Varied Music Taste anyone?

[RubberDucky451]

I really like anything xD

-Miles Davis
-Arcade Fire
-Patrick Watson
-Calvin Harris
-Andrew Bird
-Patrick Wolf
-Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
-Royal Crown Revue
-Muddy Waters
-Yann Tierson
-Vetiver
-Devotchka
-LCD Soundsystem
-The Smiths
-John Coltrane
-Charles Mingus
-Jens Lekman
-Peter Broderick
-Sufjan Stevens

Phew, that was quite a few :] Hope some of you enjoy some of the same. Or if you could recommend something to me.

 

[Seducer of the Homeless]

welcome home

yes, many of us have incredibly deep and varied tastes.

 

[Hawkeye]

I'm into progressive stuff myself.

My all time favourite band is Rush.

I also listen to:

Rainbow
Genesis
Yes
Tangerine Dream
Pink Floyd
Mystery
Touchstone
Dream Theater
Mostly Autumn

and more recently Frank Zappa. His stuff is Ace!

 

[Vegard Pompey]

I consider myself to have a very broad and varied taste, and I do listen to music of all kinds, but I favour progressive and experimental stuff. My favourite artist ever is Devin Townsend.

 

[Felan]

I like just about everything that isn't Rap or Country.

 

[Seducer of the Homeless]

right now i am loving Mastodon, Gallows, Mozart, Fair to Midland, Tom Waits, Emperor, Metallica and Frank Sinatra

 

[flow]

I just saw Andrew Bird live a few months ago! He's so great, I've seen him twice now. Also, If I could make music, I'd make something like LCD Soundsystem.

 

[RubberDucky451]

I just saw Andrew Bird live a few months ago! He's so great, I've seen him twice now. Also, If I could make music, I'd make something like LCD Soundsystem.

I'd love to see him, he was playing near me a few months ago and i couldn't go.

Yes, LCD is one of my favorite bands. Pretty simple stuff but it's so damn catchy :]

 

[RubberDucky451]

right now i am loving Mastodon, Gallows, Mozart, Fair to Midland, Tom Waits, Emperor, Metallica and Frank Sinatra

Ohh, i love frank Sinatra. I like metallicas old stuff too of course :]

 

[Seducer of the Homeless]

currently -

The Mars Volta - 'Octahedron'
Igor Starvinsky - 'Rite of Spring'
Camel - Moonmadness

 

[Ermine]

off topic, but... YOU MADE IT BACK! Hooray.

My current favorites would be Nickel Creek, Beethoven, Dream Theater, Buckethead, and 3.

 

[brain enclosed in flesh]

currently -

The Mars Volta - 'Octahedron'
Igor Starvinsky - 'Rite of Spring'
Camel - Moonmadness

Saw mars volta their first tour at a teeny place with about 70 people. one of the most ridiculously amazing shows I've ever seen in my life. And I've seen a lot...

 

[Citizen X]

I think I have a broad musical taste, but I won't try to pretend I like "all music" (like many people I know claim to) because it simply is no true. Whenever I meet somebody who tells me he/she likes "all music" I pull out my iPod and force them to listen just a few seconds of harsh Noise/Death Industrial like Brighter Death Now. Of course, they don't like it at all.

I HATE that godawful "style" called "reggaeton" and pretty much all so called "latin" music. I also dislike rap/hip-hop, and most of the trash on the radio, but that's where it ends. (I actually like 60's and 70's pop music)

Some non-intp people I know who are tired of the same derivative bullshit you listen to in the radio have told me they like listening to my iPod because I like "good music". Thanks to my iPod some of these guys have discovered music they didn't even know existed.

They have also heard things they which they hadn't heard of, though

 

[Kuu]

I HATE that godawful "style" called "reggaeton" and pretty much all so called "latin" music. I also dislike rap/hip-hop, and most of the trash on the radio, but that's where it ends. (I actually like 60's and 70's pop music)

Some non-intp people I know who are tired of the same derivative bullshit you listen to in the radio have told me they like listening to my iPod because I like "good music". Thanks to my iPod some of these guys have discovered music they didn't even know existed.

They have also heard things they which they hadn't heard of, though

I could have written that almost word for word. Indeed some of my friends even come to my house with the express purpose of "stealing" some music from me....

 

[meshram.alok]

I like anything which has interesting patterns or layers or harmony and most importantly, an Expression or meaning which appeals to me (kinda like a message the artist wants to express, without words). This is why I love Progressive music like Opeth and Porcupine Tree as well as Extreme Metal like Cryptopsy (I love strange Time Signatures).

 

[motrhead]

I like just about everything that isn't Rap or Country.

I usually say that. But I also dislike disco, modern jazz, seventies syrupy pop, Michael Jackson and current r&B/pop.
I DO like:
blues, most rock and roll, classical, traditional jazz, real latin music, rockabilly and some folk. I also like lists
So, to be more specific, I really like:

Matthew Good Band/Matthew Good
Concrete Blonde/Johnette Napolitano
The Tragically Hip
Junkhouse
Jane's Addiction
Green Day
Blind Melon
The Reverend Horton Heat
Pink Floyd
Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac
Radiohead
Bjork
Jason Mitchell
Joan Osborne
The White Stripes
Korpiklaani
Death Cab For Cutie
Pearl Jam
Placebo
Jethro Tull
Live
Rush
Pixies
Die Hunns
NOMEANSNO
John Lennon
Frank Zappa
Paul Weller
Grady
Big Sugar
Mae Moore
SRV
Billie Holiday
"The Buena Vista Social Club" album
Soul Asylum
Aqua
10,000 Maniacs
Feist
Fiona Apple
Crash Vegas
Joni Mitchell
Bruce Cockburn
Blondie
anything by Tchaikovsky
Elvis Costello
Hanoi Rocks
Nash the Slash
Green Jelly
AC/DC, but with Bon Scot
Indigenous
Pura Fe
A Ha
Sum 41
Mozart
Peter Gabriel
Distillers

I have a definite preference for the angsty, emotional, and dark stuff. I would probably make the list look more eclectic if I dug deeper, but these are (mostly) current albums in my main CD changer.

 

[motrhead]

I forgot Rammstein! Ohne Dich, Du Hast and Amerika are great tunes, but the videos make the songs even more memorable. There is also a more obscure German band "Final Virus" which I really like.
I must have music. I have two 300 disc cd changers and a 200 disc changer in the front room.
We have the radio or a CD on almost 24 hours a day.

 

[Loraella]

I listen to a variety of genres - darkwave, rock, metal [symphonic, power, folk], neoclassical, ethereal, classical.

My favourite bands and singers are:

Héroes del Silencio, Enrique Bunbury, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Switchblade Symphony, Ataraxia, Abney Park, Dead Can Dance, Tierra Santa, Epica, Cinema Strange, Fields of the Nephilim

and many more, but these are the most favourite.

[my last.fm page is here http://last.fm/user/luzoscura , I had posted it here earlier, but it's been already many months and I was absent from here then... You can add me to friends if you want and if you have the page too, specially if there's someone who has some similar likings in music.

 

[Toad]

I like the Jonas Brothers. I don't know anything about them and I can give a rat's ass that they are a boy band with gorgeous features that make girls want to have their babies .

All I know is I enjoy their music. Just like I enjoyed Backstreet Boys when I was younger, but never had the courage to admit.

 

[Citizen X]

Héroes del Silencio, Enrique Bunbury, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Switchblade Symphony, Ataraxia, Abney Park, Dead Can Dance, Tierra Santa, Epica, Cinema Strange, Fields of the Nephilim

.

I also like Ataraxia and Dead Can Dance. I saw Ataraxia live once, great concert.

 

[Agent Intellect]

i would say that i'm a hip hop fan, but i know most people will immediately think of 50 cent and all the "lil [insert name]" people. i can't stand the garbage they play on the radio and the R&B bullshit, and i'm not going to bother listing all the rappers i do like, because i'm sure nobody cares.

so, other then that, i'd say my favorite rock bands are Rage Against the Machine, System of a Down, and Nirvana (yeah, i don't listen to much rock). i also really enjoy classical music, although i only own to albums of it: a Bach mix and the soundtrack to Requiem for a Dream.

 

[Seducer of the Homeless]

Sergei Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet is amazing!

 

[Madoness]

i would say that i'm a hip hop fan, but i know most people will immediately think of 50 cent and all the "lil [insert name]" people. i can't stand the garbage they play on the radio and the R&B bullshit, and i'm not going to bother listing all the rappers i do like, because i'm sure nobody cares.

so, other then that, i'd say my favorite rock bands are Rage Against the Machine, System of a Down, and Nirvana (yeah, i don't listen to much rock). i also really enjoy classical music, although i only own to albums of it: a Bach mix and the soundtrack to Requiem for a Dream.

You can never get rid of the bad name of hip hop. People to tend to think of it as what lil jon, lil bow wow, lil romeo, lil kim, lil boosie, lil wayne, soulja boy, akon etc. does.I usually don't talk about my music taste, even freinds who do like hip hop, don't mostly like stuff that I do and I do find it wierd. I do tend to see hip hop as a voice of social issues, a voice of protest, a political voice, not just "club" music - but a lot do seem to see it just as "soulja boy - crank dat" on MTV, and voice their opinion of hip hop from what they have seen on the TV.

So, I'm another fan of hip hop, but I also like, trip hop, downtempo, acid jazz, nu jazz (the cinematic orchestra and stuff), classic jazz, soul. I don't know where people put Björk as I love almost all her music, though first albums are better than her last two. Rage Against the Machine is great. I love Offspring stuff (1994–1996)

 

[Xel]

I think I have very varied taste in music. Even genres I don't like I will like if they are done properly.

 

[motrhead]

Sergei Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet is amazing!

I agree. For some reason I like many of the Russian composers.

 

[Seducer of the Homeless]

Classical (particualarly Russian Modern Classical) is my new favourite Genre

top 3?

Igor Stravinsky
Dmitri Shostakovich
Erik Satie

way more....
i also love Frank Zappa's Classical Works, Danny Elfman, Claude Debussy is great...

BUT i am exited as i know little about Classical. (so yay for future dscoveries)

 

[RubberDucky451]

Lately it has been world music,

Gypsy Music, YouTube- Melech Mechaya - Bulgar from Odessa
Gogol, YouTube- J.U.F. - Gypsy Part Of Town

Kinda' like Ukraine gypsy punkish xD

 

[mikal]

Classical (particualarly Russian Modern Classical) is my new favourite Genre

top 3?

Igor Stravinsky
Dmitri Shostakovich
Erik Satie

These are my favourites too!
Dimitri Shostakovich is my favourite...ever.
I love Satie's 'Socrate- cheap imitation'. It's very deep and emotional.
And for few last days I'm listening Stravinsky's The rite of spring. Amazing!

Of course, there is also genius Mozart.
Great, great..

 

[Anthile]

No love for Rimsky-Korsakov or Khachaturian?

 

[motrhead]

I love the Sabre Dance, and enjoy some of his other works, so Khachaturian - thumbs up.

 

[Carnap]

I have limited tastes and all of my tastes can be justified with at least a great lyrical analysis.

 

[Android]

I've been listening to a lot of stuff from the 1920s to 1940s recently.. downloaded something like 40 gigs of stuff and set it on random. It took some time to get used to the poor quality of most of the recordings, but I fell in love with it. Yesterday a friend put on some Elvis, which I didn't really like before, and now I can't get enough of the guy.

 

[RubberDucky451]

The old quality of the music really adds to the evoirment. It's almost like your being transported back to that time.

 

[PierreBezukhov]

My favorite is Bach. His mastery at turning dissonance into a beautiful thing is stunning.

YouTube - Bach: WTC1 No. 2 in c minor BWV 847 (Richter)

I don't like most romantic composers so much, but of course there are exceptions.

Also, look at my signature

 

[TravisW]

I've been on a huge kick of Helmut Walcha's renderings of Bach organ pieces lately. That and In Flames, Clayman.

I like the Bach because there are a million little journeys in each composition, and I like the In Flames because it scratches a hundred itches in each song.

 

[Morel Panic]

I've been on a huge kick of Helmut Walcha's renderings of Bach organ pieces lately. That and In Flames, Clayman.

I'm also a huge fan of Bach. His stuff is great for listening, but even more fun to play, though. I know a few of the inventions and the infamous Toccata & Fugue in D minor (just to impress people ).

On a different note (haha pun!), Does anyone else here like 'folk'ish sort of music? Simon & Garfunkel, Bob Dylan, etc.

(Oh, and to answer the OP title: my answer is yes. I have at least 2 bands/artists/composers I really like in basically every 'major' genre, except for rap and dance.)

 

[bananaphallus]

.

 

[Cobra]

.

Were you thinking of !!!, bp? lol

A few of my faves might over-classify me. May relist the aformentioned; apologies:

Queen
Mars Volta
Phoenix
Flaming Lips
Capsule
Yes
Valient Thorr
Mastodon
James Taylor
Candiria
The Pillows
Lupe Fiasco
Small Brown Bike
Asian Kung-Fu Generation
Fleetwood Mac
Rush

Right now Capsule is playing on my mePod.

 

[Madoness]

He/she was not thinking much. Out of 9 posts at least two are as meaningful as this one was.

 

[bananaphallus]

He/she was not thinking much. Out of 9 posts at least two are as meaningful as this one was.

Madoness, would you care to explain your general 'asshole-ishness'?
I got self-conscious, and decided to erase the list, deleting it was taking too long. I'm sure you'll have a witty retort for me; You'll probably quote the second sentence in this paragraph and post something along the lines of, "For good reason."

Van Morrison
The Clash
Nick Drake
Seu Jorge
Erasmo Carlos
Basement Jaxx
Talking Heads
Earth Wind and Fire
Tim Maia
The Kinks
Animal Collective
Wu Tang
Bob Dylan
Paul Simon
Beatnuts
Yelle
Vince Guaraldi
M83
Steely Dan
Rusted Root
Santana
Also, Clair de Lune (at night), Erik Satie, some Beethoven (Ode to joy is the first piece of music I can remember liking), 'walking on air' song from Raymond Brigg's 'The Snowman,' and certain melancholic, downtempo renditions of 'Winter Wonderland'

 

[Cobra]

Madoness, would you care to explain your general 'asshole-ishness'?
I got self-conscious, and decided to erase the list...

Relax, bp. No one could have known that. Now we know. Terrorism is common here (even closed off the forum to new members at one point), and it comes in many peculiar forms, sometimes starting with the faintest signal in the sky... or no warning at all... or a simple and confusing "." as somone's post. But welcome, otherwise! Madoness didn't mean any harm.

Seu Jorge
Talking Heads
Earth Wind and Fire
The Kinks
Animal Collective
Wu Tang
Bob Dylan
Paul Simon
Vince Guaraldi
Steely Dan

Also, INCREDIBLE taste. Should not have been self-conscious. Picked out my faves from your list (a few of which might even go in my top ten!). Left out the ones I either never heard of or can't put in my top hundo.

 

[Madoness]

Madoness, would you care to explain your general 'asshole-ishness'?
I got self-conscious, and decided to erase the list, deleting it was taking too long. I'm sure you'll have a witty retort for me; You'll probably quote the second sentence in this paragraph and post something along the lines of, "For good reason."

Henry Frankenstein: Look! It's moving. It's alive. It's alive... It's alive, it's moving, it's alive, it's alive, it's alive, it's alive, IT'S ALIVE!
Victor Moritz: Henry - In the name of God!
Henry Frankenstein: Oh, in the name of God! Now I know what it feels like to be God!

The information for your question was given to you on another thread, and only answer for that was a simple "." People seemed to be confused by your choice of words, rather than to clarify it, a simple "." was given, no thanks for helping, no acknowledge of answers received, not even a disagreement or need for a bit more info. It would really not seem to be something that a person usually does if interested in subject or answers, but rather something that usually a troll does.

 

[bananaphallus]

The information for your question was given to you on another thread, and only answer for that was a simple "." People seemed to be confused by your choice of words, rather than to clarify it, a simple "." was given, no thanks for helping, no acknowledge of answers received, not even a disagreement or need for a bit more info. It would really not seem to be something that a person usually does if interested in subject or answers, but rather something that usually a troll does.

Point(s) taken, you're absolutely right, and I apologize for the misunderstanding.
I'll clarify what I meant to ask in the 'evolution' thread. Thanks for gathering the information, it was helpful, and I do have some questions pertaining to the articles you've provided. I'll post them soon. Sorry.

 

[RubberDucky451]

Seu Jorge? I thought i was the only English speaking listener

 

[Cobra]

Absolutely not! He's positively crazed over in Chicago.

I have the Life Aquatic sessions. I've been buying a lot of CDs lately, but I'm strapped for cash. Snagged me a Live in Montreux album, though, too, about 10 months back. Been meaning to buy more. The live album is great fun.

Although I'd love to say I was cool enough to know of him when he was "just a musician," I was exposed to him from Life Aquatic. (Bowie in Portuguese? GENIUS Effing genius.)

 

[twihumist]

Thank you so much for the post. It's really useful.

 

[shoehorn0plenty]

I agree. For some reason I like many of the Russian composers.

I am glad to find some people who like Russian classical music in this forum.

YouTube- Tchaikovsky Dance of the Buffoons (encore, VERY FAST!!!)