What does Oppo listen to?

"YSI-what can brown do for you" (ysi-what-can-brown-do-for-you)
03/28/2014 at 00:16 • Filed to: None

Like what sort of music? I am a big fan of the metal variety, generally death metal and grindcore. Don't know what grindcore is? It is punk speed up to ridiculous speeds, it is full of so much energy too! Example:

I am generally pretty quiet about what I listen to, usually because everyone likes to make fun of it. I used to laugh at it too, when I was 12, and then I took a listen and have been hooked since. My favorite thing to do is when people ask what type of music I listen to, I say "You know stuff like ACDC and Aerosmith" boy are they in for a surprise.

DISCUSSION (42)

ptak appreciates old racecars > YSI-what can brown do for you
03/28/2014 at 00:21

What do I listen to? ...the exact opposite of what you do. ;D

But no to each his own, and I do listen to some metal (Dope by Debonaire comes to mind).

YSI-what can brown do for you > ptak appreciates old racecars
03/28/2014 at 00:27

I can dig this. I don't really hate most before the 60s. After the 60s is different though.

Agrajag > YSI-what can brown do for you
03/28/2014 at 00:29

I've been listening these two a lot lately.

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Tom Waits

jariten1781 > YSI-what can brown do for you
03/28/2014 at 00:32

Pretty much anything if it clicks....Next couple songs on my playlist

Tyler's SVT Focus Hates Him > YSI-what can brown do for you
03/28/2014 at 00:32

My heart belongs to stoner/sludge metal, the thicker, fuzzier, and hazier the better. For example, High on Fire and Sinister Haze!

Also really dig the older classic rock: Skynyrd, Floyd, Styx, what have you. Currently on a Tom Waits binge. Motherfucker can sing.

Bad Idea Hat > YSI-what can brown do for you
03/28/2014 at 00:32

Husker Du is my favorite band. Lately, I've been into Future Islands for weird reasons. Daft Punk, Maximo Park, Elvis Costello, Rush, Sonic Youth, Superchunk, Dinosaur Jr., and The Replacements round out the recent playlist. Also, Sluggo and The Oxymorons, a couple old local SW Ohio bands.

losingmylycosa > YSI-what can brown do for you
03/28/2014 at 00:36

YSI-what can brown do for you > losingmylycosa
03/28/2014 at 00:40

ddavidn > YSI-what can brown do for you
03/28/2014 at 00:42

Not too much metal or grindcore, though it occasionally makes it into my workday. Last played artists were: The Proclaimers, Katy B, Galactic, The Pogues, Skrillex (give him a break, his newest album is almost a bit grown-up...)

Montalvo > YSI-what can brown do for you
03/28/2014 at 00:42

I am a big fan of Electronica, progressive house and rock. I am not really into the really heavy stuff but if they find a way to balance it like Wrythe or Rammstein I usually am a fan.

YSI-what can brown do for you > jariten1781
03/28/2014 at 00:43

I like K-pop but only because I think the women look great. . . so I like it for everything but the music.

YSI-what can brown do for you > Agrajag
03/28/2014 at 00:44

What exactly is going on in the second video?

YSI-what can brown do for you > Tyler's SVT Focus Hates Him
03/28/2014 at 00:48

I find stoner metal great for driving alone at night for some reason. Even better if it is raining(like today). I do like it sometimes though, it is pretty chill.

D > YSI-what can brown do for you
03/28/2014 at 00:49

Well since you asked... My favorite genre happens to be old school gangsta rap, and I also like some RnB, funk, soul... and bebop

jariten1781 > YSI-what can brown do for you
03/28/2014 at 00:49

Kpop is definitely assembly line created music with model quality chicks who are world class dancers... and there ain't nothin wrong with that.

YSI-what can brown do for you > D
03/28/2014 at 00:52

I don't really listen to rap, although I do like listening to Ludacris for some reason. My friend listens to a lot of funk though, and it is a ton of fun!

YSI-what can brown do for you > ddavidn
03/28/2014 at 00:54

I only had one friend who used to listen to Skrillex. . . he isn't in college anymore. Do you understand now?

YSI-what can brown do for you > Montalvo
03/28/2014 at 00:55

I hate electronic music, but only because I knew a guy who was a real dick and he used to listen to it. . . so not because of the music.

ddavidn > YSI-what can brown do for you
03/28/2014 at 00:55

Look, I'm not a fan... His latest was just worth a listen, that's all...

Agrajag > YSI-what can brown do for you
03/28/2014 at 01:01

I have no idea. Just Tom Waits being Tom Waits.

desertdog5051 > YSI-what can brown do for you
03/28/2014 at 01:05

Anything but rap. Given my choice, I will settle back and listen to the blues.

Because-Racecar > YSI-what can brown do for you
03/28/2014 at 01:22

Above and Beyond

Matt Zo

Moog

Juventa

Tycho

Those are the first 5 that come to mind for me.

saabstory | fixes bikes, breaks cars > Tyler's SVT Focus Hates Him
03/28/2014 at 01:36

Have you listened to any Red Fang? They're pretty sweet. I saw them at Bumbershoot a few years back and it was the loudest thing I had experienced. And then I saw them with The Dillinger Escape Plan and Mastodon and now that is the loudest thing I have experienced. I think my ears are still ringing.

saabstory | fixes bikes, breaks cars > YSI-what can brown do for you
03/28/2014 at 01:44

I like pretty much everything related to rock it seems. My favorite bands are Built to Spill, Jimmy Eat World, Weezer and Brand New, but I like stuff like Mother Love Bone and Led Zeppelin and The Police and Blind Willie Johnson and Son House and also stoner metal guys like Red Fang and Mastodon. Johnny Cash is up there too, as is Bob Dylan and other country/folk-influenced singer/songwriters. Eisley is a standby as well, as is Radiohead and The Hives. There's just too much good music out there to limit yourself to one genre. The only genres I really don't find myself listening to are non-stoner metal, really hardcore country and rap. I can appreciate them in small doses, but more than a little bit starts stressing me out. Oh, Leonard Cohen's also really cool.

Tyler's SVT Focus Hates Him > saabstory | fixes bikes, breaks cars
03/28/2014 at 01:45

Love Red Fang, they're just a bunch of honest dudes making honest music. Was going to see them in Indy on the same Mastodon/DEP tour you saw them at but I wasn't old enough to get in :(

saabstory | fixes bikes, breaks cars > Tyler's SVT Focus Hates Him
03/28/2014 at 01:47

Ah, that sucks. I was worried about it being 21+, but luckily the venue I saw them at hardly ever does that because it has a built-in beergarden thing. All I really remember was it being possibly too loud, and I've never said that about a concert before.

EL_ULY > YSI-what can brown do for you
03/28/2014 at 01:52

Thrash and only thrash

YSI-what can brown do for you > EL_ULY
03/28/2014 at 01:54

I listen to some thrash. I was basically only thrash until I listen to death metal and then thrash became my 3rd favorite.

lonestranger > YSI-what can brown do for you
03/28/2014 at 01:57

lonestranger > losingmylycosa
03/28/2014 at 01:57

Tyler's SVT Focus Hates Him > saabstory | fixes bikes, breaks cars
03/28/2014 at 02:01

Very cool, wish we had some of those places here. Indianapolis has either tiny dive bars or huge amphitheaters so you're either too young to get in or having to pay out the ass for a semi-decent seat. And I can believe that the concert was almost too loud: a few guys from work ended up going and couldn't hear properly for a few days afterwards, and they said they were near the back even.

saabstory | fixes bikes, breaks cars > Tyler's SVT Focus Hates Him
03/28/2014 at 02:28

I was (rather unwisely) right on the boards and in front of some amps at first, but I quickly moved. The numerous all-ages shows are another plus of living in Seattle.

ptak appreciates old racecars > Because-Racecar
03/28/2014 at 05:27

Moog and Tycho? Awesome. You hear his song "L" (one letter)?

ptak appreciates old racecars > ptak appreciates old racecars
03/28/2014 at 05:28

[Tycho's]

AthomSfere > jariten1781
03/28/2014 at 07:10

One of the few Korean songs I like is a rip-off of an American song, from a pretty good movie.

Most of it though, is just bad for exactly the reasons you stated.

AthomSfere > saabstory | fixes bikes, breaks cars
03/28/2014 at 07:19

New to me, reminds me of Foo Fighters in a good way.

AthomSfere > YSI-what can brown do for you
03/28/2014 at 07:29

My tastes are all over the place. I really like just about anything as long as it is coherent, from the heart or really well done.

Ska - Come on Eileen is great

Callin Baton Rouge - Garth Brooks

At the Bottom of Everything - Bright Eyes (Actually, this guy is great. Music very varied)

The Wooden Song - The Butthole surfers (Awesome band, I miss them...)

I'm Not Sick - Harvey Dangerfield

Ne Me Quitte Pas - Regina Spektor

Overall though, my favorite genre is rock. Metallica, Korn, Tool...

I also like Folk rock, or folky.

theuserformerlyknownasaluminumfoil > YSI-what can brown do for you
03/28/2014 at 08:14

FOR YSI lol

King Ginger, not writing for Business Insider > YSI-what can brown do for you
03/28/2014 at 08:25

Classical (Chopin and Boccherini, though I don't dislike the German/Austrian schools), folk, punk, classic rock (Zeppelin), underground rap (Aesop Rock), and Taylor Swift.

Oh, and Dean Martin, Melody Gardot, Hayley Westenra, Metallica, Flogging Molly, Sting, and Rancid.

EDIT: It is basically a lot of things. Very different things.

Because-Racecar > ptak appreciates old racecars
03/28/2014 at 09:00

WOAH MATE.

So I was thinking "L? What the hell is that? I have all the albums. Don't remember a song by that name..."

So'z I search the mighty iTunes store...

New album. How did I not know this....??

BAM. Got it. Thanks!

Will listen to it this afternoon. If it sounds anything like their album Dive (my favorite chill/study album of all all time) then I'm gonna love it.

ptak appreciates old racecars > Because-Racecar
03/28/2014 at 15:45

It's like Dive but better. L is a great piece of music, you can just lose yourself completely in it, it's dare I say minimalist.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > YSI-what can brown do for you
08/27/2014 at 22:24

Various podcasts, NPR, audiobooks, fusion jazz from the '70s and '80s (Oregon, Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays, Weather Report, Jaco Pastorius, Keith Jarrett, Terje Rypdal, Miroslav Vitous), Cuban ballades, skate punk, opera, old-school rap, Laurie Anderson, Led Zep, The Police, bluegrass, Warren Zevon, funk, TV theme songs, bagpipes and military drum corps (really good for working out on a treadmill), anything by Thomas Dolby, Joni Mitchell, '70s soft rock, anything on the ECM label, classical (especially 20th century stuff), French pop music and a few hundred other things I can't recall off the top of my head. An extremely eclectic mix, to say the least. Putting my iPod on shuffle mode is always an adventure as you have absolutely no possible clue as to what song or genre is going to pop up next.

Today I listened to Jean-Luc Ponty's absolutely kick-ass "In Spite of it All" at least a dozen times (and four times since I started writing this post...), digging the interplay between JLPs violin and Allan Holdsworth's screaming guitar, with Randy Jackson and the great Rayford Griffin doing incredible work on the rhythm side of the house. This cut is four musicians in the groove and playing at their very best. Whenever I'm a little down I run this track and I feel exhilarated and happy and just want to get up and dance. I just cannot get enough of this tune, and that's what great music should do.