i don't quite ever "rock" per-se.. but i do listen to a lot of other
music besides clicky microsound stuff.. depeche mode is a long
standing favorite.. and other 80's electronic music that i grew up
with.. including industrial. i also listen to a bit of japanese pop
music.. and one of my favorite bands of all time, sugar plant... a
minimal guitar/ethereal duo from japan. definitely not music to rock
to... better to sleep to. like lullabys.
- taylor deupree: ambient/electronic artist @ 12k/line
.....and this is where I'll lose ALL credibility in the sight of the
ambientrance visitors....
My music "needs", for when I have to rock, depend on the situation...
If I need a reminder that hard rock is actually an art form: Led Zep-
Houses of the Holy and Rush- Moving Pictures and Signals
If I'm driving in my car and I want to be sure that I don't get a speeding
ticket: Tears for Fears- Greatest Hits and Seal- Seal
If I'm driving in my car and I don't CARE if I get a speeding ticket or
not: AC/DC- Back in Black and Van Halen- For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge
If I'm in a bad mood and I want to feel better: The Beach Boys- Pet Sounds.
Probably the most perfect, sophisticated pop record of all time. Brian
Wilson was Lennon, McCartney, and George Martin all rolled into one.
If I'm in a bad mood and I want to STAY in a bad mood: Pink Floyd- The
Division Bell and Dark Side of the Moon and Depeche Mode- the singles '86-'98.
- Jeff Pearce: ambient guitarist
I continue to listen to lots of "straight" rock music, though the bands and
albums that interest me tend to be clustered around my high school and
college years -- Queen, Metallica, AC/DC, Rush, Cheap Trick, The Cars, Pink
Floyd, Scorpions -- mixed in with a little bit of earlier stuff like
Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin, and almost nothing from after 1990 or so.
That music still occupies a bigger chunk of my "brain space" than the music
I create myself, and deal with on Hypnos. In fact, when I'm talking to
Jeff Pearce and David Tollefson about music, almost all our conversations
center around those bands, much more than we actually talk about music like
what we do. And if I get together with Dave T some Friday night to drink a
bunch of beer and play CDs really loud, we're listening to a lot stuff like
of Cheap Trick's first album, Queen's SHEER HEART ATTACK, AC/DC's BACK IN
BLACK and FOR THOSE ABOUT TO ROCK, Metallica's MASTER OF PUPPETS, and maybe
a tiny bit of mellower stuff like Bowie, My Bloody Valentine, Eno, Main,
Fripp, etc.
As for the "why," first of all I believe that any music lover is going to
maintain throughout their lives a fondness for the music of their
adolescence and early adulthood. Also, I think this is good music! Lots
of the stuff from that era has fallen away from the modern consciousness --
does anybody listen to much Bad Company or Kansas any more? -- but I
believe the really compelling stuff has remained compelling. I'd like to
think that in 2015, some 16 year old kid could listen to Rush's MOVING
PICTURES on headphones and get something like the same thrill that I had in
1982 or so.
Also I think that kind of music serves a completely different purpose and
works on a different part of you, than does ambient music, or jazz, or
classical. One doesn't serve the purpose of the other -- you need more
than one kind of music!
- M. Griffin: Hypnos Recordings
It's just since a few years I really started to enjoy more
guitar-orientated music and from then on, I actually listen more to this
genre than electronic music. Somehow it inspires me more nowadays than I
used to appreciate it.
I really do admire the works of Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails, Eels, the
early Roxy Music and David Bowie. Their approach to pop & rock music
fascincates as they have a particular way to evoke a strong filmic quality
while their guitarsounds are not just harsh but contain a more esoteric and
soothing flavor. Something I've been really inspired by. Other groups I
enjoy are Coldplay, Filter, Soulwax and even some of the Marilyn Manson music.
- Vidna Obmana: ambient/electronic artist @ www.vidnaobmana.org
Hawkwind, Massive Attack, Wire
- Robert Rich:Soundscape Productions / Amoeba Music
Is PIL, Alien Sex Fiend, Chrome, Bauhaus rock and roll? David
Bowie is, right? I like most of them, they have this eerie warm and
cold relationship that suits my taste in music. But honestly I don't
play rock music that often and I don't have much interest for it but
historical and sociological.
- Dimitri: hushush
I still like to endulge in nostalgia with some of the old progressive bands like the really old Genesis material, early Yes, early ELP, Peter Gabriel, Rush, early Saga, Popol Voh, Jethro Tullæ,æPink Floyd, King Crimson ,the very early Tangerine Dream, and more recently the Cocteau Twins. æ They were exploring new sounds, almost orchestral and very visual. I always loved the fact that pieces could be half an hour long, really slow, there was REAL playing, some very serious solos, sometime inspired in Medieval, baroque and other classical forms.... æ Youælisten to these artists now and is hard to believe they are the same people, has the quality of the drugs deteriorated so much? ;-)
- Anthony Wright: a.ka. Ashera
Hmm... there are so many different albums that I might pull out to
suit a certain ROCK mood that it's hard to pick out just a couple.
These may not all seem quite ROCK, but here are a few discs that fill
the NEED for me, in no particular order... King Crimson Red, Nick
Cave The Good Son, Afghan Whigs Gentlemen, Toiling Midgets Son,
Shriekback Oil and Gold or Jam Science, Psychedelic Furs Talk Talk
Talk, New Order Republic, Neil Diamond Hot August Night,Neville
Brothers Treacherous, David Sylvian Secrets of the Beehive, Mark
Eitzel Lover's Leap USA, U2 October, Seal, Coil Stolen and
Contaminated Songs, Peter Gabriel Us, Kate Bush The Dreaming, Dead
Can Dance In the Realm of the Dying Sun, Cocteau Twins Treasure...
and lots more...
- M. Bentley: the foundry
Everyone from Steely Dan to Massive Attack, Eagles to Billy Idol, Alice Cooper to Roxy Music.....i could go on....
- Dino Pacifici: Music-Language of the Spirit
My background has been largely in rock and pop, and my first real
band, M-1 Alternative, considered itself, however improperly, a pop
band, so for me rock and pop are a significant component of my
musical diet. The first place I diverged from the mainstream musical
path was with heavy metal, and more specifically with the 1970s
records of Judas Priest, UFO, and Scorpions. As a guitarist and a
teenager, I was thrilled by these records, but even now I pull them
out and find them enduringly satisfying. After metal - with a bit of
prog tossed into the saucepan in the same period (Yes, Genesis, King
Crimson, along with the obligatory Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin) - the
next huge influence was what I consider the "cold wave" of UK guitar
psychedelia and synthesizer pop: Ultravox, John Foxx, Magazine,
Simple Minds, Gary Numan, OMD, Eyeless in Gaza, Felt, Music for
Pleasure, Comsat Angels, Echo and the Bunnymen, Fra Lippo Lippi, The
Sound, Sad Lovers & Giants, and just about everything on Factory
Records and 4AD in the late 1970s and early 1980s; again these
records even now continue to reveal new secrets, and many of them
seem to have scaled heights of production (especially by Conny Plank
and Martin Hannett) to which I only wish I could attain. Later still
there was German electronic rock to be unearthed - especially
Kraftwerk and Harmonia and Can - as well as the early electropop
coming from Japan. Later still, Sarah records gave a nice pop fix,
while my cravings for walls of guitars came from Chameleons,
Slowdive, and the like, my taste for a more metallic grind being
renewed with The Young Gods, Swans, and The God Machine. And these
days I will take anything from Tram to Sugar Plant to David Sylvian
to Wong Fei to to Legendary Pink Dots to Pram, my favorite records
being those constructed as real albums - journeys through various
atmospheres and moods, worlds conjured by sound and explored between
the speakers.
- Joshua Maremont: (Thermal, Boxman Studies, The Archipelago)
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