I was just wondering what the majority of people listen to on SP! From what I've seen in the favourite song and album threads, it's A LOT of heavy metal and the like. But what does everyone really like?

Me? I like RnB, Trance, Hip Hop and Dance music :D

As in:

* RnB - Massari, Chris Brown, Bobby V, MH, Omarion etc

*Rap/Hip Hop - Chingy, Snoop Dogg, Mike Jones, Bun B etc

*Trance - DJ Tiesto, Armin Van Buren, Dirty South etc

So what does everyone else listen to :p

Celtic Folk music and chilled music.

Celtic: Enya, Loreena McKennitt

Chilled: Enigma, Cirque du soleil

stuff like that.

I fear the majority here prefers to listen to metal/prog/goth or anything else that might be a mix of screaming guitars, rapid/tough drums and singers that either sound like a eunuch boyscout or someone who replaced his vocal chords with a road-train's exhaust.

I like to listen to:
Easy Listening/Ambient/Lounge
TripHop
Drum'n'Bass
Some types of jazz
Some Pop/Rock like Eels, Jeff Buckley, The Cure, Depeche Mode, U2.

Edit:
If I had to borrow some CD's from other SPers, I'd most likely try to do so from Uytuun, Chandos, Mesmero, DR, Carcaroth, HB and Takara.

[ September 14, 2006, 13:29: Message edited by: Master of Nuhn ]

folk of all flavors, but mostly Celtic-oriented: Clannad, Mouth Music, Dead Can Dance

singer-songwriter: Jason Mraz, Matisyahu, Lyle Lovett, Richard Thompson, Madeleine Peyrue, Al Stewart, Annie Haslam, John Mayer

small doses of classic rock: Rolling Stones, The Who, Alan Parsons, Led Zeppelin

Classical and Jazz of all kinds, but not the seriously experimental stuff.

... in other words, pretty much everything except hard-core rap, pop, country pop, and metal. I loathe metal.

The list of CDs in my truck.

Billy Joel: Glass houses, The Bridge, Nylon Curtain and, Cold Spring Harbor
Creed: Greatest Hits
Staind: Break the Cycle
Beach Boys: Greatest Hits
Garth Brooks: Double Live Album
Journey: Greatest Hits
Bruce Springsteen: hits album

If I am home alone, I love to crank up some Josh Grobin, or perhaps Micheal Crawford in the Phantom of the Opera, or Elton John's Live with the Sidney Orchrestra. Then again I might just crank up my old Cinderella and Metalica CDs.

B, I just love that live EJ disc!

In my car, aside from the a large collection of kids' discs, I have

Lyle Lovett: Cowboy Man
Herbie Hancock - whatever the new one is called, the one where he does all the collaborations
Queer Eye Soundtrack
Bond - Born
Stevie Ray Vaughn - Double Trouble
Deadicated, the Grateful Dead tribute album
Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever

...and some other stuff that I just don't remember off the top of my head

Not a fan then MoN? :p

I'm one of the afore-mentioned metal fans. Not so big a fan of Black, Death and 'Core stuff though. It tends to be Power, Prog and Thrash that I like (as melody tends to be quite important to my ears), though there are exceptions. Nothing wrong with a singer who can hit a decent falsetto btw.

Other than that, I tend to quite like Classical music or music that incorporates natural sounds.

Can't stand dance, RnB or rap. Awful stuff.

the majority here prefers to listen to metal/prog/goth Weird... They didn't show up yet. None of them. <-- That was before I edited this post, seemingly.
Decados, the only album I like of all the 100s I heard is Ayreon's "The Human Equation" http://www.ayreon.com/thehumanequation/
I should say that I have some respect for some of these bands and singers, but I don't fancy it too much. I don't despise it, though.


Herbie Hancock - whatever the new one is called, the one where he does all the collaborationsYou mean Possibilities? With Santana, Paul Simon, Sting etc? I have not yet listened to it, but it definitely seems promising.

I like dance music particularly Trance and House although I do listen to some DnB and Breakbeats.

I also enjoy Pink Floyd and some grunge, rock

Best Acts I've seen live The Who, Aerosmith, Basement Jaxx, Radiohead, REM, Prodigy, The Cure, Deep Purple mk II, Groove Armada, Coldplay, and standing head and shoulders above them all 2 bands Pink Floyd and Faithless.

I'm quite amazed that there hasn't been very many crazy a$$ death metal bands mentioned yet :p

I think they've given up since the :geezer:s have co'oped Song Quote. ;)

I'll hear about anything. Those songs about kids dying or people getting beaten I turn off though.

The classics: Led Zep, Deep Purple, The Who, Queen, CCR, CSN and/or Y, Janis, Jimi and a whole lot of other stuff from the late 60's and early 70's.

Blues: From the good old blues (B.B. King, John Lee Hooker, Albert King etc.) to blues rock (Rory Gallagher, Roy Buchanan, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Joe Bonamassa etc.), which sometimes focuses more on the guitars than blues.

That's what I listen to most often, but that doesn't mean there aren't other things I enjoy listening to from time to time. I love Tom Waits for those rainy evenings, Bruce Springsteen for that working class passion, something punkier when I'm edged up, but also some things jazzier or more soulful I borrow from my father every now and then.

Those songs about kids dying or people getting beaten I turn off though.So sayeth she who is about to eat our souls... :p ;)

I think I might add DS to my list of Spers who listen to interesting music as well.

@MoN: Yes, that's the one! I love that disc!

Dragonforce, it's awesome if you like that kind of music.

What type of music is that ...

:rolleyes: when BOC, Darkthrone and the rest see the thread the metal will get here soon enough :p

I prefer alternative/light rock. July for Kings, Lifehouse, Dishwalla, Fuel, etc.

Also like some emo. Taking Back Sunday, Dashboard Confessionals, etc.

I love the 80s hits too. Journey, Survivor, etc.

I listen to a lot of stuff, but most of them fall into those categories. Other genres usually have around 20-50 songs that I enjoy so I didn't list them anymore.

What type of music is that ... DragonForce is double bass, and imo cheap melodies and lyrics like "We'll carry on, fight to survive, March on", etc. And more double bass.
This, actually, is the kind of metal I *do* despise.
Sorry Goli...

Dis someone call me? :p

Rock and hard rock of late 60s and 70s in all its forms (pure hard rock, psychedelic, southern, progressive etc) meaning bands like Blue Oyster Cult, Uriah Heep, Deep Purple, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Eloy etc.
Classic heavy metal and power metal of 80s (bands like Iron Maiden, Manowar, W.A.S.P., Twisted Sister, Warlord etc).
Some american thrash metal bands (Slayer, Overkill, Anthrax, Annihilator etc), I've never liked european thrash.
Some greek artistic/folk music.

Dis sb called for metalheads?
so my favs, almost all kinds of metal

-doom metal (bands like Katatonia, Candlemass, My Dying Bride, Anathema and many more)
-death metal (Morbid Angel, Vader, Behemoth, Death, Cannibal Corpse)
-trash metal (Metallica, Slayer, Testament, Exodus, Kreator)
-heavy metal (Iced Earth, Iron Maiden, Saxon, Judas Priest, King Diamond)
-black metal (Darkthrone, Mayhem, Burzum, Immortal, early Samael)
-gothic (Theatre Of Tragedy, The Gathering, Lacuna Coil)
Those are only few bands I listen to :p
I do listen to hard rock some times ;)
I don't really like power metal (except for Helloween and Blind Guardian )

See Undertaker's post, remove the occasional hard rock and that's pretty much what I listen to as well.

None taken, MoN.
Actually, I do have plenty of other bands I like, too. Was just at the top of my mind at the moment.

DragonForce is double bass, and imo cheap melodies and lyrics like "We'll carry on, fight to survive, March on", etc. And more double bass.
This, actually, is the kind of metal I *do* despise.
Yes, the lyrics are cheesy. Very cheesy. At times exceedingly cheesy. I wouldn't have called the melodies cheap though- OTOH their guitar solos tend to sound very similar. Playing so fast tends to leave little room for appreciable change, this also applies to the drums.

I would like to point out that they are good live though- in a small area packed with people, they are very good at what they do. It isn't meant to be intellectual, or dark and gloomy; Dragonforce are simply there to have a good time (and drink lots of beer).

Ok now those responses I thought most people would choose have started to appear :p But doesn't anyone on here listen to RnB :(

Not bought any, but Destiny's child, Beyonce (solo), Jemilia; are good to hear.

But doesn't anyone on here listen to RnB It's chick music :p

WHAT????? I'm a chick? :p

Sorry if it doesn't compare to your pathetic rock music :p

I'll go easy on you because you said you like trance ...

Trance - Tiesto's sets are unbeatable!

Indie - Kasabian, Snow Patrol, The Automatic, Feeder, Arctic Monkeys, Oasis, Coldplay - great stuff.

House - Some wicked funky house tunes knocking about. Not too hardcore though, can't be doing with that.

Some rock music, like Nirvana and the Chilis, but there's lots of it I don't like.

I'll go easy on you because you said you like trance Miconception I don't like Trance I :love: it, Tiesto, van Dyk, van Buuren, Oakenfold, Corsten, Bliss I have them all and more

*sniff, sniff*

Smells like a bashing thread. Silly people, don't you know opinions are like certain orifices?

I'm mostly a metal guy. Pretty picky. 99-point-something per cent of every genre is stuff I can't be bothered with. Note that that's not "of genres", but "of every genre."

Darkstrider - VERY GOOD BOY :D

Susi - For a minute there I thought you said Pretty Ricky and I almost fainted! Luv those boys :p Hehe metal ... You're funny :grin:

WHAT!?!? Nobody has listed POLKA yet?

I listen to bit of everything, except what I don't like. :D

It's easier to list my dislikes: RAP, punk, RAP, acid rock, RAP, metal, RAP, sappy stuff (e.g., Air Supply), RAP.

I forgot to add the music which fires my soul - Opera: Verdi, Puccini, Rossini and Wagner

It's easier to list my dislikes: RAPT2, you don't like rap? Yo, that's wiggedy-wiggedy-wiggedy wack.

We would hear all kinds of music if SP had its own WebRadio... "Sorcerers FM - Radio of Magick"

I want to be a DJ then! :D

Indie: Feeder, Coldplay, Bloc Party, Editors, Snow Patrol, Thirteen Senses

Classic Rock: ACDC, Deep Purple, The doors, some Jimi Hendrix

Other kind of Rock: Vertical Horizon, Creed, Muse, Foo Fighters, 3 doors down

Oh and U2 of course

I want to be a DJ thenYou can do the Metal show and I'll do the Dance :grin:

Wagner Oh yes, very much so.

I want to be a DJ then! I would second that.
;)

I forgot about Wagner :doh: , the Grandfather of heavy metal

I want to be a DJ then!Nuh-uh! Every 2 hours an other DJ. Besides, this site is open 24 hours/day and 7 days/week. You won't get much sleep. Also, a DJ plays what the crowd wants to hear, so you'd have to keep an eye open to the line that says who is logged in. And that's where this thread comes in.

You see names listed among the logged-in persons, you play their kind of music. Everybody not stating their preference in this thread has no right to complain about the music played by the DJ.
So everybody who likes my prefered music: Post here!
:p

So everybody who likes my prefered music: Post here!I say the same! :p

DJ's would have a great time in clubs, people would just love them, I know I love all my DJ friends :D

You see names listed among the logged-in persons, you play their kind of music. Everybody not stating their preference in this thread has no right to complain about the music played by the DJ.
Does this mean I'll have to stay logged in constantly to ensure decent music is being played? :p

Also, since I stated my preference, can I moan and ***** about the music the DJ plays until (s)he gives in and plays my stuff?

Various sorts of metal mostly and a few bits and pieces of rock. Gothic metal would probably be my favourite subgenre - not that I have an awful lot of it seeing that it's not all that easy to buy...

Power metal is funky - but I can't muster enough enthusiasm to go looking into it much further than Nightwish.

Progressive metal is nice - but nothing worth leaping for joy over most of the time...

I can find positive things in almost every genre, so I cannot name any favourite.

In short: I only listen to good music. ;)

:) @ Decados:
Yes. But you'll have to post once every 30 minutes to proove that you're active at the time you're logged in. :evil: (that will cause some more spam and insomnia at the BoM, I bet.)

Just a thought, does anyone AT ALL on here listen to RnB?

RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS!!!
They are a religion.
They are my religion.
They are the only religion.

Oh and U2 of course Good man, their pretty damn good but still nothing compared to my four all powerful Gods.

Just a thought, does anyone AT ALL on here listen to RnB?Yes. John Lee Hooker, Taj Mahal, B.B. King...


What?

I'm not big about puting people in boxes, but I would hardly call John Lee Hooker Rhythm and Blues. JLH stayed much more to the blues roots than somebody like B.B. King. (I don't know about Taj Mahal; I've been meaning to look into him for a very long time, but never got around to it. Any recommendations?)

Alt Rock: Breaking Benjamin, Three Days Grace, Inme, HIM (maybe not Alt Rock, but I can't define them)

Post-Hardcore: Emanuel, Funeral For A Friend, Atreyu, Million Dead, Hell Is For Heroes, Dir En Grey (although they sound closer to proper hardcore).

Classic Rock: Blue Oyster Cult, Scorpions, AC/DC, Eric Clapton

Some metal of various types: Sonata Arctica, Within Temptation, Demons & Wizards

Also, AFI and (very far out from the other stuff) Trinití. Marvel.

House.

House, most invigorating, powerful incarnation of music. House, thou art a fancy of mine.

/me drools

Once again, people are making up all sorts of crazy ideas for musical genres, almost one for each artist. ("Don't call me Death Trip Blues! I'm Speed Acid Alt Blues! Get it right!")

I officially declare that there are only about six valid genres of music:
- Rock (usually a band with guitars, usually write their own stuff)
- Metal (same as rock, but with more emphasis on volume over understandability)
- Classical (more focus on orchestral instruments than guitars)
- Pop (more often solo artists who usually don't play instruments or write their own stuff)
- Talking (includes the stuff that people call rap)
- Electronic (anything created by pushing the auto rythmn buttons on a Yahama Home Organ)

I may be able to convinced that there are one or two other minor additional genres, but certainly not as many as some of you seem to claim.

And in which categories do blues and jazz fall? (Or are they the two 'minor' categories you mentioned?)

Oh yeah, everybody's just making up these genres. We all know they all really just sound exactly alike. :rolleyes:
- Metal (same as rock, but with more emphasis on volume over understandability):shake:

Breaking Benjamin:thumb:

AtreyuPost hardcore? No, they are self proclaimed Fashioncore (yeah, beats me too...)

I like metal, hardcore, and hard rock, with the occassional regular rock band in there. Some classic rock too.

Favorite bands? Too many.

And in which categories do blues and jazz fall? Blues is just rock, but with more complaining.

I might concede that Jazz could possibly be a missing category, although it could probably come under a wider genre of "Easy Listening" which would also include Dean Martin.

I thought jazz had a genre of its own?

Blues is just rock, but with more complaining. No because blues is an older genre than rock. The first rock song ever (Rock around the clock) was released in 1948 IIRC, while black bluesmen have been recording music since 1920s and maybe earlier.

Thanks BOC, that was exactly my point.

Harbs, you listed most of the major genres, but there are a few others you simply can't ignore for your own convenience. People always want to put stuff in boxes, which is cool, but impossible for a lot of music. You don't need to know every subgenre, but there are a few major genres missing on your list.

Can someone list all the major genres and then the sub genres that branch out from these?

I don't want to do it wrong and get yelled at :)

blues is an older genre than rock But it's still essentially the same thing, therefore I put in the same genre. We could call it something different, if that helps.

My main point is a back lash against the ridiculous array of infinite sub-genres that many people claim exist, that are just as unhelpful as my minimalist version.

Rock was influenced by blues or ,as many support, was originated from blues but they are not the same thing. Claiming that they are the same thing is like saying that humans and monkeys are the same thing because both are mammals and because humans are coming from apes.

As far as genres and sungenres are concerned, like it or not they are necessery in many cases, if you want to describe the music of an artist. Let’s take two 70s bands Sex Pistols and Emerson Lake And Palmer. Both are 70s bands and both belong to the broader genre of rock but when someone talks about Sex Pistols, he calls them a punk rock band, while when someone talks about ELP, he calls them a progressive rock band. This is happening because the differences between their music are so great that if you want to describe them right you have to do this separation. When ELP took music to the extreme and made it as complex as possible searching for perfection, Sex Pistols took the completely opposite way and presented a music based on simplicity and minimalism. If you simply say that both are playing rock music, you are saying absolutely nothing to someone who doesn't know them.

If you simply say that both are playing rock music, you are saying absolutely nothing to someone who doesn't know them. Giving them labels like "Progressive rock" also says absolutely nothing to someone who doesn't know them. If you like Emerson Lake and Palmer, then you should say "I like Emerson Lake and Palmer", not invent a restrictive label to describe them. Because even if there is another band that you think also fits in the category of Progressive Rock, they might be crap, so you couldn't even say "I like Progressive Rock", because you'd only like some of it.

Not to mention the fact that as the sub genres become more and more granular, you get more arguments over how they are defined (witness the pointless debates in the Metal thread about whether a certain band is Death, Speed, Thrash, Acid, Bongo, or Slime Metal)

It's not the same as humans and monkeys because I can genetically prove that you are not a monkey, whereas musical genres are just made up ideas.

HB: You clearly have a very narrow span of music you listen to. There are many more genre's than you list. Just to name/rename a few:

Blues
Jazz
Folk
Country (although I'll also combine Western in this)
Opera (certainly not the same as the classic you mention)
Gospel
Choral (crosses into gospel and classic)

You can also find distinctly ethnic music in all areas of the world.

Likewise, many classic fans would consider there to be several genre's within the classics themselves.

Although I do agree with you on the sub-genre thing (I'm partial to southern rock myself). And to call Scorpions and AC/DC classic rock is sacrilege.

I would count most Country and Western as Rock, but with a cowboy accent.

You clearly have a very narrow span of music you listen to On the contrary, my genres are more all-embracing and wider than the super narrow genres that other people refer to.

I'd put Folk under my Easy Listening genre.

I would count most Country and Western as Rock, but with a cowboy accent Much to horror of C&W and rock fans everywhere. :D Although rock, C&W, folk and jazz would all be offshoots of blues.

I don't know, my parents are folk music nuts -- I've never found it easy to listen to....

Does anyone listen to RnB? Yeah, baby! I am a BIG RnB fan. Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Stylistics, O'Jays, Spinners, etc. I like most Motown and Atlantic from the 60's and 70's. Obviously the funky stuff too. Ohio Players, Sly and the Family Stone, Barry White, Isaac Hayes, Mr. Curtis Mayfield, etc.

I'm also into rock from the same era: Jimi, the Doors, the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Neil Young, etc.
Heavy stuff too, particularly AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Led Zepellin, Deep Purple.
Prog rock: The Moody Blues, Yes, King Crimson, ELP, (early) Genesis

And Jazz. I have more Miles Davis albums than any other artist (second is Earth, Wind and Fire). John Coltrane is great. I like Jobim (beautiful). Billy Cobham.

Does anyone listen to RnB? Yeah, baby! I am a BIG RnB fan. Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Stylistics, O'Jays, Spinners, etc. I like most Motown and Atlantic from the 60's and 70's. Obviously the funky stuff too. Ohio Players, Sly and the Family Stone, Barry White, Isaac Hayes, Mr. Curtis Mayfield, etc.That's Soul, dammit! :mad:

@Mesmero: I know that Mr. Hooker - may he rest in peace (well, most likely not ;) ) - played Boogie. Well, he invented it. But I even consider Van Morrison R&B, despite him playing cheesy elevator music. It's more of a broad genre description.

But calling the modern fart soul like Usher or Mariah Carey R&B is like compairing John Williams to Mozart or Bach (and that's a nice comparison). The music may contain some similar elements but does not reach the heights of even Van Morrison or Gary Moore.

R&B is more a skin colour than a musical genre, if the Grammies are anything to go by.

Try modern RnB

If I had to borrow some CD's from other SPers, I'd most likely try to do so from Uytuun, Chandos, Mesmero, DR, Carcaroth, HB and Takara./me hangs his head in shame
How could I forget to mention Jack Funk?! :o

About Gospel:
How do you people see Gospel. I bet many of us would see it as the famous enthusiastic, handclapping, black swinging mama, "Oh happy days" music.
To me it's any kind of music that 'brings the Gospel'. From the Classic mattheus passion to the pop-rock of Genesis, from the swinging Gospel-choirs to the RnB of Mary Mary and from the progressive metal/rock opera of Saviour Machine to the praise of Michael W. Smith (I really don't fancy the last one, btw).

@Fabius - No, it's RnB. See allmusic.com: Top R&B artists. (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=ADFEAEE57E19D24FAD7420EFB7096DE78B5EDB25F266 C8AE2E097A70F09C1F6DC32E59CC40C4A2B0B08B2DB730E3F6 31A65A10D1CAEE50B0D56C3F3E87EAA1704943&sql=73:13334~T2)

There's a lot of old RnB on that list, there's a lot more of it these days though. VERY good music :p

True. There is a lot of good new music, in all genres. :)

Except Rap (did I mention I don't like Rap?).

Here are some of my favorites...

Brazilian popular music: Caetano, Chico Buarque, Elis Regina, Tom Jobim, João Gilberto, Cartola...
Latin singers/songwriters: Silvio Rodríguez, Mercedes Sosa, Pablo Milanés, Violeta Parra...
Blues: Muddy Waters, B.B. King, John Lee Hooker, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Johnny Winter, Blind Willie Johnson...
Classic Rock: Beatles, Pink Floyd, Cream, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Deep Purple...

And a little bit of everything else, I've ever heard.

Edit:
Oh, I almost forgot...

T2Bruno: Count me in, cause I don't like rap either ;)

[ September 20, 2006, 21:06: Message edited by: Atmer ]

The most dominant denizens of my iPod are:

The Beatles (about 12 albums worth)
Billy Joel (about 10 albums)
Alanis Morrisette (4 albums)
Heather Nova (3 albums)
Hayley Westenra (3 albums)
Elton John (2 albums)
Frank Sinatra (1 album)
Coldplay (1 album)
Classical music (2 albums)
Bruce Springsteen (1 album)
Movie soundtracks (4 albums)
Van Morrison (1 album)
John Lee Hooker (1 album)
Preston Shannon (1 album)
Cat Stevens (1 album)
Duran Duran (1 album)

I'll admit I DO listen to Coldplay occasionally! They have some good music to listen to, especially when you're up for just relaxing or whatever.

I just you have a lot of chilled music on your ipod then huh Harby :p

Btw what type of music is Duran Duran? They were before my time but I've heard of them on occasion.

Does anyone listen to any of these?

* Massari
* Bobby Valentino
* Pretty Ricky
* Marques Houston
* Omarion

Just an on-going question that I would like to know the answer to :D

There is some Rap I do enjoy, most of it produced by Dr Dre.

Duran Duran are New Romantics. Really like them here. Have a cd of theirs.

Hehe I still don't know what music that is :p

It has groups like Culture club, Bronski beat, Communards, Erasure, Spandau ballet....

@Jack Funk:
No, it's RnB. See allmusic.com: Top R&B artists.This site is crap. Period!

Damn, they even filed Ray Charles under R&B. He freaking invented Soul.


Btw, for anyone interested, here (http://www.last.fm/user/FabiusMaximus) is my musical profile. I love this site.

Yeah there wasn't that much of anything good on that site ...

I prefer rap, although not the utter garbage MTV, or whoever, passes of as rap nowadays.

Favorite artist include:

Royce da 5'9": Always overlooked but never outshined
Big Punisher: A lyrical genius
Gangstarr: The best of 90's Hip-hop incarnate
2-Pac: A true poet

I also listen alot to The Streets, Dj Shadow and UNKLE plus a little death metal like Mnemic, The Berzerker and the one man cybergrind band Gångîå

Strangely enough, I haven't seen anyone mention this yet - any Industrial fans out on the boards?
Bands (ignoring the many subgenres, which I really can't well define) being, amongst other:
- Covenant
- Clan of Xymox
- Blutengel
- The Cruxshadows
- Front 242
- Tactical Sekt
- VNV Nation

And these are only the bands that I know and happen to enjoy.
If anyone can tie subgenres to all these, mention more bands from the genre, and put out some definitions of Industrial and the various subgenres, I'd be much obliged - I always have trouble explaining it to people.
:borg:

Rock, especially if its Aussie - Grinspoon, The Living End, Silverchair, Jebediah, INXS and Wolfmother top this list. I also listen to The Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Foo Fighters, Nirvana, Franz Ferdinand, Millencolin and Oasis. These are my main interests, the bands that have always have a decent number of songs on my mp3 player.

Hehe I guess a lot of people listen to local music ey?

lol, where I grew up was 10 minutes from where one of the pair in Tears for Fears grew up and I do love them. Such good music.

@Fabius

Wikipedia: wikipedia list of R&B performers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_R%26B_musicians)

Soul is generally considered a subtype of R&B. Allmusic (which you disparage) actually agrees with you: allmusic top soul artists. (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=ADFEAEE57E19D24FAD7420EFB7096DE78B5EDB25F266 C8AE2E097A70F09C1F6DC32E59CC40C4A2B0B08B2DB730E3F6 31A65C10D1CAEE50B0D86C3C3B87ECA5705843&sql=77:7~T1)

I like to use the R&B label, because it is more all encompassing. Not everything that Ray Charles did is soul, most of it is R&B (including the soul stuff), some of it is gospel.

Anyway, that is the problem with labels. Very few actually fit perfectly. Is Funkadelic R&B? Rock? Funk? Yes. Yes. And yes. You could just say they are funk. But their funk (like the Chili Peppers) is far different from the funk of James Browns or the Ohio Players.

@ Jacky ... EXACTLY :D :D :D

Metal for me. More specifically, Big Hair Metal bands like Megadeth, Metallica, Ratt, Motley Crue, Iron Maiden, Ozzy, and Def Leppard.

I also like a bit of 'modern rock' and some ska/punk. Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Offspring, Sublime, 311, and Lit all have a place in my music collection.

At the momment, I'm quite fond of Rammstein. :thumb: :rolling:

Sorry, Jack. That doesn't convince me either. They listed a lot soul interpreters, but completely left out the original Rhythm & Blues people like B.B. King or John Lee Hooker.

And they included the Jacksons, Stacie Orrico, Herbie Hancock and The Who. That's ridiculous. This list was obviously assembled on pure whim.

The soul list on allmusic is a joke, too. They left every modern soul interpreter out. D'Angelo, Angie Stone, India.Aerie, Erykah Badu, John Legend. Even Chaka Khan is not in it.

@Fabius - I'm not trying to convince you of anything. I'm merely providing examples of the common use of the terms. If you wish to believe that you are correct and Allmusic (THE music site on the web) and wikipedia are wrong, then that is your choice. I've been listening to music for most of my forty years and am comfortable with the definitions that they provided.

On an ironic note, the site that you linked to lists Erykah Badu, John Legend, D'Angelo and India.Aerie (artists that you refer to above) under their top 50 R&B artists (http://www.last.fm/tag/rnb) as well as their top 50 Soul artists (http://www.last.fm/tag/soul). I think this underscores my point that soul is a (generally) a sub genre of R&B. You are splitting hairs. Which is your prerogative.

I will give you one final example, Barry White. One of the great "soul" singers of his generation, his music is also commonly considered R&B as well as funk (one of the Funk Encyclopedia's essential 24 albums is "Stone Gon'").

I still think that these days, people call R&B anything that is by an artists with dark skin. That seems to be the only qualification to be nominated for an R&B Grammy.

So, Jack, if it's an encompassing genre (I can accept that), then why are they including musicians that have absolutely nothing to do with R&B and leaving others out despite them clearly qualifying?

You see, my problem is that in my eyes Usher, Carey and all these other crappy alleged R&B interpreters have nothing to do with R&B at all. Not a single one of these so called artists play in the same league with the mentionend soul and blues artists. That's modern R&B for you. It's musically absolutely awfull and therefore does not deserve this tag.

(By the way: The genres on Last.fm are created by tagging music. The users do this by themselves.)

I used to only listen to Tiffany and Debbie Gibsons, then Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera, then Ashley and Jessica Simpson, now it's P ussy Cat Dolls.

:grin: :shake:

Ok then Fabius, give us YOUR examples of what you conclude to be RnB and Soul.

used to only listen to Tiffany and Debbie Gibson Debbie Gibson rules. Getting a bit old to be a teen quenn now though. She turned 36 last month!

HB, you must be one of those Electric Youths. :grin:

But I admit I did really loved "No More Rhyme" back then.

Mindless Rock?

now it's P ussy Cat Dolls.
People actually listen to them?
:eek:

Ok then Fabius, give us YOUR examples of what you conclude to be RnB and Soul.As I said: I can accept that's an very broad genre. But stuff like said *****cat Dolls, Usher and the like should be left out, because this stuff has nothing to do with 'black music', but is as soulless as chart pop like Britney Spears.

Only artists that play equivalent music to the old soul artists and the like should be considered R&B.

Classic Rock: The Rolling Stones, The Who, Cheap Trick, Kiss, Black Sabbath...
Punk Rock: Ramones, The Clash, Rancid, NoFX, MC5, Iggy & the Stooges...
80's Rock: Guns'n'Roses, Warrant...
Grunge: Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, The Screaming Trees...
Stoner Rock: Kyuss (and all related bands), COC, Fu Manchu, Monster Magnet, The Sword, Wolfmother...
Country: Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash, Ryan Adams, Wilco
Misc bands: The Mars Volta, Muse, The Ranconteurs, Buckcherry, The Donnas, The Hellacopters...

... the list goes on and on. :D

@Decados, you're making me laugh. Didn't you notice my post was intended to make fun of you guys. If you read around, those artists aren't exactly the type that SP members would prefer.

If you read around, those artists aren't exactly the type that SP members would prefer. I won't hear a bad word said about Debbie Gibson!

I like 80s music and I listen to a lot of it: The Police, The Cars, Gary Numan, The Pretenders, Talking Heads, Level 42, The Cure, CS Angels, Simple Minds, U2, Tears for Fears, Dire Straits, etc.

Chill, Electronic, Acid Jazz, House, Hard House, Lounge, Trance, Ambient Lounge, Drum and Bass: Groove Armada, Future Sound of London, Orbital, Thievery Coporation, The Dining Rooms, ORG Lounge, S-Tone Inc., Gentle People, Lovespirals, Zeb (the DJ, not the band), Claude Challe (Budda Room), Zero 7, LTJ Bukem, Ivy, Darude, Ian Van Dahl, ATB, Stonebridge, St. Germain, etc.

Classic Rock: The Beatles, The Stones, The Who, Grateful Dead, Beach Boys, Led Zeppelin, Bob Dylan, Boston, Jethro Tull, Blue Oyster Cult, Pink Floyd, Rush, Van Halen, Heart, etc.

I also listen to some ambient stuff: Steve Roach, Robert Rich, Vida Obmana, Tangerine Dream, Pete Namlook and Klaus Schultz, Michael Stearns, etc.

Regarding R&B - Jack Funk has it right - 'nuff said.

Jazz: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Bill Evans, Sonny Rollins, Dave Brubeck, etc. Mike Stearn, John Scofield, Pat Metheny, Larry Carlton, Richard Elliot, Chris Botti, Boney James, Brian Culbertson, Soundscape UK, The Rippingtons, Yellowjackets, etc.

[ September 29, 2006, 17:26: Message edited by: Chandos the Red ]

Chill, Electronic, Acid Jazz, House, Hard House, Lounge, Trance, Ambient Lounge, Bass and Drums :shake: I give up. People are determined to talk gibberish in this thread. :shake:

Nothing wrong with Trance HB! And I thought you liked it ...

Nothing wrong with Trance Other than it being another one of those imaginary sub sub sub sub sub sub sub genres that people keep making up.

Umm no;

Trance is a style of electronic dance music that developed in the 1990s. Trance music is generally characterized by a tempo of between 130 and 160 bpm, featuring repeating melodic synthesizer phrases, and a musical form that builds up and down throughout a track, often crescendoing or featuring a breakdown. Sometimes vocals are also utilised. The style is arguably derived from a combination of largely techno and house. 'Trance' received its name from the repetitious morphing beats, and the throbbing melodies which would presumably put the listener into a trance-like state. As this music is almost always played in nightclubs at popular vacation spots and in inner cities, trance can be understood as a form of club music. Taken from Wikipedia.

I believe it is indeed, a proper style of music. Why do you classify it to be somthing of fiction?

HB is definitely one of those Electric Youths! :shake:

@Decados, you're making me laugh. Didn't you notice my post was intended to make fun of you guys. If you read around, those artists aren't exactly the type that SP members would prefer. I have been fooled?!!?

Damn the lack of emotion that forums show!

Bah!

@Silvershield: While Wiki is generally useful, it isn't the best source in this case. If you look, you will see that Wiki categorises music to the very extent that HB despises. Part of the problem is people refusing to categorise their favourite band in a particular way and so send in submissions of yet more sub-categories.

Yes - what Decados said.

I kind of understand what you're saying but that doesn't really prove true for ALL types of music, just a few ...

There's now way that I could ever consider that there are so many sub sub sub sub genres of electronic Yamaha Home Organ music. What Decados says about people inventing genres just to make their favourite band seem more unique and progressive hits the nail right on the head for me:

"Oh no, the "Jumping Death Rats" aren't Acid Chill Speed House Metal!! No way! How can you even think that?! They are SO Acid Chill Speed Death Boogie Metal! They pretty much pioneered that genre with their innovative use of aeolian cadence riffs combined with unexpected double octave chord changes. Man, some people just don't understand quality music when they hear it."

It's very possible that some people do it, but coming up with genres that cover only one band is utterly pointless. It defeats the whole point of the concept of genres.

There have been genres mentioned in this thread that I know next to nothing about, but I've heard most of them mentioned somewhere else too and none of them sound imaginary.

AHHHH! Now I see what HB is referring to! Yes I agree though, quite pointless.

I listen stoner-rock (shut up HB! :D ), metal, 60'/70' hippie music and jazz(the Billy Cobham-type).
Also some (real)hip-hop I listened a couple of years back (De La Soul, Dead Prez, Outkast) and can't get out of my head.

HAHAHAHA!!! I bet HB is gonna love that :D

What would you classify Gnarls Barkley HB? He sings that "crazy" song btw. I don't know if he's rnb but I don't think soooo ...

For me to like some type of music it has to be innovative and well done. So jazz and classical are my favourite categories which include a wide variety of artists and sub-categories that I like, and have very few exceptions that I'd have to exlude.

Anything resembling the pop-songs you hear a lot on the Eurovision Song Contest is strictly out of the question. French chansons and their like are ok, but any pop-song done by a swede or trying to sound like one is just horrible. Guess why I don't like Britney or Backstreet Boys that much?

Nothing against swedes, just their way of making pop music. Their rock bands, like Kent, are quite good.

I have an extensive collection of Tom Waits albums, Faith No More and other music with Mike Patton. Depeche Mode is fantastic and so's Nine Inch Nails. Always liked U2, but I've got only one of their albums and one single.

Always had a respect for Bruce Dickinson, he's got large lungs for a relatively small guy. Maybe it's just the breathing technique :hmm:

The list of the music I like would be almost endless, so I'll not make this post any longer.

Gnarls Barkley would be Soul.

Harbs sometimes these sub, sub genres are needed to distinguish between certain styles and to articulate the different styles of a band (or group or performer).
Just to use Chandos the Red's last post as an example, Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin are both defined as Classic rock. This is true for both bands, despite having very different styles of music. There would be people out there who are only interested in the heavier bands of this exceedingly large genre.

There's also the problem of bands that perform a somewhat hybrid mix of two genre's, Rage Against the Machine and 28 days come to mind here. More dificult still are bands that progress and evolve their style from one genre to another. An example of this would be Silverchair, beginning with a much heavier grunge sound than the much softer melodic style of their more recent works.

I have no problem if someone wants to classify a band as classic english prog rock, or whatever, provided it is an accurate depiction of the music.

Just my two cents.

Kinda back on topic, I've been listening to a lot of Audioslave recently as well as a bit of Taxiride.

Hehe that's true Stu :) I guess it's ok ONLY when they provide the accurate description for that particular artist.

Thanks Fab ;)