Music

[johnnyapollo]

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

[kobie]

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!

[spaceCADETzoom]

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.

[CrnCnn]

Any one like Little brother or Common. GURU. Lupe Fiasco.

[JHarris1385]

Any one like Little brother or Common. GURU. Lupe Fiasco.

Lupe isnt half bad. For rap I like Clipse and The Pack

[WyrreJ]

Nowadays I'm really drawn to anything acoustic. I was raised on a lot of folk and singer/songwriter stuff by my dad.

Did you watch Californication? In one scene, they were listening to an acoustic cover of Sabbath's Ironman, it's awesome and wasn't too hard to find on p2p.

[Hotsauce]

I've totally filled that rack since this pic was taken. Records on opposite wall.

Everything is burned flac to Sonos server www.sonos.com

I also listen to www.pandora.com the coolest internet station ever. You create your own stations, and vote on songs it plays. It then chooses artists based on your votes.

John C.

[ojmagg]

I tend to like a pretty wide mix...except country...I just can't get into that scene...

Old school rap...new rock...some classical...

Went to a Modest Mouse show last month...they are amazing...I highly recommend checking out "Good News" and "Baron Von BS Rides Again"...

Going to see Drop Kick Murphys in March...

[Triathlete]

Records on opposite wall.

John C.

Theres probably only a hand full of people here that even know what a "record" is let alone actually seen anything vinyl! I am one who still has vinyl (mostly old punk). Anyone own/tryed one of the new record players that connect to your computer and can convert your vinyl to CD's.

[JHarris1385]

WyrreJ - I have seen Pepper twice
ojmagg - I have seen Dropkick probably 4 times, where are they playing in March?
Tri - I have a few old punk vinlys as well I collected during high school

[nfpgasmask]

Theres probably only a hand full of people here that even know what a "record" is let alone actually seen anything vinyl! I am one who still has vinyl (mostly old punk). Anyone own/tryed one of the new record players that connect to your computer and can convert your vinyl to CD's.

I have about 150 records, most of which I have already "ripped" to MP3. You don't need anything special other than a "line-in" port on your sound card, and a decent program to record with. I use Sound Forge and it works great.
I have a lot of rare, out of print, early electro/industrial stuff that still isn't available on CD. Its nice having it ripped for easy listening. If you do it, just get yourself a good cleaner brush and some record cleaning solution...

Bart

[bulldog]

Not sure if anyone cares or knows about these products, but it doesnt matter what you listen to if you want your music to sound amazing (im talking hearing things on a cd that you never heard before even if you listened to it a hundred thousand times) get CD Stoplight and one of those cd polishers,,my favorite is at mapleshaderecords.com,, the difference is amazing at the very least