Do you have an eclectic taste in music ?

[deftron]

I always see people slamming other tastes in music...
Dismissing an entire genre as crap.

I'm glad I like a little bit of everything.
Some of my favorite artists:


Black Sabbath
Skip James
Rolling Stones
Beastie Boys
Iggy Pop & the Stooges
Portishead
Jerry Lee Lewis
Pink Floyd
The Clash
Ultramagnetic MC's
Sly and the Family Stone
Jackson 5
Dick Dale & His Del-Tones
N.W.A.
Public Eneny
Willie Nelson
Chet Atkins
Nas
Eric Clapton
The Who
Mozart
Prince
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Miles Davis
John Coltraine
DJ Shadow

Plus a ton more and alot of underground artists that might not be recognized here...
I haven't come across any genre of music that I dislike as a whole...

Anyone else the same way ?

 

[swai]

yes... i like ALL kinds of music

 

[tweakmm]

yes, I really listen to most every type of music. There are only a couple types of music that I can't really apreciate: most punk, country and death metalish stuff(the stuff thats really hard and really fast)

 

[mithrandir2001]

Eclectic? Yea, I'd say so. I have stuff like NIN, Tool and Metallica alongside Joni Mitchell, Red House Painters and Low. I am a little light on R&B and don't have anything that would qualify as rap, though.

 

[amnesiac]

I'll listen to nearly anything.

Some of my favorite bands:

Rob Zombie
Weezer
Sublime
Chemical Brothers
System of a Down
Disturbed
Morcheeba
Dave Matthews Band
Tool
Green Day
Rolling Stones
AC/DC
Cream
Led Zeppelin
Avalanches
X-Ecutioners
Oingo Boingo
Queen

Of course, I'll listen to Jazz, Country, Pop, Classical as well.

The only bands I CAN NOT STAND:
Cranberries (Why people want to listen to a singer that sounds like a dying rabbit is beyond me)
Britney Spears (no explanation needed)
No Doubt (they were OK but now it's overplayed trash)
any R&B group. They all sound the same.

Oh yeah, almost forgot.. I stopped listening to Rap as of last year. It's just not the same anymore now that all these stupid wannabe bling-bling gangsta fools have come out of the woodwork. The message has long been lost and now its a battle of who's got the fattest wallet and the bustiest b!tches. I'll pass.

 

[MaxDSP]

I listen to almost everything except blues, jazz, and other types of slow music

I like trance/techno, rock, some rap, r&b, some pop, and whatever else is out there

 

[Maggotry]

<< yes... i like ALL kinds of music >>


I love it when I see people say this. Then I drop names like Deicide, Brutal Truth, Cannibal Corpse, etc. and they're like "Who?".

Anyway, I'd say my tastes are fairly unique here. You can go to these sites to see the kind of stuff I like:

Century Media
Earache
Relapse
Metal Blade

That's quicker than just dropping names. You can get some downloads too.

Warning: Content may be offensive to some!

 

[Red Dawn]

Jazz, Blues (who said it was slow) Rock, Old Country (none of this new country garbage) Classical, Soul, and some rap (more for the novelty than because it sounds good)

 

[deftron]

Maggotry

I like those bands...


Here's some good metal that people really say "who?" to..


Eyehategod
Electric Wizard
Acid King
Bongzilla
Buzzov-en

 

[VirusDub]

I listen to pretty much anything, except for most pop music (I just get annoyed by it).

My collection, however, includes only my favorites, such as:
Rock (from classic to alternative to grunge to metal)
Electronic (trance, happy hardcore, industrial)
Jazz (mostly everything)
Classical (everything in "classical", including minimalism, atonalism, etc)

I've even started listening to some noisecore lately, which is really crazy stuff.

 

[Mucman]

Here is a DIR of my mp3 directory... make of it what you will

13 Engines
311
54-40
Abba
Accept
Acoustic Alchemy
Air
Alice in Chains
At the drive-in
Bad Religion
Badly Drawn Boy
Barenaked Ladies
Baxter, Shaun
Beach Boys. The
Beatles, The
Beautiful South, The
Beck
Beck, Jeff
Bela Fleck and the Fleckstones
Ben Folds Five
Better Than Ezra
Birthday Party, The
Bjork
Bj?rk
Black Grape
Black Sabbath
Blondie
Blue Oyster Cult
Blues Traveler
Blur
Bootsauce
Boston
Boy Hits Car
Boyd, Liona
Breau, Lenny
Byrds, The
Cake
Can
Cantrell, Jerry
Carpenters
Cars, The
Chiliwack
Church, The
Clapton, Eric
Clash, The
Claypool, Les
Collective Soul
Colosseum
Coltrane, John
Cope, Julian
Crime & the City Solution
Cult, The
Davis, Miles
Days of the New
De Lucia, Paco
Death Angel
Di Meola, Al
Diamond, Neil
Dink
Dio
Dire Straits
Doctors of Madness
Doors, The
Drake, Nick
Dream Theater
Duke Ellington
Econoline Crush
Eels
Elastica
Erasure
Eve 6
Explorers Club
Extreme
Faith No More
Fall, The
Fat Boy Slim
Filter
Flaming Lips, The
Flashing Lights, The
Fleck, Bela and the Flecktones
Fleetwood Mac
Foo Fighters
Frampton, Peter
Fred Frith
Frehley, Ace
French Frith Kaiser Thompson
Fun Lovin' Criminals
Furnaceface
Gandharvas, The
Garbage
Gatton, Danny
Gene
Gentle Giant
Gipsy Kings
Girls Against Boys
Glueleg
God Machine, The
Green Day
Hair and Skin Trading Company
Hansson, Bo
Happy Mondays
Hayden
Helfgott, David
Helmet
Hendrix, Jimi
Hillage, Steve
I Mother Earth
Iced Earth
Imperial Drag
Incubus
Iron Maiden
Jellyfish
Johnson, Eric
Jones, Danko
Jordan, Stanley
Joy Division
Judas Priest
KISS
Korn
Kula Shaker
Lapse, The
Led Zeppelin
Lee, Geddy
Levellers
Liquid Tension Experiment
Live
Loop
Lord of the Rings - Howard Shore
Loud Family, The
Love
Lowest of the Low
MacIsaac, Ashley
Magazine
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Malmsteen, Yngwie
Marillion
Mclaughlin, John
Mclean, Don
Megadeth
Mercury Rev
Merlin
Metal Church
Metallica
Metheny, Pat
Midnight Oil
Ministry
Moist
Monkees, The
Mono Puff
Monster Magnet
Moog Cookbook
Morrissey
Moxy Fruvous
Mr. Bungle
My Bloody Valentine
NOFX
Nine Inch Nails
Nirvana
Nits, The
No Doubt
NoMeansNo
Nuno
Oasis
Odds
Offspring, The
Ozzy Osbourne
Pantera
Pavement
Pearl Jam
Pink Floyd
Platypus
Pogues, The
Police, The
Porcupine Tree
Powerman 5000
Primus
Pure
Queen
R.E.M
Racer X
Radiohead
Rage Against The Machine
Recycled
Redd Kross
Rentals, The
Reptile
Rheostatics
Rollins Band
Rush
Rymes With Orange
Saints, The
Santana
Satriani, Joe
Savatage
Scofield, John
Shadow Gallery
Silverchair
Simon and Garfunkel
Sixteen Horsepower
Slayer
Smashing Pumpkins
Smiths, The
Smiths. The
Soft Boys, The
Soul Asylum
Soundgarden
Spiritualized
Spock's Beard
Starcastle
Steely Dan
Stern, Mike
Stone Temple Pilots
Styx
Sublime
Sun City Girls
System Of A Down
Talk Show
Talk Talk
Talking Heads
Tea Party, The
They Might Be Giants
Thin White Rope
Tool
Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Travis
Triffids, The
Trooper
Tull, Jethro
VAST
Varga
Various
Ventures, The
Victor
Voivod
Waltons
Waltons, The
Ween
Weezer
Weird Al Yankovic
Wilco
XTC
Yes
Zumpano
hHead
mixs

 

[deftron]

<< make of it what you will >>




Cant really make anything of it

How bout cleaning it up and just listing the band names?

 

[Mucman]

Yeesh... ok then... Time for some PERL magic

eh, screw PERL... LS > bands.txt was a lot easier

btw, most of the classic stuff I don't have ripped because those CD's belong to my Dad and Mom.

 

[Zenmervolt]

Rock and Roll (Classic Rock), Oldies, Jazz, Old Country (Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, etc), Quasi-Country (Charlie Daniels, Alabama, etc), Folk, Bluegrass, Blues, and Classical. I refuse to listen to Rap, most Pop, and most modern Country.

ZV

 

[Mucman]

Zenmervolt - Do you like Johnny Horton? His tunes always brings back memories of my Dad and his brother playing cribbage in the wintertime for some reason

 

[yakko]

I will listen to ,ost music except new country which is just too twangy for me. Some metal I don't really like. Deathmetal for example, I don't mind the music but the lyrics ruin it for me.

 

[SWScorch]

Top Bands of All Time (updated as I see fit)
1) Metallica
2) Zao
3) Nile
4) Dimmu Borgir
5) Emperor
6) Dream Theater
7) Guns n Roses
8) Slayer
9) Pantera
10) Simon and Garfunkel

I also greatly enjoy most classical music (Bach was a genius), Gregorian Chant, many oldies, some country (Toby Keith is good); I also like Enya and other Celtic singers, I even listen to a little trance (paul Oakenfold, Astral Projection)

 

[pyonir]

i like pretty much anything. i don't care for 'new' country like Red Dawn stated and i don't care for christian music either. but i will listen to anything from Prince, to Mozart, to Enya, to Godsmack, to SOAD, to Louis Armstrong, to Johnny Cash and so on....

 

[Zenmervolt]

<< Zenmervolt - Do you like Johnny Horton? His tunes always brings back memories of my Dad and his brother playing cribbage in the wintertime for some reason >>

The name sounds vaguely familiar... I suppose I'll be needing to find some of his songs now.

ZV

 

[killface]

I like just about everything. Not really big into country. Lately I've been listening to the following:

Busta Rhymes
De Phazz
Aphex Twin/Caustic Window
Emperor
Hatebreed
Cat Stevens
Eminem

 

[amnesiac]

<< I love it when I see people say this. Then I drop names like Deicide, Brutal Truth, Cannibal Corpse, etc. and they're like "Who?" >>



Well the topic is *eclectic* taste in music, not *obscure*

Also if someone says they like all kinds of music you can't expect them to have listened to every artist on the planet.

 

[Electric Amish]

I don't know if it's eclectic as much as picky.

Ask anyone that has seen me post to a "Music" thread around here.

amish

 

[mk]

No. I only listen to whatever's #1 in the charts at the moment.

 

[MaxDepth]

Deftron
your first list has a lot of blues influenced artists

Mucman
You got Abba next to Accept. Isn't that like, "hey! you got your peanut butter in my chocolate."


I'm constantly listening to the local college radio stations for stuff I've never heard before and some local bands too. (linky to one of my neighbors' band)

right now I'm listening to The Mavericks, "Tell Me Why" from the album Trampoline. Its on my MP3 DASD at work - 9,319 songs, 38.3 Gigs

 

[ProviaFan]

Do I have an eclectic taste in music? Probably not. My favorite bands right now in no particular order...

AC/DC
Aerosmith
Boston
Grateful Dead
Green Day
Guns and Roses
Men Without Hats
Metallica
Styx