Me go back to banging on rock now

[cmdr_zoom]

I like to think I have a good command of the fine details and sub-genres and history of certain obscure fields - computer games, RPGs, science fiction and fantasy - but when it comes to music, and stuff like how the various styles and traditions of trance, dance, house and hip-hop weave and flow together, exchange genetic material and part again, my eyes glaze over. Which makes it damn hard to explain, or even quantify for myself, what I like.

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[gridlore.livejournal.com]

Try being a metalhead.

"I think you'll like this band.. they're nu/prog, mostly, though their last album had heavy trad/NWOBHM influences and live they can go pure Gothic."

[cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com]

... 'scuse me, I think my brain just threw a rod.

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

I have barely scratched the surface!

Avant-garde metal, Black metal, Death metal, Doom metal, Glam metal, Gothic metal, Groove metal, Power metal, Speed metal, Stoner metal, Symphonic metal, Thrash metal, Traditional heavy metal, Viking metal, Alternative metal, Christian metal, Crust punk, Folk metal, Funk metal, Grindcore, Grunge, Industrial metal, Metalcore, Neo-classical metal, Nu metal, NWOBHM, Post-metal, Progressive metal, Rap metal, and Sludge metal

[gwyd.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you used the glam metal tag instead of that annoying hair metal one. :)

[kowh.livejournal.com]

I've long since given up on bothering to follow genre names. You learn the few to avoid (country) and then just listen to anything and everything, buying what you like as you go. Pandora was pretty good for that, but it's a pain for me to connect to that now as they started filtering based on your IP (although if you're in the states, you should be fine).

Often the best way is to find someone with overlap in musical tastes in music and try songs they like that you haven't heard. You'll find stuff you don't care for, but likely also stuff you'd never have found otherwise. I'm sure if you post a few examples of the types of songs you like, we can suggest others to try.

[gwyd.livejournal.com]

If you listed some bands you like, maybe people could help you label them/

[cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com]

Thing is, outside of the 80s (the period when I listened to the radio a lot, I was part of the culture, and my tastes in music "set" like gelatin if not like concrete) and movie or game soundtracks, it's kind of eclectic... the result of being exposed to things on a random basis.

The song in the "music" field of this post, for example, is something that was used as the soundtrack for a Youtube video about, of all things, a Pokemon character. I learned of Jonathan Coulton's work in much the same way. I first heard Robert Miles' music at a skating rink. My first exposure to techno (years ago) was the soundtrack to Wip3out XL on the PSone... get the idea?

My occasional enjoyment of "dance" (trance, electronica, etc) is ironically amusing to me because I've never been the sort to go clubbing, even when I was younger and thinner. :p