Thread: What kind of music do you like?

I've gotta learn how to make polls one of these days, but until then, usual threads should do....

So, what kind(s) of music do you like/listen to most often? I suppose there'll be a lot dependent on age/local culture, but it's interesting nevertheless.
May be going one more step - is it unusual in your surrounding to like/listen to this kind of music?

Metal. Pretty much exclusively, with some classical thrown in. (They are more similar than most people are aware of...) The type of metal is highly dependent upon mood/setting. (e.g. if I need to think at work, I'll listen to some math metal, if I am depressed, I will listen to some industrial or some doom metal, if I am feeling good I will fire up some symphonic or epic metal, etc.)

If I am in an exploratory mood I will let the satradio in the truck flip through stations, and see what is going on in the world of modern music, but more often than not, I don't find much.

It is somewhat uncommon here in DFW, but neither is it unheard of. (don't know of any local fmradio stations that play any metal)

Originally Posted by jockeys

Metal. Pretty much exclusively, with some classical thrown in. (They are more similar than most people are aware of...) The type of metal is highly dependent upon mood/setting. (e.g. if I need to think at work, I'll listen to some math metal, if I am depressed, I will listen to some industrial or some doom metal, if I am feeling good I will fire up some symphonic or epic metal, etc.)

If I am in an exploratory mood I will let the satradio in the truck flip through stations, and see what is going on in the world of modern music, but more often than not, I don't find much.

It is somewhat uncommon here in DFW, but neither is it unheard of. (don't know of any local fmradio stations that play any metal)

Not when you're a guitarist who's dabbled in both

I don't listen to much these days unless trying to learn from a certain guitarist. A little Leo Kottke , a little Michael Hedges, a little Yes, a little Pink Floyd, sometimes old Scorpions (late 70's -early 80's), a tad of early Metallica, a little King Crimson and derivative bands, a shot of Mark Knopfler, --maybe a few more -- a little Rush,

But I haven't listened to the radio in 20 years (as a practice) -


Justin

Classical, opera, choral and glee-club music, jazz, 60s rock and folk (as befits an old hippie ), the great American popular songs (Porter, Carmichael, Gershwin, et multi alii), Russian popular and folk music, tango, last but not least bluegrass--a sign of encroaching senility or madness, no doubt, is that I'm trying this late in life to turn myself into a bluegrass fiddler. No doubt I left something out. And I've been guilty of writing in some of those idioms, though so far unrewarded with wealth, fame, or even public performance. Yup, I like music, a lot, and the more the better.

I'm mostly into country, but I also listen to classical, alternative, and classic rock (60's thru 80's).

metal, hardcore, Christian, a little rap, rock, and little of this a little of that. I am not too picky. Love hardcore though...

Originally Posted by rastewart

Classical, opera, choral and glee-club music, jazz, 60s rock and folk (as befits an old hippie ), the great American popular songs (Porter, Carmichael, Gershwin, et multi alii), Russian popular and folk music, tango, last but not least bluegrass--a sign of encroaching senility or madness, no doubt, is that I'm trying this late in life to turn myself into a bluegrass fiddler. No doubt I left something out. And I've been guilty of writing in some of those idioms, though so far unrewarded with wealth, fame, or even public performance. Yup, I like music, a lot, and the more the better.

There's never enough fiddle music in the world. What kind of fiddle you got?

Originally Posted by fiddler

There's never enough fiddle music in the world.

Agreed!

What kind of fiddle you got?

Late-19th century Stainer copy, from Saxony according to my violin expert. No great monetary value, but a nice-sounding fiddle (I know this from hearing real fiddlers play it ) and very special to me. It's been in the family for most of its life, I guess, owned before me by a bachelor great-uncle on the eccentric side of the family and passed down to me when I was a kid.

What about yours, and what kind of music do you make with it?

Originally Posted by jockeys

Metal. Pretty much exclusively, with some classical thrown in. (They are more similar than most people are aware of...)

On You Tube you can find several string quartet covers of various metal songs. It is pretty amazing at how well many metal guitar riffs translate over into classical.

It would have been interesting to be able to see the audience reaction in Beethoven's time to South of Heaven or Master of Puppets.

I like to hear anything that has some rock, blues or funk in it...

Ac/Dc, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Led Zeppelin, etc, etc...
There are also some Croatian bands among the favorites, like Psihomodo Pop, Let 3 and late Dino Dvornik, who was first Croatian funk singer...