I think in order to grow as a musician we should appreciate and understand more than just metal. If you limit yourself to listening to just metal, or any one form of music, you instantly cut yourself off from your creative energies. Here's a short list, mainly some Jazz and blues stuff, of what I like to listen to on off days. I'll amend this thread in the future with any new discoveries.

Leo Kotke
Ray Bryant
Miles Davis
john coltrane
henry mancini
doyle dykes
dr. John
Laurence Juber
Dim Dim
Bob Dylan
Kenny Sultan
Yo Yo Ma
Thelonious Monk

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It's been done plenty, here's one
http://metaltabs.com/forum/showthread.php?t=22766&

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props for leo kotke though, six and twelve string guitar! look into john fahey

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Any music besides metal is crap.

i would recommend some jrock but its pretty gay but the music is good. Chipmusic is also pretty cool i would recomend maktone ( www.maktone.tk) the site is pretty confusing but take .mod section and some good songa are "armor of god" "the brewery" "class 05" but thats just my favourites

with the Sultans
with the Suuuultaaaaans of Swing

You are an idiot

You are blissfully unaware of the social phenomenon called "a joke".


A look at the names of my music folders will probably say more than me spewing out a hundred artist names:

Ambient
Classical
Electronic
Folk
Funk
Hip-Hop
Jazz
Punk
Spanish/Flamenco

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ambient

liholesie
burzum
synaesthesia
aphex twin
the album leaf
biosphere
eluvium YES!!!! GET ELUVIUM
ltj bukem
fennesz

cool ambient rock
ozric tentacles!!!!!!!!


jazz
bill evans
jim hall
ornette coleman (hard on the ears!)
tom waits

rock

beck (not jeff beck)
radiohead
cky

folk
bill morrissey

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Ornette Coleman hard on the ears? I can't even remember when I thought that anymore.

I listen to music. Everybody here listens to music. It's impossible to listen to and enjoy nothing but metal unless you grow up under test situations in some bizarre experiment designed to prove that listening to nothing but metal will cause you to kill yourself. No need to point out to them that they'll 'grow' by listening to music; I doubt there's anybody here who doesn't listen to 'non-metal.' Hell, with the metal scene like it is now you get a lot of 'non-metal' without even leaving the genre (folk is not metal, jazz is not metal, blues is not metal, funk is not metal, meter experiments resembling early ballets by Stravinsky and later records by King Crimson are not metal, etc.). You'll do yourself still more good by not caring much at all about genre lines, in which case you won't be surprised, or even feel you're doing anything out of the ordinary, by listening to music outside of those lines.

Theres just too many to list..

Here are some of my top: Bjork, Radiohead, Mr. Bungle, Tool, Kaki King, RATM, Bob Dylan, Antemeridiem, Dead Kennedys, Neutral Milk Hotel, Kayo Dot, Sleepytime, Alice in Chains, A Perfect Circle, Scientists, Bob Marley, Joanna Newsom

Theres tons more. Lots of Avant-Garde, Classical (especially chamber choir stuff i.e. Estonian, Tevener, Ambient, Rock, Punk, etc.

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i dont understand, do you agree or not? i cant imagine anyone saying that shits easy listening

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Easy listening is one thing. An aural assault is another. When you've got a lot of avant-jazz friends, you don't really have much of a problem with Ornette Coleman. Just like anything else, the more you listen to it the less strange it is.

ah, alright

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metal's only like 1/2 of my music collection, i listen to lots of stuff.
some fave's are

Esbjörn Svensson Trio
Patrick Wolf
Counting Crows
Ryan Adams
Beck
VAST
Venetian Snares
Pendulum
Boards of Canada
Ray LaMontagne
Paul Weller
Matisyahu

...thats just a few

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Gay? What the fuck? Jrock fucking rules.

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KAINI INDUSTRIES BEST BASS TONE EVER!!

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For you people that like downtempo/ambient/triphop; Portishead who have been MIA for a long time have just posted 2 new tracks for you to download on their myspace. www.myspace.com/portisheadalbum3 Looks like we will get album number 3! yay!

yeah jrock rules but some of the stuff is so cheezy

depends on what you call metal....Paganini and Bach were more metal than most of todays "folk metal" bands are
edit:the only jrock band I really like are D'espairs Ray,they're a goth/rock/metal crossover though

Pink Floyd
The Doors
Skynyrd
Kiss
Jimi Hendrix
Ted Nugent
BlackSabbath
Iron Butterfly

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Alkaline Trio
Leftover Crack
Paganini
Bach
Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Dead Kennedy's
Steve Vai
Joe Satriani

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led zeppelin
mr bungle(theres plenty of metal parts but i dont know what youd call them)
anything with james jamerson on it.

Um, if Black Sabbath isn't metal...what the hell is it?

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Yea, but most jrock/metal is really great. Especially X Japan, hide, Sex Machineguns and Kagerou.



Do you know Kagerou? If you like D'espairs Ray, I'm sure you like Kagerou too. They're kinda like D'espairs Ray minus gothic. I can pm you some songs if you wan't.

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I used to listen much to jrock until summer last year..wasn't kagerou some folky band?(I remember their costumes looked very funny back then,).I don't remember much of their sound though,if you can refresh my brain it would be nixe,thx;

No, they're not folky at all. I'll pm you some songs.

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Fucking classic rock. They might have started metal, but they're not. At least, everything with Ozzy.

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Black Sabbath is metal...psh...

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Yeah dude. Sabbath's also considered the first doom metal band aswell
But for the subject of this thread: Fuck. I like a huge variety of music
Jazz, Blues, Rock (some of it), I love the Beatles, Godspeed, You Black Emperor... fuck, too many to name off. And I really seem to like Flamenco, but I don't know what cds to buy/download and such, how do I get into it? The only flamenco album I have is Flametal's The Elder, wich is Flamenco metal.

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Back when they started Metal didn't even exist. A lot of they're songs were blues and psychadellic. Just because they were heavy doesnt mean they were metal. You dont consider Iron Butterfly metal evgen though innagaddadavida was the heaviest shit around. Cat scratch fever, black dog.........Jimi Hendrix in a way was more metal than Iomi. I guess it depends on which Sabbath album your talking about.

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No, they were metal.

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they were metal!

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graduallymelted: I understand exactly what your saying.

Some non metal I like...

Led Zeppelin
Alice in Chains
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Pearl Jam
Hendrix
Pink Floyd
Sublime
Skynyrd
AC/DC
Allman Bro. Band
Collective Soul
Black Crowes
Jane's Addiction
Staind
Ted Nugent
Tesla
The Doors
Thin Lizzy
Tool

to name a few...

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AC/DC
Aerosmith
Bad Company
some Billy Joel
Sabbath
Blue oYster Cult
some Bon Jovi
some Boston,Kansas
Deep Purple
Led Zeppelin
Def Leppard
some Disturbed
The Doors
The Eagles
Guns N Roses
Posion
Hendrix
some Pearl Jam
a song or two from The Kinks and Kiss
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Motley Crue
Pink Floyd
Ozzy
Scorpions
Van Halen
The Rolling Stones
The Who
and most classical and jazz pieces

Ive basically been through every genre till i stopped here.
I got into balck metal through music like of DJ Promo's ... really dark electronica.. check it out. SOme DrumnBass is also awesome

Yeah, but he's still wrong.
Here's a list of my favorite non-metal bands though

The Beatles
The Grateful Dead
The Ramones
Godspeed, You Black Emperor!
Led Zeppelin
Extreme

I like a hell of alot more, ALOT, but these are my over all favorites

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Jazz, especially Ornette coleman (has been mentioned) - fucking amazing, and John Zorn (check out Masada) is excellent (he's done stuff with Patton too)

Electronic music - Getting into this at the moment, especially Squarepusher - I strongly recommend everyone at least has a listen to Squarepusher's 'Go plastic' album - its absolutely mental stuff, it completely changed my attitude towards electronic music.

Avant garde classical stuff - the standard stuff, Schoenberg, Berg etc

Old school hip hop / rap (is there a difference?), is good for a laugh - public enemy and NWA especially.

Primus/Les claypool - Primus are a bit hit and miss album wise, I'd recommend 'Frizzle fry' and 'sailing the seas of cheese'

Oh, and Mongolian throat singing is cool.

I guess you were right,but it was quite a refreshing listen,.
Any other good stuff you advice?Doesn't necessarily need to be jrock though

why not?

i ain't gonna list all the bands i like, because that would be boring.
instead, ill list a few little known good bands.

XTC - I suppose its 80's pop punk, and although that is quite possibly the worst genre combination imaginable, XTC are brilliant

family - very little known early 60's rock band, with elements of almost every other genre around at the time. incredible melodies & harmonies. i really really recomend you have a listen. especially the album fearless. though it will be extroadinarily difficult to find. oh yeah, and their drummer went on to play for iron maiden.

fleetwood mac(old) - with peter green, strait forward blues, done really well
chicken shack - again strait forward blues done really well

jeff beck - greatest guitarist known to man. theres nobody who can touch him. (unless all you care about is speed). his old stuff lacks style, but since he ditched rod stewart and made is own instrumental music, he's become a legend.

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Actually all non-metal I listen to is jrock.

Some good ones:
Dir en grey
X Japan
The Piasu (I don't have any songs because it's really hard to find them. This band is pretty old too. Almost everyone of them died in accident when they was filming their music video. O.o They did some cool thrash metal. There's one music video on youtube though)

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never heard of Piasu,will check later.I sure like some x japan(rip hide) and some older diru,the newer stuff is nu metal,

I have every song by X Japan and hide, if you wan't some. I don't think new Diru is nu-metal. Some riffs might sound a little bit, but it's still more like rock, with growls. But their older stuff is still much better.

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