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Bit Blot => Off-Topic => Topic started by: Cobar on February 21, 2007, 06:48:43 pm
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So, what kinda music do people dig around here?
Im a generic finnish metalhead. CoB, Dimmu borgir, disturbed, lamb of god and that kinda stuff. Some grateful dead when i want chill out.
Let conversation ensue.
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Anything that has no lyrics, mainly Techno and Electronica, which is gotten from random friends with say, Daft Punk, or Videogame music, which I get from Galbadia Hotel. I also like Adam Sandler and Weird Al Yankovic.
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Call me slow, but i just found out about an amazing instrument. I dont know how i have missed something so brilliant.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwqLyeq9OJI
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I listen to lots of everything. Lately, mostly game soundtracks for some reason. Usually, a lot of metal, and a lot of obscure poppy rock stuff nobody's ever heard of. And lots and lots of jazz. Real jazz, that is, not that shitty garbage they try to pass off as jazz these days. Dave Brubeck, Stan Getz, Oscar Peterson, Cal Tjader, Monk, Coltrane, Parker, Blakey, Cannonball Adderly, etc.
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Call me slow, but i just found out about an amazing instrument. I dont know how i have missed something so brilliant.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwqLyeq9OJI
It's the most favorite instrument of all the physicists I know. ;)
I mostly listen to (German) Indierock. And other Rockstuff like Madrugada o the Eels.
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Argh! i was watching MTV, and this song was on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzA0nG_PurQ .
Now it has burned itself into my mind! I plead of you, post something that makes it go away!!
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Some of my favorites I've been listening to recently:
Hmm.. most of this stuff influenced the Aquaria music in different and subtle ways I think.
Nightwish
The Eels
The Talking Heads (David Byrne)
Tegan&Sara
Ladytron
Meatloaf
Loreena McKennitt
Paul Simon - Graceland
Ulrich Schnauss
and... pretty much all game music ever written. :D
Some youtube links:
Bat Out of Hell (http://youtube.com/watch?v=Cg5yNqIeLb4)
Nightwish - Nemo (http://youtube.com/watch?v=xAKf1gTx7qM)
Nightwish - Ghost Love Score Live (http://youtube.com/watch?v=C8GOHJAnVh4)
Oh also:
Onmyoza (http://youtube.com/watch?v=VWFz8_dwMQ0)
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I dig anything from The Raconteurs rock and roll like alternative stuff till The Legion Of Doom metal stuff. Nightwish, yeah, me likes! Definately! :)
Bands like Nickelback are awesome too, but a bit softer off course. ;)
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Well, as I said in the introduce yourself thread, quite a diverse range of artists and bands, like, but not limited to:
At The Gates
Opeth
Venetian Snares
Boards of Canada
J.S. Bach
Edvard Grieg
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Mogwai
Pearl Jam
Anathema
Tenhi (the best Finnish band I've ever come across)
Jimi Hendrix
Nile
Pink Floyd
Thee Silver Mt. Zion & Tra-la-la Band
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I listen to a pretty eclctic range of music. Rock, metal, funk, jazz, anything. Currently listening to a mix of Style Council, Mr. Bungle and David Bowie. Awesome :P
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Just keep country away from me. Keep it to thyself, please.
I've actually been listening a lot to Postal Service and Death Cab and Decemberists and the soundtrack to WoW: Burning Crusade.
I'm an indie kid of sorts, but I can occasionally go from White Stripes to Gnarles Barkley to Linkin Park to Cake to Jack Johnson to Smashing Pumpkins to Beck to Minus the Bear to Yeah Yeah Yeah's to Bloc Party to whatever else.
One game that's gotten myself into more music is Guitar Hero II. Huzzah for War Pigs by Black Sabbath!
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And other Rockstuff like Madrugada o the Eels.
Yeah, Madrugada has some awesome songs. I usually don't like their ballads, but I do like songs like "Life In The City", really good band!
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Hmmm, I like certain songs from all sorts of genres. I think I like music from games and anime best though. Techno can be pretty good.
One song I really like was in a catagory called "melodic speed metal" :o
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Dragonforce (http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ywxm6zLEjFY)?
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Dragonforce (http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ywxm6zLEjFY)?
Herman Li is a god among Chinese with hair longer than three feet. I still prefer Through Fire and Flames, though that video is amazing. XD
I listen to...well, mostly anything. Galbadia Hotel is my illegitimate lover, but...I'd probably say classic rock is big on my list.
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Dragonforce (http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ywxm6zLEjFY)?
How very cheesy. ;D
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Hey, no one listens to Dragonforce for depth of lyrics. =P
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I never listen to lyrics, couple of exceptions here and there though. I just don't like guitar wanking.
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Dragonforce scares me. They're sort of awesome, and sort of amazingly horrible all at once. I don't know how that's possible, but they've proven it.
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Dragonforce is awesome, their extremely fast paced music is so extremely funny. Did you ever take a look at their drummer, that dude is drumming so damn fast it's crazy hehehe. I really like bands that don't take themselves too serious.
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Diablo is a pretty good finnish band, i just recently bought their new album, and it rocks ^-^
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Dragonforce is awesome, their extremely fast paced music is so extremely funny. Did you ever take a look at their drummer, that dude is drumming so damn fast it's crazy hehehe. I really like bands that don't take themselves too serious.
If you've seen the latest music video, I'm not sure you can say they take themselves TOO seriously. I mean, the solo is set to the theme of Sam and Herman playing Street Fighter with shredding instead of Hadokens. XD
On an entirely different note...Dream Theater. Most bands stick to one basic theme or emotion you can generalize for all their music. Metallica is angry; Dashboard/Simple Plan is whiney; Evanescence is goth; Dragonforce is "HOMGHERMANLIMEGAKICASSSOLOMEEDLYMEEDLYMEEDLYMEEEEEEEEEEEE," etc. Dream Theater is one of those bands that you CAN'T do that with. They're anything but cookie cutter; lot of interesting beat switches and musicality to their stuff. Yes, of course they have the solos, but they run the gamut of beautiful and uplifting ("Surrounded") to sad and emotional ("Space-Dye Vest") to borderline emo ("Octavarium"). The important thing, though, is that the experience simply isn't the same listening to one song; you hear motifs and themes echoed throughout the entire album, and there's usually a story that ties the songs together. I highly recommend giving them a listen; Surrounded is one of my favorite songs of all time.
But of course, get the CD. Not because of pirating music, but because it's great listening to the whole thing.
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More into bands such as Reagan Youth, Bad Religion, DRI, NOFX, Rancid, Minor Threat and (the best ska band ever) Operation Ivy.
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But of course, get the CD. Not because of pirating music, but because it's great listening to the whole thing.
Lol, CDs tend to ruin my DVD-drive, apart from the fact that some won't play in a computer CD/DVD drive because of some kind of protection, so ... I usually buy my music from iTunes or some other legal download shop instead.
If you've seen the latest music video, I'm not sure you can say they take themselves TOO seriously. I mean, the solo is set to the theme of Sam and Herman playing Street Fighter with shredding instead of Hadokens. XD
I think it's my crappy English, but I meant to say they're not taking things very seriously, always doing funny stuff, mostly over-the-top things. I really like that about Dragonforce. Their live-shows are always completely insane, really cool. ^-^
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Lol, CDs tend to ruin my DVD-drive, apart from the fact that some won't play in a computer CD/DVD drive because of some kind of protection, so ... I usually buy my music from iTunes or some other legal download shop instead.
Well, then at least buy the whole thing. Images and Words is my recommendation.
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Mostly I listen to alternative/rock type stuff.
Belle & Sebastian is <3
Also love like Radiohead and Cake and some other bands. Not usually harder stuff, but if its good. I find that I never listen to enough new music.
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Acch I've been avoiding this topic for ages because it takes so friggin' long to pick a decent cross-section of my musical tastes, but I'm quite drunk and this'll kill some time. Some favourite artists might be a good way to do it; Against Me!, Mclusky, Aphex Twin, Venetian Snares, Buc 65, Zombieflesheater, the Smiths, Clutch, Discount, Squarepusher, Toots and the Maytals, DJ Vadim, Del Tha Funkee Homosapien, Four Tet, NWA, Boris, Quasimoto, Lamb...all kinds of things. Lots of really frantic breakcore and raggacore when I'm working (Bong-Ra, Shitmat, Knifehandchop; the combination activates my Photoshop devil-hands that can blaze through anything in no time flat), Yann Tiersen or SUNN0))) when I'm reading. Lots of unsorted chiptunes stuff, live scratch DJ sets and rap battles, odds and sods of electronica experiments my friends have sent me to appraise. My life improved immeasurably when I started listening to stuff other than white dudes playing guitars.
Portrait of a Cigarette by Discount is my favourite song ever. I found it on an otherwise unremarkable punk sampler about five years ago, and I must've listened to it a good thousand times since. It's only about a minute and a half long and I've been known to put it on four or five times in a row and not get bored of it.
Dream Theater are a prog metal band, I do not see what's so difficult to pigeonhole.
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Dream Theater are a prog metal band, I do not see what's so difficult to pigeonhole.
True, it's actually one of those bands easy to define. Sure, it has a flavor of psychedelics to it, but I guess that's simply their Roger Waters influence ... it's still prog metal. :p
By the way, yeah, you're right, white men playing guitar music can somehow be a bit depressing. I mean, metal in general can be depressing, since well, there's not much 'happy metal' out there. In fact, does that even exist????
( My advise: listen of Dragonforce :p , they're funny :-) )
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"( My advise: listen of Dragonforce :p , they're funny :-) )"
Agreed. I like them. Funny is a good thing.
Beyond agreement, i listen to a lot of stuff. Cake, Jem, Abdoujaparov, Blue Man Group, Linkin Park, Evanescence, so on. Rock/metal/Emo/electronic stuff. I like it.
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Cake are indeed awesome. I enjoy them a lot.
I've been listening to a lot of Mr. Scruff recently, and I'd highly recommend it. Very enjoyable :)
Also, something else I like to listen to is anime soundtracks. A lot of good music to be found, there!
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@PISketch: Yeah, Jem is pretty cool too, I hope they release a new album sometime soon. I have to say though, their songs are kinda depressing too, or at least they're not happy songs. :-) I love 'They' and I love '24' ow and 'Come on closer' is pretty cool too, I especially like those beats. ^-^
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PHeMoX gets uber hugs for liking all the same songs by Jem that i like. Also, i forgot Carbon Leaf and Death Cab for Cutie.
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By the way, yeah, you're right, white men playing guitar music can somehow be a bit depressing. I mean, metal in general can be depressing, since well, there's not much 'happy metal' out there. In fact, does that even exist????
( My advise: listen of Dragonforce :p , they're funny :-) )
I really meant that my previous, self-limited tastes were cutting me off from a lot of really excellent stuff that I'd dismiss without hearing because it's not what I'd normally listen to, but I suppose there's not a lot of happy metal around I can think of...
Mr. Scruff is amazing! I heartily recommend you get yourself to one of his live shows if you possibly can, if only to enjoy a nice cup of tea from the stall he traditionally erects by the DJ booth.
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I picked up the Tiger Force album, A Wasp In A Jar, about two weeks ago, and I cannot stop listening to it.
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Everyone likes to think they've got a diverse range of musical interests, and to a certain extent they're right. So, while I like jazz, classical, good pop, rock 'n' roll etc. I'd say my main interest is in prog rock, and more generally stuff from the 60s and 70s - I've been listening to mostly Jethro Tull, Bowie and The Beatles recently.
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I like hardrock, '80sRock, softrock, powermetal, c64remixes, some game soundtracks, some long movie scores...
Groups like Muse, Angels and Airwaves, Boxcar Racer, Oasis, Zornik, Novastar, Poison...
and a lot of c64remixes, game soundtracks, but I don't really know titles... Kohina and Slayradio are in my list of online radio stations though.
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Acch I've been avoiding this topic for ages because it takes so friggin' long to pick a decent cross-section of my musical tastes, but I'm quite drunk and this'll kill some time. Some favourite artists might be a good way to do it; Against Me!, Mclusky, Aphex Twin, Venetian Snares, Buc 65, Zombieflesheater, the Smiths, Clutch, Discount, Squarepusher, Toots and the Maytals, DJ Vadim, Del Tha Funkee Homosapien, Four Tet, NWA, Boris, Quasimoto, Lamb...all kinds of things. Lots of really frantic breakcore and raggacore when I'm working (Bong-Ra, Shitmat, Knifehandchop; the combination activates my Photoshop devil-hands that can blaze through anything in no time flat), Yann Tiersen or SUNN0))) when I'm reading. Lots of unsorted chiptunes stuff, live scratch DJ sets and rap battles, odds and sods of electronica experiments my friends have sent me to appraise. My life improved immeasurably when I started listening to stuff other than white dudes playing guitars.
Portrait of a Cigarette by Discount is my favourite song ever. I found it on an otherwise unremarkable punk sampler about five years ago, and I must've listened to it a good thousand times since. It's only about a minute and a half long and I've been known to put it on four or five times in a row and not get bored of it.
Dream Theater are a prog metal band, I do not see what's so difficult to pigeonhole.
Nice to see a fellow snaresman lover! I was just listening to Four Tet but decided to change it for Vsnares when I saw your post. One of my favourite artists. Also like SunnO)) (got black one, white one and white two) and Yann Tiersen, although I've only got the soundtrack for Amelie by him. Is that Toots Tielemans, Toots and the Maytals?
Checking out some stuff in your post now, like Shitmat and Bong-Ra(fellow countryman, :) ) I don't know half of the bands and artists you mentioned...:D
To the people who were looking for happy metal, check out Finntroll!
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Nah, it's Frederick "Toots" Hibbert. The Maytals were/are a really excellent band that straddled the period where ska metamorphosed into reggae; their material has elements of both.
You might find this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SaFTm2bcac) interesting, if you've not seen it already.
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Nah, it's Frederick "Toots" Hibbert. The Maytals were/are a really excellent band that straddled the period where ska metamorphosed into reggae; their material has elements of both.
You might find this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SaFTm2bcac) interesting, if you've not seen it already.
Yeah saw that. Didn't finish watching it though, so thanks for the reminder. Watched it now.
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- Super Furry Animals have a really excellent new album out, called Hey Venus!
- I just got hold of the Future Of The Left's album, Curses, and am thoroughly enjoying it so far! FotL emerged from the wreckage of Mclusky, one of my favourite bands of all time, and, after being slightly disappointed with the other splinter group, Shooting At Unarmed Men (although they win Best Album Title of the year so far with Yes! Tinnitus!) I'm glad that this record is as good as it is.
- Pig Destroyer's new album is the most evil goddamn grind I have ever heard. It's barely even music. It's wonderful.