Anyone like any other style of music?

[Ted]

I hate indie i can't stand it, i really don't see what the attraction is to it, it's pretty much the only thing that i can't listen to.

Saying that there was a song called 'i love it when you call' can't remember who it was by but it was some indie band and it had a really cool solo in it.

The Feeling

I love their album, they are excellent songwriters IMO.  :oops:

Their guitarists are pretty good.

Crazy Joe - too much hate in this world.

[Sifu Ben]

I listen to a fair bit of latin Jazz and Nu Flamenco (yeah, I made that up, but if I worked for NME it would be the new official genre name). I really like an Iranian "Nu flamenco" guitarist called Armik, check him out on Napster. Quite laid back but great playing.
 I also like old school funk and a bit of country.

[_tom_]

This is a bit of a guilty pleasure, but I really like the songs "Le Disko" and "You are the one" by Shiny Toy Guns  :oops: so catchy, plus the female singer is pretty hot...

[Philly Q]

Good thread, Joe.  :D

I listen to mostly hard rock and (older) metal, a bit of blues (largely white-boy stuff with a rock sensibility, I'm afraid), Zappa, a few singer-songwriter types (Matthew Sweet, Thea Gilmore).  Guitar-based music, pretty much.

I love classical music (although that's a very broad statement, I suppose I mean the better known composers really) but know very little about it.  I feel a definite connection with Celtic/British folk music - but know almost nothing about it.  

I love the sound of harmony vocals, be it Steeleye Span, King's X, Alice In Chains or Tyr.  And I like rock bands with female vocalists.

I find jazz and country very difficult to listen to, but enjoy seeing them played live.

I don't dislike indie music in principle, but I don't like much of it in practice - it always sounds like "rock-lite" and I want them to crank their amps up to 10 and take a solo...  And I can't stand those boring whiny bands like Athlete and Snow Patrol.

I dislike 95% of dance music because I can't stand the repetition and the computer-generated rhythms.  Rhythm sections should sound like human beings, they shouldn't be in perfect time.  I have heard some electronica which seemed genuinely interesting and creative, but no idea which artists.

And I HATE hip-hop music for its sexist, racist, homophobic, violent, gun-culture lyrics, total lack of imagination and the mumbling that passes for "rapping" from the likes of that cretin 50 Cent.  And it really pisses me off that half the under-25s in Britain now talk as if they came from somewhere halfway between Kingston, Jamaica and South Central LA and call each other "blood".  

[Ted]

And it really pisses me off that half the under-25s in Britain now talk as if they came from somewhere halfway between Kingston, Jamaica and South Central LA and call each other "blood".

 :lol:  :lol:

My sentiments exactly...

[Philly Q]

My sentiments exactly...

I see we live in the same part of London, Ted!  :lol:  

But it seems to be a national phenomenon.  Innit.

[99_not_out]

The problem most people have with Indie is that the chart stuff is somewhat bland and un-inspiring ... Bloc Party, Maximo Park, Kaiser Chefs, Keane, Coldplay et al are all a bit by the numbers and derivative, albeit often well produced due to record label dollars. As long as the kids all bounce a long to it at V everyone is happy. Which isn't a bad thing, but as Noel Gallager would say, it doesn't make it music :)

Some of the older / less well known (or at least less hyped) bands are much better IMO: Charlatans, Stone Roses, The Cure (not the singles), Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Gossip, Kings of Leon, Arcade Fire, PJ Harvey ... its half my music collection. Well, I like them anyway :)

+1 to Philly Q for the female vocalists comment ... there should be more of that in rock in general. I probably actually prefer a strong female voice on top of crashing guitars to a male one ... but that is also probably related to me having a thing for women that rock :P

And music where there are no guitars involved ... Mozart, and that's about it for me! Hmmm, maybe I should diversify a little bit ...

[Crazy_Joe]

You can get good rap and people who rap about what we can relate to.

There is a guy called Akala from London who doesn't talk about hoes and guns and pimps, his lyrics are actually quite good.

It's mostly the fake American rappers that suck, like 50 cent and G unit and all that nonsense :lol:

What about drum n bass band Prodigy!! Surely some people listen to them?

[99_not_out]

What about drum n bass band Prodigy!! Surely some people listen to them?

I'll take your brain to another dimension ... pay close attention :)

Chemical Brothers and Leftfield 'Leftism' too, both heavily listened to over here.

And on the subject of non-homocidal Rap, did someone mention the Beastie Boys yet?

[Philly Q]

You can get good rap and people who rap about what we can relate to.

Fair enough, I'm sure there's good stuff, as there is in every genre.  I liked the stuff Public Enemy did with Anthrax years ago, but obviously that wasn't pure rap.  And I've got the first Body Count album.  :roll:  :oops:

As for relating to it, that's probably more true for people your age than mine!  :P  

What about drum n bass band Prodigy!! Surely some people listen to them?

They had some good songs, with real rock energy and real guitars too.  But I could only take them in very small doses.  My brother lent me their album The Fat Of The Land and I would pick it up and look at it occasionally, but somehow I could never bring myself to play it...

[blue]

well, i love the music of Bjork, Tori Amos, Joni Mitchell, Rimsky Korsakov, a bit of Verdi, Helicoptor Girl's first album, Miles Davis, and i can often be found down the pub at a traditional seisun.  oh and that modern beat combo Bentley Rhythm Ace were quite good.  oh, and Goldfrapp.

as said above, every genre has about 15-20% good and about 80% a bit rubbish.  and listening to other kinds of music can only broaden your own playing.  well, my playing's too cr@p to broaden, but for you guys that can play!

[Ted]

And I've got the first Body Count album.  

shite! I used to have that album on tape!

I loved that album at the time, I was still at school, those were happy days indeed...

I dread to think what it would sound like if I played it now! Better not then...I remember it used to make me laugh and I quite liked Ice T back then.

I also love Beastie Boys, too. I have a mixtape somewhere of a really good MC scratchin' old hip-hop records, James Brown & Michael Jackson samples etc etc. I always thought older 80's stuff like that was cool.

[nfe]

I listen to as broad a spectrum of music as anyone i've met. I just like music, as opposed to genres.

There's not a lot of hip hop that i like, but I don't discount anything without giving it a listen.

Incidentally, I really don't get the elitist "Anything but pop!!" nonsense. That simply means it's in the charts.

[Crazy_Joe]

Beastie Boys and Chemical Brothers are awesome! And i second the Micheal Jackson aswel, he has some quality tunes.

[Philly Q]

I dread to think what it would sound like if I played it now! Better not then...I remember it used to make me laugh and I quite liked Ice T back then.

I listened to it a few months ago, it still sounds OK actually, as long as you don't take the lyrics seriously.  Ice-T has always struck me as an intelligent chap, so I like to think at least some of his lyrics are tongue-in-cheek.  But then you see him with that ridiculous gun collection...

While we're talking rap-meets-rock, I still like that Beastie Boys album Licensed To Ill (with the Kerry King guest appearance!).  And I like the Workhorse Movement and Kid Rock (more for the greasy 70s rock riffs than the rap stuff).