How broad are your musical tastes??

[Rob Babcock]

Its a classic movie about the jamacian music industry. Its not really a good movie. the soundtrack is by some of the biggest names in reggae.
Jimmy Cliff
johnny Nash
Toots and the Maytals
Desmond Dekker
the Slickers

Oh, them I've heard. I don't like any of their stuff, at least not that I've heard.

 

[Sheep]

That is absolutly untrue. why does good music have to be underground? I admit much of what I listen to is not well known but I appreciate good music whenever I hear it. Example I have been very happy that The White Stripes have been so popular because Jack White is a very good song writer and plays a wicker blues guitar. They are a very talented band period it does not matter how many people like them.

Untrue? Um, excuse me? This is my opinion. I will make up my own mind on what is talented or not. Having experience in a band and writing songs helps me judge what is good and not.

Rob, When did I say I knew everything? It was my Opinion.

SheepStar

 

[Rock&Roll Ninja]

Having experience in a band and writing songs helps me judge what is good and not.

There is no pure formulaic science to music like there is with movies. If there were your band would have sold quintuple platnum and you'd hire someone to read you this website and dictate your responses. But that didn't happen because there is no straightforward X=talent and Y=suckiness.

Just look at Simon on American Idol®, He can't sing for **** but gets to tell everyone else how bad they are.

 

[Rock&Roll Ninja]

My own tastes are pretty slim: right now I seem to be focusing on classic rock and 'classical" symphony. Neither of which I listened to 3 years ago, and I'll probably move onto something else in a few months.

 

[j_garcia]

Untrue? Um, excuse me? This is my opinion. I will make up my own mind on what is talented or not. Having experience in a band and writing songs helps me judge what is good and not.

Rob, When did I say I knew everything? It was my Opinion.

It is your opinion, but it is also almost exactly what he was talking about in the original post that people tend to dismiss things without even giving them a chance. Writing songs and playing in a band doesn't somehow make you more in tune with the music, it just gives you a different perspective. It's been so long since I played any instruments that I really couldn't even read music anymore if I tried, but that doesn't mean I can't tell the difference between a skilled musician and a lousy one. I can't say I'd call the underground scene the best place to find highly skilled musicians either. Creative, unique, talented, but not always the best otherwise, like Ninja said, they'd probably all be millionaires with contracts too, and then you couldn't listen to them anymore. For me, I get the real feel for how good a band is by seeing them live. A good band will typically show what they're made of live. Some of the small indie bands I saw this year put on great shows, so I bought their CDs. In some cases, the live show was better than what was on the album, but I wasn't really disappointed with any of them.

I get tired of listening to the same type of stuff all the time, so I mix it up based on my mood. Why limit oneself? I generally key in on a genre and listen mostly to that for a few weeks, mixing in some other stuff. Then I hit a particular song and all of a sudden I'm listening to a different selection, but still with some of the other stuff mixed in.

 

[Emusica]

Agreed! I don't dig the gangsta stuff very much either. Do yourself a favor and buy Deltron 3030 or DangerDoom "The Mouse and the Mask"

no *****es no ho's just super high quality music.

I totally agree. Actually, all of MF Doom's music is high quality.

 

[sts9fan]

So which is the sure sign of knowing it all; having the audacity not to like Reggae or the temerity to disagree with you?

Such a fool I am. Surely you know my tastes better than I! How arrogant of me to assume that I'm qualified to listen to something and make up my own mind about what I like.

You truly do know it all!

Whats with the anger man did you read my post. I will qoute myself

Whatever its no biggie we all don't have to like all music.

Chillout I am not attacking you. Did you happen to be beatup by a rasta when you were a kid??

Sheep:

Its not your opinion which is wrong its you hypothisis that only "underground" bands can be talented. It is fundementally flawed. All musicians started out small. Some actually earned the popularity through talent. Also I don't know how to cook but I do know when food tastes like crap. So your "band" experience theory is also kinda bunk..

 

[Rob Babcock]

Jeez, sts9fan- now you've got Sheep on me, too! Anger? I think you're misreading my post. You should have seen bemusement, not anger. No, I used to kick the crap out of Rastas for fun back in preschool.

I merely got a kick out of your stale argument that I just hadn't heard the really good stuff. You see this with rap for example. Like so-

Kid: I'll bet your stereo really cranks with rap.
Me: Actually I don't listen to rap on it.
Kid: Why not?
Me: Honestly I just don't care for it.
Kid: Oh, man- dat' is whack' dog! That's just cos you ain't never heard _________ (insert generic, interchangeable gangsta here; perhaps $.50, maybe 2PumpShakur, makes no diff).

With you, the same dialog except with some other Reggae dude I don't like. C'mon, do really think a guy as into music and gear as me, and of my age, could have lived this long without being exposed to as much of it, if not more, than you? I don't think it's even possible to go to a state college without having at least a couple buddies that are the stereotypical hippy dude (tie-dye shirt, big dreads, bong smoke wafting out from under the dorm room door- the one with the life sized poster of Marley).

Been there, done that, got the (tie dyed) T-shirt!

No, not angry at all. I just think it's funny, that's all. Irony doesn't always work well in print.

Peace out, brudda!

 

[Rob Babcock]

BTW, I like your AC avatar better.

 

[sts9fan]

well they lost so its no big deal now huh? I guess it will have to be 4 for 6 super bowls..

 

[Rob Babcock]

I like the Pats, but I don't like their old graphic. Anyway, I finally took down my Vikes avatar til next season.

 

[Hi Ho]

My musical tastes are very slim. I pretty much listen to bluegrass. There are elements integrated from many genres including rock, jazz, and country. Lately I've been into the jazzy bluegrass like THIS song (Cracker Jack, bye Aubrey Haynie).

I know there are talented artists in many genres but nothing gets me going like bluegrass, which I play myself. If there is anything I cannot stand, it's rap and pop music.

 

[Rob Babcock]

Very cool song. The guy's good. My tastes are a little more newgrass, but I could get into this.

 

[Hi Ho]

He is very good. Another amazing mandolin player is Johnny Staats. THIS song is one of my favorites from him. The whole album is, in fact. It's hard to choose just one song.

 

[Tomorrow]

He is very good. Another amazing mandolin player is Johnny Staats. THIS song is one of my favorites from him. The whole album is, in fact. It's hard to choose just one song.

If you haven't heard Alison Brown, run, don't walk, somewhere to listen. Great newgrass...sometimes with just a pinch of jazz. Try the album Stolen Moments! Suh--weeet.

EDIT: And there's a cut on this album just for Buckle-Miser. It's called "I'm naked and I'm going to Glasgow."

 

[j_garcia]

EDIT: And there's a cut on this album just for Buckle-Miser. It's called "I'm naked and I'm going to Glasgow."

LMAO!!!!!!!!

 

[theturncoat]

I'm open to a lot of things, and like Sheep I listen to a lot of hardcore and screamo, but I also listen to prog and other various bands such as The Mars Volta and Radiohead. I listen to classic rock, too, and now I have started to get interested in jazz. If anyone has any recommendations please, tell me.

 

[djpain75]

what about electronic ????

In my highschool days i was all rap and gangsta sheet. Now its all Trance,House, and Progressive... Love that stuff. Crank up my Sirius tuner sit back and just chill. Next best thing to watchin a killer flik on the HT system!!!

 

[Sheep]

Its not your opinion which is wrong its you hypothisis that only "underground" bands can be talented. It is fundementally flawed. All musicians started out small. Some actually earned the popularity through talent. Also I don't know how to cook but I do know when food tastes like crap. So your "band" experience theory is also kinda bunk..

Some bands? It should be ALL BANDS! Why the *&^$%^*$&* do they deserve to live that lifestyle, and have that money, if all they do is strum 4 cord crap (blink182 comes to mind)? I never said Underground is the best, I said its what I have FOUND to be what I LIKE. Not all the music I listen to is underground hardcore either. Thrice, The Mars Volta are other bands I like, some of my favs. that rarely scream, and still can write decent music and lyrics.

Food tasting like crap is relative, just like tastes in music.

If I can pick up a guitar and figure out a song in 5 minutes, its was writen by an un-talented musician....IMO. Your confusing talent, with catch. A simple song can be catchy, but it will never go in my books under the talent column.

SheepStar

 

[sts9fan]

I said its what I have FOUND to be what I LIKE.

No you said there is NO talent in music that is not underground. Lets review.

I hate main-stream as there is no talent at all.

Am I wrong?

I do agree that bands like Blink182 are totally worthless but like I said about the White Stripes if you look there are some people who earned it.