Spill Your Guts II: What You Think About MB Members' Taste In Music
 

Another great idea by Veridical Fiction.

Tell us what you think of your fellow member's taste in music. Heres my example...

• jackhammer: His tastes range from metal to jazz, the latter of which I give him great respect for. I'm not the biggest metal fan, to be honest I don't know a thing about the genre, but I'm sure his picks are more tasteful than the godawful ones that come to mind when I think of metal.
  
• FaSho: Very simular tastes to mine, somehow managed to find Black Monk Time "boring" though...
  
• BooBoo: I'm horridly ignorant of prog, mostly because the "biggest names" in the genre seem to bore me to death. But that's not entirely fair since I haven't given a single prog album a good solid listen.
• Mirrorball95: We agree on one thing: Tea Leaf Green. That's it.

While making this I suddenly realized... I hardly know a thing about what ya'll listen to.

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You obviously haven't seen the success of the other Spill Your Guts thread. You don't realize it, but I've created a phenomenon. lol...

Btw, Sonace, it's Veridical Fiction. ;)

Edit:
You moderators thrill me. On point, you are. Amazing.
So let's get this going!

You guys don't need to know everyone's musical preferences... Just know the one's who've made an impression on you. Let's stop holding back our opinion of their favorite bands... The truth will set you free, right? At the very least, it will make one hell of a read.
Go nuts.

Darkest Hour-open up your mind a bit, just listening to metalcore and Eminem can't be healthy

Mirrorball95-good taste, pretty similar to mine, got me in to Neil Young now :D

jackhammer- i could probably ask him for a reccomendation to any genre and get a handful of artists

sleepy jack-seems like kind of an indie elitist at times

khfreek-great taste in music, especially fo this age

coryallen2-seems pretty open to other genres, and should talk more about his musical tastes


i'll add more if i can think of any

CoryAllen2 - don't care, he rarely posted about music (if he did i was tooo lazy to look for em)
Nicktarist - Nursery Rhymes, kinda strange

Veridical Fiction tell me your music interests!

Sonace - Not Bad (mostly guessing from Band vs Band thread)

Jackhammer : Hands down most varied expertise on this site. The guy is well versed in every genre.

Booboo : Awesome prog mind, knows alot about alot of great bands. I trust his tastes very much. He also puts together great lists.

Comus : Another great prog mind, between him and booboo they shoud be able to open some sort of black hole in the prog genre.

Antonio : Good rock/metal tastes. I always spot him in threads im in.

Darkest Hour : Reminds me of my friend Kory, he only listens to metalcore and refuses to open his mind to anything else. It's kind of frustrating, I have a feeling DH will grow out of this at somepoint and become a partially productive member of MB.

Unrelenting : This guys pretty new but I seem to always be posting in the same threads as him, not sure of his tastes. But seems good so far.

Alfred : Great taste for his age. I wish I were at that level at that age. Alfred top 25 is the best, can't wait to see it finished. Get on it bro!!

I'll get around to it, I've been slacking haven't I? The list is a little out of date by now, but I'll still review the final six.

Send me a PM or I'll forget and put it off. You'll like the next entry.

Boo Boo: Wow, this guy has the best taste in music ever. A pure musical genius, did you know he has a Ph.D in musicology? It's true. if he likes something, it's objectively proven to be good. :pimp:

Jackhammer: This guy seems to find merit in just about every kind of genre, one of our most openminded members, a guy you can actually count on checking out what you recommend to him. And looking through this guy's Last FM I just have to say, holy sh*t, talk about a closet proggie, he likes a lot great punk and post punk too. I guess he's the REAL Dr. Prunk.

Urban Hatemonger: Though I happen to like about 80% of all the music he hates, I'd be hard pressed not to check out the stuff he recommends. I admit I can't stomach all the britpop he's into (Pulp, bleh) but he did get me into Primal Scream, Stereolab, Blur and Super Furry Animals so I'm eternally grateful for that.

Sleepy Jack: Aside from The Beatles and Radiohead, our tastes have absolutely nothing in common. I don't get the big deal over indie folk, to me it's the most sedated music imaginable, it's like the equalvilent of watching a movie that consists of nothing but bunnies sleeping, it's music were pretty much nothing ever happens. What's this guy problem with music that's heavy and fun? I don't know anyone else that is so passionate about their hatred of rock n roll.

Comus: Granted we like a lot of the same 70s prog, but beyond that, I don't care for his taste very much. And even on the prog side of things, he tends to be dead wrong, I certainly dislike his attitude when regarding his tastes, apparrently I know nothing about prog and he knows everything. His attitude (and appearance for that matter) is much like an elitist classic rock fan, his Radiohead rants are almost like he's parodying that specific kind of person, but then I remember that's how he actually is.

Lucifer Sam: I like some of the stuff he likes, bloody despise other stuff he listens to, I like Captain Beefheart, but number one artist? I always have a serious problem getting along with avant garde fans. Even though I can't make a category for this guy, I know at least a dozen people who have the EXACT same taste as he does. They're the dadaists of the music world. Keep your upside down urinal to yourself, I'm not interested.

I find him overly closedminded in some respects, which makes it ever impossible to have a music discussion with him. I like to call him Mr. Wrong.

Seltzer: Excellent taste. He's not just a proggie, he realises theres more to "progressive" rock music than just rock. He seems to like just about everything. He's gotten me interested in XTC.

Right Track: Likes a lot of good stuff, quite similar to Urban's taste in many respects, though some of it seems to be flavor of the month stuff. Amy Winehouse? Really?

I see he has a soft spot for Motown. Gotta love that.

Toretorden: Now this guy I can really talk music with. It's almost like talking to my dad (no offense tore), a genuine classic rocker he is. But he's a smart and friendly guy, breaking away from the usual stereotype of someone who likes Boston. He knows his prog too.

Dac: God DAMN this guy loves Radiohead. He's an indie kid, but tends to only like the good stuff. So he's cool.

Antonio: I didn't really like that Clutch song off of this month's compilation so I don't know what his fixation with them is all about. But anyone who has the balls to admit they like SOAD in this day and age has my full support. And I gotta stick up for the Zepheads.

Pobody's Nerfect: I can't say, half of the bands on his LastFM I have never even heard of. But Devin Townshend and Massive Attack on the same playlist? That's mighty interesting.

Bulldog: Elvis Costello and Pogues aside, not as much of a hardcore anglophile as I expected. Overall likes some interesting stuff.

Sweet Nothing: Likes some good stuff, but he also hates a lot of my music and loves some of the more unbearable indie bands. Kinda like Ethan number 2.

Fasho: Now this is a real indie kid, it's not bad taste, just not my taste.

Kfreek: I like his taste a lot. You gotta have great sympathy for a guy whose playlist consists entirely of every band indie kids hate with a passion.

Loose Lips: He wins the most music I've never goddamn heard of award, without a doubt.

Adidass: Should be a Spin magazine editor. Good god.

And so many of his bands have over 1000 listens. I don't know how that's even possible. A serious music lover, regardless of what I think of his tastes.

333: Of all the girls on MB, I connect with her tastes the most. A girl that likes Pink Floyd, Frank Zappa, Porcupine Tree, The Mars Volta AND Dead Kennedys? Argh. I can't take it anymore. I MUST HAVE YOU! :(

Captain Caveman: In all honesty, I think he has without a doubt the worst taste in music I've ever seen. An endless assault on the ears that could have only been concieved by the dark lord Satan himself.

:rolleyes:You don't read a single thing I post, do you boo boo!

Lol, not really.

You know I gave myself a terrible rep the first few months on here. Sweet Nothing listens to WAAYYY more Radiohead than me. Hell, I only have 10 Radiohead plays in the last week. And that's only cause Comus is an ******* ;) I'm slowly becoming a post rock fanboy though, which isn't good.


Boo Boo: First struck me as a prog head who didn't listen to much else, but I've been learning that he has some great, varied taste.

Jackhammer: The man we all wish we could be.

Urban Hatemonger: Though I happen to like about 80% of all the music he hates, I'd be hard pressed not to check out the stuff he recommends. I admit I can't stomach all the britpop he's into (Pulp, bleh) but he did get me into Primal Scream, Stereolab, Blur and Super Furry Animals so I'm eternally grateful for that.

Sleepy Jack: If he likes it I probably do to, so he's good in my book.

Comus: Always good for a recommendation for something you've never heard of. Comes across as close minded, but he secretly likes a lot more than he shows.

Urban Kinda like jackhammer, but likes to shove it down your throat sometimes.

Lucifer Sam: I like him.

Seltzer: Not completely sure on what he listens to, but what I've seen I like a lot.

Right Track: I never see a lot from him musically... maybe I'm just looking in the wrong places.

Toretorden: Same as above.

Antonio: I've never been impressed by him.

Bulldog: I've downloaded a lot of albums just because they were on his top 100.

Sweet Nothing: If he likes it, and it's not coldplay, I like it.

Fasho: Gonna be a great one, but he reverts back to a lot of crappy mall-pop just a little too often.

Kfreek: He is to Muse, as I am to Radiohead.

Loose Lips: The Shoegazermeister.

Captain Caveman: Has he ever made a serious post?

Stu: Best taste on MB.

Brad Stengle: Likes a lot of the same stuff I like, so he's cool in my book.

Oooh! I just wanted to say something about jackhammer's taste in music. It's so all-encompassing & surprising. I think it's awesome that he can appreciate so many different genres and styles.

most of what i listen to is pretty safe, grassroots indie stuff and the like, Beefheart being one of the notable exceptions. i don't know exactly how i come across as a dadaist to you.

ITT: Boo Boo shows how little attention he has paid to anyone's tastes.

Anways my turn:

Tore:

If I could marry someone's music tastes it would be this guy, we're almost identical with a lot of things, if I like an album it's almost guaranteed he'll like it, and vice versa. All of his reccomendations have been spot on, and he's always available to upload whatever I may need. Geniune class.

Anteater:

Read above, always reccomends something new on what is essentially a daily basis. I unfortunately don't have time to listen to everything, but what I do listen to is always so great. Has been a pretty big influence on me recently, which says a hell of a lot about how much I respect his taste.

Dac:

Great taste in music outside of a few bands we're guaranteed to dissagree on. Likes pretty much everything I've reccomended him, which certainly shows he can recognise greatness. And that says a lot. On that subject, try the Quest For Fire album again, I've gone through three stages with it:
1. Initally great
2. Was my initial reaction wrong?
3. Wow this has grown a lot on me again, it's awesome!
Still it's not as good as Sleepy Sun, but you really can't expect it to be.

Seltzer:

Your musical compatibility with Seltzer100 is Super

Music you have in common includes Wishbone Ash, Frank Zappa, The Mars Volta, King Crimson and Windir.

END.OF.DISCUSSION

Urban Hatemonger:

His top four bands on last.fm are: The Fall, The Clash, David Bowie and the Rolling Stones. Anyone who dissagrees with this is a failure and does not deserve to post here.

Jackhammer:

A lot of it is good, some is questionable. But at the end of the day there's just too much there. A lot of us are eclectic, but not to this level. Willing to try anything, but I fear it doesn't leave all that much room for reflection.

Ethan:

I love the guy to bits, but some of the worst taste imaginable at times, at least three or fours years ago, cringeworthy. However he likes a lot of good music too. People seem to forget this. Enjoyed Leaf Hound and that's a winner in my book.

That's basically everyone who I know enough about to comment on their musical tastes.

eh, can't win em all

Some of my tastes are questionable? ROFL. I have never laughed so hard in my entire life.

Maybe he meant "questionably awesome". ;)

What? I know the whole to each his own bit, but he has some of the best taste I've seen. For fuck's sake, he even likes Hymie's Basement, and not even the Why? fanboys acknowledge them. Also anyone who listens to Lightning bolt is good in my book.

My speakers anknowledge Hymie's Basement from time to time. :(

Sweet Nothing - He can pretty much get into anything I give him but, what he finds on his own isn't bad either

Boo Boo - I really don't know to much about his taste but, I know he likes Pink Floyd and other progressive type bands... good stuff.

Jack Hammer - He has one of the most electic tastes I've ever seen but, he has a special place in his heart for shoegaze like me.

Gravity Slips - Another guy who knows his shoegaze and was aware of Lilys before even I.

Captain Caveman - Really ****ing knows his hardcore... and it shows in his personality too.

Swim - Another regular in the emo/hardcore sub forum... she seems to know her independent music too.

Dreadnaught - Her taste in music tends to be that of a hipster but, she's not a complete ****ing tool like most hipsters are.

Urban Hatemonger - I don't know who has more music Jackhammer or Urban... that aside he really likes the Fall and Alice Cooper...

Molecules - He's into alot of good avant-garde stuff as well as shoegaze...

that's all for now.

Here are just a few people who immediately came to mind for me. I'm tired as hell right now so this list is by no means comprehensive or very well written, but here you have it:

Anteater
Definitely pretty different tastes from myself what with the love of prog and all but I think we overlap in our love of weirdness. I've definitely heard some cool stuff from him.

Bulldog
I'm a huge fan this guy's taste too. He's constantly coming out with those albums that I'm been meaning to check out for ages and turn out to be absolute classics.

Jackhammer
There's a lot of overlap between my taste and Jackhammer's so he's one of my favorite people to chat about and trade music with. His tastes are like mine, so yeah they're pretty great. :D

Lucifer Sam
I have a hard time getting a handle on his tastes a lot of the time because I know he loves some great crazy ass music but then he completely abhors similar stuff that I would think he'd be into. Anyway, as one of the only other Foetus fans on here besides myself the guy certainly gets high marks from me.

Molecules
His dubstep thread is what introduced me to and got me into that type of music. So for that alone I'd say I really dig his taste.

Mr. Dave
What can I say, he's a fellow Secret Chief 3 fan. I love it.

SATCHMO
I remember back when I first started posting regularly I used to stumble across a lot of old posts by him and think "damn, I wish this guy still posted here". Lucky for me he came back. He's probably the most knowledgeable jazz fan on MB and that's one of my favorite things about him.

Urban Hatemonger
When it come to raw, garagey, ass-kicking rock n roll he has absolutely stellar tastes. Pretty much, if I see him hyping an album or a band, I'm going to give them a listen.

Zarko
Probably the most interesting taste on MB. That's not to say I'm totally entranced by everything he's into but it is always very interesting stuff and frequently kind of off the wall which I really dig. I wish he posted more.

Ethan has the greatest taste in music ever conceived second to mine.

i think he means that some of your music isn't up to Comus standards. ;)

your Clannad obsession is puzzling, anyways.

Oh god. NOT YOU!!! :mad:

Well there's also Can and John Zorn.

I guess it was just Beefheart. But from my experience fans of Beefheart tend to also be fans of Can, Zorn, Branca, Public Image Ltd and John Cage.

I have a rather hostile relationship with avant garde fans as they tend to be rather harsh on prog. I guess I'm guilty of judging you from a few preconceived notions.

But either way, Beefheart is pretty much the musical equalvilent of Duchamp's Fountain as far as I'm concerned.

What bands are you referring to exactly? And I have been known to like some indie myself.

And holy **** shiseido_red/lateralus is back in action :O

Yeah I have a bit of an odd taste in music, when I put my winamp on random you get some really strange mixes, some hip hop here, trip hop song next, then followed up by 20 minutes of death country and an hour of country.

Muse, Buckley, SOAD, Weezer, TMV and Zeppelin in particular.

If indie kids have it out for every artist I've ever listened to besides Radiohead and The Smiths, then screw indie kids :P

Seriously though, of Montreal <3

Well on second thought you do like Mastodon.

And I have no idea why indie kids love Mastodon so much. I'm still trying to figure that one out.

that's some of the music i listen to, it doesn't really encompass most of what i actually like. i don't mind people criticizing me, i just didn't understand how you made the connection to dadaism, considering most of the music i listen to is stuff like Meat Puppets & Dinosaur Jr.

that being said i really fuckin love Beefheart. :D

i love Mastodon, crrrraaaaaap



but hell, f**k it, i've never really had trends dictate what music i listen to

In the sense of redefining art in their given medium?

Sure, if you want to put it that way.

Me personally, if people want to nail a shark to the wall and call it art, fine. I still prefer art that is aesthetically pleasing in some shape or form.

I think this statement is often a cop-out used by people that don't have enough patience or interest to really listen to avant-garde material properly. Nobody is going to say that Rush sucks or that Chris Squire was a terrible bassist, but sometimes a comic artist/drummer with a ridiculous amount of pent up rage and a bassist that thinks a cello is the only instrument with proper tuning can create music that has honest legitimacy and delivers a more heartfelt emotional response. It just takes a few more listens than normal to see past the earsplitting feedback oscillation and distorted cartoon lyrics.

Your statement also implies that there is some fundamental understanding of what is aesthetically pleasing, which there isn't, and is inherently fallacious. I like Picasso's blue period, but Monet's work bores me and actually turns me away. Judging whether something is art is the work of elitist douchebags who hold no legitimate credentials, and taste is solely the purview of the common mood.

EDIT: P.S. For the record, the first thing my dad said when I played him Lockstockings and Crown of Storms was that it sounded like prog. Which it definitely sounds influenced by, whether it is or not. So if any avant-garde dadaists give you flak you can tell them that Brian Gibson probably likes it. And also for the record I don't listen to much avant-garde so I'm overusing Lightning Bolt as an example.

Dreww?

As a prog fan I know the value of repeated listens.

I downloaded a Glenn Branca album, I've listened to it 2 or 3 times. It's something I can appreciate but it's just not something I seriously enjoy listening to.

I'm not knocking avant garde music itself so much as the pretentious art culture surrounding it, and that is clearly just my subjective opinion. I dig John Zorn and Fred Frith, at least.

C'mon, now you're just analizing me to death, that was clearly a subjective statement, when I said I don't find it aesthetically pleasing, I mean I don't find it aesthetically pleasing, if others do that's fine, I never said it wasn't art, I just personally think conceptual art is horrible.

I guess I should join the Stuckist movement or something. :laughing:

I think avant garde purists look at progressive rock in a way similar to how post-modernists view acadamic art.

That is, not very favorably.

Hahaha! That's pretty good, dude. She does have quite the musical taste. We've shared a lot of music, her and I. She introduced me to most of the hip hop and classical music that I like, and I introduced her to 4 out of 5 of those bands you just listed. ;)

333: She's a music nut. Her tastes are just as varied and expansive as my own. Most of what she likes, I enjoy too. Except for Modest Mouse and Death Cab For Cutie. It's not gonna happen!

2dogsrunning: I can comment on his musical tastes because we grew up together, sharing all the music we came into contact with as we went along. Naturally, there's some stuff that I like that he doesn't and vice versa, but the common threads we share run deep.

Pobody's_Nerfect: This guy seems to have a pretty right on sense of music taste. From what little I've gathered on his tastes, he's really into a lot of obscure talent, which I can really dig.

Antonio: Everything I've heard from this guy makes me wonder why he's in a pop punk band. No offense.

Hesher: Yes, he's new, but I have a feeling he'll be sticking around. From the thirteen or so bands he listed on his introduction, I get the notion that this guy has very eclectic tastes, built mainly around a foundation of metal and hardcore, much like myself.

Flower Child: Her reviews of "Highway Song" and "Don't Follow" got me interested in some of the other things she was touting. She's definitely got some strong roots in the Classic Rock department. Kind of reminds me of my sister's musical tastes, only a little more country-fied.

Fellow bass players

crash_override: This guy seems to know a lot about some old-school ****. And just as much about the new school. Everything I've heard him say about music I usually agree with, at least minimally.

DMBassDude: He's seem to got a good head on his shoulders for a teenager, if at least musically. Introduced me to Scale The Summit. I was impressed.

Mr. Dave: The music he knows... he knows. Pretty knowledgeable about good gear, too. And I've heard him lay down some pretty wise statements. Not bad for a guy who shares my name.

khfreek: The heavy metal equivalent of my taste.

FaSho: The indie kid equivalent of my taste.

I should have figured you for a bassist, from my experience bass players always attracts the most eccentric personalities.

And yeah. I play teh bass too.

Is that a fact? Well, come to think of it, I have found myself in some pretty strange company in my time.

Right on.