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The Big & Fun Music Thread

Winston

Winston

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Music is always morphing. It's like the weather or a mood. People can simultaneously appreciate Mozart's symphonies and also want to headbang to some thrash metal. What has been moving you lately?

I'm a rave junkie. I've gone from Techno to acid house to D&B. I always have some D&B in rotation. State of Mind, Andy C., Dj Dara, Netsky

But, I simultaneously love country from 90s on back. So, it's a weird dichotomy. On the one hand I love and what speaks to me is music that is futuristic, and inventive. But, I also appreciate the conventionality just a plain ole country tune. Of course there's other specific artists I love. But, as a general rule, you can put on Classic Country Radio or D&B Radio and I'm a happy camper.

here's a random collection of music that has energy, feeling, or artistic strength that I've enjoyed during different periods:

Portishead
Modest Mouse
Bob Dylan
The Rolling Stones
Nirvana
Alice in Chains
2pac
Fleetwood Mac
The Wu Tang Clan
Otis Redding
 
Winston said:
Music is always morphing. It's like the weather or a mood. People can simultaneously appreciate Mozart's symphonies and also want to headbang to some thrash metal. What has been moving you lately?

I'm a rave junkie. I've gone from Techno to acid house to D&B. I always have some D&B in rotation. State of Mind, Andy C., Dj Dara, Netsky

But, I simultaneously love country from 90s on back. So, it's a weird dichotomy. On the one hand I love and what speaks to me is music that is futuristic, and inventive. But, I also appreciate the conventionality just a plain ole country tune. Of course there's other specific artists I love. But, as a general rule, you can put on Classic Country Radio or D&B Radio and I'm a happy camper.

here's a random collection of music that has energy, feeling, or artistic strength that I've enjoyed during different periods:

Portishead
Modest Mouse
Bob Dylan
The Rolling Stones
Nirvana
Alice in Chains
2pac
Fleetwood Mac
The Wu Tang Clan
Otis Redding
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I like rock, country, metal, and a very few rap/hiphop songs. The rap/hiphop songs I listen to can be pretty much dumbed down to because I got high by afroman, colt45 by afroman, and it wasn't me by shaggy.

In terms of all music, I like music I like, it does not matter if it came out before it was born or was new. On the country music front, 90's was the peak of true country, there are still good songs coming out, but it seems most are trying to imitate pop and dance club music. Rock went through a similiar phase in the mid to late 90's when alot of bands tried to mix rap and rock, yeah it did not end well, almost every one of them no one can name anymore.

I will listen to country and rock from the 60's-now , the sounds and styles change but what is good has never changed.
 
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Winston said:
Music is always morphing. It's like the weather or a mood. People can simultaneously appreciate Mozart's symphonies and also want to headbang to some thrash metal. What has been moving you lately?

I'm a rave junkie. I've gone from Techno to acid house to D&B. I always have some D&B in rotation. State of Mind, Andy C., Dj Dara, Netsky

But, I simultaneously love country from 90s on back. So, it's a weird dichotomy. On the one hand I love and what speaks to me is music that is futuristic, and inventive. But, I also appreciate the conventionality just a plain ole country tune. Of course there's other specific artists I love. But, as a general rule, you can put on Classic Country Radio or D&B Radio and I'm a happy camper.

here's a random collection of music that has energy, feeling, or artistic strength that I've enjoyed during different periods:

Portishead
Modest Mouse
Bob Dylan
The Rolling Stones
Nirvana
Alice in Chains
2pac
Fleetwood Mac
The Wu Tang Clan
Otis Redding
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I like the grunge era of music quite a bit. I like to ponder what kind of music Kurt Cobain and Jimmy Hendrix would be making today if they were still around. How would it have evolved? Grew up in Georgia and couldn't escape country music so I have some of that as well. Mostly 80's bad boy country music, Waylon Jennings, Hank Jr., George Jones. Even went to high school with a country music star (Rhett Akins).

As far as listening regularly.... Anymore I usually listen to classical music radio station while driving. I can't stand other modern music stations because of their format. They radio-kill all songs. They are all on payola as they pretty much always have been.
 
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poweRob said:
I like the grunge era of music quite a bit. I like to ponder what kind of music Kurt Cobain and Jimmy Hendrix would be making today if they were still around. How would it have evolved? Grew up in Georgia and couldn't escape country music so I have some of that as well. Mostly 80's bad boy country music, Waylon Jennings, Hank Jr., George Jones. Even went to high school with a country music star (Rhett Akins).

As far as listening regularly.... Anymore I usually listen to classical music radio station while driving. I can't stand other modern music stations because of their format. They radio-kill all songs. They are all on payola as they pretty much always have been.
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I LOVE Grunge music. Grunge was rock's last true expression to break into the mainstream. (MM to a degree, but he used the already preexisting shock rock template from KISS, etc.) And it started as just a bunch of angry kids making noise in the PacNW. If you told Kurt Cobain that he was going to be as big as Paul McCartney, he woulda laughed in your face. I love that era. The sound. The pain. Cobain when he rasps a scream into the microphone is expressing the pain that everyone walks around with buried deep inside. Everyone has suffered loss, rejection, hypocrisy. Everyone would go back and change something in their life. Everyone feels like they were treated unfairly at least once. So, when Cobain's refrain of "I deny you!" as Teen Spirit fades out, that acknowledgement buried deep inside you gains life. I'm a big time grunge fan. Smashing Pumpkins, Melvins, Nirvana, AIC.

Do you get into punk at all?
 
Winston said:
I LOVE Grunge music. Grunge was rock's last true expression to break into the mainstream. (MM to a degree, but he used the already preexisting shock rock template from KISS, etc.) And it started as just a bunch of angry kids making noise in the PacNW. If you told Kurt Cobain that he was going to be as big as Paul McCartney, he woulda laughed in your face. I love that era. The sound. The pain. Cobain when he rasps a scream into the microphone is expressing the pain that everyone walks around with buried deep inside. Everyone has suffered loss, rejection, hypocrisy. Everyone would go back and change something in their life. Everyone feels like they were treated unfairly at least once. So, when Cobain's refrain of "I deny you!" as Teen Spirit fades out, that acknowledgement buried deep inside you gains life. I'm a big time grunge fan. Smashing Pumpkins, Melvins, Nirvana, AIC.

Do you get into punk at all?
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Me too. It was inspiring. The drop D tuning of guitars to fatten the sounds was just awesome. Got in my own band back then in 1993, 1994 or so and we were doing that drop D tuning. Alice in Chains was my all-time fav grunge rock especially after Dirt came out. The vocal melodies between Layne Staley and Jerry Cantrell were something else. But I have to say that Sound Garden's talent was incredible as well as shown on the Badmotorfinger release.

I was late tot he punk scene mostely due to where I grew up in rural south Ga. We were late to everything from fashion to music. They say we were so in the woods they have to pump in the sunshine. My best friend grew up in the bay area in Cali and when I met him he turned me on to the punk scene. I wished I had been in on it all along. When it started in the early 80's it was mostly kids thrashing on instruments, barely able to string together a single riff because they were just learning how to play and then just bitching into a microphone. It was awesome. Social D is the best of the best IMO. Greatest live show I've ever seen in any genre. White Light, White Heat, White Trash tour I saw in Atlanta.

I also liked Minor Threat a bit but not too deep into them. My best friend that turned me onto punk had a punk band in the bay area and when we met... later that's who I formed a band with in the early 90's.

My friend and I ended up moving from Georgia to Phoenix together and we started up a band out there as well. Had some good times. Weirdly enough, Ive had a falling out with music. I just don't give much of a rats ass anymore about it or finding new tunes. Every song I trip across on the radio sounds like people sitting in a room trying to write a politically correct poppy tune that they can sell for a TV commercial. No heart. No meat.

I do like some of the none mainstream hip-hop though. The stuff that isn't clones of the rest of it. Chance the Rapper is pretty out there and fun to watch.
 
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Yeah, I like stuff from pretty much all genres. Classical and opera I tend to only enjoy live, though.

When I exercise I listen to pop and hip-hop. In the car I like listening to country. Though for some reason I have been replaying this song a lot lately in the car. It was one of my favorites when it first came out.

 
I also like the recent country mashup from the CMAs.

 
BrewerBob said:
Yeah, I like stuff from pretty much all genres. Classical and opera I tend to only enjoy live, though.

When I exercise I listen to pop and hip-hop. In the car I like listening to country. Though for some reason I have been replaying this song a lot lately in the car. It was one of my favorites when it first came out.

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Of that era... it reminds me of two songs that I really liked back then...



And...

Slam by Onyx

 
BrewerBob said:
Early 90's hip-hop was fun.
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I was really into rap when it first became a genre. I liked Dana Dane, Newcleus and Houdini back then in the 80's. Also, not rap but mixing... I liked Art of Noise who were doing sampling before sampling was so easy to do.

 
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No love for acapela in this room?
 


Commix creates lush and vibrant DnB. It's uplifting and relaxing. You may enjoy, if you like evocative music and aren't turned off by a lack of lyrics.
 
I like modern rock

 
 
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bahahaha..

Who hates music?

That is a seriously funny meme.

I've only known 1 person who "hates music" He got subjected to some musical abuse as a child.. and he never came back around to music. he used to like one CD.. he liked Antichrist Superstar by Marilyn Manson.
 
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