What is your favorite tunage?

What got you started on that style?

Rock n' Roll (of course) from my boyhood days on up. Jazz and what is now called adult-contemporary or smooth jazz (love that stuff at times) and classical (NPR, when I'm in the mood and need a fix). I used to do Country Western/Young Country but haven't listened to that in years. Mostly I listen to AM Radio and a Golden Oldies station here in town that comes in best reception-wise.

You bring up a lot I like too.. Golden oldies... Contemp...

I got started on R&R I guess from an album I remember well from my parents.. It was called "Solid and Raunchy" Wished I could find it again.. but I loved the horns, and the rock and roll sound to it... I just expanded all directions from there...

Then I found radio, on a KLH Model 18 my father gave me... So glad.... The Beatles, David Bowie, and Paul McCartney were big at the time... it became a spiral... The first Price album, Wild Cherry, Ohio Players, and Barkay's got me looking at other avenues...

I have vivid memories of being up a ladder at the farm painting the barn "barn red" in huge buckets from Tractor Supply while American Top40 played on the portable boombox. Summer of '75. Was an awakening for me....

I have vivid memories of being up a ladder at the farm painting the barn "barn red" in huge buckets from Tractor Supply while American Top40 played on the portable boombox. Summer of '75. Was an awakening for me....

Oh man I hate admitting that summer...

#1. Love Will Keep Us Together, The Captain and Tennille

Forget about the Rinestones :( ... they were right behind...:cry:

However, we do have Fame to remember that year.. I had a signed 45 from the hottest DJ in Bossier City of the demo.. damn I wished I still had that..

Well I went with classical, other (blues), rock, new age and that is my listening preference. Classical has always been my first love since I was a kid. :yes: I got interested in classical through choral singing in church and later through community choirs. I'm real big on organ music too. :D My first album that I bought was the Vox Box of Bach's organ works. :thmbsp: Rock was a close second with my being raised with the Beatles in the 60's. I've actually just got into the blues seriously in the last 5 or so years although I can see an ealier connection through some of my rock favorites, Allman Brothers, Clapton.

If I was making up a list for the desert island tour it would include the following. Classical: Bach-organ, Handel- choral, Wagner-opera, Vivaldi & Teleman- instruments. Blues/Rock: Beatles, Clapton, Pink Floyd, Microwave Dave, Muddy Waters, Fleetwood Mac, & Metallica. I listen to some new age but it's not that important.

:music:

What's your poison?
Hemlock.

Joking aside... Other: All of the above.

It all simply depends upon my mood and I very much enjoy something in each of those categories according to common classification. I used to only listen to Classical until just about seven years ago and still listen to it heavily. Then I discovered hard rock and death metal, poked about country, switched to oldies, wandered through jazz, even some new age snuck in, and am currently heavy on East European folk influenced music. I can't simply can't pick a favorite for every occasion as all have their strengths; rock for hanging with friends, classical for being introspective, gypsy for mixed moods, techno-ish for upbeat times, country for down beat and to aggravate friends, even experimental for more abstract mental wanderings.

There's just far too much great music out there and still being made to settle on just one genre as the genre for me.

- JP

I chose many along with other. I like to listen to a lot of Blues, dowop, oldies and big band which should have been included in the choices, though I realize there is only so much room.

Cripes...

I like it all-

That is besides reggae, most gangsta rap (I like rap, but not the current popular stuff), most top-40 and all "new" country, which I call "new, pop" country.

All the rest, I just love. world. Acoustic. Roots. Garage. Experimental. Most stuff.

Got a greasy spot on my heart for hard new-wave and original punk (Velvet Underground, Destroy All Monsters, Iggy & The Stooges, Wayne/Jayne County, Gary Newman, RomeoVoid, ect).

got a deep-rooted love for singer/songwriters (Nick Cave, Tom Waits, Townes Van Zandt, ect), female vocalists (Holly Cole, Chan Marshall/Cat Power, Neko Case, Nina Samone, ect), experimental (Swans, Throbbing Gristle, Laurie Anderson, ect), a Jones for quality soundtracks (Twin Peaks-Fire Walk With Me, Delusion, Requiem for a Dream, Mulholland Drive, Amalie, Girl on a Motorcycle, Wild at Heart, Island Empire, ect) and good jazz and classical (too many to list).

Posturing, pre-packaged and marketed hiphop/rap has no room in my life, though there's lots of talented artists who use rap as a medium, and I dig it.

Pop top 40 country is exactly that- top 40, with cowboy boots on.

Top 40 can be fun, but usually is nothing more than a foreshadow of, a precursor to a marketed and re-packaged/profited from ringtone or a commercial soundtrack/soundbyte.

Not a big fan of all the veins of blues, but love Muddy Waters, Taj Mahal, Robert Johnson, R.L. burnside, ect...

Electronics is good. Industrial is good. Massive Attack, Nightmares on Wax, Lords of Acid, KMFDM, Aphex Twin, Legendary Pink dots, ect- good by me. Like it.

Reggae? Dunno why, but I can barely tolerate it. I've left parties over it. don't know why. Just really don't like it. Bob Marley in tiny doses is okay. But even talented Reggae artists such as King Tubby and Lee "scratch" Perry get under my skin.






James, when the TT is up, come back for a visit. we'll spin a few, drink a few.

I voted for each category. It's all music to me.

The more i try to think about it, i really dont have a genre prefrence as long as the music is "ear-pleasing" i like it!

I listen to just about anything that sounds good.:yes:Rap does not sound good:no:

PUNK! and I mean real punk, not good charlotte or sum 41. Stooges, Circle Jerks, Angry Samoans, Sonics, Dwarves, Minor Threat.............and everything else except MOR, adult contemporary and reggae

R & R is what started it all. My Dad listened to Classical (of course), but it didn't really rub off on me. In my late teens I started playing Banjo and fell in love with Bluegrass and Folk Music. Nowadays, I listen to a pretty wide variety of music, with Classical becoming the preferred "poison." :music:

PUNK! and I mean real punk, not good charlotte or sum 41. Stooges, Circle Jerks, Angry Samoans, Sonics, Dwarves, Minor Threat.............and everything else except MOR, adult contemporary and reggae

I ended up with a bloody nose at an Exploited show.. ya gotta love a great punk pit!!

After I had made the list, I realized 10 choices weren't near enough for everything that' s out there, and the list of what I listen to.. I can't stand country, or certian types of rap, but over all, there isn't much I don't listen to...

R&R and it's derivations, blues, jazz, metal and it's sub-categories, and...

Dare I say it?

Twang.:music:

Other= all of the above. Mindset at the time. :thmbsp:

I like 'em all, EXCEPT almost all rap, and most of what comes under "techno". That said, there are a few exceptions in those genres, but very few. I like a lot of the earlier synthesizer stuff that later probably evolved into "techno".

I think rap is designed for people with way too much anger and far too little intelligence. It is the music of the stupidly violent. If you aren't like that when you start listening to it, listen long enough and it might make you that way.

The techno stuff is designed for people on drugs that make them happy to be there like silent zombies standing in one place barely bouncing, and calling it dancing. At least the old R & R was for people whose drugs made them move around to the music, going "Oh, wow, far out, man" because the movement felt (or looked or smelled or tasted...:D) cool (like Kool-Aid?).

I like "dance" music in the old sense of the word; i.e., music that you can actually dance to. If the word is being used in the modern sense of house/techno type stuff for rave parties, then I dislike most of it.

For me ..I like the Contemperary Instrumental stuff...or the so called Smooth Jazz stuff from the 80's and early 90's...

Its totaly different today....Now its just glorified elevator music...but back 10-15 years ago..it was more up-tempo..bands or groups like The Yellowjackets....Bensen/Klugh......Fattburger.... and The Rippingtons..

Oh...and my personal favorite...


70's Disco!!!!

I could listen to it all day ...and not get tired of it..

My mom used to listen to The Make Believe Ballroom, so in the early 50's I was crawling and toddling around to Sinatra's "Love and Marriage", Mitch Miller's "Yellow Rose of Texas", stuff like that. Then somebody gave me one of those Japanese 2 transistor radios around when I was 8. Listened to nothing but WABC and WMCA AM. Went to sleep to almost the same set every night with the radio under my pillow. Little Eva's "Locomotion" and "The Girl From Wolverton Mountain" were two songs in the set.

So I guess it's rock and roll, but if there was a Zappa category, I'd have to check that first.

rap. more ghetto'r, more better.

oh yeah, and classic rock.

i'm weird.

Mostly jazz although I still listen to some classic rock. I also like Steve Earle, Nick Drake, Flying Burrito Brothers and other odds and ends.

cubdog

Blues.

rock/pop/electro/new wave/punk/country/classical/jazz/minimal techno/ambient/exotica/vintage electronica/electronica/indie rock/experimental/free jazz/noise/soundscape/new age/post punk/psychedelic/funk/whatever ya got

I was a strange kid when it came to listening to music,i grew up listening to Sabbath/Zepplin & all that era of music but it wasnt till i heard Frank Zappa for the first time that i was aware of other forms of music,i devoured all i could find from Zappa & started in on tracking down music from his band members.

This search led me to my first Miles davis album (Bitches Brew) & i was totally blown away with fusion jazz at that point,i was about 16 & began to search out all the fusion jazz i could find.

I still listen to rock & other music but fusion jazz is my main focus.

How about Punk? Rockabilly? Whadda 'bout alternative? And pure unadulterated pop?

Heavy Metal, with some Ambient/Chill etc.

How about Punk? Rockabilly? Whadda 'bout alternative? And pure unadulterated pop?

You only get 10 choices for a poll.. I put a couple more common, and a couple less talked about.. unfortunitally, I only had "other" to catch the rest.. I was just trying to find out what the more common music people here listen too, and what got them started on it..

Rock, Jazz, Classical... and occasionally, a bit of Opera. Especially Wagner.
What got me started on Rock was listening to Top 40 in the 60's and 70's; I miss Top 40 music, frankly.
Classical and Opera, well, that liking came from having the kitchen radio playing either one when I was growing up. And an interest in Jazz has come about because of the lack of decent pop music on the air nowadays.
Tom

I chose RnR and Jazz, but also enjoy 50s DooWop, blues, older R&B and soul. I am kind of stuck in the 60s and early 70s music. I don't listen to much of it, but some of the newer country is pretty good. I also like some of the 60s psych garage stuff. It all depends on my mood.

West coast Punk Rock-Pennywise, Bad Religion, Social Distortion, old Vandals.....:banana:

My very first album was Abbey Road, second was Honky Chateau, third was Wish You Were Here. On my Layfayette integrated, garrard turntable and speakers. From there it's been everywhere, blues clubs in Japan, NYC shows, Chuck Berry/ Bo Diddley in concert, Eric C/G Harrison/P collins in Japan, the small venue Ray Charles show my wife got me into for my birthday, the Phila Philharmonic. Some DQ-10s I wish I still had, my Stereo-70. The double Lg Advents I first heard. So many memories....and PDQ Bach

I like it all basically. Old Time fiddle tunes, Celtic music, Bluegrass, Blues and 50's Rock and Roll, Classical, older Country and Western, real Folk. Off limits for me is Opera and Rap-Hip Hop

I got started on R&R I guess from an album I remember well from my parents.. It was called "Solid and Raunchy" Wished I could find it again..
I think your talking about "The Bill Black Combo" from the '50's
should be easy enough to find, I remember them releasing some of their stuff on CD in the 90's

I think your talking about "The Bill Black Combo" from the '50's
should be easy enough to find, I remember them releasing some of their stuff on CD in the 90's

Cool.. thanks for the tip.. I'll take a look around..

Love da blues Plus my own music. It's acoustic blues, fingerpickin' folk. Check it out if you get a chance.


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R&R, naturally, but also some dance stuff, and new wave.

Classical is the kinda poison for me, where once in a while it can be great.

i grew up a rocker, but my tastes have mellowed and widened considerably in recent years..find myself listening to everything from clasical to fusion to folk and opera...really, just about anything except the current drivel that's called country.

After going through my music collection and discovering the Blue's more then any other type.
I picked Other realizing it must be the Blue's as my Poison.....
It would be nice to know - how many of the people who picked Other because The Blue's didn't make the list?
Barney :music:

I had to vote for all except dance. :yes:

Third Day, Steven Curtis Chapman, Delirious, this isn't your grandmothers music!!!!!

The more i try to think about it, i really dont have a genre prefrence as long as the music is "ear-pleasing" i like it!

My sentiments exactly. Well said.
:smoke::smoke::smoke:

I said other cuz I'll listen to anything but rap,hip hop,early country(except Patsy Cline:yes:)and obviously there are some artist in each genre that I can't tolerate. I'll give just about anything a whirl exect the aforementioned

Sometimes its good music that gets me through. Today its Jazz and Rock and Roll for me, truth be told. Although being in HS in the early 80's, I am closet New Waver

I don't believe "the blues" is not here. That's my favorite. The "true" American music.

Adult Alternative and World music.

I couldn't fine Blues as a choice :scratch2:.

I would have checked that.

I chose Jazz, but I like many genres. Jazz, Blues, then R&R. I think Jazz is them most elevating of all.

Rock n Roll has always been my poison. Don't play it as loud as I used to but still love it....

Top notch R&B / Soul 70's to present. That's what I grew up on.

I LOVE rap/hip hop.

Classic Rock

Jazz

Blues

Easy Listening

I just can't do dance mix, current bubble gum pop, and techno

Blues first and everything else (except C Rap) second.

That's a tough one to call. I prefer instrumentals, and new age, jazz, classical fall into that category. Now, to tell the 'rest of the story', I was weaned on R&R, and I'm still a big R&R fan. But starting in the late 70's, I was introduced to the likes of Jean Luc Ponty (saw him in concert), Jon Klemmer, Stanley Clarke, Chuck Mangione, etc, and those guys just opened up a whole new music world for me. Then I was introduced to jazz, and I became much more interested in classical, than in my younger yrs. And the rest is history...................:music:

I chose "Other" because the only appropriate answer to your poll is----"All of the above." for which there is no box to check.

And there are more, Celtic music comes to mind. Rap is also missing. (Not that Rap is a favorite of mine, but I have found some of it to be okay.)

Probably would have been easier to ask me what music I don't like.

Dave

Was there for the birth of Rock and Do-Wop so naturally they are my first love but as I grew older and heard others such as Jazz,Country,Blues etal my love expanded to encompass them all and as I played in bands many years got to enjoy playing that aspect of them all as well as listening......Rick

My absolute favorite genre falls under the inadequate term of "post-rock." Some of my favorite bands include Godspeed You! Black Emperor, A Silver Mt. Zion, Sigur Rós, Tortoise and Mogwai. I started listening to this kind of music about ten years ago as I transitioned away from indie, alternative and classical as my favorite genres. It was around the same time that I became interested in vintage audio, namely Acoustic Research speakers, which really could bring out the incredible characteristics of the music I was listening to.

Godspeed and ASMZ frequently use elements of classical music and composition in their recordings, which, in my opinion, pairs very nicely with older gear. When I am trying out any piece of equipment, my audition album is usually F#A#∞ on vinyl. Unfortunately, I have not found any contemporary gear that can adequately playback these bands with the same effect as the vintage stuff. Then again, I probably can't afford any contemporary gear that can playback this type of music to my tastes, but I digress.

I am also very interested in rare and obscure jazz, hard bop, and fusion recordings. I am a big fan of Madlib and admire his ability to dig up some of the most pleasant and obscure music I've ever heard. Thankfully, Madlib periodically puts out compilations of the music that inspires him so I may take up the task of finding the full albums of the songs he samples in his music.