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As (listening to, not playing myself) music plays a big part in my life I wondered what music you people listen to?
Here's a short (?) overview of my musical taste:
Though being rooted in metal since my childhood (at the age of eleven, now I'm 32) and was a quite intolerant metalhead till about 18/19, I nowadays would never want to miss the other genres I then opened my ears to.
Metal (with pagan/black and heavy metal being my faves) was and will always be special to me but there are many other styles of music I absolutely enjoy and love:
- martial industrial like Triarii, LJDLP, L'Effet C'est Moi…
- neofolk like Of The Wand And the Moon, Solblot, Changes
- synth music like Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Telomere, Area51 (loved such music since first hearing TD's "Street Hawk" theme as a kid)
- Marillion's stuff with Fish as a singer (Script…, Fugazi, Misplaced Childhood, Clutching…)
- Bruce Springsteen's earlier albums (pre-Born In The USA so to say…)
- IDM/electronic stuff like Anhedonia, Autechre, Future Sound Of London
- streetrock/punk like The Bones, Dropkick Murphys, Discipline, The Boys...
- 80s stuff which I already loved as a kid when lisitening to the radio (New Order, Ultravox etc.)
- industrial and "cyber-like" music like NIN, Left Spine Down, Frontline Assembly, Ministry
- movie scores like Conan, Kull, Back To The Future, Superman, Indy…
- music from videogames, esp. those from ym childhood days
- shoegaze in the vein of Slowdive and My Bloody Valentine
- The Birthday Massacre (though I'm normally bored by goth stuff, this band - despite mostly attracting little gothchicks - have something to them for me... don't know what exactly, some kind of 80s synthie sugar sweet and Disney-evil atmosphere. I just love their music)
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My favorite musical genre are electronic music (of the melodious kind only thought, i prefer to stay away of the ''boum boum'' kind one) and celtic music.



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Mainly JS Bach. He is the Man.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X7N0wU2L8o
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I love the Big Band music of the '40s, '50s and '60s. Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Nat King Cole are among my favorite singers and I like much of the era's Jazz in general.
I also enjoy Gordon Lightfoot and some 1980s music. Last week I was bored and started playing GTA: Vice City again. Some of the "radio" music in the game is great.



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Across the board - currently have the Metallica/San Francisco Orchestra collaboration playing in my ears. Love metal, swing, jazz, original blues, industrial, postmetal, decent pop, classic, choral, folk...



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I listen to almost everything, when the quality is good enough. I am notorious for dropping by in music-stores and ask the owner in my best "foreign" for the most obscure bands. When they are helpful, I pick up some random cheap stuff from the country as well. When abroad, I have my radio on local stations that have "good" music, but I can't really tell what it is usually.
Ottens: already heard Caro Emerald?


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Dr Damon Molinarius wrote:
Across the board - currently have the Metallica/San Francisco Orchestra collaboration playing in my ears. Love metal, swing, jazz, original blues, industrial, postmetal, decent pop, classic, choral, folk...
Pretty similar over here. I can generally find something I like to listen to in just about any genre. Mostly I listen to jazz/swing music, symphonic and folk metal, electronica, post-rock, and indie pop.





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Generally speaking I prefer outlaw country that I grew up on from the 70's and 80's, artists like Waylon Jennings, Hank Williams Jr., and George Jones. I also like Bluegrass, there's something about it that makes me feel good inside. But most of the time I listen to Hard Rock or Metal.
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Old school punk and goth, indie, some electronica and industrial, various metal genres, swing and jazz, samba, classical and choral 




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For the most part, all across the board.


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