Music/Makes the people/Come together

[Veatrix]

So type of music do you guys like to listen to? Is there a particular genre of music you like? Who are you favourite artists and bands? Any favourite song, if any, because it's quite difficult to choose. How much music do you have on your computer, and has the computer slowed down yet, because of music file overload? :) Share share!

I mostly like mainstream music (Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears and such). I know that's not always the best type of music, but it's easy to access, fun to listen to, and quite mindless. Along with that, I love J-Pop (Ayumi Hamasaki and Utada Hikaru being my two personal faves). My J-Pop collection is always mainstream though.

But then, I tend to listen to almost anything anyway. I enjoy Feist, Andrea Bocelli, Sara Bareilles, Kanye West and a lot more.

I have 22GB of music and only a 4GB iPod... I need a new one!

[Elijah_Morendale]

I'll listen to just about anything that isn't mainstream "rap" or country, but my cd collection tends to lean more towards indie and rock. My car radio is always set to the local jazz/blues station.

[Reiko]

I prefer Indie and Alt Rock but also like Trance and Punk.

Favorite Bands are Modest Mouse, Arcade Fire, The New Pornographers, Neko Case (She also sings with the New Pornographers in some songs), Pearljam, The Clash, The Artic Monkeys.

[Mathias]

Wow. Another Modest Mouse-ite. <3 so much.

I'm definitely indie, and I'm trying to expand my horizons on the jazz front. Although, I'm extremely ecclectic in my tastes (Like, Coldplay and Sevendust, or The Misfits and St. Germain), most often, what I listen to is indie and alternative.

My all-time favorite are Modest Mouse, Abandoned Pools, Glacier Hiking, Stereolab, The Format, and The Sea and Cake.

[Veatrix]

There are a few indie bands that I like:

Meg & Dia
Death Cab For Cutie

I had Arcade Fire's Neon Bible on file one time, but I never really liked it. I thought it was too... long-winded.

[Reiko]

yeah, Arcade Fire can get overbearing. Funeral wasn't as good as Neon Bible, too many Histrionic songs on it. Too bad there wasn't a song like Haiti on it where the female vocalist got a chance to shine. still they're good if a little overrated.

I'll have to add the Shins to the list, their latest CD is really great and they proved to me that they can touch themes other than the breakup song. They were good but never change your life good^^

[Vampiric Angel]

I listen to alot of stuff. Heavy Metal, Screamo, Indie, Alternative, Jazz, Blues, Hardcore, Progressive, etc. I could probably keep the list going.

Some of my favorites bands and such:
Carlos Santana
Scale The Summit
All That Remains
Lynyrd Skynyrd
White Zombie/Rob Zombie
System of a Down
Serj Tankian
Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyd
Between the Buried and Me
The Allman Brothers Band
Nickelback
Killswitch Engage
Sick Puppies
Green Day
Better Luck Next Time
Sex Pistols
Alicia Keys
Jimi Hendrix
Mountain
Eric Clapton
BB King
Marvin Gaye
Stevie Wonder
The Temptations
Herbie Hancock
He Is Legend
Atreyu
Pantera
Saliva
Fear Before The March of Flames
A Perfect Circle
10 Years
Alien Ant Farm
Aerosmith
The Eagles
Poison
Bullet For My Valentine
It Dies Today
Cannibal Corpse
Disturbed
Matchbook Romance
Matchbox 20

Again, the list could go on. But as you can tell, I grew up with Metal and Rock so there's a bit more of that on there than others.

[Veatrix]

Is it surprising to say that I grew up with pop music?

Madonna
Debbie Gibson
Queen
Bee Gees

Totally pop, which points to why I am so very much in love with pope.

A few other artists I like (these ones are actually credible!):
Vanessa Carlton
U2
Madonna, yet again
Bjork, gawd you owe it to yourself to listen to at least one of her albums

[Elijah_Morendale]

Time for me to name off a few artists.

Muse
Butthole Surfers
The New Pornographers
Queens of the Stone Age
Stevie Ray Vaughan
No Doubt
Firesign Theatre
Minus The Bear
The Cribs
The White Stripes
The Raconteurs
The Hives
CSS
Rilo Kiley
Head Automatica
My Chemical Romance
The Living End
Tiger Army
Persephone's Bees
Hard-Fi
Gorillaz
The Killers
Supreme Beings of Leisure
Silversun Pickups
Gallows
The Strokes
The Pillows
Four80east
Daft Punk
Jurassic 5

[Sorahn]

METAL

Blacker than the blackest black times infinity

(btw if you know where that quote is from you're my new best friend)

Okay no seriously I like metal. I also listen to just about everything else though. As long as they don't whine and complain all day and it isn't poppy. My musical tastes are pretty diverse.

Demon Hunter
Project 86
EastWest
Led Zeppelin
Nirvana
Offspring
311
Maybe a little Ludacris or Outkast
Skynyrd
Linkin Park
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Jimi Hendrix
Killswitch Engage
As I Lay Dying
The Beatles
Pink Floyd
Prodigy

Lots of fun stuff.

Oh btw I have 26 gigs... I win :D

[Veatrix]

Linkin Park = metal?

Linkin Park = Contemporary Rock, at least, the newest incarnation of them

[Vampiric Angel]

Obviously you didn't read much into his post. He said his tastes were diverse. Plus there was Stevie Ray Vaughn and Pink Floyd on there...def. not metal.

[Veatrix]

Whoops, now that you mention, you're quite right. But Linkin Park are still good, I think much more focused than before.

[Lucien]

Whoops, now that you mention, you're quite right. But Linkin Park are still good, I think much more focused overly emotion and a lot less original now that they've lost their urban influence for straight rock, than before. There. Fixed!

I'll listen to anything once. And despite my above comment, I actually don't like people saying bands or genres suck. Complaints are one thing, but music is completely subjective.

[Veatrix]

I'll listen to anything once. And despite my above comment, I actually don't like people saying bands or genres suck. Complaints are one thing, but music is completely subjective.

Agreed. Discriminating against one genre is like criticizing all genres, since they influence each other.

[Vampiric Angel]

I dont think they influence each other, but they do branch off from the same source.

[Sorahn]

Yeah I was trying to show that I listen to a buncha different stuff. I'm diverse! ^_^ lol

I dunno... I think I would agree that they influence each other, at least to some degree.

I mean you have all those "rap-metal" bands, or at least the bands that kind of rap in their songs (like slipknot and linkin park). Then there's techno beats / sounds creeping their way into everything. Plus I've heard a lot more electric guitar in rap songs recently (some lil john in particular). Most of these things are pretty recent developments.

As more bands experiment with various styles and incorporating new ideas I think they're at least subconsciously influenced by the other music that they hear.

Then of course there's the so-called "bands" or "artists" that can't think up an original idea of their own so instead they simply "sample" (cough steal cough) music from other artists and lay down their own bullsh** on top of it and try to make money.

Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby ganked from queen Queen - Pressure
Snoop Dogg ganked from the Doors - Riders on the Storm
Lil John - Let's Go taken from Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train

I could go on. Dang that stuff makes me mad. I also can't help but notice the genre all of these "artists" are in either.

[Ashiakin]

I'd say I listen to indie music about 40% of the time. The rest would be split between folk, punk, industrial, math rock, and some early 90's stuff I feel vaguely guilty about. There's also plenty of bands I like I'm not sure how to define genre-wise.

[Bloodrose]

"Blacker than the blackest black...times infinity!" - Nathan Explosion

I have a lot of different music in my collection to choose from, but metal in a general makes up the majority. I have a lot of hardcore/experimental - hardcore/rush stuff like Dillinger Escape Plan, Bane, and Everytime I Die to more convention hardcore like Hatebreed and Scars of Tomorrow.

As for a favorites artist list, I'd have to get it started with:

System of a Down
Rammstein
Dillinger Escape Plan
Amon Amarth
Deftones
Frank Zappa (does he even fit on this list or what!?)
and this isn't even the tip of the iceberg...

Folk, rock, rap, reggae, techno, and indie all have their places as well.

And as if that wasn't enough, I also have a ton of small time local artist stuff from in and around Vermont.

[Sorahn]

"Blacker than the blackest black...times infinity!" - Nathan Explosion

Congratulations! You win... um... a cookie. Lol I just got hooked on that show recently. I think it's totally disgusting, but somehow it's funny enough to keep me coming back.

More on topic, that Frank Zappa in there is rather random. But that's how my music ends up being. I'll even throw in some classical Bach pipe organ music. (btw I freaking love the pipe organ. It's like the coolest instrument ever).

[Requiem of Insanity]

The death album was the number one selling metal album of all time.

No, it really was. Not joking. Kinda pissed off a lot of metal bands. However, I do like the Dethklok songs.

[Sorahn]

Woah thread resurrection!

lol Be honest, did you see this thread by noticing I was looking at it?

Anyway, Dethklok actually has some good metalz. I have the dethalbum. It's pretty good.

But real metal has never been a very mainstream genre. Most people just dislike the screaming or are afraid of it or totally misunderstand it. But the dethalbum wasn't just a metal album, it has funny songs from a TV show that is funny even if you don't like metal, so a lot of people who don't like metal bought the album anyway.

[Ailnea]

My favorites are mostly unknown, or not very popular.

Nox Arcana, Elvendrums, Juno Reactor, Nobuo Uematsu, and Yasunori Mitsuda. I also love the work of Dr, Jeffery Thompson who works in the field of Neuroacustics, that is, music, and how it affects the mind.

[Veatrix]

Nobuo Uematsu and Yasunori Mitsuda are actually very popular.

[Sorahn]

I recognize Juno Reactor. They did stuff on the 3rd matrix movie. Sadly, I haven't heard much more of their stuff, but I liked the matrix stuff. I have that song Navras on my hard drive somewhere.

[Atzar]

Mostly mainstream rock, I guess. Shinedown, 12 Stones' latest album, 10 Years, Rev Theory's second album, Breaking Benjamin, Disturbed. A couple who are fairly well-known but not hugely popular, Sevendust (my favorite), Ra, Submersed's first album. The Veer Union, a newer group that has promise. Bits and pieces of Flaw, Killswitch Engage. Trapt's second album (latest one sucked), Taproot's second album (see Trapt), Under the Flood is alright, 3 Doors Down is always cool. Evanescence in small doses. Alter Bridge is very good. Skindred, a rock-reggae hybrid from Great Britain that almost nobody knows about, is awesome.

I like all sorts of stuff in general, though. Earth Wind & Fire is good, Dobie Gray's "Drift Away" is one of my favorite songs of all time. For rap, Krayzie Bone from the group Bone Thugs-N-Harmony is good but everything else sucks. Classic rock a la Boston, Bad Company, the Eagles, etc. is always cool, even though I probably won't ever play it myself. Not a country fan, though.

If this post sounds like a train-of-thought that I just wrote down as it came to me, that's because it is.

[Yari Rafanas]

The death album was the number one selling metal album of all time.

No, it really was. Not joking. Kinda pissed off a lot of metal bands. However, I do like the Dethklok songs.

I would die for Dethklok.

[Othar Almenneran]

Mostly Power Metal, Blues, Ska and Jazz for me. Although it could be argued that they are all branches of the same tree.
/philosophy
I'm not particularly keen on Screamo or Rap, although I'll listen to most things once. I find Indie tends to get a little repetetive and irritating though i have found occasional songs I can listen to for ages.

As for Fave bands/artists, in no particular order:
Queen
Disturbed
Falconer
Firewind
John Mayall/Bluesbreakers
Kamelot
Sonata Arctica
Blind Guardian
Porcupine Tree
HammerFall
Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Reel Big Fish
Yes
Supertramp
Dream Theater
Apocalyptica
Miles Davis
Diablo Swing Orchestra
Charlie Parker
Duke Ellington
Dark Moor
Epiclore
Gaelic Storm
Lost Horizon
Kol Simcha
Sabaton
Sonic Boom Six
Smashing Pumpkins
Terasbetoni
Alestorm
Lemon Demon
Manowar
Blues Brothers
R Kelly
Stevie Wonder
Little Walter
Sonny Boy Williamson
Bob Dylan
Nocturnal Rites
Elven King
Saw Doctors
Jimi Hendrix
Cream
The Who

I generally have a few random techno/industrial tracks on my playlist as well, although not from any particular artists.

[The Writing Writer]

I listen to...well I don't know how you would define it exactly.

Motion City Soundtrack, Say Anything, The Rise of Science, The Graduate. I like Gorillaz and Daft Punk aswell.

[Arsène]

I love most music, and even a lot of popular stuff on the radio today for one or two songs. But I love The Cure, Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, Nine Inch Nails, System of a Down.

And of course, the greatest man in music history, David Bowie.

[Jaleco]

... *sigh* Vampiric Angel... how can you like something amazing, like Between the Buried and Me, but also Rob Zombie... So gross...

3oh!3
Aiden =/
Alesana =O
All Time Low
All that Remains
As I Lay Dying =/
Asteria
Aquabats =D
August Burns Red =/
B-52s =D
Between the Buried and Me =O
Blessed by a Broken Heart
Brand New =O
Burden of a Day
Bury Your Dead
Cattle Decapitation =/
Chiodos =O =P
Cinematic Sunrise =O =P
Circa Survive
Cobra Starship
Cute is What We Aim For
A Day to Remember
Dead to Fall =/
Deltron =/
Dethklok =D
The Devil Wears Prada =O
Emmure
Fallout Boy =O
Flight of the Concords =D
Forever the Sickest Kids
From Autumn to Ashes
From First to Last
Here I Come Falling =O
HORSE the Band =D
Killswitch Engage =O =P
The Mars Volta
The Matches =/
Mayday Parade
Panic! At the Disco =O
Parkway Drive =O
Pierce the Veil =O
Saosin
Scary Kids Scaring Kids =O
Senses Fail =/
Silverstein =/
A Skylit Drive =O
Straylight Run =O =P
Taking Back Sunday =O
Tenacious D =D
Underoath =O =P
The Used =P

=O - Amazing
=D - Funny
=/ - Like 'em, but not too much
=P - Seen in concert

That's me!

[Failariel]

Staring at the artists on my 80gigPod:

Abandon
Above The Noise
AC/DC
Addison Road
Aerosmith
The Afters
Air Supply
Alan Jackson
Alice In Chains
Allison Kraus
The All-American Rejects
Alvin and the Chipmunks
Amy Grant
Anberlin
Annie Lennox
ApologetiX
Audio Adrenaline
Avril Lavigne
Bambee
BarlowGirl
Barry Manilow
Beach Boys
Beatles
Big Daddy Weave
Billy Joel
Black Sabbath
Bon Jovi
Bruce Springsteen
BT
Carolyn Dawn Johnson
Casting Crowns
Charlie Daniels Band
Chris Cagle
Chris Tomlin
David Edwards
Day Of Fire
Demetrios Katis
Disciple
Dixie Chicks
The Eagles
Eiffel 65
Evanescence
Falling Up
Fireflight
Firefly Soundtrack
The Fray
Gary Allan
Globus
Hawk Nelson
Inhabited
Jars Of Clay
Jessica Andrews
Jimi Hendrix
Jimmy Eat World
Joby Talbot
Joe Nichols
John Denver
Jordan Nikkel
Josh Gracin
Josh Groban
Josh Turner
Joss Whedon
Keith Urban
Kid Rock
Kutless
Lemon Demon
Linkin Park
Ludwig van Beethoven
Mandy Patinkin
Marc Cohn
Maria Mena
Matthew West
Miranda Lambert
The Monkees
Mute Math
Nanne Gronvall
Natalie Grant
Natasha Bedingfield
Newsboys
Nickel Creek
Nine Inch Nails
The O.C. Supertones
O-zone
Paul Simon
Peter Paul and Mary
Pillar
Polyphonic Spree
Queen
Rascal Flatts
Relient K
Rimsky-Korsakov
Ritsuko Okazaki
Sanctus Real
Sara Evans
Shania Twain
Sixpence None The Richer
Skillet
Stellar Kart
Steppenwolf
Superchic[k]
Survivor
System of a Down
Taylor Swift
They Might Be Giants
Third Day
tobyMac
Van Halen
Weird Al Yankovic
Will Smith
Within Temptation
ZOEgirl


NOT on Melipodi but that which I listen to on youtube or pandora:
Phantom of the Opera
Cats
Simple Plan
Vienna Teng
RED
Seal
Nightwish
Grits
Seether
Katy Perry
Fallout Boy
WolfSong
NICKELBACK!
Riverdance
Kelly Clarkson
AFI
Susan Enan
Miriam Stockley
Straight No Chaser
Thousand Foot Krutch
Jaymes Reunion
Plumb

and I know there's more SOMEWHERE that I listen to a lot, but I have to go hiking in the morning so I'm not going to go looking tonight. :P

[Damion Shargath]

Good job listing every band which infested your computer with a music file, how many of those hundred bands do you people actually actively listen to? :D

I'll just go with:

Melodic Death Metal, Groove Metal, Industrial Metal, Metalcore, Electro-Pop, Electro-Rock, Lounge Music.

Wow...it just saves much time, unbelievable :D

[Ailnea]

Good job listing every band which infested your computer with a music file, how many of those hundred bands do you people actually actively listen to? :D

I actively listen to all the ones I posted.

[Libis]

^Same here.

Though I recently discovered The Cat Empire and so they are holding most of my listening time at the moment

[Cyrus the virus]

Cyrus listens to classic rock and some (good) metal. Favorite bands include In Flames, Iron Maiden, and Boston.

Generally, though, I appreciate anything which does not have a singular steady bass-hihat-snare-hihat-bass beat or something similar. And nothing Kanye West does because boy does he fucking suck.

[Veatrix]

Patron Tequila (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wfVMZ4CMCE) by the Paradiso Girls.

[Failariel]

Sticking all my music on shuffle, I listen to all of them over the course of three days. It's a lot of songs to go through.

[Lakin_of_DpN]

Apocalyptica

My fav writing candy.

[Fotiadis110]

I most enjoy music with both harmonics and interferance blending in ways that attack the back of your brain and make you wish you could remember the words and enjoy the music at the same time...

Basically i enjoy good music with great depth and musical complexity.

the specific bands achieving this vary song by song, and some really good bands do music i can't stand... and some bands i can't stand play music i can listen to time and again without boredom....

Go figure :p