What music do you listen to?

My tastes are quite predictable. A large base of popular modern rock music with some indie leanings and a smattering of post-rock, folk etc. I'd love to flesh out my library a bit more and get some more diverse music, but I don't really have the cash.

I can't rank my favourite bands, but the list would definitely have to include The Beatles, Radiohead, British Sea Power, Interpol, The Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene, Bright Eyes, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Velvet Underground...gah, starting this list was a bad idea.

There's no way I can come close to picking a list of favourite songs. :p

"SIDcore and VG metal"

Genres I never heard before! -Whips out notepad-
Anyways, about the Alesana, if you think that's screamo, listen to this little-known band named Saetia.
Sounds a lot different. ;)
It's really raw, they basically don't alter their music through machines in the studio.
I guess "definitions" chsnge over time, but it's always good to look back on the pioneers and roots; Becuase without them, we wouldn't have bands, and artists, at all.

Back on topic, I can NEVER have a favorite song, or an artist/band. I'm too ecletic. :P

MsHorrorwood’s Journal – Stats, ecleticity and numbers, oh my! – Last.fm

SIDcore? Sudden Infant Deathcore? That's an awesome genre.

Lol.
But, what's VG?

Example bands, pls! :D

VG is video game music done in a metal style. Power Glove would be a good band to start with.

You've heard of Nintendocore? :P

Yeah, VG sounds cool.

SIDcore and VG metal rules. Check out Powerglove, Megadriver, CarboHydroM, Machinae Supremacy and S.S.H. for more. :p

I listen to mostly rock, techno and Japanese music. My favorite artists are Utada Hikaru, Ai Otsuka, Smile.dk, Shanadoo, Gunther & the sunshine girls, Ayumi Hamasaki, Koda Kumi, Aqua, Bambee, Yuna Ito, Cascada, Evanescence, Korn, Linkin Park, Toy-Box, iiO, Miley Cyrus and of course... Nobuo Uematsu.

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Originally Posted by Whiffles

I listen to mostly rock, techno and Japanese music. My favorite artists are Utada Hikaru, Ai Otsuka, Smile.dk, Shanadoo, Gunther & the sunshine girls, Ayumi Hamasaki, Koda Kumi, Aqua, Bambee, Yuna Ito, Cascada, Evanescence, Korn, Linkin Park, Toy-Box, iiO, Miley Cyrus and of course... Nobuo Uematsu.

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I think you already mentioned those last month.

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Originally Posted by Whiffles

Utada Hikaru
Ai Otsuka
SMiLE.dk
Shanadoo
Nobuo Uematsu
Cascada
Hannah Montana
iiO
Koda Kumi
Yuna Ito
Bambee
Evanescence
Korn
Linkin Park
Puffy Ami Yumi
Takanori Otsuka
Aqua
Gunther & the Sunshine Girls
Ayumi Hamasaki
Hitomi
Spice Girls
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See? :p

Back street boys

OH BABY

Hip Hop and most urban music from the UK. I'm open to everything else except crap like Death Metal and the like.

I listen to pretty much anything that isn't part of the "mainstream" here in the UK and I suppose the US, by which I mean stuff that gets played most regularly on the most popular channels. Not because I have some sort of elitist bullshiets that means whenever something is popular I have to hate it, just because the stuff I like is either not really suitable for the mainstream or popular enough anymore/likely to be popular enough. And most of the stuff that gets played on the radio and TV doesn't appeal to me either, I find it boring, unpassionate and soulless. Stuff like your generic pop bands and then things like U2, Coldplay, Muse etc. Just horrendously boring nothing music to me. Pap.

But yeah I listen to all sorts of from Extreme Metal, mostly Black and Viking with a fair amount of Folk Metal in there as well, bit of Doom as well. Jazz and Acid Jazz, weird Industrial Post-Hip Hop madness like Dalek, fair amount of classical and some opera, post-rock, heavily getting into ambience and noise lately (bands like Hammock and Stars of the Lid), Reggae, some Lounge music, a lot of OST's from various types of media and then just stuff I can't even classify like MCM who are gods. and I have a few filthy terrible J-pop/rock/rap artists that makes me feel dirty that I listen to them but I love them anyway, like Shocking Lemon (Hajime no Ippo's fault), Dragon Ash (genius band, don't actually feel dirty for listening to them but wanted to mention them), Ketsumeishi and Happatai :aimkiss:

cba to list a bunch of artists right now

punk/emo/metal/techno/electronica

top ten fav bands
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1.) mcr
2.) afi (and blaqk audio too <3)
3.) the used
4.) dimmu borgir
5.) metallica
6.) evanescence
7.) lacuna coil
8.) deftones
9.) korn (old stuff. new crap is kinda stupid)
10.) 30 seconds to mars
.... some honorable mentions
11.) from first to last
12.) paramore
13.) iron maiden
14.) black sabbath
15.) cradle of filth
16.) panic! at the disco
17.) the medic droid
18.) taking back sunday
19.) rammstein
20.) tenacious d

I'll listen to almost anything, not counting rap, country, or hip hop. That reminds me, I just saw this hilarious kid show called "Hip Hop Harry" this morning, and it truly shows that Kids shows just aren't what they used to be.

Back on track though, the main bands that I listen to are usually alternative or rock. Third Eye Blind, Eve 6, Bouncing Souls, Goldfinger, Angels and Airwaves, U2, Less Than Jake for a few examples.

It's hard for me to list a top ten but I'm pretty big into:

Amiina, Andrew Bird, Animal Collective, Arcade Fire, Band of Horses, Battles, Be Your Own Pet, Beach House, The Beatles, Beck, Beirut, Ben Folds, The Black Keys, Black Kids, Brazilian Girls, Broken Social Scene, Built to Spill, Cold War Kids, Coldplay, Crystal Castles, Cut Copy, Daft Punk, Death Cab For Cutie, The Decemberists, Dizzee Rascal, The Dodos, Elliott Smith, Explosions In The Sky, Feist, The Flaming Lips, Fleet Foxes, Ghostland Observatory, Girl Talk, Gorillaz, Grizzly Bear, Hot Chip, Interpol, Iron and Wine, Junior Boys, Justice, Kings of Leon, The Kinks, LCD Soundsystem, M83, The Mars Volta, MIA, MGMT, MSI, Minus The Bear, Modest Mouse, MSTRKRFT, Muse, My Morning Jacket, The National, Of Montreal, Old Crow Medicine Show, Panda Bear, Pink Floyd, Plants And Animals, The Polyphonic Spree, The Raconteurs, Radiohead, Ratatat, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, Rogue Wave, The Shins, Sigur Ros, Spoon, Starlight Mints, Stars, Sublime, Sufjan Stevens, Sunset Rubdown, Tapes 'n Tapes, The White Stripes, TV on the Radio, Vampire Weekend, Wilco, Wolfmother, Yeah Yeah Yeahs