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#1 2010-02-03 22:45

Beauregard
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From: Germany, Ruhrgebiet
Registered: 2010-01-31
Posts: 105

Your musical taste...

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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#2 2010-02-05 02:14

Chicar
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From: Quebec City
Registered: 2008-04-06
Posts: 464

Re: Your musical taste...

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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#3 2010-02-05 06:24

Mechanurg
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From: Syrtis Major, Mars
Registered: 2009-07-16
Posts: 332
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Re: Your musical taste...

Mainly JS Bach. He is the Man.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X7N0wU2L8o


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I walk through the dry hills
I hold the little girl's hand
I wrestle the wildfire
I share the pain
Because if not I, who? If not now, when?

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#4 2010-02-05 13:59

Ottens
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Registered: 2008-01-08
Posts: 10020
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Re: Your musical taste...

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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#5 2010-02-05 14:51

Dr Damon Molinarius
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From: UK
Registered: 2008-09-18
Posts: 2089
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Re: Your musical taste...

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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#6 2010-02-05 18:16

Yaghish
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From: Den Haag
Registered: 2008-01-29
Posts: 456
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Re: Your musical taste...

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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#7 2010-02-05 23:15

Col. Adrianna Hazard
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From: Toronto
Registered: 2008-01-09
Posts: 2867

Re: Your musical taste...

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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#8 2010-02-06 00:09

Colt Walker
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From: Kansas City, Kansas
Registered: 2008-12-30
Posts: 87

Re: Your musical taste...

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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#9 2010-02-06 08:55

Ella Kremper
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Registered: 2008-08-24
Posts: 995
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Re: Your musical taste...

Old school punk and goth, indie, some electronica and industrial, various metal genres, swing and jazz, samba, classical and choral smile


Sorry, left the Falcon in the Bentley. Right now, you answer to my Ronson T-T.

All hail Kremperpunk.

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#10 2010-02-06 21:42

Fiery Little One
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From: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Registered: 2008-03-24
Posts: 118

Re: Your musical taste...

For the most part, all across the board.


Open your mind to new possibilities
-Trip(sort of), The Crossing

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