**Second time asking this question**
Simple question, huh? Tell me what genres of music you like and give me some band names to go with them. Put an *astrick by any bands that you consider your favorite.
I know plenty of kids in high school who only listen to pretty much the top 40′s type of music. They like Lil Wayne, Lady Gaga, Kesha, Justin Bieber, and other pop like music. What I have noticed is a lot of times the catchier a song is the quicker it fades. Songs like “Check Yes Juliet” by We the Kings has a lot more repetition in it. It is pretty catchy so people will like the song quicker than for example “Stairway to Heaven” by Led Zeppelin. However if you listened to Check Yes Juliet 1000 times and Stairway to Heaven 1000 times I believe atleast 95% of the populations (maybe more) would like Stairway to Heaven a lot more than Check Yes Juliet. Stairway to Heaven is a lot more complex in its sound so it should get old a lot slower.
However I think it’s unfair to say that you shouldn’t listen to a certain kind of music. People always harp on others for liking Justin Bieber’s music. People will often say things like “Listen to real music” or just put someone down for liking a certain type of music. People always insult rap and say it’s not real music. People say music with screaming requires no talent and is an insult to music.
Here is what I think: You might as well attempt to enjoy every type of music. Some types of music take longer to acquire the taste for. Even then some genres of music take longer to truly enjoy a particular song. I on average it would take me like 1-2 times listening to an alternative rock song like something by Jimmy Eat World to know if it’s very good. But when I listened to Avenged Sevenfold’s new album Nightmare nothing started to truly appeal to me until I listened to it like 2-5 times. But even though I pick up songs by Jimmy Eat World quicker I still enjoy Avenged Sevenfold’s music way more because it is more complex.
Anyways here is some music I listen to.
Sublime
Smash Mouth
Reel Big Fish
Green Day
Blink-182*
Sum 41
Good Charlotte
The Offspring
Barenaked Ladies
Fall Out Boy
Boys Like Girls
Relient K
All Time Low
+44
Cobra Starship
Forever the Sickest Kids
Angels & Airwaves
My Chemical Romance*
Hawthorne Heights
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
A Day to Remember*
Emery
Escape the Fate*
Blessthefall
House vs. Hurricane
All That Remains*
In Flames
Bullet for My Valentine*
Atreyu
Attack Attack
Bring Me the Horizon*
Killswitch Engage
Avenged Sevenfold*
The Devil Wears Prada
Disturbed
Linkin Park
Slipknot
Three Days Grace
3 Doors Down
Breaking Benjamin
AC/DC
Led Zeppelin
Billy Joel
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Def Leppard
The Beatles
Queen
Pink Floyd**
Paul Simon
Jimmy Buffett
Enter Shikari
Breathe Carolina**
Kesha
LMFAO
3OH!3
MGMT
Eminem
Lil Wayne
Fort Minor
D12
Hollywood Undead
I only named bands that I truly enjoy. I like atleast one album a lot from every band above. I know some more bands but only really listen to a couple singles or so and I did not put them.
But my 5 favorite bands would be
Pink Floyd
Breathe Carolina
Bullet for My Valentine
All That Remains
Blink-182
Any thoughts on my music selection or thoughts on music in general would be great. Why do people like music? What makes music good? What makes music last? What makes music catch your attention?