Share Your Musical Interests!

alyssam

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Since it doesn't appear anyone has started a thread about music, I will!

What is your favorite genre?

What is your favorite band? (current & all time)

How have your musical interests changed over the years? (as a child, growing up, compared to now)

Have you been to any concerts? How many? Which was your favorite?

Name a song you can't seem to get out of your head... ever.

Thanks for participating!! (Feel free to add photos!)

"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." - Plato

 

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My favorite genres (since I can't confidently choose one) are, Metal and Rock. 

My current favorite band is Butcher Babies. They released their debut full length album "Goliath" last summer and I was hooked.
My all time favorite band would have to be Paramore. I have listened to them since they were an underground, unknown band of teenagers trying to make it in the world. Though I do prefer their first couple albums to their most recent, I still fully support them!

My musical interests have been all over the place. As a child I remember listening to Fleetwood Mac with my mother, singing and dancing in the living room together. In the car it seemed we always listened to the typical radio station or the "oldies" station, which included everything from 60's 70's and 80's.  As I got older, (I was a 90's kid) queue Backstreet Boys, Nsync, Britney Spears and of course, The Spice Girls. I grew out of this style of music pretty quickly and got more interested in Rock. I discovered Blink 182, and Green Day. Then Evanescence released their first full length album and I absolutely LOVED it. Along with Paramore and Avril Lavigne, I listened to the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Three Days Grace. I think this is where my love for Rock over took all and began leading me into the realm of Metal music. I started with so called "emo" bands like Hawethorn Heights, The Used and Smile Empty Soul. Then began listening to System of a Down, Seether, Disturbed & Avenged Sevenfold which eventually lead me to where I am today. I primarily listen to Metal some bands including Born of Osiris, Periphery, Butcher Babies, Attila, Scar Symmetry, Volumes and The Black Dahlia Murder.

Concerts, like my musical interests have been all over. My VERY first concert was The Barenaked Ladies, my parents took my friend and I. Following that I saw Hillary Duff (lol), Three Days Grace & Seether, Sheryl Crowe, Neil Young, Three Days Grace & The Used. These were all back home in my small home town in Ontario, Canada. Our options were limited not many bands passed through. However once I moved to Georgia I FINALLY got to see Paramore live in 2011, then last fall I saw Born of Osiris & Periphery. My favorite has to be when I saw Paramore, it  was like a dream come true. 

A song I can't get out of my head? ...Let It Go from the movie Frozen. I swear my nieces watch it 100 times a day! I find myself on my daily walk humming the tune and singing it in my head. 

Born of Osiris 2013

Periphery 2013
 
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I don't really have a favourite genre.. I'll listen to just about anything, from country to rap to international to classical and I can probably find a song from each genre that I like.

I think my favourite band is torn between Journey (with Steve Perry, I don't like the other main singers they've tried) or Bruce Springsteen and his E Street Band.

I've always been a softy for ballads - doesn't even matter the genre. That's been a constant, but I grew up listening to a lot of ballads and 80s-90s classic rock with my aunt. I went through phases of pop, country, rap, rock, and even a brief stint with techno, and then metal but those all passed. I've always been pretty eclectic.

I've been to a Jay Chou concert, as well as the Hillside Festival three times. Different line up each time. I'm not big on the concert or music festival scene so they were just "eh". Now that I'm no longer obsessed with Jay Chou, I'm very hard pressed to say it was the best or super awesome or anything. The Hillside Festival has folk, pop, rock, aboriginal, and just a big mish mash of different types of music. Some I liked, some weren't my thing so I'm torn.

I have different songs in my head all the time. Lately, it's been Goodbye by Dear Jane (cantopop/rock) or One Headlight by The Wallflowers.
 

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i'd say my favorite genre is big band/swing. it's happy music that i can (understand the words to and) sing with. i was born in the early 60's, so big band is not the music of my generation. i also enjoy some country -- like patsy cline, johnny cash, and hank williams. i'm a big fan of fats waller too. i also listen to lena horne, glenn miller, bobby darin, bing crosby, dave brubeck, tommy dorsey, and many other artists.

currently, i'm listening to patsy cline a lot, so she's my current favorite though that changes quite often. my all-time favorite would probably be both glenn miller and cole porter.

as a child i listened to popular music on the radio. as i grew up i listened to a lot of rock. but as i'd gotten to my late 40's, i started to enjoy jazz, big band/swing, and a variety of older artists in different genres.

i've only been to a few concerts, and don't generally enjoy that scene. i saw the doobie brothers when i was in my teens, the grateful dead once, and a jazz festival where i saw dizzy gillespie among others. my favorite was the jazz festival.

a song i can't get out of my head ever would be cole porter's night and day, which is "our" song (mickey and snick's, my cats, and my song).
 
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