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I personally like classic rock, metal, techno and Industrial, Ronald Jenkees lol. Most times I turn on youtube and listen to super awesome acoustic guitar players like Andy Mckee, Dominic Frasca and bob ross to name a small few. What about everyone else?

20's through to the 80's, some metal, some rock, some pop.

I like music.

However my cousin has more refined tastes, and goes with Mainstream.

Heavy F***in' metal. currently I'm really into Scandinavian melodeath, black metal, old school death metal, thrash, groove metal, and stuff of that sort.

Okay, I get it, you like Metal. A lot.

Honestly I think Metal is an assualt on the senses.

I've moved on to rap.

If you're part of the 2% that still listens to real music, copy this and put it in your sig.

lol Nice. The metal I like isnt radio crap. Im really into Messhuggah right now. My god thier music is complex

dude, same here. The music vid for bleed is possibly the most disturbing video I've ever seen, hands down.

Punk,but to me that covers a HUGE variety of musical styles,from The Ramones & The Clash to The Misfits & The Exploited and everything in between,it's always been the music that I belive is most encompasing of life & the music I've identified with most.

Death/thrash/black metal, and classic rock because I'm too cheap to put a CD player in my car. Lately my favorites are Cryptopsy, Suicide Silence and Nile. I can't sing along with it, because trying to emulate that vocal style makes me feel like I'm about to barf. It's good background music for painting.

Everything good, which may sound simple, but takes a lot of practice.

All forms of music have potential, and I would hope to see some serious fusion before grow old.

Do the funky grandpa!!! (involves a lot of cursing, liquids, and general loss of social consciousness)

Wait theres music other then rap?
But yeah rap and pop. I dont get why people hate it so much.

I could give you as many reasons as there are rap 'artists', but I don't feel like a rant right now.

Unlike a lot of people though, i don't blame the people who listen to the genre, just the genre itself.

Oh please tell me.

I like both kinds of music, country and western.

Seriously though, country is good if its country and not new country. Willie Nelson forever!

I've really been getting into klezmer recently (Go Cracow Klezmer's "De Profundis"!), and I'm currently working my way through the Buckethead catalog (so far "Cuckoo Clocks of Hell" is what's rocking me), and interested on starting on Meshugga because I've heard intimations that it's good prog/math rock.

Then there's the Halifax connection, including such artists as Jill Barber (sweet buttery voice), Kid Koala (DJ), Metric (okay, not Halifax but still the bomb, even without Feist), Buck 65, and Joel Plaskett. I still need to find more Grand Theft Bus - so many good memories. For T. local music I'm still angling to get the Buffalo Builders' latest CD, which has a bass track that'll blow your mind.

Hip-hop-wise, K'naan, RJD2, Buck 65, and Johnny Hardcore.

Then there's the old standbys: Modest Mouse, Michael Jackson, White Stripes, Johnny Cash, Mark Knopfler, Neutral Milk Hotel, Django Reinhardt, Tom Waits, and all the Metallica covers I can find (including Rockabye Baby Lullaby Renditions of Metallica, Apocalyptica, and Fade to Bluegrass).

garret wrote:Oh please tell me.

Ok.

reason 1: Music as an industry as opposed to music as an artform. Most of Pop, and almost as much of rap, is made for the purpose of making money. Jonas Brothers, Snoop Dog or however he spells his name, Miley Cirus, M&M.... tell me this music isn't put onto an album to make money, and I will laugh for hours. After all, what does pop mean? MUSIC THAT IS POPULAR. Musicians being succesful is not bad, but when the genre was classified as pop from it's early albums, you know it was created to be popular.

reason 2: Sexism in rap. It pisses me off, and it pisses people off. Granted there is going to be some of this found in every genre, but not nearly on the level of rap.

reason 3: Lack of thought gone into music. How much time do you think it takes to create a beat on a computer and have some dude talk in rhythm to it? not much, compared to the time it takes to compose a classical piece or write a progressive with a REAL drummer, bassist, Guitarist, etc...

reason 4: Lack of emotion gone into music/diversity in musical themes. This doubles as supportive evidence for reason 1. What do you usually see pop 'artists' sing about? Love, love, love, love, money, cars, love, and love. Do you honestly expect us to believe that these are the only emotions and thoughts going through these people's heads? They aren't. If you ask 100 people what their thoughts are regarding the reason musicians play music, one undeniable fact that you would come away with is that music is about, among other things, emotional expression. Lack of this in pop and rap leaves only one truly likely outcome: the music is played for money. But, you say, what if they just have fun writing songs about this stuff? what if they're just happy people who like to play happy music because all they feel is happiness? That's another possibility. Look at Britney Spears. Look at all the pop artists who have gone into rehab and had their problems flaunted on people magazine. Look like happy, secure people to you? Uh-uh. Well what about pop artists who haven't exhibited these traits? Well they may be happy people as far as we know, but this still has not fixed the industry problem, which is arguably the largest reason this music is hated. Besides, it is in part this encouragement of shallowness and obsession with love and popularity that makes people hate it so much. Now, let's take Cannibal Corpse, one of the bands I could see people using against me in this argument. All they ever write about is death, destruction, death, death, and more death. They are arguably the same as any pop band, right? Examine interviews. Read biographies. Guess what Corpsegrinder talks about in his interviews? World of Warcraft and his family. Ever gone to rehab during his musical career? nope. Ever seen his problems flaunted on people magazine? No way. What about Bob Rusay? nope. Here is a happy person/happy people who play their music because it's fun. Another thing that makes this better than pop is that Cannibal Corpse's music expresses opposite emotions from those found in him as a person. If the whole diversity of emotional expression has gone out of the equation and the fun thing has come in, how much fun is it going to be to sing about happiness, over and over and over again if he's happy most of his life? not much. Also, Cannibal Corpse's music does not exhibit emotional diversity, but the complexity, skill, and devotion that have gone into the music is undeniably vastly greater than any rap or pop artist could ever hope to come close to. It just doesn't take as much devotion to learn a few chords and sing or come up with random, rhyming lyrics as it does to scream for 15 seconds straight in a voice that would destroy anyone else's vocal chords, or to learn scales, arpeggios, and play riffs of the complexity found in this band. These are traits that you will see in the majority of metal bands, as well as a far grater capacity for emotional expression. This isn't me saying that metal is the only good genre, just me preemptively defending it from counter-strike because I've heard these things argued too many times.

phew. That was an effective waste of a lot of my time. I don't mind if people listen to this stuff, but this is why it pisses me off personally, and quite often the reason other people hate it too.

You should paste that in your sig instead.

Bloodbath and Bathory are the most superior forms of music.

Here's a long list of the artists I frequent.

Opeth, Bathory, Tool, Bloodbath, Arch Enemy, Behemoth, Hypocrisy, Carcass, Enslaved, Burzum, Alice in Chains, Bolt Thrower, Children of Bodom, Death, Kreator, Unleashed, Megadeth, Norther, Belphegor, Iced Earth, White Zombie, Wintersun, Korpiklaani, Amon Amarth, Belphegor, Satyricon, Slayer, Arsis, TAD, Pantera, The Melvins, Celtic Frost, Dimmu Borgir, Darkthrone, Black Sabbath, Mayhem, Vader, This Ending, Iced Earth, Dethklok, Mudhoney, Decapitated, God Forbid, Emperor, Metallica, Motörhead, Judas Priest, Aeon, Nevermore, Deicide, Napalm Death, Symphony X, Anthrax, Nile, Deep Purple, Pearl Jam, Iron Maiden, Kyuss, Evile, Vital Remains, Immortal, Suffocation, Wardruna, Sonic Youth, Monster Magnet, Gorgoroth, Nightwish, Obituary, Nirvana, Cannibal Corpse, Stone Temple Pilots, Sodom, Queens of the Stone Age, Firewind, Spiritual Beggars, Faith No More, Exodus, GWAR, Led Zeppelin, Municipal Waste, Lamb of God, Down, Apocalyptica, Rammstein, Mother Love Bone, In Flames, Finntroll, Marduk I could go on and on.

Yeah I'm a man who likes his metal. I also really enjoy grunge, blues, ambient and folk.

Alternative
Industrial
Horrorcore
Some metal... not much though
some rap... usually older stuff or current indie.
some classic rock
Same classical
Anime soundtracks, but NO J-pop... I CAN NOT stand J-pop.
Grunge
and a wierd mix of other stuff

I like to listen to a lot of stuff... including country... right now most of the music on my iPhone is rap/hiphop

Loads of slightly older stuff for me...Meatloaf, Queen, Billy Joel, Elton John, Beautiful South, Eminem, Lighthouse family, Robbie Williams, Whitney Houston.


So a mix of music types for me.

Northern Soul.

The things I listen to......

Songs (not bands)

All I know (feat. T.L. Smooth) Take Me Out (Franz Ferdinand) Dracula from Houston (Butthole Surfers) Go Either Way (Cord) Out Here all Night (Damone) 88 (The Cool Kids) New Divide (Linkin Park) Reason to Believe (Dashboard Confessional) Miss Murder (AFI) Indestructable (Disturbed) I'm Alive (Disturbed) Stricken (Disturbed) Punk Rock Superstar (Marcy Playground) Get Up (Here's to the Mourning) I am the Walrus (Beatles) The Girl from Ipaneema (Don't know Artist) Piano Man (Don't know Artist) Copa Cabana (Barry Manilow) Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds (Beatles) Yesterday (Beatles)

And lots more....

I listen to a fair few video game soundtracks. It sounds dweebish, but there are some really good ones around. My personal favourites are Halo, Emperor: Battle for Dune, and Legend of Zelda.

Orkeosaurus wrote:I've moved on to rap.

If you're part of the 2% that still listens to real music, copy this and put it in your sig.

I hate people who post that crap in their sig. It is such a pathetic display.


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Cheese Elemental wrote:I listen to a fair few video game soundtracks. It sounds dweebish, but there are some really good ones around. My personal favourites are Halo, Emperor: Battle for Dune, and Legend of Zelda.

Gotta agree there, games sometimes have great soundtracks.

You know which game soundtrack I really like......


Universe at War: Earth Assault.

I don't know why....

High Commissar Biffsmack wrote:

garret wrote:Oh please tell me.

Ok.

reason 1: Music as an industry as opposed to music as an artform. Most of Pop, and almost as much of rap, is made for the purpose of making money. Jonas Brothers, Snoop Dog or however he spells his name, Miley Cirus, M&M.... tell me this music isn't put onto an album to make money, and I will laugh for hours. After all, what does pop mean? MUSIC THAT IS POPULAR. Musicians being succesful is not bad, but when the genre was classified as pop from it's early albums, you know it was created to be popular.

reason 2: Sexism in rap. It pisses me off, and it pisses people off. Granted there is going to be some of this found in every genre, but not nearly on the level of rap.

reason 3: Lack of thought gone into music. How much time do you think it takes to create a beat on a computer and have some dude talk in rhythm to it? not much, compared to the time it takes to compose a classical piece or write a progressive with a REAL drummer, bassist, Guitarist, etc...

reason 4: Lack of emotion gone into music/diversity in musical themes. This doubles as supportive evidence for reason 1. What do you usually see pop 'artists' sing about? Love, love, love, love, money, cars, love, and love. Do you honestly expect us to believe that these are the only emotions and thoughts going through these people's heads? They aren't. If you ask 100 people what their thoughts are regarding the reason musicians play music, one undeniable fact that you would come away with is that music is about, among other things, emotional expression. Lack of this in pop and rap leaves only one truly likely outcome: the music is played for money. But, you say, what if they just have fun writing songs about this stuff? what if they're just happy people who like to play happy music because all they feel is happiness? That's another possibility. Look at Britney Spears. Look at all the pop artists who have gone into rehab and had their problems flaunted on people magazine. Look like happy, secure people to you? Uh-uh. Well what about pop artists who haven't exhibited these traits? Well they may be happy people as far as we know, but this still has not fixed the industry problem, which is arguably the largest reason this music is hated. Besides, it is in part this encouragement of shallowness and obsession with love and popularity that makes people hate it so much. Now, let's take Cannibal Corpse, one of the bands I could see people using against me in this argument. All they ever write about is death, destruction, death, death, and more death. They are arguably the same as any pop band, right? Examine interviews. Read biographies. Guess what Corpsegrinder talks about in his interviews? World of Warcraft and his family. Ever gone to rehab during his musical career? nope. Ever seen his problems flaunted on people magazine? No way. What about Bob Rusay? nope. Here is a happy person/happy people who play their music because it's fun. Another thing that makes this better than pop is that Cannibal Corpse's music expresses opposite emotions from those found in him as a person. If the whole diversity of emotional expression has gone out of the equation and the fun thing has come in, how much fun is it going to be to sing about happiness, over and over and over again if he's happy most of his life? not much. Also, Cannibal Corpse's music does not exhibit emotional diversity, but the complexity, skill, and devotion that have gone into the music is undeniably vastly greater than any rap or pop artist could ever hope to come close to. It just doesn't take as much devotion to learn a few chords and sing or come up with random, rhyming lyrics as it does to scream for 15 seconds straight in a voice that would destroy anyone else's vocal chords, or to learn scales, arpeggios, and play riffs of the complexity found in this band. These are traits that you will see in the majority of metal bands, as well as a far grater capacity for emotional expression. This isn't me saying that metal is the only good genre, just me preemptively defending it from counter-strike because I've heard these things argued too many times.

phew. That was an effective waste of a lot of my time. I don't mind if people listen to this stuff, but this is why it pisses me off personally, and quite often the reason other people hate it too.

LOL.

I suppose this applies to all rap groups. You yourself don't listen to this stuff i'm assuming, so is it reasonable to guess you only hear the mainstream dreck that is played over the radio and on outlets like MTV?

Why don't you actually go and listen to some rap that isn't garbage?

Dead Prez for example.

A rap group who raps against offensive imagery in mainstream hip hop such as senseless violence, greed, and sexism.

Your point #3 is absurd. You're showing your bias that you clearly think rap is an inferior form of music. In what way is composing music electronically inferior to composing a piece meant to be played by multiple (non-electronic) instruments?

You're stating, and quite clearly I might add, that one genre of music is objectively better than another, which is patently false.

In fact it is absurd.

Computers, drum machines, synthesizers, etc are all just tools used to making music. Some artists use them better than others, but your assault against the tools used is misplaced.

Your argument is blindsided by your own opinions on what you think music should be, rather than what it actually is.

As for me, I listen to music that I enjoy.

omg high commisar waht a complete fail of a post that was. Music is subjective you moron.


anyway in response the the orignal post. I DJ and listen to dubstep, dnb and various other froms of electronic music. But I listen to anything and everything.

whatwhat wrote:omg high commisar waht a complete fail of a post that was. Music is subjective you moron.

Now now. Let's play nice.

Why? It was a complete waste that post. Look he agrees...

High Commissar Biffsmack wrote:That was an effective waste of a lot of my time.

Music can't be broke down into some objective argument made up of points about how its not this and that. Music is completely subjective, what sounds good to you is completely different to someone else.

True music lovers don't argue about music, or rather, don't have a go at other peoples tastes and are comfortable enough with their own tastes that they don't have to make it into a competition.