Music, what say you?

[JesterFace]

I'm curious, what kind of music listeners Trekkers are, or are they?

In my life, music has taken surprisinly big role, I seem to think about it quite often.
Also, I've been playing guitar for many years, sometimes more, sometimes less.

Are you enthusiastic about music, listen to it often or just don't really care?

Tell us your favourite music, simply by naming your top 2 artists/bands.
My top 2 would be (in no particular order)
- Metallica (80s material)
- Pantera (90s material)

 

[1001001]

Rush
Porcupine Tree

I'm not into music like I was when I was young, but I still like to go to concerts.

I've seen U2 and Roger Waters so far this summer.

 

[Sparkle Fabulosa]

I love drowning myself in music. It's fun and relaxing. I love discovering new artists and songs. I enjoy all genres except for rap and heavy metal.

Favourites: Taylor Swift, Lorde, Tegan and Sara, Lights, and Katy Perry.

Not all that into concerts though. My last was in 2010 (Tegan and Sara). But there are a few I'd love to attend.

Modern: Taylor Swift and Lorde.

Classics/R.I.P: Elvis, Barry Manilow, Selena, and The Carpenters.

 

[JesterFace]

Rush

There's a little thing that combines our musical taste....
Did you know that Metallica song 'Welcome Home (Sanitarium)' borrows its bridge section from a Rush song 'Tom Sawyer'. Metallica boys mention it in the booklet of 'Master of Puppets', album which the song is on.

 

[1001001]

There's a little thing that combines our musical taste....
Did you know that Metallica song 'Welcome Home (Sanitarium)' borrows its bridge section from a Rush song 'Tom Sawyer'. Metallica boys mention it in the booklet of 'Master of Puppets', album which the song is on.

I did not know that..

 

[Sibyl]

I grew up listening to orchestral soundtracks and spoken word (HHGTTG) but in my second year of junior high I discovered metal, which I had previously decried. I played bass in a metal band in HS and for a while after HS but quit when I entered college. I still like metal, but my tastes have opened up so much that I can listen to at least a little of just about every genre out there, with a few exceptions (annoying noise for the sake of being annoying is not my thing, though I do like drone ambient).

My two favorite artists at this time are James Horner and John Williams.

 

[Australis]

Have you checked out the music thread?
('What Song Are You Listening To Right Now?')

 

[Stoo]

Hard to pick two. In Flames, Amon Amarth.

 

[Pingfah]

Queen
Stone Temple Pilots

 

[psCargile]

Tired of the usual stuff, started listening to psychobilly.

 

[Doom Shepherd]

I listen to everything from Tori Amos to Genesis to Nightwish to Johnny Cash to Two Steps From Hell to Enya to Disturbed.

I don't have favorites.

 

[Santaman]

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..

 

[Taylirious]

Taylor Swift!!!

Then mostly alternative rock from the 90's mixed with death or nu metal.

 

[MacLeod]

I'm somewaht eclectic when it comes to music. If I like the song/music I like the muisc regardless of genre.

 

[Velocity]

I like most types of music, but maybe not skat so much.

 

[The Lensman]

Tired of the usual stuff, started listening to psychobilly.

You listen to the Reverend Horton Heat? He's my fave of the psychobilly set.

 

[Owain Taggart]

Oh man, I love music. In fact, I just got back from the last day of my favourite music festival. Used to be 3 days, but they've extented it to 4 days this year. And to me and many others in our community, it's been an increasingly important way for us to experience new music, seeing as our arena is 60+ years old and we're in dire need of a new one, and bands that normally would have toured our city have instead chosen to bypass us in favour of cities with better concert venues. I did hear that directly from a band that used to tour here.

But so much good music to experience, and when I go to the festival, I buy a full pass. It then becomes much more than just about the concerts, but the entire experience of mingling with likeminded people, including artists themselves. A borderless experience, and so many new musical discoveries.

This year the headliner to start off the festival was Buffy Sainte Marie, who was amazing and simply a great experience. Other discoveries have been Barry Miles and the Congregation, The Jerry Cans, Johnathan Byrd and the Pickup Cowboys, Andy Shauf.

 

[Nerys Myk]

The Beatles
The Who

 

[JohnChod]

I'm very much a child of the 60s and 70s. My two all-time favorites are Neil Young and Todd Rundgren. Although both are still making music today, I find most of their newer material to be pretty poor. Neil tends to come up with a good one now and again. Todd has been getting some good word from critics lately, but I just can't get into it at all.

On the 'pop' side I've always liked Hall and Oates. Their earlier stuff, before they started stringing hits together and getting a little too formulaic, was their best.

 

[HaventGotALife]

My great artistic love is music. I grew up to the harmonies of the Beach Boys, Motown, and Christian Hymns. About age 8, I was introduced to my love--Country--through my Aunt. I would strike out into rap, R&B, Jazz, Soul, Rock, and Pop. But, after learning my history of American music, I returned home.

Writing over melody. Poetry with a punch. Complex sounds that lift the soul, remain mysterious (unlike basketball, writing, and other hobbies), and connect to my emotions more readily than other art forms.

Man, one or two artists? I just can't.

Garth Brooks, Sugarland (and their solo work), Miranda Lambert, Brent Cobb, and Kacey Musgraves are my current choices. Country music is battling the same forces that eviscerated rock and R&B. Money. Sexism. Simplicity. Bad writing. But, I am willing, and able, to look closer at Country Music where I am unwilling to do for other genres.

Yes, I love my music.