Music Tastes

[Tinker Gnome]

I mostly listen to assorted video game Midis.

I also like bands like Nightwish and Rhapsody.

 

[Teflon Billy]

Here's what I've got shuffled in MP3's at the moment. I think it's pretty representative of my tastes.

• Johnny Cash: The Man Comes Around
• They Might Be Giants: The Guitar
• Armored Saint: Can U Deliver?
• Bloodhound Gang: Along Comes Mary
• Cake: Never There
• Big Black: Bazooka Joe
• Pixies: Alec Eiffel
• AC/DC: Givin' the Dog a Bone
• Queen: Somebody to Love
• Darkest of the Hillside Thickets: Power Up
• Man or Astro-Man?: Evil Plot from Planet Spectra
• Anthrax & Public Enemy: Bring The Noise
• Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds: Loverman
• The Rollins Band: You Didn't Need
• Tenacious D: Tribute to the Greatest Song in the World
• Foo Fighters: This is a Call

 

[Prince of Happiness]

I dig:

Early-mid 60's Soul & R&B
American garage rock (? and the Mysterians, the Nuggets Boxed set, etc)
Psychedelia (Strawberry Alarm Clock, Tyrannosaurus Rex, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown)
proto-punk (The Modern Lovers, The Velvet Underground, The Stooges)
Glam (Bowie, Roxy Music-especially, New York Dolls)
"Krautrock"/Early electronic music (Neu!, Harmonia, Can, Faust, Kraftwerk, Eno, Wendy Carlos)
Punk/New Wave (too many to mention, particularly if I can dig up American originals that aren't trying to copy English New Wave, which I also happen to dig...a little too much...examples: Devo, The Ramones, The Dead Boys, Pere Ubu, Chrome, The Blackouts)
Funk (Parliament, Sly and the Family Stone, Curtis Mayfield esp.)
Post-punk (Magazine, Echo and the Bunnymen, Wire, John Foxx)
New Romantic (Japan, Duran Duran, post-Dare Human League, Associates, Visage)
Goth (primarily The Virgin Prunes)
early industrial (Cabaret Voltaire, Throbbing Gristle, Chrome, other guys who started harsh but then went synthpop post 1980)
Electro/Detroit Electro/Breakbeats
"IDM" (Kid 606, Cex, Aphex Twin)
modern electro/indie synthpop (Junior Boys, Neulander, Client, Felix Da Housecat, Adult.)
Tech-House (Swayzak, Sutekh)
Odds n' ends (Tom Waits, Wilco's recent stuff, Yellow Magic Orchestra/Sketch Show, Jamiroquai, various rap/crunk)

There's always more for me to get into. I don't really write off any genre, or band. I just usually don't have the time to devote to really get into it (like roots country/"alternative" country).

 

[Qlippoth]

Qlippoth; I don't you if you intend to imply that Ministry is the father of Industrial and Nitzer Ebb is a spawn of Ministry, but that's both bogus. Front 242 was along the same time as Ministry, and Throbbing Gristle was around ten years before either. And before that, even most industrial guys nod to Kraftwerk as the real father of the genre, but then so do all electronica genres, so that's not necessarily saying much...

What I meant to imply was that those were examples of bands I listen(ed) to. Nothing more.

 

[RichCsigs]

Like most I also have a wide range of taste from classical to country to ska to hip-hop to rock etc etc. Pretty much the only thing I don't like is the metal where it starts out really rocking and then the lead singer just screams into the mike BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH usually in a low guttural unintelligible voice. Just bugs me.
I go through phases of what I listen to. Right now I seem to be in a "psychedelic" mode (Yes, King Crimson, ELP) mostly because my brother just lent me all his "modern psychedelic" music (Flower Kings, Spock's Beard, Porcupine Tree, Neal Morse).

 

[CronoDekar]

A hodgepodge of stuff, usually not a fan of country, rap, or metal, but there are always exceptions. Though for the most part I'm not a big music person, and generally prefer not listening to music unless it's something I really like and/or am particularly in the mood. Guilty pleasures include video game music (particularly battle themes -- I love The Black Mages), and certain anime music (I'm looking at you Azumanga Daioh, Full Metal Alchemist, Naruto, and Stand Alone Complex).

 

[Gilladian]

Nobody has mentioned my favorite music - FILK!

Does anybody else listen to Mercedes Lackey, Leslie Fish, Cecelia Eng, Michael Longcore, etc...

They may not be great music, but the songs usually have a story, or are funny, or relate to SF/Fantasy, etc...

I also listen to lots of folk and folk-rock. I love Annam, Battlefield Band, Silly Wizard, etc...

And chamber music, and old ballads. I wouldn't know rock and pop and country to save my life, except for my husband who likes most pre-1975 rock.

And please, keep the rap well away from me. Disgusting stuff!

Gilladian

 

[Byrons_Ghost]

I primarily listen to jazz and blues- I'd say that's probably half my collection of CDs, maybe two-thirds. Of course, I've got a lot of other stuff I listen to as well, just sort of picking what I like from different styles. There's some electronic, some pop, some country (well, just Johnny Cash), etc. The stack of CDs currently by my computer is (from top down):

Ray Charles- Genius Loves Company
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds- Abattoir Blues/Lyre of Orpheus
Sountrack from Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Chet Baker- Grey December
Charles Mingus-Pithecanthropus Erectus
Best of Leonard Cohen
A homemade CD of Bud Powell songs
John Cale- Fragments of a Rainy Season
Current 93- All the Pretty Little Horsies
Kill Switch Klick- Degenerate

 

[BOZ]

say what you want of MP3s, they have broadened my horizons in ways that i could never have imagined. 5 years ago, i listened to little more than classic rock (Led Zep, Doors, Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Beatles & Stones, etc)

but OH what a wonderful world i discovered out there. the things that i never heard on the radio, and would never have bought a whole CD for just one song!

i've discovered and rediscovered so many artists in the last few years, and here's a "short" list:

Al Green, Albert King, Allman Brothers Band, Animals, B B King, Beastie Boys, Beck, Bjork, Black Crowes, Black Flag, Black Sabbath, Black Sheep, Blondie, Bloodhound Gang, Bo Diddley, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Buddy Guy, Buddy Holly, Busta Rhymes, Byrds, Cake, Chemical Brothers, Chuck Berry, Commodores, Cream, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Cypress Hill, David Bowie, Dead Kennedys, Elvis Presley, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Frank Zappa, Fugazi, Genesis, Gorillaz, Grandmaster Flash, Howlin Wolf, Iggy Pop, INXS, James Brown, Janis Joplin, Jethro Tull, John Lee Hooker, Link Wray, Little Richard, Lords of Acid, Louis Armstrong, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Macy Gray, Marvin Gaye, Metallica, Misfits, Missy Elliott, Moby Grape, Moody Blues, Muddy Waters, Napoleon XIV, Neil Young, Nirvana, NWA, Oasis, Offspring, Ookla the Mok, Outkast, Parliament, Paul McCartney, Police, Portishead, Pretenders, Primus, Public Enemy, Queen, Radiohead, Ramones, Ray Charles, Red Hot Chili Peppers, REM, Richard Cheese, Robert Johnson, Robert Randolph, Run DMC, Santana, Screamin Jay Hawkins, Sex Pistols, Sly & the Family Stone, Smash Mouth, Smashing Pumpkins, Soundgarden, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Steve Miller Band, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Stevie Wonder, Stone Temple Pilots, Stray Cats, Sublime, Talking Heads, Tenacious D, The Clash, The Cure, The Donnas, The Hives, The Kinks, The White Stripes, The Who, Tom Lehrer, Tool, U2, Uriah Heep, Van Halen, Vanilla Fudge, Velvet Underground, War, Weezer, Weird Al Yankovic, Willie Dixon, Yardbirds, ZZ Top...

so, yeah. still more old stuff than not, but plenty diversified now. and without MP3s, i don't think our wedding "soundtrack" would have been anywhere near as cool as it was.

 

[mythusmage]

Another ENWorlder joins the eclectic posse.

To quote one of my favorite song writers and performers...

In all probability,
I'll lose my virility,
And you your fertility,
And desiribility.