General Music Discussion II

[The REAL Glasers]

I'm not very old, but I can feel my tastes start to settle. For the past few years I've really only listened to Alternative Rock, Noise Rock, Punk, Hip-Hop, Post-Hardcore, and Shoegaze. As far as Post-Rock goes, I only really listen to the big names anymore because there's so much crescendocore that clogs it up.

[Corrian]

I'm not very old, but I can feel my tastes start to settle. For the past few years I've really only listened to Alternative Rock, Noise Rock, Punk, Hip-Hop, Post-Hardcore, and Shoegaze. As far as Post-Rock goes, I only really listen to the big names anymore because there's so much crescendocore that clogs it up.

Yeah. I think I can shrink my post-rock playlist quite a lot because there are a lot that I look back at now and realize how snooze-worthy and unoriginal the post-rock is, and how unlikely I am to ever listen to the band again.

I don't see my tastes ever settling, really. They settled on a lot of mellow stuff in my early teens and finally have evolved. In all honesty I hope I can be an 80-year old metalhead and still exploring creative music every year

[Ancient Magmia]

Anthony Fantano reviewed some recent hip-hop album featuring 2 Chainz, and said something like "2 Chainz part is just a piece of shit".

I know absolutely nothing about that guy, but I already like him.

2 Chainz is just...like, one of those people who you just wonder "WHY ARE YOU A THING?" I don't think I've ever been so biased against an artist before. But the guy just can't rap, and has ruined several good songs from different artists.

[Meryuma]

http://youtu.be/uwXtvyC88es


This doesn't suck...it's actually pretty decent.

what is the world coming to?! At this rate Metallica will be covering "Viva La Vida" before you can say "genre clash!"

Why are you surprised? Imagine Dragons is pretty good. The original is still better of course, but I'm not at all surprised to see them do it justice.

Imagine Dragons are pretty much the embodiment of middle-of-the-road blandness.

[Corrian]

I know absolutely nothing about that guy, but I already like him.

He's the most entertaining music reviewer that I know. He reviews a lot of hip-hop, actually, though he doesn't restrict himself to anything specific.

"The 2 Chainz verse here is just too awful for words". That's what he said.

[The REAL Glasers]

I'm not very old, but I can feel my tastes start to settle. For the past few years I've really only listened to Alternative Rock, Noise Rock, Punk, Hip-Hop, Post-Hardcore, and Shoegaze. As far as Post-Rock goes, I only really listen to the big names anymore because there's so much crescendocore that clogs it up.

Yeah. I think I can shrink my post-rock playlist quite a lot because there are a lot that I look back at now and realize how snooze-worthy and unoriginal the post-rock is, and how unlikely I am to ever listen to the band again.

I don't see my tastes ever settling, really. They settled on a lot of mellow stuff in my early teens and finally have evolved. In all honesty I hope I can be an 80-year old metalhead and still exploring creative music every year

Well, that's not to say that I don't enjoy finding new music, it's actually a great pleasure of mine, I just find myself going out of my way to look for music for those certain styles. I'll check out any Metal releases that have created buzz among my friends, but I rarely go looking for them anymore. I don't think Metal has much that I can relate to anymore. I like atmosphere, weirdness, songwriting, noise, and any combination of those factors and many others.

My tastes now are wildly different from when I was in high school. I used to be a huge Prog guy, but it just doesn't feel the same to me anymore. I think a lot of releases from bands like Dinosaur Jr, Sebadoh, The Replacements, The Mountain Goats, etc. all have a sort of earnest personal quality to them that a lot of more "technical" music doesn't. Or at least that's the reaction that that style of music continues to evoke from me that others don't.

[Corrian]

I don't think I've ever specifically listened to music that I can relate to. Because no specific style of music feels like specifically something I can relate to, I guess. I dunno, I listen to music because I love listening to different types of music. It being something I can relate to never really even crosses my mind, except in lyrics here and there. That's about it.

[The REAL Glasers]

Most of my favorite records are ones that I feel a deeply personal connection to.

[Corrian]

Most of my favorite records are ones that I feel a deeply personal connection to.

I don't even know the lyrics to 90% of what I listen to and are my favorites

[Shaluach]

Argh... Just... I don't even think it was a very good cover.

can you drop your worship for a second and realize they didn't do a bad job?

I'm not trying to "worship".
I just honestly think it wasn't a very good cover. When I have time, I'll post what I think is a pretty good cover of Tom Sawyer.

[Corrian]

I actually find it to be interesting that the bands that are actually popular in the post-rock realm are actually some of the most creative bands in the genre. Not THE most, but compared to a large chunk of the generic post-rock formula a lot of bands do, they definitely change their styles around and come off as being creative and evolving.

It's just weird, because in so many genres, a lot of the really stale stuff in the genre is what gets popular. But not so much in the case with post-rock.

On that subject: Members from Explosions in the Sky and Eluvium have formed a new band and they've released their first song.

[Cadonica]

I don't really listen to much Metal anymore. I'll visit the odd Death Metal release here and there and maybe some Black Metal, but my tastes largely gravitate toward Sludge and Stoner.

I kept jumping from random metal genres to synthpop recently. I really don't seem to have a favorite taste in music...

Though I did go through a major post-rock spree, but still, I don't have much of a specific defining genre I listen to the most.

And because that post-rock spree and your praise for post-rock happened around the time I first started seeing you, you're that mr. post-rock for me. Probably forever

But yeah, I don't really have any main genre either. True, it's more likely that I like thrash/doom metal instead of death metal but still, I can't really listen to one genre more than 12 hours. That's why I have so wide music taste.

[Corrian]

And because that post-rock spree and your praise for post-rock happened around the time I first started seeing you, you're that mr. post-rock for me. Probably forever

The discovery of a post-rock band is what really got me into the love for music, so it then spread like wildfire to other post-rock bands first, and then to more and more music from there.

Though, since I was like, 8, I've always had a varied taste. But that's because of the parents I grew up with. You could have my dad playing avant-garde music, pretty much anything and everything Mike Patton, comedy music, so on and so forth...

Hell, my dad suggested me music to "Wake me up" once, from some random stuff he downloaded to give a try, and I ended up loving the band (That wasn't very good for waking up) and that helped me get more into music listening. That is the post-rock band I talk about. Sigur Ros, that is.

[Corrian]

Damn, I just accidentally got reminded how awesome Grails is

Post-rock/psychedelic rock at its finest.

[Cadonica]

Damn, I just accidentally got reminded how awesome Grails is

Post-rock/psychedelic rock at its finest.

Listened to that one. Meh. Not going to check more post-rock anytime soon

[Ancient Magmia]

Most of my favorite records are ones that I feel a deeply personal connection to.

Same here. Even if the lyrics don't specifically relate to me, if I can find some type of personal connection with them, I'm hooked.

Damn, I just accidentally got reminded how awesome Grails is

Post-rock/psychedelic rock at its finest.

Damn, I'm not really into that kind of rock, but that was really good.

On an unrelated note, you're flag is extremely creepy.

[Calorax]

Any fans of Stereolab here?
I got some of their albums yesterday and I think I'm in love

[Corrian]

Damn, I just accidentally got reminded how awesome Grails is

Post-rock/psychedelic rock at its finest.

Listened to that one. Meh. Not going to check more post-rock anytime soon

It feels more psychedelic than post-rock to me.

Either way, to each their own

And the post-rock genre varies widely, anyway.

Damn, I'm not really into that kind of rock, but that was really good.

On an unrelated note, you're flag is extremely creepy.

This song doesn't even sound like any Grails I know, either. They vary quite a bit.

And good. I succeeded

[Ko-oren]

On that subject: Members from Explosions in the Sky and Eluvium have formed a new band and they've released their first song.

Heard this this afternoon, I'm pretty interested.

Now we're talking about post-rock now anyway, anyone more interested in the sweeter melodies instead of the metaly music?

[Corrian]

Now we're talking about post-rock now anyway, anyone more interested in the sweeter melodies instead of the metaly music?

I'm interested in both, but both also have very uncreative music in that realm that has started to bore me, so I've started to get a little picky with post-rock. More so than before

Speaking of. You might like this. Or this. Both have members from the synthpop band CHVRCHES

[Ko-oren]

Now we're talking about post-rock now anyway, anyone more interested in the sweeter melodies instead of the metaly music?

I'm interested in both, but both also have very uncreative music in that realm that has started to bore me, so I've started to get a little picky with post-rock. More so than before

Speaking of. You might like this. Or this. Both have members from the synthpop band CHVRCHES

Both definitely have their uncreative music. But I'll admit I sometimes even listen to that when I have to get something done without too much distraction

edit: listening now

edit: loved it! Especially the Unwinding Hours!

[Demen 2]

I feel as if my parents dying made me change around my musical preferences quite a bit. I couldn't really bare to listen to things like thrash and death metal because they were so dear to my father, and I couldn't bear to listen to anymore old progressive rock as that was my mother's favorite. I don't know if my tastes have settled or I'm just getting older, or maybe even a little bit of both. But if it isn't heavy and sludgy then it's not my type of metal these days. And for rock music, I've become much more partial to post-hardcore bands (recently and most notably Quicksand) and softer space or alt rock like Hum.

[Mirrodinia]

Why are you surprised? Imagine Dragons is pretty good. The original is still better of course, but I'm not at all surprised to see them do it justice.

Imagine Dragons are pretty much the embodiment of middle-of-the-road blandness.

...I mean, if you're into that sort of thing...

[Meryuma]

I don't think I've ever specifically listened to music that I can relate to. Because no specific style of music feels like specifically something I can relate to, I guess. I dunno, I listen to music because I love listening to different types of music. It being something I can relate to never really even crosses my mind, except in lyrics here and there. That's about it.

I sometimes listen to stuff because i relate to it but not usually.

[Cadonica]

Trying to break my record for most new albums listened in one day. 10 am and already on fifth album.

EDIT: 12 hours left and 11 albums behind of my record, I can at least tie with it