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Star Trek Fans and Music

The Katatonic

Lieutenant
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When I went to see ST: Beyond, I hadn't had a chance to see it for a couple of weeks after the initial release. I went at a time that I thought would not be crowded, but was actually pleased to see that my smallish town had enough Trek fans that the theatre was still full, even at that odd time. It was mostly men my age, many dragging their families along to witness the greatness of the Trek. I was first in the theatre, so I had a great seat to witness to carnage among the theatre goers as well as the actual show. And the scene, that any of us in my town can now call "The Beastie Boys scene"......every Gen X'er in that theatre just lost their ever lovin' minds....we were literally standing up, just banging heads and screaming at the screen. I was so glad that there were people in my town that even vaguely had the same musical taste as me and were huge Star Trek fans at the same time...
So I ask: We are all Trek fans, but, what music do you identify with outside of the show? Me...I do love me some classical and jazz and blues and even country, but, I identify best with music like Metallica, Beastie Boys, Iron Maiden...yeah...the hard stuff. But I figure I am probably not the norm....see, I feel like I should always have Beethovan on when I watch Enterprise....but then I couldn't hear Picard.
 
I enjoy black metal, doom metal, ambient, post-rock, shoegaze, etc.
Alrighty, I amend my earlier description of "hard" :) I like "half hard" music ...except I have no idea what post rock or shoegaze is...neither sound aurally appetizing... what the heck are they, because if you are joking, not getting it LOL..
 
...except I have no idea what post rock or shoegaze is

Post-rock is instrumental, closer to classical music in structure but is played with typical rock instruments(piano, drums, guitar, etc.)

Shoegaze is in the vein of 80s and 90s alternative rock and pop, but has more psychedelic influence and a lot of reverb.
 
I love me some classic shoegaze. Lush, Ride, My Bloody Valentine.

Over the years, I have got into quite a varied range of music:

Late 80s/early 90s Indie. I was a big Pixies fan. Sonic Youth and the Jesus & Mary Chain are also important. This bled over into grunge.
Shoegaze. My Bloody Valentine's song "Soon" basically changed my life.
Industrial. Particularly Nine Inch Nails (the "Broken" EP was another life-changer) and Ministry.
Jazz. 1920s to early Bebop. Those old records have a unique flavour, and in those days they understood the value of a good tune and a catchy beat.
Techno - various kinds. I enjoy pure techno, trance, some house, but mostly listened to hardcore (& happy hardcore), and jungle.
Metal. I'm not a big metal fan, but I like Ministry (yes, they're metal), Slayer, Emperor. And I don't mind a bit of death metal.
Classical. This is what I've mostly listened to over the last 15 years. This probably goes all the way back to a cassette of sci-fi themes I bought in the mid 80s! (John Williams and the Boston Pops)​

Phew! I think that's everything (everything major, anyway...)

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Post-rock is instrumental, closer to classical music in structure but is played with typical rock instruments(piano, drums, guitar, etc.)

Shoegaze is in the vein of 80s and 90s alternative rock and pop, but has more psychedelic influence and a lot of reverb.
Wow, I have spent way too much time on my own in the last few years reading and not on the net....I always thought My Bloody Valentine was just under the "Alternative" flag...guess that means I'm old..
 
Wow, I have spent way too much time on my own in the last few years reading and not on the net....I always thought My Bloody Valentine was just under the "Alternative" flag...guess that means I'm old..

Don't feel too old. To me, My Bloody Valentine is a slasher movie from the eighties . . . :)

I mostly listen to movie soundtracks and show tunes.
 
I listen to film and television scores 99.5% of the year when I listen to anything that isn't spoken word.

The remaining five percent is made up mainly of classical music, some non-score instrumental music, then maybe some comedy songs and so rare it might as well be a margin of error, a regular song.


The last instrumental piece I found worth mentioning:

"Spring in Lhasa" (Oliver Shanti)
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A comedy song favorite:
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My musical tastes are kind of all over the place. Lately I've been listening to The Killers, Meat Loaf, Behemoth, Mozart, Elvis, Elton John, and the Kelvin Timeline soundtracks.
 
My musical tastes are kind of all over the place. Lately I've been listening to The Killers, Meat Loaf, Behemoth, Mozart, Elvis, Elton John, and the Kelvin Timeline soundtracks.
NICE...sounds not dissimilar to my music collection... and to add some weirdness, I am currently listening to a live Waylon Jennings album right now LOL..
 
NICE...sounds not dissimilar to my music collection... and to add some weirdness, I am currently listening to a live Waylon Jennings album right now LOL..
Oh, love classic country music too. And contemporary country singers who work in that style, like Justin Townes Earle and Sturgill Simpson.
 
Beastie Boys certainly aren't in my music library, but I did love that moment in the film.

I tend to go with rock ballads/female-fronted symphonic metal.

Some of my most-played artists:

- Within Temptation (#1 by a long way)
- Evanescence
- Halestorm
- Meat Loaf
- John Farnham
- Genesis
- "Weird Al" Yankovic
- INXS
- Roy Orbison
- Roxette
 
When Isn't Anything came out, we were looking at MBV more as post-Gothic (think in the same vein as Jesus and Mary Chain).
 
Gosh, my tastes are all over the board. I love everything from Jazz to Classic and Modern Rock, Pop, R&B/Hip-Hop, Punk, Ska, etc. Some of my favorites include:

Miles Davis
Grover Washington Jr.
The Beach Boys
Queen
Styx
Aerosmith
AC/DC
Billy Joel
David Bowie
Pearl Jam
Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Foo Fighters
The Killers
Evanescence
Sugar Ray
Daft Punk
Dave Matthews Band
Bruno Mars
Run DMC
Eminem
Michael Jackson
Beastie Boys
Justin Timberlake

Eclectic enough? :P
 
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For me (in no particular order):
U2
Tears For Fears
Level 42
Living Colour
Depeche Mode
Prince
Alien Ant Farm
Duran Duran
Seal
The Police
Sting
KoRn
Faith No More
Curve
Chicago
Michael Jackson
The Beatles
Hall & Oates
Bill Withers
Journey
Dave Matthews Band
 
I remember them! Based on your list, did you also like Utah Saints at all? Or Garbage?
When Isn't Anything came out, we were looking at MBV more as post-Gothic (think in the same vein as Jesus and Mary Chain).
That was the flavour of their early stuff (I have the compilation CD "Ecstacy & Wine" somewhere, and some of it is very influenced by J&MC), but the EPs leading up to Isn't Anything showed they were moving very strongly in the direction of a kind of modern psychedelia/space pop, and at the same time rocking harder than they had before.


Current listening to chamber music from late classical to middle romantic period. :luvlove:

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