What kind of music is everyone else into?

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I like a lot of music (trying to categorise by genre as best I can);
Black metal - Bathory, Immortal, Mayhem, Emperor, Burzum, Blut aus Nord, Carpathian Forest
Death metal - Cattle Decapitation, Devourment, Gorerotted, Vader, Napalm Death, Dying Fetus, Necrophagist, Cannibal Corpse, Morbid Angel
Doom/stoner metal - Electric Wizard, Bongzilla, Acid King, Orange Goblin, Scissorfight, High on Fire
Drum & bass - High Contrast, Logistics, Ed Rush & Optical, London Elektricity
Post-rock/metal - Isis, Pelican, Red Sparowes, Explosions in the Sky, God is an Astronaut, This Will Destroy You
Indie rock/pop - The Smiths, Of Montreal, The Young Knives, Radiohead, Modest Mouse, Cursive, Metric, Interpol, Forward Russia
Punk - The Clash, Crass, Dead Kennedys, 7Seconds, Black Flag, Minor Threat, Subhumans
Grindcore - Rotten Sound, Leng Tch'e, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Nasum, Pig Destroyer
Hip-hop - Aesop Rock, Atmosphere, Immortal Technique, Sage Francis, Jedi Mind Tricks, MF DOOM
Jazz - Miles Davis, John Coltrane
Tom Waits (he is his own genre)
IDM - Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Plaid, Boards of Canada, Four Tet
EBM/synthpop - Assemblage 23, VNV Nation, Covenant
Industrial - Skinny Puppy, Combichrist, Suicide Commando
Classic rock - Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix
Noise rock - Parts & Labor, Melt-Banana, Lightning Bolt
Math rock - Don Caballero, Battles, Hella
Drone - Earth, Sunn O))), Boris, Jesu

This was a shortened example. It'd probably have been a lot quicker to state that I like most things, excepting country and gangster rap .

Both of these acts are from my home state. I can confirm how good LB are. They've been known to play shows where they play so loud that they cause minor damage to the clubs they play at. Sage Francis is in and around the state. The only time I saw him was when he opened up for O.A.R. (yes, the jam band O.A.R.). He was alright.

And it's always nice to know there's other Forward Russia fans out there. They're criminally underrated. Especially here in America.

I can't believe people have actually heard of Forward Russia in the US at all. I find it sort of funny although I can't explain why.

A couple of years back they seemed to be the support band at every gig i went to! Well not quite, but i saw them several times in a short space of time. They were fun. They made me smile. I'd be lying if I said I listened to their records at home. I remember preferring other bands that had come out of Leeds, like the Long Blondes and Black Wire.

^ I saw Forward Russia live a couple of years ago - they were touring with The Long Blondes, The Automatic and Boy Kill Boy. Forward Russia were hands down the best; everyone who was there agrees The Long Blondes were the worst. I have a Forward Russia t-shirt but whenever I wear it, there's always someone who says something like 'ohh Forward Russia! Personally I prefer Backwards Germany'

slayer, pantera, machine head, down, obituary, emperor, enslaved, immortal, rancid, origin, vivaldi

I'd say most J-Rock and electronic music.

1950s and 1960s Rock and Roll

*looks at avatar*

also,
billy joel
bela fleck and the fleckstones
david bowie
coldplay
the beatles
traveling wilburys
goo goo dolls
just getting into the psychedelicness that is pink floyd
sound track music-current favorite soundtrack is pan's labyrinth.
big band music
a lot of classical musical-one of my favorite works: Beethoven's 13th Violin Concerto Op. 130 movement 5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwzvMslu7e0

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i forgot cryptopsy. and now that im realising it there are alot of other bands and mucisians i forgot aswell, maybe theyll make it on the next list

Too many to name accurately, but here's a sample.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndiMnwz5XjA[/youtube]

Serj Tankian
Rammstein
Iron Maiden
Tenacious D

Mostly the first two.

I got into Forward Russia well before when most people I know got into them (when MTV2's "Subterrenean" program played "Nine") because I stumbled onto them in May of 2006 (before the release of "Give Me A Wall" in the US) because I subscribe to NME and I fell in love with "Nine" after I downloaded it. I found a few more songs by them and bought "GMAW" the first time I could find it (my local record store mistook it for a single and it was priced for 99 cents.) I purchased all three copies and gave the other two out as Christmas presents to two of my friends, both of whom love Britpop as much as I do. One of those friends has an internet radio show through his college and gave what I think is the American broadcast premiere of "Breaking Standing" last Sunday ("broadcast premiere" because as I said, no one else in America cares about them).

Really? the Long Blondes aren't that good live? I've been dying to see them live. That's kind of a disappointment.

The Automatic actually have a small following in the US - because "Monster" was semi-successful on Alternative radio stations in the Northeast. (technically they're called the Automatic Automatic in here for no good reason, but almost everyone - even radio DJs - call them The Automatic). I don't know how their sound will be affected by the departure of Pennie, but I can guess pretty heavily.

I can tell you this: despite what you've heard, Arctic Monkeys ARE popular in America. But just barely. "Dancefloor" hit the Billboard Modern Rock Top 10, (and like #114 on the actual Billboard Pop Singles charts. Really). At my local record store, "Favourite Worst Nightmare" sold out IN FIVE MINUTES the day it came out. And they had about thirty copies of it. FIVE MINUTES. If that's not successful, i don't know what is. I mean, Phish never had a successful single, but for most of the 90's, they were the top grossing live act in the country (which they deserved).

Yeah, the Long Blondes are renowned for being shockingly bad live - in any venue thats not pub sized. I was lucky enough to get to see them play lots of small venues early on (spitz, buffalo bar, a warehouse party in peckham, etc etc), they really come across then. The trouble is that because they're such non-musicians they have no idea how to make themselves sound good in a bigger venue, which is so important. Their sound is kind of tinny and only works when people are right in their faces. They can't fill a big hall.

oneinfourzero - I'm pretty sure I went to that tour, the electric ballroom gig? I gave it a really bad write up for a magazine called Artrocker.

I just don't bother myself with seeing them anymore - listen to the records instead. I *think* they ought to have something new out mid-april?

Docstrange, I have a question for you... do people in America tend to take the NME pretty seriously? Over here, sales of it are terrible - in fact there's even a rumour that the paper will soon disappear and the whole thing will end up online. It's seen as having really awful writing, not having any depth to it's coverage, and hyping up bands that no one in real life is remotely interest in.

I still have an addiction to it, but only because I like getting riled. The new bands section has a good editor at the moment and they sometimes turn up good stuff (though still mostly tat).

I mainly listen to pretentious, excessive pop music.

I like video game music.

my favourite type of music would be mostly synthpop, new wave and house.