What kind of music do you like?

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Do you have a favorite band or singer? Is it too hard to choose just one? What are some of your favorites, and why do you like them?

-- ann monroe (monroe@chorus.net), February 18, 2000

Answers

oh god, i don't know... i think i'll stick primarily with techno and swing for now. techno developed as a result of the friends i've made in the last year and the things they have opened my eyes too. favorite djs/producers would be sasha, moby, dj shadow, breakbeat era, aphex twin. i tend to gravitate more towards things that i consider beautiful. and in this essence i'm still a classicist of sorts, i like operatic style music, stuff with movement and structure. so i tend to like epic trance, progressive house, lots of jungle, rather than the bouncy big beat, or happy hardcore which i still find as noise... as for swing, i could have easily been born in the 20s and made it just as well. i love cab calloway, for his sense of humor; benny, because he just rocks and has no guitar in his swing... miles davis, count basie... the list goes on and on =)

-- Diego (drafael@hotmail.com), February 19, 2000.

Check out Kronos Quartet..... They are a string quartet that likes to play contemporary music. They do some very experimental things for a classical arrangement. Pieces of Africa is a CD they put out with composers and musicians from all over Africa. One track on Winter Was Hard combines the quartet with a Japanese vocalist and some one playing turntables. On Howl USA they play background music to Allen Ginsberg reciting Howl. They do some more conventional things also like Shostakovich, Glass, and Gorecki. If you ever get the chance to see them live you will be glad you did.....

-- Dean Cullen (deancullen1@msn.com), February 19, 2000.

I have very diverse, eclectic tastes in music - from classical to alternative to punk to folk to rock . . . The main requirement is that it have something I see as quality in it. This quality can many things such musical skill or style, intriguing lyrics (or ones that touch me or to which I relate at the moment), a performer's invididual characteristics, the musical complexity, or the feeling it creates.

Music is intergral to my life and influences my mood, helps me deal with stress and express my emotions. Right now I am temporarly more focussed on songs rather than instrumentals. I am particularly into lyrics that speak to me, even if it is just a line or two out of context of the rest of the song. (Sometimes another's words in a song are a more effective way to get past barriers or communication difficulties with others and be more expressive than I am able to do myself.)

P.S. Kronos quartet is great! Glad others have noticed them.

-- Annie C. Hawan (anechawan@excite.com), February 19, 2000.


Being the sublord of punk rock euphoria, I tend to wear my musical influences on my sleeve. Literally. However, unlike Rage Against the Machine, I can't be angry ALL the time (how do those boys do that? Something in the food at Havard must make them crazy...).

When I'm not enjoying the punkrock in it's many and glorious forms, I also chill to the Kronos Quartet (Kashmir, anyone?), but my favorite classical piece is the New World Symphony by Dvorak (minus all appropriate accents-damn western-centric keyboard!)

As for favorites...Should I go all hardcore punk and say Dead Kennedys, or go intellectual and say the Fall? Should I be a walking party and say The Ramones or should I be shy and sensitive and say Joy Division? Well, I'm at work right now so I'll say...Hmmmm...Men At Work. I'm not just being a smartass, either. Name another debut album that was as great as theirs, I dare you. OK, now that I've revealed the closet new waver that's inside, I'm done rambling. Thanks!

-- Ed (Edward_Charbonnier@sunlife.com), February 22, 2000.


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