What kind of soundwaves do you listen to?

[PHeMoX]

@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. 

[PiSketch]

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.

[KingAl]

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.

[wesley]

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.

[Bart]

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...

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 interesting, if you've not seen it already.

[Bart]

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 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.