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What kind of music do you listen to?
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I'm 29 .. I've come to realize that this is basically true. But I personally also enjoyed most music until about 2012~
I love metal in its many forms, my favorite sub-genres are:
- Heavy Metal (Iron Maiden, Mercyful Fate, Manowar)
- Doom Metal (Black Sabbath, Warning, Candlemass)
- Black Metal (Mayhem, Darkthrone, Aura Noir)
- Technical Death Metal (Death, Obscura, Gorguts, Pestilence)
- Groove Metal (Sepultura)
- Epic Metal (Manilla Road, Cirith Ungol, Dark Ouarterer)
- Speed Metal (Agent Steel, Enforcer, Savage Grace)
- Power Metal (Nevermore, Control Denied, Blind Guardian)
I love metal in its many forms, my favorite sub-genres are:
It‘s all metal and some german middle class rap
- Heavy Metal (Iron Maiden, Mercyful Fate, Manowar)
- Doom Metal (Black Sabbath, Warning, Candlemass)
- Black Metal (Mayhem, Darkthrone, Aura Noir)
- Technical Death Metal (Death, Obscura, Gorguts, Pestilence)
- Groove Metal (Sepultura)
- Epic Metal (Manilla Road, Cirith Ungol, Dark Ouarterer)
- Speed Metal (Agent Steel, Enforcer, Savage Grace)
- Power Metal (Nevermore, Control Denied, Blind Guardian)
I suddenly feel way more ignorant than I usually do. Yowza... I had no idea of any of metal's sub-genres.
The feeling is almost akin to back when I told someone at school I liked opera and he promptly rattled off the names of fourteen operas I'd never heard of, six of them from the 20th century... and asked if I'd seen any of them in performance. "Uh,,,, actually... not even one!"
Tonight I'm picking up where I left off on Friday, music from the wayback that seems like yesterday to me sometimes: jazz pianist Chick Corea's Now He Sings, Now He Sobs (1968). Roy Haynes on drums and Miroslav Vitous the bassist.
It can be hard to remember to make time for music... even though it's a great mood changer and god knows we all need to shift gears there sometimes. I've experimented w/ different ways to remind myself of music options, one I settled on is my "Friday night is jazz night!" and another is taking a emailed newsletter from Bandcamp; I don't always read even a quarter of the thing but having it pop into the mailbox does remind me to prowl around for new music and also to revisit playlists I've put together over the years.
For me, I would rather sit and listen to music than watch tv. I listen to music daily and sometimes all day long. Heck I still by CD's and LP's regularly.
I still buy CDs, (and sometimes, LPs) as well.
For one thing, I love the sheer physicality of a CD or LP, and also love the act of playing it.
For me, it was the other way around.
At college, guys - and it was always guys, I never experienced a woman condescend to, or judge or condemn one's musical preferences - sneered volubly whenever topics such as Genesis (which I do like) came up in conversation and one admitted to liking them; the best way, I found, of dealing with that was to mention that my musical tastes were pretty broad and included - besides trad and jazz - a lot of classical music, with a marked preference for some of the music of the Baroque and Renaissance eras.
That tended to silence those judgmental voices; they weren't going to pursue me into the thickets of discussions on the merits of Renaissance dance music.
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I didn't feel really feel put down by that guy at all, actually. I was just about to get a much broader education in American operas... but I was surprised. Before then my exposure to opera had been pretty traditional and mostly European and mostly not 20th century. And mostly via recordings, not performances. I tried to remedy that as much as possible after I landed in NYC for work.
But I dunno if I want to explore metal subgenres to the extent I ended up prowling around the more traditional forms of western music and music history over time. Some metal's just too dense for my ears I guess, not to say I didn't sometimes have that reaction the first time I listened to assorted composers' takes on the Dies Irae of a requiem mass setting.
Today I'm trying to clear up an old classical library based on CDs uploaded to iTunes in the wayback. Moving some to a different library and ditching the rest because of low bitrate, scrounging around to see if I still have the CD or there's a version I can just get into my separate Apple Music library. Anyway I'm having fun listening to a few things I had forgotten I even had. At the moment it's the William Walton Viola Concerto (1929). I don't know beans about Walton's works aside from the two works on this album. It's a big world out there, isn't it...
But I dunno if I want to explore metal subgenres to the extent I ended up prowling around the more traditional forms of western music and music history over time. Some metal's just too dense for my ears I guess, not to say I didn't sometimes have that reaction the first time I listened to assorted composers' takes on the Dies Irae of a requiem mass setting.
Heh, some have excused Berlioz's occasional but apparent overkill on instrumentation (and choruses?) by saying well his stuff was often staged outdoors so he needed a bigger sound. Right. 16 timpani players in a cathedral though... Wrath of God indeed.
Wrath of God indeed.Today I'm trying to clear up an old classical library based on CDs uploaded to iTunes in the wayback. Moving some to a different library and ditching the rest because of low bitrate, scrounging around to see if I still have the CD or there's a version I can just get into my separate Apple Music library. Anyway I'm having fun listening to a few things I had forgotten I even had. At the moment it's the William Walton Viola Concerto (1929). I don't know beans about Walton's works aside from the two works on this album. It's a big world out there, isn't it...
What about when you drive? When i drive long distances or stack in traffic music is the best cure for it. For me its hard to live without music.
I do listen to music practically all the time, but what I meant about difficulty in allocating time for it was with reference to scouting around for either new music or for different performances of say classical or jazz.
But yep, when I was still making a weekly or twice-weekly commute from NYC to the Catskills, 3 hours 8 minutes door to door with one pit stop lol... music was indispensable for the trips, usually made in the wee hours of the morning. Playing rock'n'roll out the window to wildlife kept me awake and probably a few whitetail deer or coyotes as well.
My musical tastes are eclectic, as are many things I’m interested in.
Lately I’ve been on a jazz thing.... swing, django, and lots of guitar jazz. Artists like Kenny Burrell, Herb Ellis, Grant Green, Joe Pass. Lots of others.
I have a lot of time to listen to music. So depending on what I’m doing, and when, I’ll have something playing.
When I’m driving to and from work, it’ll be something with a good rhythm. When I’m at the office, it could be something relaxing for the background, or something to help me focus.
I even have music playing when I cook.
Lately I’ve been on a jazz thing.... swing, django, and lots of guitar jazz. Artists like Kenny Burrell, Herb Ellis, Grant Green, Joe Pass. Lots of others.
I have a lot of time to listen to music. So depending on what I’m doing, and when, I’ll have something playing.
When I’m driving to and from work, it’ll be something with a good rhythm. When I’m at the office, it could be something relaxing for the background, or something to help me focus.
I even have music playing when I cook.
My loves are….
80s/90s Hip Hop
House
UK Garage
Old Skool Hardcore (Rave music if you will)
Jungle
Drum & Bass
And literally anything by THE PRODIGY!
But, I’m very partial to and love me some Rock, Soul, R&B, Indie, 60s/70s/80s…I love a multi-genre Festival!
80s/90s Hip Hop
House
UK Garage
Old Skool Hardcore (Rave music if you will)
Jungle
Drum & Bass
And literally anything by THE PRODIGY!
But, I’m very partial to and love me some Rock, Soul, R&B, Indie, 60s/70s/80s…I love a multi-genre Festival!
Currently "The Return of Ulysses to his Homeland" - Monteverdi. Previously "10 Years Solo Live" - Brad Mehldau.
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I don't listen to any specific style really. My music taste is all over the place.
Latest discovery was Leonard Cohen.
Tom Waits, Patti Smith, KISS, Jean Michel Jarre, Metallica early years, Bob Seger, Clawfinger (even if I'm a bit biased on that one ), Krzysztof Penderecki, ABBA, Hans Zimmer, Einstürzende Neubauten, Beth Hart, Rachmaninov, some swedish artists i won't even mention, Romanian folk music, Herbie Hancock, Jerry Goldsmith, MIA, 2 pac, Madonna, Slayer, Angelo Badalamenti, Springsteen, Kraftwerk, Die toten hosen, Pixies, J.S. Bach, Nirvana, The Hives, Nick Cave, Pet shop Boys and so on...
Latest discovery was Leonard Cohen.
Tom Waits, Patti Smith, KISS, Jean Michel Jarre, Metallica early years, Bob Seger, Clawfinger (even if I'm a bit biased on that one
), Krzysztof Penderecki, ABBA, Hans Zimmer, Einstürzende Neubauten, Beth Hart, Rachmaninov, some swedish artists i won't even mention, Romanian folk music, Herbie Hancock, Jerry Goldsmith, MIA, 2 pac, Madonna, Slayer, Angelo Badalamenti, Springsteen, Kraftwerk, Die toten hosen, Pixies, J.S. Bach, Nirvana, The Hives, Nick Cave, Pet shop Boys and so on...
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You might also add that "it's French Operas from the 18th century that really floats your boat". See what reaction that gets.
