Right, so I thought this might be fun to do. How versatile is your musical taste? I love SO many genres and thought it fun and challenging to come up with ONE of your favorite songs from each genre you enjoy
Here are mine!
80's[li]Four Seasons - Oh What A Night! (Club Version)[/li][/list]
90's[li]Blues Traveler - Hook[/li][/list]
Classic Rock[li] Boston - Foreplay/Longtime[/li][/list]
Classical[li] Clint Mansell - Requiem For A Dream[/li][/list]
Country[li]Tracy Byrd - I'm From The Country[/li][/list]
Club[li]September - Cry For You[/li][/list]
Dubstep[li]Flight Facilities - Crave You[/li][/list]
J-Pop[li] Kotoko - Second Flight[/li][/list]
Metal[li] Metallica - Dyer's Eve[/li][/list]
Reggae[li] UB40 - Red Red Wine[/li][/list]
Rock[li] Seether - Broken[/li][/list]
Techno[li] Toby Emerson - Blue Star[/li][/list]
I like this thread. As someone who has suffered depression, music is very therapeutic to me. As such, I like a lot of variety. But my main genres are indie, drone, and old jazz. I'm not terribly knowledgable about any of them, but I know it when I hear it, and I love it.
So:
Drone: Stars of the Lid - "Austin Texas Mental Hospital, Part III"
Indie (which probably has a lot of subgenres I don't know or understand): The Fitness - "Analog Synths"
Old jazz: The Glenn Miller Orchestra - "In The Mood"
My playlist is almost entirely Alternative Rock and Alt-Metal.
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My personal favorite atm:
[youtube:1ffp62kw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ_EtiPFZAU[/youtube:1ffp62kw]
Pretty much anything except for country, rap, hip-hop, pop, or any music made after 2000 aimed at teens and preteens. Yuck. I also like very very sad, and very very angry stuff.
Quote[on New Kids on the Block, Rick Astley, George Michaels, et al] People say to me, "Oh, Bill, leave them alone. They're so good, and so clean-cut, and they're such a good image for the children." Fuck that! When did mediocrity and banality become a good image for your children? I want my children listening to people who fucking rocked! I don't care if they died in pools of their own vomit! I want someone who plays from his fucking heart! "Mommy, the man Bill told me to listen to has a blood bubble on his nose." SHUT UP AND LISTEN TO HIM PLAY!
Bill Hicks
Anyways, here goes:
Rammstein- German Metal
Ozzy- Hard Rock/Metal
Yngwie Malmsteen- Guitar
Foo Fighters- Rock
Voltaire- Dark Cabaret/Goth
Al Di Meola- Jazz
Weird Al- Comedy Rap
Heywood Banks- Comedy
Tim Wilson- Comedy Country
Any Music from The Legend of Zelda Video game series
hmmmm
bands; duh...The Moody Blues
duos: Simon and Garfunkel
Male soloist: Ever listen to Dean Martin, you'd be surprised, but probably Englebert Humperdink really thats his name
Female, very hard, Patsy Cline and Whitney Houston
Classical...even harder Pachabel, Kreig, Beethoven
Jazz, ah Dave Brubeck, Spyro-, man so many
Death Metal, local cats fucking....really..sounds the same hahahaha
country,,,meh
Quote from: "aitm"local cats fucking
I love that band
There was once a band called Cheetah Chrome and the Motherfuckers.
Showtunes and Disney songs. :-$
(Also some 80's rock because that was what imprinted on me in my teens, I cannot help it. And some Metal, ala Metalica, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, etc).
So shoot me.
Edited to add: Ohhh, I almost forgot classic rock and other oldies. From the Andrews Sisters to Sinatra to the Beatles and on. All good shit.
[youtube:21mlk9my]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOEM39RUPrY[/youtube:21mlk9my]
Mostly metal.
I don't really listen to music anymore, other than my own.
80's
Mr. Big: Addicted To That Rush
90's
Faith No More: Underwater Love
Classic Rock
UFO- Doctor Doctor
Metal
Buckethead: Stretching Lighthouse
Grunge
Alice in Chains: Sludge Factory
Rock
Blues Traveler: Save His Soul
Blues
Stevie Ray Vaughan: Let Me Love You Baby
Instrumental
Steve Vai: Blue Powder
Prog. Metal
Queensryche: Eyes of a Stranger
Jam
Dispatch: Flying Horses
Crooner
Dean Martin: Aint That a Kick in the Head
Psychadelic
Pink Floyd: Echos
Quote from: "the_antithesis"Writer posted a YouTube video (//http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOEM39RUPrY)
WOW! I like, and I'm 71 years old. Having been an illustrator in the past, the illustrations by my favorite illustrators makes it even better, Never heard of the band, I was a professional musician from way back when. Thanks! Solitary
Another song I like! It must be from all the drugs I took in the past and the meds I take now. Or just because I fucking like the sound and lyrics. Fuck you! :shock: :rollin: Solitary
I really like Fleetwood Mac, the old Santana, Pearl jam, Pink Floyd Queensryche Iron maiden, Judas Priest. Wow! I'm giving away my age. Solitary
I'm deaf. My favorite "musical genre" is the ringing in my ears.
Mine too, it is ringing the witch is dead. He! He!
Jazz and blues are my favorites. I also like funk, classic rock, underground hip-hop, and some metal. For the record, most hip-hop, rock, and metal made today is total garbage, so I usually don't even mention them.
I like classic jazz, but my favorite jazz tune at the moment is from just last year:
[youtube:3pd3jmho]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNI-2i6t7Zs[/youtube:3pd3jmho]
Is humming off-key a genre?
Quote from: "stromboli"Is humming off-key a genre?
Yes. That is a sub-genre of jazz.
I also like Frank Sinatra Jr.
I like 30's and 40's french music with female lead singers despite not understanding French. Like Edith Piaf, Damia, Frehel, Lucienne Boyer, Berthe Sylva, and Rina Ketty.
[youtube:3l2cc3k9]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcXn9gHIkqM[/youtube:3l2cc3k9]
[youtube:3l2cc3k9]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZwgQ6ZG5Y0[/youtube:3l2cc3k9]
I also like Psychedelic pop/rock. Any thing (mid to late) Beatles sounding is good too, like The Zombies or pre-disco Bee Gees. One of my favorite albums is Odessey and Oracle by The Zombies.
[youtube:3l2cc3k9]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNEILHFq44g[/youtube:3l2cc3k9]
[youtube:3l2cc3k9]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnu8H0x4l60[/youtube:3l2cc3k9]
I like anything with good vocals. Bands like the Ink Spots, Mills Brothers, The Mamas and the Papas, Queen, The Seekers, Judy Collins, etc.
[youtube:3l2cc3k9]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-yss1gkApk[/youtube:3l2cc3k9]
[youtube:3l2cc3k9]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7fi9G0BiTE[/youtube:3l2cc3k9]
[youtube:3l2cc3k9]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1HQdjt85wU[/youtube:3l2cc3k9]
I like some (Italian) opera(-ish) music too, so add Enrico Caruso, Luciano Pavarotti, Carlo Buti, and Il Volo to the list. Il Volo is one of the few modern bands I actually like. Probably because of the band's emphasis on - I don't know - actually sounding good.
[youtube:3l2cc3k9]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1QJwHWvgP8[/youtube:3l2cc3k9]
[youtube:3l2cc3k9]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw3c5d3aBSE[/youtube:3l2cc3k9]
Classical is good too. Beethoven's 6th is quite clearly his best.
Quote from: "PickelledEggs"Quote from: "stromboli"Is humming off-key a genre?
Yes. That is a sub-genre of jazz.
A mate of mine described the main rule of jazz being that the note you are playing should have as tenuous a relationship to the previous note as possible. Bloody Philistine!... :lol:
my favorite is either the first or second video. can you guess which?
[youtube:1ajt8o1m]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf3MVrmbttg[/youtube:1ajt8o1m]
[youtube:1ajt8o1m]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGBFkfhkxx8[/youtube:1ajt8o1m]
the 2nd one...
Quote from: "wolf39us"the 2nd one...
:lol: how'd ya know!? clearly you have proven mind reading is real. James Randi better pay up! :P
oh idk, it had nothing to do with the several times you've mentioned banjo songs // playing banjo
Quote from: "wolf39us"oh idk, it had nothing to do with the several times you've mentioned banjo songs // playing banjo
of course not!
I am disappointing in myself for actually liking that first one.
I have been thinking about it, and as goofy as those type of vocals sound... try to imagine that music with normal vocals. It just sounds moronic.
1) Rock (for how easily it merges with Folk, Country, and last but not least Da Blues)
2) Jazz (For how easily it merges with Funk, RNB, Reggae and just about anything that decides to get playfull)
3) Metal (cuz it's fockin badass with it's roots in classical arrangements, and how it blends with weirdass shit like industrial)
4) Rap (once it fucking get's over itself, and stops trying to mix with everything. We have Jazz for that.)
Classic Rock is the closest thing I have to a religion. I especially love YES and RUSH. Bands with very forward thinking lyrics. Pink Floyd, Moody Blues, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, and of course The Beatles.
Here is an off the cuff response to the original post:
80's - "Money for Nothin'" - Dire Straits
90's - "No Way We Can Lose" - YES
Classic Rock - "Imagine" - John Lennon
Classical - "The Blue Danube" - Johann Strauss II
Metal - "Living Dead Girl" - Rob Zombie
Reggae - "No Woman, No Cry" - Bob Marley
Visual kei.
I've been listening to a lot of Orbison lately. What a fucking singer.
[youtube:2ws4p5d3]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLC9o_unLq4[/youtube:2ws4p5d3]
Edit: Forgot this was specifically a genres thread. Doesn't matter, Orbison is in a class of his own.