Favorite genre of music?

[Wild Bill]

Yep, what's your favorite type of music to blast with Quintessential (or anything else, for that matter)? What about your favorite singers and/or groups?

I like alternative/hard rock/nu-metal, and other stuff in that area. My favorite bands include Linkin Park, Staind, and Evanescence.

[Hanzo]

Well I can hear almost everything and my current MP3 collection proves it
(5000 MP3's and counting). I like classic rock and rock. Also some of the new bands like Linkin Park and Evanecense, and the old bands like Scorpions and REO or Foreigner. Also latin music, salsa, merengue, pop, rap, trance and electronic music. But my real favorite is classic rock.

The only thing I can't stand (I even listen to opera and symphonies :p ) is country. I hate country music. But that is my personal opinion.

[Cabinessence]

I mostly listen to rock/pop from the 60's and 70's, but also some various bands from more current date. Plus some hardrock/metal.

[bolodex]

I like Christian Rock... 3rd Day, DC Talk, Jars of Clay. My tastes are very eclectic, really. Anything is good except gangster rap to me.

Gary

[drewkeller]

anything except certain jazz. i listen to a lot of soundtracks (not those compilations that they inappropriately call soundtracks). enya, moby, over the rhine, iona - some favorite artists

[Tokelil]

Well it’s mostly Rock/Metal/Gothic I listen to. Actually I have my MP3/Ogg collection divided in those 3 folders so I can choose one whole folder depending on my mood.
Rock: Chris Cornell is one of my favourite artists!! His solo album Euphoria Morning is one of the best albums ever IMO. Besides that it’s Live, Lifehouse, Kashmir (The best Danish band!) and I’m a big fan of Sting. (And there are a few others too in that folder)

Metal: Of course Metallica but some new ones like Linkin Park, Staind, A Perfect Circle, Rammstein and a lot others too.

Gothic: I have fallen in love with metal with female lead vocal (a couple of years before Evanescence became famous) so Within Temptation and Lacuna Coil is what I listen to most of the time at the moment. It’s great that Evanescence has had so much success.

Now if just the folks at Audioscrobbler.com would have hurried I wouldn't have had to write all this... :(

Edit: I cant believe I forgot System Of A Down... :o

[Young Twig]

I listen to a lot of music. I listen to a lot of "rock." Such a general term. I also listen to some "chill" music and some metal/hardcore. I also listen to some music which is classified as "Emo."

Bands:
[Rock/Emo]
Futher Seems Forever
The Juliana Theory
dieradiodie
[Chill]
Copeland
Rocking Horse Winner
[Metal]
As I Lay Dying
Living Sacrifice
Extol
[Misc.]
Rush

Many of those bands are Christian bands...

[Heigar]

Anything that's heavy and a little rap.

Slipknot
40 below summer
soilwork
dark tranquillity
eminem
dirty dozen
ETC.ETC.

[maresias]

hmm..a hard one.

favourite genre:
ethnic & alternative rock

favourite music makers:
Vega,
Dire Straits,
Paul Oakenfold,
DJ Shadow,
Nitin Sawhney,
The Deftones,
Charles Aznavour,
Rolling Stones,
Moby.

[manymosi]

I use it almost exclusively to listen to sermons, mostly in MP3 format.

[MrZebra]

While I don't have any real criteria on genre per say, the one thing that defines my music tastes is that I only listen to female artists! I don't really like too heavy stuff though but I am starting to like the few Evanecense MP3s I downloaded the other day...

My favorite group is Alisha's Attic, 2 british sisters who are unfortunately not known here.

Other than that, I like Tori Amos, Melanie Doane, Amy Studt*, Siobhan Donaghy*, Tegan And Sara, Taty** (Pronounced Tatoo), Damhnait Doyle, Dido, Avril Lavigne, Jewel, Lene Marlin*, Lili Fatale**, Maren Ord, Natalie Imbruglia and many others (The first level of the quicktrack menu currently has 24 sub-menus, ~37hr playlist)

*: Not known in this country.
**: Not in english.

[krazyd]

Almost everything... except Nu-Metal, teeny-bop-pop, new Rap (old skool is cool :p ) and Country/Bluegrass.

A little off topic: Metal is good. I'm glad Metallica headed away from Load/Reload. Yuck.

[ace2701]

I spend all night at work listening to oldies, Chinese and Japanese pop -- usually through streaming radio stations.

[fatal error]

here's what dominates my playlists:

The Church
Rush
Killing Joke
System Of A Down
Primus
Disturbed
Joe Satriani
Megadeth
Alkaline Trio
Unwritten Law
Adema
The Fixx
The Police
Trapt
Korn

[Roj]

Yep, what's your favorite type of music to blast with Quintessential (or anything else, for that matter)? What about your favorite singers and/or groups?

I like alternative/hard rock/nu-metal, and other stuff in that area. My favorite bands include Linkin Park, Staind, and Evanescence.Samples of stuff sitting on my servers:

Smooth Jazz:
- The Rippingtons
- Boney James
- Peter White
- Greg Karukas
- Diana Krall

Blues
- Stevie Ray Vaughan
- Ronnie Earl

Downtempo:
- Mono
- Zero 7
- Massive Attack
- Morcheeba
- Goldfrapp

Acid Jazz / House
- anything on the Naked Music label
- Dimitri from Paris
- Supperclub Presents Lounge
- Ministry Of Sound

Reggae
- dancehall / dub
- Third World
- Bob or as we would say "Bahb"! (if you need to ask, there is no hope for you :) )

R&B
- Anita Baker
- Alicia Keys
- Erikah Badu
- Toni Braxton
- Mary J. Blige
- En Vogue

80s New Wave / Electro
- New Order
- Shriekback
- Bauhaus

Classic Rock
- Yes (with Rick Wakeman)
- Rick Wakeman (duh!)
- Pink Floyd
- Santana
- Queen

Soft Rock
- Phil Collins
- Eric Clapton
- Sting

Any Old Motown

Funk!

Eurodance (not the crap purveyed today - stuff that actually had production quality)

DJ Mixes (see above)
- DJ Tiesto
- Victor Calderone

...and a whole lot more!

And yes, I used to like Evanescence until radio (and my oldest daughter) played the living **** out of them.

[jawpr]

Southern Gospel & Bluegrass Gospel

[#The fREaK!]

I play techno alot. (not the trashy stuff you usually hear on non-intenet radio) Some of my favorite artists are Gary D., DJ Snowman, DJ Valium and DJ Yan. Then some of the music made by DJ Promo is good. It's just so damn nice to put on a nice techno megamix and then play it with about 20dBs less volume than my amplifier can handle without clipping (outputs ~80dB), with full DSP processing (it sounds different every time, since I tweak it all the time) and then just sit in my living room for 1 hour or so (depends on the megamix), listening.

Sometimes however I play something completely different like hard rock, metal, pop or classical music, for example. But not that often and not that long.

[Hanzo]

And yes, I used to like Evanescence until radio (and my oldest daughter) played the living **** out of them.
Well I've had that experience with so many other songs / bands here.

[Wild Bill]

And yes, I used to like Evanescence until radio (and my oldest daughter) played the living **** out of them.
Funny, the radio station I listen hardly plays my favorites at all. I normally only listen when I'm trying to fall asleep at night, but I've not heard Evanescence on the radio in days, and I might hear Linkin Park about every other night.

[regener8ed]

my library is pretty diverse; classical jazz celtic orchestral blues ambient contemporary christian oldies alternative rock '80s latin goa psy asian folk grunge comedy

i also like to listen to TV/movie themes and soundtracks.

i typically do not care for country, and definitely dont like rap. the current pop scene is pretty lame as well.

[Matt]

not really a genre... but...

All Ninja Tunes

[plover]

Hmm.. I guess I'll just pick samples from the stuff I have MP3's of. While it's not necessarily representative of my favorites (since most of my stuff is still on CD), it's more or less representative of the range of stuff I listen to.

Electronic:
~ Future Sound of London ~ Jega ~ SquarePusher ~

Ambient:
~ Arovane ~ Biosphere ~ Oval ~ Robert Rich ~

Rock/Pop/Alternative:
~ Belle & Sebastian ~ The Black Heart Procession ~ Joy Division ~
~ Lisa Loeb ~ Magnetic Fields ~ Mogwai ~ Wilco ~

Folk/Country:
~ Richard Buckner ~ Neko Case ~

Modern Scandanavian Folk:
~ Frifot ~ Hedningarna ~ Rinne Radio & Wimme ~

World:
~ Geinoh Yamashirogumi ~ Ghazal ~ Huun-Huur-Tu ~

Goth:
~ Apoptygma Berzerk ~ Covenant ~ Delerium ~ VNV Nation ~

Jazz:
~ Miles Davis ~ Pat Metheny ~ Nils Petter Molvær ~ The Necks ~

Classical:
~ J S Bach (mostly keyboard music) ~ Iannis Xenakis ~
~ Claudio Monteverdi (Renaissance choral) ~

[cudelleirbag]

Mostly 70s rock and progressive:
LedZep, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Yes, Genesis, Rush Jethro tull, Cream, Brand X, rolling stones, ....

Late 90s black, death and doom metal:
Emperor, Satyricon, Immortal, Opeth, Dimmu Borgir, Katationa, Kataklysm, ...

Blues and jazz are always good:
Robert Johnson, Al di meola, Stanley clarke, Willi dixon, John lee hooker, miles davis, Chick Corea, ...

I found the 80s to be the most boring period.

CL

[starblood]

Well, right now I am listening to Fiona Apple's first album which I just received yesterday.

I like "alternative" music (real alternative, not the corporate alternative that has been prevalent since the 90s.) I like electronic, ambient, gothic/darkwave, alt-folk... I don't suppose I have one favorite genre, though. I think the eighties were the best decade for music. I love new wave & post-punk.

Nice to see people mentioning The Church and Shriekback (two of my very favorites.)

[Miester_V]

What I'm mostly listening to:

Genres: Progressive/Black/Death Metal

Bands: Opeth, Dream Theater, Children of Bodom, Tool, The Mars Volta (among others)

I'm essentially open to all kinds of music, but at this point I find that those genres above and corresponding bands offer me the most satisfying experience. During the early 90's I was really into rap and R&B. Times have changed, and so has music, for better or worse.

[blackspawn]

What I'm mostly listening to: (...) Opeth, Dream Theater, Children of Bodom (...) I was really into rap and R&B.
Man that was some radical change :)

I listen to almost every kind of metal, from progressive to black (minus nu metal and hardcore and alikes).

Bands I like include: Moonspell, Dark Tranquility, Iced Earth, Nightwish, Dream Theater, After Forever... (continues to list dozens and dozens of bands).

[Miester_V]

Man that was some radical change :)
I simply didn't know that those genres/bands existed back then. You could say that I was fairly ignorant. Oh, and I really liked Linkin Park at one point, whereas now, there's a limit to how much pop rock I can tolerate. ;)

[blackspawn]

there's a limit to how much pop rock I can tolerate. ;)
Yeah I know what you mean, I actually once bought a Limp Bizkit CD.... WHAT WAS I THINKING???? :D

[Lich]

Well, I like doom - Anathema, Katatonia, My Dying Bride, Paradise Lost, Tiamat, Crematory, Estatic Fear, Cemetary, Theatre of Tragedy (only early), The Sins of Thy Beloved, Tristania, Type O Negative, Dismal Euphony, Darkseed...

Death - Dark Tranquillity (but I dislike In Flames), At The Gates...

Septic Flesh, Rotting Christ, Kovenant (ex-Covenant)...

Some classic heavy as Manowar, Grave Digger, Blind Guardian, Judas Priest, Iced Earth...

Black - Dimmu Borgir, Cadaveria & Opera IX, Cradle of Filth (he-he), Lux Occulta...

Goth Rock - like Inkubus Sukkubus, Folk Rock - In Extremo, Subway to Sally, Hagalaz Runadance, Ataraxia, Summoning, Haggard, Therion, Tanzwut...

Goth/EBM - L'ame Immortelle, Lacrimosa, Deine Lakaien, Diary of Dreams, Ice Ages, Qntal, Sopor Aeternus...

Elend, Angizia, Autumn Tears, Kari Rueslatten, Mortiis, Dead Can Dance...

--

Hatelist: rap, nu-metal, jazz, pop.

[cudelleirbag]

Yeah I know what you mean, I actually once bought a Limp Bizkit CD.... WHAT WAS I THINKING???? :D

*cough* total waste of money *cough*
;)


CL

[cudelleirbag]

...
Black - Dimmu Borgir
...


Dimmu Borgir, Children of Bodom, Nevermore and Hypocrisy were in Montreal last week

And I was there! :cool:
Very good show don't miss that

CL

[Lich]

Dimmu BorgirThey were in Moscow last month:)

[hedge]

damm y do none of the great european (or any other...) metal bands ever come down under.
ahhh well metallica is coming soon, but still, hypocrisy, dimmu borgir, curse you guys !!!
ps. if ya haven't noticed, i like mainly death metal, but also like nightwish, blind guaridan (now playing... :)) iced earth, symphony x, stratovarius (even though that new album was not that great), sonata arctica, lacuna coil, lost horizon, avantasia, opeth (love that slower new album), rammstein (come on, when are they gonna release something new!!!), kamelot, sentenced, children of bodom, coldplay.... hmmm wait a sec, that last one had nothing to do with metal .... ah well i pretty much like everything except pop, rap and R&B.

[MrZebra]

Dimmu Borgir, Children of Bodom, Nevermore and Hypocrisy were in Montreal last week

And I was there!
Very good show don't miss that


You live in Montreal or was that one big road trip to come and see them?

I live in Montreal too (Longueuil actually, 5 mins subway ride under the river)...

But very few of my faves come here (Or have released their albums in Canada even!) The only times that Alisha's Attic, Amy Studt or Siobhan Donaghy played a gig in Montreal was in my dreams hehe!

About the whole Pop vs Metal debate. There is what I call good pop and bad pop. The bad pop is the stuff that gets overplayed on the radio, that the singers are not really involved in the music really (Don't play any instruments and/or don't write the lyrics) or worst of them all, winners of some dumb reality show.

What I call good pop is what is more or less the same kind of music, but the arists write their own songs, play their own instruments. Play on the radio a little or fail in the charts because they are too good to be very popular and/or are just not known in this country like the 3 I mentionned 2 paragraphs ago.

[thetribe]

My main favourite is Hard Rock and bands like AC/DC, Iron Maiden, Motorhead, but I'll listen to just about anything. Although I do find it hard to enjoy most RAP stuff.

A sample of my listening for one day could contain
* random classical tracks
* AC/DC
* John Denver
* Don Williams
* Hayseed Dixie
* Great Big Sea
* Offspring
* Sum 41
* Good Charlotte
* Rancid
* Sex Pistols
.........

You get the picture, I guess I just "like music"

[Todd The Kiwi]

I like Christian Rock... 3rd Day, DC Talk, Jars of Clay. My tastes are very eclectic, really. Anything is good except gangster rap to me.

Gary
hi man i came across a christian band about 7 years ago that go by the name "the crucified" i thought they were pretty awsome but i can't find any info on them? i think they are australians? also do you like mortification? they are a christian death metal band pretty far out tunes man. s'yoo todd the kiwi :D

[Lich]

I know Mortification:)

[Todd The Kiwi]

I know Mortification:)


you know them or know of them ? so what's russia like man? are there many metal concerts? what about dark twisted drum 'n' bass? i reckon drum 'n' bass is the metal of the electronic world (i'm not alone on that one) maybe you've heard of "digital" or "dillinja" do you like "pungent stench" ? i should probably use the pm thing but you know how it is. :)

[cudelleirbag]

You live in Montreal or was that one big road trip to come and see them?


It was a 10 minutes road trip from home :D

CL

[Young Twig]

Extol is some amazing Christian Death Metal. Living Sacrifice and As I Lay Dying are also good Christian Metal/Hardcore bands... ;)

[Todd The Kiwi]

Extol is some amazing Christian Death Metal. Living Sacrifice and As I Lay Dying are also good Christian Metal/Hardcore bands... ;)


hi man :) have you heard of eisenvater? iron father in english. i have 1 record (vinyl) of theirs but no other information at all ? :( i'm going to post this in the forum too just in case anybody knows of these guys :) smiley (that's how we spell it here) overkill .

[Chibimoon]

* AC/DC
[. . .]
* Sum 41
* Good Charlotte
[. . .]
* Sex Pistols
.........

You get the picture, I guess I just "like music"

The fact that you would pair AC/DC and the Sex Pistols with Sum41 and Good Charlotte only proves my most recent theory... Humans are incredibly stupid. People like you make Joey Ramone spin in his freakin' grave like socks in a dryer.

[Chibimoon]

As long as I'm posting, I may as well throw up some of my favourite bands... I mostly listen to '70s punk and glam, but a few other alt styles can be found... Some '80s.
- The Velvet Underground
- Iggy Pop
- The Sex Pistols
- The Ramones
- The Dead Kennedys (Eh...)
- Siouxsie and the Banshees
- Bauhaus
- The Cure
- David Bowie <3
- The Clash
- Billy Idol (so pretty...)
- The New York Dolls
- Lou Reed (solo crap...)
- Joan Jett and the Blackhearts

But how about the bands that I hate? I'll only throw up the ones I hate with a passion...
- Avril Lavigne makes the top of my list. Hate, hate, HATE the girl. David "Bow"ie, indeed. "People are like, oh, she doesn't know who the Sex Pistols are... I don't need to know that, that's old stuff, right?" Gaagghh.
- Linkin Park. Is it just me, or do all their songs sound the SAME?
- Good Charlotte. Just because I can.
- Evanescence. "Goth-rock" my butt.

[Roj]

As long as I'm posting, I may as well throw up some of my favourite bands...I really don't think you'd like what's playing on my portable and in my SUV right now: :)

Afrocelts - Seed
Dwayne Kerr - Flutation
Govi - Guitar Odyssey
Karunesh - Nirvana Cafe
Michael Brook - Cobalt Blue
Ottmar Liebert - Poets & Angels
Patrick Ball - Celtic Harp, Volume IV, O'Carolans Dream
The Rippingtons - Let It Ripp
Thievery Corporation - The Richest Man In Babylon

You see, I do almost all kinds of music. Except Death Metal. I rather like my ears and a wall of distorted noise just doesn't do it for me. :D

[Miester_V]

I really don't think you'd like what's playing on my portable and in my SUV right now: :)

Afrocelts - Seed
Dwayne Kerr - Flutation
Govi - Guitar Odyssey
Karunesh - Nirvana Cafe
Michael Brook - Cobalt Blue
Ottmar Liebert - Poets & Angels
Patrick Ball - Celtic Harp, Volume IV, O'Carolans Dream
The Rippingtons - Let It Ripp
Thievery Corporation - The Richest Man In Babylon

You see, I do almost all kinds of music. Except Death Metal. I rather like my ears and a wall of distorted noise just doesn't do it for me. :D
I think you've mistaken the majority of Death Metal for Nu-Metal. :D Do you listen to Melodic Death Metal? Cause the only thing distorted in that is the person's voice when the growling occurs. Otherwise, all of the instrumental notes are discernable and quite melodic.

My (current) favorite Melodic Death Metal band: Opeth.

[Rex_Mundi_Incarnit]

I myself like a lot of music styles. For example, blues/jazz/R&B, (Soft) rock, (melodic/vocal) Trance, and many popular artists in Europe (esp. italian ones for i have lived for 6 years in Turin, Italy).

Some of my favourite artists are:
-Radiohead
-Moby
-Paolo Conte
-Zucchero
-Phil Collins
-Eric Clapton
-Enya (LOTR!)
-Air
-Sting
And many trance mixes from e.g. DJ Tiesto (Dutch guy!) and DJ Doboy.

[Qaz]

I, as well, like various sort of music. Though, mostly I'm listening rap, but not angry sounding. And I need to mention this one nu soul band. It's called Quintessence :)

[deusdiabolus]

[QUOTE=Wild Bill]Yep, what's your favorite type of music to blast with Quintessential (or anything else, for that matter)? What about your favorite singers and/or groups?

Lately I have this minor obsession with white label dance remixes of various things. It's just kind of fascinating to see what some unknown remixer will do to a song that many people consider an untouchable classic.

There's also my own material as well, when I bother to sit down and convert some stuff to MP3.

Predominantly, I like most electronica, leaning towards experimental/nu breaks/hard drum tracks/hard techhouse.

[Todd The Kiwi]

[QUOTE=Wild Bill]Yep, what's your favorite type of music to blast with Quintessential (or anything else, for that matter)? What about your favorite singers and/or groups?

Lately I have this minor obsession with white label dance remixes of various things. It's just kind of fascinating to see what some unknown remixer will do to a song that many people consider an untouchable classic.

There's also my own material as well, when I bother to sit down and convert some stuff to MP3.

Predominantly, I like most electronica, leaning towards experimental/nu breaks/hard drum tracks/hard techhouse.

i expect you may dig a bit of hard out drum and bass then ? yet to discover any u.s d'n'b though , anything worthy of my rig ? this is a pic of the biggest and most insane setup on the planet ! they could not bring it to new zealand because it's too big to get on the plane ! mad valve rig...