Favorite music and why

[TipYourBartender]

I used to see a lot of posts showing what kind of music/musician you hated the most, and each thread would degenerate into a flame war worthy of GTA Vice City.

Let's try a different tack. What is your favortie type of music? Why? What do you find in what you listen to that you can't find anywhere else?

A simple plea to anyone posting: Please try not to flame. People like what they like, and you should leave it at that.

Thanks.

-TYB

[Caitlyn Marble]

I'm a rock fan, because it can show anger and resentment more efficiently than other genres.........

no really, that's why I love rock, it's great for showing your emotions, and not just anger, but desire, and sadness, and joy sometimes. You don't need good lyrics if you have great instrumentation, and vice versa. It can all convey emotion. And there are a million ways to push the envelope musically.

On the other hand there is crap corporate rock like Limp Bizkit that goes nowhere. (I think thier first CD was ok but after Significant Other it all started going downhill....)

I'm not a fan of teeny bopper pop and manufactured country.

Rap is great too, despite what a lot of people say. Some artists are just crap idiots on MTV, others have the talent.

[Korn377135678]

I like rock and punk music> i like because it shows pain,anger and a loss of something thats not thier.I also think mtv is the worst thing to happen to music.

[ryan2_2]

i like rap with a bit of rock and punk throw in (eg. Sum 41, Swollen Members)

:fire

[phalkon30]

I will listen to just about anything (even techno, strange huh?)

i have a few exceptions tho....
-country (any form of it)
-rap (old skool rap, the new rock/rap stuff is ok)
-elvis (need i say more?)

if you went through my 1400 mp3s, you would find everything from paul oakenfold, to led zep, to primus, to kid rock, to jackyl, to the average white band (jazz)

[TipYourBartender]

Originally posted by Caitlyn Marble
You don't need good lyrics if you have great instrumentation, and vice versa.

I gotta disagree there. I think lyrics are really important to a song - that, in part, is why I don't feel Limp Bizkit et al.
They don't have to be overly intricate or anythng, but they can't be crap. I would rather have no lyrics at all than bad lyrics.

[WhitePony]

...i actually love many different types of music : from rock, to rap, to House, Techno and Drum´n´Bass.
But, to choose just one, I still think rock (preferably of the heavy kind) is my favourite and the reasons are similar to those above : it´s still the music style that best conveys the whole spectre of human emotions : from angry to sad, beatiful to ugly, calm to enraging...and it´s not just on the lyrics, it´s specially in the sound itself...and the best rock bands are exactly those that can reflect all these emotions with sound itself. To me, anyway...
And, as time goes by, I give less and less importance to lyrics...I still love to hear them and read them, but the sound is all engulfing to me...maybe that´s why I listen to electronic music more and more these days. Peeps that say that music made on computers isn´t music or art don´t understand that art is more of a result than a process.
Besides, it´s getting harder and harder to find decent rock albums...

[Dman212]

I listen to Rap/R&B/Hip-Hop. I like rap because its just cool as hell to sit back, relax and hear your favorite rapper spit some ill ass lyrics. I mostly listen to rap when I'm in a kind of aggressive or jumpy mood. When I wanna listen to something soothing and calm I'll listen to a lil' R&B.

[wonderboy2005]

i like rock mostly, but ALMOST (hell no to polka) all music i can listen to.

specificlly, i like the band rammstein. why you ask? because they have the greatest sound (IMO). i cant understand a word that they sing, yet i am able to get their emotions thru the tone of the music very vividly. if any of you ever decide to listen to some of their stuff, i reccomend the song "ohne dich" . no clue what it means, but it is the most emotionally intense song ive ever heard. i cant explain it. its just cool. go get it. FOR THE LOVE OF MAN...... man..... GO GET IT!!!! i think you will enjoy.

[SnakeAnarchy]

I like to listen to Punk and Rap because the music is good and the lyrics are awsome, they bring a good message and i like the punk ideology.

[CTC Command]

I like just about everything except country and opera—my CD collection likes like newbury comics puked in my living room. The problem with most music genres (and band’s first albums); first they develop "underground" where they are full of energy and imagination both musically and lyrically (if applicable). Word of mouth leads to a cult following of varying proportions until...some corporate exec hears about it and launches it into wider popular circulation. Once it becomes popular opportunistic musicians and music industry execs it quickly turn whatever it is into derivitive and boring crap. Compare early popular rappers like PE or KRS-ONE with the current slate of talentless hip-hoppers...Same thing with the metal tech crunch w/cookie monster vocals tune played by 9 out of 10 bands on rock radio now. Ten, fifteen years ago one would have to tune into a college radio station at 4 AM, to hear the seminal artists who first played that style that eventually inluenced Korn. And I liked Korn's first album. Another good example comes to mind-the first time I heard Nirvana was not "smells like teen spirit" but several years earlier when they were just one of many excellent and popularly unknown bands on college radio. Recently I "discovered" The Jealous Sound on my local college station. Will they go anywhere? They should, IMHO. But so should have Catherine Wheel, Urge Overkill, Dinosaur Jr and countless others who were great songwriters and musicians but never got that "big break," while the Korn clones get played over and over again.

[Jitway]

Hard rock or heavy metal and the heavier the better. I grew up listening to Elvis and was hooked on rock then I friend in grade school brought to show-n-tell the first Black Sabbath album and that was it. I started listening to hard core heavy metal and have been for the last 35 years.

[crackerjacker]

house punk metal hardcore emu
hmm to many to name