What have you been listening to?

Still better than Stupid Hoe

Heard this song on the radio and loved it. It's my favorite discovery through the radio in years

Also been listening to Patten's debut album. It's not exactly mindblowing overall but I love the opener. Right up my alley as far as electronic music is concerned

If only you would have been paying attention to my posts, you could have been listening to Phantogram for months now!

I've been listening to MØ's No Mythologies to Follow album recently. Enjoying it.

Well... I knew I had heard of them somewhere! To be honest I don't feel like I have time to check out half of the things posted here, so eventually I just forget about them

I have been in a bit of a music funk lately. I just got transferred at work and have a significantly longer commute now. I was wondering if anyone had any good recommendations? The last albums I listened to were the new Black Keyes and Jack White albums. It could be full albums or even singles. Give me something to rock out to as I drive/sit in traffic!

@Matt: You'll never be angry during your commute with this-

Maybe you've listened to this album, but if you haven't you need to.  This is the opening song, and it screams "Drive time commute." If you have listened to this and liked it and haven't listened to ....Like Clockwork, then that's another fine album.

Bret, proof that you're my brother from another mother and I'm the shitty older brother; I saw Queens open for Godsmack in a room of about 600 people. I bought the CD off the lead dude who was shilling them off to the side of the stage while Godsmack played.

Songs for the Deaf is one of my favorite albums ever. That song you posted is amazing as well. I'll have to listen to that tomorrow afternoon while I'm stuck in traffic for an hour!

What? No love for Funkadelic? I see how it is you hipsters. I'm going to put "Clinton For President" (yes, that's the actual album) on repeat to spite all of you. ALL OF YOU!

Queens of the Stone Age is just too good not to get picked.  My favorite's Songs for the Death, but Rated R is awesome as well.  

Ha, Godsmack.  "I'm not the one who's so far away."  Seems like the power balance shifted towards the better in the end.  Godsmack wasn't the worst band from my youth though, I definitely had a lot to choose from during my high school days.

pspiddy, was it Rated R that you bought? It can't be that album, that's the one that I think propelled them to fame.

I shit you not, I had to google "bad 90s rock" to find Godsmack because I couldn't remember what the damn band's name was. Which is stupid of me because I should have remembered them being interviewed in Guitar Player way back when. They said the name wasn't an Alice In Chains reference but because one of the band members had a cold sore. Yeah. Uh-huh. >.>

That isn't useless information as it proves the point of honesty is the best policy. Lies will only make you look like a lying assclown instead of a regular assclown. Or so I keep telling myself...

My high school days, the big popular bands were....

Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Papa Roach, Ricky Martin, boy bands, Godsmack, and that's all I even care to try and think of. Hurts my heart just thinking about their immense popularity.

Oh, and Matt, I think I'll join you tomorrow and listen to Songs for the Deaf. I don't have a long drive, but listening to it on the way, during breaks, and going home should be enough time to finish it.

Good topic, Bret. What did everyone listen to in high school and what was popular? I'm super interested in this.

(I typed mine but it didn't send so I'll post again when not on phone)

Mine really isn't too different from what I listen to now.

My favorite bands back then were Nirvana, Silverchair, Placebo, and Hole. Although I consider Silverchair to be one of my favorite bands, the fact that they split up and only released 5 albums kind of hurts their Bret Baber Top Band position, but their album Diorama came out my senior year and is my favorite album that isn't In Utero or Nevermind.

My favorite bands in high school were Blink 182 and the Deftones probably. I listened to a lot of punk music and hard rock (or whatever the Deftones are considered). NOFX, Pennywise, Millencolin, Incubus. All that kind of stuff I guess. I must be getting old because I just can't get into the loud stuff anymore so early Deftones is too far out of my wheelhouse now. Blink, Millencolin and even Deftones' White Pony I still enjoy, but I don't listen to it often.

College for me was stuff like DeathCab for Cutie, Elliott Smith, Imogen Heap, Bright Eyes, The Killers and so on. I still listen to all of that kind of stuff, but have more recently been into that kind of indie rock with an electronic feel I guess. Metric, Tegan and Sara and Chvrches.

I don't listen to rap as much as I used to, but my tastes are still pretty similar. Jay-Z, older Talib Kweli/Mos Def/Common are my faves.

Back in high school I was a metalhead. Metallica, Iron Maiden, Slayer, Behemoth, Mastodon. Pretty different from the smooth classic rock I like today. I still listen to those every now and then, but not close to as much as I used to. Everything the other people listened to was crap. That's as much as I know.

GREENIE IS A BUTTROCKER! I knew it!

In all seriousness, I love reading these posts and hope more people participate. Though I do think you guys are withholding a bit for fear of embarrassment.

For instance, I loooooved my C&C Music Factory cassette. I wasn't ashamed of it then or now. Embarassing shit is probably a whole new topic.

Jane's Addiction,  RHCP, Wu, NWA. That's what was current and what I dug. NOFX and Pennywise were there too. As was Pantera and Slayer. Sprinkle in some Nirvana and Butthole Surfers. Some Pixies too.

I also like Mariah Carey. "My All" is great.

I mostly listened to metal in high school, along with industrial and some emo crap too. Some of my favorite bands were As I Lay Dying, Job for a Cowboy, Suicide Silence, Tool, Nine Inch Nails, Skinny Puppy, Chiodos... my taste in music was quite different back then. I'm sure my high school self never imagined I'd be listening to j-pop like I do now.

Oooooh, NIN was definitive. How did I miss that? I saw the Downward Spiral tour on Halloween. Marilyn Manson opened. Damn, choco, good call.

In high school I listened to Muse a lot, which led to Queen. Then I got into more classic rock before settling on Pink Floyd as my favorite band. Then I started listening to a ton of progressive rock and metal because of that. Eventually I ended up listening to Radiohead and I've pretty much stuck with them since. There's also some industrial and punk in there somewhere and most of it was pretty mediocre

I think My Chemical Romance was pretty huge around grade 9/10. Billy Talent was popular among the rock kids, and it still is I think. Everybody else listened to standard pop or country, except for the posers who liked garbage rap like Soulja Boy

High School was a weird mix of Muse, Tool, classical music (since me and my friend were self-learning the piano at the time), soundtracks, The Beatles...and now I still listen to weird mix of stuff.

Hell, I still listen to most all of those things. I guess I haven't grown up musically. However, like ajapam Muse led into Queen and the basics of classical led into more obscure composers and still do so I guess I'm still evolving.

My g/f was into all the emo stuff at that time so I definitely got my fill of all that stuff too which is funny because personality wise she's a much happier person than me.

I only listen to music that I consider to be depressing. The more depressing the better in my opinion. Just like your g/f, I'm more of a friendly/happier person than most. I like to listen to dark/depressing music by myself, and I guess that makes me happier when I'm with others.

In high school I used to be all about the riffs and the rock, now I love stuff like Bright Eyes and Radiohead. Alternative rock will always be my favorite, as long as they don't consider stuff like Nickelback alternative rock. Seems like unfitting bands get thrown into the term.

I do feel like Alternative Rock has become a blanket term.

It's dumb because "alternative" is a relative term and what it's an alternative to is always changing

That's true. I suppose it's like "Indie" in all genres of everything I guess. It doesn't really mean what it meant anymore.

Alternative rock in the 90's only meant good things. Not really the case anymore.

Started listening to albums by Mogwai. Really, really good.