Do others here have an unusual taste in music?

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I can't beleive people I know don't like video game music.

I am not into video games but I might like the music, I only been a little into PC games and I liked the music of games like Unreal (electronic music) Doom and Doom 2, I have mp3 remixed versions of those games. Mostly I like music of games when they are electronic or fully orchestral

Yeah music from games is unusual, I don't see people actually to care about it, its the same with music from films. I like Harry Gregson-Williams music.

hey, i like videogame music, too!

actually, i almost all the time carry some with me on my ipod. favorites are the orchestral versions of ff6 and ff8, as well as the ff concert (thats so dope) and of course, the metal gear solid soundtracks.

I can listen to the Conet Project for hours,and used to fall asleep scanning shortwave for numbers stations.I think they are beautiful and soothing:

http://www.archive.org/details/ird059

And some of you may not be familiar with these other artists:

http://www.impetusdistribution.co.uk/cs ... er.id.html (esp. I-IV)
http://www.tammen.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Bailey

I might also be inclined to list music I truly love like the Art Bears or Bob Drake,ad infinitum,but they are/were clearly prog+avant-garde.Established and recognizable idioms,if I can clearly hear an artist's cultural lineage,do not strike me as particularly "unusual".

anything but overly hip....so overly hip and they think they're so clever they're not actually hip at all alternative/emo/indie rock.......that and classic rock......i cant f*****g stand classic rock....Led Zeppelin can eat my ass, that moby dick drum solo is some pompous ass garbage.......Hal Blaine eats people like John Bonham for breakfast........but besides that, rock n roll, classical, jazz, metal , classic country........its all good for me

Post-punk, Jazz-Rock, Gothic Rock, Rock, Hard Rock, Chamber Jazz, Metal, Punk Rock, Industrial, J-Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Visual Kei, Folk Rock, Darkwave, Industrial Metal, EBM, Cool Jazz, Futurepop, Alternative, Heavy Metal, New Wave, Dark Metal, Post-Metal, Dark Ambient, Dark Cabaret, Goth Metal, Synth Rock, Death/Doom, Black/Doom, Stoner Doom, Sludge Doom, Electrogoth, Progressive Metal, Electropunk, Synth Pop, No Wave, Trip Hop, Industrial Rock, A cappella, Sludgecore, Aggro-industrial, Romantic, J-Pop, Terror EBM, Drone Doom, Martial Music, Noise Rock, Dance-punk, Gothabilly, Cabaret, Grindcore, Sludge Metal, Steampunk, Grunge, Experimental Rock, Tanz Metal, Nu Jazz, Post-Rock, Soundtrack Music, Deathrock, Krautrock, Coldwave, Stoner Rock, Ambient Metal, Bossa Nova, Electro-industrial, Avant-progressive rock, Sludgecore, Technical Death Metal, Goa Trance, Avant Garde Metal, Gothic Metal, Doom Metal, Avant-progressive rock, Alternative Rock, Alternative Metal, Melodic Black Metal, Gothic Doom, Noise Rock, Neo-Classical, Power Metal, Baroqoue Pop, Electronica.

And yes, I like 8-bit music, along with the music for newer video games, I also like bands that cover 8-bit video game music, like The NESkimos.

I'm extremely picky. I consider most music I've heard to be s**t. I don't want to hear a 1 4 5 chord progression I've heard a billion times strummed while a man sings about love and loss. It does nothing for me. I don't want to hear someone rap about "how we do it." I don't want to hear Madonna sing about how she likes material posessions or that she thinks words are useless and not fit for conveying meaning.

Here's a brief list of some of the artists I enjoy:

Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Mono
Explosions in the Sky
Igor Stravinsky
Ottorino Respighi
Claude Debussy
Pink Floyd
Phish
The Beatles (the later stuff, when they were doing drugs.. you don't know how often I run into people who say "i like the beatles, but only their earlier stuff" and want to punch them in the face for valuing sh***y pop over actual artistic expression)
Vivaldi
Gershwin
A Silver Mt. Zion
The Doors
Infected Mushroom
Bach
Chopin
Liszt
Philip Glass
Daft Punk (though it is a bit monotonous)
my own stuff

^ you have a good taste. only band/artist I don't like is explosions in the sky.

My favorite song must be heard on an original 45, on a tube amp..it really must be a tube amp..and especially in a good room....if after hearing it under those conditions and you still on't rank it in at the least...the top ten rock records of all time, Im confident you have no musical ear at all........have you ever heard of a record by Phil Spector called Be my Baby? Its sung by the lovely Veronica Bennett and tThe Ronettes. I love Phil's whole thing, the way he gets the record together. You take the world's greatest musicians....absolute jazz viruousos(i.e Howard Roberts, Barney Kessell,)and classically trained cats, and you have them playing quarter notes(simple stuff) or whatever.......and you can be sure as hell bet it's gonna swing like nothing ever swung before.....Hal Blaine's drumming on Be my Baby alone, could've gotten him to the rock hall of fame.....its the most swining hard rocking drum performance ive ever heard......and its not about what he plays , (spectacular fills, or paradidle de doodles and what have you) its about his style......the way he plays a simple backbeat, the swing in his step, the majestic swoop of his sticks........the arrngment is so wonderful , so elegant .....the wall of sound mixture so ,understated, and subtle, ..yet so heavenly...as opposed to somone like jeff lynne who i think is a tasteess over producer......if you listen to a cd or mp3 of the song you will hear a flat lifeless be my baby, on the other hand if you hear the 45 on the tube amp on a decent speaker you will hear one of the most dynamic, full, bass heavy, records of all time....before I heard the song on the tube amp I thought it was okay........but hearing it like this, it was a religous experience, the instumental clarity was breathtaking, and i didnt normally think of phil spectors wall of sound as having instrumental clarity, oh ....those saxophones droning behind on the chours in block chords, the ......the castanets, articualting the beat, i could sopomorically rhapsodize for hours......but im getting tired.......I also like freddy Chopin, Scott Johplin, Tin Pan Alley/Great American Songbook(not that rod stewart s**t, go back to singing hot legs you bastard),
Marilyn Manson, the Mamas and the papas, Mr bungle, and others but.....

i like best American patriotic songs... it is 95% what i listen to and im very intolereant of love songs. i also hate rap r+b and hiphop.

my favorites songs are Star Spangled Banner (played properly wothout all the extra notes.. one or 2 extra notes is tolerated though) God Bless America, This Land is your Land
God Bless the USA