You and your music

[Good morning blues]

I'm into post-punk recently; I'm finding myself itching for the energy after a long period of listening to dreamy post-rock and really mellow contemporary folk.

 

[DJShire]

trance, hard dance, house, breaks, DnB, dubstep

 

[Berethond]

Thats cuz you never heard of Deathspell Omega, Blut Aus Nord, Meshuggah,Gojira, or Opeth or other stuff.

I have actually heard of and actively listen to Opeth, as well as hearing tracks from Meshuggah and Gojira. Not a massive fan, I don't mind Opeth, but I prefer my heavier music to be sporadic and energetic, hence why I'm more into bands like Dillinger and the Blood Brothers rather than chunkier stuff like the bands you mentioned. Trust me, I listen to a shitload of different music, and the band below is one example:

<spoiler=The Locust playing Recyclable Body Fluids in Human Form live><spoiler=A track called Anything Jesus Does I Can Do Better set to a shitty video>I listen to this band occasionally because they're ridiculously spasmodic, if that's even a word. I understand a hell of a lot of people would just hear their music as noise, but they're great to thrash out to.

Gypsy jazz FTW!

I demand links!

Currently, I've been loving the works of Wynton Kelly, the (second)most amazing pianist of all time, as far as I'm concerned.

I'm sure seeing as you know the genre you'd know of the genius that was Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grapelli, but Viper's Dream is one of my favourite tracks of theirs:

<spoiler=Obviously its not the original but this version is quite good as well>
(Somehow I feel like I've just posted the most erratic and bewildering post on the Escapist. The Locust and Gypsy Jazz? Please.)

I don't believe I've heard of them, but I don't get out too much.
Sounds pretty awesome, though.

 

[Kasawd]

Hmm, interesting.

Of course, I love metal and most if not all of its variants. Old school metal bands are the heart of my enjoyment for the genres, though (Slayer, Mega/De/a/th and Bad Brains).

I will always have a special place in my heart for Boston and any jazz related tunes.

Right now, though, i am listening to alot of Death metal like Death, Morbid Angel and autopsy.

I love the complexity of the music and talent needed on everyones part. The idea that some bands can skate by with an excellent guitarist and only on par vocalist or bassist annoys if not appalls me.

 

[Kasawd]

Metal, full stop really; bands like Iron Maiden and Judas Priest never lose their magic for me, I'd elaborate further but don't really have much time. By the way, I fucking HATE Indie Rock. I don't know if it's mainly because everyone in school claims to be "Indie" or because the music/image of the bands makes me want to take them to a high cliff and send them down to the ground rather rapidly.

Yeah, it's that. I used to like radiohead until those bastards ruined them for me.

 

[Rad_Brad]

Death Metal.
And The Smiths.

 

[SovietSecrets]

Mostly into rap now thanks to Kid Cudi. One of the few rap artists thats worth listening to.

 

[QuirkyTambourine]

Lots and lots of Wes Montgomery

And partly because I'm having a bit of a rough time and jazz always makes me put things into place, and partly something a bit more interesting.

I'm still working on improv, and I started to transcribe a Kurt Rosenwinkel solo (he's a real modern player) but I figured out that transcribing the new stuff won't really help me when I still haven't gotten the old stuff down. So I went back to my collection and went to the first jazz album I ever bought, Smokin' At The Half Note, to learn more of Wes's style.

It's helped so far a bit

 

[TacticalAssassin1]

Nine Inch Nails (listening to their album Year Zero right now)
SoaD
and anything interesting I stumble upon.

 

[ottenni]

Grunge, Industrial, Metal, Alternative, Alternative Metal, Punk. That about sums it up.

 

[AC1izm]

I listen to pretty much every style except Pop & Country, but my favourite at the moment would be Math-Metal (Such as Meshuggah) & Math-Jazz (like Hiromi Uehara)

Math metal? Lulz, aren't the sub-sub-genres getting a bit ludicrous there? Personally, I just chuck them in the prog. metal sub-genre.

Progressive Rock/Metal. Favorite bands include Dream Theater, Porcupine Tree and Opeth.

EDIT: The genre doesn't matter that much to me, the music's just gotta be good.

Ah, good bands and I agree with your edited statement 100%. A lot of good music can be found in jazz, blues, classical, techno etc that inspires me and others to progress other genres of music as well.

Some composers define them as MathMetal because of the complex rhythms used in their music. One of the main reasons why I listen to them actually.

 

[IronDuke]

At the moment it's pretty much the same it's been for the last 10 years. Indie-singer-songwriter-folk or whatever you want to call it. I noticed my musical tastes have mellowed out, and I'm more interested in the "story" than the music.

I've also recently "discovered" chillout-triphop, I have no idea why but I like it.

I've been stuck on mostly instrumental trip-hop for a while now, I think it is f**king amazing.

 

[LCP]

Gypsy jazz FTW!

I demand links!

Currently, I've been loving the works of Wynton Kelly, the (second)most amazing pianist of all time, as far as I'm concerned.

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=django+reinhardt&search_type=&aq=0&oq=djan

I've listened to django ever since bioshock introduced me to him. Looking for more similar artists. Do you know any?

 

[VargRaev]

Metal is all what i need, at the moment im mostly listening to stuff like Manowar, Skid Row and Sabaton. But anything from Alestorm to Debauchery will do for me.

 

[slabomeat]

Im listening to Mastodon right now, but i'll listen to everything from Taylor Swift to Adam and the Ants

 

[open trap]

metal, why, because the lyerices actully have meening to me, it has the most talented guitarists and drummers in the industry, and i like fast pace and brutal music

 

[speedcoreXdandy]

I've also recently "discovered" chillout-triphop, I have no idea why but I like it.

As in stuff like Massive Attack? I just saw them on Wednesday night, they were amazing, best live band I've ever seen.

Anyway at the minute I'm liking happy hardcore because it's just fun music that makes me jump around like a spazz and CARLA BRUNI (I have decided she is her own genre) because her voicebox is made of velvet dipped in honey and deep fried in sexy.