Music

[DirtySanchez]

I know this is a strange topic for this site but, explain what your faavorite genre/style of music is and why you love it.
For me it's definitely punk rock, I love the simplicity, the energy and the attitude matches my own perfectly. It's the soundtrack to my life, accomplishments,victories,failures and fuck ups. Theres a song that I can relate to whatever I'm feeling.

[WitchChic]

I know odd huh...lol....

My most favorite is Gothic Metal... Like Nocturne... I love it, no real reason, just love it...

[Baceman Spiff]

Wow where did this come from? WEIRDO!

But Im basically a metalhead. Although I love all different styles of music, I always come back to metal. I guess it for any reason that anyone else likes their choice of tunes. It just speaks to me. I love a pounding riff, it gives me butterflies in me tummy. I always have. When I was kid back in the 70's, one of my favs was Nazareth- Hair of the Dog. It still is. Some of my fondist childhood memories is jammin out to 'Ms Misery' in front of our gigantic entertainment system. Ahhhh the good old days....

[DirtySanchez]

Dude, that was last week Don.
You're so nostalgic.

[Merge]

For me it's modern/hard rock. The energy is what does it for me.

[Mikey Wax]

Punk.

Not new punk.


The good stuff that came out when I was in High School.

[Bag]

Metal, with a splash of thrash, poured over some southern rock!

[SuffrInLys]

metalcore i guess the kids are calling it now.. i like my metal with a bit of the old style hardcore... but i like a beat to it.. i like a drummer that knows how to hit more than just a high hat and the snare.. i like a bit of singing with a sick ass growl to go along with it too.

the reason would be the passion and intensity. i also like someone that can write good lyrics even if you can't understand all of them when you listen to the songs live.. i like the adrenaline that a good metal song can provide

[MeYatch]

like all music related threads, this will probably go down as one of the least active threads in rockpage history.

I kind of gave up classifying music a long time ago. But I guess most of my favorites are some flavor of punk, or punk influenced. I dig electronica too, particularly trance.

I was a big fan of "alternative" music, back when there was such a thing.

[Punkinhead]

Metal, specifically black metal.

[Heartless_Mockery_Records]

I in particular like metal but i lean more towards the lighter end of the genre... "metalcore" or whatever catch word it goes by.

That's cool a lot of you guys are into punk stuff I found some punk (well what i consider punk) cassettes that i really liked years ago in my closet the other day; Lagwagon's "Duh" was one of them. Now if i only had a cassette player...

But I'm just glad that whole ska thing never really took off....

[MeYatch]

reel big fish is awesome. The rest of it, not so much.

[SuffrInLys]

yuk!

[Heartless_Mockery_Records]

reel big fish is awesome. The rest of it, not so much.

ah, the fish.... the kid i lived with in high school loved them so i have seen them like 2-3 times. yeah catchy stuff but drives you insane after awhile. We went to see less than jake or whatever a few times too. They were cool guys...

But I personally never really liked it that much... Myke from Second Offense was the biggest "ska kid" in the world though. Ask him about it.

[SuffrInLys]

fuck that isn't even funny.. when i was a young punk rocker i even wrote a song about how much i hated it!!

now excuse me whilst i puke

[SpellboundByMetal]

I like the music that i like because i like it.

Metal is the main style of music for me. Metal has more emotion than just about all other music combined. I love how it scares, annoys, inspires and makes people nuts all @ the same time. I feel metal inside. Its not anything i can turn off. I hate the losers who show the pentagram or wear all black and their faggy metal gear and think they are metal. thats a trendwhore, not a metalhead
I live metal. I know a shit ton of metal info. Everything about metal attracts me. From doom metal to death metal to black metal to metalcore. i like it all and everything in between.
I am the self-proclaimed metal expert here.

[lonewolf]

Progressive rock (not to be confused with prog metal)

[Possessed]

I like metal and all the crazy subgenres within more than anything else. Especially the great Death/Grindcore style of the late 80’s early 90’s. I like most new and classic rock too. I guess I could say if it isn’t hip hop or country I’m into it as long as it doesn’t suck. Hey even some metal bands suck!

\m/Autopsy\m/

[mjb]

blues/ blues rock. i love a beautiful vibrato and there are many different kinds. each of my heros have differet ones. i love bent notes. i also love acoustic blues. people think blues is the typical 1,4,5 stuff and thats only a small part. it is a genre of music that is very intricate and very hard to be good at. if you seperate all the different styles, and there are many, you are always striving to learn more, and you will never learn it all in one life time. i've really been moved by slide players as of late and throgh the years i've dabbled here and there and have always been discouraged and it's frustrating and a real challenge, cuz there is, to me anyway no better means of expression than playing slide. i happen to suck at it right now but i have the rest of my life to get good at it. theres just alot of stuff out there to learn and try to perfect. and really if you trace any genre back it all leads to the same place. some where around Son House.

[Primates]

Im a big Metlhead. I love old metal up through shit like King Diamond up to todays Slipknot, Mudvayne and Arch Enemy.

But i also have alot of interest in other genres. I grew up jammin to shit like Alice In Chains, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden. I also listen to alot of Sublime and older shit like Kiss and Rush. Im basically just a fan of good music. Except emo.....cant....take....that....shit.



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Local Favorites


2nd Offense
Rose Of Carthage
Demise Awaits
Stuck In Kaos
Ritual Misery
Eyes Of Anguish
Nine Tail
ThrodL

[VENTGtr]

Depends where I am. At home, I'm big on jazz standards. Steve Tyrell (Producer,
etc.) has 3 or 4 albums of standards that are, to me, the best collection of cool tunes.

Also, Aimee Mann's stuff can't be beat.

In the car, various rock. In the last week or so I've listened to R.E.M., Tommy Bolin,
Big Country, I Mother Earth, Parliament (My son digs the funk), Oasis.

Guess as a favourite genre, I'd just have to go with a general "rock". Not big on 80s
hair or Southern. Like 60s stuff, glam (As in Sweet, Bowie, T-Rex), 80s (Alarm, U2,
Men At Work), Alt (Everything from Husker Du to Screaming Trees, etc.), punk
(Ramones, etc.), even up-to "And Justice For All" Metallica.

Plus, Marty Robbins, Johnny Cash, etc. "Country" stuff.

Love a lot of Prog (RUSH!, Yes, Gabriel/Hackett-era Genesis, ELP, Marillion).

[AtoMikEnRtiA]

Metal/Hardcore..

"Metalcore" as a term has been dragged through by so many bands in the 90s and 2000s it's almost unbelievable. Necrophagist, Cattle Decapitation, and band of the like have all been referred to as "metalcore" just as easily as Killswitch Engage, As I Lay Dying, Poison the Well, so on and so forth...

However it's all metal or punk... "Hardcore" is nothing more than a combination of the two, such as bands like Remembering Never, BANE, Madball, Hoods, Strength For A Reason, Donnybrook, all taking more of a punkish avenue with some metal and thrash aspects (Remembering Never is more "metal" of the bands listed -- but if you listen to a lot of their earlier material, the punk influence is extreme)

other "Hardcore" bands I am into are Dead to Fall, Through The Eyes of The Dead, One Dead Three Wounded, August Burns Red, A Well Thought Tragedy, Dim the Lights, Elysia, Job For A Cowboy, The Red Chord, and these are all bands that could be considered metal, hardcore, and some of them are modern grindcore...

I guess the definitions for Hardcore are too vast now-a-days... I'll put it to you this way... If your music is in your face, hard, unpredictable, and unrelenting.. I'll like it.

Breakdowns, a plus

Remembering Never is currently my favorite band... simply because in any given song - they could show elements of punk, thrash, and metal.. listen to the song "Closed Caskets" which is track 8 on "Women And Children Die First".. the song begins with the biggest punk sound on their entire cd... 40 seconds into the song the pace changes to a more hardcore feel similar to that when one would be "expecting a breakdown" and 1 minute in, it's extremely melodic.

Listen to "For the Love of Fiction" track 1 on "Women and Children Die First" and it's the same.. minature breakdown immediately followed by a minute of melody.. his singing voice is absolutley perfect for a male singer, and just as quickly as he starts singing.. it's breakdown time...

Good shit... but it's so hard to generalize music anymore.. I also like the band "Across Five Aprils" but they're so hard to categorize because they bring more of a rock feeling into emo/hardcore... so fuck it.. I like cheese!

[ZappasXWife]

Psychedelic and Jam band type stuff. But especially psychedelic, I love that.
A band my kid recently turned me onto that I like is Particle. Sort of a cross between jam and electronica....I think they're really good.
And of course everything Bob.

[bassist_25]

I like music.

[Jim Price]

I like a lot of different styles of music. My core favorite styles have always been progressive rock, classic metal and blues, but I can listen to and enjoy nearly anytning as long as it is done well.

One of the big benefits of doing what I do with local music is that over the years, it has exposed me to, and turned me on to, a lot of different styles and sounds I never thought I would ever have an interest in. Heck, last night I just bought a ticket to a bluegrass show happening later this month; had anyone told me five years (or even five months ago) that I'd be buying a ticket and looking forward to attending such a show, I would have laughed. Twenty years ago, I hated country music; now, I have a taste for old-school traditional country, thanks to groups like Rusty Gun Revival, .00 Buck (R.I.P.) and The Country Outlaws. My interest in blues developed after seeing local bands like Queen Bee & the Blue Hornet Band, Felix & the Hurricanes, Fat Vinny & the Wiseguys and other regional blues names. And the neat thing from my perspective, is that I grew to enjoy all these musical styles, but have never lost interest in the styles I've always preferred, progressive rock, classic metal and blues. I think as you hear and experience more, your music vocabulary grows and you begin to appreciate a wider spectrum of music flavors.