What kind of music do you like?

[BrotherofSnake]

What kind of music do you guys listen to?

I listen to predominantly West Coast hip hop.

[Gollevainen]

well as i have stated in about dozen similar topics in the old forum....

LED ZEPPELIN....the Who, Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix....

[rommel]

Iron Maiden (My favorite) Metallica, Sum 41, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Children of Bodom, Lamb of God, Bad Religion and Megadeth

[Gollevainen]

Children of Bodom :D :D :D :D

[FriedRiceNSpice]

I listen to either American rap or Chinese propaganda music. :D

[T-U-P]

Chinese propaganda music. :D
*drooling* ;)
i don't listen to music...very much...somehow i just don't feel music attractive.

[DPRKUnderground]

Interpol, Bloc Party, Wesley Willis, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Arcade Fire, Asian Kung-fu Generation, Sparta Locals, Boom Boom Satellites, Franz Ferdinand, Nirvana, RHCP, OOIOO, Primus, Mizraab, E.P., Jal, Tokyo Jihen, Cui Jian, Led Zeppelin, Basement Jaxx, the Pillows, Death From Above 1979, and Death Cab for Cutie!

[MIGleader]

rap mainly. 50 cent, jay-z, kanye west, bow wow
maybe other hip hop like linkin park, usher
r&b works too.
theres some rock i like, but not too much

commemorate john lennon!!!:china:

[GreatYuran]

hard rock all the way :china:

METALLICA, dream theater, Guns n Roses, Joe Satriani, Vai and some of the other greats

[Kampfwagen]

I have such varied tastes, yet know little of music in general. Anyway.

Music I have includes but is not limited to: Fat Joe, Mozart, The Red Army Chior, My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, Areosmith, Alien Ant Farm and Creed, to name a few.

[Baibar of Jalat]

lately listening to cypress hill so rap. However most rap is not my taste: :. Any lyrics in any type of song that stymilates my imagination and makes me think in depth about the song.

Also classical music such as the Ottoman Janissaries tune which u can listen to on microsoft encarta CD

:off they were an intresting military units:) :mad:

[The_Zergling]

Most rock/punk music, like Jet, Metallica, Sum 41, Yellowcard, that kind of stuff... Jazz, Classical, some unclassifiable stuff... A little heavy metal and rap, though I generally don't like them as much...

Anybody hear heard of Yann Tiersen?

[DPRKUnderground]

Creed, Sum 41, Yellowcard, MCR, and Fall Out Boy!? WHAT!

[maddogy4645]

In highschool, I liked primarily rap and R&B. This includes Usher, P.Diddy, Ludacris, Mariah Carey, Brian Mcknight, R. Kelly,..etc. However, since I've been attending university, and became more mature, I started to fall in love with modern jazz, whether soft or old school. I particularly adore Diana Krall, Jane Monhiet, Sophie Milman, Michael Buble, Norman Brown, Kenny G...etc.

[MIGleader]

r. kelly sucks. he is a terrible artist, especially with his "trapped in the closet" seiries. and he gets sued for commiting different crimes, the lightest of which include assault.

[ger_mark]

rammstein...

[MIGleader]

germark, did you ever listen to pilos puntos? i heard they were really popular in the 90s, and my german book mentions them all the time.

[ger_mark]

never heared about them

do you lean german at school? thats good ! :roll:

[Gollevainen]

i remembered that there was once a little conversation about wheter any of us has musicl abilityes beond listening and judiging....:p eg. can any of you play any instruments???

I'm percussionist myself, tough i haven't been playing in any bands since shcooldays (and in there it was limited to this one big musical project...)
I have cheap set of gongas and even worst pair of bongos...but i managed (to make everyone near few hundred meters going mad...) I just recently started to get intrested of playing normal drums, tough the fact that i have no drumkit limits that hoppy quite a bit. I've also got this unusual style as i have apparently learned to play with wrong style. Basicly i'm using my hands in wrong sides, as left handed and leged person it needs quite adjustment of the drumset...when i'm rich enoug to actually get one.

but is there anyone else wannabebonzoes? or players of any REAL instruments?

[rommel]

I play multiple instrument. I started piano when I was 6, I stopped at 14 because I was going out a lot and didn't have much time for practice. Then, 2 year later, at 16, I started electric guitar.

I begin with a Fender Stratocaster and a Peavey 30w. But since, my style "evolve" from rock to metal, so I got 2 other guitar, one is a ESP LTD M-250 repainted with bloodspill and I removed 2 of the 3 pick-ups and replaced the remaining one with a EMG-81. I bought after, a Peavey 100w Combo to play with my band. And in mid-2004, I bought new gears, ESP KH-2 guitar (Kirk Hammett model) and Marshall MF350 ampli head + cabinet (350watt of Power !!!)

If I had money, I'll maybe order a custom guitar to ESP, but I make a estimation with ESP and my custom model will cost me around 6,500 USD... So I don't have the money right now and I need some to buy a mountain bike and to pay my tuition...

[ordinary dude]

anything, you name it, i prob listen to it,

U2, Bryan Adams, John Mayer, Madonna, Simple Plan, Savage Garden, Black Eyed Peas, Nirvanna, Faith Hill, Gwen Stefani, 3 Doors Down, 50 Cent, Alien Ant Farm, Big and Rich, Billy Joel, Beatles, Bon Jovi, Coldplay, Dave Matthews, Collective Soul, Brian McKight, David Bowie, Enrique Inglesias, Goo Goo Dolls, Green Day................................its pretty hard to find a north american artist i have not listened to

i even have quite a chinese collection too.

[Obcession]

Long live classical music! I mainly listen to Modern and Baroque classical music, Red Army Choir is pretty good too. I also listen to songs from other genres, like jazz and country, if it's good.
Hey didn't we have 2 or 3 of these kind of threads before?
I currently play violin and flute, sings in the school choir though I suck, and I've played alto sax for a year before.

[Gollevainen]

...but this is the only one survived through the past unrests.....

[MIGleader]

i play violin and piano, just liek every good chinese boy is supposed to.
waht are you guy's favorite songs?

[renmin]

I play piano too. I enjoy Yellow River, somthing im working on. I like to listn to Chinese propaganda music priticurally those composed during when the PRC was born and those during the Sino-Jap war. My favorite song is the PLA theme song.

[tphuang]

anything that is melodically good. I listen to RnB mostly, but do also listen to pop, alternative, broadway, rock and country. Favourite artists include Usher, Mariah Carey, Josh Groban, Kelly Clarkson and Alicia Keys.

[swimmerXC]

anything but Rap is fine by me...
although now a days i have been getting into euro-techno...
Fatboy silm, chemical brothers, anda bunch of DJs...

[Obcession]

It seems that many of you listen to propaganda music, and I'd like to learn more about them? Perhaps a few song names too. Thx:coffee:

[bd popeye]

Anyway I stopped litening to music regulary back in 1971 when I joined the Navy. In my whole life I have never bought any music for my own enjoyment and do not own a stereo. In my car I listen to sports talk or the news...Life does go on without music. I seldom listen. I do not like much of what I hear. It sucks.:(

[Gollevainen]

You've missed alot poppy, music is the thing closest to actual magic in this world...and the year 71'...what a year for music...Who's Next and Zeps fourht album released...and many more...there haven't been year like that since...

[sadim81]

does anyone listen to Korean music or Kpop? I've been totally addicted to that stuff since my high school days, not only is the music cool but the chicks are all like totally HOT(propably cant sing live tho but who cares)...

anyways my band of the moment is a true rock band (no poppy shit) by the name of NELL, you can find a taste on their website

http://www.bandnell.com/

[renmin]

It seems that many of you listen to propaganda music, and I'd like to learn more about them? Perhaps a few song names too. Thx:coffee:i could give you the names of a few chinese proopaganda pieces. I will say their names in english translation from Chinese: No Communism Means No new China, We workers have strength, PLA marching song, protect the yellow river Red Across the East. many of these are all trying to get a message out or telling a story, most composed during Sino-Jap war and Cultural Revolution. many peices discribe how great the communist party is and Mao Ze Dong. Also convince Chinese people to gather and take out the Japs. Protect the yellow river states for people to arm themselves and go against the Japanese. We workers have strength states for communism to spread all across China (Chinese civil war, after sino-Japan). Red across the East tells how great Chairmen Mao is, this also became the name of China's first sattilite;Red in the East #1. PLA marching song is the theme song for the PLA. That should give you some idea of Chinese propaganda music;) Most of them mentioned above are very famous.

[rommel]

waht are you guy's favorite songs?

Hum... Fear of Dark by Iron Maiden

[Gollevainen]

Originally Posted by MIGleader
waht are you guy's favorite songs?

Hard to say, most of the times its Dazed and Confused by Led Zeppelin but theres days when Pure And Easy or Baba O'riley from The Who are just awesome...and then it's Jethro Tulls Thick as a Brick or Pink Floyds whis you were here...it's just too hard to say...Music is so big thing for me and all of these great songs has special place in my heart (In this point you cannot think Zeppelin too much becouse there just too many outstanding songs...) and oh yeas Jimi Hendrix...man this is just too hard....

The teterming of best song is impossiple but they all say that "Straiway" is the best so quess it's the Right, unbiased democraticly choosen awnser...and i could stand behind it too....

[INVISIBLE]

Rappers of all countries be united!

[MIGleader]

Yeah right. rappers from LA and NY have a hard enough time getting along, and you expect them to get along internationaly?

[Obcession]

Sometimes I wonder why rap is so popular, I mean, remember all the components of a piece of music that makes it full. Wrythm, melody, counter-melody, harmony, accompaniment, tempos, etc etc. Many of that is absent in rap.

[MIGleader]

excuse me? Rap is AWSOME!!! many epople who have only listened to rap once or twice think rap as plain rhyming. but its really evloved music.

first off, your lyrics must rhyme well and at the same time be flavorful. in the 90's, rap had alot of meaning to it too, primarily songs made by the late Tupac Shakur. nowadys though, all they can rap about is bling, cars, cribs, and girls...there are only a few "real" rappers left.

Beats are another key element to a sucessful song. Rap has terrific beats to it

Ryhthem? the beats are all rythmically placed and the rapper must rap with the beats

accompaniament is not uncommon in rap, as rap artists will star pop or R&B artists in their songs somethimes, which also adds melody. Jay-z and linkin park's collision course album is a perfect example of a cross-genre rap. It's lead single, Numb/Encore, soared to number one on the charts.

studio made sythesized sounds also add to rap's melody

The most listened to song in history is 50 cent's "In da Club". dont tell me rap is not music.

[sumdud]

Well, if you've hear American rap, it's rather dirty...........
It really ruins the image for it.
Some rappers rap in the words that are prohibited in this forum like there is no tomorrow....

[Chairman Hu]

.........
rap.... ewww

My music: Archenemy, Rammstein, KMFDM, Megadeth, Pink Floyd, Metallica, Marilyn Manson, NIN, Smashing Pumpkin, Steve Vai, Subhumans, HORSE the Band, X(Japan), B'z, The Pillows, Malice Mizer, Moi Dix Mois, Gackt, Miyavi, hide, Hizaki, and that's pretty much it

[rommel]

excuse me? Rap is AWSOME!!! many epople who have only listened to rap once or twice think rap as plain rhyming. but its really evloved music.

first off, your lyrics must rhyme well and at the same time be flavorful. in the 90's, rap had alot of meaning to it too, primarily songs made by the late Tupac Shakur. nowadys though, all they can rap about is bling, cars, cribs, and girls...there are only a few "real" rappers left.

Beats are another key element to a sucessful song. Rap has terrific beats to it

Ryhthem? the beats are all rythmically placed and the rapper must rap with the beats

accompaniament is not uncommon in rap, as rap artists will star pop or R&B artists in their songs somethimes, which also adds melody. Jay-z and linkin park's collision course album is a perfect example of a cross-genre rap. It's lead single, Numb/Encore, soared to number one on the charts.

studio made sythesized sounds also add to rap's melody

The most listened to song in history is 50 cent's "In da Club". dont tell me rap is not music.

That's seem weird a little bit... Rap is kind of music true, but somehow dicustable... One of the reason why it's popular because it's easy to rap, everyone can basically rap and you don't need some instrument unlike classical music or rock/metal.

Even there, I doubt largely that In Da Club was the most listen song in the history of music. The album which feature In Da Club is Get Rich or Die Trying, but this album have only been sold to 11millions world wide, by comparaison, Metallica's Album Metallica (or Black Album) have been sold to 14 millions copy in the US only. In fact, Metallica have sold 200 millions albums worldwide (60millions worldwide for the Black Album ), making them one of the most successful metal band of the history.

[Gollevainen]

i share my wievs of rapmusic with Rommel, tough i don't understand rap at all. Everyone keep saying that it's strongly based on rythm but frankly that BS. It supposed to base on rythm but as a percussionist myself i don't call drummachines and other nonhuman made sound having some pattern a rythm.

One thing that i like so much in zeppelin music is the almoust pre-funky/motown type of rythm provided by Bonham and JPJ. It's amaizing, just listen to any live zeppelin material and you can find out it by yourself. The great thing in Bonhams style is that unlike another great idol of mine, Keinth Moon Bonhams style is pretty straight forward but equally energic and more disiplined thus liberating JPJ using his bas more freely than Entwhistle could do. (tough the later replaced this by unmached playing skill) Few zeppelin numbers were played live only by JPJ playing bas pedal at the same time as playing organ. Still the thunder and rythm was evident. No other band could ever do it with only four mens. The rythm is one of the main things that seperates zeppelin from other same era heavy bands like Black Sabbaht and Deep Purpe. Tough equally important difference is Pages ability to make music variating from deep delta blues to indian and other ethnic folk, from mountain moving hard rock to scheesy disco hits and even reggea (ok, the later effort wasen't all together succes;), but no one is perfect)

[INVISIBLE]

i share my wievs of rapmusic with Rommel, tough i don't understand rap at all.

The main thing in a rap is a text, instead of music. All sense that rappers sing.
Many rappers in Russia oppose racism. Rappers in Russia it is unique force capable to resist to nazis on the street.:nono:

[Obcession]

excuse me? Rap is AWSOME!!! many epople who have only listened to rap once or twice think rap as plain rhyming. but its really evloved music.

first off, your lyrics must rhyme well and at the same time be flavorful. in the 90's, rap had alot of meaning to it too, primarily songs made by the late Tupac Shakur. nowadys though, all they can rap about is bling, cars, cribs, and girls...there are only a few "real" rappers left.

Beats are another key element to a sucessful song. Rap has terrific beats to it

Ryhthem? the beats are all rythmically placed and the rapper must rap with the beats

accompaniament is not uncommon in rap, as rap artists will star pop or R&B artists in their songs somethimes, which also adds melody. Jay-z and linkin park's collision course album is a perfect example of a cross-genre rap. It's lead single, Numb/Encore, soared to number one on the charts.

studio made sythesized sounds also add to rap's melody

The most listened to song in history is 50 cent's "In da Club". dont tell me rap is not music.

Ok, first of all Mig, don't take it personally, I'm not trying to offend you or attack your type of music, just wanna point some things out. And I never said rap is not music.

1. Personnally, I have heard VERY FEW rappers who actually rap about poor people on the streets and such alike. Many of the black rappers are so inmoral.

2. While it is true that rap has a strong beat, it is not a very sophisticated beat. At the most, it's just some four quarter note, maybe add in a eighth note, beat that repeats over and over again. I find all the beats in rap music to be really rigid. If you ever listen to any mozart or beethoven, you will know what I mean.

3. I can hardly call Numb/Encore rap, it's more like rock/pop.

4. But it is true that many rap songs only have a certain type of melody in the chorus, and the verses are all wrythm. It is not very evolved, in the sense that it does not have something to balance out the melody/wrythm. In classical music, when there's a melody, almost all of the time, there will be a harmony underneath the melody to add more texture to the sound. And in marchs, a lot of the times when there is a melody, there is a counter-melody, which also adds flavour to the sound. In rock/metal, The singer's sounds are supported by a harmony or wrythm, being played by the guitarists and bassists, with the drums being accompaniment, which adds flavour to the singer's sounds. In rap, well, a bunch of digitally made sounds. They are not as good as using real instruments, in the sense that digitally composed sounds are very rigid and allow no flexibility and decreases the amount of emotion that can be expressed in a piece of music, and besides, you can hardly hear any harmony or counter-melody in these sounds.

5. Sound support. When there is a high/medium voice, it will sound out of place, unless there is a low voice supporting it. That's why there're tubas and double basses in a band, supporting the medium-ranged alto saxs, which in turn supports the higher-pitched flutes and clarinets. In an orchestra, low-pitched basses support the medium-low trombones, baritones, which in turn supports the medium-ranged viola, which in turn supports the high-pitched instruments, like violin. In rock/metal, some of the times, the guitarist plays on the same level as the vocalist, with the bass supporting. Sometimes, the guitarist plays something really high, the vocalist in the medium range (well, it's really hard to sing high, you need an instrument for that), and the bassist in support. (I'm not very well-versed in rock, correct me if I'm wrong) Rap? Nothing's supporting the wrythms...

6. It's not as complicated as some of the other types of music. Such as, I cannot hear the difference between a moderato, to an andante, to an allegro, in rap. That's because rap does not emphasize the difference of tempos. A melody can be defined as a series of moving notes that is the main stay of the piece. Rap does not have a melody, just wrythm. And the songs that do have melody in their choruses, they're not very advanced, covering one octave of notes, max.

7. Oh, forgot to mention one more thing, rap does not emphasize the changes in dynamics (or, "loudness"). I can hardly hear any change in dynamics in a rap song. The common dynamics are: pp,p,mp,mf,f,ff. pp being the softest, and ff being the loudest. Of course, you can add in more p's and f's to exaggerate it. For example, I've seen quite a few pieces with parts written in fff, and one piece that had an ppp in it. I'm not sure if you note it this way in metal/rock, but I can certainly hear the dynamic changes in it.

Again, please don't take it personally.

[INVISIBLE]

Who listen to russian rap??
I can send by e-mail Russian songs! :nana:

[Gollevainen]

Well i got overdoze of finnish rap during my armydays (my team mates had very weird taste of music) so no russian rap to me...;) also if the point is in the words then it would be even more useless as i understand hardly few words in russian...

But most rapsongs that i've heard have no meaning in their lyrics other than continually repeating the rappers name and stuff about womens and cars and other aspects of luxurious life...eg. nothing that haven't done by the bluesmens back in the good ol' days tough 100 times better....

People tell me baby, keep me satisfied
Try to worry me baby but I never-uh
Get to be mine so
People worry, baby, to keep you satisfied
Ha, let me tell you baby
Oh, you ain't nothin but a two-bit, no good, yeah

I went to sleep last night, I work as hard as I can
I bring all my money, you take my money, give it to another man
I should have quit you, baby, oh, such a long time ago, oh
I wouldn't be here with all my troubles
Down on this killing floor

Squeeze me baby, 'til the juice runs down my leg
Now now, squeeze me baby, 'til the juice runs down my leg
The way you squeeze my lemon, I
I'm gonna fall right out of bed bed bed bed, yeah
trad. arraged by Ropert Plant;)

[INVISIBLE]

I have songs, which in Russian and in English simultaneously. Besides there quite good music!

Gollevainen сan send me the Finnish rap??

[ger_mark]

do you have the album of tatu and rammstein?

http://tinypic.com/kdwn01.jpg

:rofl:

[Gollevainen]

Gollevainen сan send me the Finnish rap??

sorry mate, i don't know were to look. I'm quite old fashioned when it comes to musiclistening, i only do CDs (and even vinyls in some cases) and little understandment on these computer music things like Mp3 and so on...

[MIGleader]

So im guessing were not allowed to post rap lyrics in here?

yes, in da club is the most listend to song in hostory, with 171 million listeners, via radio.

numb/encore is far from pop. just chack out jay-z's lyrics
"can i get an encore,
do you want more,
cooking *** with the brooklyn boy
(linkin park)"what the hell are you waiting for!!!"

(Jay-z) "after me, there shall be no more,
so for onle last time *****, make some noise.

6 ryhmes in a row!!!
besides, rappers steal melody from pop/rock artists all the time.
jay-z's style is called pop-rap, which differs from snoop doggs gangsta rap.
pop rap actually has som taste to it, and is more radio friendly. rappers who pop-rap tend to have twice the audiance as gansta rappers.

personally, i dont consider 50 cent one of the best rappers, coz he cant rap about anything positive. i like kanye west better.

[Chairman Hu]

name one rapper that has as much artistic skills as Jimmy Page/Joe Perry/B.B King/Matsumoto Hideto/Matsumoto Tak/Steve Vai

[BrotherofSnake]

name one rapper that has as much artistic skills as Jimmy Page/Joe Perry/B.B King/Matsumoto Hideto/Matsumoto Tak/Steve Vai
The great Tupac Shakur.

[Chairman Hu]

sure, why not, and George McGovern beat Richard Nixon in the election of 1972

just in case, beat Gackt

AND *****, I !!!ADVISE!!! YOU TO LOOK UP GACKT BEFORE YOU SPAM ANOTHER BS SENTENCE, GOT IT!?

[BrotherofSnake]

Tupac was the most influential rapper ever. His songs are about growing up around violence and harships in ghettos, feuds with fellow rappers and racism. Tupac has racial equality, political, and ecomomic messages embedded in his music. His album All Eyez on Me has recieved 9x platinum along with millions of sales.

[Chairman Hu]

Tupac was the most influential rapper ever. His songs are about growing up around violence and harships in ghettos, feuds with fellow rappers and racism. Tupac has racial equality, political, and ecomomic messages embedded in his music. His album All Eyez on Me has recieved 9x platinum along with millions of sales.

DO NOT!!! IGNORE MY QUESTION!!!

millions!? pssst, Matsumoto Tak in B'z sold 80million in the first decade

and you still cant beat Gackt, and B'z is international, doing tours not only in E. Asia but also Europe and America, do me and everyone a favor and answer my first question

[PiSigma]

yes, in da club is the most listend to song in hostory, with 171 million listeners, via radio.

how is having 171 million listeners make it the most listened song in history?? the most listened songs in history are national anthems that billions of people have to listen to when certain countries win. and of course there are famous pieces by rachmaninoff and tchaikovsky that hundreds of millions of people have listened to. there's the chinese propaganda songs that EVERYONE in china knows how to sing upto the 1980s.. and that's 1 billion people right there.

i personally don't like mozart's music too much, he's like the backstreet boys of classical music, pop music of his time. everything sounds very similar. but if you listen to rachmaninoff.. wow.. so much better.

[BrotherofSnake]

and you still cant beat Gackt, and B'z is international, doing tours not only in E. Asia but also Europe and America, do me and everyone a favor and answer my first question

Tupac beats Gackt by a long shot, he is a legend and is the most revolutionary rapper of all time. He released 16 albums (11 of them posthumously), with 30 singles. He is an icon to millions of people all over the world.

[The_Zergling]

Okay, I think you could've made your point without yelling at everyone...

By the way, where do you guys (Who live in Canada or the States) find European or Russian music? I'm having a pretty hard time finding it here, and I could really use some advice...

(CD stores don't really cut it nowadays... would I have to look on amazon?)

[Gollevainen]

sort of mid annoucment, for chist (or anyone suites you better) sake this is a relaxation room, not the place to bash and fight against each others...the trouple maker have now being banned but still...

[The_Zergling]

Huh, since the post above me by the banned member has been deleted, I now officially look like an idiot on this thread ^_^

My question still stands though...

[MIGleader]

The notorious B.I.G and tupac shakur are the greatest rappers of all time. unfortunately, they were both the victims of a mid 90's rap war that got them both killed. other great rappers include LL cool j,Nas, Jay-z, P. diddt, Dr. dre, and snoop dogg. KANYE WEST!!!

rapping is not as easy as it looks. lyricing must be learned from very young, and rapping on beat is somewhat hard to do. producing lyrics for whole songs is very hard, especially when they have to rhyme. on the other hand, anyone can learn how to play guitar and sing.

a very entertaining article about In da Club

[swimmerXC]

do you have the album of tatu and rammstein?


i have like 30-50 songs from rammstein, TATU the only song i have it "All about us"... i been searching forever for their songs i cant find any!!! :mad:

The main thing in a rap is a text, instead of music. All sense that rappers sing.
Many rappers in Russia oppose racism. Rappers in Russia it is unique force capable to resist to nazis on the street.

can you give me some names?

Personally i heard french rap and they don't try to act all gangster at all they actually talk against racis,, it's only in the US which the rappers rap like they hate the world...

Who listen to russian rap??
I can send by e-mail Russian songs!

I listen to russian and euro techno

yes, in da club is the most listend to song in hostory, with 171 million listeners, via radio.

well "March of the Volunteers" is heard by 1 billion people :china:
you cant measure how much people hear it, more like how much the album sold
The Beatles are the most successful recording act of all time with 106 million albums sold in the U.S. alone.
Source (http://musicians.about.com/library/qna/blqnaawards.htm)

[MIGleader]

Oops...my mistake
i forgot to post a link with my last post:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Da_Club

an article about in da club. the song is the most listened to song in history on the radio.

50 cent has followed with hit singles after In da club, like candy shop, just a lil bit, and outta control remix

[PiSigma]

even if it's just radio, it would not be the most listened song.. most chinese people in china have radios by now.. let's just say it's 1 billion people. then march of the volunteers would be the most listened to song by radio!!!. wikipedia is something anyone can edit.. so if it says one of the most listened to song on radio.. the writer is probably a 50 cent fan, therefore trying to exagerate how good the song is, and also is probably saying most listened to song in USA.

[MIGleader]

I got my info from MTV, highly credible in terms of music
these say the same thing
http://music.yahoo.com/read/news/12042886
http://www.rockonthenet.com/artists-f/50cent.htm

most people think the rap world is down and dirty, with nothing credible.
its not true.

the march of the vlounteers is not over played on chinese radio. the radios actually play music and real news now, not just propaganda stuff. i dont think the average chinese will want to listen to it when they can listen to "tie my shoe" rap in chinese.

[INVISIBLE]

In Russia all known rappers against racism.
In Russia now it is a lot of nazis and they beat all who listens to "black" music, but rappers do not surrender. ;)

I do not listen TATU and rammstein, but I have their songs.

By the way, here the reference to Russian rap :)
http://195.208.234.178/russia_pop/mnogotochie-kogda-nibudj.mp3

[Finn McCool]

I like all sorts of music. Mostly rock, especially classic rock, like Led Zepplin, AC/DC, the Doors (which I am listening to right now), Pink Floyd, Van Halen, the Clash. As for newer music, I like Nirvana, Rage against the Machine, the Offspring (all of which are actually pretty old), the Hives, the White Stripes, Audioslave, Flogging Molly, Drop Kick Murphy(yeah for Celtic punk rock). I like reggae too, especially Bob Marley (of course), and Matisyahu. I don't like rap that much, although I occasionally listen to old school rap, like NWA and the Beastie Boys.

In China, are you allowed to listen to any music you want to, or is that still kind of restricted? Do they even sell it? (Like if it was legal but you couldn't buy it any where. I guess that doesn't matter because of the Internet.)

[tphuang]

No, actually, you can listen to anything in China. Counterfeit copies of music/movies are everywhere in China. I used to buy those by the boatloads when I went back to visit, but not anymore.

Anyhow, people in China listen to mostly Chinese pop.

I personally like pretty main stream stuff. I watch reality shows like American Idol and Rockstar INXS, so a lot of my favourite stuff comes from there. My favourite current male artists are Usher and Josh Groban. My favourite current femal artists are Alicia Keys and Kelly Clarkson. For my all time favourites, I'd say Mariah Carey, Luther Vandross, Stevie Wonder and Sarah Brightman. I guess that would be a lot of soul, RnB and some broadway turned pop stuff.

[BrotherofSnake]

I listen to mostly Hip Hop; West Coast Hip Hop. Among my favorite artists are Snoop Dogg, Dr Dre, and Enimen. Also, I enjoy the older works of Snoop Dogg and Dr Dre, like "The Chronic" and "Doggystyle".

[vincelee]

Bach, Vivaldi, and Ravel (just Bolero, really).

I also like opera, namely Handel's work.

[Gollevainen]

well is this what *what music do you like thread volume 7'?? guys, do some searching....but Im too lazy to dig some of the older ones and merge this to it....

So I have to write this again...
Like my avatar shows, Im pretty much into Led Zeppelin and other stuff from the golden years of 67-73 when rock music was thougth to have potential to become something important, yet nothing did happen. Basicly anything that performed in the woodstcok migth go...Other bands that I'm wery fond of are the Who, Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd...until Rogers department, afterwards that I would choose Waters solo stuff over Gilmour-led Floyd... Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dyland, King Crimson, Fairport Convention, The Cream, Yardbirds...I use to be more on the heavymetal side, but since i've become intressed more of progressive stuff. However Black Sabbath, Dio, Iron Maiden and related bands finds their way into my CD player now and then...and offcourse the great finnish bands like Tasavallan Presidentti & Jukka Tolonen, Trio Niskalaukaus and Ismo Alanko's all bands and solo work are good stuff as well as all real blues players

Of anything new, i must say that only White Stripes, Audioslave and this new System of Down have made any sort of impact on me

[jatt]

AC/DC, Led Zepplin, Lenny Kravitz, barenakedladies, linkin park, alice cooper, Rammstien and RadioHead. I like that.

[rommel]

A new thread for music...

Well, I have 2 main genre. 1st is trash/power/speed/melodic metal, I like it when it has a melodic riff, agressive playing and guitar harmonisation. It's the main kind of music that I play (I play guitar and piano) with my guitar. So it's more like Megadeth, Metallica (the early style), Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Rhapsody, Children of Bodom, Judas Priest, Pantera, everything of this style, but I really dislike death/black metal, like Lamb of God, Slayer, Slipknot, groups like that are not good. I also like very much the NWOBHM-era bands (Motorhead,Diamond Head, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, etc..).

2nd main genre is blues. My favorite blues artist is Stevie Ray Vaughan, but I also like BB King, Freddy King, Carole King, Muddy Waters. I'm more in boggie and Missippi/Chicago Blues genre. I got interest for blues from piano since i was playing blues piano.

BTW, Goll, Children of Bodom are great, only that their don't know how to sing, but it's a very melodic music. and it somehow remind me of the early Metallica with lots of palm mute and agressive riff.

[Shingy]

I don't really have a category i mostly listen to i seem to just listen to songs here and there. I tend to come back and listen to bands then go on on to new ones when i am bored, right now i am still listening to the industrial metal band rammstein, and the indy rock band the killers.

[netspider]

I like all sorts of music. Mostly rock, especially classic rock, like Led Zepplin, AC/DC, the Doors (which I am listening to right now), Pink Floyd, Van Halen, the Clash. As for newer music, I like Nirvana, Rage against the Machine, the Offspring (all of which are actually pretty old), the Hives, the White Stripes, Audioslave, Flogging Molly, Drop Kick Murphy(yeah for Celtic punk rock). I like reggae too, especially Bob Marley (of course), and Matisyahu. I don't like rap that much, although I occasionally listen to old school rap, like NWA and the Beastie Boys.

In China, are you allowed to listen to any music you want to, or is that still kind of restricted? Do they even sell it? (Like if it was legal but you couldn't buy it any where. I guess that doesn't matter because of the Internet.)

I am pretty sure these days people in China can listen to all kinds of music because of the popularity of Internet and MP3 music format. But I can tell you in 94-98, that's when I was in college in China, it was not easy to do that.

Basically, those days, only extremely popular rock artists works were officially imported to China. GNR, Michael Jackson (He was extremely popular in China), Nirvana and Metallica were all popular in China then. Some music publishing companies then import their musics to China and they altered contents to Chinese. For instance, I still own a GNR tape "Use your Illusision II" published by "Mei Ka", a music label in China with all lyrics translated to Chinese, and the translation is really really bad.

However, soon or later, a true rock fan will find that was not enough. First, they were not many selecitons available, for instance, in those days, we can have Nirvana but Pearl Jam or R.E.M's musics were not imported because they were less popular (and less profit). Second, the Chinese translation was so uncool to us. So we turned to a strange second approach.

In the city where I live, there were people selling damaged western musics on street. Those tapes were not pirate copies, they were exactly the same tapes sold in US. However, all tapes and CDs were slightly damaged, for instance, the cover was cranked, or the tape was cut to half somewhere. Although damaged, they were easy to fix. CDs were damaged too, they all had a cut on the outside tracks so there were basically about 3/4 tracks left on a CD.

I remembered me and one of my roomates went to a place in Wuhan to hunt for these musics and we got to know a big guy in these street vendors. He gave us a call whenever he got a big selections and we then went to his apartment for musics. He had over 20,000 these types of tapes and CDs laying on the floor of his living room. It was a totally mess, but through this way, we got to buy all kinds of music we want in very cheap prices, usually about 10 Yuan (about one US dollar) for a tape. Till now, I still own about 40 CDs I bought those days, including a complete intact Dire Straits "Live in BBC" CD.

[Ender's Shadow]

I like mostly heavy metal and classic rock. I like very little of the music today. Save for a band here and there. Also love classical.

Iron Maiden.
Judas Priest.
MegaDeth.
Black Sabbath.
Ozzy Osbourne.
Led Zeppelin.
Pink Floyd.
Stratovarius.
Iced Earth.
Three Days grace.
W.A.S.P.
Alice Cooper.
Bach.
Beethoven.
Danzig.
Vivaldi.
Motorhead.
Slayer.
Mozart.

[DPRKUnderground]

I listen to a lot of foreign rock. The scene in the US is becoming horrible. Too many emo bands and pop-punk crap. I like Interpol. Asian Kung-fu Generation, Bloc Party, Arctic Monkeys, Nirvana, Alice in Chains, the Melvins, STP, Sparta Locals, Boom Boom Satellites, Number Girl, Zazen Boys, Eastern Youth, eP, Mizraab, Call, Jal, Landlord, Luminous Orange, Inushiki aka Doggystyle, and much much more. I occasianally listen to metal.

[isthvan]

I moustly listen metal(preferbly trash like Megadeth, Kreator),classic rock and stoner but I also listen jazz,blues,croatian and irish etno...

[swimmerXC]

well is this what *what music do you like thread volume 7'?? guys, do some searching....but Im too lazy to dig some of the older ones and merge this to it....


I'm going to merge it with the music thread Brotherofsnake already made