What music do you love?

Groonusafaf · Post by **Groonusafaf** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 4:02 am

I love house music.
And you?

TidusBlade · Post by **TidusBlade** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 8:15 am

I mostly listen to a mix between Alternative, Rock, Heavy Rock, Metal and Heavy Metal, also Punk and Gaming soundtrack, mostly from RPGs.

weka · Post by **weka** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 8:59 am

Pretty much anything that I like the sound of. I'm a complete music philistine really, for me it's good enough if I just like the sound of it.

But drums. The sound of drums can reach right in and hit straight on my wild side. And I don't mean rock-band type drums, I mean far more basic drums. The sort of sound that goes straight to your primeval-human core and just makes your soul burn with the heat of a thousand suns.

OK, gettin abit carried away now!!!

Raikarr · Post by **Raikarr** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 9:37 am

Anything that isn't country, polka, most folk, and most rap. Pretty much.
Though I listen to rock, classic rock, classical, and techno the most.

Serrated · Post by **Serrated** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 9:59 am

weka wrote:OK, gettin abit carried away now!!!

And that's a bad thing?

I often listen to metalcore, moshcore and streetpunk (Casualties for teh win!). Though there are great artists from other genres such as Johnny Cash, Leonard Cohen (this is a MUST click), Bob Dylan, and so forth, whom I admire for their lyrical genius. Whilst bands such as Unearth, Tool, .hopesfall., As I Lay Dying, Every Time I Die and Skycamefalling deserve my utmost respect and admiration for their skills as musicians. Tool, As I Lay Dying and Every Time I Die are masterfully skilled lyricists. Plus, Keith Buckley (Every Time I Die, vocalist) is a head-bangin' teacher that the english language at the Virginia Tech university, how kick-butt is that?

Plus, as a drummer myself I can let myself drown deeper in the music I hear.

r · Post by r » Thu Jan 17, 2008 12:38 pm

This might be a long one.

Favourite bands of all time - Radiohead, Pink Floyd, Beck, Arcade Fire, iLiKETRAiNS

Other bands I like - The Smiths, Sigur Ros, REM, Wooden Shjips, British Sea Power, Coldplay, Travis, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Mogwai, The Strange Death of Liberal England, Explosions In The Sky, Maps, Seasick Steve, Fields, Mono, The Dears, Dandy Warhols, Pure Reason Revolution, Damien Rice, The National, 22-20s, Archie Bronson Outfit, Fleetwood Mac, Faithless, Jose Gonzalez, The Verve, White Stripes, The Beta Band, The Aliens, Goldfrapp, Hope of the States, Jeff Buckley, Longview, Muse, My Bloody Valentine, Sennen, Seth Lakeman, Shady Bard, Slowdive, A Silver Mount Zion, Snow Patrol, The Stone Roses, and probably some others that I've forgotten.

Yeah, I'm a bit of a music nut

Logius · Post by **Logius** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 1:32 pm

Ironically, though born and raised in Texas, country music is the last thing I'd ever want to hear. Likewise, the area I grew up in has a significant amount of Spanish/Mexican influence, and while the harmonies aren't exactly repulsive to my ears, neither are they conducive to pleasing my mood. Most of my preferences have been heavily influenced by my immediate family and friends.

I like music ranging from obscure bands like The Magnetic Fields, Superchunk, LCD Soundsystem, Audiobody, and The Octopus Project to mainstream stuff from Green Day, Beck, Marylin Manson, Fatboy Slim, U2, Weezer, and Beck. Oddly enough, the Rome: Total War soundtrack has found its way into my regular playlist.

Bear · Post by **Bear** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 2:33 pm

As long as it has a beat and I can dance to it, I'm in

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weka · Post by **weka** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 2:37 pm

Bear wrote:As long as it has a beat and I can dance to it, I'm in

I'd def go along with that!

nicholasenj · Post by **nicholasenj** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 3:16 pm

Grateful Dead, Talking Heads, Blind Guardian, Fleetwood Mac, Guns n' Roses, the list goes on and on.

DorostheConqueror · Post by **DorostheConqueror** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 4:08 pm

I hate all music.

Morwen · Post by **Morwen** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 4:15 pm

I'm open-minded about music, but mainly listen to rock/goth/alternative type stuff.

I especially love '80s goth bands, like Sisters of Mercy, Siouxsie etc (showing my age!), but if I had to pick my favourite band ever, I'd go for The Doors.

Is it just me, or do the majority of people into RPG and fantasy tend to be on the rock/metal side?

Muthsera · Post by **Muthsera** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 4:26 pm

Ahm, anime soundtracks, Celtic, orchestral rock, and others. I love Suzzane Vega, The Alan Parsons Project, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, and Mika. I have several CDs of meditation music, too.

Ayoub · Post by **Ayoub** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 5:47 pm

DorostheConqueror wrote:I hate all music.

And I hate Oblivion, internet forums, and worst of all I hate Assassin's Creed.

Masser · Post by **Masser** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 5:54 pm

REM,guns n roses,green day,metallica,the who,beachboys,radiohead,the dead kennedys,Kansas,journey...

r · Post by r » Thu Jan 17, 2008 6:30 pm

I seem to finally be being joined by other Radiohead fans. This is most definitely a Good Thing.

On a related note, for masser and The Tourist, last night they did a more-or-less-unannounced gig at 93 Feet East in London, a tiny little bar where they could barely fit on the stage. They played the whole of In Rainbows then did an encore of a few tracks from the back catalogue - it's all on Youtube. Jigsaw Falling Into Place, Faust ARP and Videotape are particularly good.

ArotosMarkos · Post by **ArotosMarkos** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 6:50 pm

Is it just me or do some of these topics seem to be getting a bit redundant?
What music do you love?
What is your favorite song?
What are you listening to right now?
Doesn't each one of these essentially cover the others?

r · Post by r » Thu Jan 17, 2008 7:08 pm

ArotosMarkos wrote: What is your favorite song?
What are you listening to right now?

I don't see how they cover each other... unless you're one of those weird people who listens to the same song over and over again.

Тeatime · Post by **Тeatime** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 7:29 pm

r wrote:
I don't see how they cover each other... unless you're one of those weird people who listens to the same song over and over again.

Hey, I'm one of those weird people!

The Tourist · Post by **The Tourist** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 4:29 am

Morwen wrote: Is it just me, or do the majority of people into RPG and fantasy tend to be on the rock/metal side?

- pah! Not me...

The only two metal albums I love are from my early teens, which are; Megadeth's Rust In Peace, and Sepultura's Chaos A.D. And maybe Ride The Lightning... but that's IT.

Main stuff; electronica (Squarepusher/Autechre), jazz (the usual Blue Note/Columbia greats, to west-coast's finest Chet Baker), and the usual band-stuff who've already been rightly namechecked (Radiohead, Arcade Fire). See also; classic early 90's hiphop, and the mighty Joanna Newsom - who's just the nicest thing ever, possibly not human, but some kind of creation of nature that is only ever good and nice, coming out the speakers into my ears.

I also have a shelf-and-a-bit of what is commonly termed 'pop music' (Britney may now be completely insane, bless her, but Blackout has some truly corking modern goodness on it).

r; I heard about that mini-gig, but I don't know whether I'd have bothered to go there even if I had been down in the Big Smoke. There would've been so many people... but I didn't know it'd made YouTube already - I'll check it out. I'd have requested Permanent Daylight. But I'm guessing they didn't go back that far to a track they hardly ever played..

DorostheConqueror · Post by **DorostheConqueror** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 8:21 am

The Tourist wrote:and the mighty Joanna Newsom - who's just the nicest thing ever,

... if you're into pint sized Californians who sound like 80 year old women with throat cancer and like dropping references to Camus so you know they're ever so clever. I've got both of her albums, and I'm still not sure why I listen to her so much.

Is it just me, or do the majority of people into RPG and fantasy tend to be on the rock/metal side?

No, it's true. Most do; ever since the days of Dio and Sabbath, metal has been the home turf for role playing nerds. Whether it's a kid playing Dungeons and Dragons in his parent's basement while Manowar belts out an anthem about swords or a twenty-year old sitting in his girlfriend's rec room, munching Cheetos and playing Final Fantasy X while the latest yaoi-bait J-rock Motley Cure ripoff shakes the walls, metal goes with RPGs like vikings and pillaging.

You'll also find a smaller set of fans of "electronica", "classical/jazz", and "world music" (almost invariably Celtic), often overlapping with metal. You never really find many hardcore fans, and I dare you to uncover a single RPG player with an unironic appreciation for klezmer.

weka · Post by **weka** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 8:24 am

DorostheConqueror wrote:....and I dare you to uncover a single RPG player with an unironic appreciation for klezmer.

mazer perhaps??

Skogul · Post by **Skogul** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 9:43 am

I listen to a broad range of music... composed of a rather esoteric mish-mash of groups from obscure genres.

Mostly, I listen to a lot of post-grunge mid-90's lo-fi alt rock (lots of hyphenated things there, eh!?), but I also have a soft spot for the deep end of industrial known as power noise, which basically equates to a lot of metal-banging-on-metal sounds spliced with static and the occasional digitally altered voice speaking in tongues over a band-saw grinding on a piece of steel sheeting. Good stuff. I can't explain why I like it, I just do... and it was one of the topics my fiance and I agreed on when we first met, oddly enough.

Less often, I'll listen to classical, opera, some metal genres, enka (Japanese music from the post-war period that's popular with the elderly nowadays), some electronica and offbeat things like Bjork, Sigur Ros, Rasputina and The Dresden Dolls.

r · Post by r » Fri Jan 18, 2008 4:46 pm

Skogul wrote:
Less often, I'll listen to classical, opera, some metal genres, enka (Japanese music from the post-war period that's popular with the elderly nowadays), some electronica and offbeat things like Bjork, Sigur Ros, Rasputina and The Dresden Dolls.

Sigur Ros are an awesome band.

Bear · Post by **Bear** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 5:14 pm

Just so you know r, your post was edited by me. There are many more ways to show an extreme than having to curse.