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What do You listen to?

I was just browsing through the forums and ran across the "Most acheingly beautiful music" forum, and looked through all the responses and im somewhat confused.

Risking an all out brutal verbal assault by the 'Gon'ers, its becoming my impression that alot of the people here have a very limited taste in music.

It seems to be isolated around Classical, Contemporary, Soft Rock, and blues/jazz.

I would say Rock, but honestly, when i think of Rock i think of Metallica and GodSmack, not Jethro Tull or Grateful dead.
(i guess thats just an opinion though.

Now, Im hoping that people here have wider taste in music, after all, it comes in so many forms (even ones that older people refuse to recognize)

I mean hey, i gotta be honest, one of the best recordings ive heard was EMINEM's Marshal Mathers. Talk about a hell of a recording (musical content aside), it was crisp, clear, focused, and over all, one of the best recordings ive heard. (once again, im risking a brutal verbal assault.

So, Lets hear it for what types of music people listen to!
Just because i would rather Jam out to Metallica and drink beer instead of listening to Motzart with a fine wine does not mean my passion for music is any less!

LETS LIST OFF SOME OF OUR FAVORITES OF ANY VARIETY

Want a pretty wide variety of music? Here is what i listen to.

ROCK
Godsmack, Limkon Park, Korn, Metallica, Alice in Chains, Mad Season, Rage Against the Machine, Sound Garden, AudioSlave, P.O.D., Union underground, Powerman 5000, Rob Zombie, Pantera,

POP
Britany Spears, Pink, uhh.. well.. not too much there. hehe

R&B
Genuine, Destinys child, Usher, Bell Biv Devoe, SWV, Alisha Keys, TLC,

RAP
Cypress Hill, Akinyele, Ice Cube, Ice T, Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Bone, Outkast, Insane Clown Posse(no im not a juggalo),
Nate Dogg, Warren G, DMX, Rehab, Busta Rhymes, Ludacris

HIPHOP
Ja-Rule, MC Hammer, Cisco, Fat Joe, Afroman, uhh... I like rap better than hiphop.

Techno
Prodigy(older stuff), Chemical Brothers(older stuff), LTJ Bukem, MC Conrad and DRS, Underworld, Blame, Daft Punk, Intence

BREAKBEAT
ColdCut, Unkle, DJ Krush, DJ Food.

INDUSTRIAL
Apogyma Bezerk, WumpScut, KMDFM, Die Krupps, Skinny Puppy, Front 242, Frontline Assembly, Project Pitchfork, Nitzer Ebb, Ministry, Nine inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, Leather Strip, Good Courage, Penal Colony, MDFMK, Einsturzende Naubauten, Rammstein, My Life with the Thrill Kill Cult, too many to list!

Alternative
Nirvana, Peral Jam, Foo Fighters, Creed, Oasis, Coldplay, uhh...

Experimental
Aphex Twin, Legendary Pink Dots, Tear Garden, Massive Attack, Locust, Autechre, Crash Worship, Edward Kaspel solo performances, Twilight circus,

Satanic
Chistian Death, Current 93

Blues
Eric Clapton, BB King, John Hooker, Dizzy Gilespi (did i spell that right?) Santana, Whity-Ford, (trying to find more blues bands. i LOVE the blues.

Classical.
What can i say? i dont listen to it. It feels somewhat formless and made up on the spot to me. Maybe i just need to look into it harder.

--Just a disclaimer, yes, i did list a couple satanic bands, however, i have no ties to the devil, The dark lord, the long walker, Cthulhu, Beezlebub, guy in red, the underlord, the silent beast, etc etc.. i do not slaughter goats or cast voodoo spells. I dont agree with the content but listen to it for its musical qualities which are suprisingly good, there is alot of heart and soul put into it, no puns intended.
hehehehehhehe

So who else has such a wide taste in music?
I own CD's of everything listed above!

lets hear it for music that others do not regfard as music!!!!!!!!

bwahahahahahahahaha
audiophanatik
ben_campbell
1,169 posts
 
Audiophanatik-yes well,most Audiogoners are of a certain age and perhaps Audiophiles in general do gravitate to certain genres but there is a reasonably wide selection of musical tastes on these forums.
Categories in themselves mean little-a band like The Rolling Stones could be categorised as R&B,Blues,Rock and Roll,Rock and even pop.
Likewise in the 70's Heavy Metal was used to cover everybody from Lynyrd Synyrd via AC/DC,Rush,UFO to Motorhead.
Personally I think your tastes in "Rock" is a little limited to the more extreme and cartoon aspects that HM split into amongst it's sub-genres but I don't know all the bands you mention-have you heard The Mars Volta or their previous incarnation At The Drive In?-to me they combine metallic aspects with energy and more than average intelligence and musical idea's.
With your wide tastes your musical horizon of undiscovered greats is limitless.
Sd there is a lot of truth in what you say but there are many decent bands about today but pretty much like your beloved Jazz it's very difficult to be original when the weight of the explosion that was 20th century music is against you.
Anyway you think Dylan is overrated!
matchstikman
205 posts
 
What is the difference between Rap and HipHop? Have you ever followed a Metallica Cd with a Britney Spears? Is Santana blues? What is breakbeat? What, no Christian metal? As for classical, it is well known that Bach was a big mosher in his day.

Educate me!!
dragon1952
181 posts
 
Some of the Rock/Blues/Pop CD's in my collection:
Led Zeppelin - just about everything
Hendrix - just about everything
Doors- several
Cream - several
Jefferson Airplane
Moby Grape
Rush
Kansas
Van Halen
Def Leppard
Country Joe and the Fish
Grateful Dead
Kenny Wayne Shepard
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Paul Butterfield Blues Band
Steely Dan
Stones
Beatles
Blue Oyster Cult

Smooth Jazz/Jazz
Jazzmasters (Paul Hardcastle)-several
Spyro Gyra - several
Peter White- several
Grover Washington - a couple
Boney James
Tom Grant
Joe Sample
Down to the Bone
David Sanborn
Kenny G
Sade

I am listening to mostly Smooth Jazz now days because it allows me to enjoy the sound of my system better and is more relaxing. I just turned 50 so I guess I'm getting old!
gunbei
2,327 posts
 
I constantly listen to some musicians I'm sure almost no one on Audiogon or most people on earth are familiar with.

One of my favorite guitarists is Robby Longley. I first heard him four or five years ago playing live on Saturday night at a Borders bookstore in Torrance, CA. He's originally from New Orleans, but is heavily influenced by flamenco and Carlos Montoya. What results is an amazing gumbo of sound and passion. Since first seeing him I have caught three more of his appearances at Borders. I own many of his CDs and have brought a few along when shopping for audio gear. I never get tired of his music and listen to it in the car and on my rig at home. I believe some of his releases are available on Amazon. My favorites are "Sanctuary" and "Danza Mora".

The other musicians are a drummer named Tom Maxwell and a guitarist named Steve Denny. I first heard about these artists from my good friend Dave Pascal who is producing their first solo efforts.

Tom is the drummer for the popular surf band The Blue Hawaiians, and his solo release "Bliss of a Madman" under the banner of Magic Box is an incredible instrumental journey incorporating jazz, classical and electronica with Middle Eastern and World influences.

Steve Denny is a talented guitarist influenced by flamenco and his love of movies. His first release "Oscuro" is a blend of rock, jazz, movie music, flamenco and world rhythms. His sound is of deep emotions with control and pathos. His guitar work is also featured on "Bliss of a Madman".

I've been luck y to hear the development of both Magic Box and Oscuro since the beginning two years ago up until the final pressings last month. My friend Dave would periodically drop a CD on my desk of their latest rough tracks. It was fun to hear the evolution of their music throughout the creative and production process, but most of all I loved the music. Anyone interested can get more information on them at: http://www.pascalrecords.com.

The three artists above have more playing time on my Theta Pearl and car CD player than all my other CDs combined!
matchstikman
205 posts
 
Audiophanatik, your music selection is made up of alot of "in your face" stuff. I am thinking you are an SS man, right? Loud and proud. I can dig it. Yeah, I'm hip to the scene.
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