The Other Music Types Thread by wolupgm6 at 9:14 AM EDT on September 25, 2009
I just had a strange urge to find out exactly what other types of music the people here like. I mean, there's the basic Video Game stuff, but what other genres do you people like?
Myself, I'm a metal fan, ranging from thrash to grindcore with everything in between.
My taste in vg stuff tends to reflect my taste in "real" music. As far as mainstream stuff goes, just about anything with guitars will float my boat, or the majority of popular things from the 80s and early 90s. Favorite bands are Metallica, Nine Inch Nails, Beatles, and Weird Al. I've also been known to like "new age" both accoustic (spawning my love for Yasunori Mitsuda and Michiru Yamane) and electronic (DKC2 Brambles, etc.), orchestral/classical, jazz (smooth jazz, piano/bass, swing...), techno, some trance (Astral Projections, Orbital, etc.),...pretty much literally everything, including some rap and some country.
"Video game music" is not a genre. It's more like a category that no one appreciates. I've recently increased my interest in jazz primarily by ripping off the school library, but now they're starting to change the format. Quality is suffering. Classical stuff is good if it's a decent recording (not faraway/muffled sounding.)
About 99% of what I listen to has to do with video games. 80's is generally good (synth stuff.)
I can't stand the Beatles primarily because everyone is obsessed with them. They're not that good. Guitars in general are too popular and sound bad (yay distortion?) Rock = sometimes, Metal = no.
by arbingordon at 4:28 PM EDT on September 25, 2009
vgm osts movie osts classic rock electronic metal psychedelic trance house i think that's all
oh and nujabes/hydeout productions, I know it isn't a genre, but whatever, it kicks the shit out of everything else hands down
by arbingordon at 4:30 PM EDT on September 25, 2009
Classical, especially Renaissance/early Baroque, Late Classical to Romantic (Beethoven - Brahms), Impressionistic (Debussy), Minimalistic (Steve Reich) Electronic (IDM-ish), right now especially Kettel, Wisp, and Clark Some rock is good, some is terrible. I like progressive rock (Rush, Yes, Moody Blues in particular) and Todd Rundgren I'm also a huge fan of Yoko Kanno, Tsuneo Imahori, Joe Hisaishi Also, everyone needs to listen to Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey.
by nensondubois at 4:15 PM EDT on September 26, 2009
I like and mostly listen to: -Video game music (My top favourite category though it's under appreciated just like SmartOne said. Includes SNESmusic, Nintendo music Game Boy music, video game OSTs as well as arranged soundtracks) -Random mash-up genre (for those awkward unnameable lonewolf songs like) -Scatjazz (Vocal improv jazz) -Smooth Jazz -Jazz -60's (A large selection of Random genres from this era) Alternative (Depeche Mode and whatnot) -70's " -80's " -90's " -Movie OSTs -Japanese music -Techno -Techno Remixes -House -Trance -Electronic(a) -TV themes (including cartoon themes like Ren and Stimpy) -Ska -Satire -Bluegras -New Age -Rock/Pop -Rock -And... Elevator music
I hate: hip-hop (all of it) rap Country (what do you get when you mix country music and rap? Crap! love songs (except for one or two, that's it!) big band swing Death Metal Everything Else I didn't list as I like
arbingordon: i don't think you can even call that an opinion. vgm really isn't a genre per se, and if you ask most industry professionals they'll say the same. there ARE certain things that give video game soundtracks a sound/voice, an array of different musical traits that are quite common to vgm... usually functional things like looping, mood-kits, predominantly instrumental, etc... i don't think it can justifiably be called a genre intrinsically though, vgm covers all sorts of musical idioms, it just does it in an idiosyncratic way that makes it different from mainstream equivalents. the line is increasingly blurred these days, too.
outside of vgm i mostly listen to experimental electronic music ("idm" perhaps, stuff like venetian snares, squarepusher, ยต-ziq, boards of canada, aphex), progressive rock or progressive style stuff in general (LTE, dream theater, ELP, G-CLEF...), and a heck of lot of jazz funk & fusion, which i'm more into these days (casiopea, t-square, weather report, hiromi, elektric band, level 42, jamiroquai... etc.)
i listen to similar sort of things when it comes to vgm too... lots of older-style fusion and proggy stuff, by people such as ayako saso, hayato matsuo, soyo oka, jun ishikawa, YACK, motoaki takenouchi, yasuhiko fukuda, pretty much everything by Konami and Kukeiha Club, norio "NON" hanzawa, hiroki kikuta and the list goes on... (funnily not into sakuraba though...)
i have quite a large CD collection comprised of lots of different stuff (all physical copies):
next to no physical copies of VGM and no anime albums either sadly, even though that constitutes the significant majority of my listening these days (mainly cuz I can't be bothered to keep taking out CDs!)
i prefer instrumental songs in general, especially piano and guitar related. So classical, soft rock/easy listening, classic rock, speed metal, chillout and new age. People are surprised I like speed metal and chillout.
I love The Eagles, RHCP, Led Zeppelin, the ventures, the shadows, dream theater, blind guardian, dick dale, mike oldfield. In a sense most of my musical choices are similar to vgm music.
I like every type of music except rap, hiphop and most r&b. I have rhythm, but for some strange reason i can't 'feel' the rhythm in those genres. Plus the subjects in those songs are shallow as well.