Bands I want to see next time they're here: Bloodhound Gang Yeah Yeah Yeahs O.A.R. NOFX Wham! -- Just kidding!!! Wake me up before you go go... oh yeah.
Got into metal in high school: Metallica, Nuclear Assault, Coroner, Exodus, Megadeth, Iron Maiden, etc...
Then went the classic rock route while working at a restaraunt, going to college, playing frisbee golf, smoking pot, goofing off: Pink Floyd, Grateful Dead, Zepplin, Joe Walsh, Beatles.
Then lost the lables and just listened to whatever I felt like. Some include: OAR, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Janes Addiction, NOFX, sometimes trance/techno can hold my interest while spinning.
Now I'm a big mixed up collection of everyting I've liked before. I'm not crazy about country though. There are some older willy nelson or marty robbins type songs that I like, but the 80s and on pop/country stuff... gag.
I thought about this and spent some time figuring out what makes a certain peice of music appeal to me. Whether it's Fur Elise or Creeping Death or So Moved On... it's intensity: the ability to evoke a feeling or emotion. From sadness, excitement, regret, invulnerability, whatever. If the music or the story is powerful enough to move me, I tend to add it to my list of music that I like.
Who sung this? "I've been working on a piece that speaks of sex and desparation, I've been screwing on the tracks of abandoned train stations."
I subscribe to the blockbuster online thing. It rocks! I suck at returning stuff on time so this saves me some bread.
Ones I liked:Everyone... there's something in everyone that's admirable, it's not always easy to see. I'm a believer that you can learn something from everyone you meet, that each person does something better than you. The funny thing is I usually don't have the patience or interest to try and figure out what it is.