What kinda of music do you like?

-- Anonymous, November 27, 2000

Answers

Genres: trance (psychedelic, progressive, fu-fu), goa, house. On occasion--opera, classical (anything but baroque), jazz.

DJs that spin the shizzit I enjoy are all local (booked internationally, yet most are still residents at the $5 weeklies): Keith Edwards, Blair, DJ D, Charlie, the Sisters SF, Thomas Trouble, Simon Apex (Sacto)... lots more.

-- Anonymous, November 27, 2000

I like all kinds of music myself. Everything from classical to blue grass to The Beatles to AC/DC to Garth Brooks to Our Lady Peace to pop music to folk music to....well, you get the point. I like all kinds of music but tend to buy more rock of late. The last few CD's I've bought are by Creed, Moist, Tangleroot..........

-- Anonymous, November 27, 2000

I like a looooot of music. Modern rock/alternative, 80s, and indie are my 3 top faves. Also, musicals, and a few artists/groups of country and punk sometimes catch my fancy. I even like classical. Pretty much all I don't listen to is rap and industrial/goth/hard/whatever.

-- Anonymous, November 27, 2000

when people ask me this, i usually reply with : "really bad music". and to me, it really isn't, but to most people what i listen to doesn't really have any great artistic value (ie: i don't listen to modest mouse, belle & sebastian, etc). i DO listen to: rainer maria, the get up kids, bra!d, the promise ring, the smiths, beulah, depeche mode, the cure, liz phair, the spinanes, mary timony, built to spill, the descendents, destiny's child, ben folds five, etc ... so yeah. i guess the more accurate answer would be "emo/indie rock, and sad gay boy music."

-- Anonymous, November 27, 2000

maria! everyone you talk to is obviously crazy if they'd think the get up kids, promise ring ( i looooooove the promise ring ), built to spill, rainer maria and ben folds five are really bad music. i'm pretty much in the same emo/indie rock boat as you, except i swing the punk/ska way, too. ya know, the anniversary, lagwagon, guttermouth, rx bandits, mad caddies, new found glory, etc. :)

-- Anonymous, November 27, 2000

I find myself listening to a lot of different types of music. On one end of the spectrum, I'm really into new age, classical (mostly twentieth-century stuff, like Stockhausen, Glass, and Part) and jazz (primarily free jazz but also bebop and fusion). I'm also rather big on underground hip-hop (like Blackalicious, Sonic Sum, and MC Paul Barman), alt-country (as well as artists like the Carter Family and Johnny Cash), and math rock (Table, Shellac, Don Caballero, and Hurl). At the other end, I'm pretty big on punk (mostly hardcore, but some pop-punk like Bad Religion and the Descendents), metal (primarily grindcore and technical metal, but also black and death metals), techno (dark jungle, breakcore, dub, and electro), indie rock (Sunny Day Real Estate, Jawbox, Dianogah), and "post-rock" (Tortoise, gastr del sol, The Sea and Cake). These days I'm also getting into international music (mostly 60's and 70's Nigerian and Ethiopian, but also Celtic and Indian).

I don't particularly like musicals that much, mostly since I look at them from an opera perspective. And I also don't like emo that much; there's something irritating about faux-sensitive teenage boys whining obliquely about nonexistent relationships set to jangly guitars. Granted, I like early emo (Squirrel Bait, Rites of Spring) and some of the emo/hardcore/metal hybrids (Angel Hair, Shotmaker, Crucible, Automaton, Fisticuffs Bluff), but that's because there was less pointless whining than pointed catharsis.

Bleh. And I've just gone on for too long about this.

-- Anonymous, November 27, 2000

The Indigo Girls and similar birken-rock counterparts. I'm not even going to bother signing my name to this one.

-- Anonymous, November 27, 2000

I'll probably incite a mass riot, but I don't like Belle & Sebastian either, maria. I could say harsher things about them, but I'll restrain myself.

I don't really get emo myself. I don't really pay to much attention to some stuff, and one day I turned around and everyone was all into the emo thing, and no one's really been able to explain it to me.. Rob's sentence on it was pretty clear though. hehe

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2000

as far as catharsis goes all i have to say is : _past worn searching_ by rainer maria. oh baby.

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2000

I hate that question.

Thankyoucarryon.

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2000