What music do you like?
Okay, this is my attempt at making this board more colorful... because that's what girls like to do. Though I do thoroughly enjoy reading your scientific and political threads. I think it'll be fun to see the variety.
Here are some of my favorite bands (everyone be on their best behavior):
Nine Inch Nails
Depeche Mode
The Cure
Skinny Puppy
VNV Nation
Franz Ferdinand
Death From Above 1979
Foo Fighters
Tons of 80's synth-pop bands...
Countless industrial and alternative bands...
Here are some of my favorite bands (everyone be on their best behavior):
Nine Inch Nails
Depeche Mode
The Cure
Skinny Puppy
VNV Nation
Franz Ferdinand
Death From Above 1979
Foo Fighters
Tons of 80's synth-pop bands...
Countless industrial and alternative bands...
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african music
middle eastern music
electronic music
rock music
music music
Originally posted by Hassan i Sabbah
music music
That's the best kind!
Mostly stuff which never makes the commercial radar, and definitely not English stuff. Always mood-dependent.
Scottish (Capercaille, Karen Matheson) is as fine as Irish (Clannad, Maire Brennan). This is as close as demographics allow me. English folk music really irritates.
I grew up with European classical chamber music - Shostakovich and Beethoven's String Quartets and late turn of the century French chamber music. Never dug orchestral stuff, otherwise very orthodox in taste: the Polish modernists and the Russian gems like Gubaidalina and Ustokovolaya also rock. Philip Glass most certainly doesn't.
Turning to contemporary stuff, I have a weakness for Canadian music as well as American avant-garde - mostly in the singer-songwriter tradition. Canada's Veda Hille and Bruce Cockburn; America's fantastic 16 HP, June of 44, Innocence Mission, Helmet and Grant Lee Phillips amongst others.
Heads-tail toss, the American left-of-the-centre music scene is great plundering: it's a shame iTunes seems pretty ignorant of all but the most sterile commercial stuff.
Originally posted by BRussell
Whatever is marketed most heavily to my demographic.
HAHAHAHAHA!!!
Originally posted by BRussell
Whatever is marketed most heavily to my demographic.
Okay, lover of wit and sarcasm, care to provide a few specifics of your demographic?
http://www.shetline.org:8100/
And as long as not too many people try to access this site at once, the music might actually be playable. (If you use the "external player" option, you can wait for a full song to buffer and play it smoothly once the whole song is transferred. My home upload rate is only fast enough to support 2-3 live streams at any one time.)
Originally posted by Mac_Doll
How do you set up a site like that?
I'm using a nice bit of shareware called AccessTunes. On top of that, I've got the port AccessTunes uses, 8100, forwarded through my router to the one particular computer in my home network which is running AccessTunes (greatly simplified by using fixed IP addresses in my home network), and I've got a DynDNS.org account set up so that the domain shetline.org is mapped to my home system, even when my ISP-provided IP address changes.
You can easily get by without the DynDNS.org thing so long as you know how to find out your home IP address, and if you don't care that that IP address can occasionally change. You don't have to worry about the port forwarding if you've only got one computer at home and it's not hooked up through a router.
Originally posted by midwinter
holy crap, shetline, we have a lot of the same music. We must be in the same marketing demographic!
Maybe you should set up an accessTunes account so I can find out what you've got that I don't have but that I might turn out to like.
The nice thing about accessTunes is it brings back the good ol' days when iTunes was able to stream over the internet to a wide audience, and not just to five people per day on the same LAN as it's been cut back to these days.
Originally posted by midwinter
The last time I exported my library as an html file, it took a couple of hours.... Maybe it's time for a new one.
You do realize that what accessTunes is doing is not just showing you what music is in an iTunes library, but providing streaming playback of that music, right?
Originally posted by shetline
You do realize that what accessTunes is doing is not just showing you what music is in an iTunes library, but providing streaming playback of that music, right?
Yeah. I just didn't feel like setting up port forwarding and all that to get it running.
Originally posted by midwinter
Yeah. I just didn't feel like setting up port forwarding and all that to get it running.
Wimp!
I actually piggy-back off of others' network routers. I'm hooked onto some neighbor's Linksys router as I speak. It's bad, I know, but I can't afford an ISP or a wireless service.
I've been curious about starting a Podcast though. I doubt any of you would want to hear it; stuff like Fear Factory, Nine Inch Nails, and Skinny Puppy.
Originally posted by BRussell
Whatever is marketed most heavily to my demographic.
Hurdy gurdy music of the English plague years?
Pan American
Ulrich Schnauss
Mew(<- Can´t recommend them enough)
Bonobo
Dubtribe
Arvo Pärt
Swans
Mogwai (quite a lot of them actually)
Chemical brothers
Tristeza
Dj Shadow
Tortoise
Moby
Slowdive
Labradford
Howie B
Drop Nineteens
B. Fleischmann
Jah Wobble
Biosphere
Sonic Youth
Trans Am
Mia Doi Todd