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what do yer neighbors/office-mates/classmates like? are you totally out-of-touch with these folks?

― Tad (llamasfur), Monday, 3 February 2003 05:32 (twenty-three years ago)

wouldn't dare to ask

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 3 February 2003 05:34 (twenty-three years ago)

What They Like in Hoboken (where I live)

1. Live In New York City [LIVE] ~ Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band

2. This Desert Life ~ Counting Crows

3. The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle ~ Bruce Springsteen

4. Significant Other [EXPLICIT LYRICS] ~ Limp Bizkit

5. Outside Providence: Music From The Miramax Motion Picture [SOUNDTRACK] ~ Various Artists

6. White Ladder [EXTRA TRACKS] [ENHANCED] ~ David Gray

7. Running On Ice ~ Vertical Horizon

8. Californication ~ Red Hot Chili Peppers

9. Music ~ Madonna

10. No Angel ~ Dido

― Tad (llamasfur), Monday, 3 February 2003 05:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Coworker Tom lurvs Tool, Smashing Pumpkins and Radiohead. And Massive Attack and more. I am a fortunate man.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 3 February 2003 05:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Hot Hot Heat
Hellacopters
Turbonegro
Jets To Brazil
Glucifer
Jimmy Eat World
Slayer
International Noise Conspiracy
Supersuckers

etc.

I hang with a pretty rock n' roll crowd at work- Helltime et al. I keep being the idiot in smoke break conversations because I can't make as many Ronny James Dio jokes.

― Millar (Millar), Monday, 3 February 2003 05:44 (twenty-three years ago)

What They Like in Hoboken (where I live)
3. The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle ~ Bruce Springsteen

JBR on Jersey Boys

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 3 February 2003 05:45 (twenty-three years ago)

at the firm where i used to work, there was precisely one other co-worker whose tastes were very similar to mine. he was a little more into the NYC CBGB's/Lou Reed-in-his-smack-days-clone stuff than I am (I was more into the eighties Brit stuff), but other than that there was a lot of commonality (i.e., he knew who My Bloody Valentine were). he was also an enormous fuck-up and a rotten worker (i know, after he left i got stuck doing mop-up with all of the cases he fucked up), so make of that what you will). my office-mate was into mullet-rock -- in his world, it was as if punk or rap never happened -- and we would make fun of each other's musical tastes. the managing partner was a big Deadhead.

my current boss likes what I'd call "starbucks-music" which is just what it sounds like -- music that you'd hear if you walked into a random Starbuck's.

― Tad (llamasfur), Monday, 3 February 2003 05:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Running On Ice ~ Vertical Horizon

weird. was this re-released or something?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 3 February 2003 06:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Apparently everyone at this college listens to nothing but Nelly, John Mayer and Avril Lavigne.

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Monday, 3 February 2003 06:45 (twenty-three years ago)

half of my office is empty any time dave matthews is in town, ozomatli seems to be big too. heard one co-worker listening to war pigs once, another asked me if what i was listening to was the lilac time. it wasn't but it made me happy that he knew who they were. john mayer is big here too.

― keith (keithmcl), Monday, 3 February 2003 06:52 (twenty-three years ago)

At one point I worked at one of the largest electronic music and Hip Hop distributors on the west coast. I was lucky enough to have as my direct supervisor an Angry and Proud Hair-band loving Hesher with no sense of humor about it at all (POISON was to be seriously). My other direct co-worker had passion for the Wu-Tang Clan(no problem there) and Progmetal Ala King's X and Fates Warning. Quite a year that was.

I do wanna state for the record that as of lately "Too Fast for love"
has been in my steady rotation at work.

― an asskickin fat kid named Hayden (Hayden), Monday, 3 February 2003 07:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Where i work there are quite a few people with similar music tastes...most of whom nick my CDs. There is also abloke who is attempting to form a church that worships soul music, and this requires him to build a huge database of soul MP3s on one of the spare PCs - strange!

― Robin Goad (rgoad), Monday, 3 February 2003 09:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Man, what I'd give to be able to make Dio jokes at work all day!

― original bgm, Monday, 3 February 2003 16:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Nobody here actually listens to music during the day. They've looked through my cd's and told me i was a "weirdo". Yup ok shit bizkit fans.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Monday, 3 February 2003 17:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Colleagues here at the news desk:

Eileen: Beatles, Stones, Rutles, Ramones (hey, that rhymes!)
Christy: Butthole Surfers and vintage Black Sabbath.
John: White Stripes, Walkmen, Magnetic Fields, Clash, Jeff Buckley
Amanda: folk music, protest songs.

Alas, no one else honors the fire.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 3 February 2003 17:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Neighbors: (neighbor 1) what sounds like the Dead and Phish, or related bands, some 60's folk music, and prog, with occasional new wave bands cropping up (B-52s, Talking Heads); (neighbor 2) mostly indie (e.g., Sonic Youth, Sleater-Kinney) and electronic stuff (mostly Drum -n- Bass or Jungle, like I know exactly where that line is); (neighbor 3) Elvis, some very nice acoustic stuff I can't place, indie; (neighbor 4) not much music, usually current R&B or maybe some funky jazz fusion; (neighbor 5) the radio, usually rock or current R&B.

― Rockist Scientist, Monday, 3 February 2003 17:36 (twenty-three years ago)

(neighbor 6) no music.

― Rockist Scientist, Monday, 3 February 2003 17:54 (twenty-three years ago)

My editor listens to Guns 'n' Roses and only Guns 'n' Roses. He owns every studio and live album and has a broad selecton of bootlegs.
The reporter to my left enjoys late 80s/early 90s hip hop, meaning we can have conversations about Tribe, De La Soul and such. Recently lent him sone Kool Keith and Roots Manuva.
The reporter sitting crosswise from my desk mostly listens to Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins and early to mid-90s alt.rock.
One of the news editors has a jones for classic punk likes the Clash and the Ramones while enjoying contemporary folk and alt.country. He has several hundred MP3s on his G4 and spends the afternoon editing to Son Volt, Uncle Tupelo and Gillian Welch.
The managing editor owns records by Gang of Four, Magazine and PIL but is also an obsessive Grateful Dead fan, buying up Dick's Picks et al.
Another news editor listens to Supertramp almost exclusively.
The other people in the offices haven't made much of a musical impression.

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Monday, 3 February 2003 18:46 (twenty-three years ago)

There is no circle for Sask, but in Alberta (next door, who we "aspire" to be, ie, where the kids go), they're buying the Hamster Dance and Limp Bizkit. Fuckin' eh.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 3 February 2003 18:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Billy Joel was the biggest thing to hit my school in ten years. When Dylan came, people enthusiastically queued for tickets; when we booked Billy Joel into a small venue on campus, we got a mixed bag of death threats and offers of sexual favors.

― Dave M. (rotten03), Monday, 3 February 2003 19:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Nothing but Supertramp?

My housemates, AFAIK:

Elia - assorted things by Beatles, Stones, Bowie, late Zeppelin, Cure, Meat Loaf, Rocky Horror soundtrack, Boston, 90s Radiohead, Strokes, Eminem

Chris - mostly mainstream hard rock. Loves Nirvana and Guns n Roses. Went to see Limp Bizkit. Thinks Korn went downhill after the first two albums. Pantera. Van Halen. We can watch MuchLoud together.

Adam - mixes and DJs himself. A lot of electronica - various techno subgenres (Detroit, Swedish, . . .), acid jazz, downtempo, ambient, Richie Hawtin, etc. A fair amount of punk rock - Operation Ivy, SNFU, Almighty Trigger Happy, more Fugazi than I care for. Funk and fusion - Medeski, Martin & Wood, Metalwood, John Scofield, Herbie Hancock. Elliot Smith, Ben Harper. We trade CDs a lot.

Vincent - Thievery Corporation, Richie Hawtin, Sven Vath, Amelie soundtrack, "California Dreaming", grew up on Scorpions

People in the programme: Obviously a lot of classical and jazz, including modern and avant-garde variants. There's a large ethnomusicology department so a lot of folk musics from assorted cultures. A lot of Zeppelin/Floyd/Rush. A number of people into IDM. Funk. Captain Beefheart.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 3 February 2003 23:28 (twenty-three years ago)

workmate 1: twee indipop, massive attack.
workmate 2: soul, indie, kitsch, french girls from the 60's.
workmate 3: easily influenced (currently playing 4hero)
workmate 4: commercial dance, trance.

we usually end up putting on a 70's comp and huv a wee laff.

― gaz (gaz), Monday, 3 February 2003 23:36 (twenty-three years ago)

most of the coworkers during my shift are at least 20 yrs my senior.
my boss had a worn-looking lapest e cd on his desk the other day.
another older coworker is supposed to lend me some vi11a-1obos. she has my caetano ve1oso/ga1costa 'Domingo' right now.
then there's a guy on the other side of the building who sometimes turns up MBV and similar stuff when most of the staff is gone.
it wafts in over the cubicles and makes nice background to the police scanner i listen to all night.
other than that i don't know.

― MatBo, Tuesday, 4 February 2003 03:32 (twenty-three years ago)

nu-gospel and nu-soul. nu-santana as well.

― boxcubed (boxcubed), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 03:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Here are some co-workers (though we would almost never be playing music at work):

coworker 1: most classical (mostly pre-20th century, emphasis on Baroque), also likes a fair amount of traditional folk music from various parts of the world, will listen to just about anything if curious

coworker 2: "adult contemporary," singer-songwriter type stuff, some hard rock, electronic dance music

coworker 3: classical music, Neil Young

coworker 4: progressive trance, classical, Flamenco, a lot of international music including Middle Eastern, but has listened to an enormous variety of other things (mostly doesn't like: reggae, Afro-Latin music, most R&B, hip-hop, the Beatles). We loan a lot of stuff to each other, but often our taste doesn't overlap.

coworker 5: classical (lots of 20th century classical included)

coworker 6: indie, old R&B, ? I don't really know this person's taste very well

coworker 7: jazz, old R&B, smattering of classic rock I would guess

Etc.

― Rockist Scientist, Tuesday, 4 February 2003 03:52 (twenty-three years ago)

here's the purchase circle main page
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/community/community.html/002-2585099-7457665

and my school (University of Rochester)

Barenaked Ladies (TOP 3 ALL THEM WTF GAY)
U2
Ken Burns's Jazz
Dido
Moby
Coldplay
Eric Clapton & B.B. King
Radiohead

― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 03:58 (twenty-three years ago)

per amazon.com...

the school where i work:
pj harvey, dry
morcheeba, big calm
pj harvey, stories from the city, stories from the sea
d'angelo, voodoo
high fidelity sdtk
miles davis, kind of blue
paul oakenfold, perfecto presents another world
dave brubeck, time out
outkast, stankonia
madonna, music

the town where i live:
pearl jam, 10/9/00 chicago
poi dog pondering, volo volo
bumpus, stereoscope
michael mcdermott, last chance lounge
julie frost, the wave
moenia, moenia mixes
bumpus, bumpus
justin roberts, great big sun
wagner, der fliegende hollander
david young, appassionata

i went to high school with david young. much of the rest mystifies me.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 04:10 (twenty-three years ago)

oh sorry, i get it now.
Ha. in Lowell, Mass the music list is typical but the dvd one is SO GREAT. An odd mix of queerness, genocide, and mel gibsonism.
1. Trick
2. The Killing Fields
3. Broken Hearts Club
4. George Lucas in Love
5. The Patriot
6. Braveheart
7. Gladiator
8. The Perfect Storm
9. Monty Python and the Holy Grail

― MatBo, Tuesday, 4 February 2003 04:25 (twenty-three years ago)

i have: one friend who has wide taste but is particularly digging on vitalic, tok tok, kompakt and other euro tech-pop at the mo; another who listens exclusively to the beach boys; one who likes pop; one who hates pop; others who i'm not really sure/(interested).

― michael wells (michael w.), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 13:47 (twenty-three years ago)

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