Who do you listen to?

downgoesfrazier · August 17, 2004 11:42PM

In the spirit of getting to know each other a bit better, the type of music one listens to is often a barometer of other things you may have in common as well as the era you grew up in. I'm curious what some of my fellow board participants listen to?

dgf

thejam · August 17, 2004 11:45PM

new order, ny dolls, the records, gary myrick, big audio dynamite, stranglers, the clash, the jam

cspeier1 · August 18, 2004 12:43AM

I still love hairbands. I recently had Direct TV installed and I get goose pumps when I listen to channel 6023 which is '80's hair bands. I LOVE Creed and Puddle of Mud. I still dig the hard stuff, Pantera, Slipnot, Godsmack- big favorite. My rule of thumb, it has to have a gutair solo or it's trash!!

Chad

EagleEyeKid · August 18, 2004 12:48AM

Rolling Stones, Beatles, Doors, Foghat, Eagles, Skynnard.....what you may call classic rock nowadays. Too many to list.

cspeier1 · August 18, 2004 12:55AM

EEK.. I forgot the classics.. Led Zep, Doors, Eagles.. Hell I thought that was a rule. If you don't like the classic stuff- you have to listen to cheesy boy bands. Also, I have to add Eminem. I wouldn't let my children listen to it, but he's a talanted boy..

Chad

Basilone · August 18, 2004 1:20AM

Here is a list of my favorite bands:

Phish, Ween, Pavement, The Pixies, The Clash, Bad Religion, Sonic Youth, Velvet Underground, Guided By Voices, PULP, Vida Blue.

John

milbroco · August 18, 2004 2:19AM

I am a country man. I listen to Lonestar, Brooks and Dunn, Shaina, and Martina McBride. My car radio never leaves 92.5 WXTU Country........Except when the Flyers, Phillies or Eagles are on.

calleocho · August 18, 2004 2:24AM

Howard stern in the morning and NPR in the afternoon.

Music wise, mostly classic rock (stones, beatles, doors) when im by myself and when there are people in the car top 40 or whatever

CON40 · August 18, 2004 2:30AM

Lots of local political talk radio (Howie Carr, Jay Severin)... but for tunes, I'm all over the place! I love Peter Gabriel, Garbage, Green Day, Morrissey, Colin Hay, Pink Floyd, Madness, Beatles, Frank Sinatra, Robert Palmer, Rancid, and Offspring!

helionaut · August 18, 2004 2:33AM

Currently in heavy ipod rotation are Oneida, Minus the Bear, Big Black/Shellac, Department of Eagles, Edith Frost, Boss Hog, Melvins, Princess Superstar, Holly Golightly, Sparta, Interpol, Erykah Badu, Le Tigre, Sleater-Kinney, all those emo bands like Modest Mouse, Pinback, Postal Service, Death Cab, and Pretty Girls Make Graves. I've got about every Jimi Hendrix recording you can find. I've also been discovering Golden Earring. Aside from "Radar Love" and "Twilight Zone," they've got like 30 albums and some really wonderful stuff. "Vanilla Queen" is my favorite song so far this year and it's 30 years old. It's worth a buck from iTunes. The arrangement of "Clair De Lune" from the Ocean's 11 soundtrack is something I have to hear every day.

A friend of mine just came into town with 200 CDs his father, a gigantic record collector, burned for him. They are all unlabeled, all various random stuff. This will be a tremendous treasure hunt.

BTW, if anyone has Boss Hog All-Stars (the first record with the naked Christina cover) or Girl+ on CD, I will buy, or at least burn.

wlf3 · August 18, 2004 3:27AM

I'm w/ Chad mostly.... a transplanted Northerner in the South... refuse to listed to country music. I'm more of the hard rock or heavier persuation. Slipknot, Nine Inch Nails, Mudvane, and Mushroomhead are currently in my CD player...tho I do own and listen to a lot of things, from those to Eminem to Garbage (love Shirley Manson!) to Don Henley to Public Enemy, Bethoven, and the Cure. basically anything except country I'd listen to, but like the heavy stuff best. I really like Korn, Helmet, and Quicksand as well.

yawie99 · August 18, 2004 3:42AM

Tough call, but I guess my top 10 (not necessarily in order) would be the Beatles, Phish, Miles Davis, Blur, the Chemical Brothers, the Orb, the Smiths/Morrissey, the Disco Biscuits, the Wu-Tang Clan (and many of the Wu solo joints) and Stereolab.

thejam · August 18, 2004 3:53AM

thumbs up on golden earring -- especially their live albums ... er CDs .. throw in cramps, boomtown rats, skunks (austin),

pandrews · August 18, 2004 5:16AM

i listen to such a wide variety of stuff, you would think i was strange when you looked in my CD books.. if it sounds good, i listen to it.. everything from Amazing Grace to Afro-Man to Waylon Jennings.. from Van Halen to the Ghetto Boyz to Bocephus to Blues Traveler..

yawie - I have some Miles Davis also.. Kind of Blue..

lately its been MOFRO (check them out).. and several Ryan Adams CD's.. one of the best songwriters out there..

i should post a list of my 1200+ cd's..

jrinck · August 18, 2004 5:25AM

<< <i>I still love hairbands. I recently had Direct TV installed and I get goose pumps when I listen to channel 6023 which is '80's hair bands. >>

DirecTV has a channel 6023? I thought the channels only went from 1-999, with the music channels in the 800's. What have I been missing all this time?

Aknot · August 18, 2004 5:28AM

I listen to my Wife.

cspeier1 · August 18, 2004 5:29AM

You know what, we have Dish Network. I don't even know what I have!! They call it SIRUS?.. The reason I didn't go with Direct TV is no local channels yet.. Sorry!!!!!!

Chad

jrinck · August 18, 2004 5:30AM

Oh, you have DISH NETWORK, not DirecTV!

Dish Network's music channels are feeds from the Sirius Satellite service. I sub to Sirius so I know that hair band channel quite well. But I'm a Buzzsaw (heavy rock/metal) channel 19 person myself.

Scumbi · August 18, 2004 5:41AM

Iggy Pop, Early Bowie, Joy Division, New Order, Lou Reed, English Beat, Echo and the Bunnymen, Heaven 17 (For dance), The Clash, Fleshtones, The Specials, The Jam, Style Council, Sisters of Mercy, Nick Cave.

The only newer band I listen to is Radiohead.

Guess I'm locked back in my youth for music.

S.

Kid4hof03 · August 18, 2004 5:41AM

Like many others I listen to a very wide range of music. At the moment my most-listented to are Johnny Cash, Stevie Wonder (early 70's), early Billy Joel and Skynnard.

Abe

Stone193 · August 18, 2004 6:18AM

Jerry Vale, Wayne Newton, Tom Jones and of course my all time favorite...Beer Barrel Polka!

After a sixer I like the top 30z on the radio.

Stone

elway65 · August 18, 2004 6:30AM

SCUMBI and I must be close to the same age. SCUMBI: Do you watch VH1's Bands Reunited. In its second go-round, "Bands Reunited" will attempt to track down the lost members of New Kids on the Block (yawn), the English Beat (coolio), the Motels (su-weet), ABC (sweeter) and Haircut 100 (very cool).

Coldplay
Radiohead
Keane
Travis
The Church
Lloyd Cole and the Commotions
R.E.M.
Talk Talk
P-Furs
Flock of Seagulls
Depeche Mode
The Ocean Blue
Midnight Oil
The Smiths
Simple Minds
Echo and the Bunnymen
U2
Police and Sting
The Cure
Roxy Music/Bryan Ferry
Smashing Pumpkins
Toad the Wet Sprocket

Vargha · August 18, 2004 6:53AM

Mostly 80's, Classic Rock and Christian Contemporary Rock (Tree 63, Newsboys . . .)

phreakydancin · August 18, 2004 7:10AM

Small sampling of my CD collection...

All things British:
Happy Mondays (source of my username)
Stone Roses
Depeche Mode
New Order/Joy Division
Blur
Supergrass
Radiohead
Oasis (first 2 albums only)
Pulp
Manic Street Preachers
OMD
The La's
The Verve
Pet Shop Boys
Erasure/Yazoo
Travis
Coldplay
The Cure
The Smiths/Morrissey
The Police
Sisters of Mercy
Howard Jones

Industrial:
Nine Inch Nails
KMFDM
My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult
Front 242
Ministry

Electronic:
Kraftwerk
Underworld
Orbital
Chemical Brothers
Prodigy
Daft Punk
Future Sound Of London
Basement Jaxx
Moby
Autechre
Aphex Twin
Boards of Canada
808 State
Air

Classic Rock:
Pink Floyd
U2
Peter Gabriel
The Beatles

Also REM, Smashing Pumpkins,

bengineno9 · August 18, 2004 7:43AM

I'm a little different from you guys. I listen to a lot of different music though but here are my fav's.

KoRn, Deftones, Mudvayne,TOOL, Audioslave, Metallica, NIN, A little bit of Manson.

Oh and the Rome show when i'm at work.

Ben

SDSportsFan · August 18, 2004 9:05AM

My top-five favorites are ZZ Top, Van Halen, Waylon Jennings, AC/DC and Heart. My playlist is huge...Aerosmith, KISS, The Eagles, Fleetwod Mac, Journey, REO Speedwagon, the Beach Boys, the Mamas and the Papas, the Carpenters, Hank Williams Jr, Charlie Daniels, Shania Twain, George Strait, Travis Tritt, etc, etc, etc. Right now, I'm listening to Meatloaf's "Couldn't Have Said it Better" CD.

Basically, I like everything except Rap.

Steve

goodriddance189 · August 18, 2004 9:17AM

recently i've been listening to a ton of Local H, Slipknot, Rancid, Authority Zero, old Sepultura, and Rise against
other stuff-

PUNK-
bad religion, pennywise, black flag, rancid, good riddance, decendents, 1208, born to lose, and thrice, etc

ROCK/etc-
skynyrd, animals, pantera, down, superjoint ritual, deftones, foo fighters, sullen, cheap trick, alice in chains, helmet (old, new cd is wretched), clutch, hatebreed, white zombie, springsteen, outkast, tool, deftones, tracy chapman, rage, pearl jam, and a ton of other stuff

jaybyrd · August 18, 2004 12:30PM

I have been hooked for a month on Saves the Day - Through Being Cool CD. Some hard core punk, emo with hooks you don't hear on the first listen. Which makes it fun to discover new stuff each time you listen. Tsuami Bomb first CD hasn't been out of my cd player for two months also.

All time favorite is the first four Aerosmith albums. Before they got too drugged out. All my friends listen to country, but I just could never warm up to it.

ydsotter · August 19, 2004 2:08AM

Ween, Funkadelic, Zappa, Beefheart, Eric Burdon, Cake, John Cale, Reed, Bowie, Black Sabbath, Miles Davis, Iggy Pop, Stray Cats, Ohio Players, Grateful Dead, Dead Can Dance, Portishead, Magazine, lvis Costello, John Brown's Body, Butthole Surfers, Black Flag, Deep Purple, Rainbow, Supergrass, Pulp, X, Burt Bacharach, Nick Cave

dude · August 19, 2004 5:21AM

I like just about anything pre-1990 except real heavy metal or rap and hardly anything after 1990. I have at least 1200 CDs and they pretty much cover the spectrum. Some of my favorites are Riders in the Sky, Esquivel, Patsy Cline, Pat Methany, Dave Brubeck, Chris Isaaks, Sinatra, Blood Sweat and Tears, the Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Who, the Byrds, Springsteen and I could go on and on. I also like to listen to a lot of Various Artists compilations like the Atlantic Records R&B set, Capital Lounge series, and Rhino records puts out some great hard to find stuff from the '60's and '70's and so does Time/Life.

goodriddance189 · August 19, 2004 5:50AM

Basilone- can't believe you listen to Bad Religion, they're one of my favorite bands.

Jay- can't believe you listen to Helmet and Quicksand- actually, i can't believe anyone here actually knows who quicksand is

wlf3 · August 19, 2004 6:43AM

did jay mention Helmet and Quicksand too... I was the only one I recall seeing listing them.

BugOnTheRug · August 19, 2004 6:54AM

I listen to much of the above, especially the older stuff regardless of type, but there's a few I like that I don't think have been mentioned:

1st 5 Rush albums
Kool and the Gang
Black Oak Arkansas
James Gang
Uriah Heep
Grand Funk
Three Dog Night

BOTR

ps) glad to hear of some Foghat folks!

goodriddance189 · August 19, 2004 7:16AM

<< <i>did jay mention Helmet and Quicksand too... I was the only one I recall seeing listing them.

>>

whoops, Jay used to have that avatar and i wasn't paying attention.

JrMacdaddy · August 19, 2004 7:21AM

Very little music. U2, Beatles and that's about it.

On the radio I haven't seen an FM dial for a while.

The Talk Station

wlf3 · August 19, 2004 7:27AM

No prob GR... and i agree those of us who know who Quicksand are few and far between, might have something to do with them breaking up after 2 albums.

Vargha · August 19, 2004 7:43AM

This is in the CD player of my T-100 right now:

ydsotter · August 19, 2004 8:14AM

Slip was a great Quicksand album. Lost track of them afterwards...

wlf3 · August 19, 2004 9:08AM

Quicksand had two CDs... Slip and Manic Compression...both were equally good. I heard that they broke up a few years ago and I've not seen or heard anything since from them.

goodriddance189 · August 19, 2004 9:41AM

the members of Quicksand were involved with Rival Schools and CIV (both killer bands) after they broke up

SDSportsFan · August 19, 2004 10:45AM

Damn, I can't believe I forgot to mention Pink Floyd, Queen and Rush in my previous post

I'm listenin' to Pink Floyd's Echos right now

Steve

dbj77 · August 19, 2004 11:23AM

Deftones, Massive Attack, Orgy, Radiohead, Greenday, Poe, Luscious Jackson, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Dave Matthews Band, The Toadies, Hot Hot Heat, Sublime, Social Distortion, Stereo MC's, Coldplay, Danzig, Garbage, Alice In Chains, Filter, The Verve, Foo Fighters, Clutch, Bloodhound Gang, The Doors, Tool, The Monkees, Better than Ezra, Led Zeppelin, The Cars, Tripping Daisy, Ween, Vast, Bob Marley, Skrape, Jimi Hendrix, Rage Against the Machine, Cold, Silver Chair, Fatboy Slim, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, The Squirrel Nut Zippers, U2, Beastie Boys, Everclear, Flaw, The Cult, Rich Hardesty, Nickel Creek, Del the Funky Homosapien, Chevelle, Ice Cube, SwitchFoot, .....the list goes on and on.

jaybyrd · August 19, 2004 11:58AM

X - what a great band that was never discovered by the masses.!!

JrMacdaddy · August 19, 2004 1:23PM

Vargha,

Funny you mention Queen as in my DVD player I have their "Live at Wembley Stadium" concert from 1986. Have you seen it?

nearmint · August 19, 2004 1:33PM

Here's what's in the pile next to my CD player:

Massive Attack (3)
Beth Orton (2)
Everything But The Girl (2)
Chemical Brothers
New Order
Eels

mjt

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