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What do You listen to?

I was just browsing through the forums and ran across the "Most acheingly beautiful music" forum, and looked through all the responses and im somewhat confused.

Risking an all out brutal verbal assault by the 'Gon'ers, its becoming my impression that alot of the people here have a very limited taste in music.

It seems to be isolated around Classical, Contemporary, Soft Rock, and blues/jazz.

I would say Rock, but honestly, when i think of Rock i think of Metallica and GodSmack, not Jethro Tull or Grateful dead.
(i guess thats just an opinion though.

Now, Im hoping that people here have wider taste in music, after all, it comes in so many forms (even ones that older people refuse to recognize)

I mean hey, i gotta be honest, one of the best recordings ive heard was EMINEM's Marshal Mathers. Talk about a hell of a recording (musical content aside), it was crisp, clear, focused, and over all, one of the best recordings ive heard. (once again, im risking a brutal verbal assault.

So, Lets hear it for what types of music people listen to!
Just because i would rather Jam out to Metallica and drink beer instead of listening to Motzart with a fine wine does not mean my passion for music is any less!

LETS LIST OFF SOME OF OUR FAVORITES OF ANY VARIETY

Want a pretty wide variety of music? Here is what i listen to.

ROCK
Godsmack, Limkon Park, Korn, Metallica, Alice in Chains, Mad Season, Rage Against the Machine, Sound Garden, AudioSlave, P.O.D., Union underground, Powerman 5000, Rob Zombie, Pantera,

POP
Britany Spears, Pink, uhh.. well.. not too much there. hehe

R&B
Genuine, Destinys child, Usher, Bell Biv Devoe, SWV, Alisha Keys, TLC,

RAP
Cypress Hill, Akinyele, Ice Cube, Ice T, Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Bone, Outkast, Insane Clown Posse(no im not a juggalo),
Nate Dogg, Warren G, DMX, Rehab, Busta Rhymes, Ludacris

HIPHOP
Ja-Rule, MC Hammer, Cisco, Fat Joe, Afroman, uhh... I like rap better than hiphop.

Techno
Prodigy(older stuff), Chemical Brothers(older stuff), LTJ Bukem, MC Conrad and DRS, Underworld, Blame, Daft Punk, Intence

BREAKBEAT
ColdCut, Unkle, DJ Krush, DJ Food.

INDUSTRIAL
Apogyma Bezerk, WumpScut, KMDFM, Die Krupps, Skinny Puppy, Front 242, Frontline Assembly, Project Pitchfork, Nitzer Ebb, Ministry, Nine inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, Leather Strip, Good Courage, Penal Colony, MDFMK, Einsturzende Naubauten, Rammstein, My Life with the Thrill Kill Cult, too many to list!

Alternative
Nirvana, Peral Jam, Foo Fighters, Creed, Oasis, Coldplay, uhh...

Experimental
Aphex Twin, Legendary Pink Dots, Tear Garden, Massive Attack, Locust, Autechre, Crash Worship, Edward Kaspel solo performances, Twilight circus,

Satanic
Chistian Death, Current 93

Blues
Eric Clapton, BB King, John Hooker, Dizzy Gilespi (did i spell that right?) Santana, Whity-Ford, (trying to find more blues bands. i LOVE the blues.

Classical.
What can i say? i dont listen to it. It feels somewhat formless and made up on the spot to me. Maybe i just need to look into it harder.

--Just a disclaimer, yes, i did list a couple satanic bands, however, i have no ties to the devil, The dark lord, the long walker, Cthulhu, Beezlebub, guy in red, the underlord, the silent beast, etc etc.. i do not slaughter goats or cast voodoo spells. I dont agree with the content but listen to it for its musical qualities which are suprisingly good, there is alot of heart and soul put into it, no puns intended.
hehehehehhehe

So who else has such a wide taste in music?
I own CD's of everything listed above!

lets hear it for music that others do not regfard as music!!!!!!!!

bwahahahahahahahaha
audiophanatik
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audiophanatik OP
59 posts
 
Im starting to get the impressions that im the only person on the 'gon who grew up watching GI Joe.

Come on tho, you cant tell me that you dont rock out your systems from time to time? Some beatles? Jimi Hendrix? If most people with high end systems spend most of thier time listening to classical, man, there are some underused systems out there!

Im sure when im 45-60years young ill be the same way too
"You damn whipper snappers listen to crap! thats not real music! Limp Bizkit, now thats good classic rock! They actually played thier instruments! they diddnt use Phonetic hypergenerators, and flux infusion reality deconstructors!! And half the bands you kids listen to are computer programs! not even real people!"

heheheheh
brianmgrarcom
1,317 posts
 
Put me in TWL and Sd's camp. Speaking of camp, whatever happened to kids camp? Sorry, as said, easy shot.

I like the disclaimer, but, "I dont agree with the content but listen to it for its musical qualities", is like drinking coffee for the taste, you get the contents and its affects anyway.

Lastly, flames or not, I will not call, rap, music.
sdcampbell
2,136 posts
 
Twl said it all in his post -- maybe it's an age thing. Like Twl, I can't generate any interest whatever in the groups you listed. Infact, at the risk of offending some other readers, I think that most "contemporary" music today is crap, and will prove to have little or no lasting value or interest. But, that's just my opinion (come on, Scott, say what you REALLY think ).
audiophanatik OP
59 posts
 
TWL,
i got nothing but respect for ya, and i may be 26, but i have a hard time believeing that my musical taste is a phase, And no amount of decrepidity or senility will let me forget the music i love. ;) hehehe.

Classical might be structured (i dont see it anyways), it just doesent grab my attention. Maybe i spent too much time playing Atari and nintendo while i was a child.
You were what, a baby boomer? gen-x? i guess im part of the ADD generation. Dern Whipper-snappers! :) hahahaha

Besides, how structured could it be? some of the most famous works were buy a blind and deaf guy! hehehe. Sorry, easy shot. I have all the respect for classical music, it just doesent hold my attention very well. Then again, i havent heared much. Maybe ive only heard the boring parts ;) You have a reccommendation for something that commands attention? If so let me know. Just one tho, i gotta get into this slow!

Not all my music is boomy, just the rap and rock. Honestly TWL, i would have a hard time believing that you would not really get a kick outta the Legendary Pink Dots. Not easy to find, and the kids in the pulsating nissan sure wouldnt dig it, so you might.

Fmpnd
I was not aware of that! Thanks for the information!
fmpnd
481 posts
 
Audiophanatik, no verbal assault here. Just a slight correction that Dizzy Gillespie was not a blues artist, but one of the most innovative and gifted, incredibly talented, and, most of all, decent human beings who was one of the pioneers (along with Charlie Parker) of a form of jazz known as "BeBop"

For a few more tastes of blues try Sam Mcclain, Lightning Hopkins, Muddy Waters or even a young white phenom named Johnny Lang to get you started.
twl
3,251 posts
 
Must be an age difference thing.

Quite frankly, I can't find any interest in any of the bands you listed, until you got to the Blues category.

As far a classical music being formless and impromptu, it is the most mathematically structured music ever known. Yes, I think you should look into that a little more. Maybe it would be best if you waited a few years first, to allow this current phase to pass.

I'm glad that you can find enjoyment from such a wide variety of sources. My musical tastes range fairly wide, but are selected from an era that was before this group of bands you list became known, or probably before they were born.

The bulk of my exposure to such material you list, is the result of the pulsating Nissans that go boom-boom past my house in the morning. Since I rarely have the need to cause my house walls to expand via over-equalized bass response, I limit my listening material to the pre-boomboom era.

Call me crazy, but that's the way it is for me.
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