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I'm pretty sure not everyone on here listens strictly only to Post-Punk/Goff Rock/Wave/Alt or whatever you'd describe the girls as?

Personally, I grew up with TSOM and related music (The Cure, The Mish, Joy Div, Fields Of The Nephilim... all the way to Kraftwerk and Front242 and beyond) and developed a taste for Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin at the age of 13. Then I went into the harder types of metal, and for the last few years I'm quite invested into post-metal/sludge/... (bands like Amenra and Steak Number Eight, who both are from Belgium as well, and I've had the pleasure to meet some of the members of the latter band as we have some mutual friends, yay. )

I also love me some Post Rock (Explosions In The Sky, anyone?) and prety much all of the large Post-Punk/Wave/Goff Rock division (aside from Specimen ). Also, there's some electro/techno/experimental music I really like.Demdike Stare springs to mind. (You should listen to their song Past Majesty, such a jewel).

If anyone is interested in post metal/sludge, my band will be releasing an EP in Febr/March and I'd be happy to send it to Heartland members for free (release on tape or 7"", normally about 5-7€). Also, don't kill me please, our band is called Flood... I know.... Bunker (the original name) just didn't work out for us :p. We might release a split with All We Expected as well, you can find more about them here if it sparks your interest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sxdljiinerg and facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AllWeExpected

So, any genres you enjoy outside the Sisters territory?

I'm with you on the post-rock scene. Godspeed you..., Explosions, Mogwai.

I've also become heavily immersed in the psych scene. Bands such as;
White Manna, Hookworms, Lay Llamas, White Hills, The Lucid Dream, Psychic Ills, Moon Duo, Cult of Dom Keller, The Lumerians... are all getting a lot of airplay.

Oh gosh... where to start.

Over the years I've stumbled across/into various scenes & styles of music. Whilst I may not regularly listen to all of them these days, they still occupy an important part of my record collection and I do give them an airing from time to time:

• 80s indie (all the usual stuff: smiths, pixies, bunnymen, mary chain etc etc etc - all very predictable)
• 80s industrial (nitzer ebb, kmfdm, 242, fla, etc etc)
• 70s punk (mainly the u.s. stuff - ny dolls, thunders, ramones, stooges, wayne/jayne county etc etc)
• rockabilly (mainly original 50s & early stuff but i do have a soft spot for some of the 80s neo-rockabilly revival stuff)
• garage & psych (60s version of punk, usually made by spotty teenagers in their folks' garages, and re-released on labels such as pebbles)
• abstract electronica (basically, anything from 90-98 on warp records or other labels from that scene)
• 'intelligent' techno (mainly stuff from early & mid 90s detroit & chicago, or anything that emulates that sound & feel)

i also have a soft spot for the wildhearts and gogol bordello, despite not being especially into either of the genres they tend to get lumped in with.

tbh, anything with a good groove will usually float my boat for at least 20 minutes, regardless of genre

80s/90s psych/indie stuff is my main poison, so you'll get me listening to the likes of Spacemen 3, Loop, Levitation, Opal/Mazzy Star, MBV, some JAMC, (early) Stereolab, etc. Spacemen 3's Perfect Prescription is still my all-time favourite LP and I don't see that changing any time soon.

I love Hawkwind and VDGG but as a general rule don't otherwise have much interest in prog.

My guilty pleasure is Tom Petty.

Goff-wise I'm most interested in the earlier, more punky/raucous stuff than the later droney/doomy stuff, so I'd listen to the likes of 1919 or UK Decay over the Nephilim any day.

I'm generally a sucker for any kind of intelligent or creative post-punk, I like good 80s metal, and good early-80s pop music.

No interest at all in the whole electronica/techno thing, sorry.

oh boy, name a genre and I'll most probably have a few records in the collection

It started with Pink Floyd, Vangelis, Prince & Deep Purple when I was a kid. Then came The Ramones when I was 10 or 11. That really was the first BIG bang. Then came the indie stuff like Cramps, Sonic Youth, Pixies, My Bloody Valentine, Nirvana, etc and then there was BIG bang nr 2 with The Sisters & Joy Division. Bauhaus, Nephilim, Cure followed and knocked me down in the best way possible.

After a few years in the goth/electro/industrial scene I got into leftfield electronica with the early WARP stuff with Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works 85-92 & Autechre's Incunabula & Amber albums. A whole new world opened and I dove in the world of raves, parties, house & techno... and then came dub. Reggae, rocksteady, soul & all. Basslines yu know.

In between I never lost touch with the alternative guitar scene (psych, shoegaze, punk, postrock, doom and metal in many of its forms)

Oh yeah, I like to move & groove so as Quiffy's words fit me like a glove:
"anything with a good groove will usually float my boat for at least 20 minutes, regardless of genre"

And yes? I for one am very interested to hear your band, Flood. You're from Brussels right? Chances are I get to see your band on stage one time or the other...

I never really got hip hop or the twit in a hat.

Not yet mentioned elvis c and p, beatles, stones, 50's rnr, 60's female vox.

Dub, reggae, ska, drum n bass

Classical, modern varations - kj, film scores, gregorian

Clt - anaconda and frozen

I struggle with labelling stuff, I mean what's Indie nowadays? A mate of mine still classifies Radiohead as Indie as they're on XL Recordings.

The same label as Adele.

Useless label innit, the "Indie" charts in the NME were full of Kylie Minogue et al back in the day because PWL counted as an independent label.

All sorts. A lot of 80s bands cos that's when I was a teenager, but not limited to that. Most of what I listen to is nothing like SOM. A snapshot of my musical taste might include:

Peter Gabriel
Elvis Costello
ABC
Ultravox
China Crisis
Tchaikovsky
Kate Bush
Vanessa Carlton
Dexys
Mike Oldfield
Marillion/Fish
Gary Clark (best known from Danny Wilson)
Mish
Steve Taylor (not well known but perhaps remembered from Chagall Guevara)
Nik Kershaw
FGTH
The Waterboys
and I've recently gotten heavily into Madness

to name but a few.

Well if we're going to do lists count me in..

(Some mentioned in previous dispatches)

Spacemen 3
Loop
Suicide
The Stooges
Black Sabbath
Crippled Black Phoenix
Uncle Acid
King Gizzard
Vintage Bunnymen
Joy Division
Scott Walker
Neil Young
The Cosmic Dead
The War On Drugs
Swans
Nick Cave
Those Amongst Us Are Wolves
JAMC
The Black Angels

<draws breath>

I'll just paraphrase Barry and Koen's comments: I don't care what genre, label, movement or 'whatever' is attached to music. Good music to my ears is good music. If I like it, I like it. If I don't, I don't. I find the simple approach works best.

wot johnny said. i can't even be bothered to find out what most of the genres are called.

Strangely, I've had an album in my head all day that I wanted to play tonight. I've finally gotten there.

Whilst I'd remembered the two key songs I wanted to listen to, I'd totally forgotten the opening track: Emily (12:09)

Truth is sometimes stranger than fiction.

Morphine
NIN
Nick Cave
Brian Jonestown Massacre
Chemlab
Dandy Warhols
Ministry

I usually go by bands, but as for whole genres: I like swing and rockabilly, mostly for dancing. Also any driving blues (as long as the lyrics aren't rapey or too inane), blues rock, that kind of thing.
Also Tuareg blues.

Genres are useful for "if you like this band then you'll probably also like that band" kinda stuff.

But I've no interest in the modern/YouTube-comment thing where people squabble over whether a band is "Emo"/"Dark rock"/"Death rock"/"Doom rock"/"Gloom rock" or whatever. That crap leaves me cold.

nancy and lee, dusty, johnny cash
and newerish stuff like
littleboots
and grimes
love goldfrapp, ladytron and the prodigy
got some gogol bordello on the phone.
tons of gary numan, old and new.
definately not a genre thing, if it sounds pleasing to my ears i like it.

It's a bit hard to narrow down a few genres from over 1000 albums.

markfiend wrote:It's a bit hard to narrow down a few genres from over 1000 albums.

Fiendcore?

I like a fair bit of Rap, But only the stuff with words, not garbage. this is well worth a listen. Shame it's so short.

Outside of goth-rock, my main interest is European classical music. To me, progressive rock was a better idea than a practice.

Looking at my records tonight it seems to generalise into:
Prog:Genesis/Peter Gabriel
80s: Depeche mode etc
Extreme Metal: Napalm Death rtc.
... But mostly pre-nineties *showing age*

When we're talking about genres it's easier for me to write what I don't like. And negative list goes like:
- about 85% of recent pop;
- dance;
- disco;
- techno (widely taken);
- ska (mostly);
- vast majority of hip-hop/rap;
- dance hall;
- ragga;
- I'm not a fan of most of reggae, but I like Dub.

That's pretty much of my negative list, rest I listen, some like, some adore, few love.