what kind of music???

[God]

music is my "other half"

i listen to a lot of thrash, death metal, grindcore, powerviolence, old school hardcore, old school hip hop, classic rock and classical.

but queen is my favorite band.

what about you all?

my instructor listens to dance music. we get to listen to it in class.

[Adrift_Quasar]

I listen to everything, but I like dance/trance/techno the most.

[Zamfoo]

i'll listen to just about anything i like i don't really care the genre. Our dojo is in a room across a hall from a dance school so if both doors are open we listen to tap dance music while we attack each other

[karate_fiend]

i listen to a lot of thrash (cradle of filth) a lot of metal death metal and the occasional punk. but nothing gets me more pumped than some hard core death metal!!

[Neil-o-Mac]

Most of my CD collection consists of prog-rock/prog-metal (Dream Theater, Rush, Spock's Beard, OSI etc), straight up metal (Metallica, Shadows Fall etc) and extreme metal (Dark Tranquility, Soilwork, Opeth etc). In a complete sense though it goes all the way from The Beatles to Bloodbath. :D

[alexxlea]

I'd have to go with trance/dance/techno/etc.
Winamp radio rocks.

[Twimyo Jirugi]

Metal:
Black
Death
Doom
Goth (Not marilyn manson!!!)
Heavy
Melodic Death
Prog
Thrash

And a lil bit of classical.

Mainly into melodic death, though, the likes of Hypocrisy, Children of Bodom, Norther, In Flames etc.

[Zen TKD Warrior]

Swing, man, swing

That and childrens tunes.

"I love you, you love me" - that rocks!

Barney rulez!!!!!!!!1

[Nrv4evr]

Hard/Unique/Classic Rock:

Nirvana, G & R, Sevendust, Tool

I cannot stand the modern punk genre. It's sad really, because punk used to be very well written and performed.

[Dr NinjaBellydance]

punk used to be very well written and performed.

I thought the whole point of punk was that they couldnt play and could barely stand up?! :p :D

[Nrv4evr]

aside from that... :D

punk, barring the the drinking and dying from overdose, used to be pretty good. the s** pistols were a great band, although a bit over the top. their albums were amazing, delivering great songs, yet maintaining at least a sense of variety.

nowadays, punk just turns into drunk teens who try to act cool, and when asked why they do it, make up some excuse about just having fun. their albums are tired, mostly about complaining about conformity and selling out, when they're wearing skate shoes and jackets worth more than their education... i thought hypocrisy disappeared ages ago. :rolleyes:

[Scarlet Mist]

Reggae, dancehall, rap, hip hop. A little alternative. Mostly hip hop and dancehall.

[Dr NinjaBellydance]

aside from that... :D

punk, barring the the drinking and dying from overdose, used to be pretty good. the s** pistols were a great band, although a bit over the top. their albums were amazing, delivering great songs, yet maintaining at least a sense of variety.

nowadays, punk just turns into drunk teens who try to act cool, and when asked why they do it, make up some excuse about just having fun. their albums are tired, mostly about complaining about conformity and selling out, when they're wearing skate shoes and jackets worth more than their education... i thought hypocrisy disappeared ages ago. :rolleyes:

I know what you mean, old-school punk was rebelling against the hippie movement and the establishment (along with everything else! :p ). They werent the greatest musicians (or even nominally musicians in some cases :p) but what they lacked in talent they made up for in attitude. The effect they had on the comfortable middle classes at the time was phenomenal! Here in the UK housewives took to the streets to campaign against the (ooh, am I not allowed to say the 'S' word?! :eek: ) Pistols, they were rude to everyone and got arrested for blasting 'God Save the Queen' down the Thames on her 25th Jubilee! :eek:
Neo-punk just doesnt have the same stuff to rebel against, anything remotely underground gets picked up by the conglomerates and punted by MTV, so they end up, as you say, griping about teen angst with nothing else to say. But there were some pretty grim punk bands out there back in the day, and I still take guilty pleasure in Blink 182 and Sum 41, there, I admit it! :o
:D

[bcullen]

i'll listen to just about anything i like i don't really care the genre. Our dojo is in a room across a hall from a dance school so if both doors are open we listen to tap dance music while we attack each other

Hey that sounds cool...you could develop a whole new style, step 2, 3, 4...kick 2, 3...punch and Shuffle Off to Buffalo... call it Astaire jutsu or graceful ballroom fist (So how does your system work? Well, we knock you down and tap dance on your head) :D

[Dr NinjaBellydance]

Reggae, dancehall, rap, hip hop. A little alternative. Mostly hip hop and dancehall.

Oooh, do you know how to do that dancehall bum shimmy thing?! It looks sooooo cool!
Bellydancer as I am, I have so far been unable to master the dancehall bum shimmy.....*shame*
Can ya teach me.......? Canyacanyacanya.....pleeeease......? ;)

[Scarlet Mist]

Dancehall bum shimmy? Hahahahaha. Hmmm, I think I know that you mean, but I'm a guy, even if I could do it I wouldn't. It does look hot though!!
I can teach you a bunch of other dancehall dances though, realllly simple!

[Dr NinjaBellydance]

Dancehall bum shimmy? Hahahahaha. Hmmm, I think I know that you mean, but I'm a guy, even if I could do it I wouldn't. It does look hot though!!
Awww........ you're no fun...... :( ;)
I have taught guys to bellydance, you could do the dancehall bum shimmy! You shouldn't limit yourself! :p
I can teach you a bunch of other dancehall dances though, realllly simple!
Yaaaaaaay! You rock! :D

[Paratus]

Generally I go for I guess it's called 'classic rock' now (The Who, Rolling Stones, Doors, Led Zepplin, etc.). Generally I like blues as well. When it comes to modern stuff, I don't like pop (and with pop, yes, some punk is the new pop) or rap. I like what I like when I hear it, but I would say I have more of a Indie rock taste for modern stuff

[Trent Tiemeyer]

Give me Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley.

[RichieRich]

Balearic.

[little_monkey]

i like rock and roll:classic(aerosmith, bob seger, etc..) and oldie(elvis, the beatles, etc..), jazz, blues, swing, some country and can't forget the 80's music. rock on.

[Jaro]

I'm really into "alternative" in general... from emo and scream all the way to pop punk to hardcore punk to acoustic alternative. I like rock. I listen to alot of christian alternative bands. I also dig 80s music (b-52s oh ya) and some techno. some. :)

[gemsy]

i mainly listen 2:

dance an rap

but some times i listen 2:

goth (in the form of the rasmus)
rock
classical
pop

i spend a lot of my time listenin 2 music (when i have time that is)

[dori_kin_86]

I listen to Funk, Jazz, Old-school Rap, Grunge, 80s Alternative, and,Techno. I've never really felt that any other music genre can hold a light to these.(especially thrash, new punk, 80s glam metal, death metal)

[Omicron]

I listen to what I'm trained in: jazz, funk, and classical.

[eonwei]

My favorite type of music would have to be Punk.

[Xcentric]

rap\r&b\traditional japanese\chinese instrumentals...

[daftyman]

Damn near anything really.

Ministry, NIN, Rammstein, Slayer etc
Sisters of Mercy, Fields of the Nephelim, Front 242 etc
VNV Nation, Cubanate, etc
Dead Kennedies, SLF, Punk Jubilee album (full of all the good stuff!)
Lard!
Royksopp, Scissor Sisters,
Classical
Celtic/Scots stuff (Capercaillie and the like)
Went to a Taiko show and that was brilliant.
I really like the tribal sounds that some music evokes.

Anything that is not 'Pop' The nearest I'll come to that is goth-pop in the form of the Rasmus.

I tell you, they don't make music like they used to! In my day it was all different! It's all just noise! Bah! Humbug! :bang:

[iamraisen]

i listen to a lot of thrash (cradle of filth) a lot of metal death metal and the occasional punk. but nothing gets me more pumped than some hard core death metal!!

haha cradle of filth isnt thrash metal! they are pretty much the definitive black metal band. if you want some good thrash metal check out carnal forge. also neil o mac opeth arent extreme metal, extreme metal is bands such as pig destroyer.

i listen to a lot of death metal (medium paced such as bolt thrower, impaled, bloodbath, decapitated, and fast death metal such as cinerary, deeds of flesh, NOISM, brodequin, gorgasm, hate eternal, nile), a lot of black metal (such as aborym and anaal nakarath), and lot of metalcore (such as dillinger escape plan, ion dissonance, the red chord, battle spawned lullaby), but my favourite is grindcore and my favourite band is cephalic carnage.

[slideyfoot]

I’m one of those people who says ‘I like everything’, and I try to fulfil that claim as much as possible. The only genre I’ve come to really despise is ‘nu-metal. Also not keen on country, though only a mild dislike - I did find a few Dolly Parton tracks I quite like, especially 'Jolene', but thats about it.

Here we go (this could take a while):

Soul is a particular favourite of mine: anything from Motown, Stax etc - James Brown, Aretha Franklin, The Temptations, Stevie Wonder, Arthur Conley, Ben E. King, Bill Withers, Billy Paul, The Drifters, The Supremes, The Isley Brothers, Marvin Gaye, Ray Charles...I could go on for a long time. I like more recent soul too, or at least some of it: Seal, Lucy Pearl, Erikah Badu, Tracy Chapman, Prince, Sade and so on. What now gets called ‘R&B’ is much less interesting, and I tend to view that as a separate genre – over-produced albeit often talented singers.. I LOVE disco, from the cheesiest of cheese, like Village People, to the more refined stuff, like Roy Ayers, Chic, First Choice, Creative Source, Voyages and so on. Then there is funk, which is sometimes hard to separate out from disco and soul; there are stand-out tracks like Jean Knight’s ‘Mr Big Stuff’, and groups like Parliament, The Gap Band, The Ojays, Earth Wind & Fire, Average White Band, Bloodstone, the Ohio Players...the list goes on. ;)

Not sure what you’d call Michael Jackson, but ‘Off the Wall’ and ‘Thriller’ remain two of my all-time favourite albums, and there are plenty of Jackson 5 tracks I absolutely love too, mostly the obvious ones like ‘I Want You Back’. Its an incredible shame that he @#%$ it up after Bad (though Dangerous had its moments) – sort of a Bruce Lee of music, except Jackson died creatively rather than physically.

Reggae is something I’m still pretty limited on - I've mainly heard Bob Marley, Burning Spear, Lee Scratch Perry, Pete Tosh, Prince Buster and Ernest Ranglin, so I have lots of exploring still to do!

I'm not ashamed to say I like garage, but its gone downhill in recent years - back when Artful Dodger, The Dreem Team and others were still good. Drum n Bass is good too - LTJ Bukem and Leftfield, for example, depending on your definition of drum and bass. I like most forms of dance music – ‘old skool’ stuff, and also the more musically adept groups of recent years, like The Chemical Brothers, Masters at Work, Basement Jaxx. I'm more keen on trip-hop, like Portishead, Goldfrapp, and Death in Vegas, and then the more jazz-influenced stuff like Koop, Nightmares on Wax and Thievery Corporation. Then there’s what you might call ‘electronica’, or you could group with ‘trip hop’ too, depending on what definitions you like to use. This is where I’d put people like Mr Scruff, Les Rhythmes Digitale and early Daft Punk. Looking to get hold of Kid Koala's 'Carpal Tunnel Syndrom'.

I'm also a big fan of hip-hop - Tribe Called Quest, Jurassic 5, De La Soul, OutKast etc, and more recently The Nextman have turned out to be pretty good with plenty of intelligent lyrics. The Handsome Boy Modelling School concept album (I think called ‘So…Hows Your Girl?’, but I’m not sure – might just be called Handsome Boy Modelling School) from Dan the Automator is another excellent piece of hip hop, and Ozomatli have done some great stuff, mainly when collaborating with some of the groups I mentioned earlier. Roots Manuva is probably the best British hip-hop I’ve heard in a long time. Mos Def is a much-touted artist I’ve had a thorough listen to, but have been disappointed so far. I see ‘rap’ as something quite different, and much less accomplished – Eminem and his ilk tend to rely more on machismo than musical or lyrical ability, IMO, but some of its quite fun, like the old NWA stuff and people emerging from that, like Dr Dre et al. Would also include N.E.R.D., but not sure if they count as hip-hop or something else - whatever it is, its good. :)

There's a genre in my windows media library that keeps getter bigger cos I'm not sure where else to put it - lots of groups bunched together under 'alternative'. Thats where I put groups like Cocteau Twins, possibly my favourite band at the moment, Scissor Sisters, Ben Folds Five, Flaming Lips, Jeff Buckley, The Strokes, Interpol etc. I’m not sure what else to call it, really –for example, if you've ever heard the Cocteau Twins, they're kind of hard to categorize. I heard someone once call them 'dream pop', which gives you some idea of what they're like. More recently, I've been impressed by theSTART and the Organ.

I'm a big 80s fan, particularly the better groups, like Strawberry Switchblade, OMD, ABC, The Cure, The Smiths, Orange Juice, Oingo Boingo, Tears for Fears, The The, and also all the cheesy stuff - Madonna, Wham, Thompson Twins etc. Then there is all the great music from the 60s and 70s, not to mention 40s and 50s. From the 60s, favourites are The Beatles, The Kinks, The Beach Boys, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, The Small Faces, The Yardbyrds, Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones (though the last two span more than one decade. Rather a lot of decades, in fact). From the 70s, The Doors (again - not sure if you'd call them a 60s or a 70s band), Steely Dan, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie and obviously Abba (yay cheese!). From the 40s I haven't found much yet - mostly big band/jazz stuff like Glenn Miller, and from the 50s my main favourite is Fats Domino. I still have a lot to learn musically about those two decades, and the ones prior to them. I’d also like to learn more about the greats of swing, like Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin etc – I have a few tracks by them, but not as much as I’d like.

I've been trying very hard to get more into metal, and my friend Paddy helped with that. From what he introduced me to, I quite liked the recent stuff from Helloween, Arcturus, and in certain moods, viking metal like Amon Amarth. Helps that I love sword and sorcery, which is why I'm giving Bal Sagoth a decent try, despite the fact that the main bloke, 'Byron', comes across as a right *****. I like that 'Cemetery Gates' song by Pantera, and a few tracks by Avantasia, Anthrax, and then wonderfully silly stuff like Iron Maiden. Still got plenty of exploring to do.

Jazz is marvellous, and something I've been trying to learn more about for a few years now. Mostly listened to the older stuff like Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Stan Getz, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Art Blakey. Not heard much recent jazz, but I'd be happy to try it - most recent stuff is probably Grant Green, and I also like what I've heard of Jack McDuff, though he crosses over into blues sometimes, which is another genre I'm a bit lacking on. Again, I know the obvious artists like Howling Wolf, B.B. King, John Lee Hooker etc, and their followers like Eric Clapton, John Mayall and the like, but not enough. Next person I want to look into is Albert King, in particular his 1967 'Born Under a Bad Sign' album.

Classical music is also brilliant, though I could do with knowing more about it. I like all the obvious composers, such as Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Tchaikovsky, Vivaldi, Rimsky-Korsakov, and some further back like John Dowland. I've also been trying to get more into opera. Unfortunately the only opera I've seen live so far is 'Aida', and I was surprised by how it kept my attention for the entire performance, which was several hours long. When I went to see 'Swan Lake' in Prague, my concentration definitely wandered at a few points, though of course thats a ballet, not an opera. Still, top music in that too.

[merlinmsk]

i'm more fans of:

Speed Metal
Death Metal
Heavy Metal
Hard Rock
Classic Rock
Old School Rap(beastie boys only)


the old Metallica music and Hendrix are the best things out there!

[Th3_GOD]

ICP - ownz. Especially Mellingo and the Wraith.
Metallica
Nirvana
Occasionally some R & b\pop
Eminem
Disturbed
Saliva
Enya is aweosme for relaxation
Puddle of Mud
P.O.D
Greenday


Although hard music drive up your heart beat and makes you perform worst its really sweet for morale.

[slideyfoot]

I see Enya as the simplistic end of a much larger genre, of which she is merely the most commercial result. If you like Enya, I would suggest delving into trip hop and various jazz-influenced dance stuff (not sure what the accepted term is, I tend to refer to it all as trip hop - chill-out, possibly?). For example, Thievery Corporation, Koop, Goldfrapp, Hooverphonic and away from trip hop but equally relaxing, Cocteau Twins (possibly my favourite group :)).

[UlTi]

I prefer rock/metal/hard rock and bands like Metallica, Iron Maiden, Ac/Dc and Led Zepplin

[EarthElement]

Metallica is, and always will be, my life!!!! Is it just me or are alot of MAists metalheads? :yeleyes:

[iamraisen]

id noticed that too

[Stan O'Kella]

What kind of music?

The answer yes! I like pretty much something of everything, depending on mood, and the quality of the music. If its well made and has a degree of originality I'll probably like it.

With one major exception, I HATE JAZZ!!!!!!!! I just HATE JAZZ, and do you know what I HATE JAZZ!!!

Maybe i should change my name to Jonny!!

[Omicron]

I HATE JAZZ!!!!!!!! I just HATE JAZZ, and do you know what I HATE JAZZ!!!
Care to elaborate on that a bit? I'd be interested in hearing some of your reasons.

[slideyfoot]

Particularly as your hatred is deeply, deeply wrong, because jazz is right up there with classical music in terms of compositional skill (Duke Ellington, for example, is highly regarded in classical circles). Matter of taste, bah. :p

[Peter.san]

I like soft rock a little, like Dashboard Confessional, and I like Muse alot..

And for training taekwondo, I naturally use techno/dance/trance (whatever the difference is), and punk-rock.