music? anyone?

[cosmic mouse]

I wasn't sure where to post this, though this area seems most appropriate... anyone love music? Favorite bands or musicians? Anyone hate music? (egh, I hope not, with the vast array that's out there).

I love music and it energizes me... although, as with most other things in life, I tend to occupy the more obscure or non-mainstream with my musical tastes, but music is a bit different for me since I appreciate multiple styles/genres and disciplines for a variety of reasons:

I love rock, like harder edge grunge-style rock (e.g. Helmet, Nirvana), "classic" rock (e.g. The Doors, Led Zep, Sabbath, etc.)....but my most favorite is proto-punk and garage rock, whether it's classic (e.g. The Stooges, Radio Birdman) or (very selectively) some of the revival-type stuff. My tastes vary tremendously though... e.g. I used to go to warehouse parties in Los Angeles featuring scratch artists like Peanut Butter Wolf and old school guys like Kool Keith. I love music....it's one of my great pleasures/passions in life.

Anyone have music they're passionate about?

Sonic's Rendezvous Band is prob my favorite but, unfortunately, they broke up before they could release a proper album:

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[Miss Chicken]

I don't hate music but I could easily live without it.

I tend to like the music of the 70s and 80s and very little after that period. My three favourite songs would be (not in any order)

Smoke on the Water by Deep Purple
It is a Long Way to the Top by AC/DC
Another Brick in the Wall by Pink Floyd

I only really like early AC/DC ie when Bon Scott was still alive. I saw them perform live in 1975.

My father hated music. We had to really turn the sound down if we played music in our rooms when he was home. I suspect he suffered from a severe case of amusia (tone deafness) and that his children all had mild cases of the same condition.

 

[1001001]

When I was younger, I was very passionate about music. I'm old enough to remember saving my allowance to go to the record store and buy a new album from one of my favorite artists.



Now, I mostly listen to NPR when I'm in my car.



The last band I "discovered" was Porcupine Tree, about 9 years ago. I tore through their catalogue with great joy.

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[Ar-Pharazon]

I grew up in the mid 70's on Classic Rock. I liked a lot of what the early 80's had to offer, but the late 80's, 90's, 2000's were pretty much a music wasteland for me.
I amassed a huge collection of CD's by 1999, most of which I ended up selling in 2000 because it was a pile of money I needed for better things.
In the mid 2000's I got Sirius radio, which I reccomend highly to anyone that dosn't have a big music collection. Almost anything you could want on there.
In 2007, thanks to Sirius, I discovered Symphonic Metal and have been stocking up on CD's from that genre ever since. Add in some Black, Death & Doom metal and I have a healthy collection again. Around 300 albums, all of which have been ripped to .mp3's so I can enjoy them anywhere.
I wasn't sure I would be buying so many new albums again.

 

[J.T.B.]

Just saw X on their 40th anniversary tour, or 32 years after I first saw them. Wow. Billy Zoom sits on a stool now but, damn, they still make some fine sound.

 

[Sophie74656]

I pretty much enjoy all music. I have a bunch of channels set up on pandora and usually just leave it on shuffle. I have everything from Broadway show tunes and Disney music to rock and heavy metal.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Late 60's through the Early 90's is the music I prefer. Discovered the Beatles when I was a teen in the 70's and that led me to other Rock acts from 1960's and ignoring some the acts from the 70's By the late 70's and early 80's I had "caught up" and was into a lot of the Punk and New Wave bands. I think my last band was Oasis. After that nothing grabbed me the way music did when I was younger. My wife likes a lot of contemporary pop acts. Not my cup of tea.

 

[Timewalker]

I grew up on The Mom & Dads, The Irish Rovers, old country/western music, and later came to enjoy Stompin' Tom Connors, Gordon Lightfoot, and various songs from musical theatre.

I remember being nervous about even bringing a Shaun Cassidy album into the house, since I wasn't sure what my grandfather would say about it (I was raised by my grandparents). He did get upset about the Fame soundtrack and cassettes I had of songs from the TV series.

These days, I've got my favorite songs in a variety of genres. My go-to music when I need cheering up is either Yanni or Enya.

Or sometimes I just find that YT video of the Doctor Who version of "500 Miles".

 

[Kor]

To me, music is something to sit down and experience, giving your full attention to it, not just as some background noise while you're doing something else. I like indie folk-pop and rock type stuff, as well as older lounge acts and musical theater and jazz. I don't listen to mainstream popular radio stations.

Kor

 

[1001001]

Just saw X on their 40th anniversary tour, or 32 years after I first saw them. Wow. Billy Zoom sits on a stool now but, damn, they still make some fine sound.

I've seen X twice.

Once at the Greek Theater in LA when I was a teenager, and once when they opened for Pearl Jam.

They rock, for sure.

My favorite:

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[cosmic mouse]

I amassed a huge collection of CD's by 1999, most of which I ended up selling in 2000 because it was a pile of money I needed for better things.

I did this as well... I used to work at a CD store in the mid-90s and had promos and CDs by the gazillion. Sold most of them about 15 years ago.

 

[Sophie74656]

I can't even remember the last time I handled a CD

 

[Kor]

I listen to lots of obscure music that hasn't been released in any digital download format. So vinyl and CDs are my go-to.

Kor

 

[Balok's Decoy]

My obsession with podcasts has cut into my music listening, but I still try to keep active with my Spotify account.

I know it's a cliche, but I honestly listen to all kinds of music. My preferences change from month to month, sometimes week to week or even day to day. Right now I'm listening to a lot of black metal again (Mayhem, Gorgoroth, Abbath, Bathory, De Magia Veterum, etc), Carly Rae Jepsen (most underrated pop singer today), old disco hits, Belle & Sebastian, and a handful of post-rock bands.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

I'm mostly into audiobooks and only very rarely listen to music.
There's not really any style or band I prefer - pretty much everything from gregorian chorals to rock 'n' roll, from Caruso to the Beatles and from Bach to Rainbow is on my playlist or in my record collection (both vinyl and shellack )
However, there are some sorts of music I totally loathe: anything with an exaggerated bass line, braindead lyrics and a rhythm like someone beating out their carpet. Sadly, these criteria apply to most of the music they play on radio over here. Hence the audiobooks.
The sound of a Hammond organ infallibly lets me melt away. But then I was born in the age of aquarius (btw, does anyone happen to know in which age we are atm? Apart from the age of global warming and global political moronism, I mean)

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Music? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?

 

[USS Triumphant]

What I'm listening to right this moment:

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I love Marina.

 

[cosmic mouse]

Music? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?

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[Santaman]

Like I said in a thread not far away:

When it comes to music I have two great loves that seem to be incompatible, as a kid I hated every bit of music on the radio until I heard something really strange, no singing, and just sounds that made sense, found out it was Jean-Michel Jarre's Oxygene from there Brian Eno, Ray Lynch, Boards of Canada, Delerium's old work and so on, pure electronic, mostly made with analogs, loved it, still love it, branched out to some trance and other electronic genres and then something else happened, some DJ played a metal song, can't remember what but I dove right in, Nightwish, Delain, Within Temptation, Lacuna Coil, Arch Enemy, love most stuff from Gothic to death metal, and then came a guy named Arjen Anthony Lucassen, someone recommended me Ayreon - The Universal Migrator Part I: The Dream Sequencer BAM! this combined metal, folk, prog and my beloved analog synthesisers about everything I love about music, dove into that universe and absolutely LOVE it, so complex , so lovingly made and with people like James LaBrie, Floor Jansen, Simone Simons, Tommy Karevic, Tobias Sammet and so on and he knows to get 200% out of everyone who works with him on an album and they do it because he gives it all he's got.

Besides this I like Christine and the Queens, Kovacs, Faithless, Sia Furler's own music kinda everything that was made by people who care about music, when you just know 100% of what they can do is in that album/song.

So if you would follow me through the "What Song Are You Listening To Right Now?" thread it can be that Arch Enemy will be followed by Jean-Michel Jarre, then Lacuna Coil, then some really old Demo scene tracker music followed by a steel guitar track by Daniel Lanois..

 

[cosmic mouse]

Like I said in a thread not far away:

When it comes to music I have two great loves that seem to be incompatible, as a kid I hated every bit of music on the radio until I heard something really strange, no singing, and just sounds that made sense, found out it was Jean-Michel Jarre's Oxygene from there Brian Eno, Ray Lynch, Boards of Canada, Delerium's old work and so on, pure electronic, mostly made with analogs, loved it, still love it, branched out to some trance and other electronic genres and then something else happened, some DJ played a metal song, can't remember what but I dove right in, Nightwish, Delain, Within Temptation, Lacuna Coil, Arch Enemy, love most stuff from Gothic to death metal, and then came a guy named Arjen Anthony Lucassen, someone recommended me Ayreon - The Universal Migrator Part I: The Dream Sequencer BAM! this combined metal, folk, prog and my beloved analog synthesisers about everything I love about music, dove into that universe and absolutely LOVE it, so complex , so lovingly made and with people like James LaBrie, Floor Jansen, Simone Simons, Tommy Karevic, Tobias Sammet and so on and he knows to get 200% out of everyone who works with him on an album and they do it because he gives it all he's got.

Besides this I like Christine and the Queens, Kovacs, Faithless, Sia Furler's own music kinda everything that was made by people who care about music, when you just know 100% of what they can do is in that album/song.

So if you would follow me through the "What Song Are You Listening To Right Now?" thread it can be that Arch Enemy will be followed by Jean-Michel Jarre, then Lacuna Coil, then some really old Demo scene tracker music followed by a steel guitar track by Daniel Lanois..

Brian Eno is great... I love most everything I've heard from him, "glam rock" and otherwise, and I love his collaborations with David Byrne. I will definitely check out Ayreon, since the name I am not familiar with (but when I googled the name, the one album cover is visually familiar and I worked in the music industry from ~1997-2002, so that may be why). I went through a strong electronic phase back in the 90s when the genre was peaking, plus I like stuff with a harder edge to it (as you can possibly tell from my OP), so I'll def be checking that out.