Music Lover

[julian1984]

I always like music. Because music makes me smile. When I am alone, away with my family. I just want to hear music... Music makes me feel much better.

Are you a music lover?

[Azn Dude]

Yes, I do love music. Jazz being the most important thing to me.

[Ken Cheng]

I've got around 800 CDs, probably as many cassettes, around two dozen LPs, and 1,252 songs on my iPod.

Does that answer your question?

[Canuck21]

I used to think that I wasn't a fan of music because I like very few songs compared to the norm. Some people have a HUGE collection of albums or songs, but I have very little. Things changed about a year ago when I rediscovered New Order and at the same time discovered Joy Division. Since then, I've been obsessed with these two bands. I listen to their music every freaking day over and over again and surprisingly I'm still not tired of it.

My interest is still extremely limited though to a few acts; New Order, Joy Division, The Beach Boys, '80s TVB theme songs, John Williams scores and a few songs (a handful of songs for each group) of various alternative bands like The Cure, OMD, Depeche Mode, The Killers, The Jesus and Mary Chains, Morrissey, The Clash, Interpol, Pulp, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Libertines and LCD Soundsystem. That's basically all I listen to. Oh, I also have a mild interest in Boys Choir music.

So do I like music? Yes, what I like, I like A LOT, but my range is quite limited.

[Canuck21]

I've got around 800 CDs, probably as many cassettes, around two dozen LPs, and 1,252 songs on my iPod.

Does that answer your question?

Any chance you have a Beatles album in your collection? Do you listen to all your records regularly? I mean I don't expect you to listen to all of your collection every week, but maybe once a year? I have about 50 CDs and the majority of them I haven't listened to for years. In my iPod, I have 605 songs, but that's because I upload whole albums and I normally only listen to a couple songs on each album. There's 31 albums in total and 12 of them are of New Order and Joy Division and those are the albums I listen to in their entirety.

[Ken Cheng]

Any chance you have a Beatles album in your collection?

Yeah, I think I have a few here and there.

Do you listen to all your records regularly? I mean I don't expect you to listen to all of your collection every week, but maybe once a year?

Honestly, there's lots of stuff in my collection I haven't gotten around to listening to. I probably have an active listening list of perhaps 1,000 songs that get played constantly...and only 100 of them are Beatles songs.

I was surprised when I organized my playlists for my iPod, the biggest list wasn't the Beatles, but the 1980s pop/rock playlist. My Beatles playlists spans 4.5 hours, but the 1980s playlist spans 10.5 HOURS.

[pemberly]

is there really anyone who doesn't like music? if there is, i feel sad for him/her.

[Azn Dude]

My vinyl collection isn't as big as I like it to be. I have maybe 250 records, mostly jazz and rock. My CD collection is decent size, around 300 cds. Strangely I have no cassettes. My mp3 collection on my computer is huge though, I have around 3,500GB worth of songs. Which is roughly 30,000 songs. I haven't honestly listen to every single song; my Mozart collection has over 200 hours of music.

[PJ]

is there really anyone who doesn't like music? if there is, i feel sad for him/her.

I hate music. It makes me want to go on a killing spree.






























sorry, couldn't resist

[Canuck21]

is there really anyone who doesn't like music? if there is, i feel sad for him/her.

Maybe not dislike music, but you know, less interested than in other activities. Some people live for music, I don't. I have a colleague who is in a band, has his own little studio at home, have tons of records and goes practically at all rock concerts. THAT's loving music.

[pannonian]

I used to think that I wasn't a fan of music because I like very few songs compared to the norm. Some people have a HUGE collection of albums or songs, but I have very little. Things changed about a year ago when I rediscovered New Order and at the same time discovered Joy Division. Since then, I've been obsessed with these two bands. I listen to their music every freaking day over and over again and surprisingly I'm still not tired of it.

My interest is still extremely limited though to a few acts; New Order, Joy Division, The Beach Boys, '80s TVB theme songs, John Williams scores and a few songs (a handful of songs for each group) of various alternative bands like The Cure, OMD, Depeche Mode, The Killers, The Jesus and Mary Chains, Morrissey, The Clash, Interpol, Pulp, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Libertines and LCD Soundsystem. That's basically all I listen to. Oh, I also have a mild interest in Boys Choir music.

So do I like music? Yes, what I like, I like A LOT, but my range is quite limited.

I don't see The Smiths in that list. Also, try The Jam.

[Canuck21]

I don't see The Smiths in that list. Also, try The Jam.

I'm aware of The Jam, but I'm not quite ready for them yet. You see, it takes me a long time to discover a song or a band and that's because I'm quite narrow-minded when it comes to music. I usually need one really catchy song for me to start taking the time to discover a band and there isn't a song from The Jam that really hook me. "Town Called Malice" is close to grabbing my attention, but not quite. I did like it in "Billy Elliot" though.

Strangely enough, I'm not a fan of Johnny Marr's melodies and that's why I prefer Morrissey. I do like some of Electronic's songs, but that's probably due to Bernard Sumner's input.

Right now, I keep listening to LCD Soundsystem's "All My Friends" and that's the reason I listed them, but really, I only like a couple of their songs and it's the same for all the other bands I've mentioned except for my two obsessions. Joy Division, New Order and to a certain extent, the Beach Boys, are the only bands/artists that I really like and which I like multiple songs. When I like more than five songs from the same artist, it's a reason to celebrate.

So do you think I'm a music lover? I listen to music every day, but I'm difficult to pleased.

[pannonian]

Try these then. A couple of songs by a British indie band in the 90s, but written in a very unindie style.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41dzNBQq96M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4j9fJewoxk

[Canuck21]

Try these then. A couple of songs by a British indie band in the 90s, but written in a very unindie style.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41dzNBQq96M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4j9fJewoxk

I don't know what you mean by unindie style, but I can say that Suede is definitely not my style. I don't know how to say it, but I don't like the long, slow and slightly operatic vocal style. Most of their songs are just too slow for my liking. For such a popular Britpop band, I'm surprised that I don't like them more because I usually like British music very much. All of the recent American bands that I like have been influenced by British indie rock, yet one of the most popular British bands from the '90s sounds bad to my ears.

Right now, I'm starting to like some of Radiohead's old songs. I have yet to try their In Rainbows album. "Creep" and "Street Spirit" are darn good songs...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxpblnsJEWM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrZTNhW44-o

[pannonian]

I don't know what you mean by unindie style, but I can say that Suede is definitely not my style. I don't know how to say it, but I don't like the long, slow and slightly operatic vocal style. Most of their songs are just too slow for my liking. For such a popular Britpop band, I'm surprised that I don't like them more because I usually like British music very much. All of the recent American bands that I like have been influenced by British indie rock, yet one of the most popular British bands from the '90s sounds bad to my ears.

Right now, I'm starting to like some of Radiohead's old songs. I have yet to try their In Rainbows album. "Creep" and "Street Spirit" are darn good songs...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxpblnsJEWM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrZTNhW44-o

While I like punk and new wave, of music from the Britpop era I prefer the slower, more classical stuff. While I do like Creep amd Street Spirit, I prefer Fake Plastic Trees and Exit Music (For a Film). Similarly with Blur's To the End and This is a Low. But strangely, of the newer bands, I can't stand the ones that attempt that classical melodic style, but I quite like the ones that are more minimalist. It might just be that it requires more craft to do something I like in that style, whereas punk is more bearable even if it doesn't have that polish (and indeed, may be better without that polish).

If you don't like operatic style, I wonder what you'd have made of Bernard Butler's other well-known collaboration, with David McAlmont.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6b_Z-bS448