ScratchMonkey

My favorite band is the Eagles and my favorite piece of theirs is The Last Resort. I like ELO (particularly the Time album) and Journey. I also like "new country" (eg. Shania Twain) and classical. Not much of a fan of rap. As a teen I was an ABBA fan. Ok, I suck.

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AzzMan

You should check out my metal faq it will make you incredibly awesome trust me.

In fact, EVERYONE Go listen to Blind Guardian's In a Gadda Da Vida cover. EVERYONEEEE
http://www.myspace.com/blindguardian

BHack

All I listen to is 311 and Wesley Willis

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Mateo

Your frame of reference is post 1995, which means you don't know a thing about metal at all.

Let's talk about Sabbath, Judas Priest, Obituary, King Diamond, Agnostic Front, Napalm Death, Anthrax, Slayer, Pantera, and 1000 other bands you failed to mention.

AzzMan

I actually forgot to mention heavy and gothic metal but you can't really blame me, I wrote that at 3am.

AzzMan

And if you're going by that logic I failed to mention hundreds of bands I listen to, let alone the thousands upon THOUSANDS of other metal bands that have one or two demos, that I don't listen to, that YOU Don't listen to, or that no one really know about.

Beatnik

<<Beatnik Headbutts Bhack>>

I just recently taught psychology at a culinary academy (don't ask), and loved that I got to talk about Wesley Willis to a captive audience (discussing schizophrenia, of course).

311 - Music and Grassroots were a significant part of the soundtrack to my freshman year of college.

Other insane bands I'm into recently: The Octopus Project (experimental/instrumental from Austin),
Broken Social Scene
Radiohead
Tenacious D
The Shins
The Mercury Program

Then the classics like Pixies, Pink Floyd (inc. Syd Barret days on the rare occasion), VELVET UNDERGROUND, Archers of Loaf, Pavement, and Superchunk

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Adrielle

Tenacious D <3

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Beatnik

icky You ever hear 'Dub Side of the Moon'? An all dub-reggae version of Dark Side. It sounds horrible on paper but it's actually an incredible album. I got to see them perform the album live too and was blown away.

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leejo

Anyone besides me and Towlie listen to Zappa?

Usarion

Hmmm lotsa of good music listed here. I won't bother with most of my favorites, as they have mostly been mentioned by others. I will list one band which never got the credit it deserved IMO. genious, and lots of fun to "zone" out to.


Jane's Addiction
I am talking the older stuff of course...Ritual de lo Habitual etc.

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icky

I almost included Zappa on my list. My brother had Sheik Yerbouti when I was a youngster, and it became one of my fav albums for laughs. A great combo of musical talent and pure madness.

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Karkianman101

I admit, my experiance with music has been ponderous. I wasn't raised on any kind of good music. I found Linkin Park through DBZ music videos a bit over 3 years ago(both of which I have since stopped enjoying, so you can all shut up ). Then I found Korn about a year later, which I have since dropped, and then I found Kidney Thieves (dead to me as well).

Tool, which is the first actually good band I ever listened to, and still listen to, was next. That eventually led me into Fantomas (Azzman, what category do THEY fall under? :P ) and System of a Down. Last weekend I discovered A Perfect Circle, of which I'm sure Thirteenth Step will stay frequantly played.

I've boughten one Limp Bizkit cd, but they aren't to my taste. I've also gotten NIN's Downward Spiral and Pretty Hate Machine, but it really just isn't to my taste. I recently aquired Rage Against the Machine's first album, and while I really don't like the singer, I can still find myself enjoying it.

And for the first time ever, last February, I head Dark Side of the Moon. I have also never heard Stairway to Heaven (Someone once sent me a download link that didn't work, then someone in an airport let me hear the first two minutes before we had to turn it off, then today I started listening with only about 5 minutes left in class, making it to the midpoint of the song).

My current budget is limited, so I can only manage a new cd or two per month. I'm thinking I probably need to get a Led Zeppelin or Rush cd, or maybe Wish You Were Here.

Wyzcrak

Amazing..... all the variety in music tastes here.

I'm curious about something.

If we had a community radio station (a la shoutcast), how many of you would commit -- really commit -- to broadcast the playlist of your choice (yes, there are limits) at scheduled times per week? You know.. an hour or three. Whatever each could reliably manage.

Beyond the obvious, this would require -- require -- your committing -- not just HAVING, but protecting and preserving for your upload stream no less than something like 200k/s upload throughput on your home internet connection. Not everyone has to LIKE your music, but everyone has to HEAR it smoothly, without a lot of choppiness and buff-buff-buff-bufferrrring. The broadcaster uploads to a central server, from which the stream is actually broadcast, so many, many people can listen despite the fact that the broadcaster is on a small, consumer internet connection.

Don't concern yourself with legalities for the sake of brainstorming. All of that can be purchased. Don't worry about the technical how, for the moment. Just think about the what.

Do you like listening to your own music, but don't want to listen to others? Do you enjoy your music, but you don't want to share it? Do you sometimes wish you could just sit back and let someone else drive?

Give feedback. I'm curious. Is that something that no one wants to do, or is it something that people would like to try out, together, even if it takes a bit of work to pull off?

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H-Hour

Leejo, you're not allowed to like Mingus, you bomb-the-world-and-rape-the-earth mofo (<-- this is friendly, for the rest of yoos). Mingus roxors (XOXO) and Dannie Richmond was a huge inspiration back when. I once did an arrangement of Self-Portrait in Three Colors for two Marimbas. It was terrible. Thank God it was never performed.

Stuff I've absolutely loved at one point or another:

Iron & Wine
Tom Waits
Ani Difranco (I grew up on Waits and Ani)
Explosions in the Sky
Charles Mingus
Rebirth Brass Band
Sigur Ros
Astor Piazzolla (<-- Check him out!)

Recent Interests Worth Sharing:

The Weakerthans
Tuung
Manu Chao
Emiliana Torrini
Frou Frou
Devendra Banhart

I work at home online, so I am at my computer listening to music a significant portion of most days. My actual playlist and listening habits are made up of all sorts of random stuff, and little songs that grab my attention for a bit (I've been listening to "I Want You Back" by the Jackson 5 a ton lately - check it out - AWESOME). But it includes everything from a few Eminem songs to Aaron Jay Kernis' "Air for Violin" to No Use For A Name to Dylan to whatever. I love listening to music and I love sharing music.

In regards to the Radio station idea, I could definitely put together a 1-4 hour playlist, but I don't know that I have 200 k/s upload speed. I've already got several playlists put together full of stuff that is good for crossing boundaries.