What's Your Favourite Music?

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Ever. I'm asking this here instead of on ILM because I think this is a more relaxing place to ask it.

― Tom, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Everyone's using the New Answers page but me.

― Greg, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I don't think we've seen anything particularly bad over the past few days. The ability to vent is useful and healthy.

― matthew james, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I always assumed I was not obsessive. Then I stepped back and took a good look at my recordcollection. It is difficult to pick one band/musician. Last year I went through a Fleetwood Mac obsession. Before that Dead Man Ray. I literally gobbled it up and chewed it back out. It is now in the corner recovering.
So what is my favourite music? pop. Madonna ruined my life. She's smirking in the background whispering "You can't get rid of me."

― nathalie (nathalie), Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Chewed it back out? Oh brother...

― nathalie (nathalie), Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Procrastination is the proof of spine

― mark s, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I like the rock and roll music.

― Nick, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I like europop and Norwegian deathpunk. My favorite bands are Gluecifer, Turbonegro, Mensen, the Misfits, the Wipers, Guns 'N Roses, and ATC. I also love Britney Spears and John Fahey. Right now my favorite songs are "Free" by Mya, "Sussudio" by Ol' Dirty Bastard, "I Do" by Toya, "Mother" by Danzig, "Gimme Gimme Gimme" by A-Teens, and "Someone To Call My Lover" by Janet Jackson.

― Otis Wheeler, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I like pop music, starting from the Theme from Flashdance, through to Club 8, being the first and last musical items I've bought. Via bands I've been obsessed with, Galaxie 500 and Love, which admittedly are not the poppiest little combos in the world.

― Martin, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I like: Dinosaur Jr, Bon Jovi, Megadeth, the Beach Boys, the Philistines Jr, Weezer, Eric's Trip, Carpenters, Abba (ILM influence!), Neutral Milk Hotel, Masters of the Hemisphere, Olivia Tremor Control, Of Montreal, Archers of Loaf, Man or Astro-man?, Beulah, Barbera Morgenstern, Kraftwerk, Poison, Velocity Girl, Pavement, Alice Cooper, Smashing Pumpkins, Mamas and the Papas, Neil Young, Built to Spill

Sorry, a list I know, but those are among my favourite bands ever!

If I describe my taste in music, it's just stuff I can sing along with, sleep to, or play really loud. Basically, it's US alterna rawk.

― jel, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I like lots of Reggae, P-Funk, Kraftwerk, Leonard Cohen, James Brown, Nick Drake, Model 500, Ween, Nancy Sinatra, Pram, The Aphex Twin, Coil. Recently I've been listening to "The W", "Stankonia", "So Addictive", Ash Ra / Manuel Gottsching, Pinkie Maclure and quite a few early Reggae and Rocksteady compilations.

― Johnathan, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I can never answer this question properly, so I'll just say I heard 'In Dub' by Tappa Zukie last night and thought it was GRATE.

― DG, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

As difficult a question to answer as what's your favourite song. I suppose it would be the glam/art school crowd, Bowie, Roxy, eno, sparks, kraftwerk throught to the postpunk era Joy Division/Human League and on towards Pulp/Sweyyd/Aphex, it's a broad church.
Sometimes though I'm happiest listening to some folk music, hate the term real music coz it's just as dishonest and manipulative as any producer with a rack of sequencers but sometimes a man(woman) and a guitar hit's the spot.

― Billy Dods, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I hate music.

― Kris, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Afro Sex Futrism

― anthony, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I don't know what to classify it as, so I'll just say MUSIC FROM THE 60s, particulary the mid-to-late 60s. Some of it's happy as hell and some of it isn't, most of it's kind of obscure and almost all of it is better than anything made today.

― Nude Spock, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

The Beta Band!

― Josh, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

true! that is one o' them rare exceptions.

― Nude Spock, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

No, that was my answer. But yeah.

― Josh, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I listen to '60s garage rock like the Seeds & stuff, free jazz, German '70s bands, '70s heavy rock like Budgie & Sir Lord Baltimore...other stuff too, I dunno, old pop singles that I find in op shops...I'm outta touch w/ modern music 'cause I don't live in the modern world.

― duane, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Oh yeah, I DO like Sir Lord Baltimore. What a singer!

― Kris, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

saying "I HATE MUSIC" but then saying U dig SLB = you rule dude!

― duane, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I like old time country and some of the new alt stuff. I like the female alto. I like singer songwriters. I like jazz bassed weirdness. I like alot of disco unironically.

― anthony, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Things with chimes, followe closely by things with raging stop-start guitars.

― Sterling Clover, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

No fair, Sterling, that's exactly what I like.

― Otis Wheeler, Saturday, 11 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

which raging stop-start guitars?

― Cryosmurf, Saturday, 11 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

The loud ones. Also things with deep buzzing tones.

― Sterling Clover, Saturday, 11 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I love loud guitars too. Haven't heard Rodan tho'. Some of these bands/artists I dont listen to much anymore but I still love and would consider them my favorites: Sonic Youth, Pavement, Dinosaur Jr, Beastie boys, Blues Explosion, Fatboy Slim, Brian Eno, Talk Talk, Mercury Rev, Mudhoney, Can, Public Enemy, Beach Boys, The Fall, The Smiths, Sebadoh, Hendrix, Nirvana. I like house, U.K. garage, old ska stuff, fonk-eh stuff. I really want the new NERD album as well as the new Basement Jaxx, Air, Radiohead....

― Michael Bourke, Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Same as Duane but plus Toy Soldiers by Martiqa (sp?) for example, and Snoop Doggy Dogg for example, Cyndi Lauper, etc. And Ld50, Crude, Lil Mr Krauss, Axel Grinders etc.

― maryann, Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

...oh yeah & I like that other stuff Maryann said except not that stupid "Toy Soldiers" song, & I forgot to say the Fall & the Stooges & the Axemen are among my top 3 favourite bands ever too.

― duane, Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Also, Bo Diddley & Link Wray & Billy Childish.

― duane, Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

ARCHERS OF LOAF

― scott, Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

N.E.R.D.This will be my favourite CD for about a week. It rocks. It pops. It turns me on. I never turn it off. Even when I go to work,it keeps playing in my head.

― nathalie, Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

At the moment I'm liking both cold, bleak futurism (John Foxx/Ultravox!/Kraftwerk/Gary Numan &c) and happy sunshinepop (Free Design/Would-Be-Goods/Death By Chocolate/Simon Turner &c)

At the moment I'm wishing there was a band that combined the two elements. Perhaps there is but I can't think who it would be.

― jamesmichaelward, Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Play both at the same time.

― nathalie (nathalie), Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Godspeed You White Popstar!:

"Hit me baby one more t..Hey! ow! You're hitting me! You're actually hitting me! Why? Why the senseless hatred, destruction, brutality?" "This is the future, baby. A boot stomping endlessly on a silicone implant. Deal."

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Mercury Rev, The Fall, Cannibal Ox, The Auteurs, Momus, So Solid Crew, Delia Derbyshire, Missy Elliott, Piano Magic, Roots Manuva. Those are the clues.

― Robin Carmody, Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Like I even need to answer this one.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I want to hijack Mitch's answer.

― Dan Perry, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I only listen to the Manics, while wearing glitter.

― Ally, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

(beaming at his first Perry-approved hijack-able answer. Take all ya want, Dan, I'm a prostitute just like the rest!)

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

It can't be too new, unless I wrote it myself.

Um - that's the clue.

― the pinefox, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Cole Porter? Why, I'm shocked.

― Ally C, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I like meltingly pretty froth and coruscating digital filth and NOTHING INBETWEEN.

(Merritt ripped that off from me).

― Michael Jones, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

two years pass...

As much as I like pop or indie or electronica or hip hop or jazz or rock or whatever, from Sugababes to The Delgados to Plaid to Outkast to Dave Douglas to Fugazi, I think the stuff I really love most is the absent, weird stuff that makes me stare out of the window at the clouds.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Sunday, 11 January 2004 16:02 (twenty years ago) link

http://home.clara.net/antoni/kj_logo.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 11 January 2004 16:43 (twenty years ago) link

I've heard of that band.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 11 January 2004 16:53 (twenty years ago) link

I haven't.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Sunday, 11 January 2004 16:56 (twenty years ago) link

Most curious.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 11 January 2004 17:00 (twenty years ago) link

Oh, my mistake. It says Killing Joke.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Sunday, 11 January 2004 17:05 (twenty years ago) link

rock.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 11 January 2004 17:17 (twenty years ago) link

I've noticed I'm a weakling for New Romantic/New Wave music and the modern music that's inspired by such (so anything from the Dandy Warhols to Fischerspooner). I also love '70s glam rock, low-fi punk rock, classic Motown, '60s British Invasion, "modern rock" from the '80s, "alternative" from the '90s (nostalgia!), jazz-influenced pop, acoustic guitar pop, and a lot more. I'm open to anything but country and Tejano (which encompasses mariachi, conjunto, and norteño in my mind -- WORST MUSIC EVER).

*pretends to be surprised by Alex's choice*

― Tenacious Dee (Dee the Lurker), Sunday, 11 January 2004 17:42 (twenty years ago) link

Alex secretly hates Killing Joke and uses it as a distraction to cover up his endless regard for the works of Creed. He even has the string quarter tribute albums!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 11 January 2004 17:45 (twenty years ago) link

For me it's long been vintage soul, '60s and early '70s. If I had to be specific, Hi records in the early '70s, especially Al Green.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 11 January 2004 18:43 (twenty years ago) link

Alex secretly hates Killing Joke and uses it as a distraction to cover up his endless regard for the works of Creed.

Don't make me use your lifeless corpse to fuel the flames for my fondue pot, Raggett.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 11 January 2004 19:01 (twenty years ago) link

Mmm, fondue!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 11 January 2004 19:09 (twenty years ago) link

Do real Killing Joke fan eat anything as fancy as fondue? I doubt it. Yet Alex is always going on about his poncey 70s cheese dips.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Sunday, 11 January 2004 19:54 (twenty years ago) link

They actually eat the quivering, still-pulsing hearts of unbelievers named Nick Southall, I hear.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 11 January 2004 19:59 (twenty years ago) link

How many hearts do I have? Gosh.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Sunday, 11 January 2004 20:02 (twenty years ago) link

Honour the safety match!

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Sunday, 11 January 2004 20:02 (twenty years ago) link

My favourite music is the one that goes: dum dum dum DUM dee dee dee dee duh dum DEE DEE dum DEEDLE deedle dee. It's truly wonderful! But I suppose that doesn't quite convey the whole effect.

― Aimless, Sunday, 11 January 2004 20:18 (twenty years ago) link

Yet Alex is always going on about his poncey 70s cheese dips.

I make two (count'em: 2) references to fondue in the course of a week, and that constitutes as always?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 11 January 2004 20:25 (twenty years ago) link

How many other Killing Joke fans have made two (2) references to fondue this week, eh?!

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Sunday, 11 January 2004 20:30 (twenty years ago) link

How many other legitimate fans of Killing Joke are there on ILX?

Fondue ROX! U R ALL GAY CHEESE-HATAZ!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 11 January 2004 22:33 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.an-irrational-domain.net/images/band79-82/band80road.JPG
Killing Joke on their way to their favorite Notting Hill Fondue Emporium

http://www.an-irrational-domain.net/images/band87-92/band91ftp2.jpg
Extremities-era Joke reacting to news of Scandinevian Fondue Ban of 1990.

http://www.an-irrational-domain.net/images/band93-96/band95flower.JPG
Pandemonium-era Joke after being informed that there is no fondue contingency plan on Icelandic press jaunt.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 11 January 2004 22:38 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.an-irrational-domain.net/images/band93-96/band96redface2.JPG
Democracy-era Joke stage occult sit-in/protest to combat fondue-intollerance.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 11 January 2004 22:41 (twenty years ago) link

These are the three livejournal users who list both "fondue" and "Killing Joke" as their interests:

www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=j_nine
www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=creepigurl
www.livejournal.com/users/tutubird/

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 11 January 2004 22:42 (twenty years ago) link

The first one's cute.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 11 January 2004 22:45 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.an-irrational-domain.net/images/jaz/jaz80mike.JPG
"Come Inside Boy, You Call This FONDUE!"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 11 January 2004 22:46 (twenty years ago) link

If I has to choose but ONE BAND it'd be THE FALL

― Aaron A., Sunday, 11 January 2004 22:57 (twenty years ago) link

As of today (and probably just for today) Crunk, but I'm stilling looking for that one song that has "Motherfucka" every measure and "What" every off beat. (where every time it's yelled my spine tingles)

― A Nairn (moretap), Sunday, 11 January 2004 22:57 (twenty years ago) link

eleven years pass...

BUMP

Now what is it?

― mcayrshire (dog latin), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 16:02 (nine years ago) link

Like really, what do you say when asked? Do people still ask you this? It only occurs to me because a good pal of mine was asked by someone else what music I happen to like and he said he didn't know despite us listening to music together all the time.

― mcayrshire (dog latin), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 16:04 (nine years ago) link

Definitely isn't "that one song that has "Motherfucka" every measure and "What" every off beat."

― Losing swag by the second (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 16:16 (nine years ago) link

According to Spotify, my favourite music is "noise pop", whatever that is.

― tayto fan (Michael B), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 16:23 (nine years ago) link

According to EOY, my favourite is 'Chamber Pop' which makes me think of people playing harpsichords and wearing ballgowns or something.

― mcayrshire (dog latin), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 16:28 (nine years ago) link

Chamber Pop = Owen Pallett, Magnetic Fields (??)

― tayto fan (Michael B), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 16:32 (nine years ago) link

yeah, pop/rock with strings i guess.

― mcayrshire (dog latin), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 16:33 (nine years ago) link

am I correct in my assumption that baroque pop = '60s-'70s British invasion pop/rock with strings, whereas chamber pop = modern indie pop/rock with strings? I like orchestrated pop from both eras, but I've never been too clear on the terminology.

― the geographibebebe (unregistered), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 16:54 (nine years ago) link

Nuggets. Forever and always.

With a little baroque touches thrown in there. If the drummer is wearing a frilly shirt and there is some harpsichord overdubbed I am THERE.

I always kind of assumed these terminologies were just used based on whatever felt right in context at the time. Like describing vibes.

― Evan, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 17:02 (nine years ago) link

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