How much you are into music

[michael_atw]

OP, it's not about "listening" to everything, IMO. In the modern day, people can acquire massive quantities of music listen to anything and everything and not know a damn thing about music. I think the better phrasing and objective is "examine everything" or "understand everything".

I find I personally become a better artist when I really dig into the back of band's discographies and understand what they were doing and the history behind them. I know people who know tons of music and listen to it but don't know a thing about the band or the details about the sound. I suppose it's more about "quality" than "quantity"; in both the respect of your record crate and in respect to the music itself.

 

[projectMalamute]

I have no idea what you meant.

Gnawa music from Morocco?

Yoruba music and afrobeat from Nigeria?

Township Jive from South Africa?

Haqibah from the Sudan?

Africa's a big place. The idea that 'African music' is a neat little category is pretty ignorant, and more than a little racist. Especially when it gets shelved under the umbrella term 'Ethnic'.

 

[michael_atw]

I listen to allot but dont like rap,pop,indie and am burnt out of classic rock. I listen to allot of folk, Americana, Alt-country,some bluegrass. That movement has allot of great stuff coming out of it now. I also am going back and getting into singer/songwriters I overlooked years before.

I find myself personally running that course as well. I've really dug deeper into Folk, singer-songwriter sounds, Jazz, Celtic, bluegrass and a fusion of all of the above. I've noticed that modern Indie is merely copping 60's and 70's folk and rock, so why not listen to the bands that they are copping?

 

[Bright Midnight]

Just about the only music I can't get myself listening to, and never have, is what's hot like Bieberish ultrapop, and Mr Bieber himself didn't invent anything new (he's just a copy of another copy), it was around for much longer than his new sense of self which in itself was invented for him. Other than such jabberish I listen to pretty much any kind of music, just as long as I can relate to its soul. Right now Curtis Mayfield, The Band, Amon Tobin, Beasty Boys and the new Radiohead are on and off in the car. Biosphere's Substrata is an all time favorite and a classic in its own right. Ozric Tentacles' Erpland I'll always carry with me. Looking forward to the new Tool album. And I love a good 'wrong' one from time to time, like Paradiso's Bailando - those chicks just rule!

 

[fingerbun]

I have no idea what you meant.

Gnawa music from Morocco?

Yoruba music and afrobeat from Nigeria?

Township Jive from South Africa?

Haqibah from the Sudan?

Africa's a big place. The idea that 'African music' is a neat little category is pretty ignorant, and more than a little racist. Especially when it gets shelved under the umbrella term 'Ethnic'.

Not sure what goes down in the US but here in Australia we get "world music" which has sub categories including "African". From my perspective it's not racist. It's a common shorthand that covers a broad range of styles. In fact someone like Johnny Clegg arguably was actively anti-apartheid in the way he formed Juluka, and therefore anti-racist.

I guess it's similar to American blues, that gets talked about as if it were homogeneous, when there is a big difference between say Robert Johnson and Stevie Ray Vaughan, or "jazz" as a label encompassing Dixie, swing, Herbie Hancock, etc.

Sorry about the long append. I just thought you were being overly picky, and I thought the accusation of racism unwarranted.

 

[Godbody]

The more I've been exposed to, the more it seems to have sharply defined my tastes. For the last few years, the music I actively listen falls into two categories: Motown/Stax and Surf. While that might seem narrow-minded, I prefer to think of it as having a depth of taste rather than breadth.

But I have phases too. Last month I got on a weird 30s jazz/Deep Purple kick.

 

[NoiseNinja]

I listen mainly to folk and alternative and experimental rock in different forms (avantgarde, math, post, drone, noise, psychedelic, progressive e.t.c). But I do listen to some electronic, jazz and metal as well, even a few alternative pop songs.