# 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:** 9\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![gex\_gex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@gex\_gex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gex_gex)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-below-25-what-kind-of-music-do-you-listen-to/211416/81 "2003-11-16T12:52:29Z")
> [@](#): > > _originally posted by percypercy_ > Crowded House(known as that hey now song band), Split Enz, all Finn incarnations as you can tell, Schnell Fenster, Paul Kelly, Mutton Birds, Dave Dobbyn, The Front Lawn, and I’m sure I’m leaving stuff out. Cool. I don’t mind a bit of Crowded House or Split Enz, and I quite like Paul Kelly’s older stuff. I’ve heard of the Mutton Birds, but the rest I don’t know. And I am Australian. ---
**Author:** ![sgsos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ab097/32.png) [@sgsos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sgsos)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-below-25-what-kind-of-music-do-you-listen-to/211416/82 "2003-11-16T16:11:06Z")
19 here. I listen to the radio anytime I’m in the car (don’t have a car CD player), but mostly to the “classic rock” and oldies stations. Here are some of my favorite bands/artists: The Moody Blues Simon and Garfunkel The Beatles Emerson, Lake & Palmer U2 John Denver Jim Croce Pink Floyd Johnny Cash Bands I definitely don’t like (I actually think hate is the correct term): Led Zeppelin Black Sabbath The Rolling Stones Kansas Steve Miller Band I’m not opposed to new music, and actually have found some that I really like: Flaming Lips Guster some Coldplay The Thorns Anyway, in general I think music being produced today sucks. I don’t just mean the stuff on the radio, I mean the indie stuff too (I’m a DJ on the student radio station at my university, so I hear plenty of indie). ---
**Author:** ![percypercy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8baadc/32.png) [@percypercy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/percypercy)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-below-25-what-kind-of-music-do-you-listen-to/211416/83 "2003-11-16T18:25:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by gex gex \* > \*\*Cool. I don’t mind a bit of Crowded House or Split Enz, and I quite like Paul Kelly’s older stuff. I’ve heard of the Mutton Birds, but the rest I don’t know. And I am Australian. \*\* I actually prefer Paul Kelly’s older stuff as well. And it makes sense that you wouldn’t have heard of the of the others since they’re from New Zealand. Dave Dobbyn to me sounds quite a bit like Tim Finn. Schnell Fenster is pretty indescrible, but I like them in small doses. Front Lawn I’ve only listened to a bit. -Lil ---
**Author:** ![Hot\_Buttered\_Toast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b38774/32.png) [@Hot\_Buttered\_Toast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hot_Buttered_Toast)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-below-25-what-kind-of-music-do-you-listen-to/211416/84 "2003-11-16T19:28:08Z")
Oookay, I fall into the lowest end of that age bracket. (13.) So…I listen to: REM They Might Be Giants New Pornographers Goo Goo Dolls Ben Folds Five (some) U2 DJ Tiesto The Postal Service (some) Oasis There are others, but those are the ones that come to mind, and I’m too lazy to type all of them out anyway. ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-below-25-what-kind-of-music-do-you-listen-to/211416/85 "2003-11-16T19:55:57Z")
1. My taste in music can only be defined as “anything”. Flipping through some of my CD’s and MP3’s reveals: Barenaked Ladies, Better Than Ezra, Vivaldi, Phil Collins, U2, the Beatles, Shania Twain, Indigo Girls, Dixie Chicks, Christina Aguilera, Disney soundtracks, REM, Metallica, Eminem, Nelly, Josh Groban, Alphaville, Janis Joplin, Elvis, Matchbox 20, Tracy Chapman, Coldplay, A Simple Plan, TMBG, The Ataris, Led Zepplin, Mickey Hart, Ben Folds, Savage Garden, and Garth Brooks. Basically, I listen to whatever. I refuse to buy into a ‘favorite genre’ or ‘favorite artist’. The [non-profit alt-music](http://www.xpn.org/index.php) sort of radio station is the only one I listen to, really (other than the AM news station. And hockey games, too). ---
**Author:** ![gypsymoth3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85e7bf/32.png) [@gypsymoth3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gypsymoth3)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-below-25-what-kind-of-music-do-you-listen-to/211416/86 "2003-11-16T20:03:44Z")
i mostly listen to rock groups such as evanescence, staind, shinedown, nickelback, linkiin park, etc. ; but i do listen to one christian group called third day. ---
**Author:** ![Sonyadora](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@Sonyadora](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sonyadora)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-below-25-what-kind-of-music-do-you-listen-to/211416/87 "2003-11-16T20:19:40Z")
21, with very wide ranging musical tastes. I don’t listen to the radio, less because I can’t find any music I like than because I can’t stand all the commercials. I wan’t to listen to MUSIC dammit! It doesn’t help that the same songs are played over and over. I like to have music around me all day long, so songs get old much faster for me than most people, which may explain why I listen to so many different genres. Winamp playlist currently contains: My Benny Goodman and Ella Fitzgerald folders Soundtrack to the anime Trigun Soundtrack to Gladiator Steeleye Span Beethoven piano concertos folder a bunch of Indian hip hop Portishead The Doors a bunch of taiko music currently playing: Steeleye Span “Tam Lin”: “Oh I forbid you maidens all to wear gold in your hair, to come or go by Carterbaugh, for young Tam Lin is there.” 🙂 For some reason my current playlist does not reflect my love of trance and house or traditional Indian and Chinese music. Oh well. It changes all the time anyway. The only genres I absolutely refuse to consider listening to are rap and that weepy shit people are calling country these days. I just don’t like 'em. My friends influence my listening insomuch as often they’ll say “Hey Sonya, listen to this, you might like it.” and sometimes I will like it. The same goes for them. Sometimes we make fun of each other’s musical tastes, but it’s all in fun. 🙂 I might watch MTV or VH1 if they actually played music videos anymore, but last I heard, they still weren’t doing that and I think it’s been 8-10 years since I last watched. ---
**Author:** ![ParentalAdvisory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-below-25-what-kind-of-music-do-you-listen-to/211416/88 "2003-11-16T21:21:03Z")
Damn. I didn’t think I was that much of a minority in my age group. Here’s what I listen to: Dr. Dre Garbage Dido Korn Lincoln Park Rage Against the Machine / Audioslave too. Outkast Nappy Roots Eminem Pink Floyd Led Zeppelin DMX Mobb Deep Coldplay Alice in chains Nirvana T.A.T.U - Yes, I’m into it. Nonpoint DJ Qbert DJ Shadow Dust Brothers 2Pac D12 Deftones Obie Trice 50 Cent Aimee Mann Adema I don’t just own albums by these artists, I really am into the music. I like a lot of different stuff… but country - it makes my ears bleed. 23 year old male. ---
**Author:** ![Miercoles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Miercoles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miercoles)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-below-25-what-kind-of-music-do-you-listen-to/211416/89 "2003-11-16T22:35:01Z")
Greetings everyone, I’m a first-time poster, but a doper for one year, and person for seventeen. First off, I’d like to start by expressing my pride in the fact that I just returned home from a concert celebrating Franz Liszt, who has just become the latest addition to my CD collection, which spans all the great classical composers, including… Sergei Rachmaninoff Modest Mussorgsky Frederick Chopin Antonio Vivaldi Johann Sebastian Bach Ludwig von Beethoven Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Nicolo Paganini Heitor Villa-Lobos Joaquin Rodrigo (especially the Concierto de Aranjuez, which is quickly becoming the latest addition to my repetoire) And, of course, Ozzy Osbourne. This is all not to say that I’m not totally ignorant to music out there today – I’m very much into alot of older rock and metal, such as Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Queen, Deep Purple, Metallica, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, etc., and recently, may European metal bands like Stratovarius, Blind Guardian, and Iced Earth. As for the initial question, I haven’t in good conscience listened to Clear Channel stations in at least a year, and I’ve avoided MTV and VH1 like the plague. This isn’t only for their well-extinguished musical content, but also for their apathy to other musical genres. When these stations first began, they had a blessing – a real gift, which they could’ve used to celebrate and inspire artists and composers, as well as bring lots of music to an ever-increasing target demographic, which may not have been exposed to that certain music before. Instead, however, they’ve spread only redundant, repetitive, monotonous music that doesn’t contribute to anybody musically as well as it does the respective stations economically. They sold out from the very beginning. (I apologize for the length of my post, however I am simply not one to truncate his work. Also, I partially apologize for its criticism; this is not to say that there isn’t any good music on these networks – but worthwhile moments have seemed few and far between to me, lately). I end with the final note: **Long live Bill and Ted!** [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-below-25-what-kind-of-music-do-you-listen-to/211416.md?page=4)