Genres

I suppose this has to be addressed.  Sigh. The whole genre thing is so labelling-y. But yet so useful.

I like music.  Most kinds of music. Lots of people sat that, but really. Classical to hair metal. Mozart to Mott the Hoople, Queen to Eminem – I’m just grabbing names out the air, so – someone to whoever.  I don’t like Brahms, but that’s just me. Don’t get him, but that’s a flault in myself I’ll try and correct one of these days.  Other than that, anything goes.  Suppose that’s why I’m hanging around the disreputable websites that I do.

What I look for first is usually indie rock and folk. Alternative, too, but that’s so broad a label now it doesn’t seem to mean much – kind of like rock. Also classical, pop, acoustic, americana, trance, house… most things. I love gritty heartbreaking folk rock. I love big trance anthems. I love the anger in the sixties rock, the whimsy in indie pop.  Just lately I’ve been having a bit of synthpop thing.  I listen to some Jazz, but I don’t know nearly enough about it that I’m going to start expressing opinions on the interweb. Same goes for blues. I haven’t spent enough time learning what I need to learn to appreciate hip hop, so this blog’s unlikely to help if that’s what you’re after, but if you know of a link to a good intro guide, it’d be great thing to do to drop me a line and let me know about it.

So that’s where we’re at. A bit of skew here towards indie rock, away from rap, but anything else goes. And the rock is indie because that’s what’s available from the websites I use. And some might even say its  better stuff than what the big four record labels are feeding everyone, but I wouldn’t dream of mentioning anything of the sort.

WHAT I’M LISTENING TO: A bunch of fairly random stuff on emusic because I’m going through my saved for later trying to decide what to buy.  Things that make the cut: Klee, Mariee Sioux, this compilation, and do you remember this from back in the day?  There’s a few good new things on Amie Street too, none still free (most were the albums of the day so went up in price fast) but all worth a listen if you’re up for some indie rock (the Ettes and Mock Orange) or electropop (Kyle Andrews).  There’s this, too, got some interesting tracks by some famous artists, and I guess linking to it just got this blog banned in China. Happy Olympic Games day!