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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
brianmgrarcom
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Sa•tan•ism 1. The worship of Satan characterized by a travesty of the Christian rites. (American Heritage Dictionary)

“Rap is usually more agressive in nature”; “Alot of rapping about life in the ghetto”; “Christian rock, from my small exposure kinda rams god down your throat.”

Hum, one expression is “aggressive” and ok, which is also degrading, and the other is “ramming God down your throat”. I would think the title Christian Rock would make it clear what the main focus was going to be about.
audiophanatik OP
59 posts
 
The worship of Satan characterized by a travesty of the Christian rites

That can be taken many ways. Satanism and devil worship are different things, and as far as christians go, historically they are well known (in the past) for assuming things they dont understand are Evil and have a tendancy to go a little far.
IE Salem Witch Trials.
Not to be offence to any christians, but i dont always find thier definitions of Evil or Satan worship to be that accurate.

You might have to look a little bit further than the american heritage dictionary to find an accurate meaning of Satanism.

Honestly, with your little cuts from my last post im not sure i gather what you are talking about. Aggressive? Degrading? It almost resembles Coldcust Bits'nPeices.

I know alot of rap, i listen to alot of rap, and yes, Rap is genrally classified seperatly from hiphop due to the general attitude of the music. Ask anybody who is really into rap. There is nothing degrading about calling something "Aggressive"

As far as ramming god down your throat, i meant no offence, but that in my view is what christian rock does, it focuses on god and only god. Im sure there are exceptions, but i havent heard them(and my christian rock experience is limited), i was merley stating an observation, Christian rockers talk about god non-stop. Satanic musicians hardly ever refer to the devil or dark lord or what-have-you.

Im still not sure i know what you mean with...
Hum, one expression is ?aggressive? and ok, which is also degrading,

I still see nothing wrong with the term aggressive. Listen to some rap, and listen to some hiphop. It will shine through like a beacon
mezmo
516 posts
 
Interesting question. Got me thinking. I recently reorganized my whole CD collection and, in the process, went through a bit wider rotation of CDs over the past week than I might normally. As a little challenge, thought to give myself 10 minutes to sit down and try to remember a list of the disks I'd actually listend to during the past week plus and turned up a wider range than I had first expected. [Yes, I had a Metallica phase (mostly due to the nightly, midnight practice sessions of my residential college's drinking team for the two months prior to the big intercollegiate competition). No, I don't listen to it any more. At all. Yes, we won. Yes, Metallica still makes me want to drink fast.] Anyway, here's what I came up with, in no order whatsoever:

Iron & Wine, Danny Schmidt, Paul Cueri, Hogwaller Ramblers, Tom Waits, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Magnetic Fields, Chris Whitley, New Orleans Klezmer Allstars, Cowboy Mouth, Radiohead, Massive Attack, Kermit Ruffins, Foo Fighters, Dinosaur Jr., Screaming Trees, Smashing Pumpkins, Aphex Twin, Moby, Bowie, Police, Brand New Heavies, Control Machete, Café Tacuva, Orishas, Daniel Malingo, Sarah Vaughn, Nina Simone, Belly, Heather Nova, Fiona Apple, Bettie Severt, Throwing Muses, Bran Van 3000, Yo-Yo Ma’s Bach suites, Mahler’s 5th, Mozart’s piano concertos, Arrested Development, John McMurtry, Marisa Monte, Flaming Lips, Built to Spill, John Digweed, Illya Kuryaki y los Valderramas, Norah Jones, Ballboy, Getz & Gilberto, Miles, Coltrane, Christina Rosenvigne, Joaquin Sabina, Daniela Mercury, Prince and the Revolution, Red Hot Chilly Peppers, Muddy Waters, Peter Gabriel, U2, Lyle Lovett, Dar Williams, Lucinda Williams, Todd Horton, Rebirth Brass Band, Daniel Lanois, the Pixies...

I'm sure there must have been more, but I only gave myself 10 minutes (though probably cheated up to 15 or 20). Mind you, this was definitely not an average week, but when you actually pick up and move every single CD, you tend to dig a little (or a lot) deeper than you might normally.

Have to admit that one of my greatest thrills comes from discovering new music to listen to. An Aussie DJ friend of mine (who actually brags about having 1,500 roots regae 45s, though it remains a mystery to me why) came up with the idea of the 1 for 1 dinner party. Get another one or two musically afflicted individuals together with instructions to bring 10 or 100 or however many disks over that they want to share, mix in and lubricate with food and/or drink, and trade playing tracks. "You've never heard this before and here's why you should." "You've heard this 1,000 times, but here's why you should listen to it again for the first time." "Play it, ass, it's my turn...." It's all fair game. If you come away with one new thing that makes you go ooh, you're a winner. More than that, an embarrasment of riches. Either way, not a bad way to spend an evening.
audiophanatik OP
59 posts
 
Mezmo,

Great selection of music, you mentioned some i havent heard in years and plan on listening to when i get home.

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Murder Ballads, and The Best Of. Very very good music. Massive attack is a good yet strange band. I got thier CD and was WOW. Then it kinda disappeared back in my stash to resurface from time to time

pixies, john digweed, willie nelson, you have it all!
audiophanatik OP
59 posts
 
Matchstikman.

You might be too hip the the scene. whats SS? Solid State? If so then yeah. Just because ive never heard Tubes.

Yes yes, its true, so true. I have never heard a tub setup.

thats because none of my friends are into this hobby, im like a floating beacon of fledgling audiophile in a sea of people who dont give 2 craps about my hobby.

Some day ill hear one tho, see what everyone is talking about! :)
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