Favorite music

[Spacescifi]

 

You may post an example or just say it.

Currently what I am listening to is this.

 

Strauss is better known for the Blue Danube which is about as overplayed as Ein Nachtmusik, therefore as much as I hate Blue Danube, I do love this music.

I tend to like music that seems like a journey, with highs and lows, definitely sounding like it is leading somewhere.

Or at the very least something that sounds like it go as background music to a story.

Like this below. I do not quite understand the meaning of the pic if any, but there is some heavy irony there. I dunno... is it become what you defeated? Or is it more out of respect for what remains? I dunno.

 

 

What about you, what is your fave music?

PM me if you want a surprise. Yes, it is something you can enjoy. It is a gift.

[RealKerbal3x]

I like a lot of different music, but I think my favourite is the album Music for Space by Test Shot Starfish.

It's the cool spacey-sounding electronic music SpaceX uses on their webcasts.

I generally prefer instrumental music, rather than music with lyrics, because it's less distracting and you can put it in the background while you get on with something else.

[steve_v]

9 hours ago, Spacescifi said:

just say it

Technical Metal. \m/(>.<)\m/
Melodic Metal. \m/(>.<)\m/
Progressive Metal. \m/(>.<)\m/

Too many artists to list.
 

1 hour ago, RealKerbal3x said:

put it in the background while you get on with something else

Listening to music is a full-attention activity.

Edited July 30, 2019 by steve_v

[cubinator]

Interstellar soundtrack. It's incredible, it captures the feeling of space like no other. 

[bootsam]

Northern Soul is my thing. As is old soul, 60/70s soul R&B etc. But mainly Northern Soul, the original dance music.

I'll listen to anything if its interesting. I despise commercial noise. Music is art and I am wholly opinionated on the matter. As should everyone. Subjectivity breeds variety.

I am a child of Brit yoof culture.

[Nuke]

i like my metal and i like it black. sometimes doomy or thrashy. 

[steve_v]

42 minutes ago, Nuke said:

i like my metal and i like it black.

More of a death kind of guy myself, but I can certainly dig black metal, and dig it good.
 

52 minutes ago, bootsam said:

I'll listen to anything if its interesting. I despise commercial noise. Music is art and I am wholly opinionated on the matter. As should everyone. Subjectivity breeds variety.

Differing taste, converging attitude.

By "commercial noise" I assume you refer to that soulless sameness sappy autotuned pop garbage I keep involuntarily hearing on other people's radios... It's. Just. Boring.

[bootsam]

Indeed Steve, I take music seriously. It has always been a major part of my life. I listen to music every single day. I'd sooner go blind than deaf. Currently listening to new Flaming Lips album. Idles and Snapped Akles prior to that and assorted Stax label soul tunes before.

I like good rock music too. QOTSA etc but I draw the line at shaggy perm leotard rock.

KSP goes well with BBC R6 Marc Riley show from 7pm onwards.

 

[steve_v]

7 minutes ago, bootsam said:

I take music seriously. It has always been a major part of my life. I listen to music every single day. I'd sooner go blind than deaf.

Indeed, so do I.
Few things grind my gears like someone saying: "What's the big deal, it's only music." or replying "I dunno, whatever's on the radio" to the "What kind of music do you like" question.
I mean, I get that people are into different things and all, but music is important. Like I'd probably be dead by now if it weren't for music important.
By some peculiar mechanism I actually find I'm also more likely to get along with people personality-wise if they are also enthusiastically into music... Beats me why, but there it is.

 

16 minutes ago, bootsam said:

Currently listening to new Flaming Lips album. Idles and Snapped Akles prior to that

All pretty damn good, not my primary taste, but still. Good music is good music.

 

10 minutes ago, bootsam said:

I like good rock music too. QOTSA etc but I draw the line at shaggy perm leotard rock.

So do I, never really got into QOTSA though for some reason, they just didn't grab me. I don't know why, they're very good technically, just... didn't click somehow.
As for perms and leotards, glam-rock or '80s rock in general? (Is there a difference? ) Not really a fan of the former, but it's sometimes amusing for cheese-factor to be fair.

 

20 minutes ago, bootsam said:

Stax label soul

Never really explored soul in any depth, being a meatalhead since I was 15 and all. Always open to new stuff though, any artist suggestions?

[bootsam]

It amazes me that so many people accept the garbage the muso business shove down their throat. Its like The Clash never happened for everyone. Wishy washy moany woany stuff like codplay...aaaargh. Bad music is my Kryptonite.

I'm nabbing on a bit, Im 53. I still spend stupid money on music and keep in touch with the good stuff mostly. I was a Bowie fan at 5yrs old as I shared a room with my unkle keith who was 16 and he looked like ziggy.

I do like some rock/metal too. Esp the old stuff, like Zep, Sabbath etc. The Who are prob my fave rock band as quadrophenia changed my life when I was 14. Them and The Jam.

Soul is so vast, that its hard to point someone somewhere. I started with Motown as a kid and have gone from there. General Northern Soul, I'd just google. If youre Amercan you may not 'get' the scene. But if you can imagine a niche thing that no-one really knew about, prob like early death metal I guess. It was similar. It was something 'the kids' made them selves, no muso interference or commercialism. Brit yoof culture was pretty good like that in my day, prob still is but Im old and dont see it so readily. But there were many tribes.

I was a mod as a yoof, then a scooterboy when I figured out what Quadrophenia was actually about. Very niche at the time and everyone hated us. Esp Skins. I hate racist skins. Proper rude boy skins are fine, but the NF Oi crew can do one.

Curtis Mayfield, Jackie Wilson, Archie Bell, Marvin Gaye even, his whats going on album is a must listen. Aretha Franklin is a goddess and imo the greatest human vocalist who has ever lived. Her voice gives me goose bumps.

Listening to De Fontaines DC now. irish band. Cool as.

[YNM]

2 hours ago, bootsam said:

Wishy washy moany woany stuff...

Well, niches are always going to exist... the question is whether you can find them or not, and that can sometime takes a considerable amount of effort (and pain if you happen to encounter stuff you actually don't quite like).

 

Me ? I'm not sure, really - sometimes I find good things, but next day I might find something else being better (or at least as good). But I know I like good instruments that sees a lot of action or just soothing in general.

[Nuke]

8 hours ago, steve_v said:

More of a death kind of guy myself, but I can certainly dig black metal, and dig it good.
 

Differing taste, converging attitude.

By "commercial noise" I assume you refer to that soulless sameness sappy autotuned pop garbage I keep involuntarily hearing on other people's radios... It's. Just. Boring.

autotune just sounds bad and is bad in any genre in which it is employed. this is not strictly a pop music thing, because its destroyed country music and its even starting to creep its way into metal (autotune == poser, so its not real metal in my book) which is really infuriating. its an overused gimmick that needs to go away. the real wake up call was when i noticed that my mom's music was better than my little sister's. 

Edited July 31, 2019 by Nuke

[Vanamonde]

 

 

[StrandedonEarth]

I still like that...

Or to put it another way...

 

[WinkAllKerb'']

100% ecclectic here, can listen & enjoy everithing,  actually mostly reggea, techno, classical, jap anim musics and some of their cousin or derivative (i often leave it to you tube autoplay and get surprised after a little while), one day is only 24 hours so ^^

Spoiler

 

On 7/30/2019 at 2:28 AM, Spacescifi said:

... I do not quite understand the meaning of the pic if any, but there is some heavy irony there. I dunno... is it become what you defeated? Or is it more out of respect for what remains? I dunno.

 

would say club house teaser, tease her pretty chiks for the boys or other chicks to identify and etc. of that kind hormonale hypothalamo-hypophyse "click bait", "listen to me please" ; ) loved it btw

 

 

Edited August 1, 2019 by WinkAllKerb''
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[steve_v]

18 hours ago, bootsam said:

It amazes me that so many people accept the garbage the muso business shove down their throat. Its like The Clash never happened for everyone.

I've actually met people who don't know what The Clash sound like, or why they were important.
I absolutely dig punk too, the more off-the-radar "come mash it up in my basement" the better.

The only pub I'll go to in this town is also the cheapest, dirtiest, nastiest, messiest and noisiest one... And the only place that commonly hosts the local, fresh, experimental, and often slightly off-key punk and metal gigs.
It also happens to be the only place you'll get away with smuggling in your own grog and smoking *cough "certain things" inside... Or with the bar staff after closing.
 

18 hours ago, bootsam said:

I'm nabbing on a bit, Im 53.

You've got a bit more than a decade on me, and nabbing on or not, I'm enjoying the chat.
 

18 hours ago, bootsam said:

Zep, Sabbath etc. The Who

Hell yes. I grew up on this stuff, my mother's music taste.
 

18 hours ago, bootsam said:

Curtis Mayfield, Jackie Wilson, Archie Bell, Marvin Gaye even, his whats going on album is a must listen. Aretha Franklin is a goddess and imo the greatest human vocalist who has ever lived.

Now that you're dropping names, I have heard most of those, and I did like it.
As for Aretha Franklin being the best vocalist of all time... Not sure I'd agree with best, but she certainly was pretty incredible.
 

18 hours ago, bootsam said:

De Fontaines DC

Giving them a listen right now, they're trippy as. I like.
Speaking of Irish, you like Flogging Molly?

 

12 hours ago, Nuke said:

autotune just sounds bad and is bad in any genre in which it is employed. this is not strictly a pop music thing, because its destroyed country music and its even starting to creep its way into metal (autotune == poser, so its not real metal in my book) which is really infuriating.

Yeah. I'm sure the intent of the technology wasn't to make crappier music and more of it, but that's what's happening for sure.

12 hours ago, Nuke said:

its an overused gimmick that needs to go away.

Friends involved in recording tell me it's become so common in commercial music that "running the vocal track through the box" is just expected as standard process. It might have started out as a gimmick...

Thankfully I haven't yet heard any metal infected by this lazy-ass fx compensating for lack of talent trend, probably because the bands I like actually have some integrity.

 

12 hours ago, Nuke said:

the real wake up call was when i noticed that my mom's music was better than my little sister's. 

For me, this was always the case. Sis has since been cured of mass-produced music disease, much to my delight.

 

2 hours ago, WinkAllKerb'' said:

i often leave it to you tube autoplay

I refuse to listen to music on youtube, except when checking out recommendations or fishing for new stuff.  The same goes for spotify and the like, I started digitising my now rather large collection from vinyl and CD around '99 or '00, and run my own streaming server (supysonic) at home for when I am not.
I still buy CDs from time to time, but most of my recent purchases are from bandcamp.

 

When I listen to music at home, it's from my audiophile soundcard by a long vanished niche manufacturer, through the prototype lynx audio power amplifier I found in someone's basement (yes, actual pre-production prototype from a local company, circa 1982), and out of my ridiculous 400w 15" cerwin-vega speakers. My neighbours love me.

 

Edited August 1, 2019 by steve_v

[bootsam]

Ive heard Flogging Molly. Theyre a bit Pogues ish. Not my thing, but I wouldnt diss it.

Your Mum has taste, my mum likes opera yuk. My old man had better taste, but fails as he preferred the stones to the beatles and liked Joan Baez and was more of a Dylan guy. I did my own thing. TBF, music is not something I got from either of them, theyre not serious about it like I am. I take after my Gran, who was the first on the dancefloor and the last off it. God rest her soul. She was great fun. I love dancing, hence Northern Soul I took to readily. I also did the illegal rave scene here late 80s early 90s. That was mad fun. Im also a big Orbital fan, Prodigy, Aphex Twin etc. I gig a lot and have seen pretty much everyone of note, with my wife who shares my music taste. We share nothing else though, were opposites lol.

My old pub is no more. Gone the way of modern developments. The Intrepid Fox in Wardour St Soho. In the 80's it was a den of iniquity and I loved it. It was where the weirdos went. Practically opposite the now defunct Marquee and 2mins from 100 club. Now its a burger bar!. Soho has been tidied up and has lost its seediness. Shame.

I also dabbled in Psychobilly early 80's, with King Kurt, The Meteors, Restless, Guanabats etc. Plus I liked a lot of Factory stuff, Joy Division, Cabaret Voltaire, Section 25, Duratti Column, Crispy Ambulance. Other labels like Creation etc. Three Johns, Talk Talk, The The etc. I worked for Pinnacle records a distributer and half inched loadsa stuff. I didnt take any Mettalica or W.A.S.P as they looked daft on their covers.

Note to mods: can we have a more anglicised replacement for 'darn it'? Something like...nuts all our exclamations are sweary a bit, we love a good swear off. Nuts, thatll do.

Edited August 1, 2019 by bootsam

[Nuke]

its almost cliche but metallica hasn't been relevant since puppets. i tend to prefer german thrash (love me some sodom) over the big four any day or even the modern re-thrash bands like vektor or nervosa. if im not in the mood for shouty or harsh vocals there's always megadeth and slayer still finds its way into my playlists. though it turns out palm muted riffs aren't as hard as you would think when done with even the most crude of crunch pedal. this is why i switched to black metal a couple decades ago. though lately there are so few bm bands that i care about. tastes moved from scandinavian stuff (still into satyricon and darkthrone, and marduk is the johnny horton of black metal) to polish (mgla) and greek (rotting christ) scenes. which in turn cross over into death metal territory (like behemoth bridges the gap nicely, and also find myself listening to more recent scepticflesh offerings). in the doom sector sleep just came out with a bunch of stuff thats pretty good and ive always been into candlemass (though many argue that it is too fast and energetic to be doom). ive also been going through a major gwar binge recently which is rather hard to place depending on what album you are listening to. also motorhead, lots and lots of motorhead.

Edited August 1, 2019 by Nuke

[steve_v]

3 minutes ago, bootsam said:

Ive heard Flogging Molly. Theyre a bit Pogues ish. Not my thing, but I wouldnt diss it.

They're not exactly top of my chart either, but I do enjoy the celtic-rock/punk sound from time to time, in much the same way I'll play a bit of folk-metal now and then.
 

6 minutes ago, bootsam said:

my mum likes opera yuk.

Opera is just weird. I find it rather difficult to listen to TBH, and rather difficult to understand why one would want to in the first place.
 

8 minutes ago, bootsam said:

I love dancing

Can't dance, won't dance. I will get rowdy in a mosh pit if the music warrants it though, since that requires zero coordination.
I keep my hair appropriately metal-long just in case an opportunity for some headbanging turns up too, or I need to look like a Viking for... uh, reasons.

 

35 minutes ago, bootsam said:

I also did the illegal rave scene here late 80s early 90s.

Raves are awesome. I didn't get into the canonical "scene" you speak of, being too far away and likely too young at the time, but the outdoor "pick a random paddock/beach/cave in the middle of nowhere, bring sounds and generator" kind we still do are pretty mint. Especially when [REDACTED] are in season.
 

19 minutes ago, bootsam said:

Im also a big Orbital fan, Prodigy, Aphex Twin etc.

I used to be a big fan of all of those, but I haven't listened to them in a long time. Not really sure why, just moved on I guess.
 

59 minutes ago, bootsam said:

I gig a lot and have seen pretty much everyone of note, with my wife who shares my music taste.

I sure like gigs too, but I live in the cheeks-end of nowhere, and nobody "of note" comes here. Been to a few overseas, but that habit gets real expensive, real fast.

 

24 minutes ago, bootsam said:

My old pub is no more. Gone the way of modern developments.

So has mine, it's a boutique bacon shop (yes, sells only trendy and expensive bacon) now. The one I mentioned is a poor substitute for what used to be, by all practical measures, my living room most days of the week.
Comfy old overstuffed couches, free issue please bring it back sometime library, excellent food, ridiculously cheap beer (cheap as-in buy as many jugs as I could carry at a time, then wander around giving them to random people) and a venue with not-terrible acoustics out back. Spiral staircase down to an old parking-garage for invite-only after-parties and dodgy-dealings. Full of weirdos of course, but interesting people are interesting. Those were the days.
 

44 minutes ago, bootsam said:

I worked for Pinnacle records a distributer and half inched loadsa stuff. I didnt take any Mettalica or W.A.S.P as they looked daft on their covers.

You lucky sod. I never pinched any music in the physical sense, but Metallica's "Ride the Lightning" CD was the first I sorta-nicked by copying, with a burner drive so expensive I had to go halvies with a mate. New Metallica is just naf.
Never really dubbed anything prior to writeable CDs either, the sound quality of cassette tapes was terrible enough to make me just go and buy an original. Landies don't have tape decks anyway, and those walkman type things were evil pits of disappointment.
As for W. A. S. P., that's not really worth lifting IMO, unless you're proper bored and want a laugh.

 

 

12 minutes ago, Nuke said:

its almost cliche but metallica hasn't been relevant since puppets.

Cliche perhaps, but true nonetheless.

4 minutes ago, Nuke said:

sodom... vektor... nervosa... megadeth... slayer... satyricon... darkthrone... marduk... mgla... rotting christ... behemoth... scepticflesh... sleep... candlemass... gwar... motorhead.

Should I be concerned that 13/16 of those also feature prominently in my library?
Also, thanks for reminding me to cache some more Motorhead and Behemoth for playing in the car.  

[bootsam]

Motorhead, now your talking. Saw them circa 1988ish along with Screaming Lord Sutch or was that Stray Cats? They all blend in nowadays, my memory is shot. Illegal rave scene probably caused that. Lemmy is a legend, but Lord Sutch bought me a drink and had a chat at the bar afterwards, he was funny as. A proper amusing teller of tales. Nice guy. Lost count how many times weve seen Hawkwind during our acid period. They just used to jam for hours. Esp the gig in Kilburn for electric teepee. I swear they went on for 12hrs. Although my brain was otherwise distracted.

 

When theres so much good music about, it can be tough to find time to listen to your old faves. Fortunately I can work with ear buds in all day long.

[Spacescifi]

 

By the way, the PM offer still stands.

PM me for a surprise gift.

Many are invited, but few will take it.

But I can assure you thay you WILL like it.

[Nuke]

7 hours ago, bootsam said:

Motorhead, now your talking. Saw them circa 1988ish along with Screaming Lord Sutch or was that Stray Cats? They all blend in nowadays, my memory is shot. Illegal rave scene probably caused that. Lemmy is a legend, but Lord Sutch bought me a drink and had a chat at the bar afterwards, he was funny as. A proper amusing teller of tales. Nice guy. Lost count how many times weve seen Hawkwind during our acid period. They just used to jam for hours. Esp the gig in Kilburn for electric teepee. I swear they went on for 12hrs. Although my brain was otherwise distracted.

 

When theres so much good music about, it can be tough to find time to listen to your old faves. Fortunately I can work with ear buds in all day long.

i tend to prefer earlier motorhead, like pre ace of spades stuff. ive been listening to the 1977 self titled motorhead album thats full of hawkwind songs and of course overkill is my favorite motorhead album. later motorhead is still very good because its motorhead. i did do a hawkwind binge but other than stuff motorhead already covered not very many tracks stood out in my mind. of course i am im always a decades or more to late discovering music scenes. 

10 hours ago, steve_v said:

Should I be concerned that 13/16 of those also feature prominently in my library?
Also, thanks for reminding me to cache some more Motorhead and Behemoth for playing in the car.  

nope. not at all. its good stuff.

[MaxxQ]

Heh... my musical taste is all over the place.

Rush, Yes, Journey, Vangelis, Tomita, Babymetal, Metallica, Pentatonix, Home Free, Sabbath, Judas Priest, Lacuna Coil, Genitorturers, Bowie, Clapton, The Beatles, ZZ Top, Vivaldi, Bach, Stravinski, Skynyrd, Deep Purple, Jesus Christ Superstar, Elton John, Queen, John Williams, ABBA, Jon Anderson (Yes solo), Kate Bush, Beach Boys, Kidneythieves, Origa, Sweet, Rocky Horror, John Denver, Zeppelin, Joe Walsh, The Eagles, Styx, Van Halen, King Crimson, Supertramp, Tangerine Dream, Santana, Simon and Garfunkel, AC/DC, Aerosmith, Alan Parsons Project, Janis Joplin, Pink Floyd, Boston...

...and so much more - mostly one-offs.  Not much newer stuff, though.  Prefer classic and prog rock, but if something sounds good to me, I'll listen to it.  My favorites over anything else are the first two in the list.

 

[steve_v]

3 hours ago, MaxxQ said:

Heh... my musical taste is all over the place.

Many of those I love, a few make me recoil in horror.

3 hours ago, MaxxQ said:

Rush

I was wondering how long it would take for someone to mention them. One of those love-or-hate groups, and Geddy's vocals in particular are an acquired taste. Can't deny the musicianship though.

[Klapaucius]

Love many things, but these days I really enjoy finding the great independents on Youtube.  I was turned on to these folks on a trumpet forum.  How to cover a pop song and own it: