What do you listen to?

So what do you all like to listen to? Discribe you collection (size, format, make-up or any other criteria you have) and let's see what we have in common.

Personally, most of my collection is on CD (I came to this Earth just as the vinyl age was ending) with all of it loaded on to a large, well-used iPod. I also have a small collection of vinyls (I'm a bargain bin troll).

The music itself is a broad and shallow collection. Lots of rock, lots of blues/jazz/classical, some hip hop and electronica, country, soul, R&B and plenty of scattered pieces of other genres. Specialization is for insects.

My music collection surpasses my book collection. I must have well over 200 cds. Mostly country, but I have some rock, alternative, bluegrass, punk rock.

I don't own many CDs. Most of it is in mp3 format. I listen to anything though the genre I listen to most is dance/electronic and punk rock, rock, emo, alternative, hard rock. I also listen to classical, some country (very rare when I do.lol), rap/r&b, pop, Christian, Korean dance/pop.

On my ipod playlist right now is Taking back Sunday, Fall out Boy, Dashboard Confessional.

Really depends on my mood what I'll listen to. I find when I run that I listen to a lot of dance or punk rock/emo (beats help me pace).

LPs, cassette tapes and CDs.

Mostly opera and jazz.

Hey :)
I'm a music addict and I do mean addict. There's always a tune playing somewhere near me or even in my head, my own personnal/private jukebox.

I listen to a lot of different music genres, but mainly rock and metal, specially with a progressive edge to it. I buy CD's whenever I get the chance, own some vinyl LP's but not a lot since I'm a child of the 80's, and carry my music around in mp3 format.

And that's it, I suppose. :)

Hi. I just joined this group today so I wanted to chime in about my collection.

I admit that my music collection is a bit out of control. I have probably close to 3,000 CDs and some vinyl.

I listen to a little bit of everything but I would say my favorites are Americana, country, bluegrass, old r&b/soul, blues, and all of those New Orleans piano players. :)

Anyway, I just wanted to say hi.

First and foremost, I collect music connected with Duke Reid, a Jamaican record producer of the `60s - he ran two record labels, Treasure Isle and Dutchess, but had licensing arrangements with various non-Jamaican companies, most notably Trojan in the UK.

The music is largely ska/rocksteady/reggae, though he himself was primarily a jazz and blues man. Jazz is a noticeable influence, particularly in the early years.

As to live music, I tend to go more for variety than consistency - I`ve seen numerous bands, but stand-out acts would be The Holmes Brothers, Jools Holland, Ray Davies, Steve Harley, Chris Montez, Smokey Wilson (I think that was his name - elderly US blues man, now retired due to ill health), Hubert Sumlin, lots of different stuff. My wife likes `60s bands and anyone connected with the band Squeeze, so a lot of singer/songwriter type acts.

Since my work relaxed the rules and allow us to listen to personal stereos I have been enjoying filling up an iPod w/stuff to listen to to help me through the day- mainly I get CDs from the Public Library and copy them onto iTunes :)

Beck, Bjork, My bloody Valentine, Battles; I have also been listening to Rilo Kiley a lot as I'm going to watch them at the end of the month

How did I live before the invention of the iPod? That is the question. For the past few years I’ve been on a heavy metal kick. Have always been a metalhead, but it can take a back seat to other things. I’m a binge listener when it comes to styles or artists. A few years back it was SKA. For a while it was Warren Zevon. I obsess. My most recent obsession is Clutch.

Top artists/bands (in no particular order) – Warren Zevon, David Bowie, Monster Magnet, The Clash, Social Distortion, Dire Straits, Rob Zombie, REM, Primus, Corrosion of Conformity, Neil Young, Black Sabbath.

Collection is mostly digitalized CDs now, but as I’m old enough to have bought vinyl, I still have a bunch of that as well as my husband’s vinyl. We just played The Kinks’ Low Budget the other day. Great stuff. Recently threw away all my tapes from the 80s and early 90s as they never get played and were deteriorating.

Rarely goes the day that I don’t listen to something. I do admit that I’d rather have silence than something I hate. My dislikes are as total and obsessive as my likes and so bands that I don’t like will hardly stand a chance. Every once in a while, it happens, but not often. It’s weird. I love music, but I’m not that open to everything. I know what I like and pretty much stick to that.

Funnily enough I saw The Kinks on the (UK) Low Budget tour and wasn`t too impressed. Then again, these things are subjective - my wife`s a big Kinks fan and Low Budget is one of her favourite tunes (my favourite Kinks tune is Everybody`s Gonna Be Happy should anyone like to know).

Ra davies is still worth seeing as a live act. There is/was a band called Class of 64 with Kinks drummer Mick Avory in that are pretty good live as well.

Well I own a lot of LP's, 45's some 78's, CD's, Audio Cassettes and DVD's of The Beatles (of course), in HELP! A Hard Day's Night, Magical Mystery Tour, Yellow Submarine, THE WHO from The 1970 Isle of Wight 1970 Concert, a DVD set of The Rolling Stones with performances from the 60s through 00's, the Mini-Series The 60s, VHS tape of The Music Man, The Sound Of Music on both DVD and VHS,
a copy of WoodStock on DVD. But mainly I love to listen to Rock from the 50s to 80s after the 80s Rock and Music in general went to Hell in a hand basket, the Big Band and Swing sound from WWII, Classic Country from the 50s to the 80s too. But if I had to pick my favorite music it would have to be from the 60s and 70s since that is what I was listening to when I was growing up in the era. I just love everything from that era. The British Invasion, Folk, the 70s sound of Disco, YMCA, KC & the Sunshine Band or Kool and the Gang, or Lady Marmalade anyone? Of course the old school R & B from Motown.

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And almost a year later, I'm still on my metal binge. Latest obsessions are from northern Europe -

Chraon (Finland)
Poisonblack/Senteced (Finland)
Spiritual Beggars (Sweden)
Truckfighters (Sweden)
Grand Magus (Sweden)
Samael (Switzerland)

I've passed on a lot of my vinyl, sadly, so my collection is mostly CD these days - about 1500 CDs and about 250 records between 45s and LPs. Mostly "indie/alt-rock" (the Grifters, the National, Sebadoh, Built to Spill, the Afghan Whigs, the Wedding Present, the Spinanes, Versus, hundreds of other bands) but odds and ends all over the place.