What's your music taste like?

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amberguillen

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I did, I got a cup of piss on my head inside the first few minutes. Even though I am a fan just like you, I hate the ones that are like 'Oasis the best rock n roll band since The Beatles.' Both amazing banRAB, don't get me wrong. But music lives and dies with them two as far as a lot of Oasis fans are concerned because they're too ignorant to explore other stuff. I still love Definitely Maybe and WTSMG though, more than most albums. I've got drunk to them albums, I've had good times with them albums, played football with them albums, them albums have been the soundtrack to many summers.
 
I know there are plenty of less direct ways to figure this out. There are journals and threaRAB like the last.fm week threaRAB and so on where you can sort of get an idea of what people listen to. There are even quite a few threaRAB that are similar to this one, but I haven't found one which just poses the simple and honest question; what is your taste in music like? I realized I only have very vague knowledge of this concerning a lot of you guys so I wanna know!


I'll try and sum up mine. I'm quite explorative and so I often listen to music I don't like in search of something, but it also means I have at least something I like in most genres. Still, my nuraber one decade is the 70s, my nuraber one country in the world is England and my favourite genre at the moment is prog rock. This will be confirmed should anyone check out my most played artists on my last.fm. Caravan, Gentle Giant, Pink Floyd, Yes and Camel are at the top 6 of my all time most listened to. Frank Zappa is also in there, but he's not english of course.

I'll say though that prog rock is relatively new in my life compared to a lot of the other stuff I like. A couple of years ago, the top banRAB on my last.fm probably would've been stuff like Boston, Iron Maiden, AC/DC, Deep Purple, Megadeth, Metallica, Dio. It was mostly hard rock and metal for quite some time.

Aside from Prog and classic rock, I think jazz which I'm a little new to still is my big nuraber 3. I'm quite fond of a lot of the fusion sounding stuff from the early 70s. I'm just now discovering some of the great jazz-players from my own country.

I have a soft spot for pop hits from different genres, like Sugarhill Gang's Rapper's Delight or Bee Gees' Staying Alive. Sometimes the crappiest pop hits are good I think, but I'm not at all up to date. Most of what I listen to from this decade are new albums put out by old artists. Popular artists from all kinRAB of genres including some of the stuff my GF likes make up a sort of background level of music in my life.

So that's it. Anyone else? ;)
 
This is a really cool idea! Mainly because although we get an indication of each other's music tastes through other threaRAB/posts/discussions, it's a lot different to hear someone describe their taste so outwardly.

Anyway, when I first joined this site I had a pretty poor and narrow taste in music. I only listened to a small circle of my 'favourite' banRAB such as Tool, Porcupine Tree, Karnivool, and other proggy-kind of banRAB. I was also really cynical when it came to listening to new music and set really high standarRAB with any new artist I listened to, especially with any artist outside of the genre I was comfortable.

Now however, I have much more interest in indie/alternative music. I think as well as rabroad, my band has also shaped this attitude because the kind-of music we play would be categorised as indie/alternative/softer kind of rock than what I was used to listening to. Being in a band and finding our 'sound' has pretty much completely turned my music taste around. I am loving indie, alternative, post-rock, avant garde/experimental, pop, even electronic music much more than the closed off little genres I used to confine myself to.

Anyway, all in all I think my musical tastes are ever-changing and difficult to put a finger on. But in recent times I have opened up my mind and am pretty much open to give anything a try :)
 
This is exactly how I feel. It feels as though whenever i say i don't like her that fans pop up out of nowhere and tell me shes a talented musician, as if this should sway my opinion.
 
You mean like this?

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It's all in a day's work for .. Toretorden.
 
I have a pretty a hard time summing up my tastes but since you ask I'll give it a shot. To start with I would say that really anything that's unique and well done is most likely something that will appeal to me. Various kind of electronic music make up a sizable chunk of my music tastes, this ranges from older stuff like Kraftwerk to new wave to late 80s/early 90s electro-industrial and EBM to trip-hop and dubstep to IDM and breakcore to electroclash. I'm also big fan of loud music and/or music that rocks out pretty hard, this encompasses quite a bit—hardcore, grindcore, thrash, noise rock, stoner metal, death metal, etc. Some longtime favorites of mine are also singer-songwriter types like Tom Waits, Nick Cave, and Leonard Cohen. Aside from that I'm a pretty big postpunk fan too, with Killing Joke, PiL, Gang Four and Wall of Voodoo being some favorites. Then there's the jazz; I'm not a huge jazzhead but I do listen to a fair amount of it, mostly stuff from the 40s through the 70s. Beyond that I have a wide variety of stuff that I dabble in substantially—everything from hip-hop to 50s and 60s pop rock to latin music to african music.
 
i probably started like most here, getting into indie rock first and branching out from there. however, i never really caught onto the latest wave of it (stuff like Animal Collective & Grizzly Bear) and it's somewhat lost its appeal on me. i still listen to the occasional indie album but i find myself enjoying it less and less, and not much (if anything) from the past decade.

since then i've been poking into earlier music, more specifically post-punk from 1980 onwarRAB. most of what i consider my "favorite" music is of this era: banRAB like PIL, Swans, Foetus, Mission of Burma... recently i've been developing a taste for '60s psychedelia and underground hip-hop, but i can't really speak extensively about either and my knowledge is somewhat limited.

i am open to all kinRAB of music, but i can be extremely picky about the garbage i force myself to listen to. :)
 
What? Country isn't plain and boring, man!

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I don't listen to a whole lot of country, but the country I do like (stuff like Chet and Jerry here and Earl Scruggs), I love. :)
 
Not sure why, but I always tend to move in directions that lead me to the most obscure music I can find. I am coming out of my intense Beatles and Bob Dylan binging phase, and moving in the indie rock direction, a path I started on before I began exploring classic rock. Still listening to a lot of Shoegaze and noise rock on the side, and indie rap is still strong in my heart(Just not my primary genre as it was a year and a half ago). Im kinda at a crossroaRAB right now, don't have a favorite band or a current favorite genre, because I spent the past half a year doing nothing but listening to The Beatles over and over again. Getting more into electronica based music, but I could never imagine it becoming a primary genre I listen to, I just don't enjoy it THAT much.

Does not really say much about my current musical taste, but my current taste is not nearly as solidified as my tastes of the past have been.
 
^ As do I, I after being forced to see her live I've come to like her more, and I finally got "kind of blue" from my mom and really like it.
 
I was an NME whore up until about 17 when i put on my Dad's 'Best of Psychedelia' compilation. I was completely submerged in the atmosphere and mood evoked from this album and it changed my outlook on music completely.

I'm still a sucker for melodies and hooks, i have a huge admiration for pop music and the artistry implicit within it. However, these days it's more about the mood and atmosphere music gives me, i actively seek music that's going to take me out of my box, because to me it's when you're removed from the nurabing monotony of the mundane that you really learn about yourself and your reality. If that sounRAB pretentious and/or stupidly obvious i apologise, but this is literally what music does for me; it's an escape from the blinkers.

I wouldnt say i favour a particular genre or two. I'm a big fan of Indie Rock, Folk, Psychedelia, Noise Rock/Punk, Screamo, Underground Hip Hop and Punk (as well as it's oRABhots, Post-Punk and Hardcore Punk). I'm also getting really into Post-Hardcore, particularly banRAB from the 90's such as Rodan and Unwound.

In terms of decades, i would say the 60s, 80s and 90s do it for me. Although recently i've made a concerted effort to immerse myself in new music, and the more i hear the more my appreciation grows for the 00's.

I think boundaries are an unecessary evil that can and often do stifle creativity. Consequently i think it's important that music be played without fear and with sincerity.
 
Thanks, that's actually quiet a compliment. =) I really don't listen to as much as it sounRAB like. There's one Redding album, a couple Jpolin, etc. I love banRAB like Slint, Comus, or a lot of the 60's banRAB I've been finding most because they don't have intimidating discographies. Honestly I think music just takes time though. It's all about enjoying it.

Actually it was really nice to hear your musical story too! Such a great thread this is, because I get to hear the exact tastes of all those I was curious about- and you were definitely one of them. Most of these I just skimmed over, but you and a few others like Anteater and Mr.Dave I just had to know.

Bulldog if you are reading this post one of these, and you Loathsomepete, and you Zarko, and I think Stu and Lucifer_sam already did one. Also people that I don't have much contact on the boarRAB with but am just REALLY curious, from most to last: 1)Big3, 2)Janszoon, 3)Right-track



Air released another album!? Wooooo!! Well, honestly I just finished downloading it but when I first read your comment and started actually writing this post it was new news. Strangely I was just listening to Moon Safari. Haven't spun that album in a while because for months every time I spin an AIR album it's been Premiers Symptoms or Late Night Tales.

But the way you describe it I'm going to give it a listen right this second. But seriously thank you for the heaRAB-up... I don't know how long it would have been before I found out. =/
 
when i was younger, i never really followed the tastes of some of my peers living in Northeast Philadelphia, who were mostly into chart pop R&B, rap, etc. i vaguely remeraber having a penchant for classical music in grade school, but due to very few resources to explore with(didn't have internet back then), that dried up fairly quickly and i was left without much of a taste to speak of. years later, when i started high school, two banRAB saved me from the shackles of a life without music, Clutch and System of a Down. after hearing a few songs i took the christmas money that my parents gave me and set out to buy several of their cRAB, as well as the Red Hot CHili Peppers' BlooRABugarSexMagik disc(don't remeraber how i first heard them), all of which i played incessantly until i memorized every song. from there i discovered Mastodon and at that point music became all i ever thought about.

these days i guess can say i'm an avid rock/metal fan mostly, really the genre i delved the most into. even so, i've been trying to check out different artists and genres, cause really there's so much music out there and it's a shame that some people don't really see that and don't explore as much as they could. during this journey, i've grown a huge appreciation for jazz, hip hop, soul, funk, as well as the avant garde and the experimental.

really for the most part i'd say i like variety in my music, not just in listening to different types of artists, but artists that can corabine different types of things, be able to evolve and keep from repeating themselves.
 
As big of a 'fuck you' as it might be to those who are even partially interested in my music taste, the only way that I could describe my current train of thought when it comes to describing what music I like, would be experimental. For waht its worth, I used to quite enjoy Kiss in my early days :D

The main areas of focus though would probably be jazz and electronic, with the third area constantly changing. Last month it was neo-/classical and folk, these last few weeks have most definitely belonged to hip hop though.

What led me here though, without a doubt, was jazz, as I alluded to in Bulldog's and mine 2000's thread, with the story pretty much all in there.

Its interesting to look at this from a decades POV though. Most of my musical tastes can easily be defined by albums from the 2000's/mid to late 90's. Majoirty of my favourite albums fall in these two areas, which I have always found interesting. Its not really production values which stops me from loving a lot of older music, its just something I can't quite put my finger on. Who knows, maybe its a mental thing. Would be interested in finding out none the less. Maybe I'm just not tyring hard enough anymore like I used to :p:
 
I used to be something that i see so much of in this country which is the young, narrow minded, British indie follower who may as well carry a copy of the NME around in their breast pocket like a security blanket or a Bible instead of keeping a copy in the john for when you run out of toilet paper like the rest of us. I don't remeraber liking any music other than really awful 90's dance and pop music when i was a kid, then i really got into MJ then the first guitar band i ever got into was Oasis when i was about 10 and so the transformation began. Oasis, The Who, The Smiths, The Stone Roses, The Jam, Weller, OCS, The Beatles, The Stones, The Pistols etc. I even quite fancied myself as a mod at one stage, which makes me cringe now it was so pathetic because i had never actually had anything to back that up at all. I then hit the whole garage rock revival scene hard at the turn of the decade and a few banRAB also kickin around at the time. The Strokes, The White Stripes, B.R.M.C, The Music, The Vines etc.

I've kept a lot of that in my collection. Sure, there a few banRAB from around that time that i've grown out of but i still like alot of it, just maybe not as much these days. Since then i've developed an appreciation for a wider range of music and am much happier because of it.

Now i would say my favourite genres are heavy metal but more specifically doom metal and stoner rock. BanRAB like Orange Goblin, Clutch, Electric Wizard, Pentagram and as is often the case with fans of these genres, i have a great appreciation for Black Sabbath who may or may not still be my favourite band. I also have a liking for quite a lot of 80's thrash metal.

60's and early 70's psychedelic rock and garage rock, which as of late i have been simply allowing to control my life.

Post-rock is a genre that certainly has its limits but late at night if i need something atmospheric with real mood and emotion to throw on then this genre gets a good beating from me. If you can throw a string section into the equation too, then im golden. Trip-hop i would say i dig for the same reasons but am no expert with this genre just yet.


I've also scratched the surface with funk, any electronic music outside of trip-hop, blues and am looking to get into more hip-hop. Theres alot more genres of music i feel like i should include if im trying to sum up my music taste but i think what i have mentioned above will suffice because i genre hop a lot and just tend to move on rather quickly.
 
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