Taste of Music/Bands

[black213]

Bands I like to listen to:
Anterior (Melodic death metal)
Caliban (Metal-/deathcore)
Children of Bodom (Melodic death metal)
Metallica (Thrash metal)
Rammstein (Industrial metal)

Used to listen to Disturbed (Nu metal) and Three Days Grace (Alternative). Don't like them anymore.
Call me a metalfreak if you wish (and yes I do have long hair)

 

[Integral]

Let's see...most played looks something like this:

65daysofstatic
Alstroemeria Records
Andrew Bird
Explosions in the Sky
Efterklang
Kalafina
Kent
Led Zeppelin
M83
Medeski, Martin & Wood
Pink Floyd
RD-Sounds
Royksopp
Rush
Russian Circles
Sigur Ros
Syrufit
The Album Leaf
The Field
Tool

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

Medeski, Martin & Wood

The pre-eminent musical scholar of CFC , SuperJay , got me into these guys . I dig

 

[Yoda Power]

Should be in A&E I guess.

I don't really have a favourite genre, but I've always listened a lot to metal.

 

[Dreadnought]

Isn't there a "What Music Are You Listening To?" thread?

 

[Mango Elephant]

I live in Raleigh, so naturally I listen to mostly country and indie music. I pretty much listen to some music is every genre except for metal. The metalheads here are the most insufferable people you've ever met.

 

[warpus]

I listen to all sorts of different genres of music. Here's a random selection of some of my tastes:

NuJazz: Skalpel
House/techno: Mark Farina, DJ Dan, Richie Hawtin
Rock: Radiohead, Tool, Tragically Hip, RATM, Beatles, Hi-Fives
Downtempo/Ambient: Boards of Canada, Detroit Escalator Company
Electronish experimentalish: Plaid, Wagonchrist
DNB: LTJ Bukem
Ska: Planet Smashers, Skankin Pickle, Mustard Plug, Voodoo Glow Skulls, The Specials
Punk: Screeching Weasel, The Queers
Pop: Jamiroquai
Country/Folk: Leonard Cohen

 

[madviking]

Pink Floyd, Queen
Stone Temple Pilots, The Smashing Pumpkins, Beck, Queens of the Stone Age
deadmau5, Aesop Rock, Madeon

 

[CaptainF]

Never really did like any modern present-day "rock" which usually turns out to be the latest hipster circle jerk. Limp-wristed, Beatles wanna-be garbage, all of it. Same thing with present day hip hop, which is little more than autotuned retardartion. Many of my other favorite genres, such as funk and jazz are almost non-existent currently.

It's all about music from the 1990's on earlier.

 

[NiRv4n4]

Pink Floyd, Queen
Stone Temple Pilots, The Smashing Pumpkins, Beck, Queens of the Stone Age
deadmau5, Aesop Rock, Madeon

Classic rock; Zeppelin, Cream, Hendrix, Queen, The Doors, Derek and the Dominoes, Moody Blues, Pink Floyd, Yardbirds, ACDC

New/Alternative rock; Queens of the Stone Age, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Radiohead, the Strokes, Pearl Jam, Screaming Trees (and Mark Lanegan, solo), Alice in Chains, Guns N Roses

Older music; Instrumentalists (Tommy Dorsey, Artie Shaw, Duke Ellington, etc), Vocalists (Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole, Peggy Lee, Dean Martin), Groups (Sinatra & Dorsey Orchestra, Ink Spots, Andrew Sisters)

I can tolerate/enjoy most of the alternative stuff on nowadays (Arctic Monkeys, Kasabian) and almost all classic rock from the 50s-70s, but when it comes to country/hip-hop/modern pop, there's no love lost.

Never really did like any modern present-day "rock" which usually turns out to be the latest hipster circle jerk. Limp-wristed, Beatles wanna-be garbage, all of it. Same thing with present day hip hop, which is little more than autotuned retardartion. Many of my other favorite genres, such as funk and jazz are almost non-existent currently.

It's all about music from the 1990's on earlier.

I would suggest giving a listen to Songs for the Deaf, Rated R (Both QotSA), or Is This It (Strokes). The saving grace of 21st century music in my opinion. Although yes, generally the mainstream taste in music has reached a low point.

 

[Ajidica]

And now for something completely different!
Berlioz (La Damnation de Faust)
Verdi (Requiem, Rigoletto)
Tchaikovsky (Piano Concerto A, Marche Slav)
Prokofiev (Alexander Nevsky, Ivan the Terrible)
Dvorak (Requiem, New World)

 

[Camikaze]

Moderator Action: Moved to A&E.

 

[sophie]

Well, my top fifteen bands according to last.fm are:


1. Grateful Dead - 805
2. The Band - 332
3. The Beatles - 282
4. The Who - 254
5. The Kinks - 241
6. Derek and the Dominos - 185
7. Cream - 156
8. Led Zeppelin - 125
9. Old & In the Way - 116
10. Van Morrison - 113
11. Cat Stevens - 113
12. New Riders of The Purple Sage - 107
13. Pink Floyd - 104
14. Eric Clapton - 102
15. Traffic - 86

Although, this is a little skewed. Lately I've been listening to a lot more blues like Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters, a lot of Allman Bros (a lot of Grateful Dead, obviously) and a veritable asston of Derek and the Dominos, and I don't think I've listened to a Beatles song in a good year and a half at least.

I'm still not a big fan of identifying bands by genre. I think this is because I listen to bands like the Grateful Dead and The Band. Even with artists like Traffic and a good bit of Eric Clapton's stuff. What is it classified under? The Dead do just as much folk, blues, and country as they do Rock, and I honestly don't know what I'd label The Band. For me music is just music. There's music I like, and there's music I dislike. If I classify a band at all it's usually by the year the song or album was released, I think that has a lot more bearing on what a band sounds like than what genre they (or more often others) like to classify them under. All this genre crap makes things too complicated.

 

[shadowplay]

Depends on what mood I'm in. Tonight it's maritime music. Great Big Sea!

Band-wise my favourites normally are Depeche Mode, The Clash, Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Sonic Youth, Joy Division, Cocteau Twins, The Cure, Skinny Puppy.

 

[Huayna Capac357]

My top ten bands on last.fm of the past 3 months:

Björk (Trip-hop/Alternative Dance/Downtempo), Radiohead (Alternative), MIA (sort of hip-hop), Kraftwerk (early synthpop), Massive Attack (Trip-hop), Joy Division (Post-punk), Arcade Fire (indie), Nine Inch Nails (industrial, industrial metal), New Order (post-punk, synthpop, alternative dance, a bit acid house later), David Bowie (has done a bit of almost everything, most identified with glam (Ziggy Stardust) and krautrock (Low)).

EDIT: I don't mean to insult them, but I tried listening to the Strokes and the Queens of the Stone Age and didn't see the appeal. What is it about them that so appeals to you?

 

[Chukchi Husky]

This is all the bands and groups who I have albums from.

Spoiler :

After Forever
Ayreon / Guilt Machine / Star One
Camel
Coheed & Cambria
Devin Townsend
Dream Theater
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Fates Warning
Genesis
Hawkwind
Kamelot
Kansas
Karnataka
King Crimson
Marillion
Mastodon
Metallica
Mostly Autumn
Nightwish
Nosound
Opeth
Orphaned Land
Pain of Salvation
Pink Floyd
Porcupine Tree
Queensrÿche
Radiohead
Riverside
Rush
Shadow Gallery
Spock's Beard
Symphony X
The Flower Kings
Threshold
Tool
Yes

 

[azzaman333]

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New/Alternative rock; Queens of the Stone Age, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Radiohead, the Strokes, Pearl Jam, Screaming Trees (and Mark Lanegan, solo), Alice in Chains, Guns N Roses

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None of those bands are even remotely new.


My Top 10 last.fm plays are;
1. Muse (alt. rock)
2. The Living End (punk)
3. Franz Ferdinand (indie)
4. Queens of the Stone Age (stoner rock)
5. Interpol (indie)
6. Red Hot Chili Peppers (rock)
7. Eskimo Joe (rock)
8. Bloc Party (indie)
9. Arctic Monkeys (indie)
10. Billy Talent (punk rock)

and my top 10 of the past year are;
1. Children Collide (indie rock)
2. Birds of Tokyo (alt. rock)
3. Silversun Pickups (indie rock)
4. Rise Against (punk rock)
5. Muse (alt. rock)
6. The Wombats (indie)
7. The Living End (punk)
8. We Are Scientists (indie)
9. Art Vs. Science (electronic)
10. Trial Kennedy (rock)

(genres according to top tag on last.fm)

So yeah, I generally like indie/alt rock, but I don't mind some punk, some electronic, or some metal depending on the band. I'm surprised RHCP are still in my top 10 of all time, I must've listened to them a hell of a lot back in the day. Billy Talent's appearance is a bit of a surprise too, guess I've just been consistently listening to them over the past few years.

 

[Cynovolans]

Last.fm top ten for me,
1. Kelis
2. Rolling Stones
3. Neil Young
4. The Stooges
5. Creedence Clearwater Revival
6. Florence + the Machine
7. Cheap Trick
8. Led Zeppelin
9. Allman Brothers Band
10. Rush

It's mostly accurate, although the Rolling Stones are leftover from a period when I didn't care to press pause on my ipod when I stopped listening to it. I haven't been listening to The Stooges now like I use to. Now most of what I listen to is either 70's roots, country, or southern rock bands, or modern Pop and R&B. I'm surprised Florence is only at number 6 now, when her new album comes out she'll probably jump to number 1.

 

[NiRv4n4]

EDIT: I don't mean to insult them, but I tried listening to the Strokes and the Queens of the Stone Age and didn't see the appeal. What is it about them that so appeals to you?

Even the best of the best won't appeal to everyone, haha. But I find that they grow on you; I used to listen to only like 5 Queens' songs, but now I pretty much like any song by the band. The Strokes is a little different; their first album is the only one I really like.

None of those bands are even remotely new.

Well, considering they all formed mid-80s to late 90s/early 2000s, they are new compared to a lot of the other stuff I listen to. Basically, anything after Bonzo's death is new rock, for things will never be the same again....

 

[azzaman333]

Well, considering they all formed mid-80s to late 90s/early 2000s, they are new compared to a lot of the other stuff I listen to. Basically, anything after Bonzo's death is new rock, for things will never be the same again....

A band that's 10+ years old isn't a new band though.