Very wide range from late 70s to now but preferably bands to solo artists .
My favourite genre right now I think you call it Modern Rock , proper rock bands like Bring Me The Horizon, Mallory Knox, You Me At Six, Lower Than Atlantis basically Kerrang music that isn't heavy metal.
Still but teary with the split of We Are The Ocean yesterday ,they used to be screamo but are now a melodic rock band that Radio 1 play.
Metal \m/ (specifically Prog metal and Symphonic metal, and some thrash.... ooh and maybe a dash of Power metal but no Nu Metal - unless its in small doses. Not into Death Metal really.
Metal especially Thrash & Symphonic, 80's chart. My parents listened to things like Carpenters, Showwaddywaddy, Chas n Dave, 50's / 60's & Country etc, so I have a lot of guilty pleasures as well.
I was born in the 1970s, so my favourite decades for music are obviously the 1970s and 1980s. I like most music from these decades, because this is the music that I grew up with. Some of these older songs carry a lot of memories for me. Mind you, my mum and dad both loved 1950s rock n roll and 1960s music, so I was brought up on that as well and I also like a lot of those songs too. I absolutely detest 1990s music onwards, though. The 1990s was the era where decent music rapidly went downhill for me and I don't think it has ever recovered. I can honestly say that I can only think of a very few songs from 1990 until now that I really like. I don't dislike any particular genre enough to say that I hate it and I think that every genre has its good and bad songs. Apart from 1990s crap, of course, lol. I was never into rap, dance, hip-hop or rave music, despite growing up in the 1990s. That was never my scene. My tastes have developed as I have grown older but I still like most of the same stuff now that I did when I was younger. My love for 1970s and 1980s pop music will never die!
Predominantly anything and everything that sounds good to my ears that has good vocals/singing, instrumentation/musicianship. With that being said for me it preferably covers Rock, Metal, Country, R&B, Soul, Reggae, Pop and Classical.
African American music -
Jazz (vocal and instrumental - 1930s to present)
original Rhythm & Blues, Jump Blues, Gospel
Soul - 60's to present
Funk, Electro, early Chicago House, NY/NJ Garage
Hip Hop - 70's to present
Jamaican music -
Ska - Rock Steady - early Reggae - Roots Reggae - Lovers Rock - Dancehall - Ragga
not much contemporary Dancehall
Latin and Brazilian music -
Samba, Bossa Nova, MPB, Psychedelic, Cumbia, Boogaloo, Salsa
African music -
some modern artists like Baaba Maal, Oumou Sangare, Papa Wemba, lots of 70's and 60's Afrobeat/Psych/Funk/Jazz etc.
+ when I'm in the mood, a smidgeon of Punk / Alternative Rock/ Garage / Noise Rock / Indie. A bit of Trip Hop, Drum & Bass.
So not much Pop, AOR / mainstream / Classic Rock but still, I've quite a few records and CDs. Here's a sampling of the sort of things I like... Hopefully someone will find something new to them here that appeals...
I'm fine with most decades (especially 70's onwards) my favourite type of Music is Rock Music and it had a great reign in the 00's along with Indie (another genre which I really like) which solidifies the 00's as my favourite decade.
Although I think that the 80's and 90's were the best for pure Pop Music.
I like mostly contemporary underground bands, I take the time to find what I like and not bitch about how terrible modern music is. Because it isn't. 2016 was my favourite year.
I like mostly contemporary underground bands, I take the time to find what I like and not bitch about how terrible modern music is. Because it isn't. .
yeah.... the point is you shouldnt have to 'take time to find out', it should be there being so interesting there is a buzz about it amongst the younger generation that spills out into mainstream. it gets noticed by more then just its target fan base. all the great genres of the past did this.
and, as ever, the 'best' music has always been more 'underground' , nothing new there.
until i see evidence that 2016 will go down as a great year in music, you will not convince me that it was anything other then generic, corporate driven, unoriginal crap.
I like a bit everything - John Peel taught me well.
I can go for a bit a classical, followed by Metal, then some of what 6 Music plays and then off to Jack FM to relive my younger days, currently listening to Nemone's house show. I also like show tunes, reggae. Even hymns are good musically.
I cannot understand why someone won't listen to or enjoy any type of music.
Although I will draw the line at Coldplay.
My Top Three bands of all time (based on plays by me):
1) Super Furry Animals
2) Transvision Vamp
3) Regina Spektor.
I like mostly contemporary underground bands, I take the time to find what I like and not bitch about how terrible modern music is. Because it isn't. 2016 was my favourite year.
I like shoe gaze and dream pop music but I don't think anyone making such music would ever expect to find themselves in the charts these days. I liked the examples here (Newmoon in particular). The electro pop stuff was dull. I like modern female music, so the two mentioned above are great.
As Mushymanrob suggests why would none of these tracks make the mainstream?
yeah.... the point is you shouldnt have to 'take time to find out', it should be there being so interesting there is a buzz about it amongst the younger generation that spills out into mainstream. it gets noticed by more then just its target fan base. all the great genres of the past did this.
and, as ever, the 'best' music has always been more 'underground' , nothing new there.
until i see evidence that 2016 will go down as a great year in music, you will not convince me that it was anything other then generic, corporate driven, unoriginal crap.
It won't but why care bout anyone else, if people can find music that they love and they are happy it's that the main thing. I would love it if more of the bands I like were more obviously successful most have 1 week top 10 albums and then plummet but they sell out mid size venues and arenas so enough people are liking them and finding them even if they don't do that well in charts and are known by everybody.
Simple choice if you want to stay in the past stay in the past, if you don't either like what's in the charts or don't, if you don't you need to look and listen harder, isn't that basically what John Peel did , now we all have to be Peels if we want to find what we like
Only difference he brought people together following his lead now we are all over the place liking different things
I like shoe gaze and dream pop music but I don't think anyone making such music would ever expect to find themselves in the charts these days. I liked the examples here (Newmoon in particular). The electro pop stuff was dull. I like modern female music, so the two mentioned above are great.
As Mushymanrob suggests why would none of these tracks make the mainstream?
Because they are on indie labels and don't get played in the radio or added to Spotify playlists , there is so much music out there now 11000 new tracks get added to Spotify every week, we need curators to guide us all to the same place like John Peel or Zane Lowe everything is so fractured now see my last post. I listen to so much new music and I have only heard of two of those bands so what hope does the general public have.
Because they are on indie labels and don't get played in the radio or added to Spotify playlists , there is so much music out there now 11000 new tracks get added to Spotify every week, we need curators to guide us all to the same place like John Peel or Zane Lowe everything is so fractured now see my last post. I listen to so much new music and I have only heard of two of those bands so what hope does the general public have.
There were many indie releases in the 70s and 80s and Peel was a great curator. I'm glad you recognise that it is impossible to sift everything as an individual and that there is a need for curation. If there was a John Peel or Zane Lowe and if people here on DS for example were to listen to them religiously like I did to Peel in the 70s and 80s, it might just be possible or get some ( and it only ever will be some) of this music into the mainstream. That might improve the overall quality of pop music.
You are right that listening behaviour is fragmented and there is a persistent theme on DS that music taste is entirely subjective and it's all about personal consumption. And that's all that matters. If you really care about pop music and want to make it better a bit of curation and trying to make some of these great alternative artists popular is a worthy objective.
All sorts to be honest as long as it is not that screaming stuff they call heavy metal, because that is just noise.
But from 60's, 70', early 80', seemed to go to pot after that. I like Jazz, classical.
It won't but why care bout anyone else, if people can find music that they love and they are happy it's that the main thing. I would love it if more of the bands I like were more obviously successful most have 1 week top 10 albums and then plummet but they sell out mid size venues and arenas so enough people are liking them and finding them even if they don't do that well in charts and are known by everybody.
Simple choice if you want to stay in the past stay in the past, if you don't either like what's in the charts or don't, if you don't you need to look and listen harder, isn't that basically what John Peel did , now we all have to be Peels if we want to find what we like
Only difference he brought people together following his lead now we are all over the place liking different things
oh i agree im happy for people to find music of whatever variety that they like, and whether 2016 was a great year for music falls into the old trap of the difference between personal taste and the bigger picture.
of course personal taste is often totally different to the big picture. so whilst one fm can say 2016 was a great year for them personally , which is perfectly ok, it cannot be argued that 2016 was a great year for music overall - can it?
i dont want to stay in the past, i never have, but i lament the apparent lack of the great strong generic styles that we all have enjoyed, or not, since the 1950's.
There were many indie releases in the 70s and 80s and Peel was a great curator. I'm glad you recognise that it is impossible to sift everything as an individual and that there is a need for curation. If there was a John Peel or Zane Lowe and if people here on DS for example were to listen to them religiously like I did to Peel in the 70s and 80s, it might just be possible or get some ( and it only ever will be some) of this music into the mainstream. That might improve the overall quality of pop music.
You are right that listening behaviour is fragmented and there is a persistent theme on DS that music taste is entirely subjective and it's all about personal consumption. And that's all that matters. If you really care about pop music and want to make it better a bit of curation and trying to make some of these great alternative artists popular is a worthy objective.
We kind of curate each other at Fatherandy Haven forums many of us have personal charts and we post tracks of the day , it is a much more positive place when it comes time music http://fatherandy2.*********.com/ although we have plenty debates and arguments as well
yeah.... the point is you shouldnt have to 'take time to find out', it should be there being so interesting there is a buzz about it amongst the younger generation that spills out into mainstream. it gets noticed by more then just its target fan base. all the great genres of the past did this.
and, as ever, the 'best' music has always been more 'underground' , nothing new there.
until i see evidence that 2016 will go down as a great year in music, you will not convince me that it was anything other then generic, corporate driven, unoriginal crap.
Oh it's true that the best Music never makes it mainstream.
A genre that I like that hardly gets a look in is Ambient Music, I know Strong was a big hit for London Grammar, but there are other good songs within this genre that hardly get played in the charts.
Trance is my main genre and I love it when other people feel the same connection to the music as I do.
I also like Dubstep, drum and bass and electro house.
Mainstream music has been terrible the last couple of years, so I don't bother having the radio on in the car anymore. I liked it when house music was revived, but then as soon as a trend catches on, the music industry overkill it and it becomes too much. And the term EDM pisses me off, as pretty much everything is now EDM in the charts and its a load of rubbish.
Trance is my main genre and I love it when other people feel the same connection to the music as I do.
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i know others might argue against this, but i think theres a special connection between trance fans, because we 'get it', the emotional understanding of where this music takes us.
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My favourite genre right now I think you call it Modern Rock , proper rock bands like Bring Me The Horizon, Mallory Knox, You Me At Six, Lower Than Atlantis basically Kerrang music that isn't heavy metal.
Still but teary with the split of We Are The Ocean yesterday ,they used to be screamo but are now a melodic rock band that Radio 1 play.
Metal \m/ (specifically Prog metal and Symphonic metal, and some thrash.... ooh and maybe a dash of Power metal but no Nu Metal - unless its in small doses. Not into Death Metal really.
Jazz (vocal and instrumental - 1930s to present)
original Rhythm & Blues, Jump Blues, Gospel
Soul - 60's to present
Funk, Electro, early Chicago House, NY/NJ Garage
Hip Hop - 70's to present
Jamaican music -
Ska - Rock Steady - early Reggae - Roots Reggae - Lovers Rock - Dancehall - Ragga
not much contemporary Dancehall
Latin and Brazilian music -
Samba, Bossa Nova, MPB, Psychedelic, Cumbia, Boogaloo, Salsa
African music -
some modern artists like Baaba Maal, Oumou Sangare, Papa Wemba, lots of 70's and 60's Afrobeat/Psych/Funk/Jazz etc.
+ when I'm in the mood, a smidgeon of Punk / Alternative Rock/ Garage / Noise Rock / Indie. A bit of Trip Hop, Drum & Bass.
So not much Pop, AOR / mainstream / Classic Rock but still, I've quite a few records and CDs. Here's a sampling of the sort of things I like... Hopefully someone will find something new to them here that appeals...
Lorez Alexandria - Baltimore Oriole (1963 version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LbY2EANfe4
Jack Wilson Quartet feat. Roy Ayers - Ramblin'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Oegr6mcqRQ
Alice Coltrane feat. Pharoah Sanders - Journey In Satchidananda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQtEFdyhgdE
Albertina & The Caravans - Put A Little Love In Your Heart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzGK-fDcKsg
Smiley Lewis - One Night Of Sin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3KbVC8SYZw
Ray Pollard - The Drifter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pHRtNLcg2g
Cultural Vibe feat. Glen Toby - Ma Foom Bey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U90t5NaX9JA
Spoonie G - The Godfather
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEWTaMSe64w
The Maytals - Broadway Jungle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGGg0emmhrk
The Gaylads - Love Me With All Your Heart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxucpSxLh6A
Little Roy - Tribal War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yyuw6VIav-s
Luciano & Selvie Wonder - Neighbourhood Watch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DszSPtCepeI
Terror Fabulous & Nadine Sutherland - Action
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jK4a1yr65w
Ricardo Marreiro & The Group - Babylonia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkAQJqB2M8o
João Donato - A Rã
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjUqVGNd_08
Elza Soares - Amor Perfeito
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63Oa87XNJ5A
Jorge Ben - Umbabarauma
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp9uZKy6H7Y
SJOB Movement - Omo Oloro To Nje Eyin Awo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiK1aalGXAI
Orchestra Super Mazembe - Shauri Yako
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHxtrc1Z8aY
Tony Allen - Asiko
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcpfE_4qZ_U
Crass - Big A Little A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIdcDL64KCE
Guv'ner - Coitus City
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvm9yoJnltg
God bless you and his family always!!!
Holly
Although I think that the 80's and 90's were the best for pure Pop Music.
A taste of what I dig;
Indie pop
https://soundcloud.com/thatbandofhers/marcel
Shoegaze
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Th2Hm_dWow
Dream pop
https://vivienneeastwood.bandcamp.com/track/nons
Surf rock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T5_ZeLciRw
I do like some pure pop stuff like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPmQZt6nq-8
I've always been into synthpop and electronic music, a particular favourite at the moment;
Roosevelt - Belong
I couldn't give genres to these but they're awesome;
Tacocat - I Hate the Weekend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcNotrB0s4Y
Girl Ray - Trouble
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2j07UM7wTLQ
Choir of Young Believers - Does It Look As If I Care
https://soundcloud.com/ghostly/choir-of-young-believers-does-it-look-as-if-i-care
Geowulf - Don't Talk About You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EqSmApWtIc
Dream Wife - Hey Heartbreaker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdZBvE7nZyM
I could be here all day.
yeah.... the point is you shouldnt have to 'take time to find out', it should be there being so interesting there is a buzz about it amongst the younger generation that spills out into mainstream. it gets noticed by more then just its target fan base. all the great genres of the past did this.
and, as ever, the 'best' music has always been more 'underground' , nothing new there.
until i see evidence that 2016 will go down as a great year in music, you will not convince me that it was anything other then generic, corporate driven, unoriginal crap.
I can go for a bit a classical, followed by Metal, then some of what 6 Music plays and then off to Jack FM to relive my younger days, currently listening to Nemone's house show. I also like show tunes, reggae. Even hymns are good musically.
I cannot understand why someone won't listen to or enjoy any type of music.
Although I will draw the line at Coldplay.
My Top Three bands of all time (based on plays by me):
1) Super Furry Animals
2) Transvision Vamp
3) Regina Spektor.
I like shoe gaze and dream pop music but I don't think anyone making such music would ever expect to find themselves in the charts these days. I liked the examples here (Newmoon in particular). The electro pop stuff was dull. I like modern female music, so the two mentioned above are great.
As Mushymanrob suggests why would none of these tracks make the mainstream?
It won't but why care bout anyone else, if people can find music that they love and they are happy it's that the main thing. I would love it if more of the bands I like were more obviously successful most have 1 week top 10 albums and then plummet but they sell out mid size venues and arenas so enough people are liking them and finding them even if they don't do that well in charts and are known by everybody.
Simple choice if you want to stay in the past stay in the past, if you don't either like what's in the charts or don't, if you don't you need to look and listen harder, isn't that basically what John Peel did , now we all have to be Peels if we want to find what we like
Only difference he brought people together following his lead now we are all over the place liking different things
Because they are on indie labels and don't get played in the radio or added to Spotify playlists , there is so much music out there now 11000 new tracks get added to Spotify every week, we need curators to guide us all to the same place like John Peel or Zane Lowe everything is so fractured now see my last post. I listen to so much new music and I have only heard of two of those bands so what hope does the general public have.
There were many indie releases in the 70s and 80s and Peel was a great curator. I'm glad you recognise that it is impossible to sift everything as an individual and that there is a need for curation. If there was a John Peel or Zane Lowe and if people here on DS for example were to listen to them religiously like I did to Peel in the 70s and 80s, it might just be possible or get some ( and it only ever will be some) of this music into the mainstream. That might improve the overall quality of pop music.
You are right that listening behaviour is fragmented and there is a persistent theme on DS that music taste is entirely subjective and it's all about personal consumption. And that's all that matters. If you really care about pop music and want to make it better a bit of curation and trying to make some of these great alternative artists popular is a worthy objective.
But from 60's, 70', early 80', seemed to go to pot after that. I like Jazz, classical.
oh i agree im happy for people to find music of whatever variety that they like, and whether 2016 was a great year for music falls into the old trap of the difference between personal taste and the bigger picture.
of course personal taste is often totally different to the big picture. so whilst one fm can say 2016 was a great year for them personally , which is perfectly ok, it cannot be argued that 2016 was a great year for music overall - can it?
i dont want to stay in the past, i never have, but i lament the apparent lack of the great strong generic styles that we all have enjoyed, or not, since the 1950's.
but hey - we have been here before!
We kind of curate each other at Fatherandy Haven forums many of us have personal charts and we post tracks of the day , it is a much more positive place when it comes time music http://fatherandy2.*********.com/ although we have plenty debates and arguments as well
Lol at Pr0boards censorship
Oh it's true that the best Music never makes it mainstream.
A genre that I like that hardly gets a look in is Ambient Music, I know Strong was a big hit for London Grammar, but there are other good songs within this genre that hardly get played in the charts.
I also like Dubstep, drum and bass and electro house.
Mainstream music has been terrible the last couple of years, so I don't bother having the radio on in the car anymore. I liked it when house music was revived, but then as soon as a trend catches on, the music industry overkill it and it becomes too much. And the term EDM pisses me off, as pretty much everything is now EDM in the charts and its a load of rubbish.
i know others might argue against this, but i think theres a special connection between trance fans, because we 'get it', the emotional understanding of where this music takes us.
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