Do you guys like listening to mainstream music?

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i like listening to blackmetal, mostly. some metal and punk bands are alright

I like to listen to British Punk, British Rock and Oldies.

My tastes aren't mainstream, when compared to my classmates and other people my age (they listen to Persian rap, yuck).

But I guess they ARE quite mainstream if compared to for example, American people my age. But I don't really care... I like the music that I like, and I'm not going to hate or like an artist just because a lot of people like or don't like him/her.

My favourite genres are rock and pop, and I also like certain soundtracks.

I like Tiny Tim.


No...but seriously...I DON"T like alot of mainstream music, in fact the vast majority of it really bothers me...I HATE mainstream pop ballads that repeat themselves over and over...I HATE most popular modern rock groups that get played on mainstream radio(with a few exceptions)...with so much amazing music out there everywhere (I might be more particularly immursed in it than alot of people..since i help run a veue..and am therefore beyond saturated in good and bad music)....so this might be my bias speaking...but it is ludicrous what becomes "famous"....I hate music that is "manufactured" to be listened to by the proles....it is disgusting.
There is so much potential for music to sound good...so many directions for it to go in...so it sickens me to listen to radio stations where they play the same 5 limpid songs over and over....(so they get stuck in your head)....it seems like mass mind control to me....


I have a broad range of musical interests though...I just don't like crap.

No, not really. I did when I was younger but as I've got older more and more of it sounds like vacuous crap to me.

are there any my chemical romance fans here?

i think that vacuous (or at least more shallow) music serves very well for many purposes. one of the most important ones i think would be entry level listening. my musical tastes were pretty obvious when i was younger but those artists moved me made and lured me onto a long meandering path of musical discovery.

I like weird awful-sounding esoteric stuff that most people hate.

Awful crazy-sounding free jazz such as Last Exit, the Flying Luttenbachers, etc.

Crazy unlistenable noisecore like Melt-Banana, the Locust.

Grindcore, death metal, black metal, power violence, and all that other good stuff.

Even "noise", like Merzbow.

Oh, I love it love it love it!! !

Although some mainstream groups certianly deserve their due. Where would we be without Black Sabbath, the Doors, Hendrix, Chili Peppers, etc.? I think the two most innovative "mainstream" bands active today are System of a Down and Incubus. Well, throw in Radiohead, though I've never been a fan. Most everything else is derivative shite, whether it's retro rock (why does everything either sound like it's 20 years old or 40 years old?), sappy English love ballads ("you're beautiful...."), pretty in punk (Avril Levigne, etc.; and here I thought Green Day and Blink 182 were the extent of record company manipulation, the "new wave" of the 1980s notwithstanding).

Without wanting to make a too sweeping and overgeneralised statement here; it is fair to say that in the grand scheme of things, pretty much all rock and metal music is fairly vacuous. It doesn't bother me though, I treat it like books; sometimes I like to read in depth and thought provoking novels but then sometimes I also like to read light-hearted comedy or trashy thrillers.

Most people like some form of entertainment that is pretty shallow in some way or other.

I remember having an argument with an English lecturer who said that when she caught her students reading 'The Sun', she would chastise them and take the paper off them. I said that I thought that attitude was ridiculous and we were discussing it for a while and eventually it turned out that she liked to watch 'big brother' so I made the point to her that we all like a bit of shallow trash now and again and does it really matter which form of media it comes in?

I think I probably agree actually, to an extent! It's me that's changed, rather than the depth or otherwise of mainstream music, I guess...

If you mean pop, by mainstream, sure I like some of it. You might not know who Cheap Trick is, but I have everything they ever did. But then again, there are very few types of music I don't like, a couple I don't see much future for, but that's my thoughts on it. I'm not overly fond of jazz, but see it's influcance and importance to other music forms. But, I like elevator music too

There was a time, approximately 1997-2003, when I really didn't like mainstream music. It was largely R & B and garage music, which I've never enjoyed at all, and things like Britney Spears. However, the last few years I've been listening to XFM manchester in the mornings and I quite like a lot of it. I can't stand the red hot chilli peppers, along with quite a few other overrated bands, but some stuff is pretty good.

The only mainstream music that I listen to on a CD player is Keane and Muse. Everyone laughs at me for liking Keane but I like it and that's all that matters.

Oh, I thought XFM was a London station?

It was originally but now there's a Manchester one too!

I listen to whatever sounds good. Some of it's 'mainstream', some of it isn't. Most of the music I listen to would probably be classed as somewhere in between. But I don't know, it doesn't really matter to me anyway.