Where do you guys buy and download your music im into rock/metal hip hop jazz classical
I use onkyomusic and 7digital. These 2 sites are great for hi res or just flac. When it comes to mp3’s i just use the android apps store as they sell music
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Currently I’ve been listening to a lot of OST’s but currently been listening to a lot of Two Steps From Hell. If you guys like epic sounding war music check it out. They have albums on Tidal, Apple Music, Spotify pretty much all the streaming services.
The Beach Boys’ Smile Sessions is some of their best material. For more electronic and synth wave music, I’d say the two Buggles albums are great. Their second album is particularly tricky to source, as theirs no official lossless distributions of it, and a good physical copy is scarce. Lastly, my favorite Indie and Art-Punk band would have to be Televison. They just are a blast to listen to.
Going to add some different artists I listen to, not as often as my favorites. More to show how all over the place I am sometimes. Mediaeval Babes, Ministry, Neal Hellman ( dulcimer player), Napalm Death, New World Renaissance Band, Peter Gabriel, Pungent Stench, Rotting Christ, Shriekback.
I’ll stop with those for now.
Let me preface this with the way I listen; Albums. When I was a teenager I lived with my best friends family for quite a stretch. His father (Greg) had a CD collection that was colossal. Several thousand disks carefully curated. Every week he would take us to the record store. We would each pick a new release and he would buy it for us. But on the condition that we listened to an album that he picked for us. The rules were simple. You must listen to the album twice from beginning to end with no interruptions. We could have snacks and take notes. No other activities. Before going to the record store the following week, we would sit down and listen to the album together and talk about it.
Greg was a Deadhead and he turned me on to The Grateful Dead and my other great bands like Captain Beefheart, The Talking Heads and Disturbed. I am very deep into the jam band bootleg scene because of him. That is a rabbit hole in itself. It saddens me to say that Greg passed away a few years ago. He was the guy that spent hours in the record store finding the best new stuff and sharing it with his friends. Now that Greg is gone, I do my best to fill his shoes.
Here are a few of my favorite albums. Carve out some time and try listening to one beginning to end and then tell me what you think.
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Tool - Lateralus (a must)
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Jethro Tull - As Thick as a Brick (so complex and beautiful, I am always on the edge of my seat)
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Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium (two disks, I consider this their peak so far)
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Rage Against The Machine - Self Titled (then do an Audioslave album for contrast)
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King Crimson - Thrak (experimental bliss, also try In The Court of The Crimson King)
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Afghan Whigs - In Spades (entrancing alt rock, if you like Tool try this)
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The Grateful Dead - American Beauty (likely the most palatable album for most. I can sing every song by heart)
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Gov’t Mule - High & Mighty (also check out The Deepest End tribute/colab album)
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Colonel Les Claypool’s Fearless Flying Frog Brigade - Purple Onion (whacky and fun)
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John Butler Trio - Live at Red Rocks (wonderful deep lyrics, their first Red Rocks show)
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Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman (the lyrics cut right through my heart. You might cry)
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Cream - Disraeli Gears (in my opinion it’s Clapton’s best album.)
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Widespread Panic - Don’t Tell The Band (get the 5.1 audio DVD for a well recorded experience)
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The Traveling Wilburys - Self Titled (Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison & Tom Petty. Need I say more?)
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What a DJ! Only seen him live once but was an honour!
So many artists and genres. Here’s my Last.FM for those curious so you can see what exactly I do listen to: https://www.last.fm/user/nbakid2000
Here’s a smattering of my all-time favorite albums as well:
Moody Blues - To Our Children’s Children’s Children
Moody Blues - Threshold of a Dream
Fountains of Wayne - Welcome Interstate Managers
Interpol - Antics
Clutch - Blast Tyrant / Earth Rocker
Yes - 90125 / Close to the Edge
Jethro Tull - Benefit / Thick as a Brick / Songs From the Wood
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This evening…Death in Vegas 
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well right now, I have TOO MUCH music that I have been listening to, though I can say certain artists or bands that I have been listening to or used to listen to. I am mostly an alternative rock listener and of course some a bit of metal as well, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Lamb of God, Linkin’ Park, System of a Down, Sex Pistols, Pantera, Muse, etc. I have too much bands that I like to listen to and love to listen to, right now I have been listening to some Susumu Hirasawa’s music that involves Berserk, Ash Crow, Hai Yo!(Ashes), Sign, Sign 3, Aria and of course Forces never forget Forces. Basically, I am an all around guy when it comes to music but it depends on the artist who made the song because I am not a fan that much on today’s music or anything in particular that is just mainstream in general. And yes, I do listen to some damn Weeb music and no shame on it as well.
Also, 1997 Berserk opening, Tell Me Why by Penpals.
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Listen to different music pretty much everything, recently trying out Amazon’s new lossless streaming just in time for Blink-182 new album Nine!
Shamelessly plugging a friend whose first single is out. Love the song. Would love to hear your thoughts
Lyrics in the description
Disclaimer: if you’re going to listen to anything from my list, then listen to my recommendation at the bottom of my reply 
I could ramble on for ages about this but I’ll try to summarize with leaving out many important artists of course, because I will inevitably forget about them now. So, I mostly listen to electronic music, more specifically IDM and trance, the more psychedelic the better 
but I love me some hard hitting dubstep and trap too. Apart from that, I listen to basically anything, metal, classical, flamenco, hip hop, ost music, jazz, baroque, the list goes on, my favourite genre is electronic.
My favourites in no specific order (artist and my fav. album from them):
Haywyre (Dubsonic)
Liquid Stranger (The Intergalactic Slapstick)
Loosid
Noble Oak (Past Life)
Culprate (Colours)
Above & Beyond (Tri State)
boerd (Panacea)
Daft Punk (Discovery)
Floex (Zorya)
Pink Floyd (Delicate Sound of Thunder)
Let me recommend you some weird hungarian music to listen to that I love and you’ve probably never heard of:
Nikola Parov - Sunlegend
Now this is something that makes my blood boil. A fusion of jazz and hungarian folk music and just beautiful poetry and pure emotion in the form of sounds. Available on spotify. Give it a chance and enjoy it
I love music in general and I listen to a wide variety of music…whatever pleases my ears…but!
I’n the last years i had constant progression with my music. I listend mostly to metal (hardcore mainly, but also all the other million subgenres of metal). About 8 years ago I had my first experience with substances that enhance consciousness and I learned about all the great styles of electronic music out there. I got addicted to mainstream club techno music. After lots of psychedelic experiences i found psytrance music and I listend to nearly exclusively for about 2 years. I started to listen to more fast music all the time till I got bored even with stuff like Hitech-psy and Psycore.
Than it happend on a heavy trip that I found out about the “original” Uk Jungle sound and it blew me completely away. Quickly psytrance stuff became completely irrelevant for me and it still is. It feels way too static since I found out about all the insane underground “break” music. This music helped me to change myself to the better in so many ways - I found myself and at the same time I found love for something that feels like my own little safe space, something worth living for.
Since maybe 1 1/2 years im exploring “Breakcore” music - and what can I say…I am completely addicted to it - and I love it. This thing will never ever change again. Jungle and Breakcore pushed me into Sound, Headphones Hifi etc. I’m still an beggining audiophile for sure, but I love it.
Probably its not easy for everyone to understand how I can call these ridiculous Drum arrangements music but thats okay.
The psychedelics helped me to break free from the “prison” my mind was trapped all the years before and I learned how to really be myself, despite of what all the people around me think about that. I have only one person in my life that gained an understanding for breakcore music. When I first showed him this music, he laughed and asked what the hell this distorted noise is and often made jokes about my shitty taste on “music”. That changed one day when he took acid and found unintentional some breakcore music on YouTube. It changed his view completely and now starts quickly to get totally into breakcore . Finally I found someone who understands the science power and intelligence of the programmed drumz and doesn’t think I’m completely insane 
I simply can’t stop surfing on the break wave. I barely find music inside this genre that I dont like.
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Hi. New guy here. I have odd taste, I don’t excited by a lot of music, and the stuff I like makes it hard to be an audiophile.
I’m mainly into:
Industrial/Industrial-Metal
- Nine Inch Nails
- KMFDM
- Pig
- Ministry
- Skinny Puppy
- Chemlab
- Pop Will Eat Itself
- Pigface
- Prick
- Throbbing Gristle
- Front 242
- My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult
- Basically from and related to the Wax Trax! / TVT set from the 80s and 90s
Metal, Hard Rock, Techno-Infused Rock
- Metallica
- Megadeth
- Black Sabbath
- Linkin Park
- Skold / the eighty bands Tim Skold has been in
- Guns ‘n’ Roses (All of it. Including Chinese Democracy. Hell, especially Chinese Democracy. FIGHT ME)
- White Zombie / Rob Zombie
- Marilyn Manson
- Alice Cooper
- Orgy
- Stabbing Westward
- Gravity Kills
- Machines of Loving Grace
- Rage Against the Machine
- Tool
- A Perfect Circle
- Deftones (White Pony is high art and one of the best rock albums in history)
Grunge Rock
- Nirvana
- Pearl Jam
- Soundgarden
- Alice in Chains
- Cop Shoot Cop goes here? Or maybe under industrial? Really not sure.
- The Jesus and Mary Chain
Hip Hop and Trip Hop
- Kanye West
- Jay-Z
- Eminem
- Dr. Dre
- Afu-Ra
- Run the Jewels
- El-P
- Dr. Dooom
- MF Doom
- DJ Green Lantern
- DJ Danger Mouse
- Dangerdoom
- Dan the Automator
- Nas
- Dalek
- Massive Attack
- Portishead
- Tricky
Other
- Starting to get into My Bloody Valentine
- I like the blues but don’t know much about it and am rarely in the mood for it, so I’m mostly intimidated by attempting to find material to listen to.
- Basically the same with jazz. I like the laid-back, atmospheric stuff, but when it gets fast and spastic and hectic I find it incredibly grating, and I am intimidated by the taxonomy of a world of music I don’t know well and have trouble learning. It’s intimidating that so many people have such over-the-top opinons of what matters in this zone.
- I love certain types of classical/orchestral music but I don’t know it, how it’s catalogued and classified, or the terminology associated with naming it and its recordings it well enough to explore and find new stuff. For instance, I could listen to something that sounds like Bach’s “Air on the G String” all day long, but I don’t know what that kind of classical music is called and can’t seem to find out. Same with Dmitri Shostakovich’s Waltz No. 2 which I understand is a waltz but I don’t think I could sit and listen to an hour of waltzes. Again, a very intimidating universe of music.
- Whatever Nick Cave is
- Whatever Angelo Badalamenti is
- Whatever Barry Adamson and half the other shit David Lynch uses to score his movies is
- Some ambient/electronica and similar weird shit like Meat Beat Manifesto and Aphex Twin
- The soundtrack stylings of Bernard Hermann
- Some of that new new-wave type stuff that The Kids like. Like, uh … The Weekend? I think? And some of the more messed up girl pop chicks, like Grimes or whatever. But I don’t make much effort to find or listen to this stuff.
I mentioned this before to someone lol but honestly rock, metal and stuff like that is actually the majority of most people here. i think the jazz, blues type of stuff is more niche here lol
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'Ey, love me a bit of Aaron Spectre! Quite a big fan of his Lost Tracks album which is a lot more downtempo…like a lot more downtempo, but I like his work as Drumcorps also.
If you’re still on the breakcore train have you come across Artificial Lover? He’s a shamisen player from Japan who produces some spectacular breakcore tracks. You can find his Nava album on Spotify and his Sapta album on Bandcamp
I started listening to music in the 80’s All through the 70’s i hated music lol. Its like all they played was Stairway to heaven, the carpenters and Ob la di, ob-la-da. It seemed like a grey period to me. then something marvelous happened. A band called Soft Cell released Tainted Love. and I fell in love. not too long after i found KROQ and i was off and running. They Called it New Wave in America. Most of that music is played on SiriusXM on a channel called First Wave. My Favorite bands from that period was:
Simple Minds, U2, Tears for Fears, Talk Talk, The Smiths, The Pixies, Midnight Oil, Duran Duran, INXS, House of Love, The Police and Sting, Neil Finn and Crowded House, A-Ha, The Mission UK, Siouxe and the Banshees, Echo and the Bunnymen, Depeche Mode, Levitation.
Recent Bands ive liked are Radiohead, Coldplay, Arcade Fire, Stone Temple Pilots.
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Aaron Spectre is a very good artist overall and i love that hes doing quite different things. I have definetly not heard everything from him. Im just listening to the Lost Tracks album and i like it alot. “The wrong fuel” is beautiful.
Till now, i didnt knew Artificial Lover. I will check him out and let you know if im into it 
Lately i came across alot Japanese breakcore/mashcore, ambient breaks, electronic experimental stuff. The japanese side of music is very unique i would say. Its so easy to get lost inside Bandcamp 
- and theres so much good music that is for free, which is wonderful.
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