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Time for me to get flamed. Over the years my tastes have definitely changed. I've listened to hard core rap in the past for extended periods (weeks if not months) and same with metal (Slipknot being one band) but now I dislike both genres. Anything else pretty decent to me as long as it falls into my requirements: Quality (encoding and recording), soul (the music/artists has to speak and feel though the music and lyrics), and catchyness. Metal and rap to me just doesn't have any soul, half of the reason for that I'm sure is you cannot understand what a babbling black guy or screaming white dude is saying with heavy drums (synthesized or not). I don't like a specific genre or specific artist. The top artists that I've thouroughly enjoyed and can listen to over and over again would be (in no particular order): Johnny Cash, Green Day, Nirvana, The White Stripes, The Eagles, etc. To me, you just can't top the soul that Johnny Cash put into his work and the way he revolutionized things in the music industry.  In saying all of this, I don't mean any disrespect to metal or rap listeners or artists because it is a preference and I do recognize that the majority of them do have talent and therefore reach a substantial audience, it's just not for me. I don't hate or flip out over music I don't enjoy, that would be just rude.

I also tend to dislike anything synthesized or new. I like to know that the people behind the instruments are human and do make mistakes. These days, instruments are increasingly affordable and anyone with the cash to buy one thinks they're an artist and I don't respect that.

I used to listen to a little Metallica but quickly got out of it. How could I have forgotten AC/DC and Guns 'n Roses... Add that to my list

I try to listen for talent, and usually that just happens to be guitar work. My dad is a huge fan of the stuff you've listed (Killaman), and that gradually increased in "heaviness", Iron Maiden to Slipknot to Lamb of God to the stuff I listen to now. My favorite band, Between the Buried and Me, incorporates many influences and genres into their music. They can be one of the heaviest bands I've heard, or a soft rock with intricate guitar work. All of their songs are really long, too ._.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdGJyv8vr6g#t=05m52s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13wM7Iqdzb8#t=08m36s



About that "actual metal" comment, everything has an origin, or an influence. I could say that Iron Maiden and Metallica aren't "actual metal" and that Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin did it first, hell even Judas Priest but I don't because Maiden was a new genre. If I'm talking about music I like in general I label it as "metal", like I did with this topic, but normally I'll call it by it's more specific name, be it deathcore or mathcore (I know you probably think they're the same). I've heard that the music I listen to all sounds the same so many times.. what about mainstream hard rock? What about Hammet's solos in every Metallica song? I think they sound the same.

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Unless you listen like 5 minutes past the time where the links start, it shouldn't be anything you have trouble listening to.

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I can't join in because the only thing remotely close to any of the genres listed here that Ive listened to fall under the old Linkin Park albums, some Green Day, and Led Zeppelin. Maybe I'm missing a few....

Death metal? No never, metal that doesn't concern death, maybe. I will listen to music with some metal in it, but if the song is all metal, then probably not.

Spanky, shouldn't YouTube links to music be considered "illegal"? 

Spanky, shouldn't YouTube links to music be considered "illegal"?

I don't honestly think so. It's up to YouTube and it's users to determine the content they upload is legally right to be hosted. It's available to anyone without cost so... I dunno. It's also foreign music which Romanian laws are probably different.

No problem, my emot was a joke too 

I'm going to a Miss May I show tomorrow, (making the post officially not spam). They're metalcore: one of my least favorite genres. I don't know why I like them but I do  : Dance with Aera Cura \m/