What kind of music do you listen to??

[Trina]

I am just curious... what kind of music do you listen to? Who are your favorite singers or groups?

[kthdsn]

My favourite groups are Foreigner and Bon Jovi. I also really love Counting Crows, Meat Loaf, Alice Cooper, Elvis Costello, Tom Petty and the Eagles.

I like songs with real meanings, real feelings.

[Adam]

Techno, especially with no/minimal words... The regular beat helps me to think, and the lack of vocals keeps me from thinking too much about the song.

[RandomJohn]

Favorite band is Tangerine Dream, especially from the Melrose years.

Favorite kind of music: electronic, trance, techno, ambient, downtempo etc. I also listen to a genre I pretty much call "yoga music" -- basically new age/electronic with kirtan (devotional chant), indian-influenced sounds, etc.

Sometimes I'll turn the radio to the classic rock station (adult contemporary blah-blah-blah is the official title of the genre I think ) and just rock out to 70s and 80s. Less often, I'll be blowin' in the wind or goin' to San Francisco with the 60s. Every once in a while I'll dance to the jailhouse rock.

[Jovvi]

Trance, New Age, Benedictine Monk Chants help me to to connect with my spritual side, classical, j-pop, some modern rock, and a little R&B.

I can relate to RandomJohn, I also like Tangerine Dream. I also love Kitaro, Maire Brennan, and David Helping, and David Arkenstone. I like a lot of Davids.

[WanderingOak]

I listen to a lot of folk music, both American (bluegrass) and Celtic, as well as Swedish 'Roots Rock' from groups such as Hendingarna. Their label NorthSide has an interesting compliation deal that they call 'Cheaper than Food', a series of CDs from all of their artists that they sell for $5.00 each, entitled Nordic Roots, Vol 1, 2, and 3. It is all in Swedish, but the instrumentals are amazing.

[Lotus]

Well, being post-lingually deaf, and having a cochlear implant... I'm digging The Legendary Stardust Cowboy (mmm, Bowie), U2, The Decemberists, and the very local Witch's Hat.

But I'm not picky. I'm post-lingually deaf (since 2000), and use a cochlear implant (since 2002, yes, I'm the borg), so I'll listen to anything that doesn't translate as "noise" through an induction loop... which is a surprisingly large majority of the trash that passes as "music" nowadays. Hrm, I must be getting old; I'm kvetching about the new-fangled music. Damn kids.

[Kenny]

sorry disregard.

[Trustme]

I stumpled across Enigma yesterday. I knew a couple of their more popular songs but I have to admit I really like their other work as well. Some really good (instrumental) songs...

[Mark Lapierre]

I love music! I love many different kinds of music! My tastes have progressed through many forms of pre-90's popular music (during primary school), many forms of rock (during my high school years), many forms of electronic music (during high school, peaking () during uni), through to plenty of music from various styles everafter.

Some of my favourite artists and DJS include Ben Folds, Ani Difranco, Thea Gilmore, The Postal Service, The Cure, Gnarls Barkly, CPI, Oliver Lieb, Infected Mushroom, most of the artists on the Platipus label, Orbital, BT, Ken Ishii, Regurgitator, Timo Maas, Plump DJs, Way Out West, Massive Attack, Sneaker Pimps, Delirium. I guess that's a few too many to really be favourites hey? Did I mention I love music?

To all those who like downtempo, check out thetastates.com - bedroom music for bedroom people. Particularly the Chinchillin' mixes.

[Dave Kaminski]

Originally Posted by Mark Lapierre

Some of my favourite artists and DJS include Ben Folds, Ani Difranco, Thea Gilmore, The Postal Service, The Cure, Gnarls Barkly, CPI, Oliver Lieb, Infected Mushroom, most of the artists on the Platipus label, Orbital, BT, Ken Ishii, Regurgitator, Timo Maas, Plump DJs, Way Out West, Massive Attack, Sneaker Pimps, Delirium. I guess that's a few too many to really be favourites hey? Did I mention I love music?

An excellent, comprehensive listening sample. Add the Blow, Grateful Dead, Phish and 311 and you've got mine.

[coma]

Do you guys think listening to trance / house / metal impairs your spiritual growth?

[Stephen]

I listen 80% of the time to classical music...like Max Bruch (If you havent listened to all 3 movements of his Violin Concerto No.1 in G minor...you havent lived!), Mendelssohn, Haydn etc

The other 20% is varied but I have a few groups who are supergroups to me like, The Proclaimers, The Eagles, ELO, Queen etcetera.

[songwriter]

For God sake ... rock and roll. Beatles, Queen, Elton John, Lennon, McCartney, Springteen, U2, well you may guess others...
I like some of classical music or whatever other styles... but my fav melodies are mostly from rock and roll artists.

[Stephen]

Also partial to a bit of Gram Parson, Ozark Mountain daredevils, JD Souther, Drive by Truckers

[ImOpen]

Originally Posted by songwriter

For God sake ... rock and roll. Beatles, Queen, Elton John, Lennon, McCartney, Springteen, U2, well you may guess others...
I like some of classical music or whatever other styles... but my fav melodies are mostly from rock and roll artists.

Keep on rocking in the free world!

[javierga]

Hah! This has been the perfect excuse to overcome my lazyness, label and organize my collection and most of my music (120 of 190 records) is classical or folcloric-classical (I think this is what most perople refer to world music) the rest being classic rock (Brit beat, glam, mod, psychedelic, southern...). The worst part is that most of my records come from Deutsche Grammophon label, or are flamenco music.

Anyone know of other Classical record labels which may be good and/or other world music that isn't Ravi Shankar or flamenco? I haven't updated my collection in a couple of years. I'm mostly looking for afican music or the likes. I've got some good stuff from Brazil's Bossa, so it's not that urgent. Actually, I don't really care as long as it's not released by Putumayo!!

Originally Posted by Stephen

I listen 80% of the time to classical music...like Max Bruch (If you havent listened to all 3 movements of his Violin Concerto No.1 in G minor...you havent lived!)

Haven't got his concert no. 1, the only thing I have of Bruch is a cd I was given a year ago with his scottish fantasy and the concert no. 2, thanks for the tip!!

[poisian]

Ah, yes! Jazz and Bluez is the music! Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, Louis Armstrong, SRV, classic Ted Nugent, classic Van Halen, John Lee Hooker, Robert Johnson, Elmore James, Jimi Hendrix, Billie Holiday, Huddie Ledbetter, Howlin' Wolf, Danny Gatton, ZZ Top, Cathy Jean, Miles Davis, Chuck Berry, Charlie Christian, Roy Buchanan, Django Reinhardt, Memphis Minnie, Hank Williams, Raymond Scott, Brownbird Rudy Relic, Johnny Vasher & Superhawk, Dizzy Gillespie, the Doors, the Who (with Keith Moon) Soundgarden, Sista Otis, Moisturizer, Moist Paula, Ludwig van Beethoven, Ella Fitzgerald, John Prine, Tom Petty, Black Betty & the Bad Habits, Betty Power, Nick Drozdoff, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Muddy Waters, Benny Goodman, Black Sabbath, John Mayer, John Coltrane, Jaco Pastorius, Weather Report, Oingo Boingo... and there's so much more!!!!!!!

[alsy]

Moods change over time. Love classical_vocals mainly for creating positivity or constructive vibration for a particular time_natural instruments_Big Band_Some disco/dance music 70s to 90's_Small quantity electronic music(hard to categorise)_Singing bowls_Latin (lively)_& some other categories
Music which specifically entrains the brainwaves to other states - eg Steven Halpern, Michael wild (Really amazing), Hemi Sync, Paul Horn,

[SamBeaven]

Irritatingly eclectic I go for rock, industrial, classical, experimental/alternative classical, (This is my favourite artist: Songs by Symphonic Chronicles, Citizen of ACIDplanet.com, and a bit of pop (mostly Japanese pop at that), and the occasional rap song (Generally MC Frontalot and Optimus Rhyme - Nerdcore stuff, basically).

EDIT: Oh, Soundtracks too. Movie soundtracks (like Casshern) and video game soundtracks (I didn't like the game Halo that much, but it had a FANTASTIC score).

[Mused]

Music genres: Big band, electro, drum n bass, trance, industrial and many many others.

Favorite singers/bands: Kristin Hersh, Throwing Muses, 50' Wave, Tanya Donelly, Dresden Dolls, Amanda Palmer, Regina Spektor, Rachel Yamagata, Cloud Cult, The Black Angels, Monstrum Sepsis, Lamb, Lycia, Massive Attack,Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings, DJ Swamp, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Feist, Wax Tailor, Death Cab, Arcade Fire, and both of my sisters to name a few.

[september]

I love music! I listen to a variety of stuff: Air, Sigur Ros, Yo La Tengo, They Might Be Giants, Sufjan Stevens, Beck, The Beatles, Belle & Sebastian, Wilco, Massive Attack, Cake, Debussy, Portishead, Broken Social Scene... I don't want to fill a wall of text, but could I ever.

[julien]

Only Chinese pop music recently, and the few western songs I brought with me from NYC

[Vektor]

Electro, techno, ebm, spacesynth, rock, metal, rap, 80s, 90s, whatever. And even classical and jazz sometimes. Favourite artists are more difficult to name than genres. One good asskicking industrial/electronic band is Velcra.