My secret music

[kedo1981]

My secret music

Does anyone out there get into a genre of music that does not fit his or her “persona”.
For example, I’m 42 yarns old, build kind of like a gorilla, I don’t dance, kind of look like a truck driver or a bricklayer.
I love Trance, that club music that they play at raves; where all the young people take ecstasy and get wild.
I like the unabashed electronic-ness of it.
So anyone else want to come clean on their own secret music

[shemp]

It's no secret: POLKA!!!

[Nyarlathotep]

I have found that I have a weird fondness for Reggae. This is depsite the fact that I am not Jamaican, I haven't smoked pot in 15 years or so and, even though the music often has a religious message, I am an atheist.

I started listening to it because the public radio station that I listen to has a Reggae program playing on Thursdays about the time I am usually coming home from class. I now find that I quite like it.

[sorgoth]

John Mayer, Dashboard Confessional, ect.

I am the antiromantic, anti sensitive type. So, it doesn't really fit my personality.

[Kilted_Canuck]

Slipknot...gotta love those percussionists!

[Candace]

When I was 15, I was Little Missy Ramona Ramone. Liberty spikes, dog collar, fishnets worn with redstar Keds.

And mixed in with the Buzzcocks, Souxie and the banshees, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, I listened to...


the Bay City Rollers...


And last year, I bought their Greatest Hits - on CD, no less. I like no other bubblegum pop, it must be some sort of childhood glitch or something.


Kill me, kill me please...

[epepke]

Squeeze.

Totally out of character for me, but I like them.

[DrMatt]

My avatar is made from a real picture of me.

What kind of music do you figure for me?

Heh.

I'm a classical compose.

[Halbert]

I started listening to it because the public radio station that I listen to has a Reggae program playing on Thursdays about the time I am usually coming home from class. I now find that I quite like it. I started liking Reggae during my time in the Peace Corps in Africa. Ghana, at least, has reggae as a VERY popular music. So anytime I took public transport, the bus/taxi was always playing reggae. After long enough listening to it, it grew on me.

[bug_girl]

Originally posted by Nyarlathotep
I have found that I have a weird fondness for Reggae. This is depsite the fact that I am not Jamaican, I haven't smoked pot in 15 years or so and, even though the music often has a religious message, I am an atheist.


so funny that you said this, because just the other day i was laughing at myself:
i was out in the barn shoveling poo in my Carhart jacket, and singing along to the praises of His Imperial Majesty Seilase.
(or however you spell it.)

aggie rednecks can still git down.

[Nasarius]

I dunno if I have a persona. I guess it used to be punk, now it's 60s-70s music...

As far as my musical tastes go, they include punk (Bad Religion, Dead Kennedys), classic rock (Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Beatles), Sarah McLachlan, Belgian pop/rock (K's Choice, Anouk), folk music, and certain kinds of electronic music (Tangerine Dream). Probably the only genre I passionately hate is rap/hip-hop/whatever-the-hell-you-want-to-call-it. Oh, and I strongly dislike all the reggae I've heard as well. It's why I no longer listen to Rancid.

I love the sound of real instruments that haven't been digitally modified, from John Bonham's drums to nicely distorted guitar amps to a well-mic'd acoustic guitar. Which is probably one of the reasons I'm drawn to older music.

At the moment, I'm listening to a punk-ish band called "Ween" that was recommended by Bad Religion's vocalist.

[shecky]

I like listening to that middle-of-the-road, whitebread, vanilla pop music of the 50s and 60s. I'm talking Lawrence Welk orchestra, 101 Strings, Ray Charles Singers, Tijuana Brass stuff, that ventures into light latin, old standards, full string orchestras, and period nuggets like "Poor People of Paris", "Never On Sunday", "Perfidia", and so on.

The kind of stuff Grandma might listen to on the radio.

The cheese factor has been there so long, it's been forgotten. I actually get a lot of inspiration from that stuff. Apparently so do a lot of modern musicians. I hear samples of lots of this stuff as source material in new music all the time.

[Keneke]

Movie Soundtracks. Williams and Shore and Elfman and Horner are great, and you'd never guess I get anywhere close to that stuff, being as ROCK as I am.

[El Greco]

I have so many CDs of different genres that I can hardly imagine anything that it doesn't suit me, from classical guitar to punk and from reggae to hip hop.

Other people though are amazed when I mention Einstürzende Neubauten and stuff like this. Those who know them, of course. And there are not many who do... :D

[Hypnagogiac]

posted by epepke
Squeeze.
Squeeze is definitely an uncharacteristic gulity pleasure of mine. Maybe because I have some particular memories that are linked to them. Nonetheless, your post made me play "Pulling Mussels from the Shell." :D Nahh, I take that back, they're too fun to be a guilty pleasure. I like some songs by The Samples, so that would probably be more appropriate. And Martin Sexton, too.

Also I've been listening to more Ween lately (since Nasarius mentioned them). Their song "Buenos Tardes, Amigo" is downright awesome. I can't listen to it enough. And "Spinal Meningitis (Got Me Down)" is now one of my favorite weird, creepy songs ever.
posted by Keneke
Movie Soundtracks. Williams and Shore and Elfman and Horner are great
I definitely agree - Danny Elfman, especially, never fails to impress me. Also Bernard Herrmann & Ennio Morricone are both totally amazing in my opinion. Henry Mancini might be a little guilty pleasure too, but damn, he sure was talented!
Oh!- and Vince Guaraldi too- since I mostly hate soft jazz, but I got a big soft spot for Vince in general (not just "Linus & Lucy").

[El Greco]

Originally posted by Hypnagogiac
Oh!- and Vince Guaraldi too-

Get the albums with Bola Sete! (look at my page)

[Mark]

The Monkees. A guilty pleasure.

[Boo]

Hypna,

I have a friend that just raves about Martin Sexton. He saw him perform twice this year and keeps urging me to get some of his stuff.


My guilty pleasure are the songs from Sesame Street. With 4y/o twins I watch a lot of Sesame Street and can sing along with all of the songs. They include some very clever parodies and the tunes can stay with you for days.



Boo

[Roadtoad]

Enya. And David Benoit.

Yeah, I know. I'm a trucker and there's certain genres I ought to listen to.

Just so you know, I don't own a cowboy hat, either.