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Soul Dreamer 
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 Posted: January 15 2011 at 22:09 |
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Rock in general (Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, Dire Straits, Rolling Stones, Golden Earring etc), and (heavy) Metal.
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To be the one who seeks so I may find .. (Metallica)
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akajazzman
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Posted: January 15 2011 at 23:44 |
 CCVP wrote:
akajazzman wrote:
CCVP I love an answer like that. Metal and Jazz! Diversity really is the spice of life. And I really believe the ability to accept other forms of music as valid helps keep your mind open. Thats why I've always had a bit of a problem with Wynton Marsellis (sp?) because he thinks Jazz is simply "better" than Rock. No argument. |
Quite true. I've always liked many distinc genres of music. My oldest love is blues, because my father simply loves it, and then classical music, because I studied it through most of my life (and I like really most kind of classical around, from medieval music (mostly Gregorian Chant, though) up to Romantic), and it helps a lot having a family member in the state orchestra, so I get free tickets to all of their presentations and concerts ( ). My main love is, however, progressive rock, with heavy metal (which I started listening in my teens) and jazz (which I started listening fairly recently) right behind it.
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For me Jazz and Metal both had something somewhat similar. And that was discord! Obviously the sound/notes are very different. But as a youngster I loved the power and discord of metal. And I wasn't ready for jazz. But over time, I found much power in jazz, in a totally different way than metal, but the complexity and speed of the notes would also blow my hair back.... just like metal. The thing they have in common is passion, speed and often discord.
Sun Ra and Trane never used electric instruments (OK Sun Ra did a bit) but sure could blow the roof off the house when they put their mind to it.
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akajazzman
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Posted: January 15 2011 at 23:46 |
KyleSchmidlin wrote:
Mountain is one of my favorite bands. So is Ween.
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Moutain in one sentence and Ween in the next. Nice!
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akajazzman
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Posted: January 15 2011 at 23:48 |
presdoug wrote:
Besides prog, my favourite is classical music, and then hard rock and heavy metal |
So you've got Bach crankin in the car one minute and AC/DC the next. That works!!! 
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wilmon91
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Posted: January 15 2011 at 23:54 |
It's not possible to name a favourite genre for me....
I thought I found a common thing though, which would fit into any music style. Something like:
"Dark romantic music with or without swing"
Doesn't have to be dark, but I often like dark stuff. It's the inspiration and creativity that counts the most.
Some genres: pop, post-punk, shoegazer, electronica, world, folk, (dark) ambient, classical, neofolk, rock, chill-out, dreampop, new wave, post-rock....
Concerning prog, I don't like to see it primarily as a genre. Well, it is a genre because of all the bands that clearly has a lot of the classic trademarks of prog, and are easily distinguished because of that. But in a wider sense, I see it as a genuine creative ambition. So progressiveness starts in the mind, before any music has been created.
I didn't learn about the word "progressive" until the year 1995, when I surfed the net for the first time. I realized that the band Saga which I was a huge fan of (and still is) was being categorized as "progressive". One of my favourite albums which I loved as a kid of 5-6 years was Peter Baumann's Transharmonic Nights. That's also filed under progressive. I've always had a natural inclinations towards music with more or less progressive elements. It's the sort of music which isn't confined within a lot of limiting rules.
But it isn't fair to call only the technical details that transcend strict genre-music prog. Progressive is also the simple stuff - simple chord structures, simplicity in tempo, basic time-signatures, and so on. It's just there are no boundaries, nothing is forbidden. And that's what I mean by a genuine creative ambition. What I'm getting at, ultimately, is that all good music must be progressive to some extent, in the sense that it is free and independent.
Edited by wilmon91 - January 16 2011 at 00:03
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ozzy_tom
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Posted: January 16 2011 at 00:02 |
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70s hard rock and melodic heavy metal from 80s
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ExittheLemming
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Posted: January 16 2011 at 00:04 |
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Classical (mostly 19th and 20th Century composers)
Jazz (not free-form - pronounced dedh BTW)
Folk (Eastern European and North African)
Rock (so called Post-Punk and alternative)
Pop (the folk music of the future after the oral tradition has died out)
Edited by ExittheLemming - January 16 2011 at 00:31
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akajazzman
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Posted: January 16 2011 at 00:10 |
wilmon91 wrote:
"Dark romantic music with or without swing" |
So for me I think Cure, Joy Division, Mazzy Star, Interpol, Sisters of Mercy, Anathema, Low, Smiths....
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The Quiet One
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Posted: January 16 2011 at 00:25 |
Jazz Fusion
Jazz (still exploring the genre, but I'm very hooked on the 60's era)
Hard Rock (60's/70s)
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Catcher10
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Posted: January 16 2011 at 01:10 |
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Funk, R&B, Blues, Jazz and Heavy Metal
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Junges
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Posted: January 16 2011 at 02:07 |
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Almost all the things I hear are prog, but the minority is Classic Rock, Jazz, Classical, Heavy Metal.
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darkshade
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Posted: January 16 2011 at 02:16 |
Jazz (all styles/sub-genres), Jazz-Fusion, Funk, Blues, Classical, Heavy Metal/Thrash Metal, Electronic, Nu-Jazz, Hip-Hop, Jam Bands, World Music, Silence, Avant-Garde  , Classic Rock, and Soul/R&B.
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akaBona
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Posted: January 16 2011 at 02:33 |
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JazzFunkFusion - Classical, mainly singers - some Folk - some West Coast - some Hard Rock - some Blues
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NecronCommander
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Posted: January 16 2011 at 02:47 |
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Non-prog metal (sludge or thrash mostly), Grunge or older alternative rock, some non-fusion jazz (mostly bebop or swing), funk, classical guitar, trip-hop, electro-ambient, and soundtrack music.
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WalterDigsTunes
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Posted: January 16 2011 at 02:48 |
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Post-punk: The last forward-looking moment in music history.
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Losendos
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Posted: January 16 2011 at 02:59 |
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Fuunilly the bands I liked most after prog were the " west coast " bands like the eagles ,Crosby , Stills Nash and Young and America .
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How wonderful to be so profound
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TerLJack
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Posted: January 16 2011 at 05:23 |
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Beatles influence bands like Jellyfish, Del Amitri, Rembrandts, The Greys, Bleu, etc,
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Manuel
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Posted: January 16 2011 at 05:59 |
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I guess it would be Jazz, blues, classical, folk, world and some new age instrumental music. I like experimental stuff, progressive in its nature, and challenging to the rules. Any well written music will do for me.
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sayon
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Posted: January 16 2011 at 06:09 |
Hm, depeche mode for example, but at it's spike they were a mix of many different genres. Last 13 years they experienced an extreme fall of quality. Check that f.e. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09A5vR0gvZ0 When Alan Wilder left DM he dedicated himself to recoil, somehow very interesting project imo, mixing so many styles in his albums. One is high electonic, one trip-hoppy, next consists almost entirely of 'spoken word' pieces and the last one incorporates a mix of electronic and delta blues. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8GALS2Tfk8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMx3cVWPs_A Well, highly recommended. Despite it s not a 'what could i listen to' theme :)
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BlindGuard
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Posted: January 16 2011 at 06:17 |
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Rock(Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Bruce etc'),80' Heavy Metal(Dio, Whitesnake and the sorts) and some Blues
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