Thread: What kind of music do you like?

That's a pretty good list. Except for Nickelback, of course. Eugghh.

Pretty much everything if it is done well. Nothing that is done poorly.

It would be easier to list the music I don't like. I don't like what passes for country these days. It's really nothing more than pop with patriotic or redneck-y lyrics sung with a southern accent. What the hell happened to country? I have no idea what ever became of R&B, either. The genre that gave us Ray Charles and Gladys Knight is now just become about the most banal form of "music" on earth. It's not the most banal, though. Smooth "jazz" has taken that title. It's become the elevator music of our time. Other than those styles, I think that I pretty much like something from every type of music out there

I recently had an idea for Nim, who needs more entertaining these days as she has more awake times. We don't have a mobile for her yet but I do have an MP3 player and an I-Dog speaker for it.

Sooooo I hooked it up and pop it in the crib with her to help her sleep when she's upset and she has it set up by her playmat/nest thing and she seems to like it! The dog has a random sequence of flashing coloured lights depending on the music it is playing and it shakes it's head from side to side and it's ears go up and down.

Ladies and Gents, presenting Nim's Playlist......

Foo Fighters - Learn to Fly, Best of You & Long Road to Ruin
The Cult - Fire Woman
Nickleback - Rockstar & Hero
AC/DC - Highway to Hell, Touch Too Much, You Shook Me & Back In Black
Nightwish - Over the Hills
Queen of the Damned OST - Forsaken
Mudvayne - Not Falling
The Mission - Deliverance & Like A Child
The Smiths - How Soon is Now
Queen - Kind of Magic & We Will Rock You
Thin Lizzy - The Boys are Back in Town
Led Zep - Rock & Roll
Pink Floyd - Keep Talking & Comfortably Numb
Enigma - Return to Innocence

She also recognises the theme to Doctor Who (go figure!) and Angel, hehehe.

Where to begin, I have a massive collection of soul / funk/ disco and house music from 1964 to present day. I like latin Jazz and Jazz funk.

I love singer songwriter stuff, i.e. Cat Stevens, Dylan, Neil Young, in fact I'm a Neil Young fantatic.

I also love Pink Floyd, Yes, Paul Weller and so much more, in fact it's probably easier to list what I don't like which is metal, todays so called R&B and Classical/Opera.

Hip hop is a genre that has some great stuff also, you just have to sift through the trash to get to the good stuff.

Beethoven (I've got the 87 disc Deutsche Grammaphon set)
Louis Armstrong
Ray Charles
The odd HipHop


Here's the Beethoven collection:

I like a big lot of stuff, really. Right now I am on a Lhasa De Sela and Manu Chao kick (I don't speak Spanish much, so have no idea what I'm singing along to ). Recently it was Chinese Opera, and before that it was a lot of Echo and the Bunnymen. They never really go away, those Bunnymen. I also like a lot of Kurt Weill and Brecht, a lot of older folk music, and a fir bit of 20's-30's popular music.

Someone upthread mentioned country music. Yes, what the heck happened? The same can be asked of soul - which used to actually be, you know, soulful. Now it's like listening to warbling hamsters in competition to get out of the blender. I blame Whitney Huston.

There is still some interesting stuff happening in the rap/hip-hop genre, though it's hard to find. K'anaan is quite a powerful voice there with some actual things about which to raise it.

Another perennial favourite is Einsturzende Nuebauten - both their harder and softer stuff.

In short (too late) a range.

Rock, Blues, Country
Allman Brothers, Led Zeppelin, CCR, Skynyrd, Eagles, Johnny Cash, B.B. King, Elmore James, Grateful Dead, Gov't Mule,TVZ, Dylan, Springsteen, Haggard, SRV, Hendrix, Robert Johnson ...

Originally Posted by joesixpack

What the hell happened to country?

Agreed.

Originally Posted by joesixpack

I have no idea what ever became of R&B, either. The genre that gave us Ray Charles and Gladys Knight is now just become about the most banal form of "music" on earth.

That's what I thought some days ago.
Gonna listen to some Jackie Wilson...