# Dopers below 25, what kind of music do you listen to? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 4, 2003, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-below-25-what-kind-of-music-do-you-listen-to/211416 "2003-11-04T20:14:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![sleeping](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@sleeping](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleeping)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-below-25-what-kind-of-music-do-you-listen-to/211416/21 "2003-11-05T02:51:48Z")
1. Looking at some of my MP3s: They Might Be Giants, Queen, Nick Cave, Led Zeppelin, Johnny Cash, ACDC, Arlo Guthrie, Billy Joel, Cat Stevens, Chuck Berry, Cream, Elvis Costello, Fleetwood Mac, Frank Zappa, George Clinton, The Moldy Peaches, Squeeze, Tears for Fears, The Beta Band, The Who, Velvet Underground, Violent Femmes and Wesley Willis. I don’t listen to the radio and hate MTV. VH1, on the other hand, is strangely addictive… ---
**Author:** ![Mearl\_Dox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@Mearl\_Dox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mearl_Dox)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-below-25-what-kind-of-music-do-you-listen-to/211416/22 "2003-11-05T02:53:34Z")
1. I haven’t watched MTV in years and I rarely listen to the radio… when I do, it’s more often ‘oldies rock’ (either soft or real rock) and some local spanish channels that have mostly upbeat music that’s good for driving. The bands I listen to most often are Barenaked Ladies, They Might Be Giants, Foo Fighters, Counting Crows, ABBA (what? what?!), Steppenwolf, Blue Oyster Cult, Simon & Garfunkel, Queen, Pink Floyd, Kansas… a wide variety of things that just happened to tickle my fancy. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-below-25-what-kind-of-music-do-you-listen-to/211416/23 "2003-11-05T03:05:01Z")
23 here. I listen to the radio from time to time, though I usually wind up on a “classic rock” station or rap station. But I’m a radio surfer. I recently took a survey for one of the “new rock” stations in town and recognized none of the songs. Not even a “Huh, I think I’ve heard that before.” I get most of my music from suggestions from others or following threads like these. Rock is dead, as far as I can tell. There’s some alternative left and The Strokes/The White Stripes/Other 3 Chords And A Cloud Of Noise bands are doing some interesting things, but there’s not much rock worth listening to anymore. Here’s what’s in my Winamp Playlist/On My Desk: Great Big Sea, Shiva in Exile, Beth Quist, Tori Amos, The Cure, Nelly, The Doors, David Bowie’s 2 newest albums, Nine Inch Nails, Barenaked Ladies, Lords of Acid, Nelly, the Big Tymers, The Arrogant Worms, A Perfect Circle, Goldfinger. ---
**Author:** ![JessEnigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cdc98d/32.png) [@JessEnigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JessEnigma)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-below-25-what-kind-of-music-do-you-listen-to/211416/24 "2003-11-05T03:24:25Z")
I’m 19. I haven’t listened to the radio in a while and I don’t recall ever having watching MTV for any real length of time…I just don’t like most of that stuff. (though I agree with **sleeping** …VH1 _is_ oddly addictive) I prefer to dig through my dad’s music collection and go from there because he and I share similar tastes. Anyway, recently I’ve been listening to The Velvet Underground (and solo work by Lou Reed and John Cale), David Bowie, R.E.M., Barenaked Ladies, Alanis Morissette, Moby, and an assortment of songs from various Broadway musicals. I’ve also been listening to random 80s pop lately for some reason – because I find it amusing? I don’t know. Reminds me of being a little kid again. ---
**Author:** ![Treviathan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/838e76/32.png) [@Treviathan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treviathan)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-below-25-what-kind-of-music-do-you-listen-to/211416/25 "2003-11-05T03:25:40Z")
I’m 23. I have a radio show on my community radio station; we play mostly indie-spirited artists, and that’s what I’m into. Lately I’ve been listening to Sloan, Wilco, The Dandy Warhols, Death Cab for Cutie, The Weakerthans, and The New Pornographers. Today I picked up the new Ryan Adams album. One of the good things about living in Canada is that, IMHO, the independent music scene is excellent. On the rare occasions when I want to go out and dance, club music and hip-hop doesn’t do it for me. I try to find some funk band that’s in town (this desolate prairie outpost I’m from has a fairly strong funk scene, for some reason) and go enjoy myself. Oh, and my peer group doesn’t really influence what I listen to - at least, not in a bad way. Actually, you could say that what people listen to influences whether they’re part of my peer group. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Skwerl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Skwerl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skwerl)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-below-25-what-kind-of-music-do-you-listen-to/211416/26 "2003-11-05T04:00:10Z")
21, also dissatisfied with MTV and the radio. I did just discover the community station a couple months ago, though, so I can finally hear some new and interesting stuff. Other than that, it’s the Top 40 Hitz station, the “Alternative” station, which is basically just for teens who want to be angry and who would listen to pop if they wouldn’t get made fun of for it (I adore the kids who listen to Linkin Park and make fun of Britney et al for being “pop whores” etc), and a bunch of country and 70s-80s rock stations. Personally, I’m an indie guy at heart. I don’t mind if a formerly-indie band gets signed to a major label (like Trail of Dead), it’s the spirit and soul of the scene that counts. To me, that spirit and soul means making the music the band/artist wants to make, not the music that a demographic wants to hear. That said, a random selection of stuff I’ve listened to in the last week: Non-Prophets Explosions in the Sky Mogwai Refused Ms. John Soda Murder by Death DJ Shadow Sigur Ros Basement Jaxx Dizzee Rascal and those artists reside next to the Beatles, Liszt, Chopin, Pink Floyd, Iggy Pop and the Stooges, and tons of other stuff. Country is probably the only genre I really don’t have more than a few songs from. ---
**Author:** ![Vezer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b38774/32.png) [@Vezer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vezer)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-below-25-what-kind-of-music-do-you-listen-to/211416/27 "2003-11-05T04:36:59Z")
I am 20. Looking at most of these posts, many of you people listen to Pop music just in a different form. Come on now…college radio? Even that is a genre the big labels exploit. Most of you are nothing more than pawns in the pop cycle. Me…I like deep-disco-filtered-garage-with a hint of soul-house music and melodic hardcore punk. The next artist in my search will not be (or else have maybe 1 listing) on Kazaa. Soulseek, yeah sure, but not Kazaa. Basement Jaxx was MTV europe fodder. Sigur Ros is just the current diamond being displayed by the entity. Go find your own likes, not what “d00d Indie College Radio Rules” tells you too. ---
**Author:** ![Vanyel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@Vanyel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vanyel)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-below-25-what-kind-of-music-do-you-listen-to/211416/28 "2003-11-05T04:46:59Z")
I’m 20. I’m all about the classic rock, really can’t stand much pop music. I also like Mannheim Steamroller, listed under ‘New Age’ in stores, but I’m not a New Age person otherwise. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-below-25-what-kind-of-music-do-you-listen-to/211416/29 "2003-11-05T04:52:07Z")
17 year old male here. I like classic rock like Frank Zappa, Jefferson Airplane/Jefferson Starship, The Grateful Dead, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, etc, and nrewe music like Cake, The White Stripes, The Red Hot Chilli Peppers, The Strokes, and a some classical music. ---
**Author:** ![look\_ninjas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@look\_ninjas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/look_ninjas)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-below-25-what-kind-of-music-do-you-listen-to/211416/30 "2003-11-05T04:52:43Z")
1. At the moment, it’s Elvis Costello. I’ve also been listening to Fountains of Wayne, Rufus Wainwright, the Cure, Depeche Mode, Coldplay, the Beatles, and Johnny Cash. The only rap/hip-hop album I own is **License to Ill** by the Beastie Boys, but what I’ve heard of Talib Kweli, the Roots, and OutKast I really like. I do wonder if 19 to 25 is really the target demographic nowadays. It seems to me that most of the people I know my own age don’t listen to top 40. But that’s just my extremely limited sample. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-below-25-what-kind-of-music-do-you-listen-to/211416/31 "2003-11-05T05:00:59Z")
Punk… think the Ataris (preferably still in Astoria) Trip-Hop… think Massive Attack Techno… think Oakenfold, Trance Control, Keoki, Prodigy Older (70s/80s rock)… along the lines of Deep Purple, Zeppelin, Faith No More, Queensryche, and GnR. Remember, kids, MTV is to music as KFC is to chicken. ---
**Author:** ![Treviathan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/838e76/32.png) [@Treviathan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treviathan)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-below-25-what-kind-of-music-do-you-listen-to/211416/32 "2003-11-05T05:05:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Vezer \* > **Most of you are nothing more than pawns in the pop cycle.** Mmmm…pop cycles. ---
**Author:** ![shy\_guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@shy\_guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shy_guy)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-below-25-what-kind-of-music-do-you-listen-to/211416/33 "2003-11-05T05:09:07Z")
1. Mostly punk - The Clash, X, Ramones, Buzzcocks, Bad Religion, Rancid, NOFX, Misfits, etc. My biggest guilty pleasure is pop-punk. I readily admit that I listen to Blink 182, Good Charlotte, Simple Plan, The Ataris, etc. Er, actually my biggest guilty pleasure might be Britney Spears. Favorite band is the Pixies. Current faves are Fountains of Wayne, Outkast’s new album, S.T.U.N., and the new Blink 182 single. I also listen to MxPx, Pearl Jam, A New Found Glory, Janis Joplin, All-American Rejects, Missy Elliot, Offspring, Our Lady Peace, The Streets, System of a Down, Tom Petty, and, you know, other stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Profane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47774/32.png) [@Profane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Profane)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-below-25-what-kind-of-music-do-you-listen-to/211416/34 "2003-11-05T05:10:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by roadkiller \* > \*\* > I’m also big into punk. I like Good Charlotte, Blink 182, MxPx, the All-American Rejects, and Simple Plan. \*\* I feel bad for doing this, but I have to. Those aren’t punk bands, they’re just pop in Hot Topic clothing. ---
**Author:** ![Tarrsk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/97f17d/32.png) [@Tarrsk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarrsk)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-below-25-what-kind-of-music-do-you-listen-to/211416/35 "2003-11-05T05:44:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Vezer \* > \*\*I am 20. > Looking at most of these posts, many of you people listen to Pop music just in a different form. Come on now…college radio? Even that is a genre the big labels exploit. Most of you are nothing more than pawns in the pop cycle. \*\* Wow. Generalize much? ---
**Author:** ![Already\_in\_Use](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Already\_in\_Use](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Already_in_Use)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-below-25-what-kind-of-music-do-you-listen-to/211416/36 "2003-11-05T06:00:13Z")
I’m a 19-year-old male. Instead of listing everything I listen to, I’ll just list the CD cases currently on my desk (an indication that I’ve listened to them recently but am too lazy/absent-minded to put them away): “Weird Al” Yankovic: _Poodle Hat_ The Jimi Hendrix Experience: _Are You Experienced?_ The Jimi Hendrix Experience: _Axis: Bold As Love_ The Jimi Hendrix Experience: _Electric Ladyland_ The Jimi Hendrix Experience boxed set vol. 1 The Velvet Underground: _The Velvet Underground & Nico_ Devo: _Freedom of Choice_ The Beatles: _Past Masters Volume Two_ The Beatles: _Beatles For Sale_ Ravi Shankar and Philip Glass: _Passages_ Ravi Shankar: _Ragas and Talas_ Ravi Shankar: _Sound of the Sitar_ Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention: _Freak Out!_ Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention: _Uncle Meat_ Frank Zappa: _Waka/Jawaka_ Frank Zappa: _You Can’t Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. II: The Helsinki Concert_ Frank Zappa: _Joe’s Garage Acts I, II, and II_ Frank Zappa: _The Man From Utopia_ Frank Zappa: _Meets the Mothers of Prevention_ The Mexican Mariachi Band (great name, huh?) conducted by Lopez Varanga: _Mariachi From Mexico_ (great title too!) The Shaggs: _Philosophy of the World_ Edgard Varese as played by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Pierre Boulez: _Ameriques/Arcana/Deserts/Ionisation_ King Crimson: _In the Court of the Crimson King_ Buffalo Springfield: _Retrospective_ Queen: _Greatest Hits I, II, and III_ Primus: _The Brown Album_ The Les Claypool Frog Brigade: _Purple Onion_ Primus: _Animals Should Not Try to Act Like People_ Jefferson Airplane: _Surrealistic Pillow_ Kronos Quartet: _Nuevo_ Load: _Encoded and Dirty_ In conclusion, I really need to clean my desk. ---
**Author:** ![torie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/77aa72/32.png) [@torie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/torie)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-below-25-what-kind-of-music-do-you-listen-to/211416/37 "2003-11-05T07:42:28Z")
I’m 21 years old and listen to listen to Type O Negative, Tori Amos, Lacuna Coil, Guns N’ Roses, Rolling Stones, and The Who. I also listen to some rap and pop, but it’s rare. I never listen to the radio or watch tv. Oh, and take it from me ROCK MATTERS!!! ---
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-below-25-what-kind-of-music-do-you-listen-to/211416/38 "2003-11-05T12:13:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Israfel \* > \*\*20 years old here > What I mainly listen to: > > … > **Prog Rock:** _Jethro Tull, King Crimson, Spock’s Beard_ > > \*\* Israfel - it warms my heart to see someone your age still embracing prog. I’m 44, and like you I still maintain a diverse “taste” in music but I’ve found the prog material to have the most staying power. I highly recommend a band called IQ. They’re a British outfit that never rose high on the radar screen but consistently put out great stuff (and still do). Their website is [here](http://www.gep.co.uk/iq/) . Enjoy! ---
**Author:** ![AnnaLivia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/edb3f5/32.png) [@AnnaLivia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnnaLivia)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-below-25-what-kind-of-music-do-you-listen-to/211416/39 "2003-11-05T12:50:41Z")
I’ll do the desk drawer survey, as I’m in the MLitt office at the moment. I’ve got Tom Waits _Alice_ , which is what I have on at the moment. But also lurking in the drawer are: the Verdi/Velvet Underground mix cd, Warren Zevon _Wind_ and _Learning to Flinch_, the Pogues _If I Should Fall From Grace with God_ and _Yiddish Dream: A Heritage of Jewish Song_. Yeah. I’m somewhere under 25. AL ---
**Author:** ![Loneraven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c0e974/32.png) [@Loneraven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loneraven)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-below-25-what-kind-of-music-do-you-listen-to/211416/40 "2003-11-05T13:03:00Z")
I’m sixteen. I rarely-if-ever listen to chart stuff. Put simply, I like rock. At the moment, I’m listening to a lot of Placebo and the Goo Goo Dolls, but at any given moment I’ll listen to songs by lots of different (rock) bands - Jimmy Eat World, Something Corporate, Sterophonics and Muse come to mind. I do love Nirvana, too, but I haven’t listened to them in a while. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-below-25-what-kind-of-music-do-you-listen-to/211416.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-below-25-what-kind-of-music-do-you-listen-to/211416.md?page=3)