Music! What kind of music floats your boat?

Discussion in 'TV, Music and Video Games' started by Mandi Apple, Aug 1, 2003.

  1. Mandi Apple The Acid Queen

    That's really crap - I hate it when bands cancel out of hand like that, it's like they don't take into account all the hundreds of people who have taken time off work to see them, or booked hotel rooms, or even booked plane tickets, all to see them play, and then hey presto, we're not playing any more because our bass player stubbed his toe on the fridge door this morning/our record label is performing house arrest on us until we finish our difficult second album/we're all far too stoned to bother turning up/the keyboard player quit because she broke up with the drummer/etc etc etc :(

    I hope you get to see DEP next year and that you hear better news from Meshuggah very soon - thanks for the answer too, I really must check these guys out :D
  2. Hehe, indeed i feel the same whenever bands cancel their show/tour.
    And indeed all there's left to do is wait and see, at least i get a refund so might as well buy a new movie from that:-D

    By the way, i can't promise anyone to like either of the bands, i have to say. For they are both the "love it/hate it" kind of bands, very technical with polyrythms and time breaks. Some people i know find Meshuggah too technical and therefore boring, and others (like me) love it and try to play along some songs on the guitar. Wich is nearly impossible.
    DEP is also extremely technical, but louder & more agressive, and considerred as inhuman by my colleagues:-P

    So if anyone has some good suggestions to forget this dissapointment, im open for it!
  3. I have been listening to some excellent noise releases by Wolf Eyes and Gelsomina.
    Noise as a genre has been kind of off-limits for me,
    a curiosity, but i haven't really been delving deeper into it, until now.
  4. punchb0wl Guest

    Sounds like a crap excuse to me.
    I saw the 'Shugg with Machine Head a few years ago and they didn't even have the vocalist...

    Currently loving all music with guitars tuned to F! You and with the groove of a dirty STAX classic. So Grave's 'Soulless' is top of the pile.
  5. JKL Guest

    The genres I listen to the most are post-rock, shoegaze, metal, industrial, and jazz.

    Among my favorites are: Boris, Slowdive, Ulver, Katatonia, Opeth, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Jesu, Godflesh, Explosions in the Sky, Isis, Pelican, Jaga Jazzist, John Coltrane, Converge, Meshuggah, Skinny Puppy, Ministry, KMFDM, Mr. Bungle, My Bloody Valentine, Carcass, and Om.
  6. Mandi Apple The Acid Queen

    Good stuff JKL! :D I don't suppose you could give me any John Coltrane recommends could you? I don't know much of his work and I'm always at a bit of a loss as to where to start :D
  7. I agree, good taste indeed! I saw Converge here in holland last fall. Great live band! Ow, and to Punchb0wl, sorry i hadn't seen you replied on my earlier comment here. But you say Meshuggah did a gig without Jens? That must've been a weird experience. well as long as Thomas Haake is still behind the drums, (i could almost consider that guy half human half god haha) I mean, who else could keep up those ridiculous time structures and polyrythms?!:crazyeye:
  8. Halcyon Guest

    And while we're at it, JKL, could you also please give me some recommends for Boris? :D So far I only know their collabs with Merzbow, which I like very much.
  9. I've been listening to Scott Walker a lot recently. It's pretty amazing to notice how his career has progressed during the years.

    I first heard his first solo album back when i was sixteen, and i was thinking that "what is this, some sinatra stuff, i don't get it" and of course i couldn't get it then. Now, it's like a whole new world to listen to those first recordings.

    The first albums have this contrast in the music and the lyrics. It seems almost some kind of a puzzle, a challenge for the listener, to listen more carefully...

    and later on in his career, it's amazing how he has this ability to make lyrics that seem almost completely bonkers on paper to sound sensible and true when he sings them.

    I think i like his album The Climate of Hunter from the 80s the mostest. Good thing they re-issued that lost treasure.
  10. ParkEunSuh78 Guest

    I like to listen to a lot of genres of music, but mainly rock and metal. Some of my favorites are: Marilyn Manson, The Birthday Massacre, Dir En Grey, Cradle of Filth, Otep, Slayer, Moi Dix Mois, Jack Off Jill, Scarling, AFI, In This Moment, Lacuna Coil, Behemoth, Wednesday 13, Nine Inch Nails, Goldfrapp, U-Nee, Kittie, System of A Down, HIM, KISS, and Bleeding Through.
  11. Exile Guest

    I listen to absolutely everything.
    I listen to Electronica most of the time, however, my library ranges from classical to death metal and just about every genre in between.
  12. motherOsighs Guest

    i love old school techno like underworld, or moby, or the prodigy and some scremo music is good to :twisted:
  13. Kirsty Guest

    The Birthday Massacre.. :p
  14. In the past few years, I have gotten into:

    Amon Amarth
    Edguy
    Amorphis
    Noumena
    Hammerfall
    Blind Guardian
    Kamelot
    Symphony X
    Helloween
    Crematory
    Insomnium
    Fall of the Leafe
    Twilight Guardians
    Secret Sphere
    Ayreon
    Dark Moor
    Dragonland
    Nevermore
    Dreamtale
    Pain of Salvation
    Elvenking
    Fate's Warning
    Bathory
    King Diamond
  15. onibaku Vukodlak

    Nice List Bug-Eyed Earl!I love a lot of the bands on your list...Amon Amarth totally rocks,Edguy,Kamelot,and Blind Guardian are all exceptional Power Metal Bands.A nice mix of Melodic Death metal acts on there as well.
  16. Mandi Apple The Acid Queen

    I'm pimping the magnificently-monikered Joy of Sex this week - great post-punk spiky artrock in the vein of Wire, Devo, The Fall etc (thanks to a recommendation from the ever-trustable Organ) - been awhile since I heard anything which really grabbed my interest :D

    http://www.myspace.com/joyofsex
  17. Mandi Apple The Acid Queen

  18. i've been listening to a lot of obscure krautrock vinyls..
    and music by factrix, venus in furs, the stooges, burzum, waterboys, verlaines, and skullflower has been rotating in my ipod for the last week or so. :-P

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