Musical tastes

[durbster]

As I've got older I've got less attached to music scenes and I'll pretty much listen to anything now, and I now probably have songs from most genres that I like.

So I wondered how your collections compared, what songs do you have in your collection (not just tunes you like) from each of the following categories:

Fast guitary stuff:
Slow guitary stuff:
Whiney ballad:
Dance / Techno:
Chillout:
Pop / mainstream:
Hip-hop:
Country / folk:
Classical:
TV theme:
Movie theme:
Funky:
Reggae / ska:

Erm... can't think of any other types. Here goes mine:

Fast guitary stuff: The Offspring - Offspring - kids aren't alright
Slow guitary stuff: Eels - I like the way this is going
Whiney ballad: Antlers - Two
Dance / Techno: DJ Ivan - Devil worship
Chillout: Album Leaf - the light
Pop / mainstream: Christina Aguielalelearaa - Beautiful
Hip-hop: River Nelson - Beautiful life
Country / folk: Gordon Lightfoot - If you could read my mind
Classical: Korsakov - Scheherezade (this bit in particular)
TV theme: Round the twist - loved this theme tune when I was a kid
Movie theme: John Murphy - In the house in a heartbeat (28 Days Later)
Funky: Cut Chemist - What's the Attitude
Reggae / ska: Black Rose - Anthem

[w00dsy]

i would class 90% of my music as loud guitar driven rock with melodic vocals. I love heavy rock, but can't stand cookie monster vocals. Throw in some blues and some softer rock, such as Birds Of Tokyo.

[Dr. Pain]

Heavy, heavy, heavy! Ranging from Tool, Korn, Iron Maiden thought to Carcass, Entombed... I've always liked it since the mid 1980's when I was teenager. Although my knowledge of music is, I feel, quite vast, I just choose to listen to metal. My dad is country through and through and back in the mid '60's when he was a teen he played with Slim Dusty, Chad Morgan and others when they use to pass through Hamilton. My mum love's '60's, '70's and '80's. Lucky my mums' music was what I heard the most of though.

[durbster]

Hmm. So my theory about tastes widening with age isn't sticking too well is it (I'm assuming you are over 18 Dr Pain, since you are a qualified Doctor and all ).

There must be some other tracks you enjoy though.

[DexterPunk]

Pretty much all I have on my iPod is Punk and Metal.... and specific genre's of Punk and Metal too. Having said that I do get into all sorts of different rock... but those two variants of rock are really what does it for me the most. A lot of the stuff I hear on stations like JJJ today bore the shit out of me. Each to his own really, music is completely subjective... but I personally only seem to respond to music that pumps me up.

[Dr. Pain]

I joined the 40 club on Sunday and I'm trying to do back yard breast screenings, nice perky ones, as a doctor but it's not going well

[w00dsy]

I thought you were about 25

[Exar Kun]

Apart from diving back into some crap 80s pop that I enjoyed when I was a kid, my music tastes haven't widened at all. I'm less inclined to hate a song just because it's popular but beyond that I like what I liked when I was a teenager - the Seattle grunge stuff and a bit of the alt rock that came after it.

[Hz-Lab]

My music taste has always been wide, but I was very Metal orientated when I was younger, I used to listen to about 80% metal, nowadays Metal would account for maybe 10% of what I listen to, My biggest fad of late is Bluegrass, I fricken love it. Anything somewhat redneck I am really digging, but a cool redneck if you get my drift. There are a few things I can't listen to, Opera is one of them, Big Diva style ballads also shit me, as does really fluffy commercialised Rock... like what Rod listens to..lol... I kid I kid, he has actually put me on to some golden tunes.

[DexterPunk]

Steel Panther! \m/

[w00dsy]

as does really fluffy commercialised Rock... like what Rod listens to..lol... I kid I kid, he has actually put me on to some golden tunes.

not much of what i listen to makes the charts

[Johnny X]

I'm a little like EK, despite a continual (15 years or so) attempt by my best mate I'm stuck in the past. I grew up with the likes of Led Zep, Floyd, Genesis, Deep Purple and co and develpoed a taste for Hendrix too. If it hasn't got a strong guitar prescence then I'm not interested (Prefer Strat to Les Paul too ).

I sort of fell out with music when I was away doing my further education in my late teens and early twenties. I was seeing a lot of live music and appreciating people who could actually play instruments and put on a good show at big venues. Interspersed with that there were the weekly gigs at Uni where New Music was coming through. Sadly the early eighties stuff grated with me and the majority of them just weren't good musicians. One I particularly remember was Dexys Midnight Runners, what a shower of shit. They got beered of the stage (literally hundreds of pints of beer being thrown at the stage)after 2 songs after Kevin Rowlands told the crowd they were wankers. But they were shit, they couldn't even mime in time to the loops.

I've got a fair collection of chill out stuff I use to relax, stuff like Air, Orbs adventures in the ultraworld and the KLF chill out album. I have a huge passion to this day for a British Blues band called Nine Below Zero (Dennis Greaves - awesome guitarist) lol, went to see the Who once cos 9BZ were supporting them. In the nineties I got into Fun Lovin Criminals (funk, schmoove, hip hop, just cool really) hard to categorize them but again it was mostly because Huey Morgan is a stunning guitarist and they are bloody good live.

I can't stand todays auto-tuned, overproduced (to hide lack of talent) crap that Simon Cowell pushes. I can't stand the loudness warring of the way "heavy rock" has progressed and I just don't have the ear to appreciate classical/opera so I'll quite happily sit back in the past and remember how good it used to be

[w00dsy]

Johnny, if your into english blues may i suggest some Joe Bonamassa? Even though he is american his influences are very british.

[Johnny X]

Cheers bud, I'll give it a whirl

I've had a listen to a couple of recent albums now w00dsy and I'm quite liking the guy Nice guitar sound, not quite sold on the vocals yet. Putting a mix together for car... cheers