As for whats in my cd player (ACDC), I don't really listen to cd's that much. I just turn on my winamp playlist... on there I have everything from ACDC, Aerosmith, Zepplin, Hendrix, and Black Sabbath to "Stand By Me" and "Play That Funky Music Whiteboy" to B52's, Billy Idol, Whitesnake, Queen, and Steppenwolf to AFI, Catch 22, Face to Face, Alkaline Trio, the Ataris, the Bouncing Souls, Unwritten Law, and Pennywise to U2, Goo Goo Dolls, and Third Eye Blind. Heck, I've even got Incubus, P.O.D., Hoobastank, and Primus on here. The other day I cracked up when I realized my playlist went from Metallica to "Stand By Me" (the origional, mind you!) to Catch22 and I didn't even notice. The only thing I'm really missing on my playlist is classical (but I've still got some), rap (excluding Tupac's
Changes - one of the few rap songs I feel actually say something important), hip-hop, and tennie-bopper pop. The way I see it, music is there for entertainment and more. If you limit yourself to only one variety or only one genre, you're missing out on so much music.
But out of curiosity, where would you guys classify
Dave Matthews Band? Not on this poll, but in general? I'd say pop would be the easiest, but (excluding their one pop-song, I Did It) DMB as a whole doesn't fall into pop (download "
#36" (18 megs, awesome percussion intro) or "
Ants Marching" - both of these are AWESOME live recordings from the Red Rocks concert) and you'll see right away that their style is not pop. It's kinda rock, but not really.
Anyways, the same question applies to other psuedo-cult bands. Do bands like
Dispatch, Cake, Phish, Widespread Panic - do they have a particular genre, or would you just put them under the generic "Alternative" label?