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2009/09/03 20:50:14
Subject: Songs that break your normal listening habits
I was listening to two songs earlier, and it struck me that I normally can't stand that style of music, they haven't convinced me to give the genre another crack of the whip but I love the songs in question and can't get enough of them.
So I was wondering do songs come along that totally break your usual listening patterns, and do you appluad them or hide them away as guilty pleasures.
Okay for me this isn't as common as apart form a few genres I tend to listen to anything. The songs in question would be what I consider to be acoustic Country, which normally I'd not touch with a ten foot barge pole.
But 'I Hung my Head' and 'Big Iron' by Johnny Cash on his 'American IV: The man comes around' have blown me away on how brilliant they are.
Anyone else willing to admit to songs they love from genres they can't stand?
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2009/09/03 20:52:17
Subject: Songs that break your normal listening habits
Theres a few for me I usually listen to trance and rave music, but ill make 2 exceptions
1: Trapt - Headstrong.
2: Rammstein - Sonne
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2009/09/03 21:07:00
Subject: Songs that break your normal listening habits
Okay I will be totally honest, if any of my real life friends would know I listen to this song they would... Draw and Quarter me XD
Taylor Swift - You Belong With Me
I blame my Fiance <__< she listens to it and now it is stuck and I think I like it XD
I am a Heavy Metal, Alternative Rock/Rap Fan weird mix... now she is slipping in Pop...
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2009/09/03 21:37:19
Subject: Songs that break your normal listening habits
JOHNNY CASH IS NOT COUNTRY ! at least that's the conclusion I've come to. most of my friends like johnny cash; most of those friends don't like country.
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2009/09/03 21:47:33
Subject: Songs that break your normal listening habits
I'm usually the person who drives around with windows down blasting something fast paced such as MCM or Atari Teenage Riot. What makes people go WTF is when I listen to anything by 16 Horsepower or when I throw on 'Woke Up This Morning' by Alabama 3 (or A3 to you yankie doodles).
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2009/09/03 21:51:12
Subject: Re:Songs that break your normal listening habits
Oh these two would defintly by classed as country. Its a wierd album tbh, its all covers.
Hurt which most people have heard is on there, as is a cover of Danny Boy and We'll meet again both of those I skip, mind you I like his version of Bridge over troubled water thats on it, and Man comes around is awesome as well.
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2009/09/03 21:55:38
Subject: Songs that break your normal listening habits
Wraithlordmechanic wrote:JOHNNY CASH IS NOT COUNTRY ! at least that's the conclusion I've come to. most of my friends like johnny cash; most of those friends don't like country.
Cash always straddled that line between Country/Folk/Rock. You have to listen to more than just his most well known public songs and put it into the context of the time. Of course it is easy to like him him now that he has reached iconic status. Try being a big pan in the 80s or 90s though and it is a different story.
For me I guess it would be Seu Jorges Life Aquatic Sessions which is David Bowie songs done acoustically and in Portuguese.
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2009/09/03 22:20:16
Subject: Re:Songs that break your normal listening habits
Weird thing for me, been listening to only angry industrial and shoe-gazing electronica for a long time but as I've been getting older, my tastes have broadened incredibly. Verymuch liking cheerful funk-pop band Little Dragon since I heard the beautiful 'Twice' on the radio in the middle of the night. Here's a couple of their tracks, Japanese/Swedish fusionfunk for the win:
(oh and two PanFo dancing at 1.50).
This is 'Twice', beautiful, makes Stompa sniffly, so sad:
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2009/09/04 08:48:45
Subject: Re:Songs that break your normal listening habits
I seem to listen to anything from dethklok to katy perry
'Cept country...
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2009/09/04 10:13:03
Subject: Songs that break your normal listening habits
I normally hate any form of Dance or Hip-Hop but there are a few articts that break this rule. The Beastie Boys, The Propellerheads, Pendulum and Cypress Hill to name some.
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2009/09/04 12:54:45
Subject: Songs that break your normal listening habits
...I have a soft spot for "Jolene" by Dolly Parton. Dig the White Stripes cover too.
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2009/09/04 15:01:18
Subject: Re:Songs that break your normal listening habits
I'm mostly into metal and industrial but if gf is watching CMT or listening to country on the radio I'll shamelessly sing along to anything Taylor Swift (not to mention she is hot as hell) and then gf will shamelessly come into the room and give me crap about how I like country.
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2009/09/06 08:02:50
Subject: Songs that break your normal listening habits
95% of teens would go into a panic attack if the jonas brothers were about to jump off the empire state building copy and paste this if you are the 5% who would pull up a lawn chair grab some popcorn and yell JUMP BITCHES!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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2009/09/06 12:21:39
Subject: Songs that break your normal listening habits
Kilkrazy wrote:
Hayseed Dixie's 'A Hillbilly Tribute to AC/DC'
Hayseed Dixie are fantastic. I caught them live a couple of years ago when the played in my local town hall and they are superb showmen and really know how to work the crowd. Even their own material (the non covers) is excellent and I normally would have never considered listening to bluegrass before I heard these guys. But now I have allot of respect for the genre. Top act all round.
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2009/09/06 12:25:50
Subject: Songs that break your normal listening habits
I usually don't listen to techno/pop/whatever this is classified as, but Sam Sparro's Black and Gold when I'm working out.
dont you ever, i mean ever call that gak techno
Great song and vid, worth watching
Listen to this from 2:20 onwards gets better as it goes.
Suffused with the dying memories of Sanguinus, the warriors of the Death Company seek only one thing: death in battle fighting against the enemies of the Emperor.
Suffused with the dying memories of Sanguinus, the warriors of the Death Company seek only one thing: death in battle fighting against the enemies of the Emperor. 
, 
, and a little 
and now VC
and We'll meet again 
both of those I skip, mind you I like his version of Bridge over troubled water thats on it, and Man comes around is awesome as well.
gets better as it goes.