*Shamelessly copies Sally's post for laziness*
I like:
The Clash, Sex Pistols, etc
Arctic Monkeys, The Killers, White Stripes, The Bravery, The Shins, Death Cab For Cutie, Modest Mouse etc
Bob Marley, Eek-A-Mouse etc
James Brown and alot of the funk stuff.
Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Stan Getz etc, traditional jazz kicks ass.
David Bowie, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Bob Dylan, Pink Floyd, Supertramp, Velvet Underground, early Rod Stewart, Led Zeppelin, New York Dolls
Kate Bush,
Yusuf Islam/Cat Stevens, Jeff Buckley, Dusty Springfield
Coldplay, Travis, Mika,
Oasis
A pretty wide selection I think, and there is lots more.
I don't like:
Country and Western, apart from Johnny Cash
Opera
Rap, apart from Cypress Hill and Eminem (some Dre)
Beyonce and all her clones, doing their rubbish songs with no tunes
People who don't write their own songs, but just nick a backing track from an established song and put new words to it (like Mutya Buena's new single).
All those Dutch/French/German faceless blokes who churn out mindless repetitive dance music, generally taking one line from an old song and just repeating it over and over and over again over a monotonous backing track.
Death metal. Blamming guitars and some bellowing arsehole who sounds like he's gagging on a mouthful of lava, and mostly in German.
In short - Sally's taste is quite good.
