hi, im doing a survey

[fdrjk]

Answer:
Five top favorite artists/groups/bands.
Three top favorite genres.
Three least favorite genres.
Two things you look for when listening to music.
One thing you can't stand in music.
One comment about modern music as a whole (doesn't have to be about music that's popular).

 

[[BTF] Reflex]

That's not a survey, that's an essay.

I'll need to do some research, and maybe some soul searching.

[random]

Answer:
Five top favorite artists/groups/bands.

1) SHM
2) coldplay
3) miike snow
4) Kanye West
5) Daft Punk

Answer:
Three top favorite genres.

Dance / House / whatever you want to call it music
Hip Hop
Alternative Rock

Three least favorite genres.

1) country
2) cash money rap
3) death metal

Answer:
Two things you look for when listening to music.

Great Mixdown / Mastering
chord progressions

Answer:
One thing you can't stand in music.

songs that rap about hookers / drugs / murder / money

Answer:
One comment about modern music as a whole (doesn't have to be about music that's popular).

America will destroy house music.

[|iR|Focalor]

Five favorite artists/groups/bands:
1. Hannah Montana
2. Bay City Rollers
3. Black Eyed Peas
4. K.D. Lang
5. Disturbed

Three favorite genres:
1. Gangsta rap
2. Broadway showtunes
3. Motown

Three least favorite genres:
1. Classical
2. Rock and roll
3. metal

Two things you look for when listening to music:
1. The number of seeders for the torrent
2. As much autotune as possible

One thing you can't stand in music:
1. Talent

One comment about modern music as a whole:
Modern music is newer than older music. And Taylor Swift is a better songwriter than Mozart. And people will NEVER get tired of hearing Justin Beiber because he's fucking awesome.

[2d]

Five favorite artists/groups/bands:
1. Kris Kross
2. Vanilla Ice
3. Michael Jackson
4. Britney Spears
5. Aerosmith
6. 2pac
7. Boyz 2 Men
8. Jimmy Hendrix

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Three favorite genres:
1. Country
2. Dance
3. HipHop

Three least favorite genres:
1. Opera
2. Mariachi
3. Death Metal

Two things you look for when listening to music:
1. The instrumental rhythm
2. Clear signal for the radio station

One thing you can't stand in music:
1. People like Nikki Minaj

One comment about modern music as a whole:
The politicians and puppeteers were successful in changing the cultural music atmosphere from east vs west (murdering thug gangsta life) to a positive mix of dance, country, rock, hip hop.

[|iR|Focalor]

Way to be original, shitfuck.

[quadz]

"Three top favorite genres."

Hard/heavy/progressive rock

Funk (more as a characteristic or quality that can be heard in various artists across several genres)

Electronic (generally chill out / trip hop part of the spectrum, with a side of aphex twin)

Also: Blistering ripping blazing jazz improvisation that's almost off the rails yet still anchored to discernible structure and melody. (Whatever genre that is )


"Two things you look for when listening to music."

1. Anything surprisingly awesome: could be stellar technique; groove; composition; subtle emotional content; or for instance when the band sounds like they're all in the same head-space putting all their energy behind an idea that resonates with me as the listener.

2. Harmonic inventiveness. (Nothing quite so frustrating as hearing a musician with mind-bendingly phenomenal chops and technique playing the hell out of a sequence of utterly mundane scales and hackneyed chord progressions...)



"One thing you can't stand in music."

Calculated blandness.

[adz1La]

One thing that ticks me off about the last 5 or more years in the music industry is they ram all that rap crap down our throats. I'm talking about the stuff that adren adds to his quake2 videos on youtube... exibit A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhyJekN9FvI

It just doesn't appeal to me.

lol!

[Sgt. Dick]

Five favorite artists/groups/bands:
1. Kris Kross
2. Vanilla Ice
3. Michael Jackson
4. Britney Spears
5. Aerosmith
6. 2pac
7. Boyz 2 Men
8. Jimmy Hendrix

How did I know 2dum would get it wrong. 

[Sgt. Dick]

Are we getting paid to do this survey/essay 

[haunted]

southern rock, blues rock, classic rock

the end

[fdrjk]

There are so many bands, songs ect ect, its hard to sum it all up in a few lines.

If you listen to a lot of bands, then the five that you choose over them all will hold some sort of superiority.

One thing you can't stand in music:
1. People like Nikki Minaj

I actually liked her on Monster.

One thing that ticks me off about the last 5 or more years in the music industry is they ram all that rap crap down our throats.

Give some modern hip hop a chance... or at least give older "golden age" rap a chance as well.

Are we getting paid to do this survey/essay 

I value opinions. 

[fdrjk]

might as well do it myself.

Five top favorite bands:
My Bloody Valentine
Interpol
Joy Division
Radiohead
Ride (Before Carnival of Light)

Top three favorite genres:
Post-punk
Shoegaze
IDM

Three least favorite genres:
Soft country 
Brostep
Trance

Two things you look for blah blah:
Lyrics that are actually personal to the person singing them.
I like it when just as much effort is put into a whole album than just certain songs on it.

One thing you can't stand in music:
Shouted/screamed vocals. There are a few exceptions, but is there ANY fucking reason that a song can't have a normal person singing instead of someone screeching like a lost little girl?

One comment about modern music:
I think people have done a good job at expanding on ideas that were made 20-60 years ago, and even making ideas of their own. Also, MTV needs to fucking die.

[|iR|Focalor]

To be serious...

Five favorite bands:
This one's kinda hard to limit to just 5. But I always prefer bands where ALL the musicians are exceptional at the instruments they play. I also prefer the ones where they all come together playing those instruments to blend into a cohesive unit that allows each one to display their talents.
1. Death
Most people probably don't think of death metal as a viable kind of quality music, but Death tended to transcend the genre. Chuck Schuldiner as a vocalist had probably the most unique and recognizable vocal delivery of the entire genre, and his lyrics were unique in that they were about REAL and accessible topics, not the typical "death, hell, and Satan" shit that 98% of the other bands covered. As a guitarist/composer he was highly talented and unique. He also hand-picked only the best session musicians to play with him, guitarists like James Murphy, Paul Masvidal, Andy LaRoque, Shannon Hamm, drummers like Sean Reinert, Gene Hoglan, Richard Christy, bassists like Steve DiGiorgio, Kelly Conlon.
2. Mastodon
Again, another band loaded with talent in every corner. They've taken the groundwork of the progressive rock of the 70's and reshaped it fit within the metal genre seamlessly. Their approach to composition is peerless. Their fearlessness for experimentation always ends with well-formed results.
3. Down
Obviously another stacked deck as far as talent. A supergroup composed of members of Pantera, Crowbar, and Corrosion of Conformity. Also another band that isn't afraid to take wide steps away from the traditional metal format, and usually with truly interesting results. Phil Anselmo may not have the prettiest voice, but it fits perfectly with the overall sound.
4. Lynyrd Skynyrd (1973-1977)
I like this band for several reasons. All of the musicians are great at what they play and do, none of them truly outshine the rest of them, and they fit together seamlessly at all times.
5. Slayer
This band isn't exactly "diverse". They do one thing, and that's blast the living shit out of you with an aural assault of anger and rage. But they always fit together perfectly. They typically stick to one type of scale as far as composition, but they execute it so well that I can't help but respect the integrity of it. It's also nice knowing that any time you pick up one of their albums, you pretty much know what to expect, it's exactly what you're looking for, and you're never disappointed.

Three favorite genres:
So many god damn sub-genres these days that it's impossible to keep up with them, so fuck it, I'm gonna use the broadest possible descriptors.
1. Metal
2. Progressive
3. Classic Rock

Three least favorite genres:
1. Rap
There are a handful of rap albums I don't despise for various reasons. OutKast's Stankonia for example. It had a good bit of very experimental composition and cross-genre tinkering.
2. Boy band
Fuck em all. They are everything I hate in music. Boring lyrical topics, boring composition, talentless execution, they are more about "look" than "sound". Nothing good can be said about it no matter how objective you force yourself to be or how deep you look.
3. Contemporary Christian
They are worse than boy bands because the lyrical topics are even MORE narrow and boring. You could push it all into one pile and burn it and no one would miss it.

Two things you look for when listening to music:
1. Talent
2. Logical cohesive composition

One thing you can't stand in music:
1. Silence
Obviously. Can't really put a finger on any one thing in any music itself. There are plenty of "music industry" types of things I can't stand, but it's hard to find any one thing in any song that I don't think would ever have a logical place to fit within another song. Everything has an appropriate place and a time. So if I had to be a little more specific, I guess I would say using the wrong instrument in the wrong song. For example, accordions do not belong in death metal.

One comment about modern music as a whole:
It sucks as a whole, but then again, as a whole, EVERYTHING ALWAYS sucks. The exceptional IS exceptional because it always lands outside of the whole of everything else.

[fdrjk]

One thing you can't stand in music:
1. Silence

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