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.
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).
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
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.
- 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 sort of radio station is the only one I listen to, really (other than the AM news station. And hockey games, too).
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.
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.
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.
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!