Quote:
Originally Posted by
mitch_mckee 
| Music preference is quite age specific. If you like it, have at it. I like Classic Rock myself. |
Ah-hah! I knew there'd have to be
something we agree on!
I'm a huge fan of the birth of Rock n' Roll. Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis,
Chuck Berry (one my all-time favourites
)...I have a
lot of CDs collecting music from the 50s and a fair number of Greatest Hits volumes of the above performers. Also a passing fancy with Motown, which bridged the gap to the 60s for me.
I dunno. I'm not a fan of country, yet I like the elements of it you find in this early rock.
Then I take a skip past a good portion of the 60s. There are some undeniable classics, but really, I'm more of a Jefferson Airplane and Jimmy Hendrix sort of guy. Okay, the Stones too, of course.
I skip the 70s, thanks. I was born then so I missed it. Okay...maybe Paul Williams. He's
fun.
But then I got heavy into the 80s musical pioneers. David Bowie, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, Alice Cooper, (yes, I am aware their careers preceed the 80s, this is when I discovered their then-current work,
then started filling in their back-catalogues), The Cure, Concrete Blonde, Gary Numan...I find them to be good musicians on a general level, which always attracts my interest.
Then in the late 80s, I discovered metal. Never was a huge metal head, but some bands can't be denied. Judas Priest, Metallica, Sepultura, Ministry...the more musically complex the metal the more I like it.
90s were rougher. Never liked grunge. I find Gavin Rossdale's work with Bush to be very pleasant to listen to, though. Symphonic Metal bands like Nightwish also got me listening. Some of the Industrial bands from Europe expanded my horizons, like KMFDM, and I discovered Type O Negative. They're hard to place, exactly, but I suppose I like their range. Nine Inch Nails also got me then and I've been a fan ever since.
Currently, I'm not much into the newer music right now. I'm waiting to see what shakes out. I dislike most Pop and never got into the Manson-style post-goth music. Emo makes me ill. So I spend my time filling in older stuff. Although I've found some amusing stuff, like the Finnish "Monster Rock" band Lordi. They won the Eurovision Song Contest in 2006 with a record number of points. And, of course, Weird Al never steers you wrong.
I also like some Big Band and some stuff that's harder to place. What category, for instance, would you say groups like The Ink Spots are?
As for classical and opera, I get to be picky. I trained and performed for a few years - and it's really something I have to get back into. I'm not a big fan of a lot of the staggeringly overplayed stuff that everyone's sick of by now. How often can one listen to
Bolero, Don Giovanni, or
Il Pagliacci anyway? I'm a bigger fan of Baroque music. Composers like Handel, Bach, Saint-Saens...I think they have a quality you don't find in the stuff classical stations usually like to play.
Okay, about country...does Johnny Cash count? Becaise I loves me some Man in Black.
I also have a strange predilection for movie soundtracks and scores. I have a
lot of those.
- Coeloptera
