Mock my music taste and share yours for mockery

[SilasCoade 2622]

Some jam-band douche impugned my musical tastes without even knowing what they might be. I don't give the first fuck what that guy thinks of my musical tastes but it has made me consider them. My tastes, like most I'm sure, have evolved over time. I'm going to list what I consider to be the five musicians/bands most representative of my current musical tastes and invite your mockery as well as the opportunity to return the favor.

1. Elliott Smith -- great songwriter, when he was on his game he was an underrated performer. Give me anything from Figure 8 or Either/Or on a desert island and I'm good.

2. Sixteen Deluxe -- Obscure, local/regional, but damn I love me some fuzzy indie rock

3. Frank Turner -- great songwriter with a punk edge, fucking great live shows

4. Sugar/Bob Mould -- The live version of Hoover Dam on the Sugar Besides collection bonus disk is among my favorite recordings of all time

5. Old 97s -- funny and poignant songwriting with fun rock and roll drive, amazing live shows

[Longhorn_Fan68 33933]

My musical journey has been classic rock ---> heavy rock ---> grunge ---> metal (classic and thrash)  ---> black metal and blackened death  ---> death metal  ---> extreme death metal (BDM, slam, tech death, etc)

I listen to a little of everything, though, literally. From rockabilly to (real) country to blues and jazz and even hip hop and rap. if I can discern talent and it stands out (in a good way) I'll probably like it.

But if I'm in my car with something blaring at uncomfortable volumes, it's likely to be some form of extreme metal. It calms me and makes me relaxed, for some reason.

Edited March 23, 2022 by Longhorn_Fan68

[4th&Five 41704]

I’ll give you my top six:

Beatles

Pearl Jam

My Morning Jacket

Ween

Drive-By Truckers

Jason Isbell

[TurkeyChew 383]

I listen to George Jones, Old Hank, David Allen Coe, and Johnny Cash almost exclusively. Sometimes I'll listen to new school music like REK. If I'm feeling outlandish and a bit absurd, I'll listen to some Willie. 

Edited March 23, 2022 by TurkeyChew

[52-80 19281]

Dylan x 5, cuz he spits hot fire

[VirginiaLonghorn 4808]

1 hour ago, Llogg said:

Some jam-band douche impugned my musical tastes without even knowing what they might be. I don't give the first fuck what that guy thinks of my musical tastes but it has made me consider them. My tastes, like most I'm sure, have evolved over time. I'm going to list what I consider to be the five musicians/bands most representative of my current musical tastes and invite your mockery as well as the opportunity to return the favor.

1. Elliott Smith -- great songwriter, when he was on his game he was an underrated performer. Give me anything from Figure 8 or Either/Or on a desert island and I'm good.

2. Sixteen Deluxe -- Obscure, local/regional, but damn I love me some fuzzy indie rock

3. Frank Turner -- great songwriter with a punk edge, fucking great live shows

4. Sugar/Bob Mould -- The live version of Hoover Dam on the Sugar Besides collection bonus disk is among my favorite recordings of all time

5. Old 97s -- funny and poignant songwriting with fun rock and roll drive, amazing live shows

 

Edited March 23, 2022 by VirginiaLonghorn

[Dennis Taylor 19051]

Black Sabbath (ozzy) Ac/dc (Bon) Alice in Chains, Soundgarden,Tool, ZZ Top (pre Eliminator), Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Guns n Roses, Queens of the Stone Age, Toadies, Slipknot, Slayer, Metallica, Pantera, Cult, Beastie Boys, Stone Temple Pilots, Tom Petty,  Deftones, The Cars, New Order, Audioslave, A Perfect Circle

 

[SilasCoade 2622]

1 hour ago, 4th&Five said:

I’ll give you my top six:

Beatles

Pearl Jam

My Morning Jacket

Ween

Drive-By Truckers

Jason Isbell

15-25 years ago Pearl Jam would have been 1 through 5 for me, but after No Code my interest kind of waned. My Morning Jacket is a band that I came to late. It Still Moves is a top 20 album of the 2000s for me.

54 minutes ago, TurkeyChew said:

I listen to George Jones, Old Hank, David Allen Coe, and Johnny Cash almost exclusively. Sometimes I'll listen to new school music like REK. If I'm feeling outlandish and a bit absurd, I'll listen to some Willie. 

Solid. I have a traditional country station on Pandora that is basically this.

6 minutes ago, Dennis Taylor said:

Black Sabbath (ozzy) Ac/dc (Bon) Alice in Chains, Soundgarden,Tool, ZZ Top (pre Eliminator), Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Guns n Roses, Queens of the Stone Age, Toadies, Slipknot, Slayer, Metallica, Pantera, Cult, Beastie Boys, Stone Temple Pilots, Tom Petty,  Deftones, The Cars, New Order, Audioslave, A Perfect Circle

 

Toadies. Always forget them. One of the best albums of my youth, but the hit single about rape is hard for me to appreciate now as the father of a 16 yo girl.

[DalTxHornFan 3122]

I'm old and not too hard (that's the joke!).

Beatles, Eagles, Earth Wind and Fire, Rush, Chicago, Tom Petty, and all of the Southern Rock bands. 

[SilasCoade 2622]

3 minutes ago, DalTxHornFan said:

I'm old and not too hard (that's the joke!).

Beatles, Eagles, Earth Wind and Fire, Rush, Chicago, Tom Petty, and all of the Southern Rock bands. 

I loved those bands as a kid (maybe not Earth Wind and Fire so much) but now in my sophisticated middle age the Eagles make me SMH. I think Seinfeld killed them for me.

[Helobious 9504]

Joy Division/New Order, The Killers, Interpol, Deftones, SPM, Kid Cudi, The Smiths, Talking Heads, The Strokes, Chicano Batman, Dalex are a few at the top for me. 

[4th&Five 41704]

7 minutes ago, Llogg said:

15-25 years ago Pearl Jam would have been 1 through 5 for me, but after No Code my interest kind of waned. My Morning Jacket is a band that I came to late. It Still Moves is a top 20 album of the 2000s for me.

Solid. I have a traditional country station on Pandora that is basically this.

Toadies. Always forget them. One of the best albums of my youth, but the hit single about rape is hard for me to appreciate now as the father of a 16 yo girl.

Ha! No Code and Yield are probably my favorite PJ albums. Binaural is great too, imo.
 

It Still Moves is a perfect album. 

Edited March 23, 2022 by 4th&Five

[VirginiaLonghorn 4808]

3 minutes ago, DalTxHornFan said:

I'm old and not too hard (that's the joke!).

Beatles, Eagles, Earth Wind and Fire, Rush, Chicago, Tom Petty, and all of the Southern Rock bands. 

BeeGees, ELO, America, Led Zeppelin …

[Deej 77178]

ELO, hell yeah!

Edited March 23, 2022 by Deej

[SilasCoade 2622]

Just now, 4th&Five said:

Ha! No Code is probably my favorite PJ album. It Still Moves is perfect. 

Oh yeah, I loved No Code. Hail Hail is one of my favorite PJ songs. I just kind of stopped looking for their next album after that.

[sidis 9841]

@Goredho

@UTCzech III

@Chips O'Toole

@AnotherUTFan

@Buzzrock

@SwanderedTalent

@NoRagrets

Give those guys a listen… find their work here:

 

After that, if you look at my Spotify most played now, Max Richter, Bach, Beethoven, Peter Gabriel, Sigur Ros, Beatles, Prince, Massive Attack, Iron and Wine, Chet Baker, Vivaldi, Ludovico Einaudi, Jimi, Gregory Alan Isakov, Nina Simone, Thomas Newman, Olafur Arnalds, Bill Withers, Bon Iver, Chopin, Radiohead, Moby, Gary Clark, Jr, Arvo Pärt, Mark Isham, Miles, U2, Mozart, Death Cab, Pink Floyd, Hans Zimmer, Lana del Rey, Nick Cave, Philip glass, John Coltrane, Puccini, Ingrid St Pierre, Pearl Jam, The Weeknd, Elton John, Johann Johansson, Al Green, Brian Eno, the Police, Bob Marley, Dvorak, Bruno Mars, Dire Straits, Tom Waits, Edith Piaf, Radical Face, John Lennon, Joni Mitchell, Metallica, Jeff Buckley, Tori Amos, Explosions in the Sky, Bill Frisell, Samuel Barber, Ani Difranco, Barcelona, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Joe Satriani, Erik Satie, and a shitload of other stuff. 

so yeah. Tough to pin down other than not giving a shit about almost all country music. 

[BurntOrangeCrush 1027]

I started out with Kiss, then discovered Judas Priest, AC/DC, Van Halen, Metallica, Megadeth, Iron Maiden, GnR...then started liking some Metalcore as an old guy. In between all of that, I love Extreme.

I saw them live in Albuquerque when Pornograffitti was released, and seeing/hearing Nuno Bettencourt play guitar blew my mind. Juat a great musician. Too bad they are mainly know for "More than Words". 

[Rimbo 26438]

 

I declare that you're not really listening to proper heavy metal unless it has chickens in the refrain, Kindergarten Cop references, and a samba beat.

Edited March 24, 2022 by Rimbo

[UTCzech III 2907]

I will never mock anyone's musical tastes, rock on whatever you like!  I'm a fucking music sponge, my top artists are the Beatles, Pink Floyd, Johnny Cash, Beach Boys, the Cars, 10cc, XTC, ELO, Elton John, Old 97s, but appreciate everything from easy listening pop (Simon & Garfunkel, Carpenters, Singers Unlimited, Manhattan Transfer, ABBA) to disco (Bee Gees, Kc & Sunshine Band) to funk (Ohio Players, EWF, P/Funk, Gap Band) to Motown to art/punk/new wave (Laurie Anderson, Black Flag, Chrome, Joy Division, Nick Lowe, Joe Jackson, Brian Eno, Robert Fripp) to prog (Genesis, Yes, King Crimson) to classical (all the stuff I played in high school, Drovak, Beethoven, Wagner, Holst, to wind composers like W. Francis McBeth, Granger, Claude T. Smith, the Eastman Wind Ensemble) to Maynard Ferguson to classic country (pretty much everything up to 1990 or so, and then new traditionalists like Dale Watson) to polka (I play in a Czech polka band and also host an internet polka show, so I have around 7000 polkas and waltzes in my library) to album rock, heavy metal, hair bands.  I love it all, just depends on what mood I am in.  I have more music than I could ever listen to, I'll be 56 in a couple of weeks and am trying to listen to at least one album a day, just to go through it all at least one more time (hopefully not, but hey, who knows...).  So whatever you like, enjoy it, anybody who doesn't like it can fuck right off.

[qwertyu1234 496]

The Clash

The Beatles

Regina Spektor

Neko Case (my avatar)

The Kinks

St. Vincent

Ween

The Hush Sound

Spoon

Bill Withers

Placebo

 

[DalTxHornFan 3122]

 

[Goredho 17512]

I have a very wide taste in music from gangsta rap to orchestral with perhaps traditional blues and country being under-appreciated.  I am probably most drawn to 70s prog (King Crimson, Yes, ELP, Pink Floyd, Genesis, etc...).  I am exposed to and enjoy very little new music.  Almost everything I listen to was written before 2005.

[Al_4_ISU 12535]

I'm not saying these are my favorite bands, but I'll try to box my taste in with a few bands that all kind of represent different corners of music in my mind:

-AC/DC

-Drive-By Truckers

-Turnpike Troubadours

-Rolling Stones

-Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

-Counting Crows

-Warren Zevon

-Black Crowes

-Waylon Jennings

-Pearl Jam

-The Silver Jews

-John Prine

 

I'm sure someone's thinking the Stones, Petty, Zevon represent the same thing, but they're all something very distinct in my mind.

Edited March 24, 2022 by Al_4_ISU

[Al_4_ISU 12535]

15 hours ago, 4th&Five said:

Ha! No Code and Yield are probably my favorite PJ albums. Binaural is great too, imo.
 

It Still Moves is a perfect album. 

Yield is probably the most timeless sounding Pearl Jam, along with Vitalogy.  And by timeless I mean it doesn't sound shackled to the 90's in any meaningful sense.

Binaural and No Code are definitely underrated.

[Hate 20157]

Some jam-band douche impugned my musical tastes without even knowing what they might be.

I knew who it was before even clicking on the link. Who gives a dame what anyone thinks about your music?

My answer is the Grateful Dead. Mock away.

[smuggs 9354]

- Beastie Boys

- The Cure

- AC/DC

- Most everything heard on Little Steven's Underground Garage.

- A lot of 80s top 40 countdowns. 82-86 is my sweet spot.

 

And Sixteen Deluxe kicks ass.

 

 

 

[Tylerocks 2557]

I'll listen to most anything except Kansas, Boston, Foreigner, Eagles and those type of shit rock music.

I also think KISS sucks balls

 

[Longhorn_Fan68 33933]

20 minutes ago, Tylerocks said:

I'll listen to most anything except Kansas, Boston, Foreigner, Eagles and those type of shit rock music.

I also think KISS sucks balls

 

and yeah, KISS is just ICP/juggalos for Boomers

[zlavydra 2125]

I enjoy many different genres: thrash metal, death metal, doom metal, sludge metal, traditional metal and David Bowie.

[SilasCoade 2622]

2 minutes ago, zlavydra said:

I enjoy many different genres: thrash metal, death metal, doom metal, sludge metal, traditional metal and David Bowie.

Lol. Bowie is so metal.

[HOOKEM4 5075]

I wish I could share my music station.

It covers every genre from way back into the 40s all the way until new music. It is the most random mix of rock, country, rap, indie, electronic and every possible subgenre you could think of. I am an odd duck.

[ConferenceRoom 6152]

The Who
Tool
Nine Inch Nails
Queens of the Stone Age
Wilco
Muse

[CooterBrown 18091]

My top 10 in no particular order:

Ministry
Tool
Massive Attack
Nine Inch Nails
Murder City Devils
Soundgarden
PJ Harvey
Jesus and Mary Chain
Bob Mould
Portishead

Until I typed that out, I didn’t think it’s be all 90s music.

I guess here’s my next list of my favorite (mostly) non-90s artists…

Florence + the Machine
Royal Blood
The Sword
Lana del Rey
Sleaford Mods
White Stripes
Liz Phair
L7
King Gizzard and Lizard Wizard
Howlin Rain
Black Angels
Moby
Oasis
Claptone
Kruder Dormeister
Butthole Surfers

[SilasCoade 2622]

3 hours ago, ConferenceRoom said:

The Who
Tool
Nine Inch Nails
Queens of the Stone Age
Wilco
Muse

Ten years ago Wilco would have been in my top five.

2 hours ago, CooterBrown said:

My top 10 in no particular order:

Ministry
Tool
Massive Attack
Nine Inch Nails
Murder City Devils
Soundgarden
PJ Harvey
Jesus and Mary Chain
Bob Mould
Portishead

Until I typed that out, I didn’t think it’s be all 90s music.

I guess here’s my next list of my favorite (mostly) non-90s artists…

Florence + the Machine
Royal Blood
The Sword
Lana del Rey
Sleaford Mods
White Stripes
Liz Phair
L7
King Gizzard and Lizard Wizard
Howlin Rain
Black Angels
Moby
Oasis
Claptone
Kruder Dormeister
Butthole Surfers

I go through a Florence and the machine kick every few months where I just listen to nothing but that for a couple days in a row and then forget about it for a while.

 

I'm legitimately surprised by all the metal heads on here. I can appreciate the virtuosity of a lot of metal but I just don't really want to listen to it.

[Longhorn Al 440]

Started out with Oldies & Classic Rock. Loved Zeppelin, ZZ Top, etc. Really like Blues Rock.

Then go into a mix of stuff in HS: Grunge, Metal, Nu-Metal, Techno.

In the last 10 years, I've gone all-in on 3 bands.  Ghost, Babymetal and The Warning.  

[Mrs Whiggins 13050]

On 3/23/2022 at 2:52 PM, Llogg said:

Some jam-band douche impugned my musical tastes without even knowing what they might be. I don't give the first fuck what that guy thinks of my musical tastes but it has made me consider them. My tastes, like most I'm sure, have evolved over time. I'm going to list what I consider to be the five musicians/bands most representative of my current musical tastes and invite your mockery as well as the opportunity to return the favor.

1. Elliott Smith -- great songwriter, when he was on his game he was an underrated performer. Give me anything from Figure 8 or Either/Or on a desert island and I'm good.

2. Sixteen Deluxe -- Obscure, local/regional, but damn I love me some fuzzy indie rock

3. Frank Turner -- great songwriter with a punk edge, fucking great live shows

4. Sugar/Bob Mould -- The live version of Hoover Dam on the Sugar Besides collection bonus disk is among my favorite recordings of all time

5. Old 97s -- funny and poignant songwriting with fun rock and roll drive, amazing live shows

I like such a variety I am not going to bother listing anything because it spans the globe and the centuries. However, as to the premise--mockery. Yeah, I may not share the same likes or dislikes as another listener, but there is a line to personal taste that I feel is rude to cross. Within our family and closest friends there will be light teasing--especially of individual songs, or even some debate about the merits of awards and popularity but after that, one is just being an asshole and it's not permitted.

[SilasCoade 2622]

4 hours ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

I like such a variety I am not going to bother listing anything because it spans the globe and the centuries. However, as to the premise--mockery. Yeah, I may not share the same likes or dislikes as another listener, but there is a line to personal taste that I feel is rude to cross. Within our family and closest friends there will be light teasing--especially of individual songs, or even some debate about the merits of awards and popularity but after that, one is just being an asshole and it's not permitted.

I generally agree but with one exception -- if someone willingly plays Nickelback I will mock away. 

[yoladu 4168]

On 3/23/2022 at 2:52 PM, Llogg said:

Some jam-band douche impugned my musical tastes without even knowing what they might be. I don't give the first fuck what that guy thinks of my musical tastes but it has made me consider them. My tastes, like most I'm sure, have evolved over time. I'm going to list what I consider to be the five musicians/bands most representative of my current musical tastes and invite your mockery as well as the opportunity to return the favor.

1. Elliott Smith -- great songwriter, when he was on his game he was an underrated performer. Give me anything from Figure 8 or Either/Or on a desert island and I'm good.

2. Sixteen Deluxe -- Obscure, local/regional, but damn I love me some fuzzy indie rock

3. Frank Turner -- great songwriter with a punk edge, fucking great live shows

4. Sugar/Bob Mould -- The live version of Hoover Dam on the Sugar Besides collection bonus disk is among my favorite recordings of all time

5. Old 97s -- funny and poignant songwriting with fun rock and roll drive, amazing live shows

trust me, I relish the opportunity to mock one's musical taste, but I got nothing.

Your taste is on point.

[yoladu 4168]

On 3/24/2022 at 11:19 AM, smuggs said:

- Beastie Boys

- The Cure

- AC/DC

- Most everything heard on Little Steven's Underground Garage.

- A lot of 80s top 40 countdowns. 82-86 is my sweet spot.

 

And Sixteen Deluxe kicks ass.

 

 

 

I thought Sixteen Deluxe was going to be SO BIG. They had songwriting chops and the poppy shoegaze down!

Drugs, man.

Edited March 25, 2022 by yoladu

[jimmyjazz 46479]

On 3/24/2022 at 11:19 AM, smuggs said:

And Sixteen Deluxe kicks ass.

Check out Carrie's band with Pam Peltz called "The Living Pins".  I don't know what it is about Pam, but she is a very compelling singer and songwriter without being some kind of showoff.  She has a unique style that really works.

[Celery Man 21027]

I was thinking about this the other day  - if you distilled my main music tastes into a single band, it would be Wilco. And I do like Wilco quite a bit, but they've never been my favorite band, I haven't listened to their entire catalog, I don't know when their most recent record came out or when their next record is due, etc. 

But there's also maybe a split in my music taste. There's of course all kinds of eclectic shit - Time Out is an all time album for me, I like Paul Hindemith, Manu Chao is an outlier of an important artist for me, etc, but there's the general pop, rock, country, folk thread, but then there's a somewhat separate heavy thread from my years playing in a band in the vein of... a genre I don't want to name from the era of Saves the Day, Get Up Kids, Jimmy Eat World, etc. And the most "this is still my taste" band from that thread is Manchester Orchestra

 

[jimmyjazz 46479]

50 minutes ago, Celery Man said:

I was thinking about this the other day  - if you distilled my main music tastes into a single band, it would be Wilco. And I do like Wilco quite a bit, but they've never been my favorite band, I haven't listened to their entire catalog, I don't know when their most recent record came out or when their next record is due, etc. 

Interesting point about Wilco -- they may very well be a distillation of your tastes, but who do they sound like?

Nobody?

On their debut they had a bit of a 60's garage rock spirit going on, but ultimately, they sound like Wilco.  I can't really think of another band that's very similar.

[Celery Man 21027]

11 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

Interesting point about Wilco -- they may very well be a distillation of your tastes, but who do they sound like?

Nobody?

On their debut they had a bit of a 60's garage rock spirit going on, but ultimately, they sound like Wilco.  I can't really think of another band that's very similar.

a song like this - it's almost straightforward, and I don't think draws from any super weird well of influence, but yeah I don't know who else puts it all together like Wilco does.

[C-Man 27353]

Five? Hmm, that's difficult. Current listening tastes:

Radiohead, Wilco, LCD Soundsystem, Vampire Weekend, Band of Horses

Honorable mention: Phosphorescent, CAAMP, Rainbow Kitten Surprise, War on Drugs, Arcade Fire, Old 97's, The National, Spoon

I'm leaving out artists who aren't really putting out new music or are completely retired/broken up. That would bring in The Smiths, New Order/Joy Division, Johnny Cash, R.E.M., the Velvet Underground, Neutral Milk Hotel, etc.

[Al_4_ISU 12535]

I love Wilco through A Ghost Is Born. Indifferent to everything after for the most part.

[jimmyjazz 46479]

10 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

I love Wilco through A Ghost Is Born. Indifferent to everything after for the most part.

Yeah, I cringed at Jay Bennett's behavior in the YHF documentary, and he deserved to get fired, but for whatever reason I'm nowhere near as interested in the Nels Cline version of the band.

[C-Man 27353]

Yeah, I cringed at Jay Bennett's behavior in the YHF documentary, and he deserved to get fired, but for whatever reason I'm nowhere near as interested in the Nels Cline version of the band.

I don’t like as much of the newer material but damn Nels is fun AF to see shred the guitar live. I like several songs on each album after Ghost until you get Star Wars and Schmilco. Haven’t found much compelling on those two or the latest, which is just too slow.

[Al_4_ISU 12535]

Yeah, I cringed at Jay Bennett's behavior in the YHF documentary, and he deserved to get fired, but for whatever reason I'm nowhere near as interested in the Nels Cline version of the band.

I’ll mildly retract my previous statement: Impossible Germany is a Top 5 Wilco song, and as boring as some of the Nels Cline era albums are, they’ve always been insane live.

[jimmyjazz 46479]

9 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

Impossible Germany is a Top 5 Wilco song

Absolutely.

[SilasCoade 2622]

This thread reminded me how long it's been since I listened to Wilco. Got YHF on right now and it's basically a perfect album.