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I noticed that there aren't a lot of music threads, so I thought I'd start one! What kind of music do you like and/or what have you been listening to lately? Any good new artists???

Some of my faves:

Mazzy Star, Portishead, Sigur Ros, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Tom Petty, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Tori Amos, Björk, Ani DiFranco, Radiohead, Iron & Wine, R.E.M, Enigma, Cyndi Lauper, Gnarls Barkley, The Cure, Hope Sandoval, Dead Can Dance, Aimee Mann, PJ Harvey, Luscious Jackson, Peter Gabriel, Enya, Thievery Corporation, Digable Planets, Air, The Cardigans, The White Stripes, Depeche Mode (why yes, I did copy and paste this from my Facebook. LOL)

I love '80s (especially new wave and lesser-known stuff, but I definitely love the well-know pop stuff too), some '90s (nostalgia!), classic rock, some metal (no death metal or anything like that though!), women singers, alternative/indie stuff, world, new age, ambient, old jazz, old country and bluegrass

I CAN'T STAND current/radio station-type country, current "hip-hop" and Top 40, "nu-metal", or crap like Nickelback and Creed *shudder*.


I totally dig Pandora and all the new artists and songs I've discovered from there. OMG LOVE. There's an internet radio site called Live 365 that has some awesome stations. SomaFM has lots of good stuff too. I also LOVE the music programs on our local NPR station (Burnt Toast Show, Little Brother Radio, Saturday Fade). Lots of GOOD artists you never hear on any other radio stations (because the stations around here blow chunks, except for the classic rock ones).

Whew! Sorry, that was a bit long! Anyone else???

I enjoy Pandora. I'm in Canada though so I have to use my IP hider program to be able to listen to it. Oh well, at least it works.

I love music, all different kinds. I'm not sure I could even pick a favourite. I really, really enjoy old stuff though. 50s & 60s stuff. My mom exposed me to all different kinds of music growing up and I'm glad she did.

Yeah, melsie, I agree ~ older stuff is better!! We used to listen to my parents' old records all the time.

*BUMP* Anyone else???

(07-17-2010 08:20 PM)melsie433 Wrote: [ -> ]I enjoy Pandora. I'm in Canada though so I have to use my IP hider program to be able to listen to it. Oh well, at least it works.

Where do you get your IP hider? I'm in Canada too, and losing Pandora made me cry!! LOL

Music means more to me than just about anything, so what I like is pretty huge, far too much to list here. I do tend to listen to stuff that most people have never heard of, like Gogol Bordello, Goran Bregovic, Trevor Morris, Cheb Khaled, Beirut, Balkan Beat Box, etc.

I guess it's easier to say that I like classical and orchestral, easy listening and loungecore (from Mike Flowers to Bacharach), some rock, some punk, traditional jazz, big band, Dixieland, folk (Leonard Cohen), "alternative rock," some pop, classic country and some alt.country, gypsy, some Eurotrash pop (like E-Type), gypsy-punk, some rap, trad-Irish, older Brit-Pop, Arabic/Israeli/Turkish/Persian and contemporary interpretations of those, electronic (like Moby), some dance/trance/techno (like Fatboy Slim), and goth/wave (like Dead Can Dance or Portishead or Bauhaus).

I don't like: most pop, contemporary country, gospel, modern jazz, bebop, smooth jazz, soul, most funk, contemporary R&B (like Beyonce or Usher), heavy metal, hardcore metal, glam metal, and nearly anything else found on commercial radio.

Pandora is great. I can't listen to most commercial radio stations I've encountered. I do like some college radio, but there aren't any college radio stations where I live, shockingly. There used to be this great syndicated radio station out of Chicago that played jazz/easy/lounge, from Frank Sinatra to Dean Martin to Jack Jones to Henry Mancini, it was an AM station. It was the only radio station I could listen to in the car, it was available where ever I lived, but it's gone now. Bastards. There's an internet station called The 1920s Radio Network, but I can't listen to them in my car, only on iTunes.

I like all kinds of music. My favorite groups are: Beatles, America, Jars of Clay, and R.E.M. Of course all of my favorite groups didn't do everything great. I liked Fleetwood Mac a lot before the Rumors album.
The Fleetwood Mac album (1975) was borderline, but I liked them before that. That was with Bob Welsh and before Stevie Nix and Lindsey Buckingham.

My favorites for solo artists are: James Taylor, Carly Simon (they were married to each other one time and did duets), Robert Palmer (before he became popular), Elton John and Miles Davis. There are many more that I like that are solo also. Oh and I really liked Jennifer Warnes - she was the greatest for me.

What I do not like is: heavy metal, hip hop, the newer country music, and anything that's vulgar. I don't like commercial radio because they are owned by Clear Channel. Radio used to be great before that happened. Commercial radio would play the same stuff and have too many commercials.

My favorite radio station is on the internet calld Radio Paradise. I think that Lovelydelusion would like that station because they play a lot of the artists that she listed. There are no commercials on that station.

(07-22-2010 01:42 AM)tommy14 Wrote: [ -> ]Oh and I really liked Jennifer Warnes - she was the greatest for me.

Tommy, have you ever heard Jennifer's album of Leonard Cohen covers? It's called "Famous Blue Raincoat" and she even has a duet with Cohen on the song "Joan of Arc." I highly recommend this album to any Warnes fan or any Cohen fan, it's fantastic.

Anastasia - you have fabulous taste!!! I like Gogol Bordello and Balkan Beat Box, so I'll have to check out some of those others you listed. Oh, and Leonard Cohen's voice makes me melt *sigh*

tommy - I love me some Fleetwood Mac and Stevie. I will have to check out that Radio Paradise. Thanks!

(07-21-2010 10:49 AM)Jo Wrote: [ -> ]

(07-17-2010 08:20 PM)melsie433 Wrote: [ -> ]I enjoy Pandora. I'm in Canada though so I have to use my IP hider program to be able to listen to it. Oh well, at least it works.

Where do you get your IP hider? I'm in Canada too, and losing Pandora made me cry!! LOL

Same here! I hated losing Pandora.