" Hip Hop, primarily, although I'm not wild about the state of it right now. Where is the talent these days? "
it's in the underground. check out some of these: Atmosphere Immortal Technique Cage Grayskul Brother AliMF DOOM Lupe FiascoSage Francis P.O.S. Sadistik Jedi Mind Tricks Cecil Otter Aesop Rock Eyedea & Abilities Blu & Exile La Coka Nostra Hasan Salaam K'naan K-Os Tonedeff CunninLynguists "
And remember Black Milk, eLZhi and Blaq Poet. Blaq Poet even had Premier as producer on his latest album
" Hip Hop, primarily, although I'm not wild about the state of it right now. Where is the talent these days? "
it's in the underground. check out some of these: Atmosphere Immortal Technique Cage Grayskul Brother AliMF DOOM Lupe FiascoSage Francis P.O.S. Sadistik Jedi Mind Tricks Cecil Otter Aesop Rock Eyedea & Abilities Blu & Exile La Coka Nostra Hasan Salaam K'naan K-Os Tonedeff CunninLynguists "
And remember Black Milk, eLZhi and Blaq Poet. Blaq Poet even had Premier as producer on his latest album "
Thanks guys. I am familiar with a number of these names. Some I like a lot, some not as much (just recently getting into Atmosphere in particular, and I'm enjoying their stuff quite a bit), but there are definitely some names here that are new to me and I'll be checking out.
what does it matter? im just gonna say : rock and metal music, and nobody even notices what other people say 'cept if its funny/witty ...
P.S. i know your type of music fans, that mixture of poppish rock and indie and pop .. makes me sick in my stomach cuz the few people i knew who liked that cocktail were totally unpleasant and had something up their pee holes.
" disturbed,korn,slipknot,aerosmith,mcr and other rock
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it's like every time someone mocks hip hop,, they're required by law to also list thier favorite bands, and have them be laughably bad, or even vaguely hip hop influenced themselves.
Anyway.
most of what i listen too is (gasp) hip hop, soul, blues and folk, favorite acts:
Gnarls Barkley The Roots Tom Waits The Fugees and all related solo artists (did prazwell ever do a solo album?) Mos Def Bruce Springsteen Dela Soul Tupac (cliche!) Mice Parade Common A Tribe Called Quest Jackie Wilson old Snoop old Ice Cube Guy Davis Eryka Bhadu Ottis Redding
Alternative, post-punk, garage revival rock. I mostly listen to The Strokes and Arctic Monkeys. But there are dozens of other bands and singers of other genres I listen to.
Notice to GenreNazi's: You over complicate things.
Black metal: Mayhem, Darkthrone, Akercocke, Enslaved, Satyricon, Rotting Christ, Gorgoroth Thrash metal: Municipal Waste, Slayer, Sepultura, Evile, Kreator, Megadeth, Bison Death metal: Cannibal Corpse (Corpsegrinder, motherfuckers), Death, Behemoth, Bloodbath, Nile, Opeth, Gojira
I will conclude this post with a video from Kathaarsys; a progressive metal band from Spain. [Those who don't generally listen to metal may like this one!]
@IndieBoy: mostly metal, but i also enjoy the hives, i see you're a fan, as well as some rap, hip hop, classical, rock, actually whatever as long as it's not country or elevator music.
I'll listen to whatever reflects my mood at the time. I can't definitely say pop because when I'm in a bad mood I really don't want to listen to Christina Aguilera warbling in my ear , I want James Hetfield getting aggro. Although, Metallica seems to match all my moods, happy or vengeful.
If I had to pick a type though .. I'd say anything that makes me feel like getting up and boogieing down. Nothing like some McHammer to brighten up the world, eh?
Thanks guys. I am familiar with a number of these names. Some I like a lot, some not as much (just recently getting into Atmosphere in particular, and I'm enjoying his stuff quite a bit), but there are definitely some names here that are new to me and I'll be checking out. "
Your welcome =) But yeah it is a bit hard to find the talented rappers, but there are a lot of good Underground-rappers. Gotta add two more =P Talib Kweli and Novel. Talib has been on a Kanye album, and some others stuff, so he is a pretty well-known rapper. Novel has proven on his latest EP, that he can do both rap, soul and that kinda stuff, a really cool dude =)
Industrial and it's many sub-genres, be it EBM, power noise, futurepop or what-have-you. I've been listening to lots of FGFC820, Animassacre and Left Spine Down as of late.
" Post-Rock. To me, everything else is cliche, banal, predictable -- pre-determined by templates, words, constraining singularity. Post-Rock is the universe outside of the hook and chorus planetary system. Post-Rock is the space between your toes and pressure in your ears, the power welling up your spine, the blurring colors of the world when you spin. Post-Rock is life. "
I think post rock has gotten pretty generic. Unless you can recommend me some bands that don't follow the quiet-loud-quiet scheme.
Recent efforts by Mogwai and Sigur Ros have done a bit to bend the genre in new, exciting ways. But, like any budding "indie" substratum, the majority of aspiring Post-Rock groups are all carbon copies of their inspirations. The low-brow, unsigned or small label Post-Rock bands all stick pretty closely to the "crescendocore" formula, while the high-end, established groups are doing really magnificent things with the niche space they've been given.
Soul- Otis Redding Percy Sledge Sam Cooke 
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