Music

[Chopper]

Just don't grow up I refuse.

[Chopper]

Yeah, I figured you were old, crusty and ancient! LOL, jk. You just threw me off with your video game thread, cause gaming is typically a sign of youth, or relative youth at least (i'm getting old and crusty myself...well, I've always been crusty).

Bart

Old, crusty, and ancient my ***....five in da eye when I meet you

[Cobrajet]

Yeah, I figured you were old, crusty and ancient!
Bart

Hey, I resemble that remark!!

[johnnyapollo]

I listen to pretty much everything but I do have my favorites - those are mostly old SKA bands, pre-80's punk bands and early 80's new wave. I like old school rap (pre MTV Raps) and can't stand much of the new Hip Hop that's being peddled. I also like old lounge and acid jazz quite a bit. I've got an extensive collection.

-- John

[Triathlete]

Eclectic you say?...try "pickin' on Pink Floyd" a bluegrass tribute.
You ain't heared music till' ya hear "wish you were here & comfortably numb" played on a banjo.

Or try some Apocilyptica....Metalica (and others) done on chello!

My music collection has everything rock in it...
Some favorites (it would take way to much time and space to put them all up)
Punk...Dead Kennedys, Replacements, Husker Du, Sex Pistols, Ramones, Iggy Pop (Stooges),...
Current rock...5 finger death punch, Slip Knot, Snot, Lamb of God, Tool,...
And pretty much everything in between including the classic stuff (Zep, Floyd, Scorpions, Priest, Maiden,...)

[kobie]

So I'll stand up as one who is biased towards contemporary rap/ hip hop/ R&B- here goes:
New stuff I like- Jay Z (American Gangster, "Roc Boys"), Kanye, Talib Kweli, Fort Minor, Outkast, Andre 3000 collaboration efforts, NERD, any Neptunes production, Rihanna, Beyonce, any New Orleans Bounce music, any Ludacris collaboration but nothing on his albums, The Roots, Erykah Badu, Kirk Franklin, Timbaland productions (JT, Nelly Furtado, Missy Elliot)

Old Stuff I like- Public Enemy, Run DMC, Ice-T, The D.O.C, Parliament/ Funkadelic/ Bootsy Collins, PRINCE (and Madhouse), Camp Lo, Clipse, Pharcyde, Meshell NdegeOcello, Kill Bill Soundtrack (is genius), James Brown, Micheal Jackson, LL Cool J (and his battle raps), Art of Noise

Other Stuff- Foo Fighters ("The Pretender!"), all Linkin Park, Kelly Clarkson's new album, Alanis, J Timberlake (don't shoot!), Herbie Hancock (love "The Egg"), GnR, Imogen Heap, Miles, Danny Elfman, Jungle electronica (Goldie, Bjork, Apex Twin, Massive Attack- made the theme song for the show "House"), Rolling Stones, Saliva, Brand New Heavies

My lists are long but I rotated these and others in and out of my CD changer when it was working. I used to listen to more Jazz but for some reason it bores when when driving the VX.

Kudos to those with the super wide range of musical tastes. I'm going to look up some of these people and have a listen!

[spaceCADETzoom]

I think I've had phases in my life. There was angry gangsta rap phase. There was a short snobby underground hiphop phase. Actualyl...those were my silly highschool phases. I just realized that I was pretty eclectic in my entire life outside of the time in HS where what I was listening to was dictated by what I thought was cool.

Nowadays I'm really drawn to anything acoustic. I was raised on a lot of folk and singer/songwriter stuff by my dad. I'm into a lot of contemporary forebearers of that now. I like pretty much everything (from rap to pop to a heay emphasis on classic rock)...but often get tired of manufactured stuff. I think I often lean to country but am constantly depressed by the manufactured sound out of nashville and country stations. I do like that there's the occasional exception of actual guitar work and vocals in there, though. Perhaps thats why I lean to it...sometimes theres a pretense, at least, of bluegrass and other basic sounds coming from country.

Ha...I don't make much sense..stream of thought all wonky.

[CrnCnn]

Any one like Little brother or Common. GURU. Lupe Fiasco.

[JHarris1385]

Any one like Little brother or Common. GURU. Lupe Fiasco.

Lupe isnt half bad. For rap I like Clipse and The Pack

[Ldub]

Yeah, I figured you were old, crusty and ancient! LOL, jk. You just threw me off with your video game thread, cause gaming is typically a sign of youth, or relative youth at least (i'm getting old and crusty myself...well, I've always been crusty).

Bart

Say WHAT??? At fifty I'm still gaming...Ps3, Xbox & gamecube...yeah I know, no 360 or wii. Mostly racing, hot shots/outlaw golf, Onimusha, Devil may cry, with a few fps thrown in for good measure.
Just so y'all don't think I sit around & listen to Pink Floyd on the banjo all day, I'll flesh out my list with, but not limited to...(list limited by memory)
(* indicates presence @ live performance)

Stones, Hendrix, Who*, Floyd*(watching "Delicate Sound of Thunder" dvd is like being there), Buck Cherry, J Cash, W Nelson, Patsy Cline, JL Hooker, Doors, Dylan, Vivaldi, ZZ Top, Steely Dan, Warren Zevon, Paul Simon, Chris Isaak, Boomtown Rats, Art of Noise, Dick Dale*, Eagles, White Stripes, Butthole Surfers, Jim Carrol, Primus, Aerosmith*, Alice Cooper*, Kiss*(hey, it was the seventies), Saliva, Nirvana, Spin Doctors, Joan Osborne, Tracy Chapman, Counting Crows, Smashing Pumpkins, Tina Turner, Collective Soul, Cheap Trick*, Tom Petty, Kid Rock, Bilnk 182, Iggy Pop, Green Day, Everclear, Cracker, 3 Doors Down, Alannah Myles, Saigon Kick, Ramones, Santana, Sinatra, Blur, Boston, Peter Gabriel, Talking Heads, Beatles, INXS, April Wine*, Dire Straits, U2, Romantics, G-n-R, Blondie, Scorpions, Judas Priest, Pat Benatar, Bottle Rockets, Ted Nugent, Procal Harum, Janis Joplin, Bad Co, Great White, REM, The Fixx, The Cars, Cure, Eurythmics, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Berlin, Tone Loc, Enigma, Patrick Ohearn, Pretenders, Styx, Elton John, Lou Reed, Patti Smith, Jeff Beck, Cream, Byrds, J T, Carly Simon, Stevie Wonder, Robert Cray*, J Airplane, Marvin Gaye, Ray Charles, Neil Young, James Brown, Head East, Clapton, Canned Heat, Billy Thorpe, Elvis, Elvis Costello, AC/DC, Nazereth...
I could go on, that's not the half of it, & there are quite a few live performances that I can't remember right now for whatever reason.

[ZEUS]

This thread makes me want to dig up some of those CDs I haven't heard in awhile: Prong, Apex Theory, Violent Femmes, Coal Chamber, Credence, Bush, Escape From LA soundtrack, Rorshach Test, etc....

SIDENOTE: My Mom worked at a recording studio in San Francisco in the 60's. So she dated John Kay from Steppenwolf and partied with Janis Joplin... that explains a bit about how I came out, right?!

[johnnyapollo]

I'll go ahead and list the main bands I tend to listen to (list if from iTunes and is pretty much what I have loaded on the iPod):

ABC, Adam Ant, Aimee Mann, Arested Development, Art Pepper, the Band, Bauhaus, Beatles, Beck, Ben Folds, Berlin, Beta Band, Big Country, Billie Holiday, Billy Idol, Bjork, Black Flag, Blink 182, Blondie, Blue Nile, Blue Oyster Cult, Bob Marley, Bob Mould, Boomtown Rats, Bootsy Collins, Bow Wow Wow, Breeders, Brian Eno, Brian Setzer, Brian Wilson, Brothers Johnson, Bryan Ferry, Buddy Guy, Buffalo Springfield, Burning Spear, Butthole Surfers, Buzzcocks, Byrds, Camper Van Beethoven, Can, Captain Beefheart, Captain Sensible, Cars, Charles Mingus, Cheap Trick, Chet Atkins, Chris Isaak, the Church, Circle Jerks, the Clash, Cocteau Twins, Coldplay, Collective Soul, Colourfield, Combustible Edison, Comsat Angles, Cracker, Cramps, Crash Test Dummies, Cream, Crowded House, Culture Club, Cure, Curtis Mayfield, Damned, Dandy Livingstone, Darkness, Dave Matthews, David Bowie, David Byrne, db's, De La Soul, Dead Boys, Dead Kennedys Dead Milkman, Death Cab for Cutie, Dee-lite, Depeche Mode, Derrick Morgan, Desmond Dekker, Devo, Dexy's Midnight Runners, Dickies, Digable Planets, Dinosaur Jr, Doc Watson, Don Drummond, Donovan, Doors, Doves, Dr. John, Dread Zeppelin, Drivin-n-Cryin, Duran Duran, Dust Brothers, Echo & the Bunnymen, Edwyn Collins, Electrafixion, Elvis Costello, Elvis Presley, English Beat, Erasure, Ethiopians, Eurythmics, Everclear, Faith No More, the Fall, Fear, Fergie, Finn Brothers, Fishbone, Fix, Fleshtones, Flock of Seagulls, Foo Fighters, Frank Black, Frank Zappa, Frente!, Fun Boy Three, Funkadelic, Gary Numan, General Public, Generation X, George Clinton, George Thorogood, Gipsy Kings, the Gladiators, Go Go's, Go West, Godfathers, Gov't Mule, Grace Jones, Grand Funk Railroad, Green Day, Gregory Isaacs, Guadalcanal Diary, Guided by Voices, Gumbo, Guns N' Roses, Gustav Mahler, Haircut 100, Hank Williams Sr, Harry Nilsson, Wawkwind, Heaven 17, Henry Rollins, Hepcat, Hoodoo Gurus, Hot Tuna, Howlin' Wolf, Human Leagure, Husker Du, Ian McCulloch, Icehouse, Icicle Works, Iggy Pop, Indigo Girls, INXS, Israel Vibration, Jackie Mittoo, the Jam, James, James Gang, Jane's Addiction, Japan, Jefferson Airplane, Jesus Jones, Jethro Tull, Jim Croche, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Jimmy Cliff, Jimmy Page, Joan Jett, Joe Cocker, Joe Jackson, Joe Strummer, John Coltrane, John Lennon, John Prine, Johnny Cash, Joy Division, Judas Priest, Julan Cope, Kate Bush, Killers, Killing Joke, Kim Wilde, King, King Crimson, Kinks, Kiss, Kraftwerk, Krisin Hersh, Kruder & Dorfmeister, L7, Ladytron, Laurel Aitken, Led Zeppelin, Lee Perry, Lene Lovitch, Leonard Cohen, Les Paul, Lester Bangs, Level 42, Little Feat, Living Colour, Lords of the New Church, Los Lobos, Lou Reed, Love and Rockets, Madness, Magazine, Man or Astroman, Marvin Gaye, Matisyahu, Mathew Sweet, MC5, Meatloaf, Melodians, Men without Hats, Michelle Shocked, Midnight Oil, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Mike Oldfield, Miles Davis, Minutemen, Missing Persons, Mission of Burma, Modern English, Moody Blues, Morphine, Morrisey, Mudhoney, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, 999, Nazareth, Neil Young, Neville Brothers, New Order, New York Dolls, Nick Lowe, Nico, NIN, Nina Hagen, Nirvanna, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Oasis, Ohio Players, Oingo Boingo, OMD, Orb, Orbital, Otis Redding, Outkast, Parliament and Pfunk, Patsy Cline, Paul McCartney, Paul Weller, Pavement, Pearl Jam, Pet Shop Boys, Peter Frampton, Peter Gabriel, Peter Murphy, Peter Tosh, Pharoah Sanders, Philip Glass, Phyllis Dillon, Pietasters, Pink Floyd, Pixies, Plimsouls, Police, Pretenders, Primus, Prince, Prince Buster, Prince Jammy, Psychedelic Furs, Public Image Ltd, Pylon, Queen, REM, Radiohead, Ramones, Ravi Shankar, Red Hot Chili Peppers, REplacements, Reverand Horton Heat, Rezillos, Rick Wakeman, Robyn Hitchcock, Roches, Rocket from the Tombs, Rolling Stones, Rollins Band, Romantics, Romeo Void, Roxy Music, Run DMC, Rush, Rusted Root, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Saint Etienne, Samhain, Santana, Sarah McLachlan, Sasha, Scientists, Scritti Politti, Seal, Selector, Sex Pistols, Sham 69, Shonen Knife, Simple Minds, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Sisters of Mercy, Skatalites, Slits, Sly & the Family Stone, Small Faces, Smashing Pumpkins, Smithereens, Smiths, Sneaker Pimps, Social Distortion, Soft Cell, Sonic Yough, Soundgarden, Spandau Ballet, Special, Split Enz, Squeeze, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Steppenwolf, Stereolab, Stiff Little Fingers, Sting, Stone Temple Pilots, Stranglers, Stray Cats, Style Council, SubHumAns, Sugar, Sugarcubes, Suzanne Vega, 311, Talking Heads, Tears for Fears, Television, Tenacious D, Terence Trent D'arby, Thelonious Monk, They Might Be Giants, Thievery Corporation, Thomas Dolby, Thompson Twins, Three Dog Night, Throwing Muses, 'Til Tuesday, Tito Puente, Toasters, Tom Petty, Tom Tom Club, Tom Verlain, Tom Waits, Tool, Toots and the Maytals, Tori Amos, Tracy Chapman, Traffic, Tragically Hip, Traveling Wilburys, Tubes, U2, UB40, Ultravox, Vangelis, Velvet Undergroud, Verve, Violent Femmes, 101'ers, Wall of Voodoo, War, Warren Zevon, Was (Not Was), Ween, Weezer, Wendy Alleyne, Wham, White Stripes, Wilco, Wire, Woody Guthrie, X, X-Ray Specs, XTC, Yardbirds, Yazoo, Yello, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Yes, Yo La Tengo, Ziggy Marley

The list is pretty extensive but each group serves a different purpose.

-- John

[nfpgasmask]

Say WHAT??? At fifty I'm still gaming...Ps3, Xbox & gamecube...yeah I know, no 360 or wii. Mostly racing, hot shots/outlaw golf, Onimusha, Devil may cry, with a few fps thrown in for good measure.

That's cool Dub, I'm still on PS2, no Wii or 360 or PS3 for me...yet. I think I might pick up a PS3 once we move into the new house though.

Bart

[Chopper]

This thread makes me want to dig up some of those CDs I haven't heard in awhile: Prong, Apex Theory, Violent Femmes, Coal Chamber, Credence, Bush, Escape From LA soundtrack, Rorshach Test, etc....

SIDENOTE: My Mom worked at a recording studio in San Francisco in the 60's. So she dated John Kay from Steppenwolf and partied with Janis Joplin... that explains a bit about how I came out, right?!

I've seen Prong like ten times, (N. Jersey)Whose fist is this anyway?

[CrnCnn]

To those of you who like SRV, Clapton and Hendrix. You should check out Indigenous if you havent already. Good stuff.