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Miscellaneous => General Chat => Topic started by: Rao on October 19, 2007, 09:52:10 AM
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OK, this is a thread where people can say who and what they like in music.
I personally like Santana, the Grateful Dead, Led Zeppelin, Cream, Yes, Rush, Blind Faith, Traffic, the Beatles, Pink Floyd, Vanilla Fudge, Jimi Hendrix, Robin Trower, Pat Metheny, and Jaco Pastorius.
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I'm not very picky about music, but I'd rather not hear "hit music" radio stations or songs about drugs, violence, or sex (this includes most mainstream rap), unless they're parodies or meant to be funny.
When I'm driving and my iPod isn't connected to the stereo, I'm usually listening to a rock station or a jazz station. If my iPod is connected, I might listen to some of the video game music I have on it.
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Popular music today sucks. All of it.
I really like most electronic music. I prefer harder techno and hardstyle (driving around at night with the windows down and the bass cranked up is just waaaaaay too much fun), but I like some trance and more mellow stuff too. Sometimes. I also like most classic rock.
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The following list has every artist in My Music folder. (excluding albums with non-specific artists like "NAMCO" or "Compilation")
Aphex Twin, Beastie Boys, Billy Joel, Buckethead, Cream, Cut Copy, Daft Punk,
Don Davis, ELO , Foreigner, Ill Mitch, Jackson and his Computer Band,
Jean Jacques Perrey, Jethro Tull, John Lennon, King Crimson, Led Zeppelin,
Mix Master Mike, Run-D.M.C., The Beatles, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Tuss,
They Might Be Giants, Van Halen and Yes
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Hmm, my favorite bands/artists about now are...
Neil Young
Megadeth
The Beatles
Black Sabbath
Reverend Horton Heat
Hank Williams III
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...Buckethead...
I seriously doubt that. But if it really is true, then why do you like Buckethead?
Hmm. My favorite general types of music are rock/hard rock/metal. Here's a list of bands/artists:
Led Zeppelin
Primus
Buckethead
Rush
Chevelle
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Audioslave
George Thorogood
Rage Against the Machine
Dragonforce
Pink Floyd
...and that's just a few.
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You're right Mr. Melee, I'm not a big enough rocker to listen to Buckethead. I better throw away my CD!
I'll throw away my Van Halen albums too, they get kind of loud with those guitars!
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I don't really have any favorites, I'll just listen to whatever's being played unless it's rap/hip-hop, country or emo (I have never had control over the radio in the family car, ever). I hate my iPod because it crashes my computer every time I try to use it, and so I use my M3 DS Simply to listen to video game music (Gyakuten Saiban Meets Orchestra is made of win) or The Picard Song or The Beatles or some other good item I have. If classic rock or some other non-earsore is on a nearby radio, I won't complain.
You probably already knew I like Weird Al but when he suddenly got so popular, it kind of killed it for the rest of us... But since no one really knows about all his old stuff, it's still good. But you could say I'm "weirded out." Ahahaa...
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You're right Mr. Melee, I'm not a big enough rocker to listen to Buckethead. I better throw away my CD!
I'll throw away my Van Halen albums too, they get kind of loud with those guitars!
Get rid of the Jimi Hendrix too, because he's also very proficient on them guitars and you don't have the right to listen to them.
Also It's funny how most people's musical tastes that don't really like music are: 1) Everything but country 2) Everything but Rap and Country 3) Rap 4) Country
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Going through some of the artists on my iPod...
AC/DC Fall Out Boy
Acceptance The Fratellis
Al Green Gorillaz
Aretha Franklin Gym Class Heroes
Atreyu Jet
Avenged Sevenfold Jimmy Hendrix
The Band Kanye West
The Beatles Led Zeppelin
Bill Withers Modest Mouse
Black Sabbath Ok Go
Bob Marley Otis Redding
Buckcherry Pearl Jam
Carl Carlton The Pillows
CCR Ra
Crush 40 Slayer
Daft Punk Slipknot
Dropkick Murphys Smashing Pumpkins
Elton John Three Dog Night
Elvis Weezer
Geto Boys The White Stripes
Jeff Buckley ZZ Top
So, there's not really anything I won't listen to. You may notice a lack of country on this list, but I assure you, I do like some. The same with rap. More rap than country.
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Re: Solid
Those are my least favorite classifications of music. And I like music. (Which is why it hurts my mind to hear those types of music.)
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I left out some bands/artists that I really like when I first posted here.
Heart
Joni Mitchell
Hanson
Crosby Stills and Nash/Crosby Stills Nash and Young
Weather Report
Radiohead
Coldplay
Aphex Twin
Clark
DMX Krew
Bob Marley and the Wailers
The Band
Bob Dylan
Daft Punk
Blondie
Pat Benatar
Prince
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Aphex Twin, µ-Ziq, Daft Punk, Gnarls Barkley, Naoki Maeda, dj TAKA, Family Farce, DM Ashura, the Beatles, Dragonforce, Kraftwerk, Soul Coughing, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Focus, Led Zeppelin, the Eagles, ELO, Booker T. and the MGs, Steely Dan, ZZ Top, Weird Al, Chupperson Weird, Kita Keru, Pink Floyd, Rush, Juno Reactor, Don Davis, and a lot of others that I might put in another post.
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Any classic rock/metal, or modern rock/metal that is actually good:
Black Sabbath, ZZ Top, Boston, Rage Against the Machine, Iron Maiden, Rush, Guns n' Roses
Most 80s/90s hip-hop that actually required some effort to create:
Run-D.M.C., Public Enemy, Beastie Boys
And also, select songs from miscellaneous other genres ranging from techno to classical and so on.
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I'm gonna go with the general consensus that most of today's music sucks, what with those emo and rap guys and all, but here's a few select bands off the top of my head:
Prodigy
Green Day
Led Zepplin
AC/DC
Weird Al
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I like country, rap, and today's popular tunes.
I particularly like the Villebillies (http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=5887867), sort of a rap/country fusion!
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With this list (http://deezer.kontek.net/music.ktn), you can get a good idea of what I like.
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Wow, I had no idea Deezer had even one Buckethead album. Where'd you get those rarities?
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I like Yoko Kanno, Samuel Barber, Antonio Vivaldi, Yasunori Mitsuda, Richard D. James, Radiohead, Yes, They Might Be Giants, Chris Clark, Johannes Brahms, Rush, Steely Dan, Nobuo Uematsu, Josquin des Prez, Claude Debussy, Daft Punk, Air, Koji Kondo, Castlevania music, Mega Man music, Shadow of the Colossus music (by Ko Otani), Björk, Franz Schubert, Ludwig van Beethoven, Joe Hisaishi, The Moody Blues, Mike Paradinas, Tom Petty, Motoi Sakuraba, Falcom Sound Team JDK, Todd Rundgren, Antonin Dvorak, Modest Mussorgsky, David Bowie, Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakoff, Béla Bartók, DMX Krew, Blue Man Group, Dirty Vegas, The Avalanches, Donovan, múm, J.S. Bach, Susumu Hirasawa, Ochre, The Decemberists, The Shins, Devo, Kansas, Valis III music, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Led Zeppelin, ...???
I like some music of: Moby, Orbital, Clutch, Alice in Chains, The Arcade Fire, Ween, Green Day, U2, Franz Ferdinand, Depeche Mode, Beck, Gorillaz, Tool, The White Stripes, and other random stuff I hear at work.
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I like rock n' roll and hard rock bands like Led Zeppelin, Elvis Presley, Van Halen, and Jimi Hendrix. I also like Mario Music. In a way.
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That somehow implies that it's unusual or something for people to like Mario music. Or video game music in general.
Anyway, I remembered I like Rammstein too.
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I checked out some jazz records from the library today, and I'm really getting into it. I really dig jazz.
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Jazz be good. I like smooth jazz a bit more, though.
(I am jealous over the fact that horn is not an instrument that's normally used in jazz, which probably explains that.)
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I dislike regular jazz because it seems kind of discordant to me, and smooth jazz usually sounds like Weather Channel muzak. I prefer blues over jazz.
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Vid: David Amram
Glorb: A lot of Jazz is supposed to be dissonant. But most isn't discordant. Complex harmonies and dissonance are just ... complex, is all.
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I like smooth jazz.
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Vid: David Amram
Amram's one of the very few exceptions. I'd like to see horn a lot more than in just his works, though. :|
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Vid: David Amram
Glorb: A lot of Jazz is supposed to be dissonant. But most isn't discordant. Complex harmonies and dissonance are just ... complex, is all.
Well, what I meant was, I prefer music that has a definite rythm over the whole song, rather than a sort of freestyle "DOOOOOOdoodoodooodlydoodlydeedlydoodlydiddlydiddly doodiddlydadeedlydoodoodlydiddly..." saxophone solo. I guess that could be it; I'm just not a saxophone fan. But whatever.
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Yeah, true hardcore jazz is very very free-form. And there is also guitar, piano and trumpet in a lot of jazz, it's not just sax.
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Glorb, you're describing a relatively small portion of Jazz as a whole. You're only talking about the kind of stuff Miles Davis did in the mid '60s and stuff like Ornette Coleman did. And Ornette Coleman is pretty far out there. Free Jazz still exists, of course, but it isn't in the majority by a long shot.
I have to say, though, Free Jazz is definitely some of my favorite. And even in most free jazz there is still a main melody and a form to the music. The time just floats more.
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I enjoy Jazz fusion.
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Meatloaf!
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"Hippo hop! Ooh yeah, baby!"
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Man, I forgot one of my favorite bands; They Might Be Giants.
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The Blood Brothers are my numero uno banda. Hear me out: it's delicious avant-garde punk, wrapped in wildly abstract lyrics, sprinkled with child-like yet madening vocals, and topped off with irregular instrumentation and synth. Deniable? I think NOT.
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Queen, Chicago, The Beatles, The Eagles (their new album is pretty sweet), Led Zeppelin, The Carpenters, ELO, Johnny Cash, to name a few.
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I have a very beautiful synthesizer. It makes incredible, incredible noises. I'm not usually too materialistic, but this device is under my very close protection.
:D
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I saw Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey (http://jfjo.com) play in a high-end furniture boutique last night, along with some other people playing in different buildings down the street. They were all good, but I liked JFJO the best. They were simply amazing.
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I like mainly rock, although I don't listen to too much "real" music. I do, however, have an extensive collection of video game tracks and remixes. Metroid Metal is definitely one of my favorites. Also, the song "Mr. Roboto" has been stuck in my head all day. Don't exactly know why, but I kinda like that song, so it's not that bad.
EDIT: By "real", I mean music you'll hear on any typical radio station, the kind that non-nerds listen to.
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I've learned in the past year I started driving that not all radio stations are terrible. Just the Top 40/"Hit music" stations. One day I fidgeted with the radio stations at a stoplight that took forever to change and was able to create presets of actually good stations on my car's radio system:
WQCD 101.9 (A smooth jazz station, unfortunately it doesn't come in quite clear as it is based in New York City, which is far away from me)
WBAB 102.3 (A rock station that I usually switch to if I'm tired of listening to what's on my iPod)
WALK 97.5 (Adult contemporary station, I just like it 'cause it has a much bigger variety than its sister station my sister likes)
WUSB 90.1 (College radio station, no specific genre. It's owned by Stony Brook University, a school I plan to transfer to after this year at Suffolk Community)
WLIR 107.1 ('Nother rock station. This has stuff that's a bit more modern than WBAB.)
WLIX 94.7 (Underground. Don't switch to this one very much, but what I hear from it is pretty nice.)
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Exactly what the heck is "adult contemporary" anyway? That has got to be the most annoying classification ever.
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According to our friend Wikipedia, "Adult contemporary music, frequently abbreviated AC, is a type of radio format that plays mainstream contemporary popular music, excluding hip hop, hard rock, some teen pop music, and rhythmic dance tracks, which is intended for a mature adult audience, especially for people who are 16 and older."
Mostly, the one I listen to doesn't play much modern stuff, it usually has stuff from the 80s and 90s, stuff like light rock, etc. Like WLIX, I don't switch to it often.
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Yeah, that description really doesn't make it any more clear. It must be some nondescript fuzzy genre composed of people like ... I don't even know who. Michael Bolton?
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I don't like genres. Genres seem to set limits on what people do musically.
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I completely agree with you. Regardless, a lot of people do try to make music that fits into certain genres. Which makes stuff like "adult contemporary" all the more baffling.
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I think the most annoying genres are the ones that begin in "post" or ends in "core". Yeeeuch.
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I classify everything into six catagories: Rock, Techno, Country, Rap, Foreign, Girly
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I think the most annoying genres are the ones that begin in "post" or ends in "core". Yeeeuch.
That award belongs to genres starting with "e" and ending in "mo." Of course, since that genre is really a kind of Post-Hardcore, it all makes sense.
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I like whispercore.
ShadowBrain's classification only works for popular music produced in the past 5 years.
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Hmm. I'm into many things, things people may think clash. I would have to say the only thing I don't listen to is country. I listen to rap/hip-hop (I don't know the difference), but only The Beastie Boys (they're the best, I think atleast), and some L.L. Cool J, DJ Kool Herc, and Afrika Bambataa.
I think 60's psychedelic and Acid Rock are some of the best forms of rock ever created. Anything that focuses on erotic sounds of nature or obscure cosmic jam is great to me. This would include although many of these artists don't belong to the same time period and some would say (what the heck even I would) not even to the same catagory... Syd Barrett, Early Pink Floyd Sound, Yes, The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators, The Soft Machine, and many many more.
I think the Beatles are alright, but I refuse to acknowledge them as great or godlike. They're good in they're own right but whenever I think of them I think of they're transformation from a pop boy band into these psychedelic lords of the underground movement. I absolutely refuse to look at them in that sort of light even though they did inspire my favorite band. I think the only one that deserves credit for any of these accusations would be George Harrison. And please don't go on telling me how you love the Beatles and they did do all these great things and how everybody loves them because obviously not everybody does.
I generally hate mainstream music, like the music they play on the Early show or on ipod commercials. I can't really express why. I do not think a lot artists today have real traditional talent in music, I don't think we will ever see the amount of good and successful bands that the 60's, 70's, and 80's produced ever again.
To wrap things up... I basically like a lot of stuff. And I think music is a vital source of inspiration in all forms of art today and always will.
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erotic sounds of nature
O_o
pop boy band
o_O
To conclude, it's pretty dumb to think that only the music of three decades in one century has any worth just because that's the only stuff you're familiar with.
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I second Chup.
There ARE artists who put out good stuff these days in my opinion, you just won't hear them on a Top 40 radio station.
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I'm not talking about just current music either. But yeah.
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I've always been a lover of jazz music. Especially jazz instrumentals. I think saxophones sound great in jazz. The piano sounds quite good too. I couldn't name a lot of jazz bands, but Mr. Bungle's jazz numbers were great.
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The stuff on iPod commercials is totally not what I'd call "mainstream".
Also I am hereby totally adding "erotic sounds of nature or obscure cosmic jam" to my favorite song genres list.
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I have a few songs that were featured in iPod commercials, such as Jerk Me Out by The Caesars, and Feel Good Inc. by Gorillaz (I'm pretty sure that was in an iPod commercial...)
I also have the song that was featured in the iPhone commercials that played during the Summer, "Perfect Timing (This Morning)" by Orba Squara. The main singer's voice reminds me a bit of Chup.
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Also I am hereby totally adding "erotic sounds of nature or obscure cosmic jam" to my favorite song genres list.
I dig obscure cosmic jam, but I'm not so sure about erotic sounds of nature.
Also, I like the music ice-cream trucks play out that speaker on the top.
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Well, mostly 80's music and 90's electronic stuff. Besides that I used to listen a lot of hardcore, punk and rock bands in the past, but those music kinda makes me feel angry, so now I only listen stuff like Billy Idol or A-ha.
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I enjoy almost all instrumental music. I've never been quite as fond of music with lyrics, but this is not the case for all lyrical music. So, instrumental music can pertain to classical, jazz (more big band swing than the other types), and a multitude of soundtracks.
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O_oo_O
To conclude, it's pretty dumb to think that only the music of three decades in one century has any worth just because that's the only stuff you're familiar with.
I never said anything that isn't from those 3 decades is bad. I only said a lot of it is bad, and yeah I am pretty familiar with recent music not just from top music charts or MTV. I mean, I hear it all the time, its impossible not to unless your deff. Did I say that? Hmm because it seems to me that I said we wouldn't see the amount of good bands as we did. In this day of mass media, its hard to create an identity, for insyance, how many new band pages are made each day on myspace. I'm sure a lot of them are terrific but how do expect them to get recognized as easy as great bands did back then? Please if your going to quote and criticize me, atleast do it with accuracy and a basic understanding of what I meant.
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I don't think it's useful to use the term "today's music". After all, there is such a large spectrum of music available to us. All of it is so different. Even this so called "mainstream" music comes in a expansive variety.
We generalize way too when it comes to music. That is the problem.
I underlined it because it can't be emphasized enough.
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I'm definitely not listening to label-created mass market pop (for the most part). I am however hearing good bands that ssM says don't exist. And as I said before, I'm not only talking about current music. There was much good music making before the 60s and several hundred years ago. And lest we forget, the reason you remember good bands from previous decades now is because they were the only ones that were memorable enough in one way or another for the majority of people to remember. There were plenty of bad/obscure/unmemorable bands then, just as there are now. But they aren't trying to make it now, so we don't hear them trying.
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You know what I love? Classical. Brahms and Chopin are my favorites. I mean, there are so many things going on with classical. Things that an untrainted ear can't pick up on.
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Technically Brahms and Chopin are mid-late Romantic, but I too enjoy the complexity of their music.
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Chupperson Weird knows very well the more general use of the term classical music.
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I too like classical, but not so much pieces that are being written now. I like the old stuff better. I do like some modern pieces though.
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When it comes to classical, I don't really like hearing pieces with a string-only instrumentation, as I feel it lacks quite a bit (though there ARE some exceptions). Then again, a wind and percussion-only instrumentation also lacks, but not as much (more instrumental variety, obviously, and like string-only, there are exceptions, too).
Only when winds, strings and percussion are combined in a full orchestra do I REALLY enjoy classical.
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There's something to be said for an ensemble of similar timbres (that's why people write for said ensembles).
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I like the big band sound of the group Chicago. That's also why I enjoy Michael Buble. And I took band class in high school, so I have an appreciation of classical stuff.
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Along with everything else I've listed on this thread, I also like a lot of 80's pop and glam metal. Van Halen, Bon Jovi, the Scorpions, Prince, stuff like that.
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Everybody Wants to Rule the World by Tears for Fears and Every Breath You Take by Sting and The Police are two favorites of mine from the 80s.