What's your music taste like?
 

I know there are plenty of less direct ways to figure this out. There are journals and threads like the last.fm week threads and so on where you can sort of get an idea of what people listen to. There are even quite a few threads that are similar to this one, but I haven't found one which just poses the simple and honest question; what is your taste in music like? I realized I only have very vague knowledge of this concerning a lot of you guys so I wanna know!


I'll try and sum up mine. I'm quite explorative and so I often listen to music I don't like in search of something, but it also means I have at least something I like in most genres. Still, my number one decade is the 70s, my number one country in the world is England and my favourite genre at the moment is prog rock. This will be confirmed should anyone check out my most played artists on my last.fm. Caravan, Gentle Giant, Pink Floyd, Yes and Camel are at the top 6 of my all time most listened to. Frank Zappa is also in there, but he's not english of course.

I'll say though that prog rock is relatively new in my life compared to a lot of the other stuff I like. A couple of years ago, the top bands on my last.fm probably would've been stuff like Boston, Iron Maiden, AC/DC, Deep Purple, Megadeth, Metallica, Dio. It was mostly hard rock and metal for quite some time.

Aside from Prog and classic rock, I think jazz which I'm a little new to still is my big number 3. I'm quite fond of a lot of the fusion sounding stuff from the early 70s. I'm just now discovering some of the great jazz-players from my own country.

I have a soft spot for pop hits from different genres, like Sugarhill Gang's Rapper's Delight or Bee Gees' Staying Alive. Sometimes the crappiest pop hits are good I think, but I'm not at all up to date. Most of what I listen to from this decade are new albums put out by old artists. Popular artists from all kinds of genres including some of the stuff my GF likes make up a sort of background level of music in my life.

So that's it. Anyone else? ;)

I used to be something that i see so much of in this country which is the young, narrow minded, British indie follower who may as well carry a copy of the NME around in their breast pocket like a security blanket or a Bible instead of keeping a copy in the john for when you run out of toilet paper like the rest of us. I don't remember liking any music other than really awful 90's dance and pop music when i was a kid, then i really got into MJ then the first guitar band i ever got into was Oasis when i was about 10 and so the transformation began. Oasis, The Who, The Smiths, The Stone Roses, The Jam, Weller, OCS, The Beatles, The Stones, The Pistols etc. I even quite fancied myself as a mod at one stage, which makes me cringe now it was so pathetic because i had never actually had anything to back that up at all. I then hit the whole garage rock revival scene hard at the turn of the decade and a few bands also kickin around at the time. The Strokes, The White Stripes, B.R.M.C, The Music, The Vines etc.

I've kept a lot of that in my collection. Sure, there a few bands from around that time that i've grown out of but i still like alot of it, just maybe not as much these days. Since then i've developed an appreciation for a wider range of music and am much happier because of it.

Now i would say my favourite genres are heavy metal but more specifically doom metal and stoner rock. Bands like Orange Goblin, Clutch, Electric Wizard, Pentagram and as is often the case with fans of these genres, i have a great appreciation for Black Sabbath who may or may not still be my favourite band. I also have a liking for quite a lot of 80's thrash metal.

60's and early 70's psychedelic rock and garage rock, which as of late i have been simply allowing to control my life.

Post-rock is a genre that certainly has its limits but late at night if i need something atmospheric with real mood and emotion to throw on then this genre gets a good beating from me. If you can throw a string section into the equation too, then im golden. Trip-hop i would say i dig for the same reasons but am no expert with this genre just yet.


I've also scratched the surface with funk, any electronic music outside of trip-hop, blues and am looking to get into more hip-hop. Theres alot more genres of music i feel like i should include if im trying to sum up my music taste but i think what i have mentioned above will suffice because i genre hop a lot and just tend to move on rather quickly.

I thought this thread was entitled, "What does your music taste like?". That would be interesting.

Are you me? Except I wasn't 10, I was a bit older when I really discovered Oasis.

Heh i actually had a feeling from your posts to date that you may have been quite similar in that sense but as i said it's not hard to find teenagers like that in this country, even now really. Ever go to an Oasis gig? The place will be swarming with them. I detest Oasis fans, even though I am one.

I was mostly into just chart stuff, then my sisters boyfriend had a Bonkers cd and I asked for a loan of it. I was hooked on Bonkers for a few years, then I would only listen to people who have Dj'd for Bonkers. Then I found out Marc Smith, and a few of my other old favourite Dj's were playing at a "Rave" called Fantazia - Clash of the titans and it was on my 16th birthday, so I went and ended up getting into other genres of electronica. Fantazia was the shit back in the day, now its just an excuse for neds to get out their box really. Now I'll have a listen to anything, before I joined this.. I was strictly electronica, now I can listen to almost anything :) I think.

I'm mainly into indie rock and hiphop. Thats not to say I don't listen to other genres b/c I definately do but right now those are my staples.

I also tend to follow new sounds that I like in a very cultish fashion. If I like an artist I dig and dig until I've heard most of their work, and along the way I typically find a few gems that otherwise would have went unnoticed.

Started out on NME indie and "classic rock", started to branch out into US indie by getting into Pixies and Arcade Fire at the end of 2006.From there went to the earlier great bands within the genre(Smiths,Stone Roses etc),and ended up being able to listen to much any music within two years. That said I remain fairly into indie/alternative and I don't know why.

Hmm... I don't know really that's a bit hard. I'd honestly say that despite how I come across on here if I really stop and think about it, I'm definitely still developing my music taste. One thing I love in music is a heavy dose of noise. Most bands with elements of noise I like from all sorts of genres, and especially noise rock, noise pop, and experimental noise stuff. I love shoegaze and dream pop. Alternative hip hop stuff usually does it for me, be it ATCQ and De La Soul or Alias and the anticon collective, as well as instrumental hip hop. I have a harder time finding more mainstream rap that does it for me, a lot of that just doesn't click. Trip hop and post rock/metal are good at times, but there's a lot of bad bands in there. Stuff with a drone to it, anything from Sun Araw to Trouble Books. And of course, old and new indie and alternative rock. Lots of good stuff in there. I've been trying to get into more jazz and 60s and 70s psychedelic rock as well. Lastly, I'm a sucker for indie pop of all sorts. Still, the biggest thing that generally hits with me is noisy music.

I started out with a hardcore CD (Hardcore Warriors Vol. 2) I stole from my brother's friend who was a German exchange student. I was 8 and never heard anything like it but I knew I loved it. When I gave it back I didn't have any other way to listen to electronic music so I then went on to rock and metal. I loved Korn, System of a Down, Mudvayne, and As I Lay Dying. I also listened to stuff like Coldplay, Dave Matthews Band, Counting Crows, and David Gray. Once we got a computer and I was able to get more electronic stuff I started listening to ALL trance. Eventually I would start listening to everything but for awhile it was all electronic. I would then be introduced to black metal and it scared the **** out of me.. which was a very good thing. Nowadays I listen mainly to Trance, Black Metal, Alternative, Electro, Hardstyle, and other weird **** mixed in. Everything from Sigur Ros to Peter Heppner to Ruoska and Burning Spear. The only genre I won't go near is Country. WAY too plain and boring.

Oh and I can't listen to the same stuff for a long time. I have to clear out my iPod and add new stuff every now and then. Then eventually when it's been awhile since I'd listened to the stuff I deleted off, I'll put some of it back on.