What do You listen to?


I was just browsing through the forums and ran across the "Most acheingly beautiful music" forum, and looked through all the responses and im somewhat confused.

Risking an all out brutal verbal assault by the 'Gon'ers, its becoming my impression that alot of the people here have a very limited taste in music.

It seems to be isolated around Classical, Contemporary, Soft Rock, and blues/jazz.

I would say Rock, but honestly, when i think of Rock i think of Metallica and GodSmack, not Jethro Tull or Grateful dead.
(i guess thats just an opinion though.

Now, Im hoping that people here have wider taste in music, after all, it comes in so many forms (even ones that older people refuse to recognize)

I mean hey, i gotta be honest, one of the best recordings ive heard was EMINEM's Marshal Mathers. Talk about a hell of a recording (musical content aside), it was crisp, clear, focused, and over all, one of the best recordings ive heard. (once again, im risking a brutal verbal assault.

So, Lets hear it for what types of music people listen to!
Just because i would rather Jam out to Metallica and drink beer instead of listening to Motzart with a fine wine does not mean my passion for music is any less!

LETS LIST OFF SOME OF OUR FAVORITES OF ANY VARIETY

Want a pretty wide variety of music? Here is what i listen to.

ROCK
Godsmack, Limkon Park, Korn, Metallica, Alice in Chains, Mad Season, Rage Against the Machine, Sound Garden, AudioSlave, P.O.D., Union underground, Powerman 5000, Rob Zombie, Pantera,

POP
Britany Spears, Pink, uhh.. well.. not too much there. hehe

R&B
Genuine, Destinys child, Usher, Bell Biv Devoe, SWV, Alisha Keys, TLC,

RAP
Cypress Hill, Akinyele, Ice Cube, Ice T, Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Bone, Outkast, Insane Clown Posse(no im not a juggalo),
Nate Dogg, Warren G, DMX, Rehab, Busta Rhymes, Ludacris

HIPHOP
Ja-Rule, MC Hammer, Cisco, Fat Joe, Afroman, uhh... I like rap better than hiphop.

Techno
Prodigy(older stuff), Chemical Brothers(older stuff), LTJ Bukem, MC Conrad and DRS, Underworld, Blame, Daft Punk, Intence

BREAKBEAT
ColdCut, Unkle, DJ Krush, DJ Food.

INDUSTRIAL
Apogyma Bezerk, WumpScut, KMDFM, Die Krupps, Skinny Puppy, Front 242, Frontline Assembly, Project Pitchfork, Nitzer Ebb, Ministry, Nine inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, Leather Strip, Good Courage, Penal Colony, MDFMK, Einsturzende Naubauten, Rammstein, My Life with the Thrill Kill Cult, too many to list!

Alternative
Nirvana, Peral Jam, Foo Fighters, Creed, Oasis, Coldplay, uhh...

Experimental
Aphex Twin, Legendary Pink Dots, Tear Garden, Massive Attack, Locust, Autechre, Crash Worship, Edward Kaspel solo performances, Twilight circus,

Satanic
Chistian Death, Current 93

Blues
Eric Clapton, BB King, John Hooker, Dizzy Gilespi (did i spell that right?) Santana, Whity-Ford, (trying to find more blues bands. i LOVE the blues.

Classical.
What can i say? i dont listen to it. It feels somewhat formless and made up on the spot to me. Maybe i just need to look into it harder.

--Just a disclaimer, yes, i did list a couple satanic bands, however, i have no ties to the devil, The dark lord, the long walker, Cthulhu, Beezlebub, guy in red, the underlord, the silent beast, etc etc.. i do not slaughter goats or cast voodoo spells. I dont agree with the content but listen to it for its musical qualities which are suprisingly good, there is alot of heart and soul put into it, no puns intended.
hehehehehhehe

So who else has such a wide taste in music?
I own CD's of everything listed above!

lets hear it for music that others do not regfard as music!!!!!!!!

bwahahahahahahahaha
audiophanatik

Showing 13 responses by audiophanatik

Mezmo,

Great selection of music, you mentioned some i havent heard in years and plan on listening to when i get home.

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Murder Ballads, and The Best Of. Very very good music. Massive attack is a good yet strange band. I got thier CD and was WOW. Then it kinda disappeared back in my stash to resurface from time to time

pixies, john digweed, willie nelson, you have it all!
TWL,
i got nothing but respect for ya, and i may be 26, but i have a hard time believeing that my musical taste is a phase, And no amount of decrepidity or senility will let me forget the music i love. ;) hehehe.

Classical might be structured (i dont see it anyways), it just doesent grab my attention. Maybe i spent too much time playing Atari and nintendo while i was a child.
You were what, a baby boomer? gen-x? i guess im part of the ADD generation. Dern Whipper-snappers! :) hahahaha

Besides, how structured could it be? some of the most famous works were buy a blind and deaf guy! hehehe. Sorry, easy shot. I have all the respect for classical music, it just doesent hold my attention very well. Then again, i havent heared much. Maybe ive only heard the boring parts ;) You have a reccommendation for something that commands attention? If so let me know. Just one tho, i gotta get into this slow!

Not all my music is boomy, just the rap and rock. Honestly TWL, i would have a hard time believing that you would not really get a kick outta the Legendary Pink Dots. Not easy to find, and the kids in the pulsating nissan sure wouldnt dig it, so you might.

Fmpnd
I was not aware of that! Thanks for the information!
Im starting to get the impressions that im the only person on the 'gon who grew up watching GI Joe.

Come on tho, you cant tell me that you dont rock out your systems from time to time? Some beatles? Jimi Hendrix? If most people with high end systems spend most of thier time listening to classical, man, there are some underused systems out there!

Im sure when im 45-60years young ill be the same way too
"You damn whipper snappers listen to crap! thats not real music! Limp Bizkit, now thats good classic rock! They actually played thier instruments! they diddnt use Phonetic hypergenerators, and flux infusion reality deconstructors!! And half the bands you kids listen to are computer programs! not even real people!"

heheheheh
Matchstikman.

You might be too hip the the scene. whats SS? Solid State? If so then yeah. Just because ive never heard Tubes.

Yes yes, its true, so true. I have never heard a tub setup.

thats because none of my friends are into this hobby, im like a floating beacon of fledgling audiophile in a sea of people who dont give 2 craps about my hobby.

Some day ill hear one tho, see what everyone is talking about! :)
Matchstikman

I guess the seperation of Rap and HipHop is basically determined by the attitude of the music. Since mainstream rap/hiphop is still relativly new, its expanding out into different distinct styles, much as Heavy metal turned into Thrash, Death metal, Heavy metal, Punk, Inrustrial, and so on.

I guess the best way figure it, is Rap is usually more agressive in nature, Alot of the time Rap is about inner city issues, like the best way to "off" the pimp who slapped your ho, or Grabbing you "Gat" and dealing with N*ggaz, or boasting how tough of a mo'fo you are. Prime examples are Dr. Dre, SnoopDogg, NWA, Ict Cube/ Ice Tea and such. Alot of rapping about life in the ghetto

HipHop is alot brighter in general atmosphere, it more focuses on living a dream, IE Bling-Bling, big cars, big houses, Big boats. Big Booty Hos, and basically living larger than life. Both will have a tendancy to fade twards eachother from time to time.

Santana, i consider blues, i guess in the way i consider eric clapton blues. Clapton spreads across genres as well as santana, but they both do what they do best with blues. I have a couple santana CD's and that guy is phenominal!

Breakbeat is a little hidden treasure i manage to salvage from my drug induced rave-days. (mind you im a respectable part of socioty now, not still some dumb punk kid)

This will probaably sound like nails on a chalkboard to TWL, but i compare breakbeat to Classical Symphony.

Breakbeak is normally one guy, with a bunch of vinyl, making alot of sharp cuts from one song to the next. Sounds like a normal DJ? Not in this case, in this case they will take small 10-15 second quips or maybe several minuits and arrange it into a song. While most nomral DJ's will sit there and mix music, Breakbeat takes it to a whole new level.
ColdCut is my favorite Breakbeat DJ, One of his "songs" is called Bits' nd pieces, it is a conglomeration of 5-10 seconds of over 70 different pieces of music arranged into a 4-5 minuit song.
(hold on TWL, ill explain the reference to classical)
It sounds like mass confusion andnot too appealing, i will admit it. Breakbeat is probably the hardest DJ freestyle form and to get it to sound good is a monumental task. Coldcut can do this and man can he do it. It constantly changes, loses and regains form, and as far as putting on your High-End equipment, coldcut will push your system to its limits. Not just dynamic limits, or volume, or bass, because this is NOT dance music. You cannot dance to breakbeat without hurting yourself.hehehe
Some of his music strays from the breakbeat to the Classic "Techno dj" stuff, but the other stuff is out of this world.

Now, the classical reference reffers to the unusual dnamics and spread of style speed, and tempo. Classical and Breakbeat both hit points of tranquility of simple tunes, then can at any moment blast into a full dynamic sound production of a conglomeration of sources, and can change on a heartbeak taking you in a completely different direction.

Honestly its one of my favorite forms of music, and i really dont like techno much save for a few select groups, and those are actual groups of multiple individuals arranging the myusic live, not some dude on a computer generating loops and assemleing them. Thats what i call "plug and play"

Honestly, i dont know much christian metal. There is a big difference between satanic music and christian music i have noticed. Satanic music, might have 1-2 references to the devil on the whole CD, The band itself is satanic, thier concerts there will be alot more of that nonsence, but they normally leave it out of thier music for the most part. The rest might just be disturbing ideas or regular songs about love or anger or loss, like any other music. Christian rock, from my small exposure kinda rams god down your throat. While every christian rock song ive heard praises god and his glory, satanic bands just keep a very basic undertone of thier beliefs and dont incorperate them much.
Besides, most of these "Satanists" are athiests with a sick sence of humor and try to do it for shock value. If they try to recruit people to satanism, they would lose thier "cool" edge as they probably consider it.

Disclaimer, I do in fact know that SATANISM is not the worship of the devil, as commonly assumed and believed. Satanism, if i remember correctly, is a believe in equalibrium, which entails the respect and worship of both good and evil. The ying-Yang thing...

And also, i heart that Mozart had a wooden hookah as a peg leg!
he used to get high with bach
The worship of Satan characterized by a travesty of the Christian rites

That can be taken many ways. Satanism and devil worship are different things, and as far as christians go, historically they are well known (in the past) for assuming things they dont understand are Evil and have a tendancy to go a little far.
IE Salem Witch Trials.
Not to be offence to any christians, but i dont always find thier definitions of Evil or Satan worship to be that accurate.

You might have to look a little bit further than the american heritage dictionary to find an accurate meaning of Satanism.

Honestly, with your little cuts from my last post im not sure i gather what you are talking about. Aggressive? Degrading? It almost resembles Coldcust Bits'nPeices.

I know alot of rap, i listen to alot of rap, and yes, Rap is genrally classified seperatly from hiphop due to the general attitude of the music. Ask anybody who is really into rap. There is nothing degrading about calling something "Aggressive"

As far as ramming god down your throat, i meant no offence, but that in my view is what christian rock does, it focuses on god and only god. Im sure there are exceptions, but i havent heard them(and my christian rock experience is limited), i was merley stating an observation, Christian rockers talk about god non-stop. Satanic musicians hardly ever refer to the devil or dark lord or what-have-you.

Im still not sure i know what you mean with...
Hum, one expression is ?aggressive? and ok, which is also degrading,

I still see nothing wrong with the term aggressive. Listen to some rap, and listen to some hiphop. It will shine through like a beacon
Allright Allright Allright.

Here goes, Briansmsomthin, I was born and raised christian. Ive been babtized and all that stuff, i just never coul buy into it.

Salem witch trials, I used that as a refernce for christians assuming something is evil, i realize this had nothing to do with satan, but come on, do you people believe in witches? or was it more of a mass hysteria and murder justified behind religion? My point was people in the past have always jumped to the assumption of the devil for something they dont understand.

Ok, Maybe i should have been a little bit more clear. Mainstream, IE, Pop Satanic, is the worship of the devil, but it does not take a whole lot of research to realize the origional Satanic religions were more of a pagan order and they believed in god and devil, and had aa love for both, because wwithout one the other couldnt exist. You cant experience good unless you have experienced bad, or good would be a simple absolute and not have any reference for any other possibilitys. the Satanic religion played into this, it was not the direct worship of the devil, it wasthe belief of balance. The whole "Devil" aspect twards the Satanic religion was a label that mainstream religions gave the satanic religion due to fear and misunderstanding. That being said, Satanic is what it is called, however, it is no SATAN-IC, it is SA-TAN-ic. The name does not mean devil, it is a coincidence of language. (very unfortuaante one)
Either way, i know what im talking about on this subject and im really getting tired of it, so, i hope this helps educate people on the origins of the Satanic religion and clears some of the misconceptions, if not, then i really dont care.

I know this because im somewhat of knowledge hound, ill find something that interests me and i spend alot of time researching and learning about it. Eventually i grow tired of it an start learning something else. Ask me anything about goldfish! that was another short lived hobby, as well as doll-making, ventriloquism and countless others.

In FACT, the ONLY reason i mentioned that is because there is ALWAYS some jerk who scavenges the forums looking for misprints, or errors that somebody put down and it gives them joy to NO end to tell somone they are wrong, and i figured this would be prime pickings if i put in there that Satanic and devil worship were the same thing.

Looks like it severely backfired, but at this point i could care less.

NOW, LETS GET BACK TO MUSIC AND AUDIO, THIS IS NOT THE "ReligionGon".

As far as putting my music in a time capsule and listening to it 20 years later, i doubt i will like it any less. Remember, while you older gentlemen seem to believe it is a phase, im sure if you remember 30-50 years ago when your parents were telling you that the beatles were crap not music, and that this rock and roll was a soon to die fad.
And here you are today listening to the same stuff!!!!!

HA! :)

Its not a matter off age and fads, its aa matter of taste. When im 60 years old, i will be listening to metallica and Korn the way you listen to Led Zepplin
RichinGoth

Wow! I totally forgot gothic music! My apologies!

Thats alot of good bands, ive always enjoyed sisters of mercy and the cure. Im a little perplexed about Siouxsie and the banshees as gothic, that seems more,... well... ok i guess i can see it. (grin)
Switchblade Symphony is real good, i have three of thier CD's. Actually, i played them the other night for the first time in years. The other half diddnt like them much, but at least she diddnt complain.

Mira. Does Mira haver anything to do with Edward KaSpel? For some reason that rings out as a side project, unless im thinking of something else. Ed KaSpel is the singer for the legendary pink dots and Tear garden, which is a mix of the pink dots and skinny-puppy

I must say that im very suprised that there is a 50yr old goth. Keeep it true! and keep music evil! >:)

hehehe

Consttraveler

Thanks i think. (grin)
Well, i guess i better give classical another chance. I think of myself as a well educated person, and it is obvious that i am not in the minority in this matter.

Does anybody have a good CD suggestion? Also, where would i find these Liner Notes? Im always willing to broaded my horizons further!!!!
Well thats a problem!

I dont have a turntable. Most of what i listen to is on CD.

I WANT to get one, but honestly, if you check my system on the virtual systems, you will probably agree i need to focus money on getting rid of my reciever and going with prepro.

I have never heard a high end system with a real good turntable. I can only imagine the warmth, Working in telecom i understand the principles of sound and analog to digital conversion. ive never understood the huge "DIGITAL" hype. Digital will always be a representation of analog, and there WILL be loss no matter what. I will bet an all analog system sounds incredible.
Duanegoosen

Unless you have something to add, butt out.

That is quite a wide range of music, and even if you really look, alot of the stuff you will never find at K-mart, best buy, sam goodie or whatever, further more, i doubt you have even heard half the stuff i have listed, and if you havent, placing any judgement on the musical quality on that group is a very ignorant form of arrogance.

Why do you have to be so negative? diddnt your parents hug you enough? do you have some inferiority complex that compels you to attempt to insult others with your useless dribble?

You know what, i really get tired of these "Forum bashers" who have nothing better to do than come into a forum and sit there and try to act superior to other people by putting them down.

Hey, Duanegoosen, grow up. this forum was directed to mature adults. Not overgrown arrogant 6 year olds.

Everybody else, I apologize for the outburst, but people like this really get under my skin
Sean, im just going to let this drop. I feel no need to argue this point any further, if you ever feel like finding out the true origions of the "Satanic" religion, feel free. Utill then, im not going to concern myself with this issue. If you ever do decide to look into this someday, im confident that you will sit mack and say "I'll be damnded, he was right"
No pun intended
Nrchy

"Satanism is similar to children on a playground mocking something they do not like. It has no firm beliefs other
than that Satan exists and the desire to mock 'Christianity.'

Exactly Nrchy, THATS BASICALLY WHAT IVE BEEN TRYING TO SAY.
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Disclaimer, I do in fact know that SATANISM is not the worship of the devil, as commonly assumed
and believed. Satanism, if i remember correctly, is a believe in equalibrium, which entails the respect
and worship of both good and evil. The ying-Yang thing.
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i Never tried to give it a new definition,

It does not necessarily mean the worship of Satan, it DOES acknowledge the existance of satan, and god, but does not mean it is the "Worship" of satan. and in MOST satanic beliefs its all about balance of good and evil. yadda yadda yadda

For crying out loud can everybody just drop it?

You are all gonna make me burst a freakin vessle!

Lets get back to the music for christs sake, thats what we log on here for.