Just curious what everyone listens to in their free time. A lot of my favorites (not in order):

1 German NDH (and I don't speak any German )

• Rammstein
• Oomph! - Gott ist ein Popstar
• Eisbrecher
• Unheilig

2 80's Music

• Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Relax
• Peter Schilling - Major Tom
• Skid Row
• Orgy - Blue Monday
• A Flock of Seagulls - I Ran
• Don Henley
• Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams
• Eddy Grant - Electric Avenue
• Dead or Alive
• Rush

3 Scandinavian Metal

• Deathstars (favorite band on the list)
• Soilwork
• Nightwish
• Sonic Syndicate
• Sabaton

4 Trance and Techno

• Darude
• DJ Tiesto

Other bands I listen to: Bon Jovi, Falco, Metallica, Dover, Foo Fighters, Slipknot, Good Charlotte, and Electric Six (second favorite band on the list).

Um, my username for starters. A terrifically talented band whose skill is obscured by the frauds known as Nickelback, Hinder, Offspring, Korn and Three Days Grace.

Metallica
Maiden
Candlebox (recent new release)
Ra
Triumph (Yes, a child of the 80s)
Old, pre-radio ballad-Chicago (Terry Kath type of stuff)
James Taylor
Jim Croce
Slipknot (admittedly, just the stuff I've heard on the radio)
Tesla
Queensryche
Sammy Hagar
Keb 'Mo
Stevie Ray Vaughan (That man, by himself, WAS music.)

Thrice
Killswitch Engage

This is my incomplete list:

Smooth Jazz

The Rippingtons feat. Russ Freeman
Kenny G
Braxton Brothers
Chilei Manuchi
Kim Waters
Fourplay
Rick Braun
Waymon Tisdale
Kirk Whalum
Third Force
Mindi Abair


All late '70's, 80's 90's & beyond R&B; Old school rappers (LL Cool J; Tupac)and very little Hip-Hop (Juvenile, Neo, Keisha Cole, Puff Daddy, Jay-Z).

Nickalous Rimsky-Korsachev - "Procession of the Nobles"

Gospel, Adult Contemporary Christian Music, Church Hymns & Anthems

Paul Baloche
Robin Mark
BeBe & CeCe Winans
Don Moen
Yolanda Adams
Fred Hammond
Kirk Franklin
Michael J. Smith
Casting Crowns


A Might Fortress Is Our God
Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty
O God Our Help in Ages Past
The Spirit Song
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
O Come, O Come Emmanuel

and all the WORSHIP TV programs and CD series.



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Zion I
The Roots
Mos Def
Lightheaded
Talib Kweli
Hieroglyphics
Living Legends
Swollen Members
Dilated Peoples

and other underground hiphop

Talib Kweli's insane. He's got so much talent. I listen to artists like:

Elzhi (part of slum village)
Black Milk
The Game
Papoose
Eminem
Bishop Lamont
Dr. Dre

and many, many more. I love hip-hop. I also listen to the usual Nickelback, Nirvana, Incubus, and a few other rock groups.

Lots of black, white, living, and past american jazz masters.

Currently loaded on my mp3-

Arthur Blythe
Cannonball Adderly
Charlie Parker
Don Patterson
Duke Jordan
Freddie Hubbard
Grant Green
Houston Person
Jimmy Smith
Joey DeFrancesco
John Coltrane
Keith Jarrett
Kenny Dorham
Larry Young
McCoy Tyner
Miles Davis
MJQ
Shirley Scott
Stanley Turrentine
Wes Montgomery
Woody Shaw

Occasionally I get on a country kick.. Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Gordon Lightfoot, there's so many...

Cub:

That's a pretty solid list there of traditional jazz masters/artist.



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A New Revolution
Five Finger Death Punch
HellYeah
Killswitch Engage
Mudvayne
Rev Theory
Sevendust
Shinedown
...I'll leave it at that

Kings of Leon - Look into them, they're incredible. Their new CD has been playing nonstop in my car for the last few weeks.