what do you listen to?

heres a gabfest.

What are your preferences in music?. Whaddaya like?.

I like alot of stuff no one listens to.

Gentle Giant

King Crimson

Adrian Belew,

Bill Bruford(solo stuff)

Spocks beard,

Glass Hammer

Kings X

Brian Eno

Peter Gabriel(genesis, ans subsequent solo stuff)

Yes

ELO

ELP.

The list is endless, but this tops my charts.

Brian Eno's good !

/me Likes:

• Delirium
• Faithless
• Underworld
• Groove Armada
• Pet Shop Boys
• Chemical Brothers

Beethoven

Covenant - www.covenant.dk

Assemblage 23 - www.synthetic.org/a23

Rammstein - www.rammstein.de

X Japan - www.xjapan.ne.jp

B'z - www.bz-vermillion.com

Prodigy - www.prodigy.co.uk

Minibosses - www.minibosses.com

Michelle Branch - www.michellebranch.net

AC/DC - www.ac-dc.net

Andy Hunter - www.andyhunter.com

Bif Naked - http://www.herroyalmajestysrecords.com/bif/main.html

Funker Vogt - www.funkervogt.com

Judas Priest - www.judaspriest.com

Iron Maiden - www.ironmaiden.com

Led Zeppelin - www.ledzeppelin.com

Paul Oakenfold - www.pauloakenfold.org

DJ Sasha - www.djsasha.com

Motorhead www.imotorhead.com

Nickelback - www.nickelback.com

Powerman 5000 - www.powerman5000.com

The Strand - www.strandland.com

Vanessa Carlton - www.vanessacarlton.com

And lots of many other miscellaneous stuff. Mostly in the 80s/rock/metal/dance realm, although I also lots of favoured video game and movie soundtracks. And there's the odd song that I listen to that doesn't follow my regular music trend.

Prodigy - www.prodigy.co.uk

My cousin went to school with keith flint :razz: , i used to live right near his brother matt flint.

Nine Inch Nails :: http://www.nin.com

Metallica :: http://www.metallica.com

Tool :: http://www.toolband.com

Korn :: http://www.korn.com

System Of A Down :: http://www.systemofadown.com

Amen :: http://www.comaamerica.com

Oceansize :: http://www.sizeofanocean.com

Sikth :: http://www.sikth.com

Rage Against The Machine :: http://www.ratm.com

Pitchshifter :: http://www.pitchshifter.com

Muse :: http://www.muse.mu

A Perfect Circle:: http://www.aperfectcircle.com

Alice In Chains :: http://www.aliceinchains.net

Fear Factory :: http://www.fearfactory.com

Queens Of The Stone Age :: http://www.qotsa.com

Marilyn Manson :: http://www.marilynmanson.com

Cave In :: http://www.cavein.net

Deftones :: http://www.deftones.com

Pearl Jam :: http://www.pearljam.com

Mindless Self Indulgence :: http://mindlessselfindulgence.com

The Cooper Temple Clause :: http://www.thecoopertempleclause.co.uk

I'll stop now. :smile:

Megadeth

Metallica

Muse

Foo Fighters

Daft Punk

Jimmy Eat World

Soilwork

At The Drive-In

The Transformers Movie Soundtrack :biggrin:

Gorb the Covenant you listen to isn't the Kovenant is it? (strange norwegian finger country land death metal...)

if it existed in the 70's and 80's, it was prolly great..

there are a few good groups now, but nothing memorable.

sadly, i doubt anyone will be listening to any music 25 years from now, created today.. but you can tune in 70 and 80's everywhere in the US :biggrin:

The Beatles roxorred too. (and I'm not being sarcastic this time.)

Ugh- I'm sorry, but most 80's music doesn nothing but piss me off. I don't want to hear simplistic guitarwork with a warbling singer fighting to gain direction over a crappy synth drum machine. That, and hair bands are definitive of evil.

But, as for likes, here are a few that I'm currently thinking of:
The Doors ( http://www.thedoors.com/ )
The Smashing Pumpkins ( http://www.spfc.org/ )
Nick Drake ( http://www.nickdrake.com/ )
Interpol ( http://www.interpolny.com/news.php )
Joy Division ( can't find a page for 'em - Kinda like an old-school Interpol)
Sigur Ros ( http://www.sigur-ros.com/ )
Soul Coughing ( http://www.scug.net/ )
My Bloody Valentine (Can't find a page- they were in the Lost in Translation soundtrack, if you care)
Jon Brion ( http://www.jonbrion.com/jonbrion.html )

That's about it for now, I guess...

like it or not, it is still played everywhere.. which was my main point :wink:

I have a wide range of random songs on my 2300 song playlist, but the major ones (the ones where I like most of their catalogue or have most of their cds) are:

Beastie Boys
Dropkick Murphys
Fear Factory
Foo Fighters
Half-Life Soundtrack
KMFDM
Korn
Led Zeppelin
Machinae Supremacy (www.machinaesupremacy.com)
Metroid Metal (www.metroidmetal.com)
Ministry
Nine Inch Nails
Nirvana
Operation Ivy
Our Lady Peace
Pennywise
Powerman 5000
Queens of the Stone Age
Rage Against the Machine
Rammstein
Rancid
Silverchair
Soundgarden
Stabbing Westward
Static-X
System of a Down
The Beatles
The Clash
The Dwarves
The Moody Blues
The Offspring
The Who
Toadies
U2
Yes

So basically it's a lot of random crap. Grunge, metal, punk, rock...

the good news yak is, i actually recognize names on your list, which is rather uncommon now days :smile:

you have some good taste my friend :biggrin: (prolly all, but i cannot say about the ones i dunno about :wink: )

ha, my playlist has never been accused of having 'good taste' before. There's about 1000 other songs that drive some people insane, not counting all the screaming and growling metal and the evil german singers.

Just wondering Orph.. What makes you think people won't listen to today's music 25 years from now?

Myrk- said:
Megadeth

Metallica

Muse

Foo Fighters

Daft Punk

Jimmy Eat World

Soilwork

At The Drive-In

The Transformers Movie Soundtrack :biggrin:

Gorb the Covenant you listen to isn't the Kovenant is it? (strange norwegian finger country land death metal...)

I don't believe so. There are two different covenants. One is death metal and this one is like industrial. I accidentally downloaded some of the other stuff and it was just annoying, I do have some crazy metal but it has to be just 'right' for me to really want to listen to it. If anything if you want to check out my Covenant sample the song "Call the ships to Port" or "Monochrome" two great songs.

JFry said:
Just wondering Orph.. What makes you think people won't listen to today's music 25 years from now?

dunno, actually, nothing made today seems to be around long already.

i admit, i mainly listen to NPR radio, but i do listen to music at times.

it just seemed that songs stayed on the top 40 list much longer back then, even weird songs like "Le Freak" stayed in the top ten for??? 20 weeks maybe..

anywho's i could be wrong ....again.... but i don't think so this time.. music comes and goes faster now.

look at the lists posted here.. the commonality??? 80's rock bands..

I agree that there seem to be a lot more disposable music nowadays, especially due to the rise of MTV (and it's inherant tendancy to focus on artists that make money and gain ratings rather than actual talent). I find it sad that the 90s will probably be remembered (musically) as the decade when manufactured bands and an over-saturatated rock scene ruled the roost. This decade seems set to follow in it's footsteps .

I think the 90s will be remembered for grunge and nu-metal.

I'm sure we will still be rocking to the great Muse and Megadeth (the recent stuff)...

Powderfinger

and other random stuff

Orbital

Autechre

Boards of Canada

Plaid

Squarepusher

The Alpha Conspiracy/Necros

Future Sound of London

Anyone else here like electronic music?

I own Geogaddi, and have a few songs from the Future Sound of London...

Yeah, I like the genre, but I'm pretty picky over who I like in it... A few I think are worth mentioning:
The Thievery Corporation
Massive Attack (these two are pretty popular, I'm betting you've heard of them)
Timo Mass (has a few decent tracks)
Gotan Project (kind of a jazzy electronica feel to it)
Goldfrapp (just some really beautiful songs).

Wow. Lots of metal bands listed here.

I like The Whitlams (http://thewhitlams.com). Not much else, apart from electronica which, for some reason, everyone seems to find very amusing. Probably because they're all fools.

Orbital is f**king awesome. Anyway:

Garbage
Tool
NIN
Radiohead
STP
The Offspring (not so much anymore, but they're still okay)
U2 (simply an awesome band)
Chris Cornell's stuff (Sound Garden, Solo, AudioSlave, etc..)
PerlJam (its okay from time to time)
Alien Ant Farm (I hate their rendition of Smooth Criminal, But they're good otherwise)
The Temptations (I'm sure this looks random)
Fiona Apple (Been listening to her a lot lately)
No Doubt (Selective songs, but Tragic Kingdom, didn't care for their first album much)
The Darkness (Too goofy and yet cool to not like them)
Led Zeplin (they've been growing on me lately)
Red Hot Chilli Peppers (bet you didn't see that one coming)

Then there's always a barrage of other things that are good: Clapton, Frampton, Sting/Police, etc...

Oh, also, check out Fishbone, they're alright from time to time ... a little weird sometimes though.

Not my favorite group, but my latest discovery:

Placebo http://www.placeboworld.co.uk/

Monqui I have exactly your musical tastes (minus Timo Mass that I never heard of). And I'm adding two similar bands:

Portis Head

Ramasutra

with the exception of the 80's monster metal bands, our tastes seem to suffer agisms..

many of the newer groups are good though, so i cannot complain much.

it is however nice to see so many acknowledge the 80's for what it was.. :smile:

i don't know about the rest of you, but i plan on being around for the next 20 years, lets meet up here at SP and decide if the groups of today are still being played... i am betting there will still be 80's metal on the airways :biggrin:

Orph list your bands, I'm sure we will know some of them :razz:

Trust me if there was any age I could live in apart from now/future it would be 1980's in America, the start of the thrash metal years :biggrin: I have the hair for it! (long hair with strange bits going curly on the end which is annoying...)

Metallica
Pink Floyd
U2
Guns N Roses
Rob D
Linkin Park
Oakenfold
Megadeth
RATM
RedHotChilliPeppers
POD
Enigma

Anyone whos got Metallica on thier list should try Megadeth. The lead singer of Megadeth was the original Lead guitarist and singer of metallica. He also wrote most of the songs on the first 2 Metallica albums, but was never in the band when they started releasing albums.

I'm mostly into punk / ska / emo / rock, with a few other likes. I can't be bothered listing loads of bands so instead, here is my entire mp3 collection in a winamp playlist...

http://www.snarkpit.com/pits/reno/misc/winampplaylist.htm

Anyone whos got Metallica on thier list should try Megadeth. The lead singer of Megadeth was the original Lead guitarist and singer of metallica. He also wrote most of the songs on the first 2 Metallica albums, but was never in the band when they started releasing albums.

I've listened to a few Megadeath songs before, after learning of Dave Mustaine's part in the first Metallica album. But it just seemed so stale and dull. Metallica were exciting, heavy and fast, but Megadeath seemed to never reach that same level Metallica did on their first album. Meh, reccommend something and I'l give 'em another shot.

and other random stuff

[SPUNGE]!
Red hot chili peppers
Mettalica
Disturebed
Good charlotte
Linkin park
Nirvana
Papa roach
All american rejects
Blink 182
Marilyn manson
Offspring
Rammstein
The prodigy
Story off the year
Never heard off it
Sum 41
Zebra head
Brand new
Drowning pool
Bowling for soup
Nofx
Fountains of wayne [o yea stacys mom]
Greenday
Motorhead....bet ya didnt think that would b here
Nickel back
QOTSA
System of a down
Taking back sunday
Taproot
Tenacious D
Placebo
Him
Foo fighters

I'm mostly into punk / ska / emo / rock, with a few other likes. I can't be bothered listing loads of bands so instead, here is my entire mp3 collection in a winamp playlist...

http://www.snarkpit.com/pits/reno/misc/winampplaylist.htm

Good Idea

Kage_Prototype said:
Meh, reccommend something and I'l give 'em another shot.

Youthanasia, Train Of Consequences, Ashes In Your Mouth, and the one Metallica couldn't do even if they wanted to- Hanger 18. That song is so filled with uber paced solos I'm suprised they didn't die in the making of it. Whats more scary is when they play it live, they play it even faster! Mainly try anything from Youthanasia or Rust in Peace albums.

Though you're obviously not observant to skillfulness in song writing :razz: The writing of Megadeth songs is far superior to Metallica. Megadeth is written all at once, the drums sounds relate to the music. With metallica they make a drum beat, slap on a riff and whack on some fable stories for lyrics.

True Dave Mustaines voice is hard to like, but it's very unique and fits the music- I couldn't imagine Hetfield singing it. The closest Hetfield ever got to being like Mustaine was on the Kill 'Em All album. He only sung it like that because Mustaine did when he wrote all the songs from it :razz:

ReNo said:
http://www.snarkpit.com/pits/reno/misc/winampplaylist.htm

once upon a time, we all wrote down the books we had read, and mine was quite long, i was even accused of copying the libraries sci-fi section booklisting..

scans Duncan's list

did you copy the playlist of some radio station bud

just a few more songs, and you will have listened to as many songs as i have read in books :biggrin:

Your list is about 2/3 the size of mine Reno :razz:

I have more variation in mine :biggrin: Goes from Anime Japanese pop, to Death Metal, to classical, to Electronica back round to LMF (Lazy mother f**kers) a Chinese rap group- very funny to listen to :biggrin:

Youthanasia, Train Of Consequences, Ashes In Your Mouth, and the one Metallica couldn't do even if they wanted to- Hanger 18. That song is so filled with uber paced solos I'm suprised they didn't die in the making of it. Whats more scary is when they play it live, they play it even faster!

Hanger 18 does indeed have some insane solos, but insane solos do not make a song good. :razz: Still not convinced I'm afraid, and I still think Megadeath are stale and dull in comparison to Metallica. Although there are some nice riffs. And Train Of Consequences reminded me more of Pearl Jam than Thrash. :razz:

/me runs

Though you're obviously not observant to skillfulness in song writing :razz: The writing of Megadeth songs is far superior to Metallica. Megadeth is written all at once, the drums sounds relate to the music. With metallica they make a drum beat, slap on a riff and whack on some fable stories for lyrics.

...What's your point? :razz:

True Dave Mustaines voice is hard to like, but it's very unique and fits the music- I couldn't imagine Hetfield singing it. The closest Hetfield ever got to being like Mustaine was on the Kill 'Em All album. He only sung it like that because Mustaine did when he wrote all the songs from it :razz:

Ah, I wondered why his voice was so s**te on one album, and then the next year on Metallica's second album he could actually sing. He was imitating Dave! :razz:

/me puts on Dyer's Eve

Myrk- said:
Orph list your bands, I'm sure we will know some of them :razz:

dude, i couldn't even begin, cause honestly, i dunno if the songs i listen to most even have "bands"

yeah sure, i love AC/DC and Pink Floyd, but i am just as apt to listen to ABBA, Karen Carpenter or Air Supply, i have a fairly wide range, as long as its rock, and has words you can comprehend without a code book.

music thats a no-no.. rap, country, opera

odd ball stuff like beethoven, bach and their ilk, i could listen to all day long.

• In no particular order:
  Stereophoncis (albums 1-3, 4 sucked)
  Tenacious D (I'm a bit addicted to their stuf :biggrin: )
  The darkness
  The white Stripes
  Chili Peppers
  Placebo
  and so on...
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ReNo said:
I'm mostly into punk / ska / emo / rock, with a few other likes. I can't be bothered listing loads of bands so instead, here is my entire mp3 collection in a winamp playlist...

http://www.snarkpit.com/pits/reno/misc/winampplaylist.htm

Nice collection Reno :biggrin:

My favourites would be:

Rancid
Catch 22
Reel Big Fish
The Living End
Frenzal Rhomb
Less Than Jake
Mad Caddies
Goldfinger
Millencolin

Anything and everything thats decent really. Monqui knows my obsession with music well...

Electronic - Afx/AphexTwin, Autechre, Plaid, Boards Of Canada, Fischerspooner, Bogdan Raczynski, Cylob.. loads and loads - all from Warp or Rephlex records

Metal - KMFDM, NIN, Ministry, FLA, Pop Will Eat Itself, Graveland, Crowbar... etc etc

Indie/Rock - the cure, the clash, the smiths, radiohead.. basically hundreds of bands, artists, styles.. too numerous to begin listing. My CD collection is about 200/300/400 CD's (not entirely sure now)

I'm quite a geek about it all.. a fully paid up member of the muso society

Favorites: In Flames, Mindless Self Indulgence, NOFX, Radiohead, Spineshank.

Goodies: Blindside, Chevelle, Cold, Lollipop Lust Kill, Probot, Seether, Soilwork, Tesla, The Bloodhound Gang, The Offspring, and Ugly Casanova.

I'm not so much into Aphex twin. In fact, to be honest I think 2/3 of
his stuff is utter crap. But everyone else under the sun who likes
electronic music seems to think he's a god. Really I've tried to like
his music, but I just don't, and I don't understand how everyone likes
it. Maybe Gwil could shed some light on this.

ReNo said:
I'm mostly into punk / ska / emo / rock, with a few other likes. I can't be bothered listing loads of bands so instead, here is my entire mp3 collection in a winamp playlist...

http://www.snarkpit.com/pits/reno/misc/winampplaylist.htm

The Broadways! If you like them, check out the Lawrence Arms. It has Brendan and Chris from The Broadways and they're one of the very few bands I consider to be good pop punk (Apathy and Exhaustion is one of the best albums ever made).

If you're into hardcore at all (I saw you had some Sick of it All), you should check out Trial By Fire, Break the Silence, and Strike Anywhere.

If you're into hardcore at all (I saw you had some Sick of it All), you should check out Trial By Fire, Break the Silence, and Strike Anywhere.

Don't forget Refused and Amen.

on a related issue, it has been said that "stairway to heaven" is the #1 most requested song in the united states, according to the polls i have heard on many rock stations i have listened to.. (most recently on yak_fighter home station X103 F.M. in Indianapolis Indiana)

my question, if its even answerable, does the rest of the world share this belief? is zepplins song the best ever?

For me, there's no such thing as best song ever. It's just too damned hard to choose. :razz: It's really more of a "what song am I enjoying the most right now?" for me, as you're going to get sick of a song eventually.

Kage_Prototype said:
For me, there's no such thing as best song ever. It's just too damned hard to choose. :razz: It's really more of a "what song am I enjoying the most right now?" for me, as you're going to get sick of a song eventually.

no, thats not what i asked, i don't think zepplins song is the best either, but the polls say otherwise, what i am asking is, has anyone from outside the US ever heard this?? i wanna know if its as popular there as well.

For those who listen to In Flames it might interest you to know the lead singer was the basist of soilwork, who are much much better in my opinion. They are a lot heavier though...