What kind of music do you like

Just a simple question:

What kind of music do you like/dislike?

I like electronica (downtempo and trip-hop), light jazz and bossa nova, classical music and corny eigthies music.

I don't like hard metal, schlager and dance/trance/edm.

Classical is my main choice. It's astonishing that these young men had so much creativity inside of them. Schubert composed nearly a thousand pieces in his life, and he died at the age of 32. I have Mozart's complete works - 170 discs - and he died at 35. With the exception of guitar virtuoso Buckethead, you don't see many musicians come out with so much music. Same with Buckethead as it is with classical composers, everything they've done is great. I've listened to most of those Mozart CD roms, and besides certain recording qualities, they're all perfect. Also, whenever these people wrote a composition, it wasn't two or three minutes long like it is with modern day music. Gustav Mahler's third symphony runs for about an hour and forty-five minutes. Beethoven's ninth symphony runs for over an hour. These people knew how to make musical compositions that lasted. You go to a Katy Perry concert, and she'll sing and dance and look pretty while she makes your ears bleed, but she'll perform maybe a forty-five minute concert with about five to ten songs. You go to a symphony, you'll get a single composition in that concert. Four movements or more usually, but one single composition.

There is more to classical music than there is to any other genre of music. Ever. I ask people why these modern day musicians (of any genre) only release a few discs worth of music. “Well, they don’t have that many instruments to play around with.” Whose fault is that? Theirs. I absolutely despise Guns ‘N Roses, but whenever they added piano and strings into their songs, I gained a lot of respect for them. Any band that uses more than a singer, guitarist or two, bassist, and a drummer gains my respect. Even a simple electronic keyboard riff is nice. Back when I has hardcore into Black Metal (I still listen to it), Dimmu Borgir added a symphony to one of their newest albums. I hate their new stuff, but I enjoyed and respected them for doing that, especially with a musical culture as close minded as the metal one.

Another thing with the extra instruments: That required more work for the composer. Do you know how many instruments there are in classical music? A lot. Anything as old as a harpsichord and a Baryton to a violin and a Grand piano. Sure, you could look at Johann Sebastian Bach and say that most of his compositions were Cantatas, but he still had to write the music for the singers. He also did a lot of organ and other keyboard works, not to mention with world famous Cello Suite and Brandenburg Concertos. You could argue that Richard Wagner and Giuseppe Verdi did pretty much nothing but operas, and while that might be true, that still requires a lot of work. An opera usually has several singers, and in the case of Richard Wagner’s Ring, it requires writing out a libretto (script). Richard Wagner’s Gotterdammerung can last five hours. FIVE HOURS! Wagner’s Ring, musically, is one of the greatest things ever accomplished by man. Das Rheingold, Die Walkure, Siegfried, and Gotterdammerung are the four operas of Wagner’s Ring. Everything was done by Wagner. The libretto, the music, everything. Das Rheingold only lasts about two and a half hours. The other three can last over four hours a piece.

Whenever people tell me that Taylor Swift is so great, I say to them, “Come back to me whenever she composes an opera.” Actually, what I usually say is, “come back to me whenever she writes a song that isn’t about breaking up with her boyfriend.” That’s another thing about modern day music that I hate. The themes to them are so trivial, minuet, mundane, and down right stupid and childish. Also, these people can’t write a musical piece that isn’t a song. It has to be all songs. It can’t be a guitar concerto or quintet. Luigi Boccherini wrote some wicked guitar quintets. No, it has to be something where they can scream out of pitch into a microphone and have someone alter it in a computer to make it sound acceptable. That’s another thing. They can’t sing. Jussi Bjorling trained to be an opera singer from about the age of five or six, and he was one of the greatest to ever live. Not everyone needs the training though. Enrico Caruso was self-taught I believe. I know Franco Corelli was for the most part. Right there are two of the most iconic tenors of all time.

Back to the themes. Franz Liszt is considered to be the greatest pianist to ever live. There are no recordings of him however, he died in 1886. However, he composed some of the greatest piano works of the Romantic Era. One of them is my personal favorite piano sonata. S. 178, piano sonata in B minor. Some people say that the piece “goes no where and stays the same.” It’s a solo piano piece (hence: sonata), and it starts off with a couple quick taps of the keys. But a minute into it, it comes at you like a hurricane and swipes you up into its theme. The landscapes that it builds throughout the entire piece are tremendous. It’s dark, stormy, yet so beautiful. It didn’t need lyrics to make its themes. I mean, what lyrics do you get nowadays? “girl, yo a hoe.” “I want to be like the cool kids, they seem to fit in,” and other atrocious and meaningless lyrics.

Overall, call me pretentious, call me condescending, call me a hipster, call me whatever you want, this is how I view music, and this is why the only modern day music I listen to is incidental music that was meant for movies.

Hip hop without anything explicit. Pretty much depends on the setting...

Softer side of rock with lyrics that strike a chord in my soul.

Don't hold back, Tyler77, tell us how you really feel lol

Mishima70 wrote:What kind of music do you like/dislike?

I can listen to almost any kind of music, though not a big fan of heavy metal. I like Country, Pop, Rock (all kinds), Alternative, EBM, lots of types. I love 80's music. I can appreciate any good music. One that's outside of my typical 'style' is an album a band called VNV Nation did with the Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg, it's absolutely beautiful from start to finish. It's great for relaxing and regrouping, I find.

https://youtu.be/cz6DYzG-VC0 Here's one, but all the songs off Resonance are good.

As for other Genres and Artists in them, some are unfairly slammed for lacking creativity just based on their chosen genre and public/media perception. They often get sterotyped pretty badly. I don't judge musicians, their abilities or talents unless I have enough information to do so, more than just media hype and listening to a couple albums. I've posted enough in the song thread, to give a good idea of music I like.

I like a lot of different kinds of music; classic rock, punk, jazz, blues, classical, metal, pop, etc. I really dig Halestorm, but I am heavily into Taylor Swift right now. I can't imagine being that talented and that young...hell I can't imagine being that talented at any age.

All together now......

^ Tiny Tim was an insufferable Christian monster. He was also schizotypal.

As a kid, my older brothers were very much into music, and they let me borrow their records. The Who, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, etc. I used to love late sixties psychedelic rock, bands like The Seeds. What really blew me away was Pink Floyd. I became a lifelong fan. When I was about nine, one of them gave me Alice Cooper's "Love It To Death" and my head exploded. I started listening to T-Rex, David Bowie and The Velvet Underground, which scared the hell out of me. I was way too young when I bought "Transformer". I blame Lou Reed for making me gay.
Then I went through the obligatory heavy metal phase in Jr. high school; Black Sabbath, more Led Zeppelin, Rush….Yuck.
In 10th grade I saw a movie called "Over The Edge". There was a scene with a Ramones song in it. That changed my life. I ran out and bought the first Ramones album I could find. I still remember the moment when the first chord of "Glad To See You Go" ripped out of the speakers and hit me in the face like 1,000 psi of jet exhaust. I started buying all the punk records I could find, plus all the UK post-punk stuff like The Cure, Magazine, New Order, The Smiths, The Birthday Party (don't think they were from the UK)..the list was endless. Then came the US bands; Husker Du, Butthole Surfers, Sonic Youth, Scratch Acid, Descendents and All, Operation Ivy. Again, endless.
Around this time I also discovered Industrial music. That too had a profound affect on me. Probably more than punk did. I had never heard anything like it. It was like learning to listen to music all over again. SPK's "Leichenschrei" is one of the most extraordinary pieces of music I have ever heard.
By the late 80's, the independent scene began to implode, but not before producing the greatest band ever: Pixies! Then Nirvana happened. Nirvana was great, but they signaled the end. To me, everything in the 90's sounded like Nirvana ripoffs. I stopped buying records and retreated to my industrial records. I listened to nothing but Syd Barrett for close to a year. This was about the time my OCD and PD's began to manifest themselves. Thanks, Syd.
Then the whole electronica thing happened and I started listening to the early Warp IDM stuff like Autechre and Aphex Twin. Also Orbital, The Orb, Underworld, etc. Some trance. Early trip-hop. I've pretty much been following that scene since. The internet really opened me up to a whole lot more stuff. Again, the list is endless.
I always thought that by my age I'd be listening to classical music or jazz, but that hasn't happened yet. Not weird enough. It has to be kind of weird. I also like a lot of downtempo stuff. Thankfully I've gotten over the whole aggressive thing, but I still listen to stuff like Scratch Acid or SPK when I'm pissed off.

I dilike a lot of music, but there's no point in going on about that, except to say that opera literally hurts me both physically and psychically. I can't deal with it. I also get annoyed with a lot of modern pop music. Tyler77 said it best, above. I just don't see the point of writing a song about having fun or dancing. It's like children's music. But that's my opinion, and nothing more. What I hate the most, actually, are people who malign artists or genres simply because they don't like them, or are threatened my them, and have the audacity to state their opinion as fact.

Rock, metal, electronica & classical.

Marcus555 wrote:^ Tiny Tim was an insufferable Christian monster.

as long as it sounds good I like it. I don't tend have much of a preference.

I can't stand weird avante garde music which is either someone dropping cans and recording it or white noise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fY842sum3tE

what is this. I don't know. But someone has this on their ipod.