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Inspired by the Black Metal thread...

What is your favorite music genre?


Personally I don't have one, unless you want to say Neue Deutsche Härte since that is the genre that my favorite band fits into.

I'll listen to anything as long as it's half decent...so no 50 Cent or Britney Spears. Some of my favourite musical acts include:

Lupe Fiasco
Gnarls Barkley
The Who
Manic Street Preachers
The Prodigy
Oasis
Fort Minor
Muse
Lightspeed Champion
Queen
Weezer

A bit of a mix there.

Inspired by the Black Metal thread...

What is your favorite music genre?


Personally I don't have one, unless you want to say Neue Deutsche Härte since that is the genre that my favorite band fits into.

A mix of heavy metal, NWOBHM, and thrash metal, and some heavy metal hard rock (The bands that don't fit into either).

Iron Maiden
Moksha
Black Sabbath
Megadeth
AC/DC
Accept
Judas Priest
Montrose
Diamond Head

Strong Island Sound and whatever sarcastic-indie-lo-fi genre The Mountain Goats fit into.

The Clash. They were a genre all by themselves.

Grunge all the way!

The Clash. They were a genre all by themselves.

Great call!

I'd also like to add Guns N Roses to the list but I'm too keen on an new album, Chinese Democracy, being realeased 14 years after the last one and I would still prefer it if Slash was still in the band.

uh-o...Londim likes slash? well this will piss him off....

I like Buckethead...soooo rock....U really can't put him into a smaller less diverse genre

Animals
Pink Floyd
AC-DC
Linkin Park
Red Hot Chili Peppers
ZZ Top
Rise Against

uh-o...Londim likes slash? well this will piss him off....

I like Buckethead...soooo rock....U really can't put him into a smaller less diverse genre

Animals
Pink Floyd
AC-DC
Linkin Park
Red Hot Chili Peppers
ZZ Top
Rise Against

I have nothing against Buckethead, a talented guitarist.

How could I forget Rise Against and RATM?!

Not sure. I probably all falls under the term "alternative" though.

The Clash. They were a genre all by themselves.
This.

Pop.

Pop.

Well, could you be just a bit more specific? There are many kinds of "Pop". Though I'm almost positive you're talking about the likes of ABBA and such, you know, Pop in that sense.

As for me, I can't really say I've got a favorite genre... I just like music so much as a whole that nothing actually stands out, though I will say that I won't listen to something that wasn't written with integrity. Radio pap, or "Vehicle Pop", as I like to call it.

Probably ska. With hardcore being a close second.

Green Day, The Offspring, Guns N' Roses, ACDC, Alice in Chains, Aerosmith, Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne, Disturbed, Staind, Weezer, Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, Smashing Pumpkins, Motley Crue, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Foo Fighters, Godsmack, Korn, Led Zeppelin, CCR, Foreigner, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Weird Al Yankovic are among my favorites.

And a few songs from She Wants Revenge and Daft Punk as well.


So basically a variety of music. Some of which many would say sucks but so what? :)

Hard Rock
Early Heavy Metal
Progressive rock

Well, could you be just a bit more specific?

Very well, some examples (all Swedish, incidentally):

Kleerup feat. Titiyo - Longing for lullabies (http://youtube.com/watch?v=luIBrGyFNq0)
September - Until I die (http://youtube.com/watch?v=N1W7GyumTqo)
Juvelen - Hanna (http://youtube.com/watch?v=kQJe97h_BwM)
Firefox AK - Madame, Madame (http://youtube.com/watch?v=vO2ofBYF1-M)
Kleerup feat. Robyn - With Every Heartbeat (http://youtube.com/watch?v=VB9vqCIviMk)

Specific enough?

Very well, some examples (all Swedish, incidentally):

Kleerup feat. Titiyo - Longing for lullabies (http://youtube.com/watch?v=luIBrGyFNq0)
September - Until I die (http://youtube.com/watch?v=N1W7GyumTqo)
Juvelen - Hanna (http://youtube.com/watch?v=kQJe97h_BwM)
Firefox AK - Madame, Madame (http://youtube.com/watch?v=vO2ofBYF1-M)
Kleerup feat. Robyn - With Every Heartbeat (http://youtube.com/watch?v=VB9vqCIviMk)

Specific enough?

Snyth Pop, eh? Not bad. This might interest you, then. It's not really synth-filled, but the production is pretty good.

Bob Mould - Slay/Sway (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2hZMc5ndsA&feature=related)
Bob Mould - Comeonstrong (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY04sCM6nTA&feature=related)

Yeah, it's Bob again, but in a really rich and compressed electronic setting. It's worth at least a listen.

Bob Mould is a god. Even though he went all soft.

Snyth Pop, eh? Not bad. This might interest you, then. It's not really synth-filled, but the production is pretty good.

Bob Mould - Slay/Sway (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2hZMc5ndsA&feature=related)
Bob Mould - Comeonstrong (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY04sCM6nTA&feature=related)

Yeah, it's Bob again, but in a really rich and compressed electronic setting. It's worth at least a listen.

Too much guitar, not enough electro. It must bleep, bleep, bleep!

I'm a jazz and classical music fan, although I passively enjoy most music to some degree or another. I've also got a soft spot for music from the 80's.

And then there's my interest in 1960's music from the Eastern Bloc...

Folk.

Folk.

Same, except I tend to stray towards folk rock. That or heavy metal, mainly Metallica.

I'm a very confused music listener.

Rock, metal (most types, but mainly power metal :D), classical. Though I will listen to almost anything as long as it's not annoying.

stuff with guitars... mostly.


stuff i like.

The Clash. They were a genre all by themselves.

Hells yeah!

Other than that, I guess you could say that, broadly, I enjoy alternative rock. Although it varies somewhat what precisely I'm into. Right now, I'm on a bit of a Britpop kick.

Too much guitar, not enough electro. It must bleep, bleep, bleep!

He's got some completely electronic (well, almost completely --- there's still guitar, but it's in the background) stuff on Body of Song, his album from 2005, but you have to get the deluxe two-disc set for it. His songwriting techniques go perfectly with synth.

I doubt it'll do much good, but try searching for the song Castor and Pollux, which is from Body of Song.

Romantic.

Satirical.

Romantic.

Satirical.

Weird Al's "Do I Freak You Out?". Can't get anymore romantic then that. :)

Inspired by the Black Metal thread...

What is your favorite music genre?


Personally I don't have one, unless you want to say Neue Deutsche Härte since that is the genre that my favorite band fits into.

Industrial, Goth, EBM, Experimental, Avant Garde... etc. Lots of stuff.

Green Day, The Offspring, Guns N' Roses, ACDC, Alice in Chains, Aerosmith, Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne, Disturbed, Staind, Weezer, Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, Smashing Pumpkins, Motley Crue, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Foo Fighters, Godsmack, Korn, Led Zeppelin, CCR, Foreigner, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Weird Al Yankovic are among my favorites.

And a few songs from She Wants Revenge and Daft Punk as well.


So basically a variety of music. Some of which many would say sucks but so what? :)

Varying degrees of rock?

Weird Al's "Do I Freak You Out?". Can't get anymore romantic then that. :)

There are better romantic songs.

Since I still appreciate you,
Let's find love while we may.
Because I know I'll hate you
When you are old and grey.

So say you love me here and now,
I'll make the most of that.
Say you love and trust me,
For I know you'll disgust me
When you're old and getting fat.

An awful debility,
A lessened utility,
A loss of mobility
Is a strong possibility.
In all probability
I'll lose my virility
And you your fertility
And desirability.
And this liability
Of total sterility
Will lead to hostility
And a sense of futility.
So let's act with agility
While we still have facility,
For we'll soon reach senility
And lose the ability.

Your teeth will start to go, dear,
Your waist will start to spread.
In twenty years or so, dear,
I'll wish that you were dead.

I'll never love you then at all
The way I do today.
So please remember,
When I leave in December,
I told you so in May.

Edit: When I said "Romantic", I meant the post-Classical genre.

There are better romantic songs.


You need to put "I Got It From Agnes" and "I Hold Your Hand In Mine", and NEVER FORGET, "The Masochism Tango."
For shame!

Varying degrees of rock?

Weezer is rock? :eek:


And i mainly put that last bit in just because of disparaging things i hear about Green Day and the Offspring. I mean its not like I listen to a bunch of Nickelback or something!

You need to put "I Got It From Agnes" and "I Hold Your Hand In Mine", and NEVER FORGET, "The Masochism Tango."
For shame!

:D My fencing buddy's friends wanted to play The Masochism Tango for the first dance at their wedding. The disk jockey objected (he found the song offensive). However, the song was quickly played when the happy couple threatened not to pay the fellow.

Folk.
One type of song that has come into increasing prominence in recent months is the folk-song of protest. You have to admire people who sing these songs. It takes a certain amount of courage to get up in a coffee-house or a college auditorium and come out in favor of the things that everybody else in the audience is against like peace and justice and brotherhood and so on. The nicest thing about a protest song is that it makes you feel so good. I have a song here which I realise should be accompanied on a folk instrument in which category the piano does not alas qualify so imagine if you will that I am playing an 88 string guitar.

We are the Folk Song Army.
Everyone of us cares.
We all hate poverty, war, and injustice,
Unlike the rest of you squares.

There are innocuous folk songs.
Yeah, but we regard 'em with scorn.
The folks who sing 'em have no social conscience.
Why they don't even care if Jimmy Crack Corn.

If you feel dissatisfaction,
Strum your frustrations away.
Some people may prefer action,
But give me a folk song any old day.

The tune don't have to be clever,
And it don't matter if you put a coupla extra syllables into a line.
It sounds more ethnic if it ain't good English,
And it don't even gotta rhyme--excuse me--rhyne.

Remember the war against Franco?
That's the kind where each of us belongs.
Though he may have won all the battles,
We had all the good songs.

So join in the Folk Song Army,
Guitars are the weapons we bring
To the fight against poverty, war, and injustice.
Ready! Aim! Sing! :)

:D My fencing buddy's friends wanted to play The Masochism Tango for the first dance at their wedding. The disk jockey objected (he found the song offensive). However, the song was quickly played when the happy couple threatened not to pay the fellow.

They SOOOOOOO rock, then, IMNSHO. :)
I sing that to wifey on a regular basis. With a little improv dance.

i always liked the muisc from games, mainly zelda and kirby and the likes, people do some funky stuff with game muisc
RATM are amazing

dunno really, probably reggae or breaks or punk.

i always liked the muisc from games, mainly zelda and kirby and the likes, people do some funky stuff with game muisc
RATM are amazing

Castlevania soundtrack ftw.

Castlevania soundtrack ftw.

Megaman II > Any Castlevania.

rock and funky music.. The doors, The Peppers, Jack Johnson, John Butler Trio, Missy Higgins, Lior... oh and I love Nelly Furtado..

Megaman II > Any Castlevania.Ghastly.
Well ...
It must bleep, bleep, bleep!
'nuff said.

I listen to modern rock and metal. That's about it.

If you get down to specifics, I guess my favorite genre is melodic hardcore.

Soft rock and R&B.

My favorite genre of music is black metal, followed right behind by viking/folk metal. Power metal would probably be my third favorite genre.

Ghastly.
Well ...
'nuff said.

Someone's never heard of the Minibosses (http://www.minibosses.com/brassmp3s/09megaman2.mp3) it would seem...

My favorite genre of music is black metal, followed right behind by viking/folk metal. Power metal would probably be my third favorite genre.
I see a pattern emerging...

Oh, and ‘Viking metal’?

Doo wop and rock.

Oh, and ‘Viking metal’?

Basically racist songs under the guise of Norse and Germanic mythology.

Basically racist songs under the guise of Norse and Germanic mythology.

...

The hell?

Basically racist songs under the guise of Norse and Germanic mythology.
Jiminy Cricket...

...

The hell?

Check it out (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_metal#Confusion_with_Nazism_and_far-right_extremism).

I see a pattern emerging...

Oh, and ‘Viking metal’?

Wiki is your friend!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_metal

Jiminy Cricket...



Check it out (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_metal#Confusion_with_Nazism_and_far-right_extremism).

Key term there: confusion...

Viking metal is not racist. It is not NSBM.

edit: Oh, and what pattern do you see?

Key term there: confusion...

Viking metal is not racist. It is not NSBM.
Duly noted.

Oh, and what pattern do you see?
A shiny liquid or solid which conducts heat and electricity.

I like music in general, as long as it's not repetitive or boring; favourites would have to include Sebastian Bach, Bartók, Britten, Bernstein, Stravinsky, Copland, can't think of any others atm because it's 1 AM. But yeah, most of what I listen to is classical, or avant-garde/"classical-esque" jazz or rock, or something along those lines.

BRITpop and everything distinctly British.

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

Since I make music I can't be too picky about the genre (my work would be a constrained, of the shelf copy of its peers in the genre) but I absolutely hate dead-note vocals, excessive use of bad synthesizer and anything made up of a (good or bad) single riff or lots of variations of the same (good or bad) riff.

I am also rock oriented when I choose my tunes.

Favorite genres would be NWOBHM, any Heavy Metal in general with spirit and melody in it, good pop, Jazz for dummies, progressive rock.

Favorite bands and musicians are (first and foremost) Megadeth, (in no particular order) Iron Maiden, Dream Theater, Pink!, Supertramp, Rush, Spastic Ink, Death, Overkill, Annihilator, Judas Priest, Da Vinci's Notebook, Weird Al Yankovic, Abba, Heart, Dio, Merciful Fate, Yngwie Malmsteen, Blind Guardian, Stratovarius, Queensryche, Sanctuary, Karakedi (http://www.myspace.com/karakediband), Nevermore, Halford, Udo, Garbage, Maroon 5, Fairground Attraction, Black Label Society, Motley Crue, Kiss, Wasp, Cinderella, Poison, Skid Row, Rob Zombie, Porcupine Tree, Savatage, The Tea Party, of course, my band Magick (http://www.myspace.com/magicktr) and some others I can't recall at the moment.

Cheerio!

I don't have a favourite genre. Most of the music I listen to falls within these genres though:

post-rock
freak folk
alternative hip-hop and rap
DnB but preferably harder stuff (dark- and techstep) and mainly for going out
not to commercial house, techno, electro etc
experimental electronical music and electronica and indietronica
noise
stuff that doesn't fit into genres
experimental things
other music I enjoy
...

I like pretty much anything; although I listen to mainy rock, pop, jazz and classical. My Dad's a muso so musical tolerance is a must. Plus at school I played in the jazz/Big band. Love Joe-Cocker style rock with big brass sounds too!

'Post-metal', 'post-rock', 'math-rock', metallic hardcore (metalcore...though I differentiate between the two: the former is actually good (Botch, Converge, etc), the latter is commercial and unimaginative (Avenged Sevenfold et al), punk, some ska, electronica...

I tend to look for a nice balance between heavy and melodic, or else melodic and danceable.

Rocky Mountain Hydro-Grind!

Rocky Mountain Hydro-Grind!

Is this like a mix between The James Gang, John Denver, Earl Scruggs and Biohazard?

Someone's never heard of the Minibosses (http://www.minibosses.com/brassmp3s/09megaman2.mp3) it would seem...

I was on drugs pretty much the whole time i ever played those. It was some time and several boxes of Cracklin' Oat Bran and Top Ramen ago.

I tend to favor smaller (lesser known) jam-rock bands...I used to tour around the US following the Grateful Dead, although I cut my musical teeth so to speak, on British punk and Reggae...The Slip (formerly known as Slipknot until those fags from the left coast made them change their name even though they had it first...but a record deal is a record deal in the end...) The Gary Backstrom Band (formerly Jiggle the Handle. BTW reunion set May 24 at the Strange-Creek music festival Greenfield, Mass.) Max Creek, Strange Folk, Col. Bruce Hampton (and whatever musical combo he happens to be playing with, Aquarium Rescue Unit, The Fuji's, The Code Talkers Etc, Etc...)

Ya know, stuff like that...Oh, and any and all Blues!!

Basically racist songs under the guise of Norse and Germanic mythology.

The white supremacist stuff is Viking Rock.

I'm going to have to admit that about the only thing I really listen to is country, more specifically contemporary. I think the oldest singers I listen to are Kenny Rogers and Charlie Daniels Band. I can tolerate listening to rock since just about everyone else I know listens to it, but I don't particularly like it. About the only guy outside of country I tend to like is Weird Al, and one of his songs (White and Nerdy) is about the closest thing to rap I will ever listen to willingly.

Why is it I expect bad things to happen because of this post?

I'm going to have to admit that about the only thing I really listen to is country, more specifically contemporary. I think the oldest singers I listen to are Kenny Rogers and Charlie Daniels Band. I can tolerate listening to rock since just about everyone else I know listens to it, but I don't particularly like it. About the only guy outside of country I tend to like is Weird Al, and one of his songs (White and Nerdy) is about the closest thing to rap I will ever listen to willingly.

Why is it I expect bad things to happen because of this post?

Paranoia? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3ILUic7aN0)

Paranoia? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3ILUic7aN0)

Sadly,my computer hates YouTube for some reason, so I can't see the video. And while I actually think I'm a bit of a paranoid, what I meant was that people sometimes give me weird looks and such when I say "I like country music", thats all.

Inspired by the Black Metal thread...

What is your favorite music genre?


Personally I don't have one, unless you want to say Neue Deutsche Härte since that is the genre that my favorite band fits into.

I can´t say I like one specific genre of music. With it, I´m all over the place. I guess you could say I like everything but rap and RB music.

There are quite a few genres in my music collection, but you could say that I have a fondness for dark and intense music. A few of my favorites:

Napalm Death, Ambassador 21, Wumpscut, Malevolent Creation, Raison d'Être, Bolt Thrower, Photek, Lost Sounds, Ram Trilogy, Death, Killing Joke, Atrocity, Bal-Sagoth, In Slaughter Natives, Zimmer's Hole, Bathory, Funker Vogt, Impaled Nazarene, Deicide, The Kovenant, Pestilence, Laibach, Ammo, Suicide Commando, Fear Factory, Swans, Melvins, Neurosis, Cadaverous Condition, The Prodigy, New Model Army, Autechre, Paradise Lost, Wyrd, Gorefest, Cradle Of Filth, Slayer, Carcass, Dissecting Table, Godflesh, Entombed, Velvet Acid Christ, Celtic Frost, Possessed, Sunn O))), Motorhead, The Wounded, Front 242, Dead Kennedys, Nirvana, Immortal, Discharge, Sepultura, Front Line Assembly, God Dethroned, Enslaved, Red Harvest, The Cure, Faith No More, Grotus...

Mind you, this list is not complete at all.

Ooooh Zimmer's Hole! Davinci's Notebook of Crap Metal! I've forgotten about them, thanks!

Cheerio!

Megaman II > Any Castlevania.

Oh fuck yeah.

Wily Stage 1? That theme is tops. Some another good ones, while from a different game, are X and Zero's themes from Mega Man X4. Here's ye olde links.

Zero's Theme (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFu-rdQeKLs)
X's Theme (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDC_cfQkaBE&feature=related)

Yeah, it's YouTube, becase VGMusic's MIDI doesn't really do it justice.

I couldn't put a list together because I like at least something in nearly all genres.

Ska (madness), Punk (rancid, Dropkick Murphy's) But I Was Born With Hard Rock Music (ac/dc) And You Know That You Can't Forget Your First Love!!

I couldn't put a list together because I like at least something in nearly all genres.
Sounds like a good thing, if you ask me. Diversity keeps things interesting.

Thrash Metal, Groove Metal, and Metal Core.

Not sure. I probably all falls under the term "alternative" though.

According to iTunes, I like alternative too. I have clue what that means, although I've started to suspect that all popular music made after 1980 that isn't rap or candy pop is "alternative."

My favorite genre, though, is probably Romantic, as in Schumann, Beethoven, Liszt, etc.

Oh fuck yeah.

Wily Stage 1? That theme is tops. Some another good ones, while from a different game, are X and Zero's themes from Mega Man X4. Here's ye olde links.

Zero's Theme (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFu-rdQeKLs)
X's Theme (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDC_cfQkaBE&feature=related)

Yeah, it's YouTube, becase VGMusic's MIDI doesn't really do it justice.

Look, honey ... nerds!
:rolleyes: Sheesh. Get a room, you two.

:rolleyes: Sheesh. Get a room, you two.

Er... What? Was that comment directed at me and RotN, or me and Fass? But why even bother anyway?

Good music is good music, regardless of what platform or medium it came from.

Er... What? Was that comment directed at me and RynoD, or me and Fass? But why even bother anyway?Nerds in general. Not excluding myself, as clearly evident from past posts. :p
Actually - the white text was dedicated to you and Fass.

Good music is good music, regardless of what platform or medium it came from.Agreed wholeheartedly. *bows*

Nerds in general. Not excluding myself, as clearly evident from past posts. :p
Actually - the white text was dedicated to you and Fass.
Agreed wholeheartedly. *bows*

Fass may or may not take issue with that. I'm indifferent, as I'm not attracted to dudes, so us getting a room would probably be done to make the bill easier. Actually, that doesn't sound too bad. Cheap hotel bills FTW.

Also agreed, though it always sounds best on vinyl.

I listen to modern rock and metal. That's about it.

If you get down to specifics, I guess my favorite genre is melodic hardcore.

Good stuff. I like Strong Island Sound, which is sometimes in that category and sometimes not... there are too many music genres maybe. :-/

BRITpop and everything distinctly British.

Hard to tell from your name. :P

Actually, that doesn't sound too bad. Cheap hotel bills FTW.
You appeared to have a good humming theme there. Seemed like the next logical step. :p

Also agreed, though it always sounds best on vinyl.I've always wondered if it was really worth it to get some of my industrial stuff through a vinyl medium. Not sure about it.

You appeared to have a good humming theme there. Seemed like the next logical step. :p
I've always wondered if it was really worth it to get some of my industrial stuff through a vinyl medium. Not sure about it.

Oh, pfff.

You should. The bass response on vinyl is fantastic, and it'll blow you away. Even with a cheap, basic system, it's leagues beyond CD.

Oh, pfff.

You should. The bass response on vinyl is fantastic, and it'll blow you away. Even with a cheap, basic system, it's leagues beyond CD.

I think it would help more if i had *any* sound system that i'd be salivating to use on a regular basis.

While I do like some songs from multiple genres, my favorites tend to be metal and hard rock.

My current favorite bands would probably be:

Type O Negative (if I can manage to get a ticket, I'm going to see them in May when they're in Atlanta)
Fear Factory
Lordi
Manowar (been listening a lot to them recently)
Black Sabbath
Iron Maiden
Alice Cooper
Led Zeppelin

plus some others I'm probably forgetting. :)

BRITpop and everything distinctly British.

Then you should deifintely like this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3ILUic7aN0).