what music do you like?
 

ok, were all sonic fans but what else do you like?

My current non-SY top five:

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Einstuerzende Neubauten
Cowboy Junkies
Sunburned Hand of the Man
mid-late period Swans / Angels of Light

Other major fondnesses:
C86
Shoegaze
Manufactured girl-group pop (Atomic Kitten / Sugababes / Girls Aloud)

All sorts:

Some favourite genres/eras/artists:

No Wave
Early R 'n' B
Rockabilly (Wanda Jackson is a particular favourite)
Electronica
Steve Reich
Early hardcore

I don't really like music. I'm more into staring REALLY INTENTLY at my enormous record collection.

Meh, I pretty much just like whatever...

& there's always My Bloody Valentine, of course

From rock to pop to classical.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=pWi4sqYLTJY

no, i was kidding
http://youtube.com/watch?v=VA--W23t6SY
gotta be patient for the highlights

Yes,Modern Talking is more like it.

Xiu Xiu
Arab on Radar
Early Death Cab For Cutie
Cat Power
Modest Mouse
the Unicorns

Bytor Peltor, I think that may have been the first Heldon namecheck in the history of this board.
Check out this guy!

Aesop Rock
Albert King
Animal Collective
Atmosphere
B.B. King
Bardo Pond
Be Your Own Pet
Beastie Boys
Beck
Bedhead
Big Black
Black Flag
Black Sabbath
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Blind Willie Johnson
Blind Willie McTell
Bob Dylan
Boredoms
Brendan Benson
Bright Eyes
Buddy Guy
Bukka White
Butthole Surfers
Can
Captin Beefheart
Cat Power
Charley Patton
Ciccone Youth
Comets On Fire
Crosby, Stills, Nash, & YOung
Daniel Johnston
David Bowie
Deerhoof
Devo
Dinosaur Jr.
Dirty THree
Donovan
Drive Like Jehu
Elliot Smith
Foo Fighters
Frank Black
Fugazi
Glassjaw
Gorrillaz
Gost Bitch
Gray Matter
Green Day
Group X
Hownlin Wolf
Husker Du
Jimi Hendrix
Jimmy Donley
Joe South
John Lee Hooker
John Lennon
Johnny Cash
Leadbelly
Lee Ranaldo
Leonard Cohen
Lightning Bolt
Lorretta Lynn
Lou Reed
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Marvin Gaye
Meat Puppets
Minutemen
Misfits
Mississippi John Hurt
Modest Mouse
Muddy Waters
Mudhoney
My Bloody Valentine
Neil Young
Neutral Milk Hotel
New York Dolls
Nirvana
Outkast
Patti SMith
Paul McCartney
Pink Floyd
Pixies
Public Enemy
Queen
REM
Radiohead
Ramones
Richard Hell & The Voldoids
Robert Johnson
Same Cooke
Sean Lennon
Skip James
Slick Rick
Sloppy MEateaters
Soledad Brothers
Solomon Burke
Son House
SOnic Youth
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Syd Barret
T-Bone Walker
T. Rex
Television
Tenacious D
The Allman Brothers
The Band
The Beatles
The Breeders
The Brian Jonestown Massacre
The Carter Family
The Cure
The Flaming Lips
The Go
The Racontuers
The Sex Pistols
The Stooges
The Traveling Wheelburries
The Vasalines
The Velvet Underground
The WAllflowers
The White Stripes
Them
Thurston Moore
Unwound
Van Morrison
Violent Femmes
Warren G
Weezer
Wilson Picket
Wolf Eyes
Woddy Guthrie
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Yo La Tengo

As to Heldon, I am only familiar with a few things, so I'm fairly useless to recommend anything else...I had heard "Stand By" and some other Heldon and Pinhas material when I worked for Let It Be records and we had just bought a huge prog and psych collection from an older guy with an interesting stash of LPs. The other two you listed are new to me as well; I will research these titles. Thanks for the tip!

Looking through that one fellow's collection tipped me off to a lot of great sounds that I would not have heard before, as well as hooking me up with some original LPs that I had always lusted after by the likes of Art Zoyd, Univers Zero, Amon Duul, etc. My boss got most of the primo Krautrock (all the Neu! and Can originals went into his collection), but due to slight differences in taste, I wound up getting a lot of great ones for myself (including some great NWW and Current 93 titles).

The one neither one of us could justify keeping was the original 1st pressing of Can's "Monster Movie," which wound up selling for over 1800 dollars, surpassing our wildest expectations. There were quite a few valuable records in that collection, but nothing else like that!

The artists I listen to most are The Fall, Aphex Twin (in his many guisies), Sonic Youth, Horace Silver, Gaye Bykers on Acid, David Sylvian, Fats Waller, Propaganda and Shantygruppe Breitling.

Others I listen to on a regular basis are Olodum, Leos Janacek, Happy Mondays, The Undertakers (60's Merseybeat band, not the US band of the same name), Humphry Littelton, Les Pirates, Animal Collective, Farces Wanna Mo, The Stupids, Frankfurter, Sugababes, Anne Pigalle, Art of Noise, Shinra, Nwodtlem, Billy Fury, The Stupids and The Baby Men . I like to stream stuff online too.

I also listen, on a slightly less regualr basis, to The Bambi Slam, Fleischwolf, Abdullah Ibrahim and Ekaya, Eric B and Rakim, The Spinners, Scorpio Rising, iio, Tempole Tudor, Boogie Down Productions, Black Grape, Japan, Gomez, XTC, Fruchte Des Zorns, NAdia Ali, The Sermon, MC Tunes, Fields of the Nephilim, Thelonius Monk, Bix Beiderbecke, The Smiths, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Chris Potter, Ned's Atomic Dustbin, Kasabian, Rosetta Stone, The Duke Spirit, Bogshed, Madonna, Heaven 17, MC Solaar, Be Your Own Pet, music from the TV series The Prisoner and the film Betty Blue and The Barmy Army.

There are more whom I listen to occaisionally, and more again whom I like but not enough to buy music of, but listing them would be a bit silly.

I've probably forgotten some important people, so I'll add them as I remember them.

I like

phish
beatles
afghan whigs
unwound
polvo
ornette coleman
miles davis
thelonius monk
charles mingus
modern jazz quartet
muddy waters
stevie ray vaughn
beethoven
mahler
wagner
rock on

Yeah, there are some insanely well-heeled collectors out there. That is a world I am content to watch rather than join. I'm bad enough as it is.
It was cool to see and hold it, but for god's sake, that LP is easily available as a reissue, so the worth of the original being that high kinda floors me. I have heard of that album going for around 3000 in only marginally better shape than our copy was! The cover was totally different from the "robot" cover I was familiar with before. It said "Made In A Castle With Better Equipment" on it, and it looked like this:

Elliott Smith, The Flaming Lips, Cat Power

Let me see...
The Adicts
The Antics
Anti-Flag
Aus Rotten
Babes In Toyland
Bad Religion
The Beatles
Black Flag
Bob Dylan
Bob Marley
The Briefs
The Business
Buzzcocks
The Casualties
Catch 22
Cheap Sex
The Chemical Brothers
Choking Victim
Conflict
Courtney Love
Demolition Doll Rods
Devotchkas
Discharge
The Distillers
The Exploited
The Forgotten
Forgotten Rebels
GBH
A Global Threat
Hole
Horrorpops
Jefferson Airplane
The Jesus and Mary Chain
Joan Jett and the Black Hearts
John Lennon
Justin Sane
L7
Leftover Crack
Lemonheads
Louis Armstrong
Madcap
Minor Threat
Misfits
Neil Young
Nirvana
NOFX
Oi Polloi
Operation Ivy
Oxymoron
Pistol Grip
Pixies
PJ Harvey
The Planet Smashers
Propagandhi
Quincy Punx
REM
Rancid
Reagan Youth
Reel Big Fish
Screeching Weasel
The Sex Pistols
The Smashing Pumpkins
Sonic Youth
Subhumans
Sublime
Tiger Army
U.S. Bombs
The Vandals
The Varukers
The Virus

Almost any band with a female lead singer, among other things.

i don't like music.

hi emmah!!!

To name a few:
Boredoms
The Dead C
Fushitsusha
Harry Pussy
Sunn0))
Einstürzende Neubauten
Gary Numan

it really is senseless for me to try to put them all in a list.
a few that i really like a whole lot are the birthday party and hole and scratch acid and teenage jesus.

nobody even said anything about how leet this list is..

You don't like Plans? I found it cheap the other day at my local used cd store. I quite like it. It's really good infact.

You like Palumbos other band Head Automatica? I found Popaganda the other day at my local (when I found Plans and a bunch of other 'new releases' that someone had obviously won and traded in) . It's good. It's fun.

I like alot on your list.

Seeing a lot of cool lists! I have to list mine out sometime, I'll do it tomorrow. Lately I've been into:

Doctor Octagon
Kool Keith
Dr.Dre
Fela Kuti
Faust
The White Mice
Husker Du
Kraftwerk

Head Automatica is ok from what i heard. I dont think I'll ever like them as much a Glassjaw

Jimi Hendrix

and some other bands

Yeah, but you don't have to. They're not really along the same line or on the same path though, either. I remember hearing, or reading, somewhere that he wanted to start something that's just really pop and fun. He accomplished that. I dig Glassjaw more, too, if I chose between the two.

DOOM/SLUDGE (sleep, electric wizard, Om, Eyehategod etc)
particular early 90's Hip Hop (Dre, Wu-Tang, Biggie)
Early 70's US punk (The Stooges, Richard Hell, Rockets From the Tombs)
Early 80's US punk (Void, Black Flag, Bad Brains, Husker Du, Minutemen)


Wolf Eyes
The Replacements
Albini Bands
Boris
Grey Daturas
Yellow Swans

Psyche (want to know more)
Black metal (a recent interest, favourites include Darkthrone, Akitsa, Burzum, Leviathan, Xasthur)
Drone/Noise stuff

gene vincent and the bluecaps
james brown
captain beefheart
the stooges
sun ra
the fall
the police
the melvins
tears for fears
ikara colt
human eye

and more,

running water in my sink.

I think I am a fan of pop-music insofar as it refers to hooks in music. But I enjoy the twisted interpretations of pop music. In my eye, even Sonic Youth is a pop band, as far as their major label releases go.

Here's some of the bands I enjoy aside from Sonic Youth:

Animal Collective
Deerhoof
the Beatles
the Velvet Underground
Jimi Hendrix
Ween
Brian Jonestown Massacre
the Rolling Stones
the Doors
Jefferson Airplane
Nirvana
Meat Puppets
Pixies
Smashing Pumpkins
REM
Johnny Cash
Nofx
Rancid
Operation Ivy
Built to Spill
Weezer
Neutral Milk Hotel
Olivia Tremor Control
Elf Power
Television
Talking Heads
Devendra Banhart
Wu-Tang Clan
Outkast
the Beastie Boys
Rage Against the Machine
Sublime
the Grateful Dead
Janis Joplin
Yo La Tengo
Beck
Blonde Redhead
the Beach Boys
Pink Floyd


there's more but i'm going to stop. I enjoy weird for the sake of weird music sometimes too, and instrumental bands like tortoise, no neck blues band, sunburned hand of the man.

The Fall, John Zorn stuff, The Birthday Party, My Bloody Valentine, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Can, Neil Young, Sage Francis, Aesop Rock, Edan, Blockhead, DJ Shadow, Animal Collective, Cat Power, VU, CCR, Zombies, Minutemen, Patti Smith, Yoko Kanno, Thelonius Monk, John Coltrane, Throbbing Gristle, Bob Dylan, Suicide, Deerhoof, Clinic, Melt Banana, Boris, Angelo Badalamenti, Jim O'Rourke, Talking Heads, Kou Ootani, Shiro Sagiyu, etc....

Well actually, my all time favorite band is The Jesus And Mary Chain.

I also like many of the bands already mentioned by everyone so far.

But here are a few of my most cherished. In no particular order:

The Velvet Underground.
The Sex Pistols
The Ramones.
Beastie Boys.
Blondie.
The Associates / Billy McKenzie.
Led Zeppelin.
Motorhead.
AC/DC.
Leonard Cohen.
Janes Addiction.
Adam And The Ants. :o


There are just so many. But those are a few anyway. I have to say I would have always expected Sonic Youth fans to also like many other good bands but I have been truly impressed with most of the choices many of you have made in this thread. Some of those bands mentioned in this whole thread are very much under-appreciated by the masses as a whole.

But people of taste are always going to be in the minority. Simply because Sonic Youth fans are unlikely to be sheeple.

Lightning Bolt
Melvins
Stooges
Buzzcocks
Mission of Burma
Band of Susans
Black Sabbath
White Zombie
Black Flag
Butthole Surfers
Mars Volta
Wipers

and lately i've been really into Shellac.

esspecially on this board.

good music
of course

I'll put it simple: anything that's worthwhile, be it rock, jazz, blues, classical.etc.

Iggy Pop/The Stooges.. Chopin's nocturnes.. The Slits/Ari-Up.. old Jane's Addiction (with Eric Avery).. Patti Smith, REM, The Dresden Dolls (live, not so much on record).. Tinariwen.. the Kodo drummers.. Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie.. The Tiger Lillies... Jacques Brel, Francoise Hardy, Edith Piaf.. Janis Joplin, Peaches, The Detroit Cobras, Boss Hog, The 5-6-7-8's, Afrirampo.. Sonic's Rendezvous Band.. Suicide.. The Kinks.. The Cramps.. The Clash.. David Bowie, Joanna Newsom, Bjork, PJ Harvey... Nick Cave, Einsturzende Neubauten, X-Ray Spex... OOIOO... Elliott Smith, eels, Regina Spektor.... Butthole Surfers, Boredoms, Jeff Buckley.. Hole, Babes In Toyland, Huggy Bear... Portishead, The Zombies, Leonard Cohen.. Tom Waits, Nico, Syd Barrett.. Lesbians On Ecstasy, Public Enemy, Gogol Bordello... Richard Hell & the Voidoids.. Mike Watt/The Minutemen.. Miles Davis, Vivaldi's "Four Seasons", Kurt Weill.. the 'Cabaret' soundtrack, Django Reinhardt, Jerry Lee Lewis, anti-folk, chanting Buddhist monks, psychobilly, electroclash compilations, organic and nature-inspired ambient, Puccini's operas, psychedelic trance, outsider music, extreme noise....