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[Justin]

Up until maybe a year ago I really only listened to 100% film music. I took pride in my dedication to it. However, over the past 10-12 months I've been listening to diffrent music more and more ranging from The Beatles, to my (rather surprising) passion for AC/DC. Infact, once my enthusiasm for Munich died down, I'd guess the majority of the music I've been listening to has not been film music. So far in my journey into other kinds of music (mainly old school rock) I've discovered at least a partial enjoyment for The Beatles, AC/DC, Guns N' Roses, Queen, Led Zepplin, The Who, The Rolling Stones, Jimmy Hendrix, Pink Floyd and many others. So, percentage wise, exactly how much film music are you listening to these days?

Justin

[Stefancos]

99.9% of the music I have paid money to listen to is film music.

I can enjoy pop music on the radio at work, but I don't listen really listen to it outside of the factory.

I consider myself a purist.

[Genius_Gone_Insane]

METAL 90%
JOHN WILLIAMS 9.5%
DIDO .4%
OTHER .1%

[Trent Bennett]

Most of my music listening mostly has to deal with film scores.

However there are other genre's if I'm in the mood for I'll listen to. Hard Rock, Metal, Rap, SOME country, etc...

With the type of friends I have you tend to listen to EVERY type of genre but as I said the other genre music I mostly have to be in the mood for to listen to it. Unless I'm of course with my friends then I have no choice but to listen to it lol.

[John Crichton]

Pretty much 100% film/TV/video game music. I still have a soft spot for country, being Texan and all, but I don't listen to it actively anymore.

[Richard Penna]

Mostly film music, I'd say 90% +

Some songs, but many of them from a movie, and most of the others either nostalgic or the kind of song you find in American teen movies (I'm into them at the moment). I also like Alanis Morissette, some Michael Jackson (don't even start) and similar.

Plus a bit of classical, but it only gets played very rarely some nights when I feel like being at my most mature.

[Marcus]

Any music that is good, which means that I tend to listen to mostly great classical music (there's plenty of not-so-great classical music too). But I love all kinds of music. As for film scores, I only really listen to a select few composers, like Korngold, Herrmann, Rosza, Waxman and Goldsmith. And John Williams, first and foremost.
I'm mostly saddened by the decline in the art of film scoring (at least in Hollywood), but by the same token even more enthusiastic when I hear something new that shows promise. Goldenthal comes to mind. Early McNeely, perhaps...

[Joey]

I gave all of my alleged child molester cd's away. I have some heavy metal because it was James', but AC/DC is pure noise, somebody just grind them up and feed them to the chickens. I listen to country, film scores, some pop, and a few other things, that other mind find to be noise.

[nightscape94]

John Williams is a significant portion of my listening, but I do venture outside of that world, so much so that when I listen to film music I'm really venturing into that world. Other then John Williams and other assorted composers of film scores, I listen to the following:

Classical (Classical/Romantic/20th Century)
Prog Rock (Pink Floyd, Dream Theater, Radiohead, Pain of Salvation, Yes, Porcupine Tree, Moody Blues, etc..)
Classic Rock (Boston, The Who, Beatles, etc...)
Rock (Soundgarden, Pearl Jam (first 3 albums), Toad the Wet Sprocket, etc...)
Metal (Metallica (the glory years), Megadeth, Symphony X, Iced Earth, Demons & Wizards, Iron Maiden ("Powerslave" era) etc...)

Etc, etc, etc,

Tim

[BurgaFlippinMan]

I like Michael jackson, U2, BeeGees, Coldplay, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Eric Clapton and Norah Jones. 97% of music I buy is film music though.

[Red Rabbit]

My taste is pretty varied. But like most people on this board the majority of what I listen to is film/video game music.

[Henry Buck]

I use to be very purist too. Now, I listen to film music about 50% of the time. I'm not much into rock, but some of the oldies are good... mostly random stuff I hear around the place, not collect. I received the Born on the Fourth of July soundtrack recently and enjoyed The Temptations' "My Girl." My chief interest outside of film music is musicals. Anything from Babes in Arms to Rent. I'm more fond of the orchestral musicals, but "Seasons of Love" is a great song... etc. And, yes, I like Andrew Lloyd Webber. Boo, hiss.

[KingPin]

Predominantly film and classical music, especially when I'm driving in the car. But I do like a lot of rock/alternative/indie, which I listen to at work or depending on my mood. Some of my favorites include Weezer, Aerosmith, G Love and Special Sauce, Big Japan, Franz Ferdinand, Greenday, White Stripes, the Bocks, and the Strokes.

[Diego]

It's a bit odd but I pretty much only listen to The Beatles (including solo works) and film music (mostly Williams, although slowly I've been getting to other composers), I probably listen to The Beatles a bit more, I'd say 65% Beatles, 35% Film music.

[Romão]

Mostly film music, but there are 3 bands I simply can't get enough of, and none of them have anything in common:

- Dire Straits (and Mark Knopfler)
- Depeche Mode
- Megadeth (Mustaine is a god)

[Indiana_Fett]

Joe....Jesus Christ...

[Ray Barnsbury]

Film music probably 75% of the time....the rest is mostly various pop/rock/alternative. Some favorite current bands are Phantom Planet (even if you've never heard of them, you probably know their song "California" from the film Orange County and Fox TV's The OC), All-American Rejects (I got into them most recently with "Dirty Little Secret" and "Move Along"), Blink 182, Green Day, etc. I also love The Beatles. Basically I like anything "feel-good"....I'm much less critical of pop/rock music than I am of film music, since I generally hold film scores to higher standards.

Ray Barnsbury

[nightscape94]

Joe....Jesus Christ...

I know you're shocked, but these two people are, in fact, mutually exclusive.

Tim

[AI]

passion for AC/DC.

hell. yes.

We roll tonight
To the guitar bite...

[Melisande]

I listen to everything, quite literally. A brief glance at my iTunes playlists shows that I listen to: classic rock, J-pop, metal, classical, reggae, punk, reggaeton, latin, dance, jungle, techno, film music, jazz and standards, rap, disco, '70s soul, hip hop, country, traditional Irish music, African tribal beats... and it goes on.

I'm not sure what that says about myself...

[Incanus]

I mainly listen to film music and jazz as well as classical. With my limited monetary resources it would be ruinous to start buying all the music I like outside those 3 genres. My tastes range from Rock to classical and everything in between. I like many songs but before I did not want to buy a whole CD to get that one particular song but in this day and age it is not difficult to get that one particular song anymore.

[scissorhands]

-Soundtracks
-Flamenco
-J-Pop
-Jazz
-Classical/Contemporary
-ethnic (african, oriental, etc.)
-Choral
-...
and
-Geinoh Yamashirogumi

But mostly John Williams.

[John McClane]

Phantom Planet [...] Blink 182, Green Day, etc.

It quite surprises me you like pop-punk like Green Day, Ray, that's nice. Blink-182 used to be good untill 1999 (Enema of the State), back when they had fun, wrote funny songs and be jackasses all the time. Then they messed up their career what all that crap like "writing mature songs", "grow up", and stuff. Green Day, on the contrary, are older than them, but still can be funny, which doesn't mean you have to be young to have fun.
I don't love particularly the chorus in "California", but the vocal melody in the verses is absolutely great, I love it.


As my musical tastes, well it's bizarre. I like a lot of different kind of music, and I listen to different things.
There hasn't been a single day since 2001 in which I din't listened to at least 1 NOFX song. There are periods in which the majority of stuff I listen is rap, other periods scores, others metal, but NOFX is always up there, a constant presence anywhere I am.

I generally prefer fast music, so fast punk, the fast metal aka thrash metal (but I really like every kind of metal - except maybe doom metal, even if there are exception) and even some fast banjo bluegrass stuff (I don't own any bluegrass CD, I don't know any particular artist, but damn, they play faaast!!). I rarely listen to Italian music.

So here is a little close-up:
[list]
[*]Punk: NOFX, good old Offspring, LagWagon, Pennywise, Good Riddance, older Satanic Surfers, the wonderful cover band Me First and the Gimme Gimmes (you should check 'em out - they covered a lot of famous songs), older Blink-182, the always good Green Day, Bad Religion...
[*]Rap: Eminem, Wu-Tang Clan, Nas, Dr. Dre. Not a lot of names (I like some other too - Expecially East Coast), but Wu-Tang Clan release hundreds of songs every year, so they're enough for me.
[*]Rock in general: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Queen, Guns'N'Roses, Mötorhead, Bryan Adams, AC/DC, Dire Straits, guitar gods like Jimi Hendrix, Joe Satriani, Yngwie Malmsteen...
[*]Thrash Metal: Anthrax, Slayer, Testament, Metallica, Pantera, Megadeth, Exodus, Overkill...
[*]Death Metal: (I rarely listen to this kind of music, but as all the kind of metal, CD covers are funny! ) Death, Deicide, Obituary, Slipknot, Cannibal Corpse (a band that Jim Carrey is a great fan of ) Metal musicians always choose funny names to give to their band, that is sure.
[*]Black Metal: I like the mix between classical and metal music, in bands like Dimmu Borgir, Bathory, Burzum, Venom...it's an interesting mix IMO, and a lot of songs of these bands are exclusively classical music (played of course with keyboards - but most of them have a sound which is more realistic than Zimmer's sound ). Satanic lyrics want to be scary, but on the contrary I find most of them as funny and bizarre. A lot of bands use Latin, which I don't know. I read some English lyrics here and there, but the lyrics isn't a interesting aspect for me in this kind of music, since I'm much more interested in the sound of this curious mix.
[*]Epic/Power/Speed/Symphonic Metal: it's a great kind of music, my close second favorite after thrash. This is most of the time a fast music, but there are wonderful orchestral moments. Lyrics are often about epic battles, fantasy, science-fiction, tales/legends, medieval times, and so on. My favorite bands are Bal-Sagoth (truly a gem to discover), Helloween, Rhapsody, Stratovarius, Blind Guardian, Hammerfall, Kamelot, Manowar (and I should add Iron Maiden as well, since this is the music they mostly do if we wanna label it)...and CD covers are most of the times masterpieces of art.[list]

Plus of course classical music, so John Williams and a lot of other filmmusic composers I don't wanna list once again, as I'm tired of typing.
Then obviously classical composers like Beethoven, Wagner, Mozart...

[Mr. Breathmask]

I think about 90% of my listening consists of film scores. Other times it's just assorted songs I happen to like. I do have some Pink Floyd albums, copied off my dad's originals, and I'd like to explore The Beatles better. My dad has all their records, and I remember as a kid I once was going to listen to all of them in a row, but I don't think I got any further than the first few albums. Yellow Submarine might be as far as I got. It's kind of hazy now. Unfortunately, the record player is no longer working, and we only have Sgt. Pepper's and 1 on CD.
But as far as music goes, I haven't spent any money on anything other than scores since at least 2001.

[robthehand]

I don't know if "broad" is the word for my tastes... they're not as narrow as ONLY film and classical music (which makes up the majority of my CD collection), I like a few other odds'n'ends, but nothing else that I'd call myself a fan of.

[Luke Skywalker]

I dont own any non film scores cd.

I just listen to non film music when i go out. And i dont enjoy all of it...

Luke who wonders how popular would be a pud that used film music

[futuremartymcfly]

anything I choose to listen to is either film music or classical, so thus all my albums are either film music or classical. however, since I cannot drive and my parents like popular music, thats what I end up having to listen to on short trips in the car.

[Mark Olivarez]

I would say that 95% of the music I listen to these days is film music.

Most of the other music I enjoy listening to is from 1975 to 1986. I really find it hard to say anything positive about music since the mid 90's.

I hate country and really don't enjoy classical as strange as that may sound. I cannot stand modern rap, give me RunDMC anytime over today's stuff.

Some of my listening pleasures include:

Earth Wind & Fire
The Commodores
Kool & The Gang
K.C. & the Sunshine Band
The Police
Duran Duran
Metallica
Def Leppard
AC/DC
Van Halen
INXS
Phil Collins
Michael Jackson (Thriller- to good of an album to get rid of)
Bruce Hornsby
Chicago
The Eagles
Madonna - before the 90's
Warrant
Poison
Lenny Kravitz
Chic
U2

[Diego]

I'd like to explore The Beatles better. My dad has all their records, and I remember as a kid I once was going to listen to all of them in a row, but I don't think I got any further than the first few albums. Yellow Submarine might be as far as I got. It's kind of hazy now. Unfortunately, the record player is no longer working, and we only have Sgt. Pepper's and 1 on CD.
But as far as music goes, I haven't spent any money on anything other than scores since at least 2001.

You should give Rubber Soul, Revolver, Magical Mistery Tour and the White Album a very good listen, you won't regret it.

[ymenard]

If I exclude all things soundtrack-related.



Venetian Snares. Autechre. Aphex Twin. Boards of Canada. Squarepusher. mu-ziq. Amon Tobin. etc....

But also Coltrane, Miles, Dylan, N. Young, Philip Glass, etc... All 50+ albums each with extensive bootlegs (thank you dimeadozen!)

the VU. William Basinski. Pink Floyd. Godspeed you Black Emperor!. Sigur Ros. NIN. Radiohead. The Arcade Fire. The Beatles. The Flaming Lips. Dozens and dozens of others. It'll never end, my love for artistic sound.

[Elmo Lewis]

I have a very broad taste in musicals of all genre (from Gershwin's operettas, likeStrike Up the Band to Jonathan Larson's rock/techno-ish Rent), so that's a bit of a departure from film music.

Then again, my iTunes also lists albums by The Kinks, The Who, Arctic Monkeys, Eminem, Alanis Morisette, Benny Goodman, the Ben Taylor Band, Bruce Springsteen, Prokofiev, Nena Daconte, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Mecano, Joss Stones, Keane, The Killers, Lifehouse, Mahler, Meatloaf, Mindy Smith, Queen, Frank Zappa, King Crimson, Remy Zero, Sarah Brightman, Shakira, Sixpence, Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grappelli, Texas, They Might be Giants, Weezer, Johnny Cash, Massive Attack, Simple Plan or The Goo Goo Dolls.

[MrScratch]

I'd like to explore The Beatles better. My dad has all their records, and I remember as a kid I once was going to listen to all of them in a row, but I don't think I got any further than the first few albums. Yellow Submarine might be as far as I got. It's kind of hazy now. Unfortunately, the record player is no longer working, and we only have Sgt. Pepper's and 1 on CD.
But as far as music goes, I haven't spent any money on anything other than scores since at least 2001.

You should give Rubber Soul, Revolver, Magical Mistery Tour and the White Album a very good listen, you won't regret it.

Yes, those early Beatle albums are unlistenable in my opinion. That early stuff is pretty much boy-band fluff, with a few highlights. Start with Help! and listen to everyone of those onward.

Help, Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt Peppers, Magical Mystery Tour, White Album, Abbey Road and Let It Be. Abbey Road being the best. Check out the original Yellow Submarine album as well, it's half songs and half score by George Martin that is pretty good.

I listen to:

50% Classical
45% Film Score
5% Pop/Rock

Jeff - who has not posted in quite a while, Hi everyone!

[Atreides]

About 50-50 between film music and progressive rock (most specifically, the styles blended with metal, such as Dream Theater, Symphony X, etc.). It used to be 50-50 between film scores and metal in general, but my tastes in rock music have become much more selective.

I'm trying to turn them into thirds, by listening to more classical music.

[Red Rabbit]

Is anyone else repulsed at JoeinAr's picture? I know I am.

[nightscape94]

Godspeed you Black Emperor!

And I thought I was part of a secret elite group who loves these guys

Godspeed You! Black Emperor is a great band (notice my positioning of the exclamation point )

Tim "Storm"

[Diego]

Yes, those early Beatle albums are unlistenable in my opinion.  That early stuff is pretty much boy-band fluff, with a few highlights.  Start with Help! and listen to everyone of those onward.

Help, Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt Peppers, Magical Mystery Tour, White Album, Abbey Road and Let It Be.  Abbey Road being the best.  Check out the original Yellow Submarine album as well, it's half songs and half score by George Martin that is pretty good.

I strongly disagree about the early albums, there are a lot of good songs, great performances and a lot of energy. However they are indeed in a different style and I can understand why someone who likes the later albums may not enjoy the early ones. Like you said the turning point was probably Help!, altough I would say the change started in Beatles for Sale.

[scissorhands]

Is anyone else repulsed at JoeinAr's picture? I know I am.

Me too. I don't get the point of that picture in a serious musical taste thread.

[Ray Barnsbury]

Me First and the Gimme Gimmes  

I always wondered about them...the only time I've heard of them was recently, when I downloaded their rock version of "The Rainbow Connection," which is fun. You say they've redone a lot of older stuff?

Ray Barnsbury

[David Coscina]

Except for country music. I like almost all types. My faves are:

John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, Elliot Goldenthal, Alex North, Bernard Herrmann and Michael Kamen for film scoring.
Mahler, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Vaughan Williams, Debussy, Zemlinsky, Elgar, John Adams and Bartok for classical.
Supertramp, Alan Parsons Project, Bjork, Soundgarden, Rush, The Who, The Eagles, America, Alice in Chains, Chantal Kreviazuk for pop/rock.
Vangelis, Tangerine Dream, Tomita, and Kitaro for New Age/Electronic.
John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Sonny Rollins, Art Tatum, Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays, Allan Holdsworth, Thelonious Monk, Branford Marsalis, Michael Brecker, Dave Holland, Miles Davis, and Chick Corea for jazz/fusion
and the list goes on and on and on and on........

[Mr. Breathmask]

Yes, those early Beatle albums are unlistenable in my opinion.  That early stuff is pretty much boy-band fluff, with a few highlights.  Start with Help! and listen to everyone of those onward.

Help, Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt Peppers, Magical Mystery Tour, White Album, Abbey Road and Let It Be.  Abbey Road being the best.  Check out the original Yellow Submarine album as well, it's half songs and half score by George Martin that is pretty good.

I strongly disagree about the early albums, there are a lot of good songs, great performances and a lot of energy. However they are indeed in a different style and I can understand why someone who likes the later albums may not enjoy the early ones. Like you said the turning point was probably Help!, altough I would say the change started in Beatles for Sale.

I think I didn't get any further than Help! Must be why I'm so very unfamiliar with what are often referred to as great Beatle songs and albums.

I remember liking the Yellow Submarine album, and the score tracks on it. I probably have some of it on a cassette tape lying around somewhere.