Favorite type of music. [Archive]

KayaHime

Nov 25, 2007, 12:14 AM

Darkwave.

Primarily electronica. I listen to almost anything, though. Language and genre don't matter, as long as it has an appealing sound and is performed by someone who is actually talented. I like a lot of rock, too, especially in the Japanese Visual Kei genre.

Favorite artists include Kaya, Schwarz Stein, Malice Mizer, Versailles, Velvet Eden, Hora, Aural Vampire, Psycho le Cemu, D, Gackt, Super Eurobeat (so I haven't listened to all 182 of them, but as a genre I like it)... The Hime Trance mixes are rather good, too, but a bit on the girly side so I'm not sure if anyone else here would like them. XD

If I could listen to one musician forever, it would be Kaya, including all his stuff with Schwarz Stein and his Node of Scherzo stuff. That guy has an amazing voice.

astuarlen

Nov 25, 2007, 01:25 AM

So, uh, last.fm. (http://www.last.fm/user/chickenfingers/)
Listing genres like rock, electronic, trip-hop, etc would be about as descriptive as saying I like awesome music--true but basically useless.
Some generalizations which apply to most music I listen to: English lyrics, created in the past 2 decades, not radio-fodder, not a lot of screaming going on.
Sadly, I'm not well acquainted with Baroque opera. http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_frown.gif

Hrigg

Nov 25, 2007, 03:58 PM

http://last.fm/user/hrigg

http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_smile.gif

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clynn

Nov 25, 2007, 06:39 PM

Heavy, Thrash/Speed, Doom, Death, Dark, Melodic Death - metal and since a few months neue deutsche härte: Eisbrecher, Rammstein, Knorkator I like metal+

amtalx

Nov 25, 2007, 06:45 PM

"We will make everything metal. Blacker than the blackest black times infinity."

Firocket1690

Nov 25, 2007, 11:48 PM

yeah, another music thread. and we still have our metalheads and the indie kids.

And another chance to whore out last.fm.

http://www.last.fm/group/PSOW+Forever

Whatever, go at it.

I think Aust mentioned this in the last music thread, something about not listening to music like, two weeks prior to the SAT. And I'm going this saturday. And Gorillaz' D-Sides just came out. With limited edition boxset and extra artwork. Shit. I'm going to give my ipod to a friend to hang onto for the week >_<. Last time I had some Barenaked Ladies' song stuck in my head, whatsisname. Humor of the Situation, methinks. And again, this week, too. >_>;

Solstis

Nov 25, 2007, 11:53 PM

I did fine on the GRE's with Nude and 15 Step stuck in my head.

Oh, I joined you crazy kids at Last.fm with one of my Alt. egos. CyrusMerks.

Oh hell, I apparently only listen to Radiohead.
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KodiaX987

Nov 25, 2007, 11:55 PM

Why didn't anybody mention Trance?

BWS-1, where are you!!!

Tigerram

Nov 26, 2007, 12:21 AM

Any rock from late 1960's-present.

Sord

Nov 26, 2007, 12:26 AM

I listen to a lot of rock and electronica, always have. Lately been listening to industrial, trance, and jungle/Drum & Base. Though I've swung through nearly every form of metal and various alternative rock forms at one time or another as well. Generaly if I listen to slow rock it has to be the 80's or early 90's stuff or I just don't like it. I am by no means dedicated to any one genre or band, and unfortunately that means I don't have any expert knowledge in any area. I don't typically keep track of songs and artists, just the type of music I'm listening to at the time. I listen to a lot of internet radio or huge file packs based on genre. I've never really believed in loving one or a few bands or anything, so my music varies by genre, and even that tends to be very dynamic. So I suppose I'm an impulsive listener.

For whatever reason though, for the last two years (mostly metal and electronica stuff) I keep bumping into German groups that I like the sound of.

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Eihwaz

Nov 26, 2007, 12:33 AM

http://www.last.fm/user/Eihwaz0/

I'm following Hrigg's excellent example.

I'll listen to just about anything. If something clicks with me, I'll listen to it on repeat for days. For instance, I've listened to very little other than Joy Division and New Order lately, though I think I might be ready to seriously dive into this Rolling Stones compilation a friend sent me via AIM.

mizukage

Nov 26, 2007, 01:17 AM

Favorite type of music?

It changes from time to time.. I will say rock, pop, trance, ballad, and enka.

Oops, I forgot about R&B and hip-hop. http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/anime2.gif

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Fleur-de-Lis

Nov 26, 2007, 02:16 PM

Minimal House / Ambient Breaks / Drum and Bass / Minimal Techno / Deep House

Generally in that order.

Sayara

Nov 26, 2007, 04:26 PM

As thus
http://www.last.fm/user/NoKoop/

Generally anything that isn't country or gangster rap (Bar BUST BACK)

zentetsua

Nov 26, 2007, 04:30 PM

mostly techno, video game, metal, to shorten this up just about everything.

DC_PLAYER

Nov 26, 2007, 04:56 PM

On 2007-11-24 21:03, Dhylec wrote:
Any type & language, as long as it has good melody & rhythm.

enouph said, same with me, game music, rock, pop....
as long it has a good tune i don't mind

Hrigg

Nov 26, 2007, 06:25 PM

If anyone wants a good listen, check out Cave In, my latest discovery.

http://www.last.fm/music/Cave+In?q=Cave+In

Don't let the metalcore tag fool you, these guys are damn good. Get Jupiter and UYHS for starters. http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_wink.gif

Sinue_v2

Nov 26, 2007, 07:41 PM

Mostly Bluegrass/Jam music. And mostly because it sounds good, and it's free through bootlegging. Live shows sound way better than studio tracks anyhow.

I also listen to a bit of 80's rock/metal, some rap, a bit of country (mostly Johnny Cash and Drive By Truckers), Disco, Oldies, Punk, Ska, Folk, Blues, and various others.

Play This (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfvpZrPkn-s)

Arcturus

Nov 26, 2007, 08:32 PM

On 2007-11-26 11:16, Fleur-de-Lis wrote:
Minimal House / Ambient Breaks / Drum and Bass / Minimal Techno / Deep House

Generally in that order.

Awesome. What artists?

I like: Progressive breaks / trip-hop / drum and bass / progressive ambient / acid jazz / ...yeah, pretty much any progressive electronica. Gotta hear the music evolve to stay interested.

Favorite artists are (in general order):
Hybrid, BT, Way Out West, Pendulum, Steve Porter, The Crystal Method, Sasha, Jazzanova, Royksopp, Ulrich Schnauss, Jon Hopkins, The Avalanches, Bonobo, Lemon Jelly, The Cinematic Orchestra, Boom Boom Satellites... there's a bunch more, but those are the ones I listen to most. For electronica, anyway.

astuarlen

Nov 26, 2007, 10:05 PM

On 2007-11-26 15:25, Hrigg wrote:
If anyone wants a good listen, check out Cave In, my latest discovery.

http://www.last.fm/music/Cave+In?q=Cave+In

Don't let the metalcore tag fool you, these guys are damn good. Get Jupiter and UYHS for starters. http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_wink.gif

Ah, I was so addicted to their "Anchor" sophomore year of HS... It must have been on TV or something. I don't know about the rest of their stuff, but that one was pretty not metalcore. I should get s'more.

DizzyDi

Nov 26, 2007, 10:17 PM

Well this topic for like the 50th time. I was originally not gunna post cause I'm not cool enough to have a last.fm account to show off on account of several factors but w/e.

If I had to choose a favorite genre it'd definitely be Hip-Hop (AND FOR THE LAST TIME HIP-HOP AND RAP ARE INTERCHANGEABLE; THEY'RE THE SAME THING). But I also listen to R&B, Rock (I'unno the difference in the genres and all that I just listen to what tickles my fancy: Rage Against the Machine, Radiohead, Adagio, Led Zeppelin, Anamanaguchi, etc.), Pop, Jazz, so on and so forth. I don't really descriminate...'cept maybe against like...Polka and MOST country.

Fleur-de-Lis

Nov 27, 2007, 03:49 AM

On 2007-11-26 17:32, Arcturus wrote:
Awesome. What artists?Mrao. There are always too many to name, and then comes the clarifying sub-categorization. Just a brief and random list of those that pop into my mind:

DAK, Journeyman, Scanner, Gaiser, DJ Wally, DJ Olive, Savvas Ysatis/Taylor Dupree/SETI, Tim Hecker, Boards of Canada, Niederflur, Ezekiel Hoenig, Fresh, Vladislav Delay, Stacker Humanoid, JPLS, Baby Ford & Eon, John Tejada, Graphic, Klute, Terre Thaemlitz, Marcus Guentner, Max de Wardener, Venetian Snares, Ion Ludwig, Squarepusher, Amon Tobin, Montag, Heiko Laux, Marc Houle, Luke Slater, Troy Pierce, Four Tet, Aoki Takamasa, Calyx, Alka Rex, Bogdan Razcynski, Adam Beyer, Jasper Dahlback, Surgeon, Jaga Jazzist, High Contrast, Michael Mayer, Planetary Assault Systems, Pacou, Nathan Fake, Carl Craig, Kevin Saunderson, Sun Electric, Autechre, James Ruskin, Richie Hawtin...

I seriously could add 200 or more. Not to mention those that I can't list due to forum encoding limitations.

Guess I probably should have PMed this...meh...

Hrigg

Nov 27, 2007, 07:25 AM

On 2007-11-26 19:05, astuarlen wrote:

On 2007-11-26 15:25, Hrigg wrote:
If anyone wants a good listen, check out Cave In, my latest discovery.

http://www.last.fm/music/Cave+In?q=Cave+In

Don't let the metalcore tag fool you, these guys are damn good. Get Jupiter and UYHS for starters. http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_wink.gif

Ah, I was so addicted to their "Anchor" sophomore year of HS... It must have been on TV or something. I don't know about the rest of their stuff, but that one was pretty not metalcore. I should get s'more.

The album Jupiter isn't metalcory (nice word http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif) at all, so if you wanna get a full album go for that http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_eek.gif

I've heard 3 of their albums now and that is the least, so yeah.

Drakorn

Nov 27, 2007, 07:00 PM

Rock, Pop, Dance, R&B, Scouse, Classical [gives out secret]

Weeaboolits

Nov 27, 2007, 08:04 PM

On 2007-11-24 21:03, Dhylec wrote:
Any type & language, as long as it has good melody & rhythm.

I'm quite partial to piano and orchestral stuff, though. ;o

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Angelo

Nov 28, 2007, 03:00 AM

Favorites: Bossa Nova, Acid Jazz, Samba, Funk

Can't Stand: Classic Rock, Country, Crunk, Screamo

Kylie

Nov 28, 2007, 12:31 PM

Any kind of rock... pop, punk, alternative, Japanese.

But it's weird because I'm really particular. http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_lol.gif

I guess with everything else. http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/anime2.gif

Neith

Nov 28, 2007, 12:49 PM

All sorts of rock and metal really. I'd go into genres of metal, but I'd be here until next week typing it.

As for bands..
Iron Maiden, Metallica, Judas Priest, Stratovarius, Blind Guardian, Iced Earth, Megadeth, DragonForce, Drist (best modern band I've heard, thanks for the introduction Guitar Hero http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_lol.gif ), Lacuna Coil, Manowar (HEL YEH http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_wacko.gif ), Motley Crue, Nine Inch Nails, Pantera, Rammstein, Rhapsody, Rob Zombie, Scorpions (only just started listening really), Slayer, probably a load more I forget.

Oh yeah, I should get more Dethklok too. http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_wacko.gif

Scrub

Nov 28, 2007, 01:31 PM

On 2007-11-28 09:49, UrikoBB3 wrote:

As for bands..
Iron Maiden, Metallica, Judas Priest, Stratovarius, Blind Guardian, Iced Earth, Megadeth, DragonForce, Drist, Lacuna Coil, Manowar , Motley Crue, Nine Inch Nails, Pantera, Rammstein, Rhapsody, Rob Zombie, Scorpions , Slayer

add in HammerFall and Sonata Arctica and that's about right.

How is Iced Earth though? I've been meaning to listen to their stuff, just havent gotten around to it.

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Allos

Nov 28, 2007, 05:09 PM

On 2007-11-28 10:31, Scrub wrote:

How is Iced Earth though? I've been meaning to listen to their stuff, just havent gotten around to it.

If you want to listen to Iced Earth, pick up one of their albums with Matt Barlow on vocals, should give you a feel for the music (Thrash/Power metal) and the "classic" Iced Earth combination of Matt and Jon. The newest album should be the easiest to find though, having Tim "Ripper" Owens on vocals (not that this is a band thing at all, I personally think he fits very well with Iced Earth but there are die hard fans that cannot get used to him).

Pengfishh

Dec 3, 2007, 12:19 AM

I like this music (shameless plug): myspace.com/postyoupostme

And I've been on a running Black Moth Super Rainbow tip, with interspersed favorites like Fat Jon the Ample Soul Physician, The Orb, Pedro, Nobody, and Prefuse 73.

Kerschweiser

Dec 3, 2007, 05:13 AM

Operametal. Nightwish in particular.

Listening to Kinslayer right now.

Obscenity

Dec 3, 2007, 07:24 AM

On 2007-11-28 14:09, Allos wrote:

On 2007-11-28 10:31, Scrub wrote:

How is Iced Earth though? I've been meaning to listen to their stuff, just havent gotten around to it.

If you want to listen to Iced Earth, pick up one of their albums with Matt Barlow on vocals, should give you a feel for the music (Thrash/Power metal) and the "classic" Iced Earth combination of Matt and Jon. The newest album should be the easiest to find though, having Tim "Ripper" Owens on vocals (not that this is a band thing at all, I personally think he fits very well with Iced Earth but there are die hard fans that cannot get used to him).

I'm one of those people. I actually dug Priest's Jugulator album, but I can't stand Iced Earth with Tim Owens. My favorite Iced Earth album by far is Burnt Offerings.