Are you open about the music you REALLY like.Don't be ashamed.I'm not.I like allsorts but I'm NOT going to say I like bands I've never heard no matter how cool or obscure they are.
For instance I like to listen to MICHAEL JACKSON,OASIS,THIS MORTAL COIL,SONIC YOUTH,FIVE STAR,KATE BUSH,TORI AMOS just to name but a few.There are so many people out there who are SO meretricious about their music tastes.
Men driving around with the windows down blasting out music which they think the listeners perceive as being with-it when all the time they have a copy of debbie gibson's "electric youth" in the glove compartment.
Do you publically play ALL the music you like.
Do you have some embarassing music in your collection.
please share

LOL This rings a few bells for me. My music collection is somewhat, erm, eclectic shall we say. My main loves are Elvis Costello, Ani DiFranco, Billy Bragg, Ben Folds and Tori Amos, though I also love Billy Joel, Bon Jovi, The Beautiful South, Counting Crows and all sorts of others.

I have enough fantastically corny songs in my collection to fill at least four or five volumes of 'Guilty Pleasures' compilations too. Could I give a stuff what anyone else thinks? Of course not, as the CDs in the car - and the links on the music thread in the Jokes section - will attest.

I do think there's a lot of following fashion in music, though ultimately I don't think anyone will listen to anything they genuinely dislike simply because they happen to be on the cover of NME this week.

Hype Machine is excellent for finding new stuff, by the way. I've recently found some fantastic music by Ben Kweller and Benjamin Costello (no relation) through that site.

I like what I like. I love some very unfashionable bands. In fact, if it's fashionable, I'm less likely to give it the time of day.

What Nekro said.

I'm predominately into metal, mostly hardcore but I have everything from Jamiroquai to the Beach Boys sitting in my collection.

...In fact, if it's fashionable, I'm less likely to give it the time of day.
Isn't that just as bad as dismissing something because it's unfashionable? :huh:

Isn't that just as bad as dismissing something because it's unfashionable? :huh:

In a way, it is. I can see where you're coming from.

I'm not saying that I don't like any fashionable bands, I'm just saying that I prefer to find my own stuff, rather than take what's put on a plate for me. Not just in music either. I'm not someone who will go looking for the most underground band whether they're good or not.

For example, I like a lot of punk music, but rather than listen to the Offspring, I'll listen to Ignite, because I think they have more musical credibility, more passion, better singing and better playing.

Hard to explain really. It's like when people say "What music do you like?" I say "Listen to a lot of punk at the moment."

They say, 9/10, "Oh do you like Green day?"

I just say, "Erm, yeah." Cos it's not worth the explanation.

I'm an oddball.

My fave music is metal/punk but I have some terrible secrets at the back of the wardrobe . . . The Carpenters . . . Garry Glitter . . .Shakin' Stevens . . sshhhh, don't tell anybody . . . .

I don't think people should be too precious about the music they listen to. If it floats your boat and makes you tap your feet then it's doing its job. I like 80's-90's Indie stuff but am not ashamed to bop around to Kylie or shout along to Eminem.

As styles go I find it very hard to appreciate jazz and also what passes for "R'n B" nowadays.

I like mainly metal, but i'll listen to absolutely anything that's original and different. As for 'non-hip' stuff, I love 70's progressive rock, which has never been fashionable. Jethro Tull, Yes, Van der Graaf Generator, Magma, Floyd. Bloody fantastic!!

I don't think people should be too precious about the music they listen to. If it floats your boat and makes you tap your feet then it's doing its job. I like 80's-90's Indie stuff but am not ashamed to bop around to Kylie or shout along to Eminem.

As styles go I find it very hard to appreciate jazz and also what passes for "R'n B" nowadays.

I think you're right, but for some reason, I do get very passionate about music. I surround myself with it at all times. I do listen to a wide range too. When i'm out, I find myself talking to people who are 40+ about music, cos the people my age don't seem to be able to point me in the direction of anything I like that's new to me.

As a result of this, I now listen to a lot of Killing Joke, Mau Maus, Spear of Destiny, Flesh for Lulu, Bowie, MC5, New Model Army, Young Gods, Yello and Sparks. I don't believe they are that fashionable.

I drive around singing along to my CDs from musical theatre at full whack on frequent occasion. Sometimes with windows open.
I think people get confused when you sing a really long note because it's unusual for pop musicians to hold a note so they must think I'm just sitting with my mouth open.
I don't care though.
I love music right through Rage Against The Machine, Bryan Adams, Harry Connick Jnr, Heather Nova, Editors, Pink, Avril Lavigne, Billie Holiday, Clannad and Evanescence.
I'll play it in the house or in the car just as much as I play the score for Rent or Wicked and sing-a-long-a-show-tune in my car :D

Mm I'm quite sure i once got dumped for not being as cool as was once thought in my music taste. I picked a guy up that i was seeing and I was playing Erasure in the car. He actually made a comment about it not being cool enough for me and things ended there soon after:hihi:

I play a lot of old stuff in the car as I can sing along to it. In there currently are: All about Eve, Blondie (always in there) The Bluetones, Everything but the girl and a Tone Loc one (lol) along with Klaxons, The Enemy, Garbage new collection absolute, We are scientists, Supergrass, The Coral and Arctics.

I like anything i've decided that has a definite melody and involves a guitar somewhere usually.

Favourite cracking pop songs are Love machine, Hit me baby one more time, Stop! by Spice Girls. Better the devil you know and hand on your heart and can't get you out of my head Kylie. Erm I even quite like Step's version of Tragedy. But I'd be unlikely to put any of these on in the pub tbh. :hihi:

Five star used to fascinate me and i wagged school to queue up for tickets for them! :hihi:But i think it was more about the make up and the dancing than anything. Still have me albums but apart from popping them on me music quiz the other day i've not listened to them in probably the last fifteen years. However hear 'Rain or shine' and i'm instantly 15 again and back at Silver Blades. :D

I've never been ashamed of any of the choices I make when it comes to music. Some of my mates mocked me when I told them I had picked up some Quo stuff, yet strangely they seem to tap along whenever I play it. Same came when I mentioned the cheese-rock stuff I'd picked up (like Helloween's Keeper of the Seven Keys).

I will listen to, and admit to liking, many things which comne as a shock to people. Yes, I will usually be found listening to Muse, Rammstein, Pink Floyd etc, but also listen to some serious old school rap and hip hop, as well as a variety of pop artists. The looks I got when I told work-mates I was in the front row at Kylie gig a few years back. Sod them - I enjoyed it!

I am not in the least ashamed of music I like, as may be seen on the "Fantasy Festival" thread where I included B*witched and Val Doonican as well as the Jesus and Mary Chain and the Go-Betweens.

I certainly don't like everything (can't stand Jamiroquai or a lot of these po-faced self-righteous "indie" millionaires who take 3 minutes to play a 3 chord introduction before whining for another six), but I regularly play Johnny Cash, the Ramones, the Handsome Family, the Beatles, T Rex, Elvis, Frank Sinatra, Evanescence, the Jesus and Mary Chain etc - all of which have some sort of cred, but also have all of B*witched, Atomic Kitten's and the Sugababes albums and think Mmmmm Bop is a fabulous record. Perhaps my most peculiar like is the Fast Food Rockers single (although I didn't buy it, I did happily watch it on MTV etc), especially as I am a vegetarian. Oh and I also love quite a few mash-ups and some modern dancey stuff like "Fly on the Wings of Love", "Discoland" and Cascada.

I have an extremely wide selection of cd's, and I really dont care what people think of me singing along to whatever I feel like playing. I do often buy the Now compilation discs as I find I might like one song from an artist, but not want to buy their album.

I like mainly metal, but i'll listen to absolutely anything that's original and different. As for 'non-hip' stuff, I love 70's progressive rock, which has never been fashionable. Jethro Tull, Yes, Van der Graaf Generator, Magma, Floyd. Bloody fantastic!!

'70's prog rock was very fashionable - in the '70's. Somehow the view nowadays is that the '70's were all about glam rock (or later on, punk).

Rock / Prog Rock dominated the album charts for the best part of the decade and drew massive crowds eg the gigs at Knebworth.

http://www.knebworthhouse.com/rock/the70s.htm

I like rock/metal but also love most 60's and 70's music anything from The Beatles to a lot of the 70's Disco stuff. I guess this is because I grew up listening to it and still like it today.

My other half can not understand this as he only likes Rock/Metal and will not listen to anything else but I find this narrow minded!

Anything and everything. If it sounds right to me then it's in my collection - My tastes are pretty heavy but I like allsorts:

NIN
Tool
Coal Chamber
SOAD
QOTSA
Pink Floyd
Al Stewart
Radiohead
REM
Public Enemy
Elton John
Queen
Foo Fighters
Sepultura


I'm not bothered by the genre, just how good it is.

I like every kind of music, so do my mates so it doesn't really bother me what song comes on my ipod in the car next - You know when you mate has some Rage on, then the next song is Razorlight and it's skipped to the next song super fast!

As an 18 year old I listen to a very wide veriaty of music. I listen to music from Bon Dylan right up to Rise Against.

Few favourites - Jurassic 5, Rage aginst the machine, Bob Marley, Jack Jonston, Cut Chemist(Amazing, get an album or 2!!) Pendulum, Dj Fresh, Jimmy Henrix, The Doors, The Smiths, Happy Mondays................see!

Like what you like :)

I get some right stick from my mates for some of the stuff I listen to. I regularly use the central library for cd's as I may hear a song somewhere and I'll go there and if they have that album loan it for 50p and I'll put anything half decent on my ipod. I'll put anything I may listen to on my ipod with it having a the maximum memory at the time I bought it 30gb. When a group of us go out for a drink sometimes my girlfriend has one of them tape adaptors you cna plug into an mp3 player. It was plugged into the ipod and my mate was in the back seat going through my collection, when they came to Dolly Parton they were not impressed I've got some right stick for it. Even though it is only one song and in my opinion 9-5 is a good song, yes I know i'm 19 so I can see their point of view but whatever.

I'm mid 40's and still listen to a wide variety of music:

Multiple 50's & 60's collections
Beatles
Simon & Garfunkel
Sweet
Slade
ELO
Queen
Pink Floyd
Sex Pistols
Clash
Stranglers
Sham 69
Ian Dury and the Blockheads
Ramones
Blondie
Pogues
Beautiful South
Oasis
Eminem
Richard Hawley
Kaiser Chiefs
Fratellis
Arctic Monkeys

And some singles in my collection that I don't listen to anymore but potentially embarassing: :blush:

Long Haired Lover From Liverpool - Jimmy Osmond (I was only young)!
Bye Bye Baby - Bay City Rollers (Might have been my sisters) ;)
Most stuff by The Darts and BA Robertson
Nellie the Elephant - Toy Dolls (though it's still good for a laugh)!

I'm sure there's lots more but I can't be ars*d to go up in the loft and find them :D

Nellie the Elephant - Toy Dolls (though it's still good for a laugh)!


I love the Toy Dolls. I'm going to see them next Wednesday. They haven't played England for ages cos they started to attract a far right crowd for some reason.

Generally, I like hip hop, drum and bass, reggae and ska.

But sometimes, I love nothing more than rocking out to an EAGLES album. I have known all the words since I was eight. There. I said it :|

I'm mid 40's and still listen to a wide variety of music:

Multiple 50's & 60's collections
Beatles
Simon & Garfunkel
Sweet
Slade
ELO
Queen
Pink Floyd
Sex Pistols
Clash
Stranglers
Sham 69
Ian Dury and the Blockheads
Ramones
Blondie
Pogues
Beautiful South
Oasis
Eminem
Richard Hawley
Kaiser Chiefs
Fratellis
Arctic Monkeys


Some great choices in there - you've got good taste, Simonj :thumbsup:

StarSparkle

On a similar note,I know people who liked bands/artists who nobody really heard of....BUT THE MINUTE THEY BECOME FAMOUS/POPULAR & HIP THEY RUN A MILE.To me that shows that they are NOT into the music AT ALL.Just the "fashion" which surrounds the notion of being into something that ISN'T fashionable.

I'm into all sorts, whatever's good. Mostly rock. I'm open about anything I like, I wouldn't pretend to like something just 'cause some people thought it was "cool" just like I wouldn't pretend not to like something just 'cause some people thought it wasn't "cool". I just enjoy whatever sounds good to me.

these days i listen to all sorts from ragtime and classical right through everything to hardcore techno and thrash metal

Allsorts from Paul Weller to Justin Timberlake ...
I have a complete soft spot for our Kate Bush :love:

I too love kate bush.