Author Topic: What kind of music do you like? (Read 21257 times)

Ambulance Y · « **Reply #60 on:** November 17, 2007, 11:58:57 PM »

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.

Chupperson Weird · « **Reply #61 on:** November 18, 2007, 12:38:05 AM »

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.

Ambulance Y · « **Reply #62 on:** November 18, 2007, 12:43:06 AM »

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.

Chupperson Weird · « **Reply #63 on:** November 18, 2007, 12:48:52 AM »

Technically Brahms and Chopin are mid-late Romantic, but I too enjoy the complexity of their music.

Lizard Dude · « **Reply #64 on:** November 18, 2007, 11:25:03 AM »

Chupperson Weird knows very well the more general use of the term classical music.

Rao · « **Reply #65 on:** November 18, 2007, 12:24:46 PM »

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.

Vidgmchtr · « **Reply #66 on:** November 18, 2007, 01:57:43 PM »

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.

Chupperson Weird · « **Reply #67 on:** November 18, 2007, 04:27:03 PM »

There's something to be said for an ensemble of similar timbres (that's why people write for said ensembles).

Jman · « **Reply #68 on:** November 20, 2007, 01:25:05 PM »

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.

Rao · « **Reply #69 on:** November 23, 2007, 11:14:03 AM »

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.

Vidgmchtr · « **Reply #70 on:** November 23, 2007, 07:09:59 PM »

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.