I've had a wierd period of listening to hardly any music (especially new music) at home and just listening to radio 4 while im working.

I say wierd as i run an industrial/goth clubnight so i really *should* be seeking out new tunes.

But i've got an eclectic taste so what are you fellow xwingers listening to.

Give me some suggestions for new bands to check out, tell me what genre they are and why you think they rock.

Honestly i listen to everything from country to classical so dont think you've got to suggest some doom laden eyeliner wearing emo band

I'm mostly visiting YouTube for music.

Lindsey Stirling is awesome. Though her Star Wars medley wasn't as good as it could have been.

I also found myself listening to whale songs. Good for chilling.

I've just remembered i listend to a lot of comedy tracks on youtube by a comedian called 'rachel bloom'

Shes *very* funny.

If you're not easily offended by swearing look up 'f*** me ray bradbury' which is her didicated ode to how much she adores his sci fi.

Equally funny is 'i steal pets' and the 'ocd dance' (i was worried i'd offend my friend with the OCD dance but she has OCD and said it was incredibly funny and that the writer either has OCD or researched it well as it was spot on)

Nu metal (KoRn, Mushroomhead)

folk metal (In Extremo, Heidevolk)

blues (Skip James, Tab Benoit)

funk (Mothership connection!)

other stuff ( Cream, Subway to Sally, Tapping the vein, Luniz)

Ive got a wicked inextremo version of 'this corrosion' by the sisters.

Used to play it at goth/punk nights.

Hey now hey now now

Just listened to The Martian. 11/10.

Fett's vette. On repeat.

The new album from Primordial 'Where Greater Men Have Fallen". Album of the year for me.

I'm mostly visiting YouTube for music.

Lindsey Stirling is awesome. Though her Star Wars medley wasn't as good as it could have been.

I also found myself listening to whale songs. Good for chilling.

If you're listening to Lindsey Stirling, you've gotta check out The Piano Guys:

I like the Inextremo cover of This Corrosion a lot. But then if it sounds like old school death rock filtered through Age of Conan im happy.
I'm a big fan of Lacrimosa (German goth band) One of the few groups to combine orchestration and the usual guitar bass and drums etc and really make it work without being a bit twee.

Also when im not feeling quite as epic I like Cauda Pavonis and some of the newer generation (well.perhaps newer isnt the word but im a 50 year old British goth and a bit of a traditionalist) bands like Inkubus Sukkubus who have a bit more of a raw stripped down sound.

As for metal one cannot go wrong with Judas Priest and some of the originators of the sound but i have a strong liking for some of the operatic metal bands like Epica and Nightwish (well. Until they got rid of Tarja. Now they sound like pop metal) and some of the seriously cheesy bands like Rhapsody of Fire and Star One. The latter of which has an album entirely about Blakes 7 which pleases my geeky heart.

Im not as much of a fan of EBM or whatever the current term is that the kids are using but i do like Blutengel and some of the less technoish bands

There are quite a few good bands around too many to list really. But at the risk of sounding like a cranky old bastard i just don't think there has been as much good stuff since 1984 so im not as with it as im sure the rest of you are *L*

I listen to everything except country, I hate that crap.

Currently right now I'm loving the Guardians of the Galaxy Awesome mix vol 1. Together with Reservoir Dogs I got my kids into some old school music which they prefer over todays stuff.

Doctor Steel

Music made by and fore mad scientists/world conqureing evil masterminds.

My fave one is drop da bomb!

I listen to everything except country, I hate that crap.

I used to think that but then i discovered Johnny Cash and also pyschadelic country like the Flying Burrito Brothers and Gram Parsons.

I love the latter and think cash is actually better when he does other peoples songs (his versions of One and Hurt are awesome)

It's odd hearing him sing "personal Jesus" but it's awesome nonetheless.

I really like god is gonna cut you down and Ain't no grave.

But yiu are right about other peoples songs. he also does a pretty good Elvis impersonation.

I listen to everything except country, I hate that crap.

I used to think that but then i discovered Johnny Cash and also pyschadelic country like the Flying Burrito Brothers and Gram Parsons.

I love the latter and think cash is actually better when he does other peoples songs (his versions of One and Hurt are awesome)

I mean that whiney, twangy, unoriginal hillbilly music about red cups, stolen trucks, kicked dogs and cheating women... country crap, ya' know?

Johnny Cash I always thought of like Elvis or Delta Blues, those are stories to be told, like a Boy Named Sue.

Oh yeah i get you.

I liked Gram Parsons, the Byrds and the Burrito Brothers. My dad was a hippy an Gram was his faveourite musician and i grew up on that trippy hippy country like that.

Parsons called it 'cosmic american music' i like that , its also fits in with REM when they go 'dark country'.

But yeah im no like a dolly parton fan.

Cash doing personal jesus, i forgot that... amazing.

I loved how Trent Reznor said that cash 'owned' Hurt now as he thought it was better than his original.

I love Elvis too.

You're going to hate me for this but i actually quite like Elvis's movies.

I wathched loads as a kid and loved the ones where he was a racecar driver (speedway?)

Probably wouldnt like them now but would always sing 'suspicious minds' at kareoke things when forced to do it (games workshop had a thing about HW managers meetings being kareoke parties for ages.... its surreal singing 'Boston' and 'Hawkwind' songs in a dwarf bar with the director of GW while you're both mking air guitar shapes ).

I'm still listening to the music I was listening to 20+ years ago: Queen, Genesis, the Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Pink Floyd, U2, the Police, Bruce Springsteen, Peter Gabriel, Tears for Fears, Bryan Adams, Toto. The list goes on.

Toto - Africa

What a tune!

I recently picked up a Toto 5-disc pack for only $20, which is about what a single CD would normally cost. It had Toto, Toto IV, Isolation, Hydra and Turn Back. Great little pack that had all their great songs. But I must admit Toto IV is my fave: Rosanna, I Won't Hold You Back, Lovers in the Night, and Africa.

Rcently i have developed a liking for some fo the psychobilly bands. I suppose it happens when you move to the American south *L* But then i have always liked the whole Spaghetti western type sound. Fields of the Nephilim's cover of Harmonica man from Once upon a time in the west rocks my world.

I've never been too big into music (not something I find terribly appealing) but I like pretty well anything from the 60s, 70s, and some 80s. Some bands/musicians that really stick out:

The Beatles

Pink Floyd (my personal favorite musical group of all time)

Johnny Cash

Queen

Rush

If we are talking about classical music, then just as long as it isn't New Age I'm fine with it. I like The Planets; anything Beethoven, Mozart, or the Bachs.

I also like opera: Don Giovanni and Goerthe's Faust are both very good (in the original German of course). And musicals, such as Les Miserables and Phantom of the Opera.

The resident one-year-old has me listening to all current Flemish toddlers and kids music

I listen to a lot of 90's.

Lived through and loved grunge, same with 90's "rock" like Smashing Pumpkins, Pearl Jam, and on a lighter side, Counting Crows and Gin Blossoms.

kind of stuck in that genre, not to hard, not to soft most of the time, keeps a steady tempo and helps me relaxe.