What kind of music do you like? (The music thread)

The last Shadow Puppets - Age of the Understatement : http://www.theageoftheunderstatement.com/

As I could guess, it's a song in which Alex Turner finally becomes the most self-indulgent twat on earth. According to the NME, the other guy, Miles Kane, is the 'brilliant' frontman of The Rascals. Except he can't be that brilliant as his band toured with the Monkeys but are still not signed to anything.

The album COULD be better, however I'm not holding out hope. From reading NMEs' pages, though, it looks like this is going to get a VERY FAIR AND UNBIASED review (*cough*).

Favourite bands:

Aiden
Angels & Airwaves
Bullet For My Valentine
Coheed & Cambria
Evanscence
Fall Out Boy
Foo Fighters
Good Charlotte
Green Day
Hawthorne Heights
KillSwitch Engage
Lordi
Lost Prophets
Madina Lake
Marilyn Manson
Motorhead
Muse
New Found Glory
Nightwish (old)
Placebo
Queen
Rise Against
Secondhand Serenade
Trivium
You Me At Six

I can't see anything apart from the fact it's labelled as 'explicit,' which considering it has one usage of the 'f' word (born rebel, mr. blunt) is pretty apt I suppose.

Yeah MGMT are great, I got an import of their album last month on 12" and it's lovely. I was gonna see them last week (it's why I couldn't go to Gary Numan) but I forgot to go. I mean I literally just forgot to go.

Actually, I got a free download code for the album with the 12" if anyone wants it?

Lately I've gone back and started listening to A Perfect Circle's "Thirteenth Step". It's so fucking epic, I seriously get close to arousal :Smug: Same with Acid Bath (though I've not got a whole album just a mix CD of their stuff. they're so hard to find in record stores around here.)

A few days ago I was typing dirty words into music search engines and found this band called Goblin Cock. Decent stuff.

Thanks to advice from Holloway, CSC, last.fm and others beyond this forum I've expanded my collection.

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Good Shoes
Crystal Castles - NES goodness!
MGMT
The Cribs
Simian Mobile Disco
The Gossip
The Rakes

I have also acquired the missing Strokes album from my collection. As Tony the Tiger would say, "they're great!"

Hip-hop music and British rock.

What's wrong with listening to Debbie Harry? Parallel Lines is a great album!!! And Debbie Harry back in the day was quite the leading lady.

...oh.....I see what you mean!

Though having said that my dad used to have it on vinyl too, so if my dad had it then it must be good (though he also had Animals on vinyl too....but I think he picked it up very cheap and didn't really like it anyway).

I recently found leaks to the new R.E.M. (which I shall buy when I have any money to buy it with) and the new Fall which I haven't listened to yet.

They were in Newcastle a couple of weeks ago and I really wanted to go see, but everyone I asked just seemed to have this blank expression...you know that 'I'm sorry but I don't know who The Fall are, but tell me when Bloc Party are playing!' kind of expression =/.

Luckily what was a disastrous night was compensated for somewhat by seeing an excellent production of Franz Kafka's 'Metamorphosis' (adaptation obviously), with music composed by none other than those cheeky chaps Nick Cave and Warren Ellis! And a little Nick Cave song at the end too (original one). If only they'd release this music officially.

EDIT: Also I put on 'Born To Run' for the first time in aaaaaaaaages this morning; I'd forgotten how completely incredible it is. Puts all his other albums to shame.

I like many kinds of music but here lately I've been touching in with some techno, but I've always been a classic rock fan, and I will say this once so not to confuse anyone OLD Greenday (yes OLD not the new crappy stuff that try's to say its got a message behind it but really is just random babble that the masses believes).

I'm far too lazy to exert that much effort over music.
If I get bored, I'll look up something new.
But, usually, I'll just wait until my cousin introduces me to
something I like.
It's easier that way.

Joanna Newsom is good, though. Her voice is intoxicating.
That's the best way to describe it. I'll listen to her and be completely
absorbed into the song.

I listened to Dream Theater for the first time in yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrsssssssssssss the other day, nostalgia trip. Was talking to a fellow guitarist so I was like 'look it's John Petrucci he can play fast.' I used to be incredibly into Dream Theater, but my taste has changed since then. Still love Opeth though, less than a month now until I go see them (along with Arch Enemy (yay), Devildriver (?), 3 Inches of Blood (???!!!).

Savy: I can kind of understand what you mean, because of the 'effort' it may take to discover new renaissance playwrights or something (lame example but...yeah), but on the other hand I don't because of my particular joys is discovering new artists, new music and everything. I love the poetry of Philip Larkin, but if I read Larkin exclusively I think I'd be doing myself a disservice (if only because I'd probably turn into a grumpy old man). I'm like Ricky, finding new artists and often having a desire to continue seeking out music by them.

I know what you mean about being so drawn into a song like that. There are relatively few songs that do that for me, so it's always rather special when I come across one. A lot of the stuff on the first Leonard Cohen album I find is like that, that's the example that comes to my head first.

Groove if you don't like something doesn't mean that it exactly sucks it just means that you have different tastes than someone who likes it. I personally like almost all kinds of music excluding a few things here and there.

Bach
Chopin
Beethoven
Pachelbel
Tartini

Hoorah for classical music.

Well I have no opinion either way really. I've heard a bit, it doesn't particularly float my boat, but then again I'm going to the gig for Opeth and Arch Enemy. I love my Swedish death metal.

On a similar note I've been listening to some Beethoven today. I'm a bit fussy with classical music but I like my Beethoven.

Rage, Metallica and Killers <-- FUCK

Well, The Killers are actually quite good live- and tend to play most of their first album anyway. Leeds is rarely about Main Stage headliners, though, but more secondary bands and Radio 1 headliners. No Arcade Fire or Interpol this year though

I spent last year's Saturday on coke and poppers in a Silent Disco haze.

Justice, we shall meet up. Even if just for a quick "Hey".

I'm a little mystified by the headliners, but if it were Rage, Metallica and the Killers headlining Download to me that would make more sense. Then Lostprophets, The Offspring and Kiss could have done a gig more respectful of their ability, such as a one-off performance at Butlins in Skegness.

I won't be going though I'd like to go one of these days (or years). There are sometimes some smashing bands on the smaller stages. Didn't The Hold Steady headline one of them last year?

I'll be the one with the 2 litre Coke bottle filled with wine like last year.

Good times.

Duracell is so much better than that picture. Think Ian Curtis' nightmare of lights so that you think everything is going slow.

I totally missed getting glastonbury tickets this morning ._.

global gathering and wakestock it is, i think...

he should have kept it with him! you never know when you might need it...

i think shit is a bit of stretch to be honest, it's the best festival i've been to, but as with all festivals it does have its downsides, like leeds being full of cunts and gatecrasher being full of chavs. i think it was more bad luck on his part.

I recently got into Deerhunter's Cryptograms...It is GREAT.
Also got my hands on all of Deerhoof's records and they're all phenomenal.
My favorites have to be Apple O' and Runners Four.

How exactly is the band Justice? I haven't given them a listen yet...

Has anyone around here been to Bonnaroo? I went when Radiohead headlined in '06.

Glasto looks like it has a pretty good 'nightlife' if not the best lineup, Leeds has a slightly better lineup and a load of stuff to do at night. I wouldn't want to go to a festival where you just go back to your tents and sleep after the bands.

Gatecrasher is full of chavs/cunts (interchangeable) which is a shame because it's possibly the best lineup I've ever seen, next to Bestival maybe.

Yeah Deerhunter are amazing of what I've heard, which is only Cryptograms if to be honest. Don't know why I haven't got more. Are you a fan of Atlas Sound, Cox's side project? I probably prefer that to the Deerhunter stuff personally.

Leeds is good because, even when everything ends at 4ish, everyone starts making their own fun. Plus you get the riots, which are ace.

I actually ended up getting gatecrasher tickets!

so it'll be that, Shamania, and Gashfest this summer methinks.

I've just bought tickets to Dirty pretty Things and Futureheads at Leadmill in June, but missed out on Human League tickets

Mystery Jets have been doing a campus tour the past month or so and I caught the Sheffield one, which descended into people drunkenly dicking about on a grassy area till like 5am. Awesome.