Well, what type of music does everyone listen to?

[Zeteg]

Well, what type of music does everyone listen to?
As for me, I'm into Power Metal mainly.
Some of my favorite bands are...

- Blind Guardian
- Edguy
- Ayreon
- Kamelot
- Angra
- Symphony-X
- Children of Bodom
- Sonata Arctica

 

[Gokul43201]

Mostly Classic Rock. Many bands that were popular in the 60s and 70s are my staple diet. Jazz, Blues and Classical, I consume on rare occasions.

 

[check]

5 of my favourite bands are:
Green Day
Weezer
Nirvana
AFI
Extreme

5 bands that I hate:
Nickelback
Blink 182
Billy Talent
Sum 41
Limp Bizkit

 

[Azrioch]

Electronic music!
Too many djs to list.

I listen to other things too.. hrm. All depends on my mood, though I tend to be listening to trance, techno, or some derivative.

 

[Andy]

Guns N Roses
Velvet Revolver
Led Zeppelin
Rolling Stones
Aerosmith
Motley Crue

and other stuff like that, but mostly that kinda stuff.

 

[motai]

Mostly mixtures of jazz and movie soundtracks. Some alternative rock when I feel like it (Linkin Park, 3 Doors Down). Favorite composers are Klaus Badelt, Michael Kamen, and others.

Right now I am listening to the 1938 instrumental version of 'Begin the Beguine' by Cole Porter played by the modern BBC Big Band Orchestra.

 

[Kerrie]

Pink Floyd
Radiohead
NIN
A Perfect Circle
Tool
U2
The Smiths
Depeche Mode
The Cure
The Walkmen
Muse
Interpol
Mars Volta
Beastie Boys


my current favorites...

 

[Adam]

Somewhat related to an earlier thread... I'm currently listening to Pink Floyd's Terminal Frost. Very nice.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Well, what type of music does everyone listen to?
As for me, I'm into Power Metal mainly.
Some of my favorite bands are...

- Blind Guardian
- Edguy
- Ayreon
- Kamelot
- Angra
- Symphony-X
- Children of Bodom
- Sonata Arctica

Nice we have a metalhead!

Let me add to that list!

- Arch Enemy
- Kalmah
- Stratovarious
- Sinergy
- In Flames
- Soilwork
- Dark Tranquility

 

[Adam]

Good gief. Very few mentions of classic rock here.

B52s.
Pink Floyd.
Dire Straits.
Steppenwolf.
Creedence Clearwater Revival.
The Atlantics.
The Shadows.
Australian Crawl.
David Bowie.
Hendrix.
Hoodoo Gurus.
Hunters & Collectors.
Guns n Roses.
Eurythmics.
Billy Idol.
Rolling Stones.
The Doors.
Tracy Chapman.
INXS.
Skunk Anansie.
Vivaldi.
Beethoven.
Albinoni.
Cake.
Gorillaz.
Tone Loc.
Some other stuff...

 

[humanino]

Music is essential to me. I quote a few in order of preference :

Whenever somebody would like to discover modern music, I would advise the great : Pierre Boulez

Classical music (especially quartets : favorite is "Death and the Maiden" by Schubert)
(also anything written by Shostakovich, but his 8th quartet is a miracle)

Less boring to most of people :
Old Jazz (Thelonious Sphere Monk, Mingus, of course the Duke) and modern Jazz too.
Classic Rock and here I mention the greatest of all : Frank Zappa

And then so many others : the Beastie Boys are amazing.

Electronic music of quality is almost impossible to find.

 

[Adam]

I didn't really like Frank Zappa much. However, I love good jazz. Recently I bought a sample CD demonstrating local (Melbourne) jazz. Quite good.

 

[marlon]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Giuseppe Verdi

Guns N Roses

Giacomo Puccini

Georges Bizet

 

[humanino]

I didn't really like Frank Zappa much.

I think Zappa made so many different things, you might have heard something too weird. Jazz players usually recognize him is a major artist. Boulez conducted the "Perfect stranger" and other stuff by Zappa. That is a serious reference.

 

[Janitor]

Nothing high-brow for me. Jazz must be over my head, because I don't get it--except maybe for some New Orleans style jazz, such as Professor Longhair, Alan Toussaint and Pete Fountain.

These never disappoint me:

Beatles
Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas
Diana Ross & the Supremes
(early) Rolling Stones
Johnny Cash
Kingston Trio
Charleston Trio
Buck Owens and the Buckaroos
Timi Yuro

I should have been born 10-15 years earlier, so I could have listened to them in their primes as they were putting out their releases. Instead, I discovered them on oldies radio amidst the barren wasteland of 1970s disco music.

 

[pace]

JS Bach and Led Zeppelin all the way baby.

 

[BobG]

Mostly acoustic folk music with just a touch of bluegrass

Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer: Drum Hat Buddha is a great CD - great violin by Tracy Grammer)
Richard Shindell: Sparrow's Point is a classic and the Cry, Cry, Cry CD album he did with Dar Williams and Lucy Kaplansky is also great
Lucinda Williams: Still I Long for your Kiss is a great song, as is the Return of the Greivous Angel that she performed with Graham Nash
John Prine: okay, he can't sing or even play guitar, but his songs are great when someone else plays them
Paul Simon: too many to list, although the production of his songs are usually so overly professional as to lose just a touch of their spirit
Eric Taylor: I love his song All Day Saturday and Dean Moriarity is a great song as well
Bruce Springsteen: his early, early albums such as Asbury Park and E Street Shuffle
James Taylor
Norah Jones
A few Jewel songs and Paula Cole songs
Michelle Shocked: especially her song 'Anchorage'
Native Flute Ensemble: definitely different
Willie Nelson
Nanci Griffith

 

[Chrono]

Less boring to most of people :
Old Jazz (Thelonious Sphere Monk, Mingus, of course the Duke) and modern Jazz too.

How do you feel about Buddy Rich's Sing, Sing, Sing?

 

[jimmy p]

Power Metal eh? Bands like Primal Scream, Power Quest and Lost Horizon? cool.

I'm more into rock now as opposed to metal music.. I have mellowed in my old age.

Bands like:

Marillion
Hanoi Rocks
Rolling Stones
Guns N Roses
Matchbox 20
Motley Crue
Goo Goo Dolls
A Perfect Circle
The Cure
Van Halen
Velvet Revolver
Hootie and the Blowfish
Aerosmith
WASP they are legends!

and many more...

 

[humanino]

How do you feel about Buddy Rich's Sing, Sing, Sing?

It is very fine, but not among my favorites. Sorry
Tastes and color...

 

[Chrono]

It is very fine, but not among my favorites. Sorry
Tastes and color...

Well, the reason I ask is because I'm unsure as to what type of jazz it is. I want to find more stuff like it, but I don't know where to start.

 

[motai]

Well, the reason I ask is because I'm unsure as to what type of jazz it is. I want to find more stuff like it, but I don't know where to start.

Sing Sing Sing is big band music, and was used in the chips ahoy commercials. I don't think its written in twelve-bar blues chord progression like many other big band jazz pieces. Other popular songs are Makin' Whoopie, Take the A Train, and Caravan.

 

[meteor]

I have said in other threads my favourite kinf of music, but I will do like check and will say the musics that I can't stand
- Jazz
- Traditional spanish music (flamenco, zarzuela,... for example)
- Gospel
- Opera

 

[Skyblitz]

I haven't really been listening to much but I like Weezer, U2 just to name a couple.

 

[check]

Just wondering, has anyone bought the new Green Day album, American Idiot? I just got it and it's amazing.

 

[Soilwork]

no don't listen to greenday
hehe I know this is two months later than everyone has posted, but I'd have to say some of those lists are pretty good.
Personally I'm into metal.
List:
Accept
After Forever
Agalloch
Alchemist
Alice in Chains
Almighty Punchdrunk
Amorphis
Anthrax
Antimatter
Armored Saint
Ayreon
Black Label Society
Caliban
Cave in
Children of Bodom
Clutch
Corrosion of Conformity
Dan Swano
Danzig
Dark Tranquillity
Def Leppard
Devildriver
Devin Townsend
Dio
Disarmonia Mundi
Down
Dredg
Edge of Sanity
Entombed
Eternal tears of sorrow
Faith no more
Fear Factory
Firewater
Flowing Tears
Fozzy
Frank Zappa
Frontline Assembly
Godsmack
In Flames
Insurge
Iron Maiden
Isis
James Murphy
Joe Satriani
Katatonia
Keith Caputo
Killing Joke
Killswitch Engage
KMFDM
Kreator
Kyuss
Lacuna Coil
Lamb of God
Life of Agony
Lilitu
Machine HEad
Megadeth
Meshuggah
Metallica
Ministry
Misery Signals
Moonspell
Mr Bungle
Neurosis
Nine Inch Nails
Nightingale
Old Man Gloom
Opeth
Pain of Salvation
Pantera
Paradise Lost
Pearl Jam
Porcupine Tree
Prong
Queensryche
Rage
Red Harvest
Rollins Band
Samael
Savatage
Segression
Shadows Fall
Sick Speed
Sigh
Sirenia
Skinny Puppy
Soilwork
Soul Coughing
Spiritual Beggars
Steve Vai
Strapping Young LAd
Stuck Mojo
Suicidal Tendencies
Swans
Testament
The Cult
The Dillinger Escape Plan
The Gathering
The Heavils
The Melvins
THe Old Dead Tree
The Wildhearts
Therapy
Tiamat
Tomahawk
Tristania
Type O Negative
Ugly Kid Joe
Ween
While Heaven Wept
Within Temptation
Anyways that's a few bands that I'd recommend to anyone that has similar taste to me. :) Later

 

[Smurf]

Was it worth the wait?
You forgot Bad Religion

On top of that I'd like to recommend Jimi Hendrix, Sublime, NOFX and Arrogant Worms

 

[Soilwork]

yeah Jimi Hendrix is a classic for sure :)

 

[Padford]

I have said in other threads my favourite kinf of music, but I will do like check and will say the musics that I can't stand
- Jazz
- Traditional spanish music (flamenco, zarzuela,... for example)
- Gospel
- Opera

oh, dear god - trad. spanish music i can;t comment on, but i think to truly respect this music, you need to attempt to play it; i like music i cannot play... generally.
but my absolute faourite is modern jazz piano; michel Camilo, excellent!

 

[Chaotic42]

Classical (Symphonies and organ works)
The Doors
Led Zeppelin
Jimi Hendrix
The Who
Steve Cole
Dream Theater
Metallica

Mostly classical though.

 

[tyco05]

Les Claypool is a freakin genius
- so pretty much anything that includes him

They might be Giants are cool too.

Almost all Aussie rock you can add to my list also

 

[photon]

Led Zeppelin
Beatles
U2
Pink Floyd
Aerosmith
REM
are a few of my favs. Also just bought a "3 Dog Night" cd, and I think they're pretty cool.

Rock on

 

[meteor]

you need to attempt to play it...

My repulse is more regarding the voices and the tone of singing of the singers that sing traditional spanish music. i really enjoy solos of spanish guitar.
Let me recommend you two european prog metal bands: Stratovarius and The Gathering. Very atmospheric both

 

[thecolor11]

I'm a fan of big romantic era music. Beethoven, Wagner, Haydn, Brahms, etc.

 

[setAI]

ambient/ electronic/ experimental- berlin-school electronische-
industrial/post-punk/goth/ebm

favorite artists:

aube
autechre/gescom
bad sector
bebe and louis barron
biosphere
clock DVA/ TAGC
coil [RIP Jhonn Balance 1962-2004] / current 93/nurse with wound/death in june/ sol invictus
the cure
depeche mode
deutsch nepal
the hafler trio
pierre henry
joy division/ new order/electronic
kate bush
the klinik
kraftwerk
the legendary pink dots/ edward ka-spel
mäeror tri/ troum
pet shop boys
randy greif
rapoon/:zoviet*france:
schloss tegal
skinny puppy/ download
sioxsie and the banshees/ the creatures
slayer
spk
steve roach
tangerine dream/ klaus schulze/ bernd kistenmacher
taylor deupree/ tetsu inoue/ atom heart/ [fax label ambient]
tod dockstader
trisomie 21
vidna obmana

as well as some traditional/ RPG/ anime music from Japan