What kind of music does everybody like?

nailz · Post by **nailz** » Mon Feb 16, 2004 11:10 pm

Kai Stromler wrote:*I* can. The casual listener can't.

Maybe your right on that, but even when I was just starting to get into metal, there has always been a pretty good thresh-hold of what is power and what isn't. Power Metal is easily sampled. A better line to be unable to differentiate is prog and bands similar to prog. Prog metal is a very blurred line in my opinion. Basically, I feel that anything with over-bearing keyboards and instruments all competing for domanince with vocals that makes the music sound like a cat in a blender is Prog. Makes my head hurt. I don't want to think about the complexity of the music while I'm listening to it. Anyway...

yay genere wars! lol.

SarahtheBoring · Post by **SarahtheBoring** » Mon Feb 16, 2004 11:58 pm

Back to the original topic, because I'm bored, and because it's at the absolute other end of the spectrum and variety is good

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- Poprockalternativewhatever, the whiny kind usually (REM, Radiohead, U2 I suppose, the Smiths, Ben Folds Five, BNL, and I'll go out on a limb and say TMBG because it doesn't fit anywhere else)
- Electropop (Depeche Mode, Erasure, Pet Shop Boys - yes, I'm aware of the demographic and the fact that I'm not in it)

With smatterings of:
- Old singer-songwriter elevator-music stuff that no 27-year-old in her right mind would listen to (James Taylor, Simon & Garfunkel)
- Classic-rocky stuff (Queen, REO Speedwagon, the Eagles, Elton John before he started to suck...and Pink Floyd, which has more 1nd13 cr3d than the rest somehow, but is still under the maligned classic-rock umbrella)

I have the worst musical taste in the universe, as borne out by the people who will not stop bitching about my music choices for AMVs. It's almost a point of pride at this point. 8) Aha, YES, I know all the words to several musicals (or did at one point) and actually like terrible old 80s pop without being hip and ironic about it. It's my CD collection that suffers. Stuff it.

flora3535 · Post by **flora3535** » Wed Feb 18, 2004 8:52 pm

TECHNO AND TRANCE ALL THE WAY!

Savia · Post by **Savia** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 9:41 am

SarahtheBoring wrote:Back to the original topic, because I'm bored, and because it's at the absolute other end of the spectrum and variety is good -

- Poprockalternativewhatever, the whiny kind usually (REM, Radiohead, U2 I suppose, the Smiths, Ben Folds Five, BNL, and I'll go out on a limb and say TMBG because it doesn't fit anywhere else)
- Electropop (Depeche Mode, Erasure, Pet Shop Boys - yes, I'm aware of the demographic and the fact that I'm not in it)

With smatterings of:
- Old singer-songwriter elevator-music stuff that no 27-year-old in her right mind would listen to (James Taylor, Simon & Garfunkel)
- Classic-rocky stuff (Queen, REO Speedwagon, the Eagles, Elton John before he started to suck...and Pink Floyd, which has more 1nd13 cr3d than the rest somehow, but is still under the maligned classic-rock umbrella)

I have the worst musical taste in the universe, as borne out by the people who will not stop bitching about my music choices for AMVs. It's almost a point of pride at this point. 8) Aha, YES, I know all the words to several musicals (or did at one point) and actually like terrible old 80s pop without being hip and ironic about it. It's my CD collection that suffers. Stuff it.

That's exactly my taste, you may be pleased to know. I have pretty much all of those genres very well-represented in my playlist. I thought I was alone :'(

Blitzkrieg1701 · Post by **Blitzkrieg1701** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 1:14 pm

I'm into Garage Bands (The Caesars, The Cato Salsa Experience, The Go, The Lyres, The Greenhornes, The Mooney Suzuki, The Black Keys, Mando Diao), indie pop/rock (The Apples (in stereo), The Long Winters, The New Pornographers, From Bubblegum To Sky, Olivia Tremor Control, Simian, The Coral) and embarassingly old fashioned psychedelia (Syd Barrett, The Soft Machine, The Strawberry Alarm CLock, The Outsiders, Giles Giles & Fripp, The Great Society,The 13th Floor Elevators), along with healthy doses of folk rock, King Crimson, and Pink Floyd.

Obviously, aside from those last two, this topic makes me feel very much alone

LoST RaiNDRoP · Post by **LoST RaiNDRoP** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 2:13 pm

i like some alternative rock, some alternative pop, some alternative music... some sweet music, some funny music, some cool music... i dont like rap i dont like some pop.

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 3:10 pm

Blitzkrieg1701 wrote:I'm into Garage Bands (The Caesars, The Cato Salsa Experience, The Go, The Lyres, The Greenhornes, The Mooney Suzuki, The Black Keys, Mando Diao), indie pop/rock (The Apples (in stereo), The Long Winters, The New Pornographers, From Bubblegum To Sky, Olivia Tremor Control, Simian, The Coral) and embarassingly old fashioned psychedelia (Syd Barrett, The Soft Machine, The Strawberry Alarm CLock, The Outsiders, Giles Giles & Fripp, The Great Society,The 13th Floor Elevators), along with healthy doses of folk rock, King Crimson, and Pink Floyd.

Obviously, aside from those last two, this topic makes me feel very much alone

Another one!

Greetings to you, oh person with musical tastes that at least overlap with mine to some extent. And I commend you on the large selection; I wish I could boast that much, but, no matter how much I try, the greater Krim still takes up at least 90-95% of my listening time.

funky_d · Post by **funky_d** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 8:00 pm

All things rock minus heavy metal and Linkin Park (along with their shameless copycats), plus a few rare exceptions.

Current faves: Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Metallica, The Who, Andrew W.K., The Exies, Foo Fighters, Red Hot Chili Peppers, AFI, The Starting Line, The Music, Pearl Jam, Hot Action Cop, and Dashboard Confessional, plus some others that I probably left out.

Rock on, dudes!

Blitzkrieg1701 · Post by **Blitzkrieg1701** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 8:39 pm

Another one!

Greetings to you, oh person with musical tastes that at least overlap with mine to some extent.

Howdy! Nice to know there's another person out there who's actually heard of at least SOME of the stuff I listen to.

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 8:59 pm

I'm particularly surprised you know GG&F - I mean, that's the band that sold 600 copies of their album, originally!

I've actually been contemplating using one of their songs for an AMV sometime soon; if only I thought up anime and scenes for it

I have heard or at least heard of quite a few others you've mentioned, actually. But, as stated above, my problem is a complete Crimson addiction. Although I do assume (maybe wrongly?) that, going by your other picks, you're more into the classic crim (which I love, but in the last couple of months, the post-1997 stuff has really occupied my ears too much).

Cheers 8) You're the 2nd person who just came along this board and had musical preferences of this sort. (the other was Evil Urchin, also a fan of Krim/Pink Floyd/other classic-classy bands, though he doesn't post here anymore)