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Originally posted by LinnTate:

My first introduction to Madness was the "Our House" video that was a staple of the early years of MTV's. As much as I liked their stateside releases, I never gave them as much time as I did The Specials or The English Beat. No time like the present to rectify that error.

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That's a train you should TOTALLY board, LT. Madness are one of the great singles bands of the 80's. Any single disc Madness collection is a good place to start, but "The Business", which is the singles box set (all the A's and B's) and "The Lot", which is the albums in a box, are the best overall investment. I almost never recommend box sets as starters guides, but these are essential ska-revival/new wave documents.

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Originally posted by LinnTate:
Oh, and Machols is okay, just a bit much to parse.

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Machols is more than OK...he's essential! I get more riled up and spend more time replying to Machols than almost anyone else. Having Machols on the board helps keep my brain focused.

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Originally posted by LinnTate:
Now Playing: Astros v. Cubs, tied at four after eight-and-a-half on WGN radio

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GO CARDS!!!!!

Thanks, PE. I'll check out The Business to start.

Go Cards, indeed. Sosa just belted one onto Waveland in the bottom of the tenth to put the Cubs ahead of the Astros. We really needed and Astros victory after being swept by the Pirates (The Pirates!!), but now we're off to face the Mariners while the Cubs get to host the very, very hot White Sox.

Sweet.

Now Playing: "Maiden Voyage" V.S.O.P The Quintet Happy Birthday Newport: 50 Swinging Years! (Sony)

lo-fi/indie pop i.e. stars, Ivy etc.
trip-hop when it was good.. i.e. Massive Attack's first three albums. EBTG
new wave / synth pop
indie rock/pop i.e. new pornographers, a.c. newman etc.

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Originally posted by hennepin:
...Like innovative guitarwork -Charlie Hunter, Keller Williams...

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I don't know if you go in for a blues oriented tasty guitarist, hennepin, but Pop Matters reviews the second album from Johnny A., Get Inside, today.

I was not previously familir with him, but I like a musician who lets the guitar do the talking now and again. They seem to be a rarity outside of jazz.

So far, I'm liking what I'm hearing.

Now Playing: "Wichita Lineman" Johnny A. Sometime Tuesday Morning (Favored Nations) <-- His first album, actually. I tend to be a bit of a completist, but so too aren't we all?

Older prog-rock (pre-1976)
Dixieland, big-band, be-bop, and early fusion jazz
ambient techno
bits and pieces of "classic rock" ( a meaningless genre, to be sure)
a great deal of chamber and symphonic music
bluegrass
acoustic blues

I tend to be okay with anything that's well-played and stylistically distinct. The only genres I avoid are pop-country and rap.

I like

-Punk
-Some pop/punk
-Heavy Metal
-Thrash
-Grunge
-Classic Metal (Iron Maiden, AC/DC, etc.)
- "Stoner Rock" (Queens of the Stone Age)

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Originally posted by Buck "Sweetie" McGuck:
I hate to say I like a particular genre, because in any genre there is so much that is terrible.

When I'm talking to someone about what music they like, I no longer ask for what type of music they like because everyone always says "everything". Now I ask for individual bands/albums that they like.

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Have you ever noticed that people who say "I love everything" are usually idiots? They condiser themselves to be open-minded because they listen to Madonna, the Eagles and 50 Cent. It's painfully ironic that they are so musically ignorant yet they think of themselves as modern day Harry Smiths. I defy you to find one person who listens to all types of music. They'd have to love Muzak, Zydeco, Opera, Japanese Noise Rock, Medeival Folk Ballads, Racist Skinhead Punk, Klezmer, 1930s Jug Bands and Flamenco!!!

Personally, I hate most music. I'm reminded on Nick Hornsby's criteria for evaluating people; "It's not what you're like, it's what you like."

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Originally posted by Lola:
I defy you to find one person who listens to all types of music. They'd have to love Muzak, Zydeco, Opera, Japanese Noise Rock, Medeival Folk Ballads, Racist Skinhead Punk, Klezmer, 1930s Jug Bands and Flamenco!!!

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Your list pleases me to no end, Lola, as I have music I love in my collection that includes Zydeco, Opera, Japanese Noise Rock, Medieval Folks Ballads, Klezmer, 1930s Jug Bands and Flamenco.

You've got me on Racist Skinhead Punk, though I did listen to some one dull night when I was web surfing just to see if it was as bad as I thought.

I did not, though, realize when I bought it at a record sale years ago that THIS, would play a role in establishing my musical creds.

That may make it one of the best bucks I ever spent!

Now Playing: "Mirror In The Bathroom" The English Beat I Just Can't Stop It

Personally, I think it's a lot easier to say which genres I absolutely detest, since I find that people tend to "not like" something with more intensity than "like."

Thus, here are the genres I generally do not like:
Mainstream pop
Mainstream rap/R&B (post-2000)
Post-Green Day Punk (including Green Day)
Emo
Folk
Country

There are exceptions, of course, but these are usually artists who blur boundries between genres, like Johnny Cash.

And, if your really must know which genres I adore, then here's another list:

Industrial Rock
Electronica
Post-Punk/New Wave
Nu-metal (don't tell the music snobs about this one, okay?)

For everything else, either I only sorta like it, or I haven't heard enough to form an opinion.

Post-Punk
Indie
Post-Rock/Experimental
Prog/Art Rock (not neo-prog though, some of that is pretty questionable, eg Marillion)
College Rock
Alt. Rock
Psychedelic
80's Goth (not industrial)

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Psychedelic

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About a month ago, on a whim and having absolutely no prior exposure to the psych genre, I picked up the "New Geocentric World of Acid Mothers Temple" CD.

Yikes!

Psycho Buddha, indeed!


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I'll give this topic a kick.

Updating my list:

Classic rock
Power pop, Green Day-ish punk/rock & pop/rock
Modern rock/alternative
Indie
Traditional folk
Modern folk and folk/pop
Folk/rock
Celtic
Motown
Older R&B
Country (especially traditional and alt-country)
Classical

Being the huge music fan I am, I like to talk about what I like more than what I don't like.

wooo, this is kinda weird, genres confuse me sometimes, but anyways:
Indie Pop
Indie Rock
Indie Folk
Funk / Pysch-Funk
Folk / Folk-Rock
Classic Rock
Soul
Old R&B
Post-Punk
College Rock / 90s Alt
Old school rap, "Intelligent" Rap (hate that term, don't know a better name, Alt Rap maybe?)

I'm gaining an appreciation for today's mainstream hip-hop, r&b and pop too. Mainstream rock is still terrible aside from Green Day and maybe one or two others I'm not thinking of.

Among my favourite genres:

-Power pop (Plimsouls, The Beat etc.)
Somebody on one of these boards mentioned Not Lame Records, so I ordered a double-disc compilation from them for, like, $3. It's hit and miss, but the price was right and there are a handful of gems on there.

-Punk (1st and second wave)

-Dylan (let's face it, the guy's a genre unto himself)

-Older metal (Maiden, Priest etc.)

-Classic rock
I listened to classic rock almost exclusively for years, but then dismissed it as passe during my 20s. As I've gotten older, I've been rediscovering bands like Zeppelin–thanks to the great How the West Was Won CD–Stones, Beatles, etc

Alt-country/Americana

New favourites:

R&B
My boss gave me a copy of the Atlantic R&B box set a couple of years ago, but I've only just started getting into it in a big way. That led me to pick up compilations by the likes of Sam & Dave and Candi Staton

Blues
My local record store has Muddy Waters at Newport for $7.99, so I'm going to go pick that up this week

Traditional country
I'm a rookie in this area and don't really know my Milsaps from my Twitty's. Any suggestions on essential purchases would be welcomed.

My taste in music is most easily defined in negative. Not opera (and by that I include all of metal.) Not prog. rock. Not rap that mentions b*tches and bling... unless it makes me laugh.

Trip-Hop was the shit: Massive Attack, Tricky, Morcheeba, Portishead, Hooverphonic, Esthero, etc. Although it has slowly diminished into a kind of chilled out electronica. Check out Zero 7, Air, etc.

Often hard to place certain bands/singers in genres. I know I've disagreed sometimes with what genre/category All Music Guide lumps an artist into.

I would list surf instrumental and all it's sub-categories (spagetti western, hot rod, exotica, spy, etc) as the genre in which I like the most songs I've heard. I'm pretty eay to please surf instro-wise.

Least favorite genre- can't decide, maybe I need to see a menu of all genres and sub-genres.

I like when genres mix with great results. Such as Toubabou, a Canadian Afro funk/prog band or BBQ with it's garage punk/rockabilly/do-wop sound or The Lost T-shirts of Atlantis, a mix of great foot stomping folk-punk bluegrass-a-billy. I think I like the fringe genres most of all. The funky, surfy, weird wacked-out music. The weirder the better, the more crazed the more fun.

If I had the chance now, I'd create a "describe your music taste" thread instead. But try the best you can with genres. You can even make your own genres.