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What kind of music are you into?
Cavallo Offline
#1 Posted:
Joined: 01-05-2004
Posts: 2,796
okay, so this is a blatent attempt to find out what kind of tunes youse guys like -- when i send out cigars in trades/pifs/bombs/whatever i like to include a cd or two. muahahahahaha!

that said... what's your genre(s)? what are some of your favorite bands/artists/singers?

i used to have a night shift dj slot at a public radio station where i did six years of spinning alternative-progressive music (my show: Ground Zero, Music for the Terminally Aware). also did several fill-in weekend shifts for Late Night Air Force (classic rock) and Easy Listening for the Hard of Hearing (punk) and the occasional plain and simple Blues Hour. so i credit good ol' WECI for very widely expanding my musical horizons.

personally, i'm an old punk rawker and also still deep into alt/progressive stuff including 80's new wave (sparks, flying lizards) and new wave romantic (tenpole tudor, adam ant), gothic, techno, ska, reggae, old jazz and standards (from bird to sinatra), older blues (howlin' wolf, hooker, bb, koko), classical (including opera -- delibes, orff et al), choral: requiems and masses (da palestrina), OLD CRUSTY COUNTRY (george jones, tammy wynette), and most recently i've gotten into folk and bluegrass -- old and new.
Liz62803 Offline
#2 Posted:
Joined: 01-21-2004
Posts: 2,921
my tastes are very varied - depends on my mood. My fav song at the moment is My Immortal by Evanescence (sp) but I also like celtic music/environmental sounds/piano music/country/adult contemporary/80's music/classic rock/rock/heavy metal

Individual singers/bands

Enya
Enigma
Monk chants
Celtic music
old and new country
Eagles
Genesis
Phil Collins

mind is pulling a blank at the moment - tired

but 70's, 80's music - really anything that fits into any of the categories I mentioned above. I love a little bit of everything and like I said - listen to whatever my mood is requiring :-)
rayder1 Offline
#3 Posted:
Joined: 06-02-2002
Posts: 2,226
Mine runs the 70's-80's route. I listen to anything good. A ton of new stuff is good as well. My wife shakes her head while I'm singing "Where is the Love" with our 14 tear old daughter.

My Old School Favorites:
Kansas, Yes, Rick Wakeman, Styx, Led Zep, Pink Floyd, Montrose, Nugent, B.T.O., Blue Oyster Cult (Soft White Underbelly), Doobies, etc

Newer Stuff:
Dave Matthews,Metallica (new/old), Evanescense, Primus, Creed, Tori Amos, Alanis Morisette,

Funny, I used to rate my top bands by how long it took to wear out their tapes. In this day, it's hard to wear out a cd if you take care of it.

My repeat purchases because of excessive wear are:
Led Zeppelin: The Song Remains the Same
Styx: Pieces of Eight
Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon
Kansas: Two for the Show
Eagles: Live

Thats all I can think of right now.
CWFoster Offline
#4 Posted:
Joined: 12-12-2003
Posts: 5,414
Exqueeze me! OLD CRUSTY COUNTRY should include:
Johnny Horton
Tom T. Hall
Cole Porter
Tammy Wynette
Johnny Cash
Jimmy Dean and I forget the others that reach back that far! most of the ones you named are fairly new! At least to me. I'm mostly a 70's rocker, but VERY eclectic! hold the opera.
Robby Offline
#5 Posted:
Joined: 10-30-2002
Posts: 5,067
Mostly my own original music. It's better than anything else I hear, but I'm partial.
Cavallo Offline
#6 Posted:
Joined: 01-05-2004
Posts: 2,796
yeah, robby, but where do we get to HEAR your stuff? :( what genre is it? i've read the comps you got on your music and truly would like to give it a listen, but i don't know where to find it. :/

liz and CW: *grin* good. i think you'll like the disks coming with your package.

man, there are just some old classics that are STILL great -- led zep, BOC, styx et al... i still want to drive way too fast when "blue collar man" comes on the radio. can you imagine brittney spears being any kind of good after 20+ years? :P
justforfun Offline
#7 Posted:
Joined: 03-06-2002
Posts: 797
Evanescense
JonR Offline
#8 Posted:
Joined: 02-19-2002
Posts: 9,740
Well when it comes to good jitterbug dancing music you can't beat Yanni or John Tesh. LMAO IBMU JonR
RICKAMAVEN Offline
#9 Posted:
Joined: 10-01-2000
Posts: 33,248
tchaikovsky's 1812 overture, violin concerto.

mendholson's violin concerto.

and anita o'day, andrea bocelli, billy holiday, bix, bobby hacket, buddy clark, monserat caballe,
aznovar, django reinhardt, frankie lymon, irving fields, janis ian, john gary, leadbelly, leon redbone,
patsy cline, the hi-lo's, and must not forget the mills bros.

i will of course be happy to dup any of these if requested.

RICKAMAVEN
@HOTMAIL.COM
Cigarick Offline
#10 Posted:
Joined: 07-28-2002
Posts: 3,078
As a serious amateur/semi-pro musician (drums, guitar, keyboards, in order of proficiency), I appreciate excellence in any style, but particularly if it's 'un-plugged--' in my estimation, the purest form of expression.

I particularly like:
Van Halen
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Don Ross
Return To Forever
Robby Longley
Norah Jones
Mary Coppin
Crosby, Stills, and Nash
Beethoven
Jethro Tull
Brahms
Matchbox 20
Kathy Mattea
Gipsy Kings
A bunch more I can't remember right now.
chipslave Offline
#11 Posted:
Joined: 06-19-2003
Posts: 3,145
My tastes vary with my mood too...

Mostly I have been into:

Alternative (Dave Matthews, Jason Mraz, Barenaked Ladies, Etc.)

Older Country music (big Johnny Cash fan, Willie Nelson, etc)

Christian (Jars of Clay, Newsboys, Third Day)

Techno (Darude, ATB, etc)

80's (Depeche Mode, Pet Shop Boys, etc)

Punk (Blink 182, Offspring, Bad Religion, Operation Ivy, etc)

I am too ecletic to fit in one genre I guess. I like almost everything. Everything that is, except the garbage that Clear Channel chruns out here all the time...

dave97402 Offline
#12 Posted:
Joined: 12-24-2003
Posts: 3,598
Well...mostly I like to listen to good worship music!

Then my next favorite is blues!! Tab Benoit is one of my favorites!

Dave
Robby Offline
#13 Posted:
Joined: 10-30-2002
Posts: 5,067
Cavallo, Tony, what's your email addy?
smelly4tay Offline
#14 Posted:
Joined: 11-15-2003
Posts: 2,775
Gotta love the music!

...My absolute all-time faves:

-Stevie Wonder
-Bob Seger
-Tracy Chapman
-The Cure
-Lauryn Hill

Category-wise....a few of my other faves

RAP: E-40, Jay-Z

Country: Travis Tritt, Alan Jackson

Oldies/Motown: Al Green, Otis Redding

Guitar Rock: Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughn

I also gotta mention Dave Mathews, Johnny Cash, and James Taylor as others on my MP3 player rotation.

Dave

Da-Glyde Offline
#15 Posted:
Joined: 10-25-2003
Posts: 892
ALL TIME BEST, ANY STING-POLICE ALBUM

AT THE TIME I AM INTO A GROUP CALLED MINDLESS SELF INDULGENCE or MSI and also Fiona Apple

GIG'EM,

Dan
xrundog Offline
#16 Posted:
Joined: 01-17-2002
Posts: 2,212
I am middle aged now. And I have 2 small children. I have come to treasure SILENCE. Sometimes I just sit and smoke and enjoy the quiet(sigh). I know, someday when the kids are grown,it will be TOO quiet! I love the Time/Life Classic Country CDs! Buck Owens was great!
kornazoo Offline
#17 Posted:
Joined: 12-03-2003
Posts: 312
Classic Jazz,Jazz vocals, Be bop, funk, soul, progressive jazz, or as Duke Ellington said, "There are only two types of music...good and bad." and mid-morning I'll fire up a La Unica Cameroon Belicosa, and turn the music up...Tim..and as RICKMAVEN offered, I am always willing to share whatever I got....
puskarich Offline
#18 Posted:
Joined: 01-04-2003
Posts: 2,143
I can listen to anything, except for country. Never could acquire an ear for country music.
RICKAMAVEN Offline
#19 Posted:
Joined: 10-01-2000
Posts: 33,248
Cigarick

i have a cd of toscanni conducting the nbc orchestra, back in the 40's, playing the 5th. you are welcome to a copy.
RICKAMAVEN Offline
#20 Posted:
Joined: 10-01-2000
Posts: 33,248
puskarich

it's an aquired taste. listen to some chet atkins. usually only instrumentals, but the flavor of country is there. i suspect it is the down home accent that is throwing you off.
billreif Offline
#21 Posted:
Joined: 03-02-2003
Posts: 1,430
Yes
Warren Zevon
Kansas
Joan Armatrading
Peter Gabriel's Genesis
bassdude Offline
#22 Posted:
Joined: 01-13-2004
Posts: 8,871
My tastes have changed drastically.

My album and 8 track collection are pure hard rock to metal and some soft rock like Pat Travers and Pink Floyd.

I still really enjoy 70s and 80s rock with some 90s.
Styx
Aerosmith
Warren Zevon
Metallica
Led Zep
Kansas
Pearl Jam
Lynerd Skynerd
KISS
AC/DC - best concert I barely remember

No punk(exceptd dead kennedys - gotta love too drunk to **** and atomic orgasm) no techno no gospel.

Johnny Cash,Hank and new country.
Alabama
Chesney
McGraw
Charlie Daniels

way too many to name you get the idea.
65gtoman Offline
#23 Posted:
Joined: 06-12-2003
Posts: 858
ROLLING STONES
Moody Blues
JEFFERSON AIRPLANE
JIMI HENDRIX
GRATEFUL DEAD
CCR
MAMAS AND THE PAPAS
DOORS
BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD
fleetwood mac
Janis Joplin
David Crosby
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Big Brother & the Holding Co
WHO
TOM PETTY
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Beatles after they took LSD
Bob Dylan
Animals

bassdude Offline
#24 Posted:
Joined: 01-13-2004
Posts: 8,871
Nice list GTO I like everyone of those.
65gtoman Offline
#25 Posted:
Joined: 06-12-2003
Posts: 858
bassdude I can play the wood flute part in the moody blues song called Timothy Leary, its in the middle of the song.

Sometimes I walk into the woods playing my flute, the animals love it.


Other times a pull the top down in the gto and crank up some god awful polka music to freak out people at the red lights, they point and laugh, and I will yell out to the kids YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT GOOD MUSIC IS YOU LITTLE BASTARDS (acting very upset and angry) then I floor it soon as the light turns green. It’s funny as hell and I laugh like a mad man for miles after doing it.

pabloescabar Offline
#26 Posted:
Joined: 02-25-2005
Posts: 30,183
yea baby!
Cavallo Offline
#27 Posted:
Joined: 01-05-2004
Posts: 2,796
lol 65gto -- my friends and i (in my teen years) would pile in my car and drive by the strip where everyone would hang out blasting their top 40 radio tunes.

we'd put on wagner's "ride of the valkyries" or "1812 overture" and outblast the lot of them. ah, good times. good times. heh

btw -- those of you who don't know the wagner piece -- you might recognize it from cartoons as "kill da wabbit! kill da wabbit!..." or the song in Apocolypse Now that was blaring from the helicopters in the "i love the smell of napalm in the morning" scene. :)
contendertotes Offline
#28 Posted:
Joined: 11-12-2003
Posts: 784
anything that fits in with the groups listed below :
Aerosmith
Kansas
The cars
Boston !!! TOP TEN
Pink floyd !!! TOP TEN
Van Halen (old)
Eagles !!! TOP TEN
Doobie Brothers !!! TOP TEN
Allman Brothers
Lynard Skynard !! TOP TEN
Marshall Tucker Band
Fleetwood Mac !!! TOP TEN
Forgiener
Styx
The Cars
Tom Petty
Journey !! TOP TEN
Bob Seger !! TOP TEN
JIMMY BUFFET !! TOP TEN
THE BEATLES !!! TOP TEN
There are so many others within this group of artists i have not listed...but with these......you know what i like !!

And since my wife listens to country.....and i was raised on it as a child ( but moved on to "ROCK" at the end of "disco" era )
i do like country as well
classics like
Charlie Daniels Band ( more southern rebel rock than country )
Randy Travis
Kenny Rogers
George Straight
George Jones
and newer singers
Alan Jackson
Tim McGraw
Brooks and Dunn

And quit a few i don't know thier names but ...i'd say the top 20 played on the radio !!!
mattmelcher Offline
#29 Posted:
Joined: 02-08-2004
Posts: 96
I used to run a small chain of music stores, 85-97. I have a very large collection of cd's, tapes and, yes, LP's. I have such a wide range of tastes that it drives my wife nuts when i pull out some cd of an artist she's never heard of from 20 years ago and she discovers something else she really likes.

Lately I have been listening to nothing but live music, bootlegs etc. Here's what I'm listening to today:
Dylan-Rolling Thunder Review 1975
Smithereens-Live (Check out their version of 'The Seeker')
J Giels Band
Elvis
Lyle Lovett
John Hiatt

The list could go on and on...
plabonte Offline
#30 Posted:
Joined: 09-11-2000
Posts: 2,131
I'm all over the board. I like metal, dance, rap, celtic, newer punk, top 40. Some of my favorite stuff includes:

Testament
Helloween
Crystal Method
Iron Maiden
Enya
Ice Cube
Ozzy Osbourne
Exodus
Static-X
Union Underground
Secret Garden
Judas Priest
Overkill
Charlie Offline
#31 Posted:
Joined: 06-16-2002
Posts: 39,751
From Rock and Roll:
Rolling Stones
Clapton
Van Morrison
BeeGees
Eagles
Beatles
Bob Seager
Talking Heads
and some others

Blues:
BB King
Muddy Waters
Bob Johnson
Etta James
Howling Wolf
John Lee Hooker'

Great Music
Frank Sinatra
Tony Bennett
Louis Prima
Billie Holliday
Bessie Smith
Ray Charles

Opera and Classical

These are some of the things I listen to, Mostly Sinatra!

Charlie
ferd6 Offline
#32 Posted:
Joined: 10-19-2001
Posts: 1,145
where do i begin:

The Beatles
full scale Wagner operas
Steely Dan
Bill Evans (the deceased jazz pianist)
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer
King Crimson
Sade
Enya
Beethoven symphonies (box set - Deutsche Grammophone label / Von Karajan conducting from mid 70's)
Moody Blues
Chicago (stop at album 7)
Pat Metheny
Chick Corea
Flora Purim
Herbie Hancock
(stopping now before I get carried away)
nfldraftman Offline
#33 Posted:
Joined: 01-28-2004
Posts: 642
I'm pretty eclectic, I have Stones, Miles Davis, Beethoven, Johnny Cash, Public Enemy, but that said....#1 is definitely Heavy Metal.

Rammstein
Slayer
Black Sabbath
Godflesh
Pantera
you get the idea. Banging my head until they nail shut my coffin.
p_funk Offline
#34 Posted:
Joined: 12-19-2003
Posts: 11
Some of my favorites are:

Dave Matthews
Incubus
Pearl Jam
Pink Floyd
KORN
Phish
Tom Petty
Grateful Dead
Bob Marley
Led Zepplin
those are just some of the top of my head.
plabonte Offline
#35 Posted:
Joined: 09-11-2000
Posts: 2,131
Rammstein...good band.
gerber Offline
#36 Posted:
Joined: 10-30-2002
Posts: 783
Deep Purple
Rainbow
Pink Floyd
Steve Morse/Dregs and solo stuff
Malmsteen
Frank Marino/Mahogeny Rush
Van Halen
Jethro Tull
Eric Johnson
Allan Holdsworth
Steve Vai

And all types of traditional jazz.
BeatDragon Offline
#37 Posted:
Joined: 02-28-2003
Posts: 4,754
Led Zeppelin
Black Sabbath
Judas Priest
Phish
Accept
AC/DC
Miles Davis
Al DiMeola
Iron Maiden
Glen Miller
Benny Goodman
Frank Zappa
Mozart
Beethovan
Vivaldi
Elton John
Neil Young
UFO
System of a Down
Static X
The Cars
Bach
MSG
Deep Purple
Soundgarden
Alice in Chains...thats just off the top of my head
choner Offline
#38 Posted:
Joined: 02-04-2003
Posts: 876
RADIOHEAD!
Ween
The Beatles
Neil Young
Aphex Twin
John Coltrane
Pucini
Bjork
Charles Mingus
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Air
Groove ARmada
Mos Def
The Smiths
White STripes
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Robert Johnson
Gillian Welch
St.Germaine
Beck
Public Enemy
Blonde Redheads
The Cure

The list goes on and on and on....

choner
Sonny_LSU Offline
#39 Posted:
Joined: 11-21-2002
Posts: 1,835
everything, but on my launchcast and when I workout I blare the following (in no particular order):

Judas Priest
Dokken
Dio
Godsmack
Nickelback
Metallica
12 Stones
Sevendust
U2
Creed

Burky4467 Offline
#40 Posted:
Joined: 12-27-2003
Posts: 875
Stuff (mostly) no one has heard of:
Dada
Wilco
Son Volt
Uncle Tupelo
Jayhawks
Bottle Rockets
Better Than Ezra
Jack O' Pierce
kcpaco Offline
#41 Posted:
Joined: 11-19-2003
Posts: 51
just a few:
Radiohead
Sigur Ros
Explosions in the Sky
Ween
Modest Mouse
Grandaddy
Death Cab for Cutie
bloody spaniard Offline
#42 Posted:
Joined: 03-14-2003
Posts: 43,802
Anything with bongos & a guitar wa-wa sound.

Second choice is GTO playing with his "flute" in the woods.
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