What other genres do you listen to?

ApolloFC

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I'm just curious. I feel like I need to take a break from metal for a few days (the festival seems to be overwhelming) and I'm just interested in what other people listen to. I guess a better question would be what non-metal bands have you been listening to lately?

Lately I've been getting back into trip hop and a dash of rap. My primary alternative remains to be jazz.




Edit: feel free to move to the lounge, I wasn't thinking when I made this post
 
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Hippie bands...Black Crowes, Allman Brothers, Govt. Mule. I recently took a 2 year break from progressive metal, from the end of ProgPower 2010 until a few months before 2012's show. Got a whole new perspective and it felt great hearing some of the more recent releases...it made everything exciting again
 
A whole bunch of stuff....

Neofolk - Death in June, Current 93, NON/Boyd Rice, Wardruna
Goth/Deathrock - Christian Death, Sisters of Mercy. There's actually a revival of this style right now with lots of good bands....Night Sins, Weep, Blessure Grave, Anasazi, and so on.
Punk - AFI, Misfits, Rudimentary Peni
Indie - mewithoutYou, Manchester Orchestra, Copeland
Country & AltCountry - 16 Horsepower, Wovenhand, Hank Williams
Hip-Hop/Rap - Eminem, Nas, AZ, 2Pac
New Wave/Post-Punk/whatever - The Cure, The Smiths, Swans, Joy Division, etc
Synthpop - Ministry 'With Sympathy' album, Contrepoison, Natural Assembly

Good bit more but that's a start.
 
A massive Oprah-sized ass load of 70's Prog-Rock, mild Rap (but it's still Scissors to me), and a reasonable amount of Classical and orchestral music. Oh and Primus. They're a genre, right?
 
I guess you could say I listen to a lot of "non metal" because I listen to other stuff much more than metal.

prog rock (Rush, Yes, VDGG, etc), post rock (God Is an Astronaut, Red Sparowes, etc) punk rock (Everything from AFI, Misfits, The Descendants, to City Lights, early Blink 182, Offspring, The Story So Far, etc), hardcore (everything from Terror and Stuck Mojo to Ignite and Stick To Your Guns, to From Ashes Rise, Refused, Comeback Kid to The Acacia Strain, A Day To Remember, The Ghost Inside, to Spazz, Despise You, Magrudergrind, to Jawbreaker and Rites Of Spring etc), hip hop (Aesop Rock, Wu Tang Clan, Death Grips, POS, etc), new wave (Depeche Mode, The Smiths, Joy Division, etc), shoegaze (My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Hum, etc), classic rock (Boston, The Moody Blues, Pink Floyd), folk rock and neofolk (Comus, Fleet Foxes, Rome, Death In June Seelenlicht), top 40 pop (Lady Gaga, Ke$ha, Rihanna, Michael Jackson etc) singer/songwriter (Regina Spektor, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, Frank Zappa, etc), industrial (Nine Inch Nails Kraftwerk, Light Asylum, etc), drone (Earth, Sunn O))), etc), indie rock (Frankie Rose, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Vampire Weekend, The Drums, A Place to Bury Strangers), assorted electronic (Tiesto, Kavinsky, LMFAO, Justice, Pendulum, Chromeo, Zedd, etc) dubstep (Skrillex, Borgore, Nero, Dubba Johnny, Reso, etc), some jazz/fusion (Allan Holdsworth), and assorted "modern rock" (Dredg, Oceansize, Foo Fighters, Deftones, Alice In Chains, Mew, Coheed and Cambria, Muse, Minus The Bear, etc)
 
Outside of metal, opera is my other true musical love. It doesn't get much better than a big, dark, and dramatic soprano voice.

 
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I listen to a lot of jazz-rock fusion when I'm not in headbanging mode, stuff like this:



 
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Interestingly, I don't like Prog Rock or any other flavor of Rock. For me, if you're going to "rock", than it should be heavy. Whenever I listen to Rock, it feels like I'm in a sports car that's stuck in 2nd gear. I just want it to be heavier and more aggressive, and always end up feeling left wanting something that never comes. So I tend to go 180 degrees in the opposite direction with genres such as Downtempo, Blues, and Jazz.
 
I listen to a lot of different stuff all the time, mostly guitar related stuff.

Jazz/Rock fusion - Morglbl and The Aristocrats

Blues & Blues Rock - Stevie Ray Vaughan, Rory Gallagher, Buddy Guy, Muddy Waters, etc.

Rebel/Southern rock - Molly Hatchet, Blackfoot, The Outlaws, Allman Brothers, Doc Holiday, Skynyrd, etc.

Odball type bands that define genres like Diablo Swing Orchestra & Panzerballett

Oh, and HEAVY doses of Frank Zappa, from the early days of the Mothers of Invention, all the way up to the synclaviar/orchestral stuff he did before he passed away.

It's always good to keep the sonic palate clean, something I've been doing since the late 70's.... Music never gets "boring" that way......:kickass::headbang:
 
Outside of metal I listen to showtunes. A LOT of showtunes. At one time my collection of showtunes albums outnumbered my metal collection. I used to want to be an actress in musical theater, but I'm a terrible dancer and my singing is pretty enough, but not Broadway quality. This does not diminish my love for musical theater, however. :)

Some favorites:
Jesus Christ Superstar
http://youtu.be/O2cCuadivpE

Starlight Express German Promo (apparently this show is ridiculously popular there!) the show was originally written in English, but obviously they're singing in German. :)
http://youtu.be/i1WRYoM6vRM

South Pacific
http://youtu.be/tpj832F2VQk

Spamalot
http://youtu.be/3yRlnSgu-bY

Not Dead Yet!
http://youtu.be/HLgQMtquS6Y

And Met-Al got me tickets for Christmas to see this:
http://youtu.be/PHEqCXY2B-w
 
Outside of metal I listen to showtunes. A LOT of showtunes. At one time my collection of showtunes albums outnumbered my metal collection. I used to want to be an actress in musical theater, but I'm a terrible dancer and my singing is pretty enough, but not Broadway quality. This does not diminish my love for musical theater, however. :)

Some favorites:
Jesus Christ Superstar
http://youtu.be/O2cCuadivpE

Starlight Express German Promo (apparently this show is ridiculously popular there!) the show was originally written in English, but obviously they're singing in German. :)
http://youtu.be/i1WRYoM6vRM

South Pacific
http://youtu.be/tpj832F2VQk

Spamalot
http://youtu.be/3yRlnSgu-bY

Not Dead Yet!
http://youtu.be/HLgQMtquS6Y

And Met-Al got me tickets for Christmas to see this:
http://youtu.be/PHEqCXY2B-w


Guys and Dolls??? I was in the pit orchestra for that one in highschool. Never got to really see it tho despite basically memorizing the lines. Watched the film version of it a few years later in college. Fun times ^_^

And my brother or dad got my mom the soundtrack to the book of mormon lol. I was surprised at that
 
While I do mostly listen to metal (which includes all subgenres excluding metalcore), there are some other genres I like.

Prog rock - Pretty much anything with that 70s prog sound like Yes, King Crimson, Rush, etc.

Classic Rock - Big fan of classic rock, which is essentially how I got into metal. AC/DC, Pink Floyd and Hendrix would be my faves.

Modern rock - I don't listen to much modern rock, but I do dig Black Country Communion.

Singer/songwriter - Beck, Fiona Apple, Tori Amos

Grunge - Pearl Jam, Nirvana

Classical - Yo Yo Ma, various movie soundtracks.
 
Besides metal, I do like classic rock, prog rock, classical, and folk music, but I don't listen to that very often. Maybe I'm weird, but I don't tire of listening to metal. To me, I listen to a wide variety of different styles that I never get tired or bored of it. But I will put on some Rush, Journey, or Dreamtide now and again.

*edit* Realize I missed a couple of important words in my comment. It should have said "I listen to a wide variety of different styles of metal..."
 
To me, I listen to a wide variety of different styles that I never get tired or bored of it. But I will put on some Rush, Journey, or Dreamtide now and again.

I'm the same way. I think part of it is I don't really have a "go to" style, so I have enough variation.