music you like despite previous reservations

[ed miliband]

i always thought van morrison was dad rock, but god damn 'astral weeks' is an incredible album, particularly the title track:

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the lester bangs review of the album is really good, and i agree -- there is an incredible sensitivity to the album, you can just tell morrison was a wreck when it was recorded.

so yeah, glad i gave old van a chance.

[Pirate Utopian]

Astral Weeks is great.

Disco and prog rock for me.

[Zostrianos]

The Cure

[ed miliband]

Astral Weeks is great.

Disco and prog rock for me.

yeah, gotcha... but disco def has hipster cred now, and rightfully... cos it's amazing.

prog is different. if you say 'krautrock' (german prog) it's cool... bands like gong and the soft machine, again that's cool... but pink floyd, yes, genesis, etc?nah

[The Douche]

Lil b.

[Fawkes]

most pop music.

I used to have this stupid punker than thou complex, but fuck it

[Ostrinski]

80's hard rock.

[ed miliband]

most pop music.

I used to have this stupid punker than thou complex, but fuck it

yeah man... i used to have the same thing, but i've started to despise the idea punk represented a 'year zero' for music. i'd go as far as saying there's a sexist, racist and homophobic undercurrent to that idea. plus it's completely ahistorical -- ageing punks love nothing better than saying on the one hand the sex pistols kickstarted everything, then name-dropping a dozen over bands who did the same thing a decade before them. and better.

[ed miliband]

80's hard rock.

don't think i'll ever get into that, but reminds me... 70s soft rock: fleetwood mac, 10cc, etc. fucking beautiful and surprisingly experimental.

[ed miliband]

Lil b.

didn't you once make a thread saying only those who felt guilty for being white could like lil b? glad you changed your mind.

[A Revolutionary Tool]

Lil B too, I actually heard a song I liked by him two days ago.

[ed miliband]

Lil B too, I actually heard a song I liked by him two days ago.

fu. cking. hell.

what song? i'm actually happy to hear this mate.

[A Revolutionary Tool]

fu. cking. hell.

what song? i'm actually happy to hear this mate.
I'm just messing with you, fuck Lil B :laugh:!

But seriously I actually did hear a song by him that I liked for about 50 seconds. He actually had a little flow and it was making me go "Alright, this isn't that bad, not the best but it's better than normal". But after about 50 seconds it just degenerated into whatever it is only Lil B fans seem to like. Can't remember the song or even what made me sit back and think it wasn't that bad but Lil B is still awful imo.

[The Douche]

didn't you once make a thread saying only those who felt guilty for being white could like lil b? glad you changed your mind.

I only like the shit where he actually raps, not all that "white house white house swag swag swag" stuff.

[ed miliband]

I only like the shit where he actually raps, not all that "white house white house swag swag swag" stuff.

i don't sit down and listen to that shit, but it's fun live

[The Douche]

i don't sit down and listen to that shit, but it's fun live

I have zero interest in live rap.

[Yuppie Grinder]

I fell in love with Lil B the moment I heard Wonton Soup.
Trap Music. I used to think Gucci Mane, Waka Flocka, and the like were garbage until I actually gave them a chance.

[leftistman]

Biggie Smalls and Tupac have some songs that I like. I generally hate rap though. Hip-hop is very good instrumentally speaking, though, hence my love for Rage Against the Machine.

[MarxSchmarx]

Beethoven - for the longest time as a pretentious shit, I thought his works too cliche, not abstract and Schoenberg-y enough.

Now I think he is probably the only musician in the history of the human race who is not over-rated.

[Einkarl]

Hard Rock and Heavy metal.

From Zepplin to Judas Priest to Fueled by Fire.

I like sone funk, blues and Brostep

[MEGAMANTROTSKY]

I was very wary of enjoying Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana" because of its ties to "Volkisch" mythology...but it still sounds cool to me. I can't help but enjoy listening to it now.

[Pirate Utopian]

prog is different. if you say 'krautrock' (german prog) it's cool... bands like gong and the soft machine, again that's cool... but pink floyd, yes, genesis, etc?nah

I like Pink Floyd. Most prog I like borders on jazz fusion, the Canterbury scene as they call it. For some reason I never had a problem with krautrock.

[officer nugz]

I am into Goblin but don't really know of any other prog rock that I like.

[Yuppie Grinder]

I like Pink Floyd. Most prog I like borders on jazz fusion, the Canterbury scene as they call it. For some reason I never had a problem with krautrock.
I don't really get why Krautrock is considered a sub-genre of Prog rock. It has more in common with psych rock it seems. A lot of it takes a very less-is-more approach uncharacteristic of prog.

[Brosa Luxemburg]

Kendrick Lamar.

I hear Rigamoris and hated it. Then I heard Cartoons and Cereal, ADHD, Swimming Pools, etc. and feel in love with his music.

[ed miliband]

I don't really get why Krautrock is considered a sub-genre of Prog rock. It has more in common with psych rock it seems. A lot of it takes a very less-is-more approach uncharacteristic of prog.

c'mon... prog wouldn't have existed without psych, the two are inter-related. and whilst some krautrock bands are undoubtedly a lot more, erm... "punk" (for lack of a better term) than any prog acts (faust springs immediately to mind), tell me this isn't just german prog:

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plus, with the exception of a handful of bands like the monks, germany didn't really have much of a psych scene anyway.

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

Beethoven - for the longest time as a pretentious shit, I thought his works too cliche, not abstract and Schoenberg-y enough.

Now I think he is probably the only musician in the history of the human race who is not over-rated.

Liszt? Amazing.

OT: the oldies like Buddy Holly.

[NoOneIsIllegal]

Black Metal > just had to find the right artists. a lot of it is absolute shit, pretentious, racist, or flat out boring 80's and 90's shock-rock. But man, atmospheric and depressive BM can hit alllllll the right spots. Took me many years to finally "get" black metal.

Shoegaze > heard a few bands and thought it was boring. Kept trying it maybe once a year until I finally heard My Bloody Valentine; everything changed after that.

Pop > there's some pop music that is amazingly catchy. Like... t.A.T.u. If you look past the fake-lesbian-controversy their old manager tried to stir up, a lot of their songs actually have a pretty sweet beat and synth. They sing some catchy songs, and actually have decent voices. This is the music I roll my windows up to and crank.

[Yuppie Grinder]

c'mon... prog wouldn't have existed without psych, the two are inter-related. and whilst some krautrock bands are undoubtedly a lot more, erm... "punk" (for lack of a better term) than any prog acts (faust springs immediately to mind), tell me this isn't just german prog:

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plus, with the exception of a handful of bands like the monks, germany didn't really have much of a psych scene anyway.

they're for sure inter-related
i guess what i mean is when i hear prog i think of dream theater and marillion and that sorta shit and has nothing in common krautrock

[Yuppie Grinder]

Emo. I still really don't care for the Sunny Day Real Estate/Texas is the Reason sort of emo, but emotional hardcore stuff can be really brilliant. Cap'n Jazz has been my favorite rock band for years, but based of American Football and the like (shudder) I foolishly decided not to look any further into the genre.
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[Os Cangaceiros]

Slayer - I didn't really like Slayer the first time I heard them. But Reign In Blood may be one of my favorite albums. I can see how some people could find the album's theme to be too....cartoonish and stupid, I guess? to be enjoyable, but the incessant themes of death, torture, rotting corpses, the Holocaust, Satan etc. always make me giggle...I don't know how anyone couldn't giggle during listening to a metal album and hearing the lead singer entone "PRAISE HELL SATAN!" I love fast music, too. Down with "atmospheric" metal and sludge!

Merle Haggard - He's the man.

[Ele'ill]

Radio dance station

[Ele'ill]

Slayer - I didn't really like Slayer the first time I heard them. But Reign In Blood may be one of my favorite albums. I can see how some people could find the album's theme to be too....cartoonish and stupid, I guess? to be enjoyable, but the incessant themes of death, torture, rotting corpses, the Holocaust, Satan etc. always make me giggle...I don't know how anyone couldn't giggle during listening to a metal album and hearing the lead singer entone "PRAISE HELL SATAN!" I love fast music, too. Down with "atmospheric" metal and sludge!

Merle Haggard - He's the man.

What did you think of Tori Amos's cover of Raining Blood?

[roy]

lil b - i had to listen to him quite a bit before it clicked with me. then one day i just watched the video for 'look like jesus' and i was like 'swak'

[Jimmie Higgins]

Radiohead. For some reason I hate them when I'm not listening to them, but when one of their pre-millenium albums come on I'm like, "Hmm, this is pretty nice actually".

Joy Division. I can't stand a lot of 1980s rock other than some of the more unique punk bands. I especially hate morose mopey stuff that seemed to be popular then. I like my angst with a good dose of overt anger or sarcasm (hence the attraction to punk) not sad black and white photos and alienation and dissassociative music. But they have more than a few songs that get under your skin despite not really recording that many songs.

[Slavoj Zizek's Balls]

Tull

[MarxSchmarx]

Liszt? Amazing.

OT: the oldies like Buddy Holly.

Interesting. I don't mean to be snarky, but out of curiosity, which piece by Liszt would you consider his most influential and widely appealing?

[#FF0000]

I like Pantera's "Vulgar Display of Power" a lot even though I was always really "ehhh" on Pantera.

I remember someone on here said that Manic Street Preachers were "boring stadium rock" and I agreed, but now The Holy Bible is one of my favorite albums.

[the last donut of the night]

I have zero interest in live rap.

you're def. missing out.


brazilian funk

[#FF0000]

you're def. missing out.

i saw wu tang live and ghostface killah did literally nothing but smoke a blunt and i swear i saw him ash it on a bouncers head.