Taste in Music

[Apotropaic]

Hi! I was wondering what kind of music is enjoyed by the intellectual world.

I myself like Coldplay, Five for Fighting and The White Stripes, among others.

[B-Mental]

I haven't heard of any of those except for Coldplay, and I couldn't tell if I've ever heard any of their music. I listen mainly to blues, zydeco, and a little jazz. I could name some of my favorites, but 95% of the people might recognise 5% of the music I listen to.

[adilyoussef]

I'v rather a multimusical tendancy. No specific kind. It realy deppends on my mood and the time of the year.

[adilyoussef]

I'v rather a multimusical tendancy: no specific kind. It realy deppends on my mood and the time of the year.

[Mark F.]

Most things rock....it'll be easier if I just name my favorite artists.

Tom Waits
Neil Young
Lou Reed (and the Velvet Underground)
Bob Dylan
Black Sabbath
Led Zeppelin
Rancid
Oasis
Rage Against The Machine
Pantera

and many more.

[subterranean]

radiohead
led z
pink floyd
the smiths
morrisey
the who
smashing pumpkins
stone roses
joy division
(many other british bands: muse, placebo, lightning seeds, suede, pulp, ect)

[Koa]

mostly rock and electronic...
my favourites:
depeche mode
the cure

then lots of random stuff, i occasionally take a listen to most of the things sub mentioned, of which i especially love the smiths and placebo
other stuff... uhm... garbage, the killers, new order, joy division, some muse and oasis but not too much these days... some U2 and some REM...

i especially like dark sounding music and depressive bitter lyrics :D
oh and i love the music of the 80s, even some of the mindless kind :D

i also have some stuff from Russia and Hungary, mostly electropop stuff, which is a kind of music I really love...

[Jay]

Nightwish, Within Temptation, Stratovarius, Avantasia, Inkubus Sukkubus, Evanescence, instrumental soundtracks, mostly anything rock/metal related, add interesting lyrics and I'm gonna like it.
I also like the 80s, (general) rock, alternative stuff, I'm known to like the occasional pop song, I also like celtic themes (sounds, genres whatever you wanna call it).
So to summarise it: anything that's got a rhythm and doesn't make me wanna turn deaf is ok.

[Padan Fain]

Tom Waits by far is my favorite.
King's X
Dream Theater
Marillion
Jackopierce
The Cult
Queensryche
Jim Cullum Jazz Band
Doves
Steve Taylor/Chagall Guevara
Caedmon's Call
All over the board, I guess.

[querida]

Wow... how many people know Dream Theater? For those of you into prog rock and love talent, I highly recommend them.
Other things I listen to:
-anything and everything Jazzy,
Incubus,
James Taylor,
The Goo Goo dolls,
Santana,
Vivaldi,
John Butler Trio,
3 doors down,
Maroon 5,
Jimmy Eat World,
The beach boys,
Creed,
Debussy,
P.O.D.,
U2,
Alicia Keys,
Salvador,
......the list goes ever on and on!

I guess I'm quite eclectic! I think rap and techno are the only types I don't really like... nor the disturbing creaming stuff, though I can appreciate some of it, just cuz it does require some talent, I don't listen to it for pleasure.... but I like everything else.

I love it how a certain song brings back memories of a certain time in your life!!! That's my favorite part of music.
I always make myself a playlist of about 50 songs when I go on a trip; and listen to it all throughout the trip. Then whenever I'm feeling down back at home or, I'll play the songs again and remember the great times I had during the trip... even just a certain word in a certain song makes me remember a whole adventure!!!!

You guys should try it sometime! Very therapeutic!

[samercury]

I listen to all different kinds of music :D My favorites now (bands that is) are

Coldplay
Evanescence
Green Day
Dave Matthews Band
3 Doors Down
Marron 5
Emeline Michel

[NNoah3]

I myself like Coldplay, Five for Fighting
I like them very much.

I love listening to music some of my favourites, well a lot of difficult because there are too many singers, bands on my list.
Yanni, U2, Michael Bolton
Enigma, Chicago, Savage Garden
The Beatles, Bee Gees
Nightwish, Sarah Brightman
Andrea Bocelli, Celine Dion
Marc Anthony, Bryan Adams
Barry White, Creedence CR,
Rod Stewart, Kansas, Lionel Ritchie,
Air Supply, Gloria Estefan,
Placido Domingo...........................
The list goes on, along with a lot of singers from Mexico, Spain, Cuba and South America.

:banana: :banana: :banana:

[subterranean]

Wow... how many people know Dream Theater? For those of you into prog rock and love talent, I highly recommend them.
!

Them and ELP and Crimson Tide :nod:

[baddad]

I like all music. I want to hear it all. I want to hear violins, I want to here the harp, I want to hear screaming metal, and funk and punk and jazz and blues( my fave) and electronic beats and independant releases and the guy on the corner butchering a Rolling Stones song and the child trying to master doremifasolatido and, and, and...........

[Apotropaic]

So I guess there aren't any pop-lovers here? :)

To all who like Radiohead, have you seen their 'Just' video? That was one heck of a video. Although... it's one of those instances where they leave you dying of curiosity eh? :crash: Who can lip-read?

[papayahed]

I listen to lots of different music. My favorites though tend to be hard rock like Rage Against the Machine, Metallica. I do listen to a lot of other stuff though, Disco, Motown, Zydeco, Punk, Show tunes...... I tend to like songs that can sing along too.

I'm not a fan of the singer/songwriter type of music.

[Koa]

So I guess there aren't any pop-lovers here? :)

To all who like Radiohead, have you seen their 'Just' video? That was one heck of a video. Although... it's one of those instances where they leave you dying of curiosity eh? :crash: Who can lip-read?


Yeah, that's actually one of the 2 or 3 Radiohead songs I really like... the others I tend to like for short moments or not to like at all...
And the video makes you sit through it waiting and waiting...

As for pop, I guess not...not in the sense of mindless pop sung by girls/boys who cant sing nor write good lyrics but are just so beautiful or so undressed that most people think they're actually good...

I tend not to like very mainstream stuff, and most of all I tend to like music that has something to say, that is a means of expression, not just a commercial operation... I happen to like the occasional pop song, and there are some artists I dont like but I respect, while I find it hard to respect some kind of singers/bands who are there just to show off and most of all to make money... I happen to like the occasional poppy song, but not of the boyband/britney kind of pop... I divide pop into mindless pop, which I've just described, and pop which is...well, pop, but is trying to say something, even if not as deep as some real artists can....

I tend to be really radical about music, so I can express some opinion very strongly about what I think is not music but just marketing... (of course most artists do look at the market as well as at the art, but the true artists still try to say something, not just to please hormons...)

[kilted exile]

Hi! I was wondering what kind of music is enjoyed by the intellectual world.

Hey, if I answer does that mean I'm part of the intellectual world? cool!
I like:The Ramones/The Clash/Sex Pistols/Velvet Underground

[Koa]

I hadnt noticed that about the intellectual world... :eek2:

[A Hard Rain]

well, bob dylan's my other father, but besides him i mostly listen to:
classic:
velvet underground,
the clash,
roy orbison,
neil young,
chuck berry,
muddy waters,
elton john,
the band,
paul simon.

modern stuff:
the white stripes,
elliott smith,
the shins,
bright eyes,
modest mouse,
morrissey,
Wilco,
Beck,
ambulence LTD,
death cab sometimes.

There are too many. For instance I bought Patti Smiths 'Horses' album and it is beautiful. I haven't listened to a damn other thing by her but what a piece. I really like a lot of music. There is a lot of good stuff out there. There is a lot of bad stuff too.

[Shira]

~praise & worship

~classical (both traditional and electronic)

~blues (both traditional and modern)

[RococoLocket]

Oh heck, this is definative by no means.

Favourite genres include:

-Rock [in all it's forms]
-Classical
-Folk
-Medieval/Renaissance
-Goth
-Electronic

Some favourite bands/artists include:

Audioslave, The Dresden Dolls, Pearl Jam, Metallica, Jimi Hendrix, b*tch Alert, Scarling, Atreyu, Anberlin, The Cure, Rage Against The Machine, Red Hot chilli Peppers, Soundgarden, Lenny Kravitz, Nora, Eighteen Visions, Alexisonfire, afi, The Offspring, HIM, Nightwish, Alter Bridge, Bauhaus, Death in Vegas, Faithless, Everclear, Gisli, Gwen Stefani, Incubus, Biffy Clyro, interpol, Less Than Jake, Rasputina, The Faint, The Pixies, 36 Crazyfists, Silvertide, thoushaltnot, Beethoven, Seth Lakeman, The Levellers & Trouvere

Lol I just raped that bands list from my LiveJournal info page because I'm lazy :p

[Amfortas]

Mahler , Beethoven , Wagner , Richard Strauss , Mozart , Shubert ,Bach.

Any other music is crap.

[Mark F.]

Mahler , Beethoven , Wagner , Richard Strauss , Mozart , Shubert ,Bach.

Any other music is crap.

Thanks for your opinion...wait, that was irony.

[RococoLocket]

Any other music is crap.


Hi! I was wondering what kind of music is enjoyed by the intellectual world.

Hmm ...

:)

[Amfortas]

Thanks for your opinion...wait, that was irony.

You're welcome.... wait ,that was insincere.

[RococoLocket]

You're welcome.... wait ,that was insincere.

:rolleyes:

Is there any particular reason you insist on being hostile and profane m'dear?

[permanentstain]

heated...i enjoy music very much. i'm a complete junkie and love to get the full experience of an artist, especially if i connect directly with their sentiments.

+AFI
+the Cure
+Say Anything
+Against Me!
+Led Zeppelin
+Killradio
+Nirvana
+the Violent Femmes
+Block Party
+Senses Fail
+the Clash
+Bob Marley
+Thrice
+Sublime
+My Chemical Romance(moreso Bullets than 3 Cheers)
+the Unseen
+Thursday
+the Misfits

yay music!

[A Hard Rain]

I believe amfortas is being... facetious.

[Monica]

U2 (surprise, surprise). From the time I started listening to their songs I really feel like I live in a U2opia :D Apart from U2 it's R.E.M., The Ramones and a lot of Irish :D folk music.

[Mark F.]

U2 (surprise, surprise). From the time I started listening to their songs I really feel like I live in a U2opia :D Apart from U2 it's R.E.M., The Ramones and a lot of Irish :D folk music.


Do you know The Pogues? Alcoholic punks playing irish folk music. You should definately check them out.

[Monica]

Do you know The Pogues? Alcoholic punks playing irish folk music. You should definately check them out.


Thanks Mark. I did check them out and their music is exactly what I was looking for :) Dirty Old Town, Thousands Are Sailing, Streams Of Whiskey... :D

[Amfortas]

:rolleyes:

Is there any particular reason you insist on being hostile and profane m'dear?

WHAT ?

where was I hostile or PROFANE ? :angel:

[Sebastian]

I have an eccletic taste based on my mood. So here goes ( in no particular order) :-

Mothers Of Invention, Neil Young, University Of Errors, Captain Beefheart, Morrisey, Roy Harper to name but a few.

[Nisha]

Love this thread....

I love all type of music..But the hard core metal is just too much for my ear drms really..Unless Im in a very angry mood.. :D

Here is my list of favs..
3 doors down
Akeboshi
The Alan Parson project
Bob Marley
Bob Dylan
Cueshe
Elvis
Evanescence
Five for fighting
Green day
Guns n roses
Hoobastank
James blunt
Josh Groban
Linkin Park
Marron 5
Nirvan
Papa roach
Peal Jam
Verve
Sara brightman
Wet Stripes......
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew!!!!!More then particular bands or artist its the songs which could be listed as fav's...

[RobinHood3000]

The list of individual songs I love is too long to list, but a few of my favorite artists/bands:

Elton John
Stevie Wonder
The Beach Boys
Billy Joel
The Eagles
Bee Gees
Chuck Berry
Kenny Loggins
Huey Lewis and the News
JOHN WILLIAMS
Danny Elfman (his themes)


Favorite Songs include:

Kiss from a Rose (Seal)
Johnny B. Goode (Chuck Berry)
Holding Out For a Hero (Bonnie Tyler and Jennifer Williams versions)
Still the One (Orleans)
Life in the Fast Lane (The Eagles)
Who Put the Bomp (The Viscounts)
Green Onions (Booker T. and the MG's)
I've Had the Time of My Life (Bill Medley and what's-her-face)

I mostly like 50s-70s Oldies (can't stand contemporary stuff) and soundtracks (Kenny Loggins's place on the list attests to that), particularly those from the 80s. I'll probably list more when I think of them.

[Chava]

Queen
Pink Floyd
Deep Purple
Led Zeppelin

Elton John
Sting
U2
Arid
Finley Quaye
Oasis
Janis Joplin
Joan Baez
Leonard Cohen

Classical music in general,
Mozart
Bolero
Greig
and many more less famous

Jazz,
Bill evans
Moonjam
and anything with a Saxophone really (did you know that Pink Floyd uses a Saxo in many of their numbers, either solo, or with the rest...?)(That's just fabulous!)

And the list continues randomly...

[emily655321]

Of those that people have mentioned...

Tom Waits
Radiohead
Muse
The Killers
The Pogues
The White Stripes
Elliott Smith
Beck
The Faint

...all very awesome, all close to my heart. In addition, I'm a fan of...

Björk
Azure Ray
World Leader Pretend
The Fatales
Kasabian
Clearlake
A Perfect Circle
The Postal Service
The Dresden Dolls
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Sufjan Stevens
Iron + Wine
Weezer

...Oh, lord, countless others. Also classical (Chopin, Bach, Beethoven, Vivaldi), some American folk and folk-rock (earlier Bob Dylan, Arlo Guthrie, and other more obscure people whose names I can't recall this moment), Celtic folk (Capercaille, Altan, and Anuna come to mind), techno/industrial (VNV Nation, Wumpscut, etc.), Irish punk (the Pogues, the Dropkick Murphys). And occasionally I go crazy over someone from a genre I don't ordinarily like, for instance, Vince Guaraldi (who did the jazz soundtracks to the Charlie Brown TV shows), and also the Buena Vista Social Club.

Whoo! That was pretty exhaustive. Pretty much the only genres I can't stand, with no exceptions, are country/western, hip-hop, and opera, although I'm sure I must have heard one or two arias I've liked.

EDIT: Oh, and power metal and screamy-hardcore. No.