Your Favorite Music Genre and Related Artist

Adeel · Tue 18/06/2013 18:18:02

Everyone listens to music more or less and loves a particular genre. My questions are:

1) What is your favorite music genre?

2) Who is your favorite artist relating to that genre?

I like Ghazal Genre very much and My Favorite Singer relating to that genre is Jagjit Singh.

P.S: Don't know if there were a post similar to this. If there were, it would be nice to have this again so that new members can answer this too.

Stupot · Tue 18/06/2013 18:30:16

I used to call myself a punk (Pennywise, Offspring, UK Subs, Stranlgers) but these days I don't really listen to it much any more, except for nostalgic purposes. I still prefer guitar music over anything else, though.

Muse has long been my favourite [non punk] band, and I listen to a lot of Fleetwood Mac these days, too.

miguel · Wed 19/06/2013 00:41:10

I love the alternative rock scene, although americana is up there as well.

Favorite band is stuck to me like clam to a rock: The Smiths

From Dylan to Kasabian I love a good album and kind of turn down one-hit bands/singers and whatever is on the mainstream today. I may listen to it in 5 years time and enjoy it...

awakening · Wed 19/06/2013 02:00:40

Quote from: Stupot+ on Tue 18/06/2013 18:30:16
Muse has long been my favourite [non punk] band

I loved them until the 2nd Law happened. Then I set my Muse t-shirt on fire.

Quote from: miguel on Wed 19/06/2013 00:41:10
I love the alternative rock scene

Quote from: miguel on Wed 19/06/2013 00:41:10
From Dylan to Kasabian

How good is Kasabian?

My father is a long time Dylan fan.

Other favourites of mine include The Dead Weather, whom I discovered through another favourite, The Kills. Arctic Monkeys at the moment, and my first true love were the Chili Peppers.

Also Phoenix and The Strokes, and Future of the Left whom I discovered through Mclusky for when I'm feeling angry

Adeel · Wed 19/06/2013 19:24:19

Would you guys recommend me any good song you like most? I like listening to those songs which have sad tone, sad music (preferably violin) and sad way of singing (I don't like rap at all).

Retro Wolf · Wed 19/06/2013 19:44:27

As I've aged I've grown to like many different types of music.

Tom Waits - I don't wanna grow up.

A bit avant-garde, but it used to speak volumes to me.

Eric · Wed 19/06/2013 20:05:57

Every day this week, I'm going to pretend to be a different person who hasn't answered this question before to spotlight some of my favorite underappreciated genres of music. I am a person who literally listens to a little bit of everything.

So today, I like ragtime/Piedmont blues music. Here are four representative songs:

Frank Stokes - Stomp That Thing
Memphis Jug Band - On the Road Again (warning: lyrics contain "the n-word")
Etta Baker - Carolina Breakdown
Henry Thomas - Fishin' Blues

kaput · Wed 19/06/2013 20:52:19

Music used to be an obsession for me (skater/ mosher/rocker/gig fanatic/realist). I think when you get a bit older you tend to gain a different point of view and hate the shit that wasn't going around in your time. I hate everything, I mean 'everything' that comes out in popular culture. It's all just so shit... I have no apologies to give, either. To me, music is supposed to send a message (if it has lyrics) and I think my list does just fine. They say, what you listen to affects your mood. I agree, listen to this:

My list is -

Johnny Cash
Philip Glass
Rage Against the Machine
The doors
Radiohead
Nine Inch Nails
Modest Mouse
David Bowie
Bob Dylan

Listen to these and you will feel a hell lot of different feelings. That's the point. Music for every situation. Live it. Love it.

Everything (music wise) is the damn same these days. They're all yelling about how cool it is to be a pop star or how cool it is to have so much money. It's ridiculous. These people make money for nothing. It's about time folks make music that actually means a damn - lyrics and all.

If I have to listen to another Rhianna song where she talks about how great it is or how bad it is having so much money I may just smash my radio.

kaput · Wed 19/06/2013 21:38:51

If they show.. They are worth watching...

[embed=640,480]<iframe width="640" height="480" src="<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/lWsuVuw5JO4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>[/embed]

[embed=640,480]<iframe width="640" height="480" src="<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/SYGu8ap1FvI?list=PL8A6EE2792598C5F7" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>[/embed]

[embed=640,480]<iframe width="640" height="480" src="<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/bWXazVhlyxQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>[/embed]

[embed=640,480]<iframe width="640" height="480" src="<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/9iSXrZYhJt4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>[/embed]

[embed=640,480]<iframe width="640" height="480" src="<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/u5CVsCnxyXg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>[/embed]

[embed=640,480]<iframe width="640" height="480" src="<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/P9BfvPjsXXw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>[/embed]

[embed=640,480]<iframe width="640" height="480" src="<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/TPhnOKmhbBw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>[/embed]

[embed=640,480]<iframe width="640" height="480" src="<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/VlvJ4aQ6A7U" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>[/embed]

kaput · Wed 19/06/2013 21:52:58

The videos work - so watch them!

Anian · Wed 19/06/2013 22:45:35

Quote from: Sunny Penguin on Wed 19/06/2013 20:52:19If I have to listen to another Rhianna song where she talks about how great it is or how bad it is having so much money I may just smash my radio.

Well some Rhianna stuff is really a guilty pleasure for me, songs like Disturbia or S&M are rather dark in text and really catchy.

OT: don't have a favourite genre, but I mostly stay away from local folk music, new techno and dance scene and stuff like speed metal (or whatever number of similar genres there are where a person screams intelligibly into a mic) and of course most rap is out (a song where people tell other famous people on the track to say something or such...just no). Rest is on the "if to me it's a good song, I'll listen to it", I try to find new music all the time and I usually have periods where I listen to a certain type of music, for some reason I find at that point, like classic rock, heavy metal, 80s dance or techno, pop etc.

A few years ago I really started to listen to orchestral music, like soundtracks from movies and video games and stuff like Two steps from hell etc., but since high school it's mostly been U2, Depeche mode, The National, Radiohead, TV on the Radio etc. but again there are periods where I listen to something completely different.
It silly and bigoted to limit yourself to a specific genre when there's sooooooooo much music out there these days and a billion ways you can always find about new stuff.

Adeel · Wed 19/06/2013 23:04:18

Quote from: Sunny Penguin on Wed 19/06/2013 20:52:19
Music used to be an obsession for me (skater/ mosher/rocker/gig fanatic/realist). I think when you get a bit older you tend to gain a different point of view and hate the shit that wasn't going around in your time. I hate everything, I mean 'everything' that comes out in popular culture. It's all just so shit... I have no apologies to give, either. To me, music is supposed to send a message (if it has lyrics) and I think my list does just fine. They say, what you listen to affects your mood. I agree,
Everything (music wise) is the damn same these days. They're all yelling about how cool it is to be a pop star or how cool it is to have so much money. It's ridiculous. These people make money for nothing. It's about time folks make music that actually means a damn - lyrics and all.

If I have to listen to another Rhianna song where she talks about how great it is or how bad it is having so much money I may just smash my radio.

I can relate to that. When I were a kid, I used to love "screaming" music and hated Ghazals and Sad Songs which my father and uncle would listen. But when I became older, my view changed completely. You are right. Lyrics are much more than just screaming how big time you are. That's why I started listening ghazals - a style of poetry which can also be sung. Hearing your favorite and well known poets being sung is a delight itself. The ghazals which I listen to are even older than myself

BTW, the videos you posted aren't working for me.

Thank you Eric and Oldschool_Wolf for your suggestions. Guys, keep suggesting me and I will inform you about my opinion when I'll listen them.

awakening · Thu 20/06/2013 00:44:05

Quote from: Adeel S. Ahmed on Wed 19/06/2013 19:24:19
Would you guys recommend me any good song you like most? I like listening to those songs which have sad tone, sad music

Listen to Fake Plastic Trees by Radiohead

Just because SunnyPenguin said Radiohead and I concur

Eric · Thu 20/06/2013 01:25:42

If you run a MIDI file of "No Surprises" through an 8-bit music generator, you get the greatest NES song of all time.

Ghost · Thu 20/06/2013 02:18:48

Quote from: Adeel S. Ahmed on Wed 19/06/2013 23:04:18
Guys, keep suggesting me and I will inform you about my opinion when I'll listen them.

Heavy Horses by Jethro Tull. Top-grade melancholy awesomeness.
Lautlos by dunkelbunt is pretty moody, too.
I also must suggest Nellie the Elephant by the Toy Dolls, but that's a wacky silly punk song. Nothing bad about that, though.

Problem · Thu 20/06/2013 05:29:19

I've always been into alternative rock and similar genres, but the older I get, the more diverse my musical taste gets. My taste seems to be quite similar to Sunny Penguin's though. Radiohead have already been mentioned, and these guys never fail to amaze me, no matter how often they change their musical style.

Speaking of amazing sad songs, there's one particular Radiohead song I keep coming back to, and that's Pyramid Song. This might be my favourite song of all time, there's really nothing like it.

Eric · Thu 20/06/2013 05:37:02

Quote from: Adeel S. Ahmed on Wed 19/06/2013 19:24:19sad music (preferably violin) and sad way of singing (I don't like rap at all).

This is off-topic for the thread at hand, but since you asked, here's a track listing for a mix tape I made a few years ago that was designed to take the listener on a museum tour of different kinds of sadness and then lead you out again:

1. Johnny Cash (featuring Nick Cave) - I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
2. Stephen Malkmus - Church on White
3. Magnetic Fields - All My Little Words
4. Wilco (with Billy Bragg) - At My Window Sad and Lonely
5. Beck - Lost Cause
6. Belle & Sebastian - I'm Waking Up to Us
7. Grandaddy - Saddest Vacant Lot in All the World
8. Fugazi - I'm So Tired
9. Hank Williams - Long Gone Lonesome Blues
10. Billy Joel - And So It Goes
11. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Singer
12. Ben Folds - Cigarette
13. John Prine - Paradise
14. Tom Waits - Broken Bicycles
15. Gordon Lightfoot - Early Morning Rain
16. The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset
17. Kris Kristofferson - Sunday Morning Coming Down
18. Tom Waits - I'm Still Here
19. Warren Zevon - Reconsider Me
20. Magnetic Fields - I Don't Want to Get Over You

Phemar · Thu 20/06/2013 15:12:40

Quote from: Adeel S. Ahmed on Wed 19/06/2013 19:24:19
Would you guys recommend me any good song you like most? I like listening to those songs which have sad tone, sad music (preferably violin) and sad way of singing (I don't like rap at all).

Adeel I'd highly recommend Andrew Bird. One of the most underrated artists there today.

http://www.fromthebasement.tv/artists/andrew-bird/performances/

selmiak · Thu 20/06/2013 19:48:43

all of sunny penguins stuff is great + some jimi and pink floyd. I also like punk and nirvana and alternative rock from the 90s.

But nowadays my heart beats with the rhythms of breakbeats like drum n bass.

some cool examples of this rather underappreaciated electronic genre, turn up your subwoofer

equinox - stay calm
raw q - caspian moon
kryptic minds - mutants (dark dnb, very nice)
teebee - black science labs (full album, nice experiments in drums)
icycle - minus
topcat - a friend in need (with some reggae vibes, not as dark as the rest)
Globular - lemon (no dnb but just wicked soundz

)
melt yourself down - fix my life (dunno what this is, but watching the video in fullscreen make my brain melt

)
and so on...

and some guitar music, probably the best accoustic track in the last forever years

john butler - ocean

selmiak · Thu 20/06/2013 21:14:07

Quote from: Phemar on Thu 20/06/2013 15:12:40
Adeel I'd highly recommend Andrew Bird. One of the most underrated artists there today.
http://www.fromthebasement.tv/artists/andrew-bird/performances/

cool stuff, I like creative use of loopstations...

the petebox - where is my mind funny pixies cover
dubfx - flow some more beatboxdrumnbass with loopstation + sax
mc xander - spaceship earth pure beatboxing with loopstation! All mouthmade sounds and also nice lyrics!

sad music you say?
soap & skin - the sun all her tracks sound like written by a sad child forgotten in a cold dark house in an even darker forest

soap & skin - wonder imho her most melodic melodramatic piece