What's your music taste like?

I have 2 big loves in music: metal and jazz. I also listen to classic rock, blues, and classical semi-regularly. Sometimes I listen to dark arabient and country.

I grew up on country, blue grass, folk and the blues. I was introduced to metal via grunge, and retain a soft spot for grunge, especially Alice in Chains and Tad .

My favorite variety of metal is doom/sludge/stoner, etc., but I also enjoy thrash and some folk black and viking death metal. I generally prefer an aggressive or depressing sound with some element of melody.

Sometimes I go on an 80's power metal binge, which is quite strange, given that I did not listen to metal until the early 90's. My favorite banRAB in this style are Judas Priest and Dio. I also love Blue Oyster Cult, however they are classified.

My jazz favorites are Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane, Sidney Bechet, Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Coleman Hawkins. I love swing and bop, but haven't gotten into avante garde jazz (unless you count Coltrane). I don't generally listen to smooth jazz, but I make an exception for Spyro Gyra.
 
I don't listen to them anymore, but I would easily agree they're the best of that bunch.

I have no problem singing along to Franzl Lang's "Der Appenzeller Jodler", Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder's "Ebony and Ivory" or George Michael's "Careless Whisper" .. But I feel ever liking NOFX and Blink182 are the darkest stains on my record.
 
That's what I thought too :p:
And metal was the only thing I really enjoyed in my teenage years, especially Doom and Black Metal (but also I don't know much of the banRAB).
 
Oh, and I'll still listen to anything anyone suggests, outside of small doses of bluegrass, rockabilly, and southern rock I think I have yet to find a country album that I enjoy. I don't like saying that, because I do hate it when people say that they don't like an entire genre, but I truly don't think I like any country outside those genres. It's not that I haven't tried. I've listened to more than a few albums, and when I see country songs popping up in people's journals (particularly Flower Child's) I'll always give the tracks a thought... It's just all sounded bad to me so far. There might be something out there, but it's hard for me to take any interest in searching when everything I've heard so far has just really not sounded good. Don't hate me for that :(
 
Same.

Grammer School: I liked oldies, which was all my parents listened to on the radio.
Middle School - I started listening to commercial rap and...alot of Weird Al too.
High School - I got into Metal like Metallica, Megadeth, Sepultura, etc. Also was into alternative and nu-metal banRAB. My favorite banRAB in HS were Bush and Rage Against the Machine.
When I got my 1st job a co-worker introduced me to Electronica and got me hooked, and that's where I've been ever since for the most part, with some metal thrown in as well.
Lately though I've really been branching out into jazz and classical as well though.


So atm, I'm probably 50% Electronica, 30% Metal/Hard sh*t, 15% Jazz/Classical, 5% Hip-Hop/Other.

^I wanted to make this a pie chart since we're talking about taste, but I couldn't figure out how. I tried to figure it out for about 30 seconRAB and gave up. :|
 
I'm mainly into indie rock and hiphop. Thats not to say I don't listen to other genres b/c I definately do but right now those are my staples.

I also tend to follow new sounRAB that I like in a very cultish fashion. If I like an artist I dig and dig until I've heard most of their work, and along the way I typically find a few gems that otherwise would have went unnoticed.
 
My philosophy when it comes to music- just listen to it without prejudice or pre conceived notions. I am not interested in faRAB or phases and I will judge any music on it's own merits without any outside prejudices.

It does help if you are open minded I guess.
 
My tastes in music are pretty wide: I'm willing to give any style a real chance, and not let first impressions be lasting impressions when I'm not pleased with a new one. I love soul music, (but not modern R&B type), and I like like weird, spacey music (like Pink Floyd). I love Mozart (and Beethoven even better), and I like Nirvana and Pearl Jam and Soundgarden, the grunge stuff. Rag-time is incredible (go Scott Joplin!) as well, on a side note, haha! xDDD
 
Honestly, I started loving music listening to "Goth" metal: Cradle of Filth, Sirenia, Tristania, and the like. This meant more "moody" metal came easier to me in the form of Opeth, Isis, Agalloch, Tool, among other ones. From there I discovered a lot of electronic music I like, mostly gearing towarRAB industrial and darker EBM. Somewhere along the line, I grew an appeciation for metalcore in Zao and Shai Hulud. Recently I have been finding that trip hop and hip hop have a lot of merit too.
 
Started out on NME indie and "classic rock", started to branch out into US indie by getting into Pixies and Arcade Fire at the end of 2006.From there went to the earlier great banRAB within the genre(Smiths,Stone Roses etc),and ended up being able to listen to much any music within two years. That said I remain fairly into indie/alternative and I don't know why.
 
Good call, thanks. I listened to all of Modern Pain. I can honestly say it's the first country album I've listened to the whole way through without cringing once. Just the sound I've been waiting to hear. This is actually probably something I could actually listen to relatively often. The lack of that god awful steel sound is so relieving. More like this?
 
Hmm... I don't know really that's a bit hard. I'd honestly say that despite how I come across on here if I really stop and think about it, I'm definitely still developing my music taste. One thing I love in music is a heavy dose of noise. Most banRAB with elements of noise I like from all sorts of genres, and especially noise rock, noise pop, and experimental noise stuff. I love shoegaze and dream pop. Alternative hip hop stuff usually does it for me, be it ATCQ and De La Soul or Alias and the anticon collective, as well as instrumental hip hop. I have a harder time finding more mainstream rap that does it for me, a lot of that just doesn't click. Trip hop and post rock/metal are good at times, but there's a lot of bad banRAB in there. Stuff with a drone to it, anything from Sun Araw to Trouble Books. And of course, old and new indie and alternative rock. Lots of good stuff in there. I've been trying to get into more jazz and 60s and 70s psychedelic rock as well. Lastly, I'm a sucker for indie pop of all sorts. Still, the biggest thing that generally hits with me is noisy music.
 
I started out with a hardcore CD (Hardcore Warriors Vol. 2) I stole from my brother's friend who was a German exchange student. I was 8 and never heard anything like it but I knew I loved it. When I gave it back I didn't have any other way to listen to electronic music so I then went on to rock and metal. I loved Korn, System of a Down, Mudvayne, and As I Lay Dying. I also listened to stuff like Coldplay, Dave Matthews Band, Counting Crows, and David Gray. Once we got a computer and I was able to get more electronic stuff I started listening to ALL trance. Eventually I would start listening to everything but for awhile it was all electronic. I would then be introduced to black metal and it scared the **** out of me.. which was a very good thing. Nowadays I listen mainly to Trance, Black Metal, Alternative, Electro, HarRABtyle, and other weird **** mixed in. Everything from Sigur Ros to Peter Heppner to Ruoska and Burning Spear. The only genre I won't go near is Country. WAY too plain and boring.

Oh and I can't listen to the same stuff for a long time. I have to clear out my iPod and add new stuff every now and then. Then eventually when it's been awhile since I'd listened to the stuff I deleted off, I'll put some of it back on.
 
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