just have strong convictions when it comes to music. If I say someone is a sellout, or their band is ****e or has turned ****e, then they'll be that way to me until they break up, and so will any **** bands their members form afterwards.

Funny, I'd be more concerned with the music...

SxE Punk

If I can't take a band seriously, I can't stomach their music either.

Giblet

You seem to take the image more seriously than the music.

It wasn't me!

And yourself more seriously than either.

Latchy

Any decade of music from the 50s to present day From Elvis to the foo fighters.I learned to appriciate all kinds of music growing up cuz everybody,bands and artists alike are influemced by everybody else regardless of who they are and yesterdays oldie is tomorrows re-release .I am going to do a thread soon on my 100 favorite songs , covering all the generes in my musical collection.It will be hard picking from the thousends on offer in my cd colection . .

JC 2K3

ThOnda wrote: »

Just an idea. I was thinking about "the music taste" and I have come to conclusion. I like music played "live". Mostly.
And the sad truth is, that all music up yo 80's was played in instruments by people. That makes it special.
And I also like music played live in real. It could be from swing Big Bands to Portishead in Roseland NYC live. That is music, real music.
If the musician and composer are good, I don't care about instruments, but hearing them play, it is always different than some studio albums. Most of the time.
I just like that human touch, attitude and personal excellence in music.

You don't think there's any "human touch" behind making electronic music? It's not like a computer program writes the songs and there's no human input, and there's nothing less "real" about it.

SxE Punk

Giblet wrote: »

You seem to take the image more seriously than the music.

I take the ideals, and the soul, dedication and integrity of the musician and their music seriously.

If a musician doesn't value these things like I do, I won't be listening to them.

Dord

SxE Punk wrote: »

I take the ideals, and the soul, dedication and integrity of the musician and their music seriously.

If a musician doesn't value these things like I do, I won't be listening to them.

rrrrrrighht..... :rolleyes:

cornbb

I listen to a fairly wide range of music. I don't claim to be an authority on most genres but I do like getting to know as many types of music as possible and I can honestly say there isn't a genre I've heard that I didn't like some music from. These days I'm mostly into ambient/IDM electronic music but on any given day I might listen to contemporary jazz, romantic (classical), post rock, trad, bangin techno or whatever.

Seeing as this is the instruments forum, my guitar and bass playing were mostly influenced by 90s rock like Tool, the Smashing Pumpkins and so on, and later by post rock like Mogwai, Explosions in the Sky etc. These days making most music on a computer, influenced by the likes of Boards of Canada and Aphex Twin.

And yes, a computer is a musical instrument, the most powerful and versatile one that has ever existed IMO. Anyone who cannot hear emotion/feeling/depth/articulation in electronic music either isn't listening hard enough or is listening to crap electronic music.

SxE Punk wrote:

I take the ideals, and the soul, dedication and integrity of the musician and their music seriously.

I don't see what any of those things have to do with musical quality. They are far more likely to be horsesh*t soundbytes for NME interviews than signs of talent or good music, IMO. Maybe you should listen to the music instead of listening to the horsesh*t. But thats just my opinion.