Guybrush

I know there are plenty of less direct ways to figure this out. There are journals and threads like the last.fm week threads and so on where you can sort of get an idea of what people listen to. There are even quite a few threads that are similar to this one, but I haven't found one which just poses the simple and honest question; what is your taste in music like? I realized I only have very vague knowledge of this concerning a lot of you guys so I wanna know!


I'll try and sum up mine. I'm quite explorative and so I often listen to music I don't like in search of something, but it also means I have at least something I like in most genres. Still, my number one decade is the 70s, my number one country in the world is England and my favourite genre at the moment is prog rock. This will be confirmed should anyone check out my most played artists on my last.fm. Caravan, Gentle Giant, Pink Floyd, Yes and Camel are at the top 6 of my all time most listened to. Frank Zappa is also in there, but he's not english of course.

I'll say though that prog rock is relatively new in my life compared to a lot of the other stuff I like. A couple of years ago, the top bands on my last.fm probably would've been stuff like Boston, Iron Maiden, AC/DC, Deep Purple, Megadeth, Metallica, Dio. It was mostly hard rock and metal for quite some time.

Aside from Prog and classic rock, I think jazz which I'm a little new to still is my big number 3. I'm quite fond of a lot of the fusion sounding stuff from the early 70s. I'm just now discovering some of the great jazz-players from my own country.

I have a soft spot for pop hits from different genres, like Sugarhill Gang's Rapper's Delight or Bee Gees' Staying Alive. Sometimes the crappiest pop hits are good I think, but I'm not at all up to date. Most of what I listen to from this decade are new albums put out by old artists. Popular artists from all kinds of genres including some of the stuff my GF likes make up a sort of background level of music in my life.

So that's it. Anyone else?

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Mojo

I used to be something that i see so much of in this country which is the young, narrow minded, British indie follower who may as well carry a copy of the NME around in their breast pocket like a security blanket or a Bible instead of keeping a copy in the john for when you run out of toilet paper like the rest of us. I don't remember liking any music other than really awful 90's dance and pop music when i was a kid, then i really got into MJ then the first guitar band i ever got into was Oasis when i was about 10 and so the transformation began. Oasis, The Who, The Smiths, The Stone Roses, The Jam, Weller, OCS, The Beatles, The Stones, The Pistols etc. I even quite fancied myself as a mod at one stage, which makes me cringe now it was so pathetic because i had never actually had anything to back that up at all. I then hit the whole garage rock revival scene hard at the turn of the decade and a few bands also kickin around at the time. The Strokes, The White Stripes, B.R.M.C, The Music, The Vines etc.

I've kept a lot of that in my collection. Sure, there a few bands from around that time that i've grown out of but i still like alot of it, just maybe not as much these days. Since then i've developed an appreciation for a wider range of music and am much happier because of it.

Now i would say my favourite genres are heavy metal but more specifically doom metal and stoner rock. Bands like Orange Goblin, Clutch, Electric Wizard, Pentagram and as is often the case with fans of these genres, i have a great appreciation for Black Sabbath who may or may not still be my favourite band. I also have a liking for quite a lot of 80's thrash metal.

60's and early 70's psychedelic rock and garage rock, which as of late i have been simply allowing to control my life.

Post-rock is a genre that certainly has its limits but late at night if i need something atmospheric with real mood and emotion to throw on then this genre gets a good beating from me. If you can throw a string section into the equation too, then im golden. Trip-hop i would say i dig for the same reasons but am no expert with this genre just yet.


I've also scratched the surface with funk, any electronic music outside of trip-hop, blues and am looking to get into more hip-hop. Theres alot more genres of music i feel like i should include if im trying to sum up my music taste but i think what i have mentioned above will suffice because i genre hop a lot and just tend to move on rather quickly.

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TheCunningStunt

Are you me? Except I wasn't 10, I was a bit older when I really discovered Oasis.

Pillowmint

I thought this thread was entitled, "What does your music taste like?". That would be interesting.

Dieselboy

Same.

Grammer School: I liked oldies, which was all my parents listened to on the radio.
Middle School - I started listening to commercial rap and...alot of Weird Al too.
High School - I got into Metal like Metallica, Megadeth, Sepultura, etc. Also was into alternative and nu-metal bands. My favorite bands in HS were Bush and Rage Against the Machine.
When I got my 1st job a co-worker introduced me to Electronica and got me hooked, and that's where I've been ever since for the most part, with some metal thrown in as well.
Lately though I've really been branching out into jazz and classical as well though.


So atm, I'm probably 50% Electronica, 30% Metal/Hard sh*t, 15% Jazz/Classical, 5% Hip-Hop/Other.

^I wanted to make this a pie chart since we're talking about taste, but I couldn't figure out how. I tried to figure it out for about 30 seconds and gave up. :|

Guybrush

You mean like this?



It's all in a day's work for .. Toretorden.

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Dieselboy

Haha, ty

NumberNineDream

are you looking for an excuse to practice your passion for charts?

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Mojo

Heh i actually had a feeling from your posts to date that you may have been quite similar in that sense but as i said it's not hard to find teenagers like that in this country, even now really. Ever go to an Oasis gig? The place will be swarming with them. I detest Oasis fans, even though I am one.

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TheCunningStunt

I did, I got a cup of piss on my head inside the first few minutes. Even though I am a fan just like you, I hate the ones that are like 'Oasis the best rock n roll band since The Beatles.' Both amazing bands, don't get me wrong. But music lives and dies with them two as far as a lot of Oasis fans are concerned because they're too ignorant to explore other stuff. I still love Definitely Maybe and WTSMG though, more than most albums. I've got drunk to them albums, I've had good times with them albums, played football with them albums, them albums have been the soundtrack to many summers.