Music Lovers Unite!

[StoneWolfe]

Hi all,

I'm new to vaping and I'm just really getting into becoming a part of ECF, and I love, absolutely love music.

I love everything from bluegrass to electronica to grind core.

Right now I've been really into Eagles of Death Metal. It's a side band of Josh Homme's, who's the lead singer and guitarist for Queens of the Stone Age. Both excellent rock bands.

I'm sort of a dork, so I don't ever listen to the radio, as it is way too lame for my elitist musical tastes, (said slightly in jest.)

I own over 1,000 albums between records, CD's, and digital downloads.

Living in the Blue Ridge mountains I don't go to shows nearly as often as I used to, but I'm only an hour and a half or so from DC and Baltimore, so I do occasionally go to some concerts still. If anyone is in the Baltimore or DC metro area and wants to catch a show, give me a shout!

Here are just a few (lol) genres and bands I totally love:

Rock:
The Pixies
Queens of the Stone Age
Eagles of Death Metal
Them Crooked Vultures
Deftones
The Flaming Lips
The Jesus Lizard
Sonic Youth
Tool
A Perfect Circle
Jane's Addiction
Radiohead
Nirvana
The Doors

Electronica:
Emancipator
Blackmill
Ganja White Night
Phutureprimitive
Coldcut
Aphex Twin

Industrial:
Nine Inch Nails
Skinny Puppy
Download
KMFDM

Metal,Grind Core, Stoner/Doom Metal:
Ghost
Windhand
Pig Destroyer
Misery Index
Thy Art is Murder
Rings of Saturn
Sepultura
High of Fire
Bloody Hammers
Marilyn Manson

Punk Rock:
Aus-Rotten
Reagan Youth
Bikini Kill
Black Flag
Dwarves

Bluegrass/Country:
Bill Monroe
Wayne Henderson
Johny Cash
Walyon Jennings
Dwight Yoakam
George Jones
Townes Van Zandt
The Flying Burrito Brothers

Other:
Earth
Chelsea Wolfe
Dead Can Dance
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Do Make Say Think
Bat For Lashes
Todd Snider

What are you folks listening to?
What music and genres do you love?
Is it possible for you to live without music? (It is totally impossible for me to go even a few hours without listening to music. I think I would probably die.)

 

[mojofilter]

I started collecting records in 1963, when I was four going on five. I always had more records than anyone I knew, and now I have about 110,000 tracks catalogued in my database from all formats - 78, 45, LP, CD and nearly 6 TB of lossless audio files (FLAC) (I don't do mp3s). Much of what's in the 6 TB of files isn't catalogued yet.

I don't listen to genres. I listen to songs I like. I like songs from some of the first flat records in the early 1900s through the late 1980s, when I lost interest in current music trends. I have aged out of the demographic. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the only artists on your list whose music I've heard are The Doors and Johnny Cash. I'm familiar with George Jones' name, but couldn't tell you the names of any of his songs. I don't get much into country music. I've never heard of the rest of those folks. But if it was on the radio (AM and FM) from the '40s through the '80s, I probably have it.

I was amazed to learn that there's a whole subset of collectors who spend their lives and all their money buying up records that couldn't possibly have got played on the radio, by artists that no one has ever heard of but their friends and families. There were WAY more of those types of records released than ones that became hits! It never occurred to me to buy records I didn't know by people I'd never heard of, with a good chance that I wouldn't like them.

Coming of age during the '70s made me want to be part of a scene that created such great music, or made it available to others to hear. I learned to play piano and drums as a kid. Then I wanted to learn guitar in 1969, but I couldn't press down on all the strings to make chords (the neck was warped), so I learned to play bass parts on the first three strings, and eventually worked out how to play guitar. I started playing professionally at 14, and continued through the mid-'90s. Along the way, I developed songwriting and sound recording skills. Now I mainly play my Korg M50 keyboard workstation. It has the sounds of all the electric and electronic keyboards you've heard on records since the '60s.

I also had another love - radio. I wanted to be a DJ and have access to all those records. By the time I got working in the industry, both it and the music were already changing for the worse. I can't complain too much, although I sometimes do. I still have a job doing what I love and know like the back of my hand, and I've never had to deal with the public to earn the rent.

It would be impossible for me to live without music. Not a day of my life has gone by when I haven't played some music, either that someone else wrote, or that I wrote, nor when one song or another wasn't stuck in my head. Today, it's "Secret O' Life" by James Taylor. I've learned to play the electric piano part on it, and the song is on endless repeat in my head.

 

[AGibsonX]

Hi all,

I'm new to vaping and I'm just really getting into becoming a part of ECF, and I love, absolutely love music.

I love everything from bluegrass to electronica to grind core.

Right now I've been really into Eagles of Death Metal. It's a side band of Josh Homme's, who's the lead singer and guitarist for Queens of the Stone Age. Both excellent rock bands.

I'm sort of a dork, so I don't ever listen to the radio, as it is way too lame for my elitist musical tastes, (said slightly in jest.)

I own over 1,000 albums between records, CD's, and digital downloads.

Living in the Blue Ridge mountains I don't go to shows nearly as often as I used to, but I'm only an hour and a half or so from DC and Baltimore, so I do occasionally go to some concerts still. If anyone is in the Baltimore or DC metro area and wants to catch a show, give me a shout!

Here are just a few (lol) genres and bands I totally love:

Rock:
The Pixies
Queens of the Stone Age
Eagles of Death Metal
Them Crooked Vultures
Deftones
The Flaming Lips
The Jesus Lizard
Sonic Youth
Tool
A Perfect Circle
Jane's Addiction
Radiohead
Nirvana
The Doors

Electronica:
Emancipator
Blackmill
Ganja White Night
Phutureprimitive
Coldcut
Aphex Twin

Industrial:
Nine Inch Nails
Skinny Puppy
Download
KMFDM

Metal,Grind Core, Stoner/Doom Metal:
Ghost
Windhand
Pig Destroyer
Misery Index
Thy Art is Murder
Rings of Saturn
Sepultura
High of Fire
Bloody Hammers
Marilyn Manson

Punk Rock:
Aus-Rotten
Reagan Youth
Bikini Kill
Black Flag
Dwarves

Bluegrass/Country:
Bill Monroe
Wayne Henderson
Johny Cash
Walyon Jennings
Dwight Yoakam
George Jones
Townes Van Zandt
The Flying Burrito Brothers

Other:
Earth
Chelsea Wolfe
Dead Can Dance
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Do Make Say Think
Bat For Lashes
Todd Snider

What are you folks listening to?
What music and genres do you love?
Is it possible for you to live without music? (It is totally impossible for me to go even a few hours without listening to music. I think I would probably die.)

I love music! I usually switch between favorites a lot but right now Medicine for the People and Bear Hands are my favorites. I'm definitely going to check out some of the groups you suggested.

 

[Ohm Gnome]

I love music too. From 60s to 90s rock mostly . Love the Doors, Neil Young, Dylan, the Who, Nirvana, Mother Love Bone, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, The Breeders, L7, Lemonheads, Blind Melon, Smashing Pumpkins, Soundgarden, The Cranberries, Garbage, The Melvins, Mudhoney, Tad, Jane's Addiction, Butthole Surfers. Sex Pistols, Ramones, The Clash. You get the drift. I use to sing and play bass in a few punk grunge type bands