Listening Habits

[Koray Savas 2,251]

I know there have been several threads that discuss other music we listen to besides film scores. However, how to you organize and listen to the music you like?

If I just listened to film scores I would eventually get bored and tired with them and begin to dislike them. I like to vary between score and songs in chuncks. For a month I'll listen to scores, then switch to songs, and then go back and forth like that.

I don't think I can listen to John Williams one minute and then switch to The Beatles the next, it just doesn't work for me like that.

Right now I'm more into songs than scores. Bad timing too, cause soon there are going to be a lot of good releases.

[indy4 155]

For the most part, I only listen to scores. I have a couple Weird Al and Dr. Demento CDs, a couple classical ones, and some other random ones, but I rarely listen to them.

[Henry B 50]

Film scores, video game scores, Broadway cast albums, songs (mostly singles I've acquired, not albums) and classical. I try to vary it up.

[Bryant Burnette 654]

I tend to work through various collections, but I'm not rigid. I've been going through my John Williams (I'm up to Heartbeeps), but I also just bought the new Moby CD, so I'll probably listen to that for a week or so before getting back to JW.

I'm also in the middle of running through my Bob Dylan collection (I'm up to Desire).

So I mix and match, but with a sort-of method.

[AzOutcast 122]

I tend to bounce back and forth between film/video game scores and rock music.

Right now I'm in rock mode and that can last a month or so, then I'll flip into score mode and listen to nothing but scores (no doubt my next score kick will being on the 20th). I've been like that as long as I can remember.

[oierem 152]

Classical music, basically.

[Maglorfin 196]

Usually I'll listen to one genre for a week or two or even a month, then switch to another. Approximately 80 % of the time I listen to soundtracks, classical music and jazz, other 20 % is mainly progressive metal and, from time to time, some rock or pop (I really like the disco -70s-80s music).

[Richard Penna 3,690]

I only have maybe a couple of hundred 'normal' songs on here, and I generally listen to them in isolated moments as we all have moods when we need something different

[Marian Schedenig 8,193]

It shifts from day to day (as can be traced in my signature). But it never includes rap.

[King Mark 3,631]

Only Film Scores .Every day on my ipod.

I don't see why a person who listens to various song "bands" would be said to have more varied tastes than someone who listens to various film composers.Also Film music crosses over many genre of music,from classical sounding to jazz sounding to modern sounding.

[oierem 152]

Of course, because film music isn't a genere per se.

[King Mark 3,631]

I'd say listening to film scores only is LESS close minded than classical only,or rock only.

[oierem 152]

Remember that what you call "classical " music is 1000 years of music, more or less.

[King Mark 3,631]

yeah,but most people listen to only a few composers.

[John Crichton 4]

If I'm in a video game or TV mood I try to listen to them together, otherwise it's just film music. I also almost always listen to franchise scores together, even when they're not by the same composer like Star Trek.

[Genius_Gone_Insane 5]

Great band:

[Charlie Brigden 7]

I go back and forth between scores and non-scores. My current ipod looks like this:

Amy Winehouse

Bernard Herrmann

Bjork

CSS

The Distillers

The Doors

Guns N' Roses

Howard Shore

James Horner

Jerry Goldsmith

John Williams

Johnny Cash

Led Zeppelin

Mark Isham

Nine Inch Nails

Portishead

Radiohead

Rage Against The Machine

Ramones

Rolling Stones

Depends on the mood, really.

[JoeinAR 1,949]

disgusting

[Marian Schedenig 8,193]

yeah,but most people listen to only a few composers.

Who?

Marian - who currently has all Muse albums, two Goldsmith scores, the She & Him album, some Stones and a few other bits on his mobile phone.

[Ray Barnsbury 8]

I listen to film music and various rock/pop/alternative songs mostly, along with a few musicals and some classical.

[Quintus 5,399]

Mainly film music, but a lot of the following:

Game music. The Halo Trilogy at the moment. I even like a lot of the old C64 stuff, crude by today's standards, but very nostalgic.

Classical. All the clichéd famous stuff mainly. Not really a fan of the enthusiast side of the genre.

Rap, Hip-Hop and R&B. Anything from Tupac, Eminem, through to Timbaland, Rihanna and even Leonna.

Rock and it's many variations. The usual classic stuff like Queen and Guns N' Roses through to the more punky sound of Green Day.

Pop. If a catchy song is doing well in the charts I'll normally have it in my media library. Anything good through the decades.

I love the sound of the '80s. Mod, New Romantic etc.

Dance music. Techno, Rave, Trance etc. Not so much these days, but for those here inexperienced in club culture, it's the loud booming music with the repetitive beat. DJ's of this music seamlessly mix different tracks together to create long uninterrupted music, which happens to be awesome to dance to whilst on amphetamines of some sort. Back in the day.

Basically, I'll listen to pretty much anything if my ear likes the sound of it.

[Melange 446]

The Doors

Good man. Good man.

Like most, I alternate between musical types. I listen to film scores fare less nowadays.

I find I appreciate them more after long periods of not having listened to scores at all.

It's easy to overdose on them, I find. You only appreciate water when you're thirsty.

[SturgisPodmore 0]

I probably listen to alt. rock more than anything else, but I place greater worth on film music. I have times when I listen to lots of film music for a while, then go back to rock...it goes back and forth. Rigth now I'm on a Beatles spree. (Shocking, right?)

~Sturgis

[Maglorfin 196]

I'm also a huge Beatlophile, forgot to mention it.

[Trent B 337]

I mostly listen to film score soundtracks but when I'm in the mood I'll listen to vocal music ...example, Disturbed, Rob Zombie, etc...stuff like that.

[Koray Savas 2,251]

Rigth now I'm on a Beatles spree. (Shocking, right?)

~Sturgis

You and me both!

Although for the last couple days I've been all Arctic Monkeys, a modern day Beatles per se. I've come to realize nothing compares to British rock, it's the best there is.

Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Arctic Monkeys, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, Elton John...

Bob Dylan is my favorite artist over all, but in terms of bands, it's all of the above. Add the American The Doors and Creedence Clearwater Revival and you pretty much have the main things I listen to in addition to film music.

[Red 75]

I also mainly listen to soundtracks, but I enjoy most genres of music (can, anyway). I'm a big fan of classic rock, and what would be considered "oldies". I can't really get into much of the modern stuff (as in the last decade or so).

[Koray Savas 2,251]

I'm a big fan of classic rock, and what would be considered "oldies". I can't really get into much of the modern stuff (as in the last decade or so).

Same.

[SturgisPodmore 0]

Yeah, I like the Arctic Monkeys pretty well, and I really enjoy the Fratellis, who are Scottish, I think, and they just have one CD out now.

My favorite modern-day band would have to be Yellowcard, though.

~Sturgis

[Ollie 1,059]

Every once and awhile I'll mix in something other than film music.

Some of my favorites are The Police, The Commodores, Chic, Earth Wind And Fire, AC/DC, Def Leppard, Metallica, KC & The Sunshine Band, Bruce Hornsby, The Eagles, Chicago and Toto.

[Trent Hoyt 13]

Pop. If a catchy song is doing well in the charts I'll normally have it in my media library. Anything good through the decades.

I think people are surprised at how much I can appreciate a good pop song.

[Koray Savas 2,251]

Yeah, I like the Arctic Monkeys pretty well, and I really enjoy the Fratellis, who are Scottish, I think, and they just have one CD out now.

~Sturgis

Yeah The Fratellis are pretty good too.

Some of my favorites are The Police, AC/DC

Both decent bands, I'll listen to them occasionally.

[Trent Hoyt 13]

I probably listen to bands more than scores but I think I'm more passionate about the film score community.

Current rotation:

Dave Matthews Band

The Grateful Dead

The New Pornographers

Brendan Benson

The Raconteurs

[Marian Schedenig 8,193]

Aside from Muse, I strongly recommend The Dresden Dolls. They're Boston-based, to tie them to Williams. In fact, singer/pianist/composer Amanda Palmer is scheduled for a concert with the Boston Pops later this year.

[Jacob 0]

Only Film Scores .

Ditto. And the occasional song that comes on a score album.

Oldies music used to be my musical passion. Then John Williams came along, stole my heart and refuses to give it back.

[John Crichton 4]

Like a Thuggie cult.

[Ollie 1,059]

Khali Ma....Khali Ma.....

[Trent Hoyt 13]

Indy cover your heart!

[Jacob 0]

No kidding. Parade of the Slave Children was one of my favorites even before I became a fanatic.

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