Post here for what music you like. By music I mean genres, artists, songs, albums, etc.
I like rock music, specifically hard rock, prog rock, pop rock, glam rock, and soft rock.
Artists include:
- Electric Light Orchestra
- Queen
- The Beatles
- Led Zeppelin
- AC/DC
- Paul McCartney and Wings
- The Sweet
- The Who
- The Rolling Stones
- David Bowie
- Elton John
- Aerosmith
- The Cars
Yes I know I like a lot of bands. :-D
Songs include:
- Mr. Blue Sky -Electric Light Orchestra
- Do Ya - Electric Light Orchestra
- Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
- Don't Stop Me Now - Queen
- I Will - The Beatles
- Hey Jude - The Beatles
- Here Comes the Sun - The Beatles
- Band on the Run - Paul McCartney and Wings
- Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
- Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin
- (I Can't Get No)Satisfaction - The Rolling Stones
- Highway to Hell - AC/DC
- Back in Black - AC/DC
- More Than a Feeling - Boston
- My Best Friend's Girl - The Cars
- Sweet Emotion - Aerosmith
I would list all the songs, but I want to make this post short. Albums:Out of the Blue - ELOThe Game - QueenThe Beatles - The BeatlesBack in Black - AC/DCLed Zeppelin IV - Led ZeppelinGuardians of the Galaxy vol. 1 and 2 - various artistsSorry if this was long. Silly me. :pan:
Nothing you'd like, or have ever even heard of.
80s and 70s stuff.
A lot: soundtracks, classic rock, alternative, rap, EDM, trance.
Bands...
King's X
Steely Dan
Genesis (Phil era)
Panic! At The Disco
Weird Al
Tom Petty
Gorillaz
Devo
Hall and Oates
Linkin Park
David Bowie
Prince
Doobie Brothers
The Cure
Tears For Fears
Donald Fagen
ELO
The Police
Talking Heads
Sinatra
ELO? Aw, yeah! :clap: What's your favorite song by them?
Favorites:
Bruce Springsteen (by a huge margin....over 85 GB of my 120 GB iPod)
The Gaslight Anthem and related acts
The Beatles
ELO
The Kinks
Early Stones (up through about Let It Bleed, which is my favorite Stones album)
Brian Wilson
Lately I've been playing Lindsey Buckingham's Seeds We Sow a lot.
Favorites:
Grateful Dead (Have about 75 GB worth of live shows, many of which I had on cassette, and 16 of which I saw in person)
Rolling Stones (saw em twice)
Beatles
Yes
Rush (Saw them 5 times)
CSN, and especially Y
Bob Dylan
Pink Floyd
The Who
Phish
Springsteen
Led Zeppelin
Jimi Hendrix
The Doors
Steely Dan
I'm sure there's more I can't think of right now, but these are the heavy hitters.
The list is smaller for the genres of music that I don't listen to. I dislike country and heavy metal the most, as well as a majority of the newer pop music (although there are some songs that I can't resist singing along to when I've had a few drinks :)).
As for my favorite genres, I really like EDM/house music and lately, I've been on a trap/rap binge. Rock and jam bands are other genres that I also love, and I can always get down to some reggae. My list of favorite bands/artists is always changing, but as of right now, my favorites are listed below. If you click on their names, I've included a link to my favorite song by those artists.
Kendrick Lamar (rap) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwZ0RiCECQA)
Schoolboy Q (rap) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMP0ZpWTPEc)
Mac DeMarco (rock/indie, although it's debatable what genre he truly is) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT_XB9mhPnY)
Allman Brothers Band (rock/jam band) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VxoXn-0Ezs)
Phish (rock/jam band) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_72RmEedSE0)
Miike Snow (indie) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ub_ox8HSSOw)
Pretty Lights (EDM) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flyqb6PbarM)
Griz (EDM) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uOrw8zDYns)
ODESZA (EDM) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGqeabU-DM0)
Twiddle (rock/jam band) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jj06Z54k3Ek)
Grateful Dead (rock/jam band) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XacvydVrhuI)
Tyler, The Creator (rap) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSbZidsgMfw)
A$AP Rocky (rap) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEG2VTHS9yg)
Ratatat (electronic/rock) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVtGCACwpW8)
Sublime (rock/reggae) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmadSGJCzo8)
I pretty much like a fair amount of any form of music except for most rap and country (there's like two rap songs that I actually like, excluding any by Weird Al, and only one county song that I like), and any genre I haven't heard yet.
Quote from: roadgeek01 on May 04, 2017, 05:50:32 PM
ELO? Aw, yeah! :clap: What's your favorite song by them?
Don't Bring Me Down.
Bands/Singers include:
*AC/DC
*Boston
*Kansas
*Lynyrd Skynyrd
*Shinedown
*March to the Grave (Small British punk rock band)
*The Rivals
*Heroic (Small Swedish punk rock band)
*White Town
Songs include:
*Boston-Peace Of Mind
*Kansas-Wayward Son
And that's it, I guess.
I'm the first one on this thread to say classical.
(Also, 50s, 60s, and 70s rock music.)
My tastes are very solidly towards '80s , '00s, and '10s alternative rock, with some 60's and 70's classics thrown in there for good measure. My top 15 artists according to total number of plays are:
Steely Dan
Tauk
Devo
Real Estate
New Order
Oingo Boingo
Talking Heads
The Cure
Sparks
Joy Division
Alan Parsons
World Party
Lower Dens
Joywave
M83
Quote from: Thing 342 on May 05, 2017, 09:24:33 AM
My tastes are very solidly towards '80s , '00s, and '10s alternative rock, with some 60's and 70's classics thrown in there for good measure. My top 15 artists according to total number of plays are:
What don't you like about the '90s that isn't in the '80s or '00s?
Favorite songs:
By King's X:
Mississippi Moon
Over My Head
Dogman
It's Love
Pray
Summerland
The Burning Down
By Steely Dan:
Do it Again
Hey Nineteen
Deacon Blues
Time Out of Mind
Peg
Genesis:
Turn it On
Just a Job to do
Misunderstanding
Abacab
Man on the Corner
Keep it Dark
Silver Rainbow
Donald Fagen:
IGY
New Frontier
The Nightfly
Planet D'Rhonda
Sinatra:
The Good Life
Nothing But The Best
Come Fly With Me
Howard JOnes:
New Song
No One is to Blame
IGY
After the Fire:
Der Kommisar
Panic! At The Disco:
LA Devotee
Crazy = Genius
Death of a Bachelor
Camisado
I Write Sins, Not Tragedies
Queen:
Bohemian Rhapsody
YOu're my Best Friend
We Will Rock You
Killer Queen
Chicago:
25 or 6 to 4
Saturday in the Park
Hard Habit to Break / Get Away
Cheap Trick:
Surrender (Live)
I Want you to Want Me (Live)
Dream Police
Ain't That a Shame
Talking Heads:
Once in a Lifetime
Burning Down the House
Yes:
Roundabout
Owner of a Lonely Heart
Changes
The Police:
Don't Stand So Close to Me
Every Breath You Take
Roxanne
Devo:
Whip It
That's Good
Here to Go
Satisfaction
Jocko Homo
Linkin Park:
Crawling
In the End (this song describes my life a lot)
Papercut
Simple Plan:
Welcome to my Life (Listen to this a lot when I'm depressed)
AC / DC:
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
Big Balls
Back in Black
Highway to Hell
Direr Straits:
Money for Nothing
Walk of Life (I hate the sports themed video, as the song has nothing to do with sports)
Your Latest Trick
The Man's Too Strong
So Far Away
Sultans of Swing
Gorillaz:
Feel Good Inc
Dare
El Manana
Clint Eastwood
Dirty Harry
Stylo
The Cure:
In Between Days
Killing an Arab
Lovesong
Friday I'm in Love
Elton John:
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Bennie and the Jets
I'm Still Standing (another song I listen to when depressed. It's very empowering)
The Bitch is Back
Daniel
Alan Parsons Project:
Games People Play
Sirius / Eye in the Sky
The Spinners:
Working My Way Back to You / Forgive Me
Games People Play
Rubberband Man
I'll Be Around
Other artists I like:
Dire Straits
Hayseed Dixie
The Cars
Elton John
Ninja Sex Party
Leo Moracchioli (frogleapstudios.com Seriously, check out this guy's metal covers.. Gangam Style, Feel Good Inc, Informer, hell, he even nails Let It Go from the Frozen soundtrack, and I HATE that song.)
Alan Parsons
The Spinners
Kansas
Boston
Chicago
AC/DC
Man, I could go on and on.
"everything except rap and country!" (http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1224766-le-wrong-generation)
Usually prog and everything related to it (jazz, rock, funk), but any song with at least one good musical idea
Some examples:
K-Pop: Sunny Hill (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTO6_hHm8D8)
Hip-hop: Andrew Huang (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAgGBfLgKmY)
Country: Little Feat (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZKp8_jw4fw)
Southern Rock: Dixie Dregs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX-A4HvoGu8)
Fusion Jazz: Thank You Scientist (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv1ypynSLzY)
Anime Soundtrack: Yuko Kanno (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7tkWy7rEvQ)
80s Pop: Depeche Mode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ)
70s Singer/Songwriter: Joni Mitchell (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4enC_DzK6U)
Punk: Pixies (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsMLjaloyvI)
Since I see so many songs and artists I like already mentioned, I'll just go with them and pretty much all that get posted about later on! Music is something I love but am totally horrible at playing or singing...LOL!
Rick
2000-2017 popular music.
I'm a die-hard fan of 1980s new wave and post-punk. New Order, The Cure, Depeche Mode, the Psychedelic Furs, Tears For Fears, The Police and a bunch of other bands like that.
I also like some alternative rock acts such as the Red Hot Chili Peppers and R.E.M., a few classic rock acts like The Who, Led Zeppelin and Genesis (Phil Collins and Peter Gabriel solo stuff also), and, oh yeah, Prince, who was basically his own genre, the Minneapolis Sound.
Quote from: roadgeek01 on May 04, 2017, 05:50:32 PM
ELO? Aw, yeah! :clap: What's your favorite song by them?
The entire Out Of The Blue album hahaha
Quote from: roadgeek01 on May 04, 2017, 05:50:32 PM
ELO? Aw, yeah! :clap: What's your favorite song by them?
"Calling America"
I have a purported copy of "Beatles Forever." It sounds like ELO. I don't know whether it's legit.
Quote from: ET21 on May 06, 2017, 09:43:29 PM
Quote from: roadgeek01 on May 04, 2017, 05:50:32 PM
ELO? Aw, yeah! :clap: What's your favorite song by them?
The entire Out Of The Blue album hahaha
Also
A New World Record. :thumbsup:
1970s bliss at its highest level!
:cool:
Mike
I personally am a smooth jazz fan myself, which is what got me into the color pink since when I listen to smooth jazz I think of the color pink.
Quote from: roadgeek01 on May 04, 2017, 05:50:32 PM
ELO? Aw, yeah! :clap: What's your favorite song by them?
This reminds me of when my friend was talking about how much he loves
E-low, and I had no idea what he was talking about, until my brother told me that he was talking about
E-L-O :-D (does anyone else say "e-low", because I've never heard it said that way before?)
Anyway, if I had to choose my top 10 bands as of today, I would choose the following (in alphabetical order):
Arcade Fire
Death Cab for Cutie
The Eagles
Fleetwood Mac
Genesis
Rush
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
The Tragically Hip
U2
Yes
My absolute favourite album would have to be Seconds Out by Genesis. I remember bringing that CD in the car to school for every one of my exams in the 2B term. I was listening to Firth of Fifth and The Cinema Show last night before sleeping and was reminded of just how damn good that album is! :)
60's,70's 80's 90's and some of the 2000's music-mostly rock, some country, really all over the map.
It's nice to see that some of the younger folks here appreciate the old stuff. I love it when I come home from work and my 17 year old has some Foghat or Deep Purple cranked up.
Primarily heavy metal. Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Metallica, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Rush, AC/DC, UFO, and an entire laundry list of others.
Quote from: Pink Jazz on May 08, 2017, 03:53:30 PM
I personally am a smooth jazz fan myself, which is what got me into the color pink since when I listen to smooth jazz I think of the color pink.
I dunno, something kind of blue works for me.
I like pop and country music. I like 1990-2017 singers like Shania Twain, Taylor Swift and Tove Lo.
I like anything, but anything related to rap doesn't interest me such as hip hop and modern R & B. I do like classic R & B songs and most of what I have liked I play on All Noise Radio.
Anything from the 70s, 80s or 90s. The 2000s and newer I could care less about.
I'm not sure how to answer this, exactly.
I like a lot of different music, from classical to alternative to jazz to country to foreign to bluegrass and the list goes on. Maybe the best way to answer is to think about what I usually put on at work. I play full albums on YouTube while I work, and these are my usual picks:
REM
U2
Hillsong United
various other contermporary Christian artists
Suzanne Vega
Greg Brown
Enya
Toad the Wet Sprocket
Delerium
Enigma
Nanci Griffith
10,000 Maniacs
If more music were available on YouTube by the following artists, I would listen to more of them as well:
Bob Dylan
The Beatles
Frank Zappa
I play drums in my church every week, and I can also play acoustic guitar and piano (among other things).
My big dislikes are rap and opera. Most everything else is at least tolerable.
Here are a few: A Perfect Circle, Alice In Chains, Audioslave, Bassnectar, The Beatles, Bruce Dickinson, BT, Catherine Wheel, The Crystal Method, Deftones, Failure, Faith No More, Foo Fighters, The Frogs, How To Destroy Angels, Iron Maiden, Johnny Cash, Judas Priest, Merle Haggard, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Porcupine Tree, Puscifer, R.E.M., Radiohead, Rob Dickinson, Scarface, Slayer, Smashing Pumpkins, Soundgarden, Tool, Tori Amos, Tricky, Wesley Willis Fiasco, 30 Seconds To Mars.
Quote from: slorydn1 on May 09, 2017, 03:40:04 AM
60's,70's 80's 90's and some of the 2000's music-mostly rock, some country, really all over the map.
It's nice to see that some of the younger folks here appreciate the old stuff. I love it when I come home from work and my 17 year old has some Foghat or Deep Purple cranked up.
I mean, I enjoy some mid 90s to early 2000s music.
I've always loved a very wide range of music, including rock, heavy metal, dance music, pop, alternative and even classical. In the past decade or so I've been expanding into a lot of rock precursor music, mostly from the late 1940s and early 1950s.
I've been a Les Paul fan for many years, but until a few years ago I was only familiar with his later music with artists like Chet Atkins. I knew he had famously invented multi-track recording, but for some reason until about 10 years ago I never listened to any of those early recordings he made with his then wife, Mary Ford. But once I started listening to it I quickly realized what a profound impact these pre-rock hits had on later artists, even into the heavy metal era.
Les Paul & Mary Ford introduced the world to the unique sound of multi-track recording (and in the process, lip-syncing on TV) in 1951, with the hit single 'How High The Moon'.
I wish they would play more of the new stuff of the old time artists. Then again it gives us an excuse for buying cds or the songs on line and not let the radio stations play out the good songs to the point you hate em.
-Country, but not so much modern country. The good old fashioned stuff.
-Exception: Florida Georgia Line. Probably Round Here and Simple are my favorites.
-Anything by Rob Thomas, and I do mean anything. Smooth by Santana/Rob Thomas has become my new favorite song of all time.
It was released in 1999, too, so that makes it even more magical for me since that was the year I was born. I think the '90s would have been a super fun era to grow up in.
Having watched "the Blues Brothers" earlier this week, I can say that I like both kinds of music:
Country AND Western.
That being said, I probably haven't listened to top 40 country in 10 years; when my car radio is tuned to a country station, it's usually 80's/90's country or classic country.
I'll listen to 60's and 70's rock. Right now, Radio Margaritaville is paying "Hotel California" and I am far from complaining.
Before everything was cancelled, I had tickets to see the Eagles, Alan Jackson, Marty Stuart, and Robert Earl Keen this Spring. Last fall, I drove up to Las Vegas to see Willie Nelson one night, and Jimmy Buffett the next.
A little of everything except Rap and HipHop.
Quote from: 1995hoo on May 06, 2017, 10:17:02 PM
Quote from: roadgeek01 on May 04, 2017, 05:50:32 PM
ELO? Aw, yeah! :clap: What's your favorite song by them?
"Calling America"
Totally realize how old this is, but I have to thank you for introducing me to this gem. :thumbsup:
Doesn't exactly give me goosebumps or hit me on an emotional level, but it's just the perfect blend of deep, catchy, and feel-good that I wish could go on forever.
Some 80/90s (Depeche Mode, Nirvana, REM, Nine Inch Nails, AC/DC, etc.) I like songs with strong minor-key themes and/or a dominating, dark bassline. Really anything with a distinctive riff will catch my eye though (Finger 11's "Paralyzer," Gerry Rafferty's "Baker Street, etc.). Occasionally I'll look into older stuff like "Venus" by Shocking Blue or above-mentioned ELO (Evil Woman is a personal favorite).
EDIT: I also enjoy some 80s/90s rap, like Warren G's "Regulate" and Tone Loc's "Funky Cold Medina."
Zamrock!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zamrock -
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Quote from: webny99 on June 04, 2020, 09:23:38 PM
Quote from: 1995hoo on May 06, 2017, 10:17:02 PM
Quote from: roadgeek01 on May 04, 2017, 05:50:32 PM
ELO? Aw, yeah! :clap: What's your favorite song by them?
"Calling America"
Totally realize how old this is, but I have to thank you for introducing me to this gem. :thumbsup:
Doesn't exactly give me goosebumps or hit me on an emotional level, but it's just the perfect blend of deep, catchy, and feel-good that I wish could go on forever.
If you like that, you'd also enjoy "Telephone Line".
Incidentally, I love any 80's song - any song period, really, that uses a lot of synth. It was used the most and the best in that time period though imo. Also songs that are super atmospheric, which is why I love "Telephone Line" - combines synth and atmosphere - a lot of ELO's work was like that. Some of my other favorites: "Party All the Time" - Eddie Murphy, "Stand or Fall" - the Fixx, "West End Girls" - Pet Shop Boys, "Shock the Monkey" - Peter Gabriel, "Jeopardy" - Greg Kihn, the entire "Cargo" album by Men At Work, and the entire "Pleasure Victim" album by Berlin.
My total taste in tunes is pretty eclectic, pretty much anything except modern country (the genre 'jumped the shark' in the early 1980s with the Urban Cowboy craze), hard core gangsta (c)rap (if I can't read the lyrics out loud in prose form in a public forvm without running afoul of the PC Police....), death metal and the like.
I especially like catchy stuff that would be played in clubs from the 1970s up to the present such as 'club' disco, 1980s new wave, electronica, 'house', trance and so forth.
Good rock from the 1960s to the present is up there, too.
I very much like ELO's Calling America, too, although I really think that they lost their way as a band when they fired their string section.
One Elton John title that I've always liked is Nikita (1986) - The endgame years of the Cold War was when I came of age. (I'm a bit surprised that he never followed that one up in 1990 or so.)
Mike
Beatles
Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR)
Cream
Derek and the Dominos
Allman Brothers Band
Steely Dan
Lynrd Skynrd
R.E.M.
Police
Nirvana
Pearl Jam
iPhone
AJR & Post Malone are my 2 favorites at the moment (who, perhaps not-so-coincidentally, are the last 2 I saw in concert before gathering sizes started being limited).
Also currently into The Weeknd, Childish Gambino, & 21 Pilots. Always enjoy a good rock band as well, such as Linkin Park, Rise Against, Three Days Grace, Fall Out Boy, 30 Seconds to Mars, & (only if I'm in an especially angsty mood) Disturbed.
Quote from: inkyatari on May 05, 2017, 09:28:40 AM
Favorite songs:
By King's X:
Mississippi Moon
Over My Head
Dogman
It's Love
Pray
Summerland
The Burning Down
I used to like King's X a lot during my high school years. I saw them at least twice - once opening for Billy Squier at the Tower Theater in Upper Darby (very late 80s?) and then again headlining at the Trocadero in Philly. After maybe the first 5 albums or so I stopped really keeping up with them. Somewhere I have a drumstick that Jerry Gaskill tossed me and Doug Pinnicks's bass pick from one of those shows.
I like a lot of the other bands referenced in the full quoted post above as well as those mentioned by others, but King's X stood out because I rarely hear anyone mention them.
I prefer the older stuff too, never cared much for post-2000 pop music, I don't listen to any pop music from the last 10 years, every time I attempted to see what's popular I was greatly disappointed. I don't understand the attraction to the auto-tuned, no actual instruments, loud, similarly produced hit songs of today.
Rock music from the late 1960s to the early 1990s and general pop music from the 1980s has my preference. Almost all of that is older than I am. I think my favorite music are the Pink Floyd albums from the 1970s.
I do listen to some newer albums, such as Dream Theater, John Mayer or Joe Bonamassa. And I don't mind a good EDM track playing along a timelapse highway video.
80s
Old-school rap
90s rock
This is a next to impossible question for me to answer. My musical tastes are...fickle. I cannot predict whether I'll like anything or not by the genre or even the artist. My phone is a mish-mash of singles. I am guessing that there is something all the songs I like have in common, but I don't know enough music theory to be able to express it.
I guess I am similar in the sense of preferring singles to albums. I have never listened to an entire album from lid to lid.
If I had to describe my favorite kind of music (without specifying the genre), I guess I would say simultaneously deep and catchy, with lyrics that at least make sense if not tell a story.
Quote from: STLmapboy on June 04, 2020, 10:39:17 PM
EDIT: I also enjoy some 80s/90s rap, like Warren G's "Regulate" and Tone Loc's "Funky Cold Medina."
And these tend to sample other songs as well. The former heavily samples Michael McDonald's "I Keep Forgettin" while the latter seems to sample the guitar riff from Foreigner's "Hot Blooded"
I'm a techno, rap, dance, club, rave fan. I hate country although many people where I live like it.
Quote from: jp the roadgeek on June 12, 2020, 01:38:40 PM
Quote from: STLmapboy on June 04, 2020, 10:39:17 PM
EDIT: I also enjoy some 80s/90s rap, like Warren G's "Regulate" and Tone Loc's "Funky Cold Medina."
And these tend to sample other songs as well. The former heavily samples Michael McDonald's "I Keep Forgettin" while the latter seems to sample the guitar riff from Foreigner's "Hot Blooded"
And, of course, "Wild Thing", used a guitar sample from Van Halen. I want to say it was "Jayne's Crying"?
Quote from: KEVIN_224 on June 13, 2020, 09:10:25 PM
Quote from: jp the roadgeek on June 12, 2020, 01:38:40 PM
Quote from: STLmapboy on June 04, 2020, 10:39:17 PM
EDIT: I also enjoy some 80s/90s rap, like Warren G's "Regulate" and Tone Loc's "Funky Cold Medina."
And these tend to sample other songs as well. The former heavily samples Michael McDonald's "I Keep Forgettin" while the latter seems to sample the guitar riff from Foreigner's "Hot Blooded"
And, of course, "Wild Thing", used a guitar sample from Van Halen. I want to say it was "Jayne's Crying"?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Thing_(Tone_L%C5%8Dc_song) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Thing_(Tone_L%C5%8Dc_song))
You'd be correct on that one. An uncredited sample, at that.
Quote from: berberry on June 02, 2017, 01:44:30 PM
I've always loved a very wide range of music, including rock, heavy metal, dance music, pop, alternative and even classical. In the past decade or so I've been expanding into a lot of rock precursor music, mostly from the late 1940s and early 1950s.
I've been a Les Paul fan for many years, but until a few years ago I was only familiar with his later music with artists like Chet Atkins. I knew he had famously invented multi-track recording, but for some reason until about 10 years ago I never listened to any of those early recordings he made with his then wife, Mary Ford. But once I started listening to it I quickly realized what a profound impact these pre-rock hits had on later artists, even into the heavy metal era.
Les Paul & Mary Ford introduced the world to the unique sound of multi-track recording (and in the process, lip-syncing on TV) in 1951, with the hit single 'How High The Moon'.
I actually consider
How High the Moon to be an early rock song, several years before Bill Haley.
Great stuff that was before its time!
:nod:
Mike
More music:
Enola Gay--OMD
I listen to rock and its subgenres. My favourite subgenre is hard rock. I also listen to some non-English language rock bands. Favourite band of all time is Guns N' Roses.
English-language Bands:
*Guns N' Roses
*AC/DC
*Aerosmith
*Audioslave
*Bon Jovi
*Def Leppard
*Eagles
*Europe (Swedish band)
*Foo Fighters
*Foreigner
*Green Day
*Hanoi Rocks
*Iron Maiden
*L.A. Guns
*Led Zeppelin
*Lynyrd Skynryd
*Metallica
*Motley Crue
*Nirvana
*Oasis
*Pearl Jam
*Poison
*Queen
*Red Hot Chili Peppers
*Scorpions
*Sex Pistols
*Stone Temple Pilots
*Survivor
*Triumph
*Twisted Sister
*Van Halen
*Velvet Revolver
*Warrant
Non-english language Bands:
*Hei Bao (PR China)
*Bodyslam (Thailand)
*Silly Fools (Thailand)
*Loso (Thailand)
*Kino (Soviet Union)
Quote from: webny99 on June 04, 2020, 11:58:18 AM
Smooth by Santana/Rob Thomas has become my new favorite song of all time.
It was released in 1999, too, so that makes it even more magical for me since that was the year I was born. I think the '90s would have been a super fun era to grow up in.
Ugh, that song was absolutely everywhere in 1999 and into 2000. The 90s were indeed nice to grow up in, but like every era it had its overplayed songs.
Quote from: epzik8 on May 06, 2017, 09:16:38 PM
I'm a die-hard fan of 1980s new wave and post-punk. New Order, The Cure, Depeche Mode, the Psychedelic Furs, Tears For Fears, The Police and a bunch of other bands like that.
I also like some alternative rock acts such as the Red Hot Chili Peppers and R.E.M., a few classic rock acts like The Who, Led Zeppelin and Genesis (Phil Collins and Peter Gabriel solo stuff also), and, oh yeah, Prince, who was basically his own genre, the Minneapolis Sound.
"Post punk" is just what they called alternative music in the 1980s. It was post punk, then it was college rock, then post modern rock and finally alternative.
Quote from: webny99 on June 09, 2020, 10:43:33 AM
I guess I am similar in the sense of preferring singles to albums. I have never listened to an entire album from lid to lid.
Never?!?!?!?!?
Anything that's more old school. I enjoy the Beatles, Johnny Cash, and Bob Dylan among others. I personally believe that modern music is kind of lame these days since most people my age listen to that style, like rap.
A fellow I helped lead to faith a several years ago just texted me a Christian song for me to listen to, because he was excited about it. I had to grin, because the album was released in 1999, just one month after my own conversion, in a world without YouTube and in which mp3 players were the height of personal music tech. This particular song was all over Christian radio back then.
Ah, young people...
A lot of hewer stuff on my Spotify feeds has had a very strong '1980s' feel to it, including period acts coming back and making more new stuff, most recently Depeche Mode (also earlier acts such as the Red Hot Chili Peppers).
Kind of Refreshing.
Mike
Very broadly, 2000s/2010s/2020s metal, rock, and electronic. I listen to some pop but it usually would also fall into one of the other 3 categories.
Classic rock, especially AC/DC, Guns N' Roses, Led Zeppelin, Journey, and Queen. The newer stuff never got to me. It all sounds the same.
Elton John is my favorite vocalist, and Savage Garden was my favorite musical band (Darren Hayes, solo, was never the same).
I like 1980's rock: Simple Mind, Tears for Fears, Def Leppard, Bon Jovi, Kenny Loggins
I also like the Alternative rock from this century: Coldplay, Hinder, Three Doors Down, Lifehouse, Evanescence, Breaking Benjamin, Chris Daughtry, Nickelback, Chevelle, and Linkin Park (mainly first two albums; haven't been the same since then).
My all-time favorite song is Danger Zone from the Top Gun album.
Quote from: jgb191 on April 15, 2023, 01:09:40 AM
My all-time favorite song is Danger Zone from the Top Gun album.
Did you know that Judas Priest was approached to do the theme song for
Top Gun? The producers asked the band if they could use the song "Reckless" as the signature song from the film, but the band declined because they didn't want to "waste" "Reckless" for a soundtrack. After Priest turned them down, they approached Logger and he accepted, and the rest is history. "Reckless" is a great song.
^ Reckless would have appropriately described Maverick's flying habits in the Top Gun movie.