[Frinavale]

For programming: electronic music(industrial, dance, trance...), or ambient. Anything that is there to block out my coworkers but is not going to distract from what I'm thinking about. So pretty much anything that isn't interesting enough to catch my attention and make me listen.

When I'm not programing: rock, instrumental (classical, romantic, modern, post modern, even sound tracks), heavy metal, some rap (just the good stuff), even new country (the stuff without the twanny sound in it)

I discovered that I have very little tolerance for pop music (I think). You know most of the stuff "kids listen to these days" (am I really that old? I haven't even had kids yet!)... which I think tends to fall into "pop/pop-rap". It's too formulated, overly produced, uninspiring, emotionless music and it is running ramped over the radio waves. I tried watching the American Music awards and watched as a performer from some silly pop band threw his guitar up for stage person to catch...they timed the action to occur when the "climax" of the song was reached (if you can call it that: there aren't any climaxes in formulated music). The thing is that the "throwing" of the guitar was overly-thought-out and completely unnatural because the song and the singer lacked the emotion that would have matched the throwing action.

I'm happy that there are bands out there that still perform with raw emotion and passion...
These silly pop-stars lack so much.

(Just went to a TOOL concert the night before last and it was AWESOME!)

-Frinny

This post has been edited by Frinavale: 27 January 2012 - 08:49 AM

[WolfCoder]

You're THAT guy!

[htc(hot-taco-cheese)]

Dubstep, drumstep, house, and alternative

[.Aaron]

Hmm lets see... mostly Melo-death & black metal, as well as metalcore (and deathcore), with some speed & thrash metal. There a few bands of lighter genres I like, but it's rare.

Then of course there's music some of my favorite games. The music from Metroid Prime, for example, has been stuck in my head for the past week & a half.

[Xente]

Umm...where do I begin? I listen to a lot of things that have nothing in common. Power Electronics, drone, black metal, old EBM, industrial, Ambient, dream-pop, hip hop, grindcore, old hardcore, IDM, acid techno, blah, blah, blah. Right now though, I'm in an IDM mood, so I've been listening to a lot of Autechre and Access to Arasaka. Autechre is just too cool!

[WolfCoder]

.Aaron, on 27 January 2012 - 05:12 PM, said:

..mostly Melo-death & black metal, as well as metalcore (and deathcore), with some speed & thrash metal...

How can you tell the difference? It all sounds like someone imitating a garbage disposal unit while rolling a tool chest down flights of stairs.

This post has been edited by WolfCoder: 07 February 2012 - 10:25 PM

[.Aaron]

LOL. It's only because you're not used it. I actually felt the same way when I first heard some. I sat there through about half of the song thinking "How in the world can anyone call this music?". Turns out that blur of jumbled noise worked for blocking out the noise of my family better then anything else. Few days or so in, and getting to where I could actually make it all out, I started liking it.

This post has been edited by .Aaron: 07 February 2012 - 10:39 PM

[Xente]

.Aaron, on 27 January 2012 - 05:12 PM, said:

Hmm lets see... mostly Melo-death & black metal, as well as metalcore (and deathcore), with some speed & thrash metal. There a few bands of lighter genres I like, but it's rare.

I like BM the most of the above listed genres...it might all sound like grating noises and people screaming and whatever, but you listen to it for a while and you start to discern little, catchy melodies and even some hooks every now and then. The only thing I can't get over is the racism in the BM scene:( Some people know it's stupid, other people are too obsessed with Varg.

What's your favorite type of black metal?

[WolfCoder]

.Aaron, on 07 February 2012 - 10:38 PM, said:

..Turns out that blur of jumbled noise worked for blocking out the noise of my family better then anything else. Few days or so in, and getting to where I could actually make it all out, I started liking it.

You've got some serious problems, your taste in music only cursory.

You call it "getting used to it", I call it permanent brain damage.

This post has been edited by WolfCoder: 07 February 2012 - 11:18 PM

[OLH064]

.Aaron, on 08 February 2012 - 12:38 AM, said:

LOL. It's only because you're not used it. I actually felt the same way when I first heard some. I sat there through about half of the song thinking "How in the world can anyone call this music?". Turns out that blur of jumbled noise worked for blocking out the noise of my family better then anything else. Few days or so in, and getting to where I could actually make it all out, I started liking it.

Replace Metal with Chiptune and Dubstep.

Except that's how other people feel about Chiptune when I let them listen.
I loved Chiptune before it was popular.

[ILoveJava]

What's your favourite genre(s)?

I'll go first. Black metal, death metal, dubstep (good dubstep, not fucking Skrillex), drum and bass, UK Hardcore.

[DimitriV]

Metal (not screamo), dubstep (Skrillex, Nero, Knife Party), Dance (Faithless), Hip-Hop (360, loads of others), Pop (depends on the song), whatever genre Lana Del Rey is. I don't see what's wrong with Skrillex.

[ILoveJava]

The thing wrong with Skrillex is what he has done to the Dubstep community. He sold the fuck out of it, and commercialized the shit out of it.

[DimitriV]

Ok, sure. I prefer his initial stuff, not Bangarang. What about Nero? Heard of them?

[creativecoding]

I hope you're not the type of person who claims to like dubstep, and yet only know Skrillex (even if you hate him).

I've been listening to a lot of kanye west recently.

This post has been edited by creativecoding: 02 May 2012 - 12:11 AM