Your Favorite Music Genre and Related Artist

[Adeel]

    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]

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]

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]

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.

I love the alternative rock scene

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]

    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]

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]

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]

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]

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

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[kaput]

The videos work - so watch them!

[Anian]

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.

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]

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]

    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]

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]

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]

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]

sad 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]

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]

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]

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

[Adeel]

    So much recommended, so much to listen yet Keep suggesting, folks! Oh BTW, don't forget to tell about your favorite genre and artists.

[Ponch]

These are the songs that are currently in my morning workout mix. They are tragically lame and I love them all.

[embed=425,349]http://youtu.be/Vppbdf-qtGU[/embed]  [embed=425,349]http://youtu.be/lQeo3OfuEDM[/embed]

[embed=425,349]http://youtu.be/CD6ZrTN6c4s[/embed]  [embed=425,349]http://youtu.be/8g6h1vI4Xv0[/embed]

[embed=425,349]http://youtu.be/GOfe1bX8bII[/embed]  [embed=425,349]http://youtu.be/dXYl5NrHPb4[/embed]

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[Adeel]

So I listened to some of the mentioned songs:

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

    Soap & Skin - The Sun is good one. I liked it. "Wonder" is also a good one but I prefer "The Sun". BTW, just listened to your recommended accoustic track - failed to impress me (such hard is my taste  )

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.

    Sunny Penguin & awakening also recommended Radiohead. Therefore, first of all I downloaded it. My say on this song is: While the song start really nice and music is enjoyable, it soon turns into something unpleasant which ruins the overall mood. Therefore, this song became no-no for me. I'll download other songs of Radiohead and try them.

sad 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

    I don't think it's off topic. I listened to the first song. It's nice. I am going to listen other songs as well.

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/

    Phemar, may you please name me some songs of Andrew Bird which you like most (so I can download it by searching it), owing to the fact that I am downloading all recommended songs from Beemp3.com.

    Thank you for suggesting. Keep suggesting more and don't forget to tell about your favorite genre and artists while I keep downloading and listening

P.S: Guys, please don't use Youtube videos / links. As it is blocked in my country (curse the government), hence I see nothing but a large blank area.

[Phemar]

Sure thing. Some of my favorite Andrew Bird's are:

- Fake Palindromes
- Banking on a Myth (if you can find the live version from Fingerlings II, it's awesome)
- Imitosis
- Heretics
- Danse Caribbe
- Give it Away
- Lazy Projector
- Lusitania
- Sifters
- Effigy
- Tenuousness (the live version I originally linked, and the studio version)
- Twistable, Turnable Man Returns
- How You Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm

[Ponch]

P.S: Guys, please don't use Youtube videos / links. As it is blocked in my country (curse the government), hence I see nothing but a large blank area.

With that in mind then, here are the songs I posted:

ZZ Top - La Grange
The Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated
Karl Jenkins - Adiemus
The Cult - Fire Woman
Andrew W. K. - Party Hard
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Runnin' Down A Dream
The Romantics - What I Like About You
Ronnie Montrose - Sidewinder
Origa - Rise
Streets of Fire Soundtrack - Nowhere Fast

[monkey424]

My fav music genre - eclectic.. hard rock, jazz, funk, hip hop, dance, techno, punk, heavy metal, upbeat, downbeat, whimsical, mainstream, alternative, old school, new school, Zappa, RnB, country, everything!

Some of my favorite artists and songs:

Jane's Addiction - Three Days
Faith No More - Easy
Frank Zappa - Montana
The Smiths - How Soon is Now
Pixies - Monkey Gone To Heaven
Gorillaz - Rock The House

Aussie artists:

Machine Gun Fellatio - The Girl of my Dreams
Gerling - Hot Computer (Summa Laptop Remix)
Resin Dogs - Jazz Crime
360 - 'Throw It Away' feat. Josh Pyke
Crowded House - When You Come
Dave Graney - That's The Way It's Gonna Be
Mental As Anything - Berserk Warriors

[san.daniele]

I'd highly recommend Andrew Bird.

100% agree (have to admit I have no idea what he's been doing the last years).

Reading through this topic it seems we're all pretty much stuck in the 90s (guess that's why were in this forum in the 1st place ).

I pretty much can just copy/paste any answer here as my own. In general I'd say I love good old guitar rock (I have to point out Pavement), but my intrest is very wide. I just can't stand electronical music of any kind, I need real instruments and voice to enjoy it.

There's phases when I really get drawn into single artist music (I think the English term is Singer-songwriter? German: Liedermacher; Italian: cantautore). Over the last years I keep coming back to Gisbert zu Knyphausen.

started with this song:
[embed=425,349]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dlj7yXoY9LY[/embed]

song I'm constant-listening to right now is "Pull the Wool" by "G Love & Special Sauce"
[embed=425,349]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lll0SLmFgf8[/embed]

[Eric]

One of my favorite genres is the spaghetti western soundtrack. I have over 5,000 tracks from these obscure films on a hard drive.

The stuff to listen to immediately, of course, are the Morricone scores for Leone films. However, Morricone did many other spaghetti scores. Some of my favorite tracks are:

- The title track from Companeros.
- Viva La Revolucion from Tepepa.
- The title track from Run Man Run.

Other favorites include Luis Bacalov (title tracks from Django, The Great Duel), Bruno Nicolai (check out 'Fuga Dall'Ovest' from Run Man Run), Benedetto Ghiglia (the title track from A Stranger in Town).

[Adeel]

@san.diele: Please understand that youtube is blocked here in my country so I see nothing but a large blue space. Will you please tell me in black and white which are your favorites?

@Phemar, Ponch, monkey424, Eric: Thanks for your recommendations. I'll surely listen to them and tell you opinion about it. Even if it takes years, I'll post it here.

[san.daniele]

@san.diele: Please understand that youtube is blocked here in my country so I see nothing but a large blue space. Will you please tell me in black and white which are your favorites?

i did
well your right, the 1st video wasn't specified. But I thought it didn't matter as I more or less took a random video from that artist.(btw. i think you shouldn't even try it out, like with all/most songwriters it's almost impossible to appreciate the song if you don't understand the lyrics. in this case German).

[Adeel]

i did
well your right, the 1st video wasn't specified. But I thought it didn't matter as I more or less took a random video from that artist.(btw. i think you shouldn't even try it out, like with all/most songwriters it's almost impossible to appreciate the song if you don't understand the lyrics. in this case German).

    So nice of you! Okay, I'll not listen to the song you forbade. But I shall try the rest. Thanks for your feedback.

[kaput]

Hi Adeel,

I didn't see before that you could not view youtube (I dunno if you are lucky or what as it is shit at most times lol). Here is what I posted earlier with some other songs worth listening to (which is what I came up with in my head at the moment - I'll maybe post more...). What I have tried to do is give you a decent list of song from bands worth listening to (aside from the great bands already:


Annie Lennox - Love Song For A Vampire

Johnny Cash - Folsom prison blues

Philip Glass - Mishima Opening

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Philadelphia

Radiohead - Karma police

Nine Inch Nails - We're in this together now

How To Destroy Angels - The Space in Between

Radiohead - No surprises

Modest Mouse - ocean breathes salty

David Bowie -  Hearts filthy lesson

Pink Floyd - Comfortably numb

Queen - Bohemian rhapsody

pulp - common people

John Lennon - Jealous Guy

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - i'll stand my ground

Billy Idol -  Rebel Yell

Metallica - Nothing Else Matters

The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy - Television

Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven

Bee Gees - Staying Alive

Gary Jules/Adam Lambert - Mad World

REM - Losing My Religion

Blue Oyster Cult - (Don't Fear) The Reaper

Alice Cooper - The Ballad Of Dwight Fry

David Bowie - Ashes to ashes

Highwaymen - The highwayman

Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit

Killswitch Engage/ Dio - Holy Diver

Stone Sour - Say You'll Haunt Me

Snow Patrol - Run

Plan B - Missing Links the Radiohead mix (SiX DwArF video)

Coolio - Gangsta's Paradise

Elvis - In the ghetto karaoke

Tom Waits - Hoist That Rag

Coldplay - Speed of Sound

The Doors - The End

[mkennedy]

Mostly into classic metal and thrash from the 80's. Stuff like old school Metallica before 1990, Iron Maiden, Dio to name a few. "Master of Puppets" was the greatest album of all time IMHO.

[gameboy]

Some great stuff in this thread.

Here's a nice song from one of my favourite bands:

[embed=425,349]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtuVA4NOm0I[/embed]


And something I randomly stumbled upon on youtube. Damn catchy song, and so's the whole album.

[embed=425,349]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouuqJ0pkWvU[/embed]


...and some old awesomeness for good measure

[embed=425,349]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwTv62EcUsk[/embed]

[edit]

Since Youtube may be not accessible in some locations, here's what I've got to contribute. Ween is probably one of my favourite bands of all time. One of the most diverse pop/rock bands for sure. Their music is at times nonsensical, stupid, pointless, offensively bad, and at times damn beautiful.

The Beach Boys are great. So are The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Cream, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, The Who and many others.

Also, Willie Nelson is awesome.

[qptain Nemo]

My favourite music is pretty much genreless or hard to classify. But if I had to pick one genre it'd probably be IDM. As such, a perfect example would be the genius of Igorrr