Music: A Slightly Different Question

[Atzar]

Hey.

In an effort to spark some discussion in the discussion forums, I present to you all a topic: what types of music do you listen to fairly often? Who are your favorite bands?

Now having said that... what's your favorite song/band that flies in the face of that answer? I'm talking completely out of character for you. You don't know why you like it, but you do. It might be a classical piece when you like rap, or a country song even though you dislike the genre as a whole.

Me, I listen to rock, venturing into the fringe of metal. My favorite band is Sevendust, but some others that I listen to a lot are Ra, Shaman's Harvest, The Leo Project, 10 Years, and more. Bullet for My Valentine's latest album "Fever" was great, as was Killswitch Engage's "As Daylight Dies", but that stuff is about as hard as I get.

As for the second part of the question, my out-of-character band would be Earth Wind & Fire, and a particular song would probably be "After the Love Has Gone". The song (and the band in general) is about as not-metal as you can get, but I've always liked it.

An honorable mention goes to Dobie Gray's "Drift Away".

How about you?

[Vigil]

I listen to all genres of Rock, from its inception to what its branching out to today. I mean that literally. I don't have any sort of preference to any sort of decade as I can pick out songs from Rock that I really identify with like Carry On My Wayward Son by Kansas to Rooster by Alice in Chains. It's just a genre I really love and enjoy, from start to finish. I tend to really get into indie and hard rock, though. Blues and jazz make decent back-ups.

I listen to a lot of Clutch, and recommend that if you're getting into them that you listen to their later albums before digging into their older stuff. 10001110101, Gravel Road, The Regulator, Ghost, and The Mob Goes Wild are all favorites of mine and are easier to listen to then most of their other stuff. But, if you don't like them at first, keep trying. They grow on you after awhile.

Queens of the Stone Age, Foo Fighters, DeVotchKa, Breaking Benjamin and Pearl Jam are all great too. Strangely, I got into a lot of Johnny Cash a couple years ago because of his contributions to rock and roll, but in general I liked a lot of his darker, macabre songs like Thirteen or Further Up The Road. However, his cover of Hurt will always be a favorite, and I'm always surprised to hear nobody has heard of The Mercy Seat, his song about the confessions of a death row inmate as he's put to the chair.

If I had to name one out of the blue song for me it'd be Holdin' It Down For The Underground by A Day to Remember. I'm not normally a very big fan of that kind of unintelligible garble that comes from heavy metal, but they seem to do it right. I think I got innoculated to it after I was exposed to Clutch since many of their earlier albums were attempts to find their voice by sifting through different genres. Either way, it switched me on to an area of Rock that I hadn't even considered before.

[Atzar]

So right now, Vigil is the only cool person on this site. The rest of you are douchebags until proven otherwise, and the only way to prove otherwise is to post in this thread.

[Aiko]

I beg your pardon, but I am not an article of feminine hygene. I happened to be busy, like all great megalomaniacs, plotting and scheming whilst hatching various plans.

To answer the first question, I enjoy a variety of music, such as Video Game soundtracks, Electronic, Classical, country, New Age, Indie, as well as some that can't be easily described, such as the work of Dr. Jeffery Thompson in the field of Neuroacoustic research, as well as Nox Arcana.

I do not however, enjoy rock and/or roll, and its descendants. If I wanted to listen to someone scream at me I would go to work and irritate my boss.

The sole exception to this, which answers number 2, is Dethklok. For reasons I have yet to figure out, something about this cartoon band appeals to me.

[Atzar]

I beg your pardon, but I am not an article of feminine hygene. I happened to be busy, like all great megalomaniacs, plotting and scheming whilst hatching various plans.

To answer the first question, I enjoy a variety of music, such as Video Game soundtracks, Electronic, Classical, country, New Age, Indie, as well as some that can't be easily described, such as the work of Dr. Jeffery Thompson in the field of Neuroacoustic research, as well as Nox Arcana.

I do not however, enjoy rock and/or roll, and its descendants. If I wanted to listen to someone scream at me I would go to work and irritate my boss.

The sole exception to this, which answers number 2, is Dethklok. For reasons I have yet to figure out, something about this cartoon band appeals to me.


You do know that the vast majority of rock and roll isn't screaming, right? Classic rock, in particular, isn't screaming music - many of the vocalists have excellent singing voices.

And yeah, from what I've heard of Dethklok it sounds like it's exactly the kind of music you would hate, haha.

[Wynken]

As stated in the forced listening thread, I'm in to just about anything that is opulent, complex, and generally possessed of a high level of technicality. This includes jazz, classical, metal, but mostly a combination of all three - progressive metal.

Favorite bands/musicians:

Jazz fusion - Shawn Lane
Progressive - Dream Theater, Adagio, Andromeda, Circus Maximus
Classical - Niccolo Paganini

That said, my latest guilty pleasure is Kesha. Her and that damn bottle of jack...

[Zook Murnig]

Usually, I listen to a wide variety of music, only completely excluding country, gospel, crunk rap, and that most vile pop. What I listen to the most, though, is rock (Flyleaf, Linkin Park, Jethro Tull, Led Zeppelin, Tsunami Bomb, Rise Against, Tracktor Bowling, СЛОТ), conscious and nerdcore rap (MC Frontalot, MC Chris, MC Lars, QBasic, Sage Francis, Saul Williams, MC Solaar, Flobots), metal esp. symphonic (Within Temptation, Nightwish, Lacuna Coil, Sirenia), and some "world" and folk music (John Prine, Kate Bush, Loreena McKennit).

However, my musical guilty pleasures are, from country, Jennifer Nettles pre-Sugarland, and from pop, Shiny Toy Guns.

And Aiko, I have to agree with Atzar. About the only screaming you get is either in emo (AFI, Linkin Park) or in the heaviest of metals, and metals that want to be heavy (Lamb of God). And even metal has its beautiful voices, especially in symphonic metal, whose lead singers are often classically trained in opera. And bands like Rise Against and Bad Religion grew out of punk, which started the whole tradition of angry screaming, and they almost never resort to that, preferring poetic turns of phrase and traditional singing styles.

Really, there's a whole world of beautiful music that you're missing out on.

[Wynken]

^ Even death metal bands can employ clean vocals. Mikael Åkerfeldt of Opeth has a fantastic voice...although I think most consider Opeth to be death/progressive.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjtZW_FCSTo

[Taskmienster]

Metal. Lots of it. At all times. Or, A Sky Light Drive, Underoath, Dead Poetic, and A Static Lullaby.

But almost always metal, screaming, death, and I'm happy no matter what the question about music could possibly be. :p

Guilty Pleasure :: B-52's. Rock Lobster.

[Zook Murnig]

Who could deny a rock that wasn't a rock?

[Taskmienster]

It was a rock LOBSTER! *dun nu nu nu nun nun nananana* ROCK LOBSTER!

[Melancor]

At the expense of seeming like that person with no apparent music taste, misguided, mainstreamer:

http://www.last.fm/user/lllPoseidonlll

Even though I could say what I mostly listen to is Electro, Electro pop, Pop, Dance, I am not always actually trying to stay within these genders of music. For the most part those songs people consider, empty, vain, trash, are in heavy rotation on my library. I first got introduced to the EuroDisco in 2007 with Infernal, although that's a part of my life I've been trying to run away from for a while :P. I'm really not fond of Italo-pop, and although Goldfrapp's been shifting that way I try to stay away from the new stuff coming from Europe. The old Campy stuff kind of bores me too, though Queen had a lot of good tracks. Lady GaGa, Lilly Allen, Little Boots, Dragonette, Robyn...

Probably the most different thing within Pop I've gotten into is Korean; their productions have gotten so deep into Electronic there are a lot of "fun" songs floating around that could easily compete against most of the American Pop- Narsha, G-Dragon, Shinee, F(x), 4minute - NuAbo.

I like some classical but not significantly. Philip Glass, Tracy W. Bush.

Latin music too. Juanes, Belanova, La Oreja de Van Gogh (before their vocalist change), Julieta Venegas, Laura Pausini, some Tiziano Ferro, Shakira, Quinta Estacion, Amaral, Liquits, Reik...

Others I listen to that I can't really place: Within Tempation, Franz Ferdinand, Nine Inch Nails, Shiny Toy Guns, P!nk, Machinae Supremacy, Rise Against, The Killers, Scissor Sisters, Kish Mauve, Mago de Oz, Metric, Name the Pet, Natalia La Fourcade, The Offspring, Pendulum, Bjork, The Thing Things, Bury Your Dead, Justice...

Yeah, lol. I didn't mean to vomit all these artist but over all its a pretty broad picture of what I listen to. I know for the most part most people won't know who these people are, but as you can see I don't really have any guilty pleasures. :P

[Troubled-Crow]

I listen to similar things to the majority of the people on this little thread, that bieng rock. All though my branches prove a little more far out with you guys, seeing as I'm sitting on the metal/emo branch over here ;).

I think my song that just contreverses against most of my choices would be Ce Lo Green, 'Fuck You' which I think is just fantastic. The guy has a great voice.