My girlfriend listens to old jazz like Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker and the like, as well as portugese Fado music. Which I find kind of cool.

Mostly appaling music.

Some listen to "dance", some like a bit of rawk, one listens to a lot of jazz and classical. a couple of mine don't really listen to music, and the rest are shameless music geeks.

Yeah, I didn't even think about all my mates who don't like music at all.

a lot of my friends arent into music, but out of those ones that are and listen to good shit, heres what they dig:

my brother: black metal, iron maiden, electric wizard, boris, doom metal, the velvets, dub, psych folk, he smokes a lot of grass

brennan: black metal, death metal, hardcore, noise rock, balinese gamelan, traditional irish folk, the pogues, my blody valentine, sonic youth

david: wu tang hip hop, melt banana, noise rock, noise, progressive rock, elo, queen, jazz, coltrane, drive like jehu, big black, iannis xenakis, joy division, john fahey, derek bailey.

doug: the velvets, beefheart, mc5, the stooges, early punk, pavement, the fall

dakota: loves straight up rock n roll, the rolling stones, guns n roses, blue cheer, black sabbath, kiss, eyehatgod, slayer, television, pantera, drive like jehu, black flag, the bad brains, royal trux

christina: loves the siltbreeze stuff; charalambides, the dead c, alan licht, bardo pond, ex-cocaine, kranky records; labradford, stars of the lid, keith fullerton whitman, jessica bailiff, greg davis, also into aphex twin, autechre, fleetwood mac, sonic youth, spacemen 3, bjork, animal collective, siouxie and the banshees, the slits, etc..

I never talk about music with my friends, our musical tastes are too different.
You know, I hate this kind of lame conversation :
when a friend ask you :
-"what 's your favourite band ?"
and you answer :
-"Oh, I'm pretty sure you don't know this band : Sonic Youth". Everytime, your pale says :
-"You're right, I don't know it, what does it sound like ?"
-"Well, indie-noisy rock, this kind of things."
-"Yeah, I see what you mean, like the Baby Shambles (or The Red Hot, Green Day, Oasis..), isn't it ?"
-"....... Not really. Skip it."

Pointless.

Do you make lists of your favourite friends too? You know, like when people go ''Ooohhhh, you're in my top 3. I luuuuuurve youuuuu!''.

no, i dont

What? And there was me thinking that you had Avant-Classical-Glitch mates that would get filed under 'overrated' after a few years. Oh well...

My friends listen to me.
That's why they're my friends.

I do the same for them.

i dunno about you sarramkrop, i just dont know.

Most of my friends listen to much of what I listen to.

a few are still very much into Iron maiden and Metal, and a couple are deep deep hip hop lovers

One listens to indie stuff, that is as he puts it "well-produced"

Most do not listen to heinious shit.

My girlfriend likes sade, amy winehouse, keisha cole, smiths, billy holliday, regina spektor, and anything that is sad and depressing.

99% of them listen to total crap except for stuff I've given them to listen to. The other 1% have excellent taste in music.

Mostly the same as me, but with less TMV and SY, and more Modest Mouse and Smashing Pumpkins.

I mean i like the smashing pumpkins, but not as much as most of my friends do.

Friends?

What a cute idea.

I know they read this from time-to-time, so it's only fair they get a degree of infamy - two of my band listen to loads of second-wave emo, Ani DiFranco (and other such whinging sows) and rubbish bleepy electronica. One of them is a big fan of Shania Twain's remix album.

A lot of my bredrin aren't that into music, so they listen to whatever's about. I've got a fair few who're into top 10 house. I know a fair few ravers, quite a few metallers/ hardcore types, a handful of classical sorts, a few world/ folk types, some radio 2 sorts (Celine Dion/ u2/ Lighthouse family)... my family is great, my Mum's well into country and Irish (which I've acquired), the old man's into oodles of rubbish rock, brother got me started on punk/ reggae when I was very young (most of which he and I can't stand now) and my sister's well into her gay proper pop (awesomeness).

Generally though, it's the musos and indie kids that I like to kick about with least. Which is strange, given how much of my time I spend here...

One of my best friends is a metal guitar virtuoso and his favourite band is Slayer. Another good friend's hero is Tom Waits, but yet he also has an avid interest in heavy metal. Another friend I saved from listening to Prog Metal and she now listens to Daniel Johnston, Sonic Youth and Willy Mason.

One out of three ain't bad. I have a friend to talk to about Slayer, a friend to talk to about Tom Waits, and a friend to talk to about weird americans..

most of my friends have pretty much the same grounding in music as i do. we like different stuff to different degrees but no necesarrily the exact same but we are grown up enough to be akble to live with our differences.......


what a dull boring place it would be if everyone listened to the same music!

We're in total agreement except for the word "the" in your statement...

my best friend listens to a lot of riot grrl and post punk stuff. her favorite bands are bikini kill, love is all and madonna. my other best friend listens to mostly bob dylan and iron and wine type stuff.