What is your favorite type of music, favorite band?

[carlc]

What is your favorite type of music, favorite band? I listen to about anything and am not into just any one type of music now. I recently started listening to Spiderbait.

[imdeemvp]

I like all kinds of music (but no rap). I like hip-pop, jaz, some light rock, and spanish rock, salsa, merengue....lets dance!! :p

[harlequin]

I've got Big Bad Voodoo Daddy (big band jazz) on at the moment, but I like all sorts (definatly not rap nor R&B). I played saxophone in my high school jazz band, so that's where my main interest lies.

[carlc]

It is interesting that you both listed jazz. I have starting to listen to jazz some in the car on my xm radio. I really like it, especially some of the more contemporry jazz.

[PeTzZz]

I listen to drum and bass mainly, but I think that this kind of topic has been already.

:)

EDIT
OK, a little bit different:
http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1145&highlight=music

[sailor]

Blues, Blues-rock, Southern Boogie, Texas Music
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Ray Wylie Hubbard
Robert Earl Keen Jr
to name a few of the most recently listened to...I have modest collection of blues
BB King, Albert Collins, Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, Willie Dixon...and many more

[the_phet]

I listen to indie pop, like "Los planetas" or "la habitacion roja"... download something from them!

[Dewey]

Classic rock, psychadelic, and thrash.

Judas Priest, Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan, Slayer, and Jimi Hendrix to name a few.

[kosmosik]

http://www.konerec.net/cbs/mix/electro_classics_vol1.mp3

[radu5er]

Just got a CD by a band called Hayseed Dixie...A Tribute to AC/DC.

AC/DC done with a country flair.

Very interesting.... :D

[Myra]

Anything really, but Jazz and Drum and Bass are indeed the universe's gift to man. Ey, listening now to Matrix - Gap the Mind: even better - Drum & Bass with Jazz influences.

[diablo93]

KoRn, SlipKnot......anything that has some emotion in its music.

[Varkk]

http://www.audioscrobbler.com/user/Varkk/
That should take care of it. Maybe we should start up a Fedora Users group on audioscrobbler for us to all join. :p


[edit] Damn audioscrobbler seems to be down ATM. Hopefully it will be back up and running soon.

[wineexpert]

Hi Friends,
I like all type of music specially indie pop.Lets dance.
Thanks,
Harry

[blacklungfever]

fave bands: clash and new model army
but mostly i listen to all kinds of music that sounds good ranging from electronic to hardcore rock

[gcblig]

roght now i can't get enough Neil Young - old new anything

[SuperNu]

I will listen to almost any kind of music, but right now my main interests are punk and ska. Some of my favorites are...

Punk
Pennywise
Strung Out
Consumed
Rancid/Lars Frederiksen And The Bastards
NoFx
No Use For A Name

Ska
New York Ska-Jazz Ensamble
The Toasters
Let's Go Bowling
Dr Ring-Ding And The Senior Allstars
Less Than Jake
Mustard Plug

Plus too many more to list.

--SN

[nephila]

Anything electronic or break beat: Leftfield, The Crystal Method, Massive Attack, Faithless.

[killaweegee]

lynyrd skynyrd, linkin park, shinedown, thats what I've been listening too.

[roolegion]

The list of music here listed is, to me, the most deranged bands possible - I wouldn't even abuse my ears with the vast majority of the bands listed here ! That Hayseed Dixie sounds about the only interesting one and I guess I can listen to Neil Young.

That said, and it is my own opinion, I think that the following are better on your earlobes : Beethoven, Mozart, Strauss, Bach, etc ... you get the point. I can also listen to most of the 70's bands, and the early 80's.

This modern music really does inhale severely ... !

[killaweegee]

well I have to admit that I listen to Beethoven, Mozart, and Bach as well as some others from time to time, especially when I need to think. But then again from time to time it's wonderful to turn up some skynyrd :-D

[OberonKenObi]

Hi all

Just about anything but 'specially Aussie Bands Butterfingers, Green Day and Missy Higgins. Pommy Band Queen (all of it, yes even Flash Gordon!!) gets a mention as all time favorite though.

Regards

Allan

[killaweegee]

Wasn't Silver Chair from Aussi?

[roolegion]

Yes, Silver Chair was from Australia - I always thought that Green Day were from England though ?

[Varkk]

Californians aren't they?
*goes to Greenday.com*

yup, California it is

[awdac]

The Old 97's

[roolegion]

Green Day came from Callifornia and made a song called "American Idiot" ?? My my ...

[megaprogman]

Mostly Industrial

Sample Bands:
Front Line Assembly
KMFDM
VNV Nation
Massiv In Mensch
Slick Idiot
Atari Teenage Riot

Some other genres as well
I have my one token punk song (goldfinger - open your eyes)
some 80s underground (sisters of mercy, siouxsie and the banshees)
and a few other things (Leonard Cohen, Oingo Boingo, Einsturzende Naubauten, Gary Numan, etc)

I also take part in two internet radio stations.

www.rantradio.com (three streams, one ebm/synthpop (it claims it plays industrial, but only rarely), one punk (know little about this one), and one talk (really good)
www.nocturnalradio.com Somewhat eclectic, but mostly industrial with some punk and other stuff thrown in

[luibh]

im a fan of mxpx and noiseratchet

mxpx.com
http://www.mp3.com/noise-ratchet/artists/471638/songs.html

[astronoman]

Mary Chapin Carpenter.
Awesome.

[Smitty]

I'm mostly into 90's grunge and alternative music. Here are some of my favorite bands:

Belly/Tanya Donelly
Veruca Salt/Nina Gordon
The Pixies/Frank Black
Sonic Youth
Juliana Hafield/Blake Babies/Some Girls
The Muffs
7 Year Bi*ch
The Gits
Social Distortion
The Sundays
The Posies
Teenage Fanclub
The Breeders
Throwing Muses/Kristen Hersch
Delays
Evanescence
Elastica
Face to Face
Gin Blossoms
The Refreshments
10,000 Maniacs/Natalie Merchant
Letters to Cleo
L7
Liz Phair
The Ramones
Quicksand

[Steve T]

My fav at the min is: Brand New - Play Crack The Sky

anything acoustic guitar for me, but i will listen to most things apart from HIPHOP and that kinda stuff

[carbo18]

Pretty much anything. But not rap (Beastie Boys exempt) and main stream pop (Britney, Beyonce... i.e. trash)

I especially like alternative rock. I do also enjoy 80's 90's music (alternative and punk). But I also like Jazz, Classical, Some New Age(Enya), Celtic, Classic Rock (AC/DC, Rush, The Cult...)... Too much too name...

But sadly I'm finding a lot of the new music... not very innovative. There are few exceptions though. Hopefully it will change.

[Clunixchit]

Good ELECTRONIC MUSIC: trance techno goa psytrance psychadelic :)

[greatscot]

AC/DC, Aerosmith, The Eagles and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Can you guess how old I am? :)

[killaweegee]

hmm that would be hard to say.... if you were a teenager in those bands prime then you are around 40's to 50's, but if your like myself I just turned 21 and not a day goes by withouth listening to some song by AC/DC, Aerosmith, Eagles, or Skynyrd. :-D

[greatscot]

I'm 41, good guess. I was unaware that young people still listen to these bands.
I guess good taste never goes out of style ;)

[foolish]

For the music lovers out there, if you're not too worried about your privacy, try www.audioscrobbler. com

It allows you to install a plugin to your music player that will upload stats about your listening habits, and create a list of your favorite music, allow you to create groups and charts. There are plugins available from Rhythmbox, xmms and muine that I know of.

[twoply]

Woo, another RR fan!

All depends what mood I'm in, although it's mainly punk, industrial, synth or whatever.

Wednesday Night Heroes are pretty awesome. Seen them live last night.

[Varkk]

For the music lovers out there, if you're not too worried about your privacy, try www.audioscrobbler. com

It allows you to install a plugin to your music player that will upload stats about your listening habits, and create a list of your favorite music, allow you to create groups and charts. There are plugins available from Rhythmbox, xmms and muine that I know of.

I posted about that on page 1 of this thread. Maybe if people posted links to their profiles...
http://www.audioscrobbler.com/user/Varkk/

[PeTzZz]

I posted about that on page 1 of this thread. Maybe if people posted links to their profiles...
http://www.audioscrobbler.com/user/Varkk/
Now see this (http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=44768).

[Varkk]

Just joined, must have missed that threa somehow...

[dickinsd]

Absolutely Anything, well pretty much.

I have lost loads of my MP3's recently. I purchased 'cheap' DVD media. burned them all to about 8 DVD's and now I have lost anything from 0-maybe 20% of the contents of each DVD due to dodgy media :(

Oh well.

Anyway, back when I had the lot of them on my computer (was using Windows...) I had every single MP3 loaded in the library, all set to play randomly, that is how I like it, a complete mix of music, different artists, different genres, different decades.
Drum'n' Bass - to - Celtic Moods, White Stripes - to - Eminem, Evanessence - to - Mammas & Pappas

I will listen to almost anything.

When I am in the car though, I do tend to go for tracks that have a heavy Bass line in them, as I got this thing for Bass.

Dave

[OberonKenObi]

Sorry for delay replying, been on a small Holiday.

Well well well, then Green Day get my vote for inclusion into Australia then.
Lol taking the piss out of the Septics (no matter who does it) grants naturalisation as far as im concerned.
Isn't Calaifornia part of Australia anyways?
My name is George Bush, I live in a big White House.

Regards
Allan

[roolegion]

I thought that California was being reclaimed by the Mexicans ! Though, I wouldn't mind having some of those redwoods around - they sure do look cool.

Going through my old CD collection, I have found my Queen's Greatest Hits Vol. 1 - and each time I listen to Bohemian Rhapsody, I get this urge to thump my head on the dash of my car !

[tajidinabd]

well some of my favs are hiphop esp like Talib Kweli , The Roots , Common that sort of hiphopthat has uplifting message. I see hiphop not very popular with my fellow linux users :P Also like Prince and even though im young like Motown cause im from Detroit so gotta love Motown.

Like some that jazz like Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, and some contemporary jazz like Ken Navarro.

[egr]

Ногу Свело!

[jtang613]

I've been listenning to a lot of Rage Against The Machine lately. One of the few groups with intelligent lyrics and a socially responsible message.

[McDunk_Monkey]

KoRn, SlipKnot......anything that has some emotion in its music.

Then do yourself a favor - throw out the Top 40 nu-metal tripe and buy yourself a copy of Deftones White Pony or Around The Fur. You'll never look at Korn the same way again. ;)

As for my tastes, I'm a total rivethead. Hardcore, genuine industrial and post-punk is where it's at for me.

Examples:

Skinny Puppy (of course :cool: )
Download
Throbbing Gristle
Nine Inch Nails
occasional Marylin Manson
Chemlab
Liars

[merengue]

What is your favorite type of music, favorite band? I listen to about anything and am not into just any one type of music now. I recently started listening to Spiderbait.
Merengue is my passion!

Everynight when I go to sleep, this is my prayer, "Forever and ever Merengue, Amen!".

Unfortunately this music is at the verge of disaperance.

Most if not all of the Latin music main outlets like "Sony Tropical" are controlled by Cubans and Puertoricans which by default hate Merengue. They like to push in everyway they can the more so called distinguish salsa. Cubans are the money makers owning every single spanish radio stations in the US, and puertoricans have nothing better to do then to waste all day playing what they like on a radio stations and forcing everybody else to swallow salsa one way or the other.

In my eyes, Merengue is much more apealling and has proven itself to have great power of penetration. People just get hook on its melodies. But Merengue as a music and a culture can't survive on its own the organized attact of the media.

Even is Merengue goes away today and I never hear it again, I will always be proud of it. It put salsa on the shadow since late 1970s up until early 1990s. That is more than a decade, something that no other type of music in the latin world have been able to do to salsa. Thumbs up Merengue!

Now that you all had a taste of Latino Dynamics, I must sign off.

chiquicha... Tambora y Guira are my rice and beans!

[sycamorex]

Hello,
what about Steve Vai, Planet X, Dream Theater, Liquid Tension Experiment?
There's also Miles Davis:)

[Nels664868]

Rock from the 60's to now
AC/DC,Beatles,Black Sabbath,Deep Purple, Jimi Hendrix,Metallica,Offspring, Pink Floyd, Soundgarden, Styx

Comedy
Weird Al Yankovic, Cheech & Chong, Frank Zappa, Tim Wilson

All my CD's are ripped to harddisk (over 3000 files)

[merengue]

Is your computer a compaq laptop v2xxx series?

IF it is, how do you like it?
Does it run linux well?

Thanks,
Manny

Hello,
what about Steve Vai, Planet X, Dream Theater, Liquid Tension Experiment?
There's also Miles Davis:)

[Zigzagcom]

Reveille, Sloth, Passport, Skrape, Delibe, Tschaikovsky, Puccini, Pink Floyd, Ultraspank...
Just about anything, but certainly not Britney Spears (your average pop). JazzFusion, Hard Rock
and Classical rank tops with me.

[Firewing1]

I'm rap / hip hop / R&B..... jayz, chris brown, lil john, sean paul, missy elliott, etc...
then again, there's always the exception. I also enjoy techno, basically anything with a lould beat on a subwoofer :D
edit: heh, it seems im the only rap-loving person out here... Every one else has "anything, but not rap"
:p I can't get enough of it...
Firewing1

[kona0197]

I'm into stuff like Disturbed, Metallica, KoRn, Linkin Park, Sevendust, Incubus, System Of A Down, Queensryche, Rush, Megadeth and Rage just to name a few.

I don't like country, hip-hop or rap at all.

>>>>I've been listenning to a lot of Rage Against The Machine lately. One of the few groups with intelligent lyrics and a socially responsible message.<<<<

Agreed.

[sycamorex]

Is your computer a compaq laptop v2xxx series?

IF it is, how do you like it?
Does it run linux well?

Thanks,
Manny


It's not
It's Acer 5020, and I'm beginning to regret installing 64-bit version of Fedora (software compability issues). It could run a bit faster, but generally I don't complain.

[condorito]

I like Rush (Lee, Lifeson, Peart)

[nandowong]

Punjabi is my favorite. Although I cant understand what they are saying

[thedude]

Blues, Blues-rock, Southern Boogie, Texas Music
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Ray Wylie Hubbard
Robert Earl Keen Jr
to name a few of the most recently listened to...I have modest collection of blues
BB King, Albert Collins, Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, Willie Dixon...and many more
a man after my own tastes. however you left out Billy Gibbons (zztop) and Johnny Winter. I love that hard core texas blues sound. What is it about Texas that pumps out all these fantasic guitarists?

[sailor]

thedude, I stand corrected. I have a many Johnny Winter and ZZ Top albums (I think I have nearly everything of both).
They do rate at the top of my all time favorites too...:).

I don't know why it is but it is great party music, must be the laidback lifestyle, beautiful women, great BBQ, warm weather and lots of beer! :p

[nlkrio]

I like good beer music!

[thedude]

thedude, I stand corrected. I have a many Johnny Winter and ZZ Top albums (I think I have nearly everything of both).
They do rate at the top of my all time favorites too...:).

I don't know why it is but it is great party music, must be the laidback lifestyle, beautiful women, great BBQ, warm weather and lots of beer! :p
'oh baby why don't you make me some.....of your son's famous bbq!'

btw, they got the annual lowcountry blues bash going on in my town of charleston, sc this weeknd thru next weekend. There's a couple of guys from texas that I plan on going to see, Randy Mcallister (true roadhouse originals) and Chris Duarte (power blues guitar and band). ever hear of them?

[Blackspyder]

hardcore metal - soulfly, throwdown, bury your dead, slipknot, any band just gimme that double bass

[r1348]

Black metal, doom metal, drone, ambient, some heavy metal classics.
Ain't it politically correct? Well, I don't care.

Ah and some classic music too, I find Orff and Mussorgsky (among the others) very inspiring.

[prosen]

mostly rock / pop .. almost all u cud say .. except death metal kinda stuff ..
these artists/bands r my fav :
Bryan Adams, Linkin Park, Pink Floyd, U2, Joe Satriani, MLTR, Boyzone, etc. ..
I am more inclined towards tv series music nowadays .. especially Smallville and OC osts ..

[Zyqwux]

Entombed and Slayer are the best bands in the world.

[Scytale]

Entombed are pretty good, especially Clandestine and Left Hand Path, I'm not the biggest Slayer fan though, Hell Awaits is a great album, the rest is pretty meh.

I have rather varied taste, though I really enjoy black metal, no other genre comes close to that specific BM atmosphere. My favorite bands would be: Limbonic Art, Burzum, Beherit, Summoning and Judas Iscariot.

The non metal bands I'm into would be stuff like Pink Floyd, The Mars Volta (saw them live about a fortnight ago, great gig), Smashing Pumpkins and Uriah Heep.

[shep]

I listen to loads of stuff - hip hop, rock, indie, metal , electronic, folk etc etc...
These guys too:
www.myspace.com/villanovascotland
Pretty good. ;)

[Zyqwux]

Entombed are pretty good, especially Clandestine and Left Hand Path, I'm not the biggest Slayer fan though, Hell Awaits is a great album, the rest is pretty meh.

I have rather varied taste, though I really enjoy black metal, no other genre comes close to that specific BM atmosphere. My favorite bands would be: Limbonic Art, Burzum, Beherit, Summoning and Judas Iscariot.

The non metal bands I'm into would be stuff like Pink Floyd, The Mars Volta (saw them live about a fortnight ago, great gig), Smashing Pumpkins and Uriah Heep.
Change that "Iscarot" to "Priest" instead. :)

[Scytale]

Priest never did much for me Halford is a good vocalist, but most of their material is pretty ordinary.

[daneel971]

Not in order:
Beatles, Clash, Talking Heads, Patti Smith
Nick Cave, Violent Femmes, Billy Bragg
10.000 Maniacs, Walkabouts, REM
Sarah Mclachlan, Barenaked Ladies, Cowboy Junkies
The Men They Couldn't Hang, Waterboys (till 1989)
die Aerzte, Husker Du

[daverj]

Bob Dylan is the standard by which I judge all music.

[tw56]

That is a question with an ever changing answer. I have a long history of listening to music probably as long or longer than most here. I recently started fooling around with FC linux PHP MYSQL and now I can give an ever changing answer. http://tokko.kicks-ass.net/t20.html <-The Kicks-ass Top 20.

[sailor]

Priest never did much for me Halford is a good vocalist, but most of their material is pretty ordinary.
Sorry I have to disagree, JP was one of my favorites when I was growing up.

Judas Priest is/was a pivotal point in the start of the metal rock age...are you sure your not talking about their newer stuf?
How about "Sad Wings of Destiny", "Stained Class","RockaRolla", "Hell Bent for Leather"...these records were unmatched in their day...I saw them back when Halford cuold still hit the high notes and hold it forever...:)

[ComplexNumber]

Not in order:
Beatles, Clash, Talking Heads, Patti Smith
Nick Cave, Violent Femmes, Billy Bragg
10.000 Maniacs, Walkabouts, REM
Sarah Mclachlan, Barenaked Ladies, Cowboy Junkies
The Men They Couldn't Hang, Waterboys (till 1989)
die Aerzte, Husker Du
i'm surprised that you haven't listed the velvets in there considering almost all the ones that you've listed were heavily influenced by them - REM, 10000 manics, patti smith, waterboys, talking heads, clash, nick cave, violent femmes, cowboy junkies were all massively influenced by the velvet underground.

[Daniel114]

Primal Scream, Joy Division, The Smiths, Stone Roses, Jesus and Mary Chain etc......

Saw The Decemberists last, awesome live band

[steve1961]

Everything from the Tubes, Clash, Pistols, PIL, Smiths, through to Lisa Stansfield, Motown stuff in general, and with the odd bit of Sinatra thrown in. I also like some of the 'unknown' punk and metal bands that I come across on sites such as magnatune.com.

[Al3xanR0]

By far Gospel (just read my sig and you'll see why), I grew up listening to Rubbadub music (Reggae, some call it lovers rock but is by no means is it dance hall music which is in many respects the equivalent to the RAP music of today) last but least jazz. When the mood is right then I'll light some candles and insence, then unearth my Luther collection (RnB has therapeutic affects), hey geeks need loving too. Yeah I know TMI, heh