NationStates Jolt Archive

Haven't seen such a thread in a bit, so I thought I'd like to see what people are listening to these days (partially 'cause I want some more bands to listen to, but mostly just because it's always a fun topic:D)

Me, I tend to like metal(to the surprise of some people when they meet me, actually), though I do like a few bands from other genres. Specifically, I'm listening to:

Type O Negative (I went to a concert on the 24th of October. It was great!)
Lordi (They're touring with Type O; I heard them at the concert and now I've bought an album)
Fear Factory
Manowar
A bit of Black Sabbath
NiN (on occasion)
Rammstein

So, NSG? What do you listen to these days?

Metal, particularly black metal and viking/folk metal.

Some of my favorite bands:

Falkenbach
Ensiferum
Bathory
Darkthrone
Immortal
Kampfar
Windir
Gorgoroth
Wyrd
Emperor
Korpiklaani
Naglfar

Apocalyptica
Dead Can Dance
Einstürzende Neubauten
Afro Celt Sound System
Juno Reactor
Kaki King
Blue Man Group
Massive Attack
Baraka (Soundtrack)

I always feel so out of place when I say "country music"... :p

Though I do listen to some rock/alternative rock... more along the lines of Goo Goo Dolls, Coldplay, Dave Matthews, etc.

Prograssive/psychedelic rock: King Crimson, Pink Floyd, Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, Camel, Jethro Tull, Yes, Porcupine Tree (mid-early stuff), The Beatles (not before '65!), and Israeli prog albums (we had quite a lot for our size...).

Fusion/Jazz-rock: Mahavishnu Orchestra, Miles Davis (late 60's early 70's), Return to Forever.

Classical: BACH! And baroque in general.

Rock: The Who, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple (early stuff), Nirvana, Tool, Hendrix, K's Choice, Incubus, Red Hot Chili Peppers occasionally.

And Also Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Janis Joplin, Frank Zappa, Cat Stevens, and... Many Israeli things you wouldn't know (Erik Einstein, Rockfour, Dr. Kasper, Where's the Kid, Yoni Rechter...).

That's about it, sort of...:p

Right now I'm listening to Turisas. (http://www.myspace.com/turisasofficial)

Slayer
Metallica
Pantera
Lamb of God
Mindless Self Indulgence
Slipknot
Rage Against the Machine

Those are the only bands that have >= an album of their stuff. There is an equal number of random good songs by otherwise meh artists.

Slayer
Metallica
Pantera
Lamb of God
Mindless Self Indulgence
Slipknot

Those are the only bands that have >= an album of their stuff. There is an equal number of random good songs by otherwise meh artists.

Pantera's the only decent band up there. Ouch.

Every bit of leftist folk music I can get my hands on, a few punk bands (Anti-Flag, Against Me!, Leftover Crack), The Magnetic Fields, and some other stuff.

Mostly Britsh rock from the mid-90s when I first got into music, like Radiohead, Primal Scream, Blur and Oasis. I'm quite fond of certain electronic and hip hop music as well.

TooL

Right now I'm listening to Turisas. (http://www.myspace.com/turisasofficial)

Good band! It is a shame they don't tour in the US.

mostly thrash metal, classic rock, blues and jazz
Testament http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apD_nDwOSxQ
Bolt Thrower (http://www.boltthrower.com/downloads/downloads.php)... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Bc-ZC1EF18 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrJwXpNlsn8 :D
Sepultura
Exodus
...
Andy McKee
Alex Skolnick
Joe Satriani
Eric Gales
Hendrix
Cream
ZZ Top...

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

Pantera's the only decent band up there. Ouch.

Eh, Metallica used to be good, but now all they do is bitch about copyright infringement instead of actually making music for people to steal:p. (Though, the quality of music post Black Album is so low that that might be for the best)

Pantera's the only decent band up there. Ouch.Well what do you listen to Mr Your Bandz, They Suck?

Well what do you listen to Mr Your Bandz, They Suck?

Rush, Bob Mould, and Husker Du, for the most part.

Just one of those bands has more talent than the entirety of your list. Except for Pantera, because they were pretty damn good. Pantera gets immunity.

Your list consists of fail on epic levels.

:p

Rush, Bob Mould, and Husker Du, for the most part.

Just one of those bands has more talent than the entirety of your list. Except for Pantera, because they were pretty damn good. Pantera gets immunity.

Your list consists of fail on epic levels.

:cool: I'm a Powderfinger (Aussie rock) fan through and through, but crowding for second is other bands like Oasis, Lifehouse, Matchbox 20, a good third of 3 Doors Down's songs, and about a zillion "one hit wonders".

Rush, Bob Mould, and Husker Du, for the most part.

Just one of those bands has more talent than the entirety of your list. Except for Pantera, because they were pretty damn good. Pantera gets immunity.Rush is decent, but I find gets old too quickly when replayed. I cannot listen to their version of Tom Sawyer since I heard MSI do it. The Rush version is just too slow.

They are the only band listed that I would listen to.

I cannot stand Husker Du.

Rush is decent, but I find gets old too quickly when replayed. I cannot listen to their version of Tom Sawyer since I heard MSI do it. The Rush version is just too slow.

They are the only band listed that I would listen to.

I cannot stand Husker Du.

And one wonders why. :p

Uhhhhh...music?

Your list consists of fail on epic levels.

You, sir, are no gentleman, and have no taste!

You, sir, are no gentleman, and have no taste!

Quick, challenge him to a duel!

Make this a multiple selection poll, with options like metal, rock, country, prog, jazz, etc. I want to see if NSG really is a metal-fans forum.

Hey I was just defending the other guy's choice. Potarius insulted Posi's list first!

*glove slap*

AH CHALLEEENGE YEEEW TEW A DUEL!!!

You, sir, are no gentleman, and have no taste!

Hey I was just defending the other guy's choice. Potarius insulted Posi's list first!

*glove slap*

AH CHALLEEENGE YEEEW TEW A DUEL!!!I got dibs on being Trollgaard's blackup.

I got dibs on being Trollgaard's blackup.

You got tha 'Fro to back that up, bitch?

Jazz (except 'modern' fusion/adult contemporary quiet storm type stuff...), primarily Free Jazz (Ornette Coleman, Pharoah Sanders, Eric Dolphy, Greg Osby, Hamiet Bluiett, World Saxophone Quartet, Sex Mob, John Zorn etc.), some funk jazz (Jimmy Smith, Mediski, Martin, and Wood, Sex Mob (again)), cool jazz (Chet Baker, Gerry Mulligan), some third stream (Gil Evans, Uri Caine (who has some free jazz elements to him)), of course bop and avante garde (Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Eric Dolphy (again), Charles Mingus, Thelonius Monk etc), hard bop (for some reason names elude me...), second line bands (Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Rebirth Brass Band, Pinstripe Brass Band)...there's more, but most of you stopped reading by now anyway...

Then there is a smattering of folk music, indigenous music, some bluegrass, blues, zydeco, kitsch music (lounge and novelty), surf (Dick Dale, The Challengers, Surfaris, etc), ska (The NY Ska-Jazz Ensemble, The Skatalites, Mephiskapheles, Undercover S.K.A., but mostly I just like ska covers).

I also like contemporary composition (contemporary classical for those without a stick up your ass) (Arvo Part, Gorecki, holy crap...name block, those two aren't even my top faves...some dude, starts with a b...did Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me...fuck, ah no one cares anyway, he's not a guitar wanker so no one is reading this...)

There might be some stuff left out. I was a buyer at a record store for a few years and a music major (got my AA in music before switching to film) so I was exposed to a lot of things and have a bunch of CDs I haven't even opened yet and I quit the store over 5 years ago.

EDIT: OH FUCK! I forgot funk!!! How the hell could I forget funk!!!! Funkadelic, Parliament, Sly and the Family Stone, Gap Band, etc.

Five Iron Frenzy (Ska)
Nickel Creek (alternative bluegrass?!)
Linkin Park
3 Doors Down
and more... Generally ska/punk Rock/Alternative

You got tha 'Fro to back that up, bitch?
http://meme-archive.org/_images/f4e1f26ad0a0f226c64131b3edf8ea09/70%20-%20blackup%20motivator.jpg
I'm the one on the left.

Brand New. In comparison to such collossi, all other bands are immaterial.

*glove slap*

AH CHALLEEENGE YEEEW TEW A DUEL!!!

What weapon?

I say sword and shield.

Slayer
Metallica
Pantera
Lamb of God
Mindless Self Indulgence
Slipknot

Those are the only bands that have >= an album of their stuff. There is an equal number of random good songs by otherwise meh artists.

I love you Posi

I love you Posi

But they're all, with the slightly punchable exception of msi, so much macho shite.:confused:

Mostly metal, my favorite subgenres of which are black metal and doom metal. Here's the mandatory list of bands I listen to off the top of my head.

Emperor
Dissection
My Dying Bride
Type O Negative
Dimmu Borgir
Tvangeste
Gorgoroth
Ludicra
Iced Earth
Blind Guardian
Black Sabbath
Ulver (only their old stuff)
Metallica (same deal)
Megadeth
Testament
Exodus
Celtic Frost
Enslaved
Dark Funeral
Unexpect
Naglfar
Old Man's Child
Iron Maiden
Primus
Rush
Amon Amarth
In Flames
Arch Enemy
Dark Tranquility
Sentenced to Burn
The Porno Pandas
Dead Kennedys (non-metal, obviously)
Battlefield Band (also non metal, as they are a folk band)
Borknagar
Anaal Nathrakh
Lacuna Coil
Arcturus
Mayhem
Zyklon
Sigh

I also enjoy the following:
Duke Ellington
Tommy Dorsey
Shostakovitch
Prokofiev
Holst
Hildegard von Bingen
and others

But they're all, with the slightly punchable exception of msi, so much macho shite.:confused:

And?

a perfect cicle, amercican head charge, as i lay dying, beatles, carol, circus of dead squirrels, columbine, demon hunter, dog fashion disco, hanzel und gretyl, hewhocorrupts, job for a cowboy, killwhitneydead, kmfdm, the locust, mars volta, moi dix mois, norma jean, pigface (old), pink floyd, psychlon nine, retard-o-bot, slipknot, tetanus, tool

mostly industrial, metal, and grindcore

i also have a terrible band called Love Ton that anyone should add to myspace. It should appeal to close to no one but shoukld be added anyways.

But they're all, with the slightly punchable exception of msi, so much macho shite.:confused:I smell jealousy.

And how is MSI not macho? It takes a true man to sing about playing with his twat in the most high pitched voice you are capable of.

And?

Why have any affection for it, or those who listen to it? Music is a mirror to the soul of the listener, his is not appearing too appealing a reflection at present.

I am with Posi your list is pretty good. (Lamb of God is amazing)

I would add of few of my own:
August Burns Red
From Autumn to Ashes
As I Lay Dying
Avenged Sevenfold
Caliban
Kittie
Killswitch Engage
Rise Against
Soilwork
Strapping Young Lad
Trivium
Underoath
Static-X

Make this a multiple selection poll, with options like metal, rock, country, prog, jazz, etc. I want to see if NSG really is a metal-fans forum.

Done, but I just listed them off the top of my head and probably included some I shouldn't have at the expense of some I should have. I have a tendency to do such things, which is why I didn't make one in the first place :D

Why have any affection for it, or those who listen to it? Music is a mirror to the soul of the listener, his is not appearing too appealing a reflection at present.

Neither is yours. It's not very mature to say "oh, I don't like such and such music, so it sucks."

Music is like food. Not everybody likes the same things. Something can be cooked very well and still not have a taste I like. The same goes with music. There are many bands with incredible musicians but whose work just doesn't do it for me.

Neither is yours. It's not very mature to say "oh, I don't like such and such music, so it sucks."

Music is like food. Not everybody likes the same things. Something can be cooked very well and still not have a taste I like. The same goes with music. There are many bands with incredible musicians but whose work just doesn't do it for me.

Indeed. However, I would take issue with the notion that Slipknot can, using the analogy above, be considered a michelin worthy meal in the same fashion as Brand New. They simply have few merits as a band, style notwithstanding.

I smell jealousy.

And how is MSI not macho? It takes a true man to sing about playing with his twat in the most high pitched voice you are capable of.

Jealousy? You listen to Slipknot, which either renders you 14, or of such limited sensibilities that you are a mushroom.

Indeed. However, I would take issue with the notion that Slipknot can, using the analogy above, be considered a michelin worthy meal in the same fashion as Brand New. They simply have few merits as a band, style notwithstanding.

Well, personally agree that Slipknot is not a dish prepared very well, but I usually try to avoid insulting others' music (since I don't like mine insulted).

However, among the other bands he mentioned were some that played their style quite well, whether or not one likes the style.

Well, personally agree that Slipknot is not a dish prepared very well, but I usually try to avoid insulting others' music (since I don't like mine insulted).

However, among the other bands he mentioned were some that played their style quite well, whether or not one likes the style.

Probably. That he listens to Slipknot is enough for me to laugh.

Black Metal, Power Metal, Gothic Metal, Folk Metal, Folk, Neofolk, World, New-Age, Ambient, Klezmer, Chinese Classical, Indian Classical, Iranian Classical, Gamelan, Experimental, Microtonal, Darkwave, EBM, Trance, Hard House, Electro House...

Something like that.

Pantera's the only decent band up there. Ouch.

Except Pantera sucks. Phil Anselmo's pain burns in the heart of my little brother.

I mostly listen to hardcore, grindcore, scramz/kittenviolence/traditional emo, powerviolence, thrash, black metal, crust punk, no-wave/noise rock, DHC and some other punky sounding stuff.

I enjoy:

Pink Floyd
Queen
Led Zeppelin
Black Sabbath
Judas Priest
The Beatles
AC/DC

And for my favorite classical music composers:

Ives
R. Strauss (one of the best)
Bernstein
Schoenberg
Shostakovich
Prokofiev
Stravinsky
Tchaikovsky (probably my favorite)
Copland
Hindemith
Respighi
Penderecki
Beethoven

At this very moment? Nada Surf.
At any given moment?

Jimmy Eat World
Amy Winehouse
Social Distortion
Bad Religon
Tom Waits
Henri Mancini


And yes, obviously I'm a woman...a lady...

From Ashes Rise

Check them out.
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=5304519

A lot of metal and rock (I love Nickelback and Seether). Alternative and jazz on occasion. Classical when I'm in a study crunch, and way more "Weird Al" Yankovic than anyone should ever be subjected to.

okay this is a wide variety...

Queen
Atreyu
Death Cab for Cutie
Beatles
Counting Crows
Blue October
Fiona Apple
Relient K
30 Seconds to Mars
Shiny Toy Guns
Incubus
The Fray
MuteMath
Eisley
Bright Eyes

Musicals such as:
Wicked
Rent
Little Shop of Horrors
Phantom of the Opera
Miss Saigon
Sweeney Todd (can't wait for the movie)
Plus many more...

Classical Opera such as:
Puccini and many more I honestly can't think of how to spell half of them.

Too many artists to list. So, genres... if its in it, its a good chance that I've heard it, own it, or in some way ripped it to my computer.

Classic Rock From late 50's to 70's... after that its not really classic rock, more of a different genre.

Heavy Metal you name it - Death metal, Power metal, Heavy metal, Black metal, VIKING METAL!

Hard Rock Anything and Everything.

Punk Rock REAL punk. But not a really big fan, just some of its good.

Classical Personal favorite: Wagner. (NOT a nazi, people, I just think Wagner is cool... just making sure...)

Otherwise, anything else is okay, just not what I put in my library. Some Old-School Rap is just pure quality. Except for these:

Country, I can't stand country. I do not like EMO MUSIC, but Some Screamo is ok. An alternative band that just puts out an acoustic guitar song and singing just isn't appealing to me; pretentiousness in my case just makes me want to punch you in the face. POP MUSIC! OMG! GET IT OFF ME! DAMN YOU AMERICAN IDOL! (And God smote the Idolaters... hehehe...)

Something has happened to my brain and I can't stop listening to Shampoo Suicide by Broken Social Scene. In the last 12 hours I've listened to it about 20-something times.

EDIT:
Make that 30.

there is not a genre i don't listen too. i even own some modern "R'n'B" now (*shoch/horror*)

okay this is a wide variety...

Phantom of the Opera



God, I really have to agree with you there. The original, with Michael Crawford and Sarah Brightman... damn.

Metal. Nominally Symphonic and Epic Metal. Also, punk and folk, but not so much these days.

Bands:

- Epica
- Kamelot
- Nightwish
- Protest the Hero
- Within Temptation
- Leaves' Eyes
- Death
- Children of Bodom
- Finntroll
- 10 Masked Men
- Machinae Supremacy
- Sonata Arcitca
- Edguy
- Avantasia
- Ayreon
- Shadow Gallery
- Symphony X

I listen to rock, pop, world music, punk, chiptune, electronic music (jungle and lounge), reggae, ska, the occasional country or folk song - and a lot of other genres.

Mostly metal such as:Nightwish,Epica,Machinae Supremacy,Persuader,Equilibrium,Finntroll or In Flames.
Newly classical music,such as Bach,Grieg,Strauss-my favorites.

Ive been working on my own music pretty hard lately, so I havent gotten into any new bands, with the exception of Finntroll, and only a little of thier stuff.
The last cool bands I found were Astroqueen, and Pearls and Brass.

I listen to everything with the exception of top 40 anything.

Pop Country is the devil.

Hope to have my album done in a few months.

haha i love new rave bands e.g. klaxons, shitdisco, CSS, new young pony club, as well as a bit of dance, especially Daft Punk and Does It Offend You, Yeah? I also love indie bands like The Courteneers, Little Man Tate and the Cribs.

DOES ANYONE ELSE ACTUALLY LIKE NEW RAVE?

also Radiohead, Joy Division, The Clash, The Sex Pistols, The Verve.

AND I LOVE KATE NASH, SHE IS VERY FIT =D

Video game music.

I listen to a variety of music, but recently I've been listening to a lot of Nightwish, with some Dio and Iron Maiden for contrast. (I'm driving an extra 40 miles a day doing some training for work, so I've been listening to music to make the miles go by faster.)

I normally listen to Beethoven, Bach, or Mozart when I'm trying to concentrate, and I'll occasionally throw in Slipknot if I'm in that sort of "happy" mood. (those moods happen less since I cut back my caffeine intake by ~90%)

I listen to folk, punk, folk-punk, jazz, post-grunge, alt rock, 90s emo and shoegaze. As for bands, My Bloody Valentine, Harvey Danger and The Pixies pretty much own everything else I've ever heard.

Something has happened to my brain and I can't stop listening to Shampoo Suicide by Broken Social Scene. In the last 12 hours I've listened to it about 20-something times.

EDIT:
Make that 30.

Make that 50. Help me.

Make that 50. Help me.

Stop listening to it.

Indiepop.

Currently obsessed with The Pipettes. But also Tilly & The Wall, The Long Blondes, The Hot Puppies and most things that come in the top 30 on last.fm under "music that fans of The Pipettes would like".

Make that 50. Help me.

........only one way to stop listening to Broken Social Scene....not being stoned......

rock.

The bands that are currently doing it for me include:
Oceansize
Mogwai
Elbow
Sigur Ros
65daysofstatic
The Beatles
Orko
Brand New
The Kinks
Broken Social Scene
Morning Runner

They are part of my wider musical taste, just what I'm listening to most these days,

Led Zeppelin should be a musical category all of its own. They are just that good.

*nods*

haha i love new rave bands e.g. klaxons, shitdisco, CSS, new young pony club, as well as a bit of dance, especially Daft Punk and Does It Offend You, Yeah? I also love indie bands like The Courteneers, Little Man Tate and the Cribs.

DOES ANYONE ELSE ACTUALLY LIKE NEW RAVE?

also Radiohead, Joy Division, The Clash, The Sex Pistols, The Verve.

AND I LOVE KATE NASH, SHE IS VERY FIT =D

Lord help me.

Save the Rave and all that... I could just cry.

King Crimson
The Mars Volta
Nine Inch Nails
Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyd
Black Sabbath
Pantera
Slayer
System of a Down
Umphrey's McGee


*Waits for somebody to pick a fight*

........only one way to stop listening to Broken Social Scene....not being stoned......

Oh, I was quite lucid. Managed to stop for now. Every part of the song is infectious though; drumming, bass, lead guitar, tune, barely audible vocals. Those guys are geniuses. I need to listen to it again...

King Crimson

*Waits for somebody to pick a fight*

Why you little...

...Good man.

My sig gives a reasonable indication of my taste.

Nightwish
Children of Bodom
Trivium
Evanescence
Paramore
Iron Maiden
The Cruxshadows
Lacrimosa

...I know, I have a weird music taste :rolleyes:

mostly metal and rock, but some punk and electronica.
my favorite subgenre for metal is melodic death metal and power metal.

some bands are
In Flames
Fragments of Unbecoming
GWAR (best band ever, no one can deny it)
ZZ Top (it's fillpin ZZ Top, c'mon)
Hatebreed
Iron Maiden (of course)
Jimi Hendrix
Journey (don't ask)
Killswitch Engage
KMFDM
Kyuss
Led Zeppelin
The Mars Volta
Electric Wizard
Mudvayne
Muse
Neurosis
Nirvana
Black Sabbath
Pink Floyd
Rage Against The Machine
Rise Against
Rob Zombie
White Zombie (better than Rob by himself)
Rush
SOD
Seether
Smile Empty Soul
Social Distortion
Tool
Towpath
Trapt
Unwritten Law
Cake

I actually picked the ones I really liked off my MP3 file and saved it on my PC so when people ask I don't have to type the whole damn list:
3 Doors Down
30 Seconds to Mars
A Perfect Circle
AFI
Angels and Airwaves
Armor for Sleep
Audioslave
Avenged Sevenfold
Bad Religion
Blink-182
Blue October
Blur
Bowling for Soup
Dead Kennedys
Disturbed
Eminem
Fall Out Boy
Good Charlotte
Gorillaz
Green Day
Gym Class Heroes
H.I.M.
Hellogoodbye
Hinder
I Am Ghost
Incubus
Johnny Cash
Korn
Linkin Park
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Motion City Soundtrack
Muse
My Chemical Romance
Nickleback
Nine Black Alps
Nine Inch Nails
Nirvana
Panic! At the Disco
Papa Roach
Pink Floyd
Plain White Ts
Queen
Rage Against The Machine
Rammstein
Shinedown
System of a Down
Taking Back Sunday
The Academy Is...
The Alkaline Trio
The Good, The Bad, and The Queen
The Killers
The Network
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
The Used
The White Stripes
Three Days Grace
Thrice
U2
Unwritten Law
Yellowcard

Video game music.
Really? Or just when gaming? I like retro video game music from the time when 8 bit CPUs sufficed.

A lot of European Power Metal.

Dragonforce, Sonata Arctica, Falconer, Firewind, Stratovarius, bands like that.

The bands that are currently doing it for me include:
Oceansize
Mogwai
Elbow
Sigur Ros
65daysofstatic
The Beatles
Orko
Brand New
The Kinks
Broken Social Scene
Morning Runner

They are part of my wider musical taste, just what I'm listening to most these days,

Mmm, yep, you still got good taste in music. :)

Currently I'm getting further into instrumental metal...Bossk and Latitudes are a couple of bands I'm just getting into (though Latitudes do just seem to rip-off Isis). Currently very pissed that I can't go see the following bands in the next ~6 weeks: Pelican, Mono, Jesu, Apocalyptica...

Not having a car = crap. Though it probably saves me about £50 a month in unbought gig tickets. :p

Having spent god knows how many posts criticising people's taste, I really ought to give a list of my own;

Brand New
Thursday
As Cities Burn
The Smiths
Alexisonfire
The Used
Devil Sold His Soul
The Fall of Troy
Taking Back Sunday
Saosin
Forward Russia
All Time Low
Thrice (except the crappy "Alchemy Index" stuff)
LostAlone
Nightmare of You
The Sounds
City and Colour

Really? Or just when gaming? I like retro video game music from the time when 8 bit CPUs sufficed.

I sometimes listen to game music (other than when playing). For tons of MIDI form game music, check out http://www.vgmusic.com

right now i'm listening to http://www.planetrock.co.uk/ :)
ooh they're playing Cream :D

edit:
Having spent god knows how many posts criticising people's taste, I really ought to give a list of my own;

Brand New
Thursday
As Cities Burn
The Smiths
Alexisonfire
The Used
Devil Sold His Soul
The Fall of Troy
Taking Back Sunday
Saosin
Forward Russia
All Time Low
Thrice (except the crappy "Alchemy Index" stuff)
LostAlone
Nightmare of You
The Sounds
City and Colour

wow.... i don't know any of those bands...

Various kinds of trance, particularly the psychedelic ones, mainly. Lately I have been listening a lot to Etnica and Astral Projection.

right now i'm listening to http://www.planetrock.co.uk/ :)
ooh they're playing Cream :D

edit:


wow.... i don't know any of those bands...

That because you're over the age of 20;)

Although you should have heard of the Smiths....:eek:

That because you're over the age of 20;)

Although you should have heard of the Smiths....:eek:

oh yeah, i missed them :P

i think i must be getting old(...ish). watching Scuzz or MTV2 or whatever round my girlfriend's place is an infuriating experience as all the bands sound the same these days... *shakes cane*

oh yeah, i missed them :P

i think i must be getting old(...ish). watching Scuzz or MTV2 or whatever round my girlfriend's place is an infuriating experience as all the bands sound the same these days... *shakes cane*

I always thought the stuff on MTV2 was boring, but didn't Scuzz use to have more metal?

oh yeah, i missed them :P

i think i must be getting old(...ish). watching Scuzz or MTV2 or whatever round my girlfriend's place is an infuriating experience as all the bands sound the same these days... *shakes cane*

Unlike in your day eh? When you were a lad, there was proper music?:D

I don't like any particular music over the other, but here are some types I really like:

Drum and Bass and other urban underground types of Dance
Good Dance, Trance, Techno, Electronic and all that shit (though the good types are becoming more rare these days)
Jazz: Most types, especially Bebop, Cool Jazz, Gypsy Jazz, some free Jazz and big band
Funk and Soul
Rock and Roll, especially psychedelic rock
Some Indie and Alternative, but not much of the new indie
Some ska
Reggae
Early Rap and Hip Hop, though I do like some modern stuff as well
Underground metal
Some punk
Blues
Some Prog rock is amazing, whilst other types of Prog rock is shit

Types of music I think is shit generally:
Pop punk
Mainstream manufactured pop, obviously
Most Euro Techno/crap, especially the early shit
A lot of modern British indie clones, though there is the occasional gem

Unlike in your day eh? When you were a lad, there was proper music?:D

darn tootin!

actually, i've always been more of a fan of 80's metal and 60's/70's rock anyway. in "my day" the music was just as shit ;)

I always thought the stuff on MTV2 was boring, but didn't Scuzz use to have more metal?
don't know - don't have Sky myself. its her brother who watches those channels mostly. probably wouldn't bother, myself

Pantera's the only decent band up there. Ouch.
Says you. :P


Metallica > > >

*glove slap*

AH CHALLEEENGE YEEEW TEW A DUEL!!!

Good sir! You have a second!

I mainly listen to:

Nightwish
Billy Talent
Skye Sweetnam
The Veronica's
Kelly Clarkson
Christina Aguilera
Rihanna
Red Hot Chili Peppers

and some random good stuff:D

Having spent god knows how many posts criticising people's taste, I really ought to give a list of my own
Very brave of you...;)

Forward Russia
Went to see them last week...they were pants. Except the last song they played. Sounded beautiful, like Explosions in the Sky gone slightly metal (that's metal, not mental)...but the vocals totally ruined it. Something about turning a ship around...?

Thrice (except the crappy "Alchemy Index" stuff)

Oooh, agreed. Listening to Firebreather now (came on the Rock Sound cd this month)...it's more than a little bit poo.

The Movement (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp8Tlu-nM38)
The Bleechers (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0iBhxxL6Mc)
Mr Symarip (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWWwAOnA_rU)
Perkele (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_sQLj5iNWw)

In every town, in every country it's party time Oi! Oi! Oi!

Haven't seen such a thread in a bit, so I thought I'd like to see what people are listening to these days (partially 'cause I want some more bands to listen to, but mostly just because it's always a fun topic:D)

Me, I tend to like metal(to the surprise of some people when they meet me, actually), though I do like a few bands from other genres. Specifically, I'm listening to:

Type O Negative (I went to a concert on the 24th of October. It was great!)
Lordi (They're touring with Type O; I heard them at the concert and now I've bought an album)
Fear Factory
Manowar
A bit of Black Sabbath
NiN (on occasion)
Rammstein

So, NSG? What do you listen to these days?

Metal and hard rock/blues-rock, mostly.

Early Rush
Judas Priest
AC/DC (A bit)
Blue Murder (A bit)
80s Black Sabbath

Mmm, yep, you still got good taste in music. :)

Currently I'm getting further into instrumental metal...Bossk and Latitudes are a couple of bands I'm just getting into (though Latitudes do just seem to rip-off Isis). Currently very pissed that I can't go see the following bands in the next ~6 weeks: Pelican, Mono, Jesu, Apocalyptica...

Not having a car = crap. Though it probably saves me about £50 a month in unbought gig tickets. :p

Hahaha, how ironic. I have a car now, and you don't!

Please don't pinch my nipples...

Haven't seen such a thread in a bit, so I thought I'd like to see what people are listening to these days (partially 'cause I want some more bands to listen to, but mostly just because it's always a fun topic:D)

Me, I tend to like metal(to the surprise of some people when they meet me, actually), though I do like a few bands from other genres. Specifically, I'm listening to:

Type O Negative (I went to a concert on the 24th of October. It was great!)
Lordi (They're touring with Type O; I heard them at the concert and now I've bought an album)
Fear Factory
Manowar
A bit of Black Sabbath
NiN (on occasion)
Rammstein

So, NSG? What do you listen to these days?

A little of just about everything, with a few exceptions.

Country, classic rock, various folk musics, theme music from movies/computer games, and Finnish metal.

Went to see them last week...they were pants. Except the last song they played. Sounded beautiful, like Explosions in the Sky gone slightly metal (that's metal, not mental)...but the vocals totally ruined it. Something about turning a ship around...?

I always imagine that I could like Forward Russia if they had a different "singer".

When I saw them live a year or two back supporting Biffy they were horrendous, though. Nice drummer.

Having spent god knows how many posts criticising people's taste, I really ought to give a list of my own;

Brand New
Thursday
As Cities Burn
The Smiths
Alexisonfire
The Used
Devil Sold His Soul
The Fall of Troy
Taking Back Sunday
Saosin
Forward Russia
All Time Low
Thrice (except the crappy "Alchemy Index" stuff)
LostAlone
Nightmare of You
The Sounds
City and Colour

How unfortunate. I haven't heard of most of the bands on that list and those I have I'm not partial to.

I can dig any good music. But of course I listen to what I am most familiar with. Old R&R ... and old ass Country (Cause my dad was soo much older than me.. and he liked various country and rock n roll of his day ... so I heard them) .. then the Hip Hop and old school R&B I was around for years.. Then the classic rock I've come to know.. and the southern rock. As for punk rock .. punk.. techno .. I'm not familiar.

Jazz and Classical I've had to learn on my own. I still don't know names o etc.. but I recognize them. And like I said I know a good piece of music when I hear it.

Blue Murder (A bit)


Whoa - i learned how to play (for the most part) Valley of The Kings and She Knows.
The second album was about impossible to find. :(

The Fall of Troy

I walked out on one of their shows a couple weeks back. I went to go see an opener on their tour (Protest the Hero) and I figured I'd stay to get my money's worth. However, when they started playing, I didn't even bother to stay for two songs. They were godawful. Indie kids trying to do real metal. blech.

i like everything that has no lyrics, snares, guitars, saxiphones, or violins, and isn't just "look ma' i can play a sequencer" either.

i like everything that does NOT romantacize or reward aggressiveness.

i like everything that is molodicly strainge and interesting.

i like everything that is performed on unusual or unfamiliar instruments.

i like electronic NONdance music. i like music to LISTEN to. or ignore and not be brainwashed by.

i like a little rythim, if it's odd enough, and not too dominant.

and best of all, i like when i can find creative musicians giving it away for free.
their own work. without kissing the ass of the music industry.

=^^=
.../\...

A pretty wide variety of stuff. The bulk of my current listening consists of music from the former USSR, as a matter of fact. Quite interesting to see (or hear*) what was playing behind the Iron Curtain.

*Yes, this is a bad joke.

Doom metal is my favourite, but I like stoner and some black metal too...and a whole heap of other stuff i'm not gonna bother listing.

And i have a self-produced post-rocky droney doomy kinda semi-ambient album in the works that i plan to have nicely polished and released once i can afford some decent equipment. :)

post-rocky droney doomy kinda semi-ambient album in the works...

and who said metal had too many genres? :p

and who said metal had too many genres? :p

Pff, what's the fun in sticking behind established genre lines? :D

Pff, what's the fun in sticking behind established genre lines? :D

Genres are only a descriptive tool for easily giving someone an idea of a band's sound without having to start from scratch. I'm always surprised at how few people seem to realize this.

lately a lot of experimental hip-hop but also noise, freak folk, experimental electronic music, post-rock and also a lot of other stuff that I can't think of right now or that doesn't fit any genre, almost nothing popular.

How unfortunate. I haven't heard of most of the bands on that list and those I have I'm not partial to.

In which, case, I think I might just go and throw myself into the River Ouse. After all, what's the point of life after than post? It really has opened my eyes to the absurdity of life...

In which, case, I think I might just go and throw myself into the River Ouse. After all, what's the point of life after than post? It really has opened my eyes to the absurdity of life...

[shrugs]
Meh, I never liked Potato Salad either, so whatever.

Recently I've mainly been listening to:
Ayreon
Bjork
Prokofiev
Alice Cooper
Foreigner
Scala Choir
65daysofstatic

Well, I love Enigma. This one is called Goodbye Milkyway (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy_S8Thkqog).

Ayreon
Bjork
Prokofiev


This list is so obscenely random it makes my life complete.

This list is so obscenely random it makes my life complete.

:p Glad to be of service

:p Glad to be of service

*tries to imagine a playlist that includes Ayreon, Bjork, and Prokofiev*

*head explodes*

Great, now I have to clean up the ceiling again. Thanks.

*tries to imagine a playlist that includes Ayreon, Bjork, and Prokofiev*

*head explodes*

Great, now I have to clean up the ceiling again. Thanks.
Sorry :(

(I'm a music student, if that helps clear up some of the randomness? :P)

Sorry :(

(I'm a music student, if that helps clear up some of the randomness? :P)

I'm a music minor too, but I can't pull THAT off. :P

Mostly thrash metal, with a touch of progressive metal, rap metal/rap core, harcore punk, classic hip hop and prog rock

Right now, I'm mostly listening to following bands

Heathen
Rage Against the Machine
Metallica
Iron Maiden
Faith No More
Public Enemy
Black Flag/Rollins Band
Anthrax

generally i like all music. the rap and hip hop that talks about women as nothing but whores i cant stand but anything other than that ill listen too.

to the two of you who i read are music minors: are you instrumentalists of vocalists? i plan on going into music ed. and cello perfomance. i was wondering what classes do you generally take to get your music degree? (i dont really want to go into this blind). thankyou.

anybody listen to Cursive, Apocalyptica, Farmer Boys, Nightwish, or Dimmu Borgir?

Heathen

yay! haven't listened to them in years! (not since my music collection and i parted ways...)

to the two of you who i read are music minors: are you instrumentalists of vocalists? i plan on going into music ed. and cello perfomance. i was wondering what classes do you generally take to get your music degree? (i dont really want to go into this blind). thankyou.

Minors are non-specific degrees at my school, so performance isn't technically part of my degree. However, I'm a violist and I have lessons for that from, the viola prof. I'm not taking anything this semester, but next semester I have a theory course lined up.

A major who aims for Music Ed. normally splits between lessons, introductory instrument courses, basic theory and music history, and education classes. A perfomance major focusses on lessons and on theory, with a bit of history and music ed on the side.

anybody listen to Cursive, Apocalyptica, Farmer Boys, Nightwish, or Dimmu Borgir?

Apocalyptica and Nightwish here (and a bit of Dimmu Borgir, if Shagrath's part in Kamelot's March of Mephisto counts :p). In fact, I saw Nightwish on Wednesday. They were awesome.

Lemme see:

Some industrial and metal
Rock, of various types
Jazz
Electronic
Classical

And as for bands/artists, a few off the top of my head:

Abney Park: Steampunk Industrial, and really really good.

Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grapelli: Classic Jazz, and just awesome. This guy beats everyone else at guitar, hands down.

Chanticleer: US vocal group, very nice stuff

PLOrk: The Princeton Laptop Orchestra. Quite interesting electronic bits.

Darcy James Argue's Secret Society: Big band jazz, nice sound to it

The Eagles, Pink Floyd, Moody Blues: All classic rock with a nice sound

Tchaikovsky: Everyone's heard of him, right?

Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young (and various combinations): More classic rock, but quite different from what came before

Bering Strait: Country music, from Russia

That's just a little bit of the stuff I listen to. Very light on the classical, for a start.

Whoa - i learned how to play (for the most part) Valley of The Kings and She Knows.
The second album was about impossible to find. :(

You can play Valley of the Kings? On what instrument? Nothin' But Trouble can be found on Amazon quite easily, actually.

Talking Heads.
Shihad.
The Fall.
The National.
Battles.
Joanna Newsom.
TV On The Radio.

Mostly rock, then.

Genres are only a descriptive tool for easily giving someone an idea of a band's sound without having to start from scratch. I'm always surprised at how few people seem to realize this.
Yeah, but it's a lot easier to just pick a few bands that the band you're describing sound vaguely like.

And i have a self-produced post-rocky droney doomy kinda semi-ambient album in the works that i plan to have nicely polished and released once i can afford some decent equipment.
I demand a (free) copy!

Judas Priest
Slayer
Metallica (Kill 'Em All - The Black Album)
Iron Maiden
G N R
AC/DC
Megadeth
Pantera (but nothing after Vulgar Display of Power)

and who said metal had too many genres? :p


:D I swear, sometimes it seems like metal has more sub-genres than there are total non-metal genres.

You can play Valley of the Kings? On what instrument? It's easier on the six string, but sounds cooler on the 12. The hard part is singing it more than playing it (same time)
Nothin' But Trouble can be found on Amazon quite easily, actually.Well, i'm trying hard to avoid buying anything other than In Strict Confidence online .... ;)

Yeah, but it's a lot easier to just pick a few bands that the band you're describing sound vaguely like.



In my experience, this is not the case. Partly because it assumes that whoever you're talking to knows the specific bands you compare to. If they know of any bands of the style you mention, they will have a basic idea of the sound. If I am trying to describe the sound of Naglfar and I compare them to Dark Funeral or what have you, that won't help at all if the person doesn't know what Dark Funeral sound like. However, even if that person doesn't know what Dark Funeral sound like but they do know of say, Mayhem and they know that Mayhem is a black metal band, then if I say that Naglfar are black metal that will give them a basic sound that I can further elaborate on without having to start from scratch.

It is also helpful if a style is associated with a movement or whatever. For example, Bay Area Thrash Metal or Norwegian Black Metal or whatever.

:D I swear, sometimes it seems like metal has more sub-genres than there are total non-metal genres.

Every type of music has tons of subgenres really. For example, Electronica. My housemate is really into it and there are at least a couple dozen different subgenres he talks about.

Every type of music has tons of subgenres really. For example, Electronica. My housemate is really into it and there are at least a couple dozen different subgenres he talks about.

Hmm.. The problem with metal genres is that for every single sub-genre, there are a million different small variations. It isn't uncommon to hear a band described as Thrash/Melodic Death Metal/Folk Metal, and a band that sounds highly similar described as Symphonic Metal/Viking Metal/Black Metal, but then have a band described as Symphonic Metal/Folk Metal sound totally different.

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I demand a (free) copy![/QUOTE]

Of course. You're on the list. ;)

Hmm.. The problem with metal genres is that for every single sub-genre, there are a million different small variations. It isn't uncommon to hear a band described as Thrash/Melodic Death Metal/Folk Metal, and a band that sounds highly similar described as Symphonic Metal/Viking Metal/Black Metal, but then have a band described as Symphonic Metal/Folk Metal sound totally different.

I rather like Black/Viking/Satanic/Metal, but can't stand Black/Satanic/Viking/Metal!

I rather like Black/Viking/Satanic/Metal, but can't stand Black/Satanic/Viking/Metal!

So you're okay with Dimmu Borgir, but not buying in on Amon Amarth? :p

I rather like Black/Viking/Satanic/Metal, but can't stand Black/Satanic/Viking/Metal!
Pfft! You just have no taste :p

So you're okay with Dimmu Borgir, but not buying in on Amon Amarth? :p

Damn me I was of course trying to be funny, but that, well it makes some sort of twisted sense!;)

I also like contemporary composition (contemporary classical for those without a stick up your ass) (Arvo Part, Gorecki, holy crap...name block, those two aren't even my top faves...some dude, starts with a b...did Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me...fuck, ah no one cares anyway, he's not a guitar wanker so no one is reading this...)

Wiki tells me it was by Gavin Bryars. Do you also like Glass, or Adams? I find 'minimalism' great for certain times and moods but you can easily have too much of it.

to the two of you who i read are music minors: are you instrumentalists of vocalists? i plan on going into music ed. and cello perfomance. i was wondering what classes do you generally take to get your music degree? (i dont really want to go into this blind). thankyou.

I do music (UK university), but the course is very theory- and history-based with very little performance, but that's fine because I chose it for that. I play and sing, the latter being the more important at the moment as I sing in a chapel choir (<3 cassocks :p), but also do alot of composition.

Some favourite composers:
Shostakovich,
Stravinsky,
Bartok,
Walton,
Debussy

Have recently got into lots of choral music, some quite romantic like Whitacre and Lauridsen, and others more modern, like Tavener and MacMillan.

I find 'minimalist' great for certain times and moods but you can easily have too much of it.

Huh? You can have too much minimalist?


Some favourite composers:
Debussy

Ohh would that be Gary?:D

some examples to sorta get the feel of my taste:
Iron Maiden - fav band of all time
Pink Floyd
Slayer
The Ramones
Rush
Megadeth
AC/DC
Black Sabbath
The Tragicly Hip
DragonForce
The Arragont Worms
Jonathan Coulton
Alice Cooper

I think that gives a fair sample :D

Huh? You can have too much minimalist?

Implicit in minimalism is gradual change over a time period, if the change is not interesting enough and extends for too long, you have too much minimalism.

EDIT: noticed the difference of word, I meant 'minimalism', sorry


Ohh would that be Gary?:D

Not sure what you're getting at here.

Damn me I was of course trying to be funny, but that, well it makes some sort of twisted sense!;)

If it's any comfort, I've gotten a hate call while DJing for my college station for incorrectly identifyin Anorexia-Nervosa as Symphonic/Melodic UnBlack Metal (You see, it is Black Metal, for the most part). Genres are mostly didactic quibbles in the extreme metal umbrella of Metal styles. :P

I like Romantic music (in the Classical sense of the word) and opera mostly.
Favorite composers:
Schumann, Wagner, Puccini, Brahms, Berlioz
Favorite operas:
The Marriage of Figaro, parts of the Ring Cycle, almost anything by Puccini, Pagliacci

In terms of modern music, I am horribly unoriginal. If it was on someones "Greatest Songs by So and So," I probably like it. Here are some bands/singers I like enough to buy multiple albums from:
Neil Young, the Beatles, Talking Heads, the Clash, David Bowie

I also have a Decemberists station on Pandora at the suggestion of a friend, and like some of their stuff. I might buy some.

I do music (UK university), but the course is very theory- and history-based with very little performance, but that's fine because I chose it for that. I play and sing, the latter being the more important at the moment as I sing in a chapel choir (<3 cassocks :p), but also do alot of composition.


well most classes id expect not to have performance in them... but for a performance degree one would take performance classes. but theory is fun. it can be a bitch sometimes but still fun.

Some favourite composers:
Shostakovich,
Stravinsky,
Bartok,
Walton,
Debussy

you have great taste. stavinsky and shostakovich kick some serious ass. tchiakovsky rocks too. do you like Stravinsky's Firebird Ballet?:p

Everybody in my school hates me for what I like because it's not rap, or hip hop or all of the new sex driven crap where every other word is either bitch, fuck, ho, or sex. I like the classics like stuff youd hear on an old rock radio station. My favorites are;

Queen
The Beatles
AeroSmith
Guns N Roses
Poison
Styxs
and practicly all hippie or drug groups from the 60's, 70's, or 80's

you have great taste. stavinsky and shostakovich kick some serious ass. tchiakovsky rocks too. do you like Stravinsky's Firebird Ballet?:p

Meh. Modernists. Give me a good romantic any day. Atonal music is not my thing.

Of course. You're on the list. ;)
If you're going to be posting a cd, there's at least one other thing I wouldn't be averse to receiving...:p

I listen to just about any genre of music. I refuse to limit myself to just one, or a few. I would miss too much good music if I did.

well most classes id expect not to have performance in them... but for a performance degree one would take performance classes. but theory is fun. it can be a bitch sometimes but still fun.
I did a really balanced music degree. Theory, composition, performance (half solo performance, half group - which I hated oh so very much), music tech, acoustics and history all got a fair amount of time devoted to them.

Ajattara
Amon Amarth
Arch Enemy
Arkona
Bal-Sagoth
Children of Bodom
Dark Funeral
Dimmu Borgir
Disturbed (the lone nu metal contender)
Ensiferum
Finntroll
Funeral
Gorgoroth
Insomnium
Korpiklaani
Lumsk
Månegarm
Marduk
Melechesh
Moonsorrow
Myrkgrav
Norther
Old Man's Child
Satyricon
Swallow the Sun
Tristania (early)
Tristitia
Týr
Zonaria
Zyklon

Eisbrecher
Marilyn Manson
Rammstein
Ruoska

Astrix
Infected Mushroom
Shpongle

J.S. Bach
Beethoven
Chopin
Debussy
David Lanz
Mozart
Pachelbel

It truly depends on whether I am depressed, normal, manic, or on drugs (and which drug specifically).

Hmm.. The problem with metal genres is that for every single sub-genre, there are a million different small variations. It isn't uncommon to hear a band described as Thrash/Melodic Death Metal/Folk Metal, and a band that sounds highly similar described as Symphonic Metal/Viking Metal/Black Metal, but then have a band described as Symphonic Metal/Folk Metal sound totally different.

I always thought of it as kind of Linnaean System similar to that used for organisms. As the terms get more specific, the differences become more subtle.

Much as a Mountain Gorilla is a subspecies of the species G. beringei, which is a member of the Genus, Gorilla, which in turn is part of the Hominidae family, which is part of the Primates order which fits into the class Mammalia and so on; the band Dimmu Borgir is a Symphonic black metal band from Norway. All Symphonic Black Metal bands are Black Metal bands, which is a subset of Extreme Metal, which in turn in is part of the larger Metal genre, which is basically the far edge of Hard Rock which in turn grew out of Rock & Roll, which is part of Music as a whole.

That's just the way I see it though.

Wiki tells me it was by Gavin Bryars. Do you also like Glass, or Adams? I find 'minimalism' great for certain times and moods but you can easily have too much of it.


Fucking hell...thanks man. I guess I could have looked that up. Glass is really hit or miss for me, as well as just about any minimalist.

I like Steve Reich a lot, though. I even 'stole' from him for my theory/20th Century Harmony final (the structure of Shaker Loops, where players have repeated phrases of different lengths so that they play in different sequence with each other. Certainly kicked ass over the guy who used timpani mallets on the inside of the piano...

If you're going to be posting a cd, there's at least one other thing I wouldn't be averse to receiving...:p

I ate it. Well, tried to. I decided afterwards that it wasn't meant for human consumption. :)

right now i'm listning to something called "fusion", by someone called "wellinfield", off an alblum called "track 1"

=^^=
.../\...

Right now I'm listening to the Timewarp. I listen to bits of everything now though :)

I do music (UK university), but the course is very theory- and history-based with very little performance, but that's fine because I chose it for that. I play and sing, the latter being the more important at the moment as I sing in a chapel choir (<3 cassocks :p), but also do alot of composition.

music theory scares the shit out of me. i hated the way music was taught at my school - basically, if you didn't already know how to play the piano and compose your own stuff, they didn't give two shits about you. a real shame as there's so much to learn about all kinds of music even if you can't actually write it/play it yourself.



right now i'm listening to Cacophony: Speed Metal Symphony :)

Doom metal is my favourite, but I like stoner and some black metal too...and a whole heap of other stuff i'm not gonna bother listing.

And i have a self-produced post-rocky droney doomy kinda semi-ambient album in the works that i plan to have nicely polished and released once i can afford some decent equipment. :)

Hey! ME TOO!

We should exchange!

Im about 1/2 way done with mine. gotta finish a couple songs, add vocals, and mix it all down yet. and then theres packaging and all that.

I always thought of it as kind of Linnaean System similar to that used for organisms. As the terms get more specific, the differences become more subtle.

Much as a Mountain Gorilla is a subspecies of the species G. beringei, which is a member of the Genus, Gorilla, which in turn is part of the Hominidae family, which is part of the Primates order which fits into the class Mammalia and so on; the band Dimmu Borgir is a Symphonic black metal band from Norway. All Symphonic Black Metal bands are Black Metal bands, which is a subset of Extreme Metal, which in turn in is part of the larger Metal genre, which is basically the far edge of Hard Rock which in turn grew out of Rock & Roll, which is part of Music as a whole.

That's just the way I see it though.

That's fair, but in general I think that the lines are too blurred to be effective definitions. What is "Folk Metal"? Is it a subgenre of Black Metal, or is it a subgenre of Power Metal? How do we reconcile putting Elvenking, Finntroll, and Amon Amarth into the same genre? I prefer to define things at the broad level, and then give individual descripitons, since I feel it does the band more justice, and is more definitive.

So, for example, Dimmu Borgir is "Black Metal, with heavy symphonic and melodic elements", Elvenking is "Power Metal, inspired by folk melodies", Finntroll is "Extreme Metal, influenced by Finnish Polka melodies" and Nightwish is "Symphonic Metal, with gothic imagery and strong Power Metal ties".

well most classes id expect not to have performance in them... but for a performance degree one would take performance classes. but theory is fun. it can be a bitch sometimes but still fun.

you have great taste. stavinsky and shostakovich kick some serious ass. tchiakovsky rocks too. do you like Stravinsky's Firebird Ballet?:p

Yeah, the Firebird is cool, especially the Infernal Dance. Love the Rite of Spring as well.

Meh. Modernists. Give me a good romantic any day. Atonal music is not my thing.

Stravinsky is hardly atonal, and Shostakovich certainly wasn't. Stravinsky was certainly a modernist, but in a different way to the atonal adventures of Schoenberg and his ilk. In fact, Shostakovich was repeatedly called 'modernist' by the Soviet authorities, even though he was much more of a romantic than many in other countries.

music theory scares the shit out of me. i hated the way music was taught at my school - basically, if you didn't already know how to play the piano and compose your own stuff, they didn't give two shits about you. a real shame as there's so much to learn about all kinds of music even if you can't actually write it/play it yourself.

Yeah, there is a dominance of Western Classical music in education, and indeed, my course is almost solely focused on it. Though it is in some ways easier to assess than popular music, most examiners certainly aren't going to know about the latest bands of a certain genre.

Fucking hell...thanks man. I guess I could have looked that up. Glass is really hit or miss for me, as well as just about any minimalist.

I like Steve Reich a lot, though. I even 'stole' from him for my theory/20th Century Harmony final (the structure of Shaker Loops, where players have repeated phrases of different lengths so that they play in different sequence with each other. Certainly kicked ass over the guy who used timpani mallets on the inside of the piano...

I'm the same, some pieces are really cool, others very dull. Reich is certainly interesting to study, and I love the feeling after listening to a piece 60 minutes long with gradually shifting layers and textures....the appreciation for silence is awesome :)

It's easier on the six string, but sounds cooler on the 12. The hard part is singing it more than playing it (same time)
Well, i'm trying hard to avoid buying anything other than In Strict Confidence online .... ;)

Well, that's why John Sykes is considered a genius.

Black Sabbath (especially the Ozzy years)
Metallica
Scorpions
Led Zeppelin
Queen
and some other bands I can't remember right now. I prefer the older bands. The new ones sound too much alike and too many are whiny or political. Truly, the golden age of rock has ended. Ended in the early 1990s.