Your Music Tastes'

[viru30]

As the thread title implies, this is a thread where you are able to share your music tastes, no matter what genre you're most interested in. Now with differences aside, let's share some music tastes', shall we?

I'm most interested in light music like ska and reggae. Upbeat, and symbolic, not like most genres of music out there today. Most reggae songs have a deep meaning to them, and most of the time the general meaning of the song is to get through either the best or worst of times together. Reggae overall is just beautiful, aspiring music that describes stories of unity, sorrow, and compassion.

I have a very widespread music taste, from happy and upbeat music such as Sublime and Peter Tosh to the darker side of music such as Iron Maiden and Pantera. Yes, Pantera. I'm into that whole southern attitude thing. Black Label Society FTW. I listen to practically anything, really. Celtic Frost. Amon Amarth. Arch Enemy. In Flames. Dark Tranquility. CKY. Freezepop. Led Zeppelin. ZZ Top. Counting Crows. Senses Fail. Megadeth. Atreyu. As I Lay Dying. Blink 182. I think you get the point.


And a big "You're Awesome!" sticker goes to the person that knew all of those bands.

I'm a big fan of the 90's Seattle grunge scene too. Soundgarden, Alice In Chains. STP, Smashing Pumpkins.

I'm always open to new styles of music, so feel free to suggest some stuff for me.

[Rev0lver]

theres alot of things i like. but mostly hardcore/metal. i mostly like progressiveish stuff(ex. the human abstract), some power metal, european death/death power metal(norther, suidakra)

bands that are hard to fit into genres(the fall of troy, the sound of animals fighting). some screamo. i love industrial. but i also do like zeppelin, rush, maiden, and aerosmith.

[FunkaTrunk]

I'll start from what I first started listining to, and go up to the latest band I listen to.

The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
AC/DC
Twisted Sister
Led Zeppline
Deap Purple
Jimi Hendrix
Mc Fly and the Pigion Coopies
Guns N' Roses
Pink Floyd
Neil Young
White Stripes
Iron Maiden
Ozzy Ozbourne
Yngwie Malmsteen
Hammerfall
Dragonforce
Dethklok
Lordi (My all time favorite band, EVER)

I've HEARD allot more bands, but these are the ones I listen to enough to remember what there called.

[metalupyourass]

i mostly like metal any kind really except for black metal. also some of the new music like bullet for my valentine and all that remains and stuff like that.

[benjamin]

Bands I like:
Blink 182 (fun music)
Dragonforce
Blind Guardian
Cream
Foo Fighters

Bands I love:
Sublime
Reel Big Fish
Rolling Stones
Sunn0)))
The Sex Pistols

Bands I dislike:
Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyd
The Beatles
Jimi Hendrix.


I will admit that out of all the bands I like I named those ones because they are so beloved.

[Phiromos]

i'm really into 60's stuff like the beatles...my all time favorite band...but i also kinda like funk rock...like RHCP

[lithiumkc]

/cut n paste

Nick Drake, Beatles, Nirvana, Radiohead, Sublime, The Doors, Hendrix, Beck, Led Zep, Floyd, Queen, Rage Against The Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Queens Of The Stone Age, Pendulum, lots of different house n stuff.... Ministry Of Sound, Global Underground, Scratch Perverts, Sasha .... Jedi Mind Tricks, Ludacris, Chemical Brothers... pretty much anything if its good

I got big into house and other decent electronica a while ago... But there's so much CRAP to sift through before you start finding good stuff.

[whofan]

Well, my musical tastes are very much stuck in the period between 1960 and 1990.

I started getting into Classic Rock when my Uncle introduced me to it about 8 years ago. Since then I've amassed a "The Who" collection well into the 500 item mark and have the complete collections of Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey, John Entwistle and Keith Moon solo works.

Other Classic Rock artists I really love: The Beatles, Pink Floyd (Mostly post-Roger Waters (i.e. A Momentary Lapse Of Reason and The Division Bell), Queen, Brian May, Elton John (Early Elton. i.e. Madman Across The Water, Tumbleweed Connection, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, The Fox, Jump Up), Steve Vai, Eric Johnson and Boston

In addition to this genre I also love a lot of Classic Metal (not Speed, Thrash or Death). By Classic I mean groups like Judas Priest (I have 90% of their albums) and Iron Maiden.

I also have a bit of a weak spot for 80's pop. However, I must be in the right mood for this.

The final genre of music I really like is Punk. I'm not a huge fan of the Sex Pistols (Blasphemy you cry!) but I do really like The Clash. In addition I really like The Donnas too, even though they're more modern.

That's about it.

P.S. I also like some instrumental stuff (Mostly soundtracks to movies, but I also have "Method Music" by Lawrence Ball and Pete Townshend) to put on in the background

[Desensitized]

I love every kind of rock style and genre there is, although I'm not much of a fan of metal. Never really clicked for me.

My favorite eras include late 60s classic rock, late '70s/early '80s punk, non-mainstream '80s stuff (anything underground in the '80s blew away the mainstream stuff), and early to mid '90s indie and alternative rock.

Rock, punk, ska, alternative, hard rock, classic rock, indie, folk, garage rock, surf, psychedelia, proto-punk, and even some glam rock.

[Monsterpoptart]

my favorites are mostly metal, pantera, all that remains, and children of bodom being my favorites. ill listen to techno and house, but my dad is a dj so ive gotten bored with it. other than metal i listen to heavy rock, and alternative.

[sanctified]

Industrial, Ambient, cheesy pop music, and the bigger alternative hits of the 90's, i.e. Hole, Cake, The Mavis's, Third Eye Blind, The Verve, Regurgitator...

Favourites atm...
Nine Inch Nails, Deftones, Faith No More, Frank Sinatra, Amy Winehouse, Delerium, Massive Attack, Madonna, Arcturus, Zao.

Fair mix in there.

[RevenGer]

Well, some of my favorite bands/DJs are:
Radiohead, Sonic Youth, Nine Inch Nails, Aphex Twin, Smashing Pumpkins, Massive Attack, My Bloody Valentine, Squarepusher, Air, Alice in Chains, Beastie Boys, Arctic Monkeys, Chemical Brothers, Blur, Björk, Dead Kennedys, DJ Krush, DJ Shadow, U.N.K.L.E., Led Zeppelin, Interpol, Marilyn Manson, Ministry Modest Mouse, Muse, Pavement, Prodigy, Pendulum, Pink Floyd, Queens of the Stone Age, Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots, The Clash, The Cure, The Doors, Weezer, Yeah Yeah Yeahs... etc.

[no_direction_home]

i like every thing except pop rap emo techno and death metal

[Schlozz]

I love a huge variety of music. Mostly prog rock, then indie, then metal.

[The_Lizard_King]

im a blues and folk fan, i venture into other genres a little but i keep my roots

[KillerIsMe]

Grunge is close to my heart, Nirvana, Alice In Chains, Pearl Jam, Mudhoney...
Also I'm into som of the death/goth-metal, like Meshuggah, Behemoth and Cult Of Luna...
Alternative rock is awesome too, like Queens of the Stone Age, Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails...

There's alot more of course, but that's the "important" part of it.

[MrGrieves]

I listen mostly to Indie and Metal depends what mood I am in, I also listen to a lot prog rock

[Rockerman]

I like the 60's/70's rock Like Beatles,Janis Joplin,Hendrix,Stones,Zepplin,ACDC,Pink Floyd,WHO, Black Sabbath,Ozzy,etc
I'm also into some metal like Antrax,Slayer,MegaDeth,Moterhead.
Oldschool rap from N.W.A.,Public Enemy,2Pac,Bigge Smalls,Snoop Dogg,
And the only tecno i like is Daft Punk
I really don't like this new mainstream crap that is out nowadays.The only thing I like thats even close to that is Gorillaz.
So I have to say I've gotta pretty wide variety.

[dlisapussy]

My main tastes are reggae and classic rock

i would name some bands but i have 593 artists on my iTunes so its kinda hard

and 14,787 songs!

[battle_axe_of_doom]

lmao i'm not gonna say my library is unbeatable but i'm sure its close :p

lets see according to itunes which is missing roughly 40 gigs of my music collection i have : 13, 258 songs, 721 artists, and it would take 44.2 days of striaght listening to get through it all.

on hindsight you have more songs than me ..... for now :chinrub:

[battle_axe_of_doom]

sry for the double post but let me try to get some in here

miles davis, sabbath, beatles, stones (don't really care for them but they have some brilliant albums), bjork, justice (french house band), aphex twin, massive attack, portishead, paatos, porcupine tree, king crimson, genesis, yes, metallica, megadeth, testament, death angel, dark angel, deathspell omega, death, morbid angel, mayhem, burzum, emperor, atheist, cynic, dr. dre, snoop, mos def, black star, wu-tang clan, willie nelson, johnny winter, wobbler, anekdoten, mercyful fate, king diamond, celtic frost, hellhammer, arcturus, ulver, head control system, alice in chains, soundgarden, the who, the kinks, iron butterfly, meshuggah, shining, aesop rock, cLOUDDEAD, cannibal ox, murs, public enemy, opeth, mahavishnu orchestra, fiona apple, tori amos, egg, can, tangerine dream, mellow candle, mastodon, martyr, martin simpson, the mars volta, frank zappa, machinehead, beethoven, leviathan, xasthur, lurker of chalice, joni mitchell, enslaved, akercocke, pink floyd, pixies, radiohead, muse, arctic monkeys (only recently though), the editors, interpol, murder by death, bloc party, peter bjorn & john, sufjan stevens, iron & wine, linda perhacs, les claypool, primus, buckethead, etc etc etc etc :P:P:P

[aku_chi]

My favorite music is modern rock. I can appreciate all kinds of modern rock from pop-punk and brit-pop to metal but my favorite genres are grunge and post-grunge.

My favorite bands: Pearl Jam, 3 Doors Down, Alice In Chains, Blink-182, Bush, Chevelle, Evanescense, Foo Fighters, Green Day, Guns 'n Roses, Jimmy Eat World, Linkin Park, Metallica, No Doubt, Oasis, The Offspring, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Shinedown, Smashing Pumpkins, Staind, Stone Temple Pilots, Sum 41, U2, and Weezer.

[Kutsic]

My favorite artists are:

Linkin Park
In Flames
Agalloch
Slipknot
AFI
Opeth
Gackt
Dir en Grey
Dark Tranquillity
Arch Enemy
Dimmu Borgir
Anorexia Nervosa
Satyricon
Cradle of Filth
HIM
As I Lay Dying
Katatonia
Nas
He is Legend
Avril Lavigne

I listen to pretty much whatever I think sounds good, from raw black metal to pop.

[lithiumkc]

It's expanded from nirvana, sublime, led zeppelin and the like up til about 17, to 4000 downloaded songs in the past couple years by countless artists since I found torrents. I like basically every genre but country. Countrys not my thing. I'm pretty picky in the music I listen to so I have to REALLY like it in order to push myself to listen to it. If i'm not struck or moved by a song in any way, it'll generally not be in my ipod.

[SoraRikuVGM]

I listen to a good mix, but strictly no country.

[battle_axe_of_doom]

willie neslon is good bro check him out

[CrazyIvan]

To be honest, I'm just a fan of music. I think anyone that limits themselves to one genre is limiting their life, as well. Music is one of the great mediums in this world of ours that allows you to transcend, contemplate, love, laugh, even rage.

Of course, there are genres that I appreciate more than others, but I cannot think of a single type of music that I can completely rule out.

I'm just as much a fan of Sepultura as I am of Johnny Cash.
I love me some Pantera, but I have been known to nod my head to Cypress Hill.
Bach moves me and The Who makes me feel young.
Enya settles me, Hatebreed gets me fired up.
Afro Celt Sound System literally makes me cry with its beauty.
Ska makes me happy and raggae makes me feel high. (And yes, I just mean feel high.)

If I were to list off all of my favorite bands, it would take forever. My hippie parents taught me at a young age that music is truly a gift of life, and nearly everything can be appreciated if you give it enough time. I was raised on the Beatles and Cream, grew into metal during my "formative" years, and mellowed a bit with celtic music now that I'm older. I think in between I've hit on pretty much every other genre and found something to make me happy.

[newwaytodie]

*Standing Ovation!*

[battle_axe_of_doom]

and mellowed a bit with celtic music now that I'm older

do you like lunasa??

[CrazyIvan]

I had not heard of Lunasa before, but I checked them out real quick. Awesome stuff! Very reminiscent of the Chieftains or Cherish the Ladies. Thank you for the guidance on that one!

Have you ever listened to Afro Celt? By far one of the most unique bands in the world. Quite honestly, I've never heard anyone else that even resembles their style. I consider them to be one of the best musical talents this world has ever known. 'Course, they're not for everyone, but there are a few songs that have quite literally changed my life.

[battle_axe_of_doom]

afro celt huh?? not to sound racist but that sounds like a celtic band with black influences. will wiki them and youtube them soon :thumbsup:

[CrazyIvan]

They are a very tough band to describe, but essentially they are what happens when you throw together a traditional Irish band, a traditional African band, a smattering of mid-Eastern influenced musicians, and a DJ.

If that doesn't at least make you wonder what in blue blazes that's gotta' sound like, you're just not human. Whether or not you like it is another story, but the talent level of this band is through the roof.

My personal favorite album is Volume 2.

Here are a couple YouTube vids:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=IeNU600stLA (Sinnead O'Connor did the vocals on this one)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=em7bk_McVHU (Peter Gabriel guest sings on this one)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=V4gyK6NYT1Q (This'll show you how diverse the band is)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=XrJW33JkVlM (not really a video, but a good way to listen to my favorite song by them)

That'll at least get you started.

[battle_axe_of_doom]

i'll watch the peter gabriel one immediately (one of my heroes)

just saw two vids and i dig it very much, good job bro :thumbsup:

will watch the other two after i get done with some xbox live :D

[CrazyIvan]

Glad you liked them!
I found this band completely by accident a few years ago, and I really mean it when I say they changed my life. I know some people will listen to the songs, roll their eyes, and wonder what crack I'm smoking. But I personally think they are some of the most talented musicians on Earth. I love spreading the good word about them.

Cheers!

Didn't mean to hijack this thread, by the way.
Now back to the regularly scheduled post...

[battle_axe_of_doom]

yeah i dig most types of music and if peter gabriel is in it its guaranteed to be good

[tharshmetalUK]

My favorite bands are:

Metallica
Megadeth
Iron Maiden
Pantera
Overkill
Slayer
Trivium
Anthrax
Testament
Machine Head
Motorhead

[newwaytodie]

Here's a few bands that I had the pleasure of discovering/rediscovering recently:


Cannibal Corpse
Eternal Tears of Sorrow
Scar Symmetry
Sentenced
The Haunted
Sepultura
Amorphis
Wintersun
Soilwork
Norther
The Duskfall
Immortal
Strapping Young Lad
Disarmonia Mundi
Sinergy
Graveworm
Bloodbath
Annihiliator
Satyricon
Mnemic
Imperanon
Golden Dawn
Tristania
Sirenia
Epica
Xandria
Haggard
Visions of Atlantis
Lunatica

[battle_axe_of_doom]

sepultura & satyricon : old or new :\

[OliverTwisted]

My tastes = rock 'n roll.

Now rock n' roll can be broken down into two genres, 'rocks' and 'sucks'. I prefer the stuff that rocks.

[MotleyPriest111]

80s Rock. All types. Hair Metal, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Pop Metal, Glam Metal, anything from the 80s.

[Tomahawk214]

I like a very guitar-centered band. Stuff that isn't too over the top (e.g death metal) but I don't really like soft rock (except Journey). Most of the stuff I like is the classic hard rock, e.g Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Aerosmith, Jimi Hendrix, Motley Crue, Van Halen, Black Sabbath, Ozzy, GnR, Joe Satriani, Rush, Def Leppard, Warrant, Kansas, Cheap Trick, RHCP, etc. I like some modern bands too with that classic rock sound too, like Wolfmother, Velvet Revolver, etc.

[CaptainHowdy101]

Some of the bands I really like are


L7, KISS, The Allman Brothers, David Bowie, Prince, Billy Joel, Frank Black, South Park Mexican, and BB King. I also listen to a local station called Country Legends, that plays only classic country, its really good.

[geovin221]

early 1970s, underground 80's, early to mid 1990's... Barley any 2000's.

soundgarden, aliceinchains, nirvana, lamb of god, i dunno...

[ajrapper]

i listen to all genres! country is my least favorite and rock/nu metal is my favorite. Linkin park, Saosin, Taking back Sunday...great bands!

[Simonious]

I'm gonna look through my playlist and just get every artist in there.

311 (I has a discography)
Rage Against the Machine (I has another discography)
Amon Tobin (He did the soundtrack for Splinter Cell Chaos Theory. Really good electronic jazz type stuff)
Anarchy Club (I've become a fan ever since GH)
Avenged Sevenfold
Bad Religion
Beastie Boys (Rap, yes, I think it's catchy though)
Bentframe (Did both of the Star Wars Gangsta Raps)
Bob Marley (Ftw)
Buckethead (Not... Jordan)
Busta Rhymes (One of the few 'actual rappers' I like)
Cake (They're simply put, leet as hell)
Charlie Parker
Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains (Les Claypool and Buckethead. Ftw)
Count Zero (Also a fan since GH)
Danzig (Glenn Danzig, hells yes)
Dean Martin (Huge fan of 40's jazz)
Death from Above 1979
Drist (Fan since GH, once again)
Foo Fighters
Frank Sinatra
Front 242
Gorillaz
Interpol
mc chris (Geek rap)
MC Frontalot (My favorite geek rapper)
MC Hawking (The last geek rapper on here)
Megadeth
Miles Davis
Primus (Les Claypool :D)
Queens of the Stone Age (Awesome, Era Vulgaris is ew, though)
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Richard Cheese (Good parody artist)
Rush
Shadows Fall
System of a Down
Tenacious D
That Handsome Devil
The Beatles
The Cure (Discography)
The Doors
The Fratellis
The Killers
The Misfits
The Ramones
The Slip
The White Stripes
The Von Bondies
Toadies
Weezer