Musical Tastes

[thebatman]

Here's a subject to lighten the mood and maybe jazz (harharhar) things up a bit. What kind of music does everyone listen to? I assume our tastes will be as varied as the rest of the populations' but maybe there will be some sort of common thread. I bet all of us will agree that we each like a wide variety of music but I'm curious about what really moves you.
The music that moves me most is the music I listen to while exercising. Hard Rock...the harder the better. I've been desensitized to the point that I don't listen to Metallica at the gym anymore because it's too soft and mellow. Slipknot is my current favorite. Their best songs are the ones that sound like one tiny step above senseless chaos with an occasional interlude of melody. Those occasional melodic periods of the songs are a relief from the intense pounding and are all the more harmonic when related to the rest of the song. Kind of like drowning and then catching a sweet lung-ful or air.
I could go on forever about music. I love everything except hiphop and rap.

[federica]

I too have extraordinarily eclectic tastes... If I tell you what I like, it would only change by the next post.... I love everything from classical (Rachmaninov is one of my top dogs!!) to Status Quo.... nothing like three guitar chords to get me swinging round my kitchen.... the plates I've dropped!!
Due to a hearing problem, it really gets quite painful to try to listen to some of the songs 'shouted' today.... I need to be able to distinguish at least a few of the lyrics.... And I do LOVE Gordon Haskell. I am hopelessly sentimental and Romantic, so any tear-jerker is ok by me.... :bawling: :lol:

[Simonthepilgrim]

No matter how often I am asked about musical taste, I still can't (or won't) pin myself down to a single artist or a single genre.

In times of depression, I need "3 a.m." music: Officium by Jan Gabrerek and the Hilliard Ensemble - perfect!

In times of anxiety: Leonard Cohen - particularly The Future

In need of a laugh: Tom Lehrer

At all other times: all other music (including the D&B that appears to be most of what my son plays!)

[comicallyinsane]

Classic Rock, bluegrass, some rap, blues.


I don't like country or hip hop.

[*BeautifulSpringtimeFist*]

I would say that anything that sounds different could be music.

One of my favourite pieces of music is the sound of the train - rumbling along (maybe cause of all the blues I play!)

But if someone were to say: "Only one genre for the rest of your days" I'd have to request World music - so I guess that's my current favourite!

[Matt]

I've never really understood my musical tastes... people are usually blown away by the weird combinations of music I put on mix CDs. I might put Nirvana after Frank Sinatra, or Edgar Winter Group after Tool, or The Who between the Offspring and the opera from The Fifth Element (movie).

Basically, these are some artists I have felt compelled to buy albums of:

Ben Folds (my favorite)
Third Eye Blind
The Who
Pink Floyd
Coheed and Cambria
Badly Drawn Boy
Frank Sinatra
The Mars Volta
Tenacious D
Rusted Root


I don't know what the common thread is... I tend to like songs that do something "weird"... something I didn't expect at all and throws my ears off balance. I like it when they don't make a "verse" and a "refrain" and just go back and forth between them and call it a song. Bohemian Rhapsody is a good example. It keeps changing throughout the song... you could even call it multiple songs put together. I love it when artisits don't go "uh oh... don't want to use up all my creativity on one song... better put that new pattern in its own song" and just go crazy. Probaby why I love Pink Floyd's 10+ minute pieces. Similarly, I think I like their "The Wall" because the songs are short - they don't dwell on a tune they thought up. It's spent, so they move on instead of throwing in 2 more verses and 3 more refrains like too many of the songs on the radio. :)

[Brian]

Coheed! You never told me! Oh a fellow fan :D

[wolfscalissi]

Hi everyone!
I am like most here it seems. ecclectic . I tend to not particularly like any one genre. I find songs that have that "spark". you know the ones, you just get drawn in instantly. oddly enough I think I have found different bands/songs in any music you could name. people look at my cd collection and they think it mut belong to at least 5 or 6 different people. lol
heres a small cross section of my rotation lately

dave douglas- trumpeter composer extrodinaire
tool :rockon:
miles davis :cool: .
ludachris
dwight yokham :rocker:
missy elliot
anything blues
anything mozart
buena vista social club (cuban)
allison krause and union station

lol you get the picture

two things to consider based on this topic

1) you know that feeling when you "feel a song/note in your gut?" do you think that may be your hara? I do!

2) for the musicians/afficianados: if we lose duality and attain "enlightenment" will there still be wrong notes? ?? cause isn't that just judging and comparing mind? :banghead:


^gassho^

[Adiana]

Well,

I guess I could be considered eclectic in my musical tastes. I like most music, but I do have to admit to a fondness for Celtic/Wiccan/Pagan music, classical music, classical rock, and, although it is not really music in the sense meant here, the sound of others chanting at my sangha. It is really quite powerful and beautiful to listen to the sound of chanting and taking part in it yourself.

Adiana :) :)

[Anita]

I like variety. I can listen to just about anything...just depends on my mood. ^_^

[DharmaKitten]

I play the piano more than I actually just sit and listen to music. When I play (or listen) I enjoy big band songs, some country, broadway, rock ballads, little bit of everything, really.

[Brian]

I go through phases. This past year or so it's been:

Coheed & Cambria
The Mars Volta
Fischerspooner
Nellie McKay
Vinicius Cantuaria
Paris Combo
3
Rammstein
Tool
Mr Bungle
Fiona Apple
Yo Yo Ma
My Chemical Romance

[emmak]

simonthepilgrim: Leonard Cohen! my mum got me onto his poetry when i was in high school and i love it.
i havent heard from any other Australians, but have any of you heard of The John Butler Trio? from Western Australia, very blues/folk, very politcal, very cool music. check it out if you get a chance. i could ramble on about Australian music all day. when i am at home i listen to classical radio, calms the old nerves and is nice background music.
love Queens of the Stone Age
Foo Fighters
Franz Ferdinand
Tool
Rammstein
Architecture in Helsinki (Aussie Band)
Fleetwood Mac

[ZenLunatic]

wow, lot's of tool fans! Love that Maynard!

Let's see...

Afghan Whigs
Tool
A Perfect Circle
Tom Waits
Radiohead
The Tea Party
Dead Can Dance
Vas
VAST
The Doors
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Iron Maiden
Queensryche
KISS
Henry Rollins
Danzig
David Darling
Evanescence (even though they're a closet christian rock band... Amy Lee is too hot :) )
Ours
Muddy Waters
B.B. King
George Winston
Anything for Cello.


Some online radiostations I listen to at work.

Dropzone from http://www.somafm.com Chill ambient sounds
The Angel Theory from http://www.theangeltheory.ca Ambient/alternative
WZEN from http://www.wzen.org Zen Radio!

[*BeautifulSpringtimeFist*]

2) if we lose duality and attain "enlightenment" will there still be wrong notes? ??


Yes and no.

:bigclap:

[thebatman]

Tool has been my favorite for quite some time. However, I can't listen to them in the gym because the lyrics are too meaningful and they distract me from my workout.
I think we can officially say that Tool had the most votes on this thread.
Favorite Tool Song: "Stinkfist" The commentary on how our society is desensitized to everything and how there is no appreciation for subtlety is lovely. "Aenima" is a great commentary on everything wrong with America (LA specifically). "H" draws a great analogy between a snake and addiction. Damn! I can't pick one favorite.
Tool: Official Rock Band of NewBuddhist.Com

[emmak]

Tool: who would have guessed? How seemingly innapropriate...

[ZenLunatic]

I like Die Eier Von Satan from Aenema. So brutal. So driving. So tasty!


Und keine eier!!

[Brian]

I don't see how a cookie recipe is brutal.... but to each his own :p

[ZenLunatic]

have you tried MAKING those cookies? :)

[Elohim]

King Diamond
Mercyful Fate
Cradle of Filth
Nightwish
Slayer
Rammstein
Therion
Dimmu Borgir
ICP
Primus
Sepultura
N.a.t.a.s
Kylie Minogue
Smile D.K.

[Brian]

Okay jason, did you throw Kylie in there as a joke? :lol:

[Elohim]

No. I have her 2002 album Fever. You get older your tastes change a bit.....you know Slayer, Kylie.....it's the middle path right? Luckily nobody but you knows me so I won't get too harassed. Hahaha. I have a soft side too. A tiny little one that likes to dance while I'm carving little babies up for dinner.

[littlegrasshopper]

Well, we're a rock (with just about everything else) bunch, aren't we?

Ok, so I'll cast my vote. I'm a theater major, so musicals it is, but I love rock musicals more than anything. Rent, Tick, Tick...Boom!, Jesus Christ Superstar (I know, wrong religion, but good music)....

Lately I'm into Meat Loaf and Billy Joel and out of the radio and popular culture. (All the sex in the entertainment industry disgusts me...but that's another topic.)

And if Jim Steinman wrote it, I'd probably love that too...

Jules

[Sabine]

Oh, man, ICP scares the living heck out of me. :bawling:
Anyway, let's see...
Tool ;)
A Perfect Circle
System of a Down
No Doubt
Gwen Stefani
Nirvana
Gorillaz
N.E.R.D.
My Chemical Romance
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
The Company--you probably haven't heard of them, because they're my classmates :D But one day, they'll be famous. Awesome, that they are.
AFI
Prodigy
Tomoyasu Hotei (Kill Bill)
Anything from Cirque du Soleil
Missy Elliott
Tweet
Yoko Kanno (Japanese pop)
Ila Arun (Indian pop)
Er...that's about it, I'll edit if I think of any more. :D

[buddhafoot]

Hmm... music?

The music my band writes.
Pink Floyd (been listening to a lot of Animals lately)
Led Zeppelin
Peter Murphy (love this guy - his latest album performed with Turkish musicians - good stuff)
Yes
Tannahill Weavers
Bothy Band
Planxty
Kanda Bongo Man
Johnny Clegg & Savuka
Juluka
The Police
Beatles
Wings
Paul McCartney (earlier the better)
Classical (all of Beethovan)
Strauss
Jethro Tull
Cocteau Twins
David Bowie
Dick Gaughan
Fleetwood Mac
Greenday
Nirvana
Peter Gabriel
Sly & The Family Stone
Stevie Wonder
some Sting
XTC

I think I should quit now...

Michael

[Simonthepilgrim]

Dangerous European bias in your list, Michael! :bigclap:

[buddhafoot]

You mean the IRA type material?

Michael

[Simonthepilgrim]

I don't really class, Planxty and co. as 'rebel', compared with people like Wolf Tones - whom I saw at the Ballroom (and had to keep my mouth shut so as not to betray my English accent!)No, I was thinking that fondness for evil Europeans could be construed as less-than-patriotic! LOL

[buddhafoot]

True. When Christy started Moving Hearts - that was a little more IRAish.

Whaddya mean "less than patriotic"!?!?!! How much more American can ya get than Led Zeppelin!?!?!?! Huh!?!?!?!

Oh wait... my bad.

How about Brittny Spears? She's American. She's great! I love all her songs. Like that ummm one she sang? And then the other one? And the last one thingy she sang?

Michael

[buddhafoot]

I'm just hoping Cradle of Filth isn't your softer side :)

Michael

[*BeautifulSpringtimeFist*]

Hmm... music?

The music my band writes.
Pink Floyd (been listening to a lot of Animals lately)
Led Zeppelin
Peter Murphy (love this guy - his latest album performed with Turkish musicians - good stuff)
Yes
Tannahill Weavers
Bothy Band
Planxty
Kanda Bongo Man
Johnny Clegg & Savuka
Juluka
The Police
Beatles
Wings
Paul McCartney (earlier the better)
Classical (all of Beethovan)
Strauss
Jethro Tull
Cocteau Twins
David Bowie
Dick Gaughan
Fleetwood Mac
Greenday
Nirvana
Peter Gabriel
Sly & The Family Stone
Stevie Wonder
some Sting
XTC

I think I should quit now...

Michael

You missed the band that gave birth to most of these bands - the Who!

[Sabine]

How about Brittny Spears? She's American. She's great! I love all her songs. Like that ummm one she sang? And then the other one? And the last one thingy she sang?

Michael
Oh, my. She's a bit...promiscuous for my tastes sometimes. >.> But I did get her first CD. Who can blame me? I was only 11 ^_^;;

[Brian]

I just can't get over it. The bunny in your avatar is like the cutest little animal I've ever seen, Sabine :wtf:

[Sabine]

Thanks. XD I'm actually not a cutesy person irl, more tomboyish, but I was all like, "OMG, BUN-BUN!" when I saw this pic. :lol: Guess that's my girly side talking.

[Brian]

yeah well it's SO cute and furry that it must have made MY girly side come out too, because all I can do when I see it is think "BUNBUN AWWWWW" :wtf:

[Simonthepilgrim]

Britney Spears is an anagram of Presbyterians!

[Sabine]

Lmao :vimp:
And Simon--that is HIGHLY alarming! :hair:

[emmak]

My step dad breeds cutie little bunnie wabbits and then gobbles them up for dinner. :bawling:

[Sabine]

My step dad breeds cutie little bunnie wabbits and then gobbles them up for dinner. :bawling:
:bawling: