Due to the recent discovery of new music and artists, thanks Bart, I wanted to know what everyone listens to. I really love music and personally very eclectic. However, I feel I am a mainstream eclectic.
EXPAND MY HORIZONS…..
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Due to the recent discovery of new music and artists, thanks Bart, I wanted to know what everyone listens to. I really love music and personally very eclectic. However, I feel I am a mainstream eclectic.
EXPAND MY HORIZONS…..
Eclectic you say?...try "pickin' on Pink Floyd" a bluegrass tribute.
You ain't heared music till' ya hear "wish you were here & comfortably numb" played on a banjo.:smilewink
Bluegrass:grino:
Actually, mostly Country but I really do listen to Bluegrass on occasion. Maybe that's why I haven't upgraded my sound system. Country just doesn't blast & reverb the way other music does.
Damm Ldub, I didn't even get my response typed in before you stole my thunder.
That is hilarious...the first two replys go toward bluegrass.:razzgray:
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Originally Posted by Ldub
I have this one, Luther Wright and the Wrongs - Rebuild the Wall.
It is a good album. I like bluegrass.
XM Radio - Audio Visions and, sometimes, XM LED.
Audio Visions (defined as cerebral new age) relaxes me in traffic and suppresses the desire to commit bodily harm to other drivers. XM LED (Led Zeppelin 24/7) for times when I need to rock. My entire collection of CD's fits in one small carrying case and hasn't been used in years. I have Uriah Heep, Black Sabbath, Santana, Iron Butterfly, etc. Is my age showing yet?)
Needless to say, I don't listen to music much, except when I am driving.
Punk
Pop-punk
Ska
All things fast tempo
Favorite bands that would describe my wide spectrum: 311 , New Found Glory, Less Than Jake, Something Corporate, Rancid, Mest, Millencolin, RX Bandits and SUM 41.
REO SPEEDWAGON, T'PAU AND THE JETS.
-biju.
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I gotta say I am really not a fan of these genres, but I do like bits of them.Quote:
Originally Posted by JHarris1385
well.. not to shamelessly plug something.. but I had a page built for me (long story) but the music is of my taste.. giver a try...
www.theoriginalsolitude.com:bgwg::bgwo:
Degarmo & Key, Davic Meece, Keith Green, Small Town Poets, News Boys, Petra, DC Talk, Weird Al Yanchovick, Oldies, some Country, Pretty much a lot of everything, but for me the lyrics gotta be clean. Ohhh, and don't forget One Bad Pig and Johny Cash doing "Why I wear Black"!
So I take it Lil John, Too $hort and 2 Live Crew are no good for you... :smilewinkQuote:
Originally Posted by Techy-D
Bart
Otep - One crazy hot and bothered chick screaming her own poetry. A must listen for metal fans.
Finger Eleven - Several albums from this group have gone unnoticed. They have their own signature 'rock' sound that is easy to appreciate.
TOOL - Come on, quite possibly the successor to Pink Floyd light shows. There should be a genre of music called "Tool" because of their influence.
Acid Bath - Older underground melodic metal from sons of Satan. Beautiful.
Acumen (or later, "Acumen Nation") - GREAT electro beats and creepy lyrics such as "You ain't got the balls to be a hero, especially when I cut off your arms, cut off your arms, cut off your arms!" I think Bart would like these guys before they dropped the Industrial sound and added 'Nation'.
Static-X - Probably the best concert I have been to in terms of "sounding like their albums". Their replay factor seems to fade though.
Chevelle - A rock band that continues to grow with every album.
Marillyn Manson - Say what you will, but Manson has entertained just about everyone in one way or another.
Prick - "THERE ARE NO FAIR FIGHTS!" Sing along industrial electonica. "You found a garter belt on my nose... I warned ya." Love it!
OK, George Strait, Johnny Cash, Keith Whitley, and some other country singers, I can actually enjoy. Otherwise, I sometimes listen to classical music when I am writing. But, sadly, if a hot chick is singing, I generally like it! I'm a sucker.
Yeah, Acumen, I do like the older stuff a lot better. I saw them live a couple times back in Chicago. DJ "Acucrack" used to spin a lot back there, still does I think...Quote:
Originally Posted by ZEUS
And all this talk of Johnny Cash...I love Cash, but I personally can't lump him into country. I mean, his older stuff is definitely more country, but to me, his newer stuff is more folk. All I know is that his cover of NIN's - Hurt and Danzing's - 13 are unbelievable....and SOOO much better than the originals.
Bart
I cant stand Cash.
Come on man, JC rules! His music is so melancholy and depressing! I love it!Quote:
Originally Posted by JHarris1385
Whenever you are feeling depressed, just throw on some Cash, or some Swans....
Bart
PS - I can't stand ska... ;puke2; ...and pop "punk" just ain't punk. Pop maybe, but in no way is it punk. :)
My opinion on JC is slightly skewd but that is only becuase I heard one of his cd's over and over and over while driving to vacation one time in my past. I think its purely annoying.
...Yeah alot do not like ska and I only like the bands that hint on the punk side (Less than Jake mainly). Punk in my terms is doing what you will at anytime with no restrictions (going against the flow). If a band plays punk themed chords but comes across as on a pop note they are doing what they want. My mind changed a couple years back about pop-punk when I read an article debating calling it punk at all. If I can locate it im sure it will show the light at the of the tunnel a little clearer.
Yeah, I guess for me punk vs pop punk is the style of the music itself, not just how the band rebels or goes against the mainstream. I mean, to me, there is a "punk sound" for sure. I'm just old school I guess. There is nothing like some good, polictical, aggressive punk to get your blood pumping.
I think I once read an interview with Green Day about how they never considered themselves "punk". It was a label they just somehow acquired. Its funny, I love stories like that. Its just like The Sisters of Mercy. I read somewhere once that they never intended to be a "goth band". But as it turns out, they are like one of the most notable goth bands in history.
Funny how genre labels really mean nothing.
Bart
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Originally Posted by JHarris1385
I used to like Green Day back in the Dookie days and maybe a little Nimrod too, now they too annoy me.
Im guessing punk to you is anti-flag sound?
Fav punk bands:
Misfits
Minor Threat
Dead Kennedys
D.I.
The Vandals
Reagan Youth
Ramones
Subhumans
7 Seconds
But for me, my heart is 100% with mid/late 80s, early 90s industrial. This is the era of music I cannot live without. Skinny Puppy, Frontline Assembly, Ministry, REVCO, TKK, KMFDM, Front 242, Nitzer Ebb and all the various side projects and spin offs of these bands....I'll never get sick of.
Bart
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Originally Posted by JHarris1385
Such a GIANT question! Bluegrassy stuff/ by way of old Fairport Convention, Pentangle and such Some CSN...some Zep occasionaly..old Airplane silliness NOW...all kinds of crap...NIN, Nirvana, old Butt Hole Surfers, toss in some Portriat of an American Family and old Zombie....I love noise! God Lives under Water.....Dick Dale......Vivaldi and Bach...A GT3,one third of a tank of gas, glass down, and MILES, Bitches Brew please:cool: Some Herbie Hancock, lots of Temptations......Bonnie Raitt and Bruce Springstein....if I'm drunk enough, and you must, but I'd much rather Buckwheat Zydeco, thankyou......love a good fiddle( hate a Charlie Daniels and pretty much all country.....and Opera;puke2;) Jazz is pretty much a snooze......hate crooners/singers. Nosrat Ali Kahn ( when your frame of mind is right:bgwp:) I can do this all day:) Wayne
Now THAT'S ecclectic! LOL. How the heck old are you, Chopper? Its fun to try to guess people's age range from their musical taste.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chopper
:) Bart
KMFDM??" Machines don't make mistakes, humans do.....that's why we employ machines"
Some may have considered Frank Zappa a genius....he certainly wasn't boring.
Let's bounce around the 'ol Ipod here:
Al Green, 30 Seconds to Mars, 10 Years, Agent Orange, BB King, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Amy Winehouse, Anberlin, Young Dubliners, Yo-Yo Ma, Bauhaus, Func Haus, The Benevento/Russo Duo, Bif Naked, Big Pig, Blackalicious, Wynton Marsalis, Mozart, Tuatara, Tower of Power, Thievery Corporation, Boom Boom Satellites, BT, Celldweller, Chris Botti, Sting, The Police, The Cult, The Cure, Theory of a Deadman, Spyro Gyra, Spinesank, Social Distortion, Shirley Bassey, Flyleaf, Esthero, Frank Sinatra, Gotan Project, Hot Action Cop, Razed In Black, Kidney Thieves, Andrea Bocelli...
OK, maybe I should stop now. I tend to listen to all kinds of stuff from all kinds of genres. I'm going to have to Limewire some of the bands I've seen from other people to expand my horizons.
Sounds like you stole my iPod....Quote:
Originally Posted by MSHardeman
I didnt know anyone still used Limewire.
Fer serious, I haven't heard of anyone using that in ages. Last time I was on there it was nothing but viruses and spyware...Quote:
Originally Posted by CrnCnn
Bart
artist you'll often hear in my VX...
Citizen Cope, Audioslave, Metallica, Godsmack, Hurt, DMX, Nelly, Tom Petty, Neil Young, Tool, Linkin Park, Chevelle, Nirvana, Green Day, Pearl Jam, Judas Priest, Guns N Roses, Motley Crue, Disturbed, Eminem, Fuel, Kid Rock, Marilyn Manson, Pink Floyd, Hinder, RHCP... the list goes on and on and on.. but you get the point
Old enough to have seen all the acts listed (first live music was Hendrix, and I was trippin) but I was raised by wolves, and on my own pretty young:grinr:Quote:
Originally Posted by nfpgasmask
Yeah, I figured you were old, crusty and ancient! ;) LOL, jk. You just threw me off with your video game thread, cause gaming is typically a sign of youth, or relative youth at least (i'm getting old and crusty myself...well, I've always been crusty).
:) Bart
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Originally Posted by Chopper
Just don't grow up:_confused I refuse.
Old, crusty, and ancient my ***....five in da eye when I meet you:p:p:pQuote:
Originally Posted by nfpgasmask
Hey, I resemble that remark!!Quote:
Originally Posted by nfpgasmask
I listen to pretty much everything but I do have my favorites - those are mostly old SKA bands, pre-80's punk bands and early 80's new wave. I like old school rap (pre MTV Raps) and can't stand much of the new Hip Hop that's being peddled. I also like old lounge and acid jazz quite a bit. I've got an extensive collection.
-- John
Or try some Apocilyptica....Metalica (and others) done on chello!Quote:
Originally Posted by Ldub
My music collection has everything rock in it...
Some favorites (it would take way to much time and space to put them all up)
Punk...Dead Kennedys, Replacements, Husker Du, Sex Pistols, Ramones, Iggy Pop (Stooges),...
Current rock...5 finger death punch, Slip Knot, Snot, Lamb of God, Tool,...
And pretty much everything in between including the classic stuff (Zep, Floyd, Scorpions, Priest, Maiden,...)
So I'll stand up as one who is biased towards contemporary rap/ hip hop/ R&B- here goes:
New stuff I like- Jay Z (American Gangster, "Roc Boys"), Kanye, Talib Kweli, Fort Minor, Outkast, Andre 3000 collaboration efforts, NERD, any Neptunes production, Rihanna, Beyonce, any New Orleans Bounce music, any Ludacris collaboration but nothing on his albums, The Roots, Erykah Badu, Kirk Franklin, Timbaland productions (JT, Nelly Furtado, Missy Elliot)
Old Stuff I like- Public Enemy, Run DMC, Ice-T, The D.O.C, Parliament/ Funkadelic/ Bootsy Collins, PRINCE (and Madhouse), Camp Lo, Clipse, Pharcyde, Meshell NdegeOcello, Kill Bill Soundtrack (is genius), James Brown, Micheal Jackson, LL Cool J (and his battle raps), Art of Noise
Other Stuff- Foo Fighters ("The Pretender!"), all Linkin Park, Kelly Clarkson's new album, Alanis, J Timberlake (don't shoot!), Herbie Hancock (love "The Egg"), GnR, Imogen Heap, Miles, Danny Elfman, Jungle electronica (Goldie, Bjork, Apex Twin, Massive Attack- made the theme song for the show "House"), Rolling Stones, Saliva, Brand New Heavies
My lists are long but I rotated these and others in and out of my CD changer when it was working. I used to listen to more Jazz but for some reason it bores when when driving the VX.
Kudos to those with the super wide range of musical tastes. I'm going to look up some of these people and have a listen!
I think I've had phases in my life. There was angry gangsta rap phase. There was a short snobby underground hiphop phase. Actualyl...those were my silly highschool phases. I just realized that I was pretty eclectic in my entire life outside of the time in HS where what I was listening to was dictated by what I thought was cool.
Nowadays I'm really drawn to anything acoustic. I was raised on a lot of folk and singer/songwriter stuff by my dad. I'm into a lot of contemporary forebearers of that now. I like pretty much everything (from rap to pop to a heay emphasis on classic rock)...but often get tired of manufactured stuff. I think I often lean to country but am constantly depressed by the manufactured sound out of nashville and country stations. I do like that there's the occasional exception of actual guitar work and vocals in there, though. Perhaps thats why I lean to it...sometimes theres a pretense, at least, of bluegrass and other basic sounds coming from country.
Ha...I don't make much sense..stream of thought all wonky.
Any one like Little brother or Common. GURU. Lupe Fiasco.
Lupe isnt half bad. For rap I like Clipse and The PackQuote:
Originally Posted by CrnCnn
Say WHAT??? At fifty I'm still gaming...Ps3, Xbox & gamecube...yeah I know, no 360 or wii. Mostly racing, hot shots/outlaw golf, Onimusha, Devil may cry, with a few fps thrown in for good measure.Quote:
Originally Posted by nfpgasmask
Just so y'all don't think I sit around & listen to Pink Floyd on the banjo all day, I'll flesh out my list with, but not limited to...(list limited by memory):rolleyesg
(* indicates presence @ live performance)
Stones, Hendrix, Who*, Floyd*(watching "Delicate Sound of Thunder" dvd is like being there), Buck Cherry, J Cash, W Nelson, Patsy Cline, JL Hooker, Doors, Dylan, Vivaldi, ZZ Top, Steely Dan, Warren Zevon, Paul Simon, Chris Isaak, Boomtown Rats, Art of Noise, Dick Dale*, Eagles, White Stripes, Butthole Surfers, Jim Carrol, Primus, Aerosmith*, Alice Cooper*, Kiss*(hey, it was the seventies), Saliva, Nirvana, Spin Doctors, Joan Osborne, Tracy Chapman, Counting Crows, Smashing Pumpkins, Tina Turner, Collective Soul, Cheap Trick*, Tom Petty, Kid Rock, Bilnk 182, Iggy Pop, Green Day, Everclear, Cracker, 3 Doors Down, Alannah Myles, Saigon Kick, Ramones, Santana, Sinatra, Blur, Boston, Peter Gabriel, Talking Heads, Beatles, INXS, April Wine*, Dire Straits, U2, Romantics, G-n-R, Blondie, Scorpions, Judas Priest, Pat Benatar, Bottle Rockets, Ted Nugent, Procal Harum, Janis Joplin, Bad Co, Great White, REM, The Fixx, The Cars, Cure, Eurythmics, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Berlin, Tone Loc, Enigma, Patrick Ohearn, Pretenders, Styx, Elton John, Lou Reed, Patti Smith, Jeff Beck, Cream, Byrds, J T, Carly Simon, Stevie Wonder, Robert Cray*, J Airplane, Marvin Gaye, Ray Charles, Neil Young, James Brown, Head East, Clapton, Canned Heat, Billy Thorpe, Elvis, Elvis Costello, AC/DC, Nazereth...
I could go on, that's not the half of it, & there are quite a few live performances that I can't remember right now for whatever reason.:rolleyesg