What do you listen to?

Oh dear... OK lets see here Cher, MJ, The Culture Club. Basically anything 80's.
I'm a sucker for sugary bubble gum pop. I hate rap or anything with cussing, sex or anything that is derogatory towards one gender or group.
BSB rock! Dashboard Confessionals was a great band, but no one can beat Bon Jovi.

I'm also a huge fan of Bollywood tunes
Not a huge kollywood person but even thay have managed a few good tracks.
Lollywood sucks IMHO.

Oh and Tom Petty, Bob Dylan, Elton John, and some of the old school rockers.

 

I like a bit of everything tbh, but I always have to have my earphones in to write, if I ever find I'm listening to the music more than concentrating on the writing though I listen to the album 'A Fever You Can't Sweat Out' by Panic! At the Disco. I've listened to it that many times that it lets me switch off to the what's being shouted down my ear and listen to the voice inside my head.

 

Still the same as I wrote here: http://mythicscribes.com/forums/chit-chat/1002-what-music-do-you-like-favorite-song-3.html#post11066

 

Nothing to be sorry about. Just an opportunity for me to throw a link in your general direction.

 

I mostly listen to various types of folk music, trip-hop, singer-songwriter, and alternative rock. I used to say I hate hip hop/rap and country, but that can't be true because I like Shing02 and Garth Brooks.

Some of my favorites: Värttinä, Garmarna, Valravn, GÃ¥te, Tenhi, In Gowan Ring, Backworld, Flёur, Niyaz, Mylène Farmer, Emilie Simon, Under Byen, Portishead, Pati Yang, Komeda, Rasputina, Matson Jones, The White Birch, and Carina Round. Recently, I got into The Irrepressibles, Ô Paradis, and Lonely Drifter Karen.

My username on Last.fm is the same as it is here. Does anybody else have an account there?

 

Just about anything from the 60s onwards, provided the lyrics are good and it's not too mainstream. Punk, new wave, metal, alternative, etc... Celtic deathmetal/folk metal makes me very happy for some reason The only genres I can't stand are RnB and pop (although I make an exception for Lady Gage - shoot me.) I only listen to Apocalyptica or instrumental anime OSTs when I'm writing, stuff with lyrics is too distracting.

 

When I'm writing I stick to ambient, classical, instrumental electronic and dub-step, and (more specifically) the Gymnopedies by Erik Satie. Otherwise, I'm fairly open. Alternative singer-songwriters, indie-folk, modern rock, classic rock, punk, a bit of metal, 60's pop and rock, a touch of hip hop, a bit of jazz (but usually with a 'pop' element), and much more.

Current bands I'm into are Bon Iver (preparing to see them live next week), Sean Rowe, Neutral Milk Hotel, Jonsi, Mount Kimbie, and Dirty Projectors. I'll always be a fanboy for the Beatles, Elliott Smith, Love, Coheed and Cambria, the Clash, Pixies, and loads more.

As a musician, I couldn't even begin to represent my influences fully.

 

Oh man... yellow submarine was one of my fav songs.... It was my homework tune through JR High. Now that I am an old fart when people are doing homework around here we usualy have on something like matchbox 20 or the goo goo dolls. Unless it's my son he wants the classics like Mozart. Hubby likes the do whoop type BG music when he is working on an assignment.
I perfer the 80's, unless I am writing then I hit mix on my play list and get a bit of 80-2000's from around the world.

There was a point in time when I collected music in all types of languages some of my fav's are Italian ballads. UK pop, and India's bollywood.

 

K we all have one so I am wondering what is the one track that you have that you play that you would be embarassed to have your friends/relaitives etc find out about?

I will go first Hanson (Mmmm bop!) Yeah I do know how lame that is but I love it. That one and Barbie Girl... I have NO idea why. it just is.

 

Ahh, a man of taste. I like Talking Heads too, probably not as much as I should do.

 

Lately, the Inception soundtrack, and the Lord of the Rings and Pirates of the Caribbean soundtracks. Metallica, Green Day, Foo Fighters, Joe Satriani, Allman Brothers, Led Zeppelin, Dvorak (Symphony from the New World), the Firebird Suite, Smetana's Moldau are my standbys for writing.

 

Have you looked on the companies/showes website? I do think they offer selected songs. Or you can contact PBS and see if they would know.

 

You can use Last.fm radio, but I mainly use it for scrobbling. It logs the tracks you listen to and makes charts based on that. After that, it recommends new bands, lets you know when artists in your library have new releases, and recommends concerts in your area based on what you listen to. I can track music I listen to locally and on Spotify, which is pretty nifty.