Favorite music?

[esteban]

I generally listen to classical music. Beethoven, bach, vivaldi, etc. 
there are few (if any) pieces of music better than Chopins Rhapsody in Blue or Griegs Peer Gynt Suite.

Of all the elders, Bach is my favorite.

Though, despite his politics, Wagner is another biggie.

I prefer heavier, brooding pieces in general, so I'll take a Passion over a William Tell 99 times out of 100.

[Sarumaru]

[TR0N]

[eldritch]

Motörhead.
Lemmy is God. Period.

[jordan_hillman]

Man, where to start...

My teenage years were spent mostly listening to a crap ton of punk/hardcore/crust like: Crass, MDC, Conflict, 7 Seconds, Earth Crisis, Minor Threat, Discharge, Bad Brains, etc.

And my 20s (I'll be 28 this year) have so far been a mix of 80s and 90s post-hardcore/emo/whatever like: Sunny Day Real Estate, Rites of Spring, Jawbreaker, Mineral, Promise Ring, Texas is the Reason, Christie Front Drive, etc...

...Along with some new punk/pop-punk such as Lawrence Arms, The Menzingers, Masked Intruder, Pup, and a whole bunch of other crap.

And I'm one of the lucky ones that got to see Refused play a small venue in SoCal instead of having to pay a butt load to barely be able to see/hear them at a large fest in 2013.

[esteban]

I don't always like "new" 80's synth...but this was nice.

[SignOfZeta]

My musical tastes are too huge to go into in great detail. If it isn't pop country or mainstream hiphop/R&B then I probably have a shitload of it.

Lately I've been really into progressive rock, which is something I always liked but never got crazy into. For the past couple of years though I've been super into Genesis and Yes, mostly.

Twice a month I'm on a dance music show on WCBN FM in Ann Arbor called Crush Collision which has been going for...longer than anyone can remember, maybe 20+ years? Rather than just play cookie cutter house or whatever, which is fine, I very much enjoy house, I'm usually pretty aggressive about cramming as much stuff in there as possible to make a good set. A while back I made a good one that had Michael Jackson, George Carlin, The KLF, Erasure, Lyrics Born, Royksopp, Bedrock, Pet Shop Boys, live synthesizer and more.

I also love Iron Maiden, Iron and Wine, Chet Baker, Doomtree, Francis and the Lights, Negativeland, Chumbawamba, and a bunch of other stuff. I just love music period.

If anyone is interested in hearing my...challenging...synthesizer pieces you can reach my Soundcloud at soundcloud.com/signofzeta

[Bernie]

Grew up on GunsN'Roses, my all time favorite band.  Too bad what it has become is nothing like what it started as.  Appetite for Destruction, and the Use Your Illusions albums were genius.  I like a lot of music, Country, some R&B, Grunge Rock, ect..but GunsN'Roses is always my fall back to band.  Just wish Axl hadn't let his ego go to his damn head.... Best part of the band is gone, SLASH.  Without him, Axl is just Axl..not GN'R.

[esteban]

Grew up on GunsN'Roses, my all time favorite band.  Too bad what it has become is nothing like what it started as.  Appetite for Destruction, and the Use Your Illusions albums were genius.  I like a lot of music, Country, some R&B, Grunge Rock, ect..but GunsN'Roses is always my fall back to band.  Just wish Axl hadn't let his ego go to his damn head.... Best part of the band is gone, SLASH.  Without him, Axl is just Axl..not GN'R.

Axl.

Slash.

What beat-em-up are you talking about?

[SignOfZeta]

Cock Rock 2: The Cockening

[geise]

I love bands that do concept albums from time to time.

[Galder]

Metal, from heavy all the way to black   

[toymachine78]

Metal, from heavy all the way to black   

Ur name is from the Dimmu Borgir/ Old Mans Child guitarist isn't it?

[geise]

I prefer heavier, brooding pieces in general, so I'll take a Passion over a William Tell 99 times out of 100.

I agree.  I also like more uptempo classical.  For brooding pieces I have to say this is my favorite version of Danse Macabre.  Conducted by Arthur Fiedler and performed by the Boston Pops.


For upbeat I love the Hoe-down segment from "Rodeo"  by Aaron Copland.  It has to be one of the most fun songs to play on the violin.  I still play it from time to time on my violin.  I also have a soft spot for western themed classical pieces.

[EvilEvoIX]

Sabbath, only Sabbath