Off topic>What music styles do you like?

[double axe]

Hi spyderfools.What is your fav music style?

[yog]

Very wide ranging.
I've always been a rock nut and even like the modern varients like Limp Bizket, Papa Roach, and Green Day. Whilst in the middle of a very intensive job last year, I realized that I had been listening to Linken Parks new album for 16 hours a day for the last week.

For studying I like clasical music, Mozart and Devochak (SP?) work well, and even though I like Wagner, it's not really study music.

I've always had a soft spot for 50's Rock n' Roll as well as 60/70's Soul. Noticable favourites being, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly and Otis Reading.

I like a lot of the stuff that was once labelled "Brit Pop" like Pulp, Blur, Steriophonics and more reciently Gorilaz.

I even like traditional Punk, the energy was something phenominal.

Although I like the old style Country, spent hours listening to Jonney Cash and Marty Robins (I link Bruce Springsteen to this group, simple music for simple folk about their daily lives), but a really dislike modern country, to me it sounds like people that couldn't make it in the main stream pop charts and so put on a cowboy hat.

About the only other music I dislike are manufactured boy/girl bands and Hip-Hop. Manufactured bands for me sound too clean and sanitized. The best quote I heard was from the band Steps, they stated they didn't want to be compared to ABBA, my first thought was "well stop doing ABBA covers".
And Hip-hop just grates.

"Walk softly, but carry a big stick."

[CalypsoKid]

Moby Grape, Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, Richard Thompson, Bob Dylan, Jeff Beck, Beatles, Stones, Muddy Waters, Howlin Wolf, Buddy Guy etc.

Every generation needs to find music their parents can't stand. My kids listen to, and I can't stand...rap. Bad poetry set to bad music. UMMV.

~C

[Tightwad]

Music I can understand what the "singer" (?) is saying.

That rules out an awful lot of music types.

[panguero]

Edited by - sharp1 on 2/19/2002 11:27:25 PM

[ruxton]

very nearly everything, current favourite is prodigy, just rediscovering them, hehe soundtrack to my school lessons <img src="tongue.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle>
also listening to... blink 182, green day, chemical brothers and basement jaxx
MAT

[SpyderNut]

I'm a 'contemporary' Christian music fan, myself.<img src="smile.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle>

I really enjoy all these groups:

Michael W. Smith, Steven Curtis Chapman, Sonic Flood, 3rd Day, P.O.D., DC Talk, Caedmon's Call....to name a few.

I gotta agree with Yog. Modern Country is NOT my favorite. I will listen to just about anything else before I tune in to that stuff.<img src="smile.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle>

To each his own.......<img src="wink.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle>


~Spydernut

[Kahz]

Oh, music, one of my passions! Here goes:

Grew up loving progressive rock (Genesis [the real stuff, not their 80's and 90's work, have all their LP's up to Invisible Touch which sucks, btw], Gentle Giant, King Crimson, Camel, Peter Gabriel and Steve Hackett just when they left Genesis, Yes, Uriah Heep, Pink Floyd, Blue Oyster Cult, Jethro Tull, etc.); loved true &quot;rock &amp; roll&quot; which I got from my father (Bill Haley and the Comets, Fats Domino, Chubby Checker, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly, etc.); loved punk later on and yes, I wore spikes and chains with padlocks! (Iggy Pop [and The Stooges], early David Bowie, The Clash, Sex Pistols, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Cure, The Cramps, The Ramones, etc.); had my New Romantics period (Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet, Kajagoogoo, ABC, Talk Talk, Culture Club, etc.); loved heavy metal and hard rock (Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Rainbow, Dio, Judas Priest [had a crush on Halford, got a bunch of ear piercings due to him], Deep Purple [kinda progressive at times], Led Zepellin, Sepultura, ACDC, some Billy Idol stuff, etc.); have always been in love with Mick Jagger, therefore the Rolling Stones will always rule; Queen, of course, and Freddie Mercury, wore black for a week when he died; had my &quot;protest rock&quot; period, an Irish Band at the beginning of the 80's just blew me over and I adored U2 for years and years which led me to buy every one of their LP's until Zooropa (I hate Bono nowadays, but I did get to see &quot;The Joshua Tree&quot; concert) and I adored Midnight Oil (just saw them a couple of months ago in concert, they still rock!); loved Michael Hutchence and cried when he died, saw INXS twice, once during their Kick Tour; turned goth in the early and mid 90's (Dead Can Dance, Therion, Rhapsody, Cocteau Twins [early stuff], The Creatures [Sioux and others] etc.); love Orff; since I am a &quot;Clockwork Orange&quot; fan I had my crazed twist with Beethoven for a while; love Calypso especially Harry Belafonte; had my reggae days with Bob Marley parties and my Caribbean friends at the time; had my romantic days with Agustin Lara {one of the best Mexican composers there has ever been, very old stuff); Mexican Rock (Caifanes, El Tri, Jaguares, Chac-Mool); Paco de Lucia and wine from Rioja (Spanish guitar); and I now listen to progressive rock again, more than anything else. It's an old vice I can't give up. <img src="smile.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle>

So, music can be divided and subdivided into so many currents, but I pretty much listen to everything except Country (unless it's Stevie Ray Vaughn and his guitar), and Rap (the only band I liked was Arrested Development). And I love the Blues (B. B. King) I could go on for days, for I love music, but I will stop now. <img src="wink.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle>

Music IS life!

Kahz

Edited by - Kahz on 1/20/2002 11:58:21 AM

[Hoosierdaddy]

I like Hard Rock, Heavy Metal. Metalica, Rage, early Van Halen, Motley Crew, Rush, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Deep Purple, Hendrix, Doors, Cream, UFO, April Wine, Rosington Collins, Rollins, Black Sabbath, Ozzy, Stones, Robert Cray, Zeppelin, Bad Company, Free, Aerosmith, Boston, Kansas, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Emerson Lake and Powell, Thin Lizzy, Steve Miller, Blue Oyster Cult,
White Zombie, Collective Soul, Creed, Dave Matthews, Alice In Chains, Nirvana, S.T.P.
SoundGarden, Temple Of The Dog, Whitesnake, Great White, Montrose, Robin Trower, Journey, Genesis, (early) and so many more I can't think of. I like anything fast and good guitar rifs.

On a side note
Do you know what happens when you play country music backwards?
You get your wife back, your dog back, your house back, etc.

[aero_student]

My favorite band is Dave Matthews Band. I have almost 500 minutes of their music on my pc. I also like metal and hard rock. Demons &amp; Wizards, Manowar, etc.

[GSX-MAN]

Punk, metal, rock, classical.

Saw Iced Earth last night. Cool.
150 minutes of pure metal.

[hy]

Green Day, Metallica, Bon Jovi and Smashing Pumpkins, Eric Clapton, Joe Satriani and Nirvana. I also like classical music, especially composers like Strauss and Pachelbel.I guess its a mix of hard rock, alternative, classical and instrumental. I despise manufactured boy/girl bands with names like Spice Girls, Insync, backside boys as they generally have zero talent and are flasy with no substance whatsoever....All that glitters is definitely not gold. On a brighter note,looks like most of us Spydernuts have more or less the same good taste....More hard rock and less pop.<img src="smile.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle>




Edited by - hy on 1/20/2002 10:08:53 PM

[mnblade]

The blues first, classic country second, then jazz, then rock.
Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson, Little Walter, Junior Wells, B.B. King, Paul Butterfield, Kim Wilson, Paul deLay, Jimmy Rogers, Albert King, Willie Nelson, Hank Williams, Lyle Lovett, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Cannonball Adderly, The Who, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, The Grateful Dead, Blues Traveller, J. Geils Band, War and more.

[Brian]

I like some rock (Metallica, Pink Floyd) a little rap, country(Brooks and Dunn)and lately I've gotten really into 90's type music, like the Spin Doctors, Gin Blossoms, The Verve Pipe, three of the best bands around, but some of the best music for just doing nothing, old big band music, like Glen Miller, Benny Goodman, etc. Great stuff, travel music for me needs to be upbeat and have a decent melody, and get into a good mood.

&quot;Fuzzbuckets&quot;

[RYAN]

Pretty diverse taste here. <img src="smile.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle> My absolute fav is Electronica, anything progressive but mostly trance and house. Artists in this genre are numerous so I won't waste posting space on them. <img src="wink.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle>
I also enjoy rock, both new and old. Nirvana, Staind, Linkin Park, Stone Temple Pilots to name some current ones. Old groups include Steve Miller, The Doors, a lot of 70's stuff.
Every now and again I'll go for some jazz or classical, but this is rare and usually when I'm stressed out or high strung. <img src="tongue.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle>
Neat topic by the way!!

[J Smith]

Clasic rock mostly,some country,some 80s,no rap,makes me mad to hear it.No 70s dance music and no pop.I guess one of my fav.artists is John (Meloncamp)?
Also like alot of the new women country singers not sure if it is the music though,if you now what I mean.

Jeff

[Brian]

We get it Jeff.<img src="wink.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle>
&quot;A knife in hand, is as painful as it looks.&quot;

[bogeyman]

I may be showing my age but I like The Beatles, Motown and anything from the 70's (including Disco).

[Kahz]

Kirath,

OMG! Are you THAT old? Man, you are ancient! <img src="tongue.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle> Just kidding... hey, I did confess to like rock &amp; roll, Bill Haley, Fats Domino, Chubby Checker and such. I also love rockabilly, the best of _my_ day were the Stray Cats, way back when... <img src="tongue.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle>

Ok, I am only 31, but my dad has always been a great influence on me. He is my hero musically and &quot;knifely&quot; speaking.

So, how old are you? LOL!

Kahz

[bell]

Grew up on R&amp;B: The Shirelles, BB King, Fats, Moonlighters, Johnney&amp;Joe, &quot;Earth Angel&quot;. Later could not get enough of &quot;Louie, Louie&quot;. Tried to play steel pan real calypso but did not work. Now play music from state of Veracruz, Mexico. Not bad for a gringo. None of that northern &quot;banda&quot; crap, Kahz. (Yo, just kidding). Feel like Im coming from a different planet here. Must be the age.

[bogeyman]

Kahz,

I'm a youthful 44! I actually like all sorts of music and love to teach my students to dance to the music from the 50's to the present (including cumbias and corridas). One of my dance teams dances the jitterbug and swing while the other one performs to contemporary music from Janet, N'Sync, etc...

Just call me Coach

[Kahz]

Bell,

I agree with you though, I hate &quot;bandas&quot; and &quot;musica grupera&quot;. This is only my taste, of course (en gustos, se rompen g&#233;neros). <img src="smile.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle> I grew up in Mexico City and there is a saying in Central and Southern Mexico that implies that Northern Mexico has &quot;no culture&quot;. <img src="tongue.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle> This is not true, of course (not by the meaning of culture), but I will assume you understand what I mean. It's a joke. <img src="wink.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle>

I love Agustin Lara (sang by To&#241;a La Negra, heavenly!), and I like Latin American music and singers such as Carlos Gardel (Tango de Argentina, my father is a Tango lover and he sings it beautifully as well), Silvio Rodriguez, Pablo Milanes, etc. Jose Alfredo Jimenez is a must for any Mexican. I also love Betsy Pecanins, even when she sings blues, my, what a voice! Eugenia Leon is pretty good. And, if in the mindset for a Peruvian diva, I love to listen to Tania Libertad. <img src="smile.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle>

Kirath, wow, you are YOUNG! How cool you teach younger people about older music. I think everyone must have a chance to listen to music from different time periods. It's an excellent way of learning how cultures and ideologies change through time.

Kahz

Edited by - Kahz on 1/21/2002 8:21:50 PM

[darkjedi458]

the doors, kiss (ace frehley kicks ass), buddy holly, the doors, jerry lee lewis, the ramones, jefferson airplane, janis joplin, the doors, jimi hendrix, joe satriani (greatest guitarist ever..alive or dead), liz phair, stevie ray vaughan, 10,000 maniacs, the doors, john lee hooker, queen, ac/dc, and finally...the greatest band that ever was or ever will be...the doors.

" we chased our pleasures here...dug our treasures there...can you still recall how we cried...break on through to the other side" - the doors

[gadfly]

I like both kinds:

Country and Western!

I actually like all kinds of music - from C&amp;W (Sawyer Brown here), Roots Music (Old Time, Bluegrass and Ragtime), Blues, Swing and Rock and Roll. I still love the Beatles and the Grateful Dead, but I like Metallica too. I like Irish too, but I might live without Wagner - a little too heavy to my taste.

I play guitar, banjo and piano. Usually I play Old Time, Irish and Swing.

[mundele]

I love BLUEGRASS!!! There ain't no grass like bluegrass.

I like a lot of other stuff too, but (in the immortal words of Ricky Skaggs) &quot;Bluegrass Rules!&quot;