It's more a case of what I
don't listen to.
- Femal pop singers with relationship problems - Dido, Joss Stone, Natasha Beddingfield, Nelly Fur.... gah, I'm not going to bother looking up the spelling. Shut up, please.
- Metal. Its not the 90's anymore. And 'Nu meta'l is for kids.
- American "I've got more guns than you" rap. 50 Cent for instance. I wish I'd gone to see him at the Leeds festival, and boo him off the stage with the rest of the croud. Fortunatly for Mr Cent, I went to see a proper artist/preformer play at that time.
- Overly succesful bands. Getting played every 10 minutes on the radio kinda puts me off their songs.
Aside from these
general factors I'll listen to any sort of genre and enjoy it, just depends on the artist/act.
A few ways a band could earn my respect would be:
- Having decent songs, for a start. I like something new and experimental, but still listenable.
- Must be good live. I've seen my favourite band 12 times, (with tickets for the 13th, 14th and 15th gig in october) - and I've only been even mildly dissapointed twice - once because the venue seemed far too small and you literally couldn't move in the crowd, and once when they played a record store recently and you couldn't see the band unless u were at the front becuase there wasn't a stage.
Live, is how I enjoy my music most, it can make or break a band in my opinion.
- Mainstream bands are a bit of a turn-off as i've mentioned, but they should be acssessible too, there's less point in liking a band I recon if you can't even get their CD the internet.
Well its a tough list but I'm not going to devote my precious ear-time to anyone.
A few bands who fit the bill would include The Super Furry Animals, The Cooper Temple Clause, and Biffy Clyro (who are all British bands, if anyone hasn't heard of them).