I enjoy reading the hydrogen forums regularly, they have helped me greatly in understanding audio, but I done a few forum searches for techno and music related polls. I know by my constant reading of the forums that this place isn't about the music but the tools and technologies that deliver it.

So after finding just about zero music related posts I just thought I'd ask what genre of music the people here generally listen to. Even some artists and songs are warranted, audio enthusiasts have gots-ta listen to great music

currently listening to : Warp Brothers - Power
in my +fav foobar2000 columns-ui setup

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My favorite genre of music depends heavily on my mood, but mostly I listen to fast, heavy, and energetic music. And yes, that includes electronic dance music.

I like bands that scream and knock over mic stands.
Kittencore. CMHWAK-kinda Stuff.
Bands like Antioch Arrow.

I also like everything indie or punkrock, but I guess most people know (or have guessed) this already.

I'm currently listening to the demovibes collections found at http://willbe.planet-d.net/demovibes.htm. 100% underground electronic music good stuff.

I mostly listen to metal and rock, with a tendency towards the "progressive" genres.

From the top of my head, here's my current top-10 list of favorite artists:

1. Tool
2. Radiohead
3. Pink Floyd
4. Nine Inch Nails
5. Opeth
6. Metallica
7. Immortal
8. Smashing Pumpkins
9. Prodigy
10. Fear Factory

I've also heard some IDM on a few occasions, and I really liked it. I need to make some time to discover some good artists/albums here...

I'm a big Frank Zappa fan, I've got an almost complete 60+ albums collection of his. I generally like music that uncommercial and difficult to listen to except if you are a musician yourself Prog-Rock and Jazz-Rock Fusion etc....Gentle Giant was a great enlish Prog-rock band, very creative arrangements and very well produced albums. King Crimson, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Miles Davis, Yes, Steve Vai, Jeff Beck, Captain Beefheart, Weather Report, Al Di Meola, Chick Corea, and even some Dio to name a few.

http://www.archive.org/audio/netlabels.php because I'm cheap and I don't know which CD's would be worth my money.

heh

I also like some netlabel stuff. Specifically
- Monotonik
- Kahvi Collective
and some releases here and there (miasmah49 for example).

BTW: On www.audioscrobbler.com there's a group called Hydrogenaudio.

Sebastian

Everything, from Johann Sebastian Bach and Beethoven, Utada Hikaru, Passion, Kutless, Ayumi Hamasaki, Minmi, Bonnie Pink to Animetal, L'Arc~en~Ciel, Dream Dance stuff, Demon Hunter, Zao, P.O.D, Linkin Park, Evanescence, Skillet, Pillar, Dead Poetic, X-Japan, Andy Hunter, Jeff Deyo....

The list goes on and on...

a perfect circle
ALICE IN CHAINS
Burning Airlines
Filter
Nine Inch Nails
Radiohead
Stone Temple Pilots
Tchaikovsky

Generally blues/rock, but, but it often goes farther, based on mood. I don't have any particular order to any of it.

Off the top of my head:
Aerosmith, The Alan Parsons Project, Albert Collins (killed my CD drive! ), Albert King
The Beatles (last several albums), Black Sabbath, Roy Buchanan
Charlie Daniels Band, Creddence Clearwater Revival
Deep Purple (live stuff only), Dio, Dire Straits, Dvorak (I'm particularly fond of #8 and #9)
Elton John; Emerson, Lake, and Palmer
Faith No More, Frank Zappa
Grand Funk Railroad, GnR, Buddy Guy
John Lee Hooker
Jethro Tull
Led Zeppelin, of course
Melissa Ethridge (1st album only), Metallica, Mother's Finest (can't get enough of Joyce Kennedy's voice), The Moody Blues, Ian Moore (trying to find some of his stuff not in print at the moment)
Nikka Costa, Nirvana
Ozzy Osbourne
Pearl Jam, Tom Petty, Pink Floyd
Queen, Queensryche
Rainbow, REM, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Otis Redding
Soundgarden, Steppenwolf
Jesus Christ Superstar
TLC, Tool
Warren Zevon

(ordered after making a really big list)

Wow Cerbie, the only one out of that list that I would touch would be TLC and possibly Nirvana

Anyway, right now I'm listening to a lot of Ferry Corsten, BT, Paul Van Dyk, TLC, and Mariah Carey.

How funny! I would say nearly the opposite, though I would take Nirvana over ELP, Charlie Daniels and Dio

Don't know what BT is, but the others in that list I wouldn't touch (aside from the obvious exception) .

Nirvana over EL&P, CDB and Dio? Just for that, I'll be listening to Brain Salad Surgery!
CDB I can't explain. Really.
Dio...I'm a sucker for powerful music, voices especially. Ronnie Dio (Elf, Rainbow (1st album and Rainbow Rising), Dio), Geoff Tate (Queensryche), Joyce Kennedy (Mother's Finest), Ian Gillan (live Purple, or in Jesus Christ Superstar), Stevie Nicks, et cetera.

Hmm, another long post. Maybe sleep is in order.

Hardcore, Grindcore, Jazz & Death Metal for me.

I need to get my hands on good techno. I'm just stick with Warp Brothers and Paul Oakenfold. Whenever I get techno it's crap compared to the above artists. I like songs like Blade Rave Song, Darude - Sandstorm. The stuff that really sounds good!! Anyone know this field of the genre and what is good for me?

I wouldn't call that Techno, except maybe for the Blade theme song (the title for which is "Confusion" by the way). Warp Brothers I would classify as Hard Dance or Hardhouse. Paul Oakenfold is more Trance. Just my opinion though.

You might want to look for something called Acid House / Acid Techno, which is electronic dancemusic with lot's of that sweet Roland 303 action that you seem to like!

I thought audiophiles listened to artifacts, not to music *sigh*.

I like rock, some classical, fiddle / violin stuff, about anything that I think just sounds cool. I like stuff that has a cool beat.

I like deadweight.

PS: yay deadweight redid their site it used to be terrible!

-Traditional Jazz, Big Band and Swing:
Miles Davis, Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Art Blakey, Lester Young, Billie Holiday, Wynton Marsalis, Brubeck, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Chick Webb, Glen Miller, etc...
-Latin Jazz and MPB(Brazilian Popular Music):
(Too many to mention) LOL ...

*LOL*
That's a good one!

Stuff i like usually fits into one of the following categories:
- (Alt) Rock (like Nirvana, QOTSA, Silverchair, Muse, ...)
- Electro(?) (like The Chrystal Method, Chemical Brothers, ...)
- Pop (like The Dissociatives, K's Choice, Blumfeld, ...)

Sebastian

The music the I mostly listen to would be:

Guns N' Roses, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, The Clash, The Sex Pistols, Queen, and Nazareth

Razer you should check out Hard Acid Techno, that stuff realy rulez.
Anyway if someones interested in a decent electronic music guide, this sites worth chacking http://www.di.fm/edmguide/edmguide.html

IMO I think Warp Brothers would be some "Hard" Trance/Hardstyle crap, and Oakenfold would be NOT Trance but crap, cheese, etc
Its amazing what people think of as Trance these days

I listen to metal. Heavy/Black/Death/Doom/Power/Speed/Thrash/Melo-death/metalcore, and more probably. Some bands I listen to, though many wouldn't know who they were, are:

Abbysic Hate, Amon Amarth, Bathory, Beherit, Candlemass, Dan Swano (and all of his projects), Dio, Death, Wizard, Iron Maiden, Blood Has Been Shed, Swallow the Sun, Iced Earth, etc. Far to many to name.

I have a very large variety of music I enjoy. From Asian Pop to Metal and several things in between. I've also been known to be fond of video game soundtracks and own several of them. Thank God for auto-tagging because I have one disc with 69 tracks on it.

I am a kind of chameleon - and probably "erratic" to any listening-patterns-analizer system out there. This is because i do not really care "what" music it is, but how it is made. The quality matters to me, not the style.

The only thing i stay away from is music which feels too "synthetic" and "artificial" to me. I stayed for too long on the techno-bandwagon in the 90'ies and that ruined it for me. Of course this doesn't mean that i dislike electronic music - i'm actually listening to alot of electronic music - it just means that i dislike music which "feels" synthetic or technoid.


That being said, my taste in music largely depends on mood - here's an incomplete selections of styles to which i listen:


I also listen to alot of projects which are a style of their own and do not fit into any genre. The funny thing is that although the above is a wild mix of totally different styles, there is something common with most of my music - but i cannot describe what it is.

Another fact about my listening-habbits is that the stuff to which i'm listening or what i'm playing on events, is largely unknown stuff - i often get asked by visitors or people on events "Hey, whats this? I've never heard something like that but it sounds nice.".

- Lyx

I hate putting things into genres (= I'm not very good at it) so I'll just say that I listen to many things, but mainly Metal and Electronic music without specifying any sub-genres

wow what a wonderful selection - you could have been reading the CDs on My shelves.

Now one or two I don't know - tell me more about: Mothers Finest, Tool, Ian Moore, and Nikka Costa (while I listen to Hawkwind, oh it's finished, it's Iona next)

Mother's Finest: hard rock/funk. The essential album beingANother Mother Further, but I'll get Iron Age whenever the chance arises.
Tool: ?
Ian Moore: Folky rock. Kinda. After reasonable success with his s/t, he came out with Modernday Folklore, much better, not a bad track on it (though if you are of the doanloading persuation, Muddy Jesus and Dandelion really stand out), then And All The Colors, of which I only have Leary's Gate and Time of Dying, and both are fantastic--the plastic disc is proving a bit elusive (I like getting things new, but may have to go used for this one). Then there's Ian Moore's Got the Green Grass, which is suprisingly upbeat, and very much odd. Much more folk-like and less guitar-based.
Nikka Costa: Another I can't explain. Very much pop, but eh--I like her.

Almost evertything my ears (and brain) like...from rock to rap to pop except commercial music and dance

I extremely dislike HipHop and Metal. Usually I listen to New Age, Fusion, TripHop, Trance or Jazz.
Among my favorite artists are:
David Arkenstone
Dire Straits
Saafi Brothers
Kruder & Dorfmeister
Enigma
Faithless
Yoko Kanno
Afro Celt Sound System
Alasdair Fraser

damn yes, Antioch Arrow were truly fucking awesome, like most of the late 80's/early 90's San Diego hardcore bands, you must check out a band called Stickfigurecarousel

i grow up with hardcore/punk, some metal (80's thrash/death), some rap, right now i have an insane addiction to stuff like Death In June, Nurse With Wound, NON, Sol Invictus etc.

My tastes are pretty varied, I'll listen to anything once. I don't like most of what gets played on UK commercial radio though.

My neighbours are probably thoroughly sick of Atari Teenage Riot, Nirvana, The Prodigy, Orbital, The Smiths, The Pogues, Manic Street Preachers (first three albums) and The Clash.

1000 Homo DJs, 16 Volt, Arcturus, Assemblage 23, Black Sabbath, Blackstar, Blind Guardian, Blue Öyster Cult, Bolt Thrower, Borknagar, Cabaret Voltaire, Carcass, Cyberaktif, Danzig, Deathstars, Decoded Feedback, Delerium, Die Krupps, Entombed, Equinox, Fear Factory, Front 242, Front Line Assembly, Funker Vogt, GWAR, Haujobb, Iced Earth, Informätik, Innovation Reality, Intermix, Junkie XL, Kraftwerk, L'âme Immortelle, Melotron, Metallica, Ministry, Moonspell, Nevermore, Noise Unit, Pailhead, Pantera, Pro > Tech, Project Pitchfork, Revolting Cocks, Samael, Samhain, Sanctuary, Scar Tissue, Sepultura, Sister Machine Gun, Slayer, Soulfly, Spahn Ranch, Suicidal Tendancies, Synaesthesia, Testament, The Misfits, The Sisters of Mercy, Thy Majestie, Type O Negative, Void Kampf, Zentriert ins Antlitz, and others that I forget.

That's from my playlist mostly. I have not gotten around to ripping all my cds yet.

Hi,

Over the years, I've listened to lots of different music. Mostly Rock & Roll. I never liked Country and after a time, moved to folk & blues and later added Celtic / Scottish / etc - traditional. So anyway, that is where I am now. Oh and I still like some R&R. According to mood. A lot of the R&R I listened to is on Cerbie's list. Here is some of the celtic artist I like ..

Altan / Boys of the Lough / The Chieftains / Planxty / Clannad / Cherish the Ladies
Tommy Makem / Makem Brothers / Arcady / Bothy Band / Wolf Tones / Teada /
Mary Black / Eric Bogle / Dick Gaughan .. Lots of others and plenty of new artist.

TR ..

Thanks forthe tips Cerbie, yes I tried the stuff by Ian Moore and I like it. Also Mother's Finest. I see what you mean about her voice. Wow. And yes Nikka Costa has a certain something - well Sinatra for a godfather it seems. All good stuff.

I'm going through my stuff by Peter Green this evening.

Death, Opeth, Ensiferum, Vehemence, Tool, A Perfect Circle, Woods of Ipres, Macabre, Type O Negative, Candlemass, Wilco, Notorious BIG, Eazy E, Bone Thugs N Harmony, Manowar, Moonspell, Nine Inch Nails, Pink Floyd, Runemagick, Slayer, Liquid Tension Experiment, Blinded By Faith, Nightwish, Our Lady Peace, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Sabbath, Bloodbath, Carcass, Children of Bodom, Darkseed, Enslaved, Enter Choas, Gojira, Graveworm, Graveland, Green Jelly, Haggard, In Flames, Korn, Massive Attack, Mussorgsky, Necrophagist, NOFX, Ozzy Osbourne, Portishead, Primus, Rammstein, Soulscar, Virtuocity, Withering Surface, XXX Maniak, Carpathian Forest, CoF, Edge of Sanity, Dimmu Borgir, Kalmah, Joe Satriani, Marilyn Manson, Melechesh, Morgion, Naglfar, ohGr, Old Man's Child, Fintroll, Darkthrone, Forefather, Jack Off Jill, Micheal Jackson, and a bunch more that Im too lazy to keep typing out.


I highly reccomend most of the above to any music loving audiophile, you will find virtuo in it.


Edit: For those of you who dont know what to listen to/buy/download, Etc, whatever...

Copy/Paste the Above and use that as a template, starting point, whatever.

Cool

Heavy Metal, Smooth Jazz, Progressive Rock, Symphonic Rock,
Hard Rock, Classical Music...

Isn't it interesting how everyone tries to avoid being caught to listening just one category of music? But then I guess that was to be expected on a forum like HA, where people don't think the quality of music is measured in charts positions.

Anyway, here's my list (not too god with categories, but I'll try anyway):
[list]
[*]ProgRock/Metal: Dream Theater (+sidekicks like LTE, Transatlantic), Gentle Giant, Porcupine Tree, Flower Kings, Pain of Salvation, Green Carnation
[*]Symphonic/Melodic Metal: Savatage (+Trans Siberian Orchestra), Nightwish, Evanescence
[*]Power Metal: Metallica, Helloween
[*]Other Rock/Metal: Ozzy Osbourne (the old stuff), Uriah Heep, Jeff Beck, In Extremo ("Sünder ohne Zügel" sure isn't "medieval", no matter what anyone says)
[*]Rap/HipHop: Eminem, Fanta4, Manau, 2 Pac, Lil Kim
[*]Punkrock: Die Ärzte, Die Toten Hosen, Bad Religion
[*]Jazz: Patricia Barber, Art Blakey, Chick Corea
[*]Pop: Michael Jackson, Madonna, Robbie Williams, Xavier Naidoo, Anastacia, Roxette
[*]Electronic: Fat Boy Slim, Prodigy
[*]Celtic & Celtic inspired: Loreena McKennit, Paddy Goes To Holyhead, Fiddler's Green

And then some, I guess.

As an extension, here's what makes my ears hurt:
Mariah Carey, most Country, Death Metal, Helge Schneider, German Volksmusik, Usher, Bee Gees, ...

I listen to a lot of different music genre's. I mostly have Classical and Jazz Music though, J.S. Bach (and the rest of the Bach familiy), Fernado Caruli, William Bryd, etc. I like most everything from the Middle Ages epoc to the Romantic epoc. I've even got the gegorian chant stuff. As far as Jazz goes I like most all it it, really like Mingus though, Black Saint and Sinner Lady is a good album.
I also have a lot of ethnic music. Not that crap pop stuff that claims to be ethnic music, but real world music. Hebrew, Arab, Indian, Native American, etc.
I also like traditional/folk music. Celtic and Country music at times too.
It is probably easier to name the music I don't listen to.
I do not listen to Rap, punk or metal. I also stay away from pop music, most people are musically stupid, so it follows that pop music is going to be the music common denominator. (Britney Spears and the boy bands crap).
I like quality music, I'm not saying that there are not quality rap artists, but I have not found any.