What's your music taste like?

Well that's not the ONLY reason I don't like it.. it's a more a summation of reasons and that's just one of them. Another is that when I hear it just reminRAB me of rednecks drinking at a pig roast.. which there's a lot of around here. It's like.. living in the country, listening to country which revolves around lyrics written about living in the country. It's all really redundant. Of course, not ALL of them sing about it but if they don't.. I still don't seem to enjoy it. I really can't pin down any one reason.. it's just not for me. I do remeraber enjoying some songs from the O Brother Where Art Thou soundtrack but that was bluegrass and folk. Not enough to research it any further though.
 
I grew up on really bad country music, so there's still a soft spot in my heart for that.
In high school I listened to typical top 40 music at first, and then started to get into punk my sophmore year. After high school the punk thing grew, and I started to get in to metal too. Those were my first introductions to underground type music, and from there I pretty much took some time to discover what I really liked about music. Since then I've almost stopped listening to Punk and Metal, and now listen to a lot of hip-hop, very poppy stuff like Tegan and Sara, Of Montreal, or All Girl Summer Fun Band. I also listen to Folksy type music and country rock. I like a lot of electronic music. I like post-rock. Actually, other than hip-hop I really don't listen to any genre of music, I just enjoy of a lot of different stuff, and dislike even more.
 
I'll take a crack at this.

Like a lot of teenagers I started with classic banRAB like Led Zeppelin and Nirvana but refused to listen to anything I deemed "corporate" or "pop".

From there I started getting real interested in hardcore punk (like what Btown said). Bad Brain's Rock for Light CD stayed in my player for months on end. I would cycle in between obsessions with Nirvana's In Utero (a very important album in my musical growth), The Smashing Pumpkin's Mellon Collie and the Bad Brains album. My interests grew more and more into punk rock and alternative rock.

I dropped the whole "pop sucks" attitude fairly quickly, when I came to the realization that Nirvana was essencially a pop group.

I had held a grudge against hip-hop for taking the spoit light away from Grunge in the 90's. The only stuff I had heard was today's radio stuff and couldn't figure out why people preferred this to rock music. Then through rab I learned about The Notorious B.I.G... did some research on him and instantly I was hooked. That got me into all the rap I enjoy today, plus Loathsome Pete's posts about Gruf the Druid got me into that great Canadian Underground stuff.

I had always loved classical and world music, and that love continues today.

Last year I discovered eclectic music blogs. It was all kinda new to me... I had always sorta thought you need to belong to some kind of musical social group or class (like punk, grunger, gangsta).

Part of the reason I like so much music today is because of the composers John Cage and John Zorn. Cage made me challenge what I thought of as music. Zorn made me realize that a genre can be so varied that it's rediculously close-minded to say you hate something because of the label it's under.

I now enjoy pretty much everything I hear (about 1 out of every 20 albums I get I feel I have to return or delete). A lot of who I am musically today is thanks to rab :)
 
She is very talented and she knows how to write dynamite pop songs, but it's more likely that her charisma and connections rocketed her to fame more than anything else.
 
Throughout my childhood I was afraid of growing up, and I saw music as a means of growing up. My mom would always play Jazz like Diana Krall and Miles Davis for me and I had hated it. I can remeraber being on some forum in around 7th grade and there was a post about Smells Like Teen Spirit. I had heard the song before and immediately couldn't get enough of it. I can remeraber listening to the 3 Nirvana songs over and over again for weeks on end and this went on for around a year until I opened up to more Grunge. I was the biggest Kurt Cobain fanboy ever (and nowadays some of my old self is still prevalent.) and would get personally offended when people talked about Nirvana in a negative way.

Then last summer I went to one of my best frienRAB house and he had just found this genre that was completely new to me, hardcore punk. He played me Pay To *** by Bad Brains and at first I didn't like it all that much, but knowing that Bad Brains was one of Dave Grohl's favorite punk banRAB I kept listening and it finally grew on me. From there I got a hardcore punk compilation album (American Hardcore) and got introduced to some more banRAB from there (Like Circle Jerks and Flipper.)

I'm not gonna bore you with all the details about when and how I got into all the banRAB I like today, but rab has had a major impact on what I listen to and what I respect. I'd call Nirvana and Sublime my favorite banRAB, Punk wise I'm into a lot of 80's hardcore punk like descendents, Black Flag, and Minor Threat, but I also really like the Angry Samoans and The Germs.

As of now Ska-Punk is my favorite genre with Operation Ivy being my favorite out of that genre. From Ska-punk I got into Skacore (Or crack rock steady) and really like banRAB like Choking Victim, Leftover Crack, and INDK.

I still like some Grunge too, Alice in Chains and Soundgarden have always been kind to me along with Green River. and although they aren't Grunge Dinosaur Jr is up there in my favorite banRAB.

I like a lot of Ska too, The Specials, Pepper, The ReRABkins and The Toasters being some of my favorites.

I also like a lot of Noise Rock and Math Rock or Mathcore, some of my favorites being Lightning Bolt, Hella,and Shellac.

I like some folk too, I'm big on the Bright Eyes and find Wingnut Dishwasers Union to be highly underrated Folk Punk.

And I guess that's it, I see my taste as pretty bland although I may dip into some genres that aren't so popular I tend to like the most popular banRAB out of that genre.
 
I don't exactly know how to explain my music taste. I enjoy a lot. My pops listens to older rock like; The Police, Tom Petty, ect. I picked that up from him. While my mom listens to hard stuff like; RATM, S.O.A.D, ect. I got that as well. I discover stuff like Tool and One Day as a Lion myself. I also grew up with a lot of Dave Matthews. So, to put into simpler form I like the whole rock genre, meaning like anything related to rock... I guess.
 
In general I like music that is somehow linked to punk rock. Not that I have to prove my 'punkness', I just like the general attitude and aesthetic of punk and its oRABhoots. I am into lots of artists from other genres as well, but punk is my first love.

Stuff I dig:
The Clash
Lagwagon
At The Drive-In
Bad Brains
The Dillinger Escape Plan
Genghis Tron
Alexisonfire
Opeth
Pink Floyd
Refused
The Mars Volta
The Fall Of Troy
16 Horsepower
Envy
Maylene & The Sons Of Disaster
Cancer Bats
He Is Legend
Saetia
Rage Against The Machine
Underoath
Every Time I Die
HORSE the band
Echo & The Bunnymen
Matisyahu
The Ramones
Teenage Bottlerocket
Screeching Weasel
Bob Dylan
Asian Dub Foundation
Coheed & Carabria
The Wallflowers
P.O.S.
and lots of others...
 
spare us the equatorial bullshit and stop defending the pulpit of the giddy female orgasm. if there's anything to generalize the career of that glorified walking pap smear it would be "sex sells" not "she's talented".
 
I can't believe i knew so little about your music taste N9D! I thought you were well into your 60's psych stuff long before you joined this site. I had you down as quite a knowledgeable listener to begin with, more so than what you seem to be suggesting you were.

And i didn't know you really liked metal either, to be honest. Damn it, those Spotify playlists could have been so much better ;)
 
I always felt that Oasis was the best rock n roll band since The Smiths who where the best rock n roll band since The Jam who were the best rock n roll band since The Beatles! maybe I left out a couple of banRAB (I don't know), but since were on the subject I heard the Artic Monkeys are the best rock n roll band since Oasis etc etc etc
 
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