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Hello all!

I was into Video Game Music for awhile, and then I discovered Techno/Trance(Even though I had downloaded some by accident, I didn't know about the genres."

Eurobeat is new to me, but I have been listening to just VGM for awhile now. Eurobeat reminds me a lot of the techno genres except it's very fast paced(which is what I like).

A lot of people complain about mainstream music, but I don't listen to any of it, so who knows.

I know that what I am listening to now is definitely what I want to stick with. I'm glad I found this forum and Eurobeat, and I'm glad I found VGM all those years ago.


So how does everyone else feel? Do you listen to mainstream songs besides Eurobeat?

I used to listen to mainstream songs when I was younger, back in the days of electronic dance, until it started moving towards the current hip-hop rap and others etc..

Now I pretty much exclusively listen to only video game/Euro/J music

From around 2005 - 2007 practically all I listened to was music I had found through DDR / StepMania. This included Eurobeat and random trance artists and alot of Bemani music, etc. A friend had gotten me into metalcore / deathcore a bit and I followed a few bands.

Since I stopped listening to Eurobeat as religiously as I used to back around 2008, I've gotten kinda big into both Hardcore Punk and Grime music. I'm kinda over both phases now, but I still listen to a decent amount of it. As far as mainstream, I don't care for alot of current Hip-Hop / Pop artists. I do like Hip-Hop and Pop, but I find alot of contemporary stuff to be very mindless. But that's not to dismiss mainstream music as a whole as unworthy. There's a fair number of Alternative Rock bands that I like, and there are some current artists I hear on the radio who's songs I like, just not so much as to get really big into them. Some examples of artists/music I would list as my (current) favorites aside from Eurobeat:

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YOUTUBE ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKrmw8Kb1I0 ) Hands-down my favorite band. Hardcore Punk from Pennsylvania YOUTUBE ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7UdBlQdr5k ) Pretty good Grime artist, although I don't have alot of his material. This is just quintessential Grime to me, though. YOUTUBE ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMtvx8C5Kn0 ) This is a cool indie pop act that I found through a Hardcore Punk band that I listen to. This guy does alot of solo stuff as well as band work and it's all equally awesome. I got to see him last year at a coffee shop and he's supposed to be back here in California later this year, hopefully with the whole band. YOUTUBE ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcKCg3HDTvc ) A newer Hardcore band that I found. Getting to see them next month, can't wait. YOUTUBE ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdsE73S7urU ) Another Grime artist. Lyric-wise he's nothing amazing, but he is proper Grime. YOUTUBE ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwgHQ165dD4 ) Another one of my favorite Hardcore bands. Blew over a thousand bucks flying out to New York for their reunion show. Been living mouth-to-hand ever since x_x

This post has been edited by Gruzky on Apr 10 2014, 08:38 PM

Hands-down my favorite band. Hardcore Punk from Pennsylvania

YOUTUBE ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7UdBlQdr5k )

Pretty good Grime artist, although I don't have alot of his material. This is just quintessential Grime to me, though.

YOUTUBE ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMtvx8C5Kn0 )

This is a cool indie pop act that I found through a Hardcore Punk band that I listen to. This guy does alot of solo stuff as well as band work and it's all equally awesome. I got to see him last year at a coffee shop and he's supposed to be back here in California later this year, hopefully with the whole band.

YOUTUBE ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcKCg3HDTvc )

A newer Hardcore band that I found. Getting to see them next month, can't wait.

YOUTUBE ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdsE73S7urU )

Another Grime artist. Lyric-wise he's nothing amazing, but he is proper Grime.

YOUTUBE ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwgHQ165dD4 )

Another one of my favorite Hardcore bands. Blew over a thousand bucks flying out to New York for their reunion show. Been living mouth-to-hand ever since x_x

Pretty good Grime artist, although I don't have alot of his material. This is just quintessential Grime to me, though.

YOUTUBE ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMtvx8C5Kn0 )

This is a cool indie pop act that I found through a Hardcore Punk band that I listen to. This guy does alot of solo stuff as well as band work and it's all equally awesome. I got to see him last year at a coffee shop and he's supposed to be back here in California later this year, hopefully with the whole band.

YOUTUBE ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcKCg3HDTvc )

A newer Hardcore band that I found. Getting to see them next month, can't wait.

YOUTUBE ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdsE73S7urU )

Another Grime artist. Lyric-wise he's nothing amazing, but he is proper Grime.

YOUTUBE ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwgHQ165dD4 )

Another one of my favorite Hardcore bands. Blew over a thousand bucks flying out to New York for their reunion show. Been living mouth-to-hand ever since x_x

This is a cool indie pop act that I found through a Hardcore Punk band that I listen to. This guy does alot of solo stuff as well as band work and it's all equally awesome. I got to see him last year at a coffee shop and he's supposed to be back here in California later this year, hopefully with the whole band.

YOUTUBE ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcKCg3HDTvc )

A newer Hardcore band that I found. Getting to see them next month, can't wait.

YOUTUBE ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdsE73S7urU )

Another Grime artist. Lyric-wise he's nothing amazing, but he is proper Grime.

YOUTUBE ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwgHQ165dD4 )

Another one of my favorite Hardcore bands. Blew over a thousand bucks flying out to New York for their reunion show. Been living mouth-to-hand ever since x_x

A newer Hardcore band that I found. Getting to see them next month, can't wait.

YOUTUBE ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdsE73S7urU )

Another Grime artist. Lyric-wise he's nothing amazing, but he is proper Grime.

YOUTUBE ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwgHQ165dD4 )

Another one of my favorite Hardcore bands. Blew over a thousand bucks flying out to New York for their reunion show. Been living mouth-to-hand ever since x_x

Another Grime artist. Lyric-wise he's nothing amazing, but he is proper Grime.

YOUTUBE ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwgHQ165dD4 )

Another one of my favorite Hardcore bands. Blew over a thousand bucks flying out to New York for their reunion show. Been living mouth-to-hand ever since x_x

Another one of my favorite Hardcore bands. Blew over a thousand bucks flying out to New York for their reunion show. Been living mouth-to-hand ever since x_x

I personally have a wide and diverse taste in music. I used to adhere to a policy of 'anything and everything that they play on the radio nowadays is crap' but I recently learned that this is not the complete case. There are some songs that I can't help but think are catchy. And then at the same time, I listen to a lot of oldies and stuff that was around before I was even born.

I also have phases where I listen to a lot of one genre before moving onto the next. I was in a huge EuroBeat phase about two years ago; I still occasionally listen to it but its kinda tough since it doesn't serve as really good study music. On the bright side, I no longer drive fast whenever it comes on in my car!

I'm usually really tolerant of new stuff too, but I absolutely hate music that is too loud or when the singer sounds like an eight-year old girl who inhaled too much helium before performing the song.

As a kid when I was about 12 or 13 years old I only listend to stuff which came in TV and radio. In 2009, this changed as a friend of mine recommended me an online radio station. There was a show which concentrated on the theme Nintendo. Basically, that were soundtracks, TV themes an so on. Some day, the radio station has closed and the show has been transferred to a new radio station which is still active today. The new radio station has Japanese music as core theme. So, I began to listen to this "new sort of music" and I actually really liked it. With listening to this music I began to hate mainstream for no reason. Probably everyone thought somewhen all the mainstream is crap. Today, I like Japanese music as much as mainstream. There are good songs and there are bad songs. For my taste, the bad ones overweight, but that's another story. In April 2010 I was introduced into Eurobeat. This music was God-like to me (and still, it's a great genre). I've only listened to this a whole time. In late 2012 I finally realized that not all mainstream is bad. I've bought some singles on Amazon then. Besides that, another friend of mine told me about Furries in a Blender (not literally), a Happy Hardcore musican. I really enjoy their songs but I can't tell if I'm a Happy Hardcore fan or not. I actually like the music, but there also many songs which sound very generic to me (to name an example: the album Welp by Rhythmics). The musican behind FIAB does have a bunch of other aliases. With each alias he has another style and most of the other styles are pretty good. As Kitsune² he makes Chiptune, for example.
Generally, I also like 90's New Wave and almost every Dance music. What may be is a bit uncommon, I see that as compensation: I actually like classical music and classical sounding music. There's also an Indie musican called Fyra (by the way an alias of Anthony McBazooka) with very poetical or critical songs.
All in all, I can say, I'm listening to almost anything as long as it can hook me. Even if it is Lily Allen, to name a mainstream example, Rondó Veniziano or FIAB.

Did you think you were born in the wrong generation, too?

>not literally
Aw.

My taste in music is weird. I don't mean to say that in a pretentious way - it's just wildly all over the place. Most people would flip through the records on my shelf and shift expressions from disinterest to approval to disgust to confusion. Like they say, jack of all trades, king of none.

There are some particular kinds of music that I'm really into, though. Excluding any form of electronic music as per the thread's title, I listen to a lot of Japanese pop, punk, and new wave from the '80s, prog rock and psych rock from the '70s, shoegaze, and some avant-garde and noise (though I'm very picky about what I like in those fields). Basically, if it's experimental, I'll give it a shot. For instance, I generally don't like hip-hop/rap, but Death Grips are one of the best acts of the past decade for me.

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Including other forms of electronic music, I love italo-disco, minimal synth/wave and DIY stuff from the early '80s, "IDM" (quotation marks because I reject the term), '80s electro and electro-influenced hip-hop (think Cybotron, Dark Star, etc.), glitch, and ambient.

I listen to trance, video game soundtrack, rock, punk and electronic. Not those nowadays called electronic music, but mostly of The Prodigy and The Flashbulb. But unfortunately, many artists tend to infect their songs with dubstep garbage nowadays, which is why I rather listen to their older songs. I also listen to Toho songs sometimes although some songs of them are somewhat weird.

This post has been edited by Nerubian on Mar 28 2014, 11:20 AM

That reminds me, I forgot to add one of my biggest interests to my list - Vocaloid music.

Me too. I fell in love with GUMI last year as I've listened to Yowamushi Montblanc. One of the most beauitful songs ever, I think.

Pretty much this right here. When your usual library goes from genre to genre without a care in a world, it's kinda hard to pidgeonhole it. For example, if I hit shuffle seven times on my phone, it comes up Death Grips [experimental hip-hop, I guess?] (damn you, Kyonpalm!), Creedence Clearwater Revival [dad rock], Mega NRG Man [shouldn't have to explain this one here], Arch Enemy [melodic death metal], Marina and the Diamonds [pop], Oomph! [industrial metal/NDH] and KOTOKO [J-Pop].

Generally, though, folk/power/industrial/thrash/death/melodic/etc.etc. metal is the order of the day, usually served with a side of industrial and electronic music.

Mainstream radio's occasionally got some real diamonds in the rough, and it's the same with the more niche channels. No matter where you go, you're eventually gonna find something that you like.

This post has been edited by SgtXDNX on Mar 28 2014, 01:21 PM

I have listened to Electronic Dance music for the last 20 years of my life (I'm 26). It all began when I was 6 and first heard 90s Eurodance music (Real McCoy, 2 Unlimited, etc). As I got older, I fell in love with American Hard House music (a now dead genre). Then, in 7th/8th grade, I fell in love with Daft Punk (Discovery had been released and One More Time was used at the MTV2 commercial). Well, during high school, I found out about the rave scene, and a friend over the old MSN Chatrooms told me about this special genre of music called Happy Hardcore. Happy Hardcore became my life from 2002-present. I loved the 180+ bpm kick drums, chipmunky vocals, pianos, and the whole candy kid character that came along with it! (I was & still am a sober raver). Now, during 2006-ish, I came across Ishkur's Guide, which had samples of Eurobeat music. I loved it because it was like Happy Hardcore, just a bit slower. I had no idea about "Super Eurobeat", the only connection I had to the music was that it was "Japanese". I put Eurobeat on the back burner until 2010. I started collected what CDs I could for cheap off Amazon & Ebay. Now I have a pretty good collection.

I also listen to UK Hard House, Dark Psytrance, UK Hardcore (though I still call it Happy Hardcore). As an educator, I can't walk around decked out in my rave gear, but the vibe still lives in me!

This CD: Happy2bHardcore, was the first DJ mixed album consisting of only British Happy Hardcore to be released in the States. It sparked the boom of Happy Hardcore parties and candy ravers across North America and was really the ONLY Happy Hardcore music outlet for most Americans (There were 7 Happy2bHardcore albums released before Moonshine Music cut the series).

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The top CD folder is Happy Hardcore music only. The bottom folder is Eurobeat.

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I'll listen to pretty much anything...euro, hyper techno, j-trance, shibuya-kei, trip hop, ambient, folk, etc. if it's catchy I'll listen to it. I mainly listen to euro, but I'll take the occasional break for another genre.

I'm with bonkers c: I've always been eletronic and happy rave genres!

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Im only 17 so my collection is only beginning but I been on a J-trance kick so I been ordering a lot of CDs from that, but I mainly stick to happy hardcore and gabber

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@SkibblesX, believe it or not, Wal-Mart use to carry the Happy2bHardcore albums! I remember buying Chapter's 4, 5, & 6 at Wal-Mart. 2 & 7 I got at Media Play. Ch. 3 I ordered from Moonshine because it was hard to find at my local walmarts, and I found Chapter 1 at a mall in Atlanta, GA. I bought the never released "Chapter 8" from Frolic's website...Chapter 8 was ONLY given out to the people who attended one of the last Hullabaloo events. The mixing was horrible, and the track selection was crap.

This post has been edited by Bonkers on Mar 30 2014, 05:02 PM

Yeah I know my dad bought them at FYE a long time ago, as well the 8th chapter was hella gross. UK hardcore was never a genre of mine. But I love the old Happy Hardcore CDs from ID&T cause Dutch happy hardcore was a lot closer to gabber and the kicks and basslines were different from British happy hardcore, Mokum was a great label along with British label Blatant Beat (most of the songs in happy2bhardcore)



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Before I was introduced to Japanese music, I used to listen to radio stuff. But, even then, I didn't like it that much. The only heavy airplay "pop song" I really fall to was this song. Yes, "Believe" by Cher and, as a birthday present (I don't remember what year), I got the album of the same name.

Before that, my parents were huge on 70s and 80s music. Both my mom and dad liked rock from that era. So, for me, it's part of my childhood; especially this track: A Criminal Mind by Gowan. Probably because Gowan performed here, in my hometown, twice during our annual Blueberry Festival in 1987 and 1988. And my mom attended to both and in one case, she was pregnant of me. "A Criminal Mind" would probably be THE first song I wanted my parents to put on repeat and "Believe" was the first one evolving from my own taste. I still have the CD (although I don't have the original jewel case anymore and both artwork and CD isn't in the best shape either).

When I entered high-school, my mom bought our first PC ever and that's when Napster was still going strong. At that time, the Pokemon craze among 5th, 6th grade and the first years of high-school was hot (Note: Here, Grade School has 6 grades then you go into High School which has 5 grades then career choosing time). So, of course, we were all following the anime airing on Teletoon or Fox (was it? I don't remember). But then, I didn't know Pokemon was Japanese! It took the next craze: Card Captor Sakura to air on Teletoon for me to get proper on anime. I started downloading the anime and search for its opening themes.

Then, I discovered that my small cousin (female) and a friend were into more animes. So, that's how I got into the anime Gravitation (the only "yaoi" I ever watched) and Detective Conan. So, seeing that, I asked my small cousin to make an audio CD of Japanese stuff (I still have that CD hanging around in my CD cases!). A lot of tracks were from DDR. However, there were some highlights on this CD that brought me to my current taste in music. "Never Gonna Make" by Morgana, "Walkie Talkie" by King Kong & D.Jungle Girls, "Love Phantom" by B'z, "Question At Me" by Megumi Hayashibara and...

*actually digs up the CDDA*

Here's the tracklist from Foobar2000's ability to read CD-Text (artist/Song title):

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1. DDR - Never Gonna Make 2. DDR - Walkie Talkie 3. DDR - DDR Dance Dance Revolution - Captain Jack (uncensored) 4. (gibberish) - Para Para Sakura 5. B'z - Love Phantom 6. To Destination - Eden 7. ? - Gravitation - Shining Collection 8. Gravitation: Seki Tomokazu - Bird 9. Gravitation - Spicy Marmelade 10. TWO-MIX - RHYTHM EMOTION 11. Hikaru No Go - Get Over 12. Hayashibara Megumi - Question At Me 13. Gravitation - The Rage Beat 14. ? - Dance Dance Revolution - Be For You 15. Dance Dance Revolution - Colors Of The Wind 16. DDR - Paranoia Millenium 17. DDR - Captain Jack - Dancing Pompokolin 18. Capatin Jack - In The Navy 2000 19. JENNY ROM - SENORITA(Speedy Mix) 20. DDR - Dam Dariram [Full Version] 21. Naoki with Y&Co. - Can't Stop Falling In Love -SE 22. Dance Dance revolution Extreme - Love Love Shine 23. DDR - Dynamite Rave

Fixed tracklist version:

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1. Morgana - Never Gonna Make 2. King Kong & D.Jungle Girls - Walkie Talkie 3. Capatin Jack - Captain Jack (Short Mix) 4. Aaron Kwok - Para Para Sakura 5. B'z - Love Phantom 6. To Destination - Eden 7. Iceman - Shining Collection 8. Seki Tomokazu - Bird 9. Kotani Kinya - Spicy Marmelade 10. TWO-MIX - RHYTHM EMOTION 11. Dream - Get Over 12. Hayashibara Megumi - Question At Me 13. Kotani Kinya - The Rage Beat 14. BeForYou - Break Down! 15. Domino - Colors Of The Wind 16. 100 - Paranoia Millenium 17. Captain Jack - Dancing Pompokolin (Euro) 18. Capatin Jack - In The Navy 19. JENNY ROM - SENORITA (Speedy Mix) 20. Joga - Dam Dariram [3min Edit] 21. Naoki with Y&Co. - Can't Stop Falling In Love (Super Euro Version) 22. Kosaka Riyu - Love ♥ Shine 23. Naoki - Dynamite Rave Green text = it was right

I'm not shittin' you guys. This is the CD-Text of the CD I've made sooooooooo long ago! The age of tagging the artist in the video game/anime it was found in. Hahaha. 15 of those tracks are song I still consider listening to. Also note that quite a bit of the DDR songs are the 90-100sec game cuts except for Never Gonna Make, Captain Jack (song), Colors Of The Wind (lol, that's not DDR hahaha), Dancin' Pumpokolin and Dam Dariram. So pretty much, from there, I started searching for DDR stuff and what not. As you might notice, there's 5 Eurobeat tracks in there! The first one in that I listened to is Walkie Talkie. It took me more years it should have to to discover that "Colors Of The Wind" on there was sung by Domino (THAT Domino). How much time it took me to figure it out? I think I was well in Eurobeat when I discovered. I think it around the 180s in SEB at the time. YES. THAT FAR. I consider "Para Para Sakura" by Aaron Kwok to be Eurobeat, although sung in Chinese. Still searching for a FLAC version of that song to this day. I also consider "Senorita (Speedy Mix)" to be Eurobeat too... although it clocks at 185 BPM I believe, much more faster than regular Eurobeat. "Can't Stop Falling In Love (Super Euro Version)" is a good track but... never got released in extended... if it ever exists.

ANYWAY. I was pretty in anime and I was browsing AnimeLyrics for an anime that had LOTS of songs so I can search WinMX for them. I opened up the page for "I" and found out that........................... INITIAL D had a lot of songs. That's pretty much where I discovered the name "Eurobeat". Then, it's history... it wasn't until I joined up here, May 2006, that I PROPER went into Eurobeat. I remember finidng SEB 168 and 169 on college computers, haha. However, I discovered HINOI TEAM and I was well into them before actually finding about SEB because I was listening to Hinoi Team's version of "Yeah!" before I found out about Christine's. I'm dead serious. It got released on SEB 168 and that's pretty much I opened my eyes. SEB172 was the first ever Eurobeat CD I ever own and the second CD I ordered on the Internet with my credit card at the time.

From that CD above, there's an other band/artist that I also... went proper into: B'z. That's pretty much where my parent's rock roots helped. "Love Phantom" was my first track. I believe that this CD was burned in 2001 or 2002. I listened to Love Phantom for some time then forgot about it until I re-dug that CD in 2004 and decided to search for B'z on WinMX. That's when I discovered "Banzai". I then fell in love with the band ever since. I pretty much have a huge collection of original CDs and DVDs here. My first original album was "Big Machine" acquired in... 2005 I believe... I think... Must have been coz I didn't have my credit card at that time and my aunt ordered it for me on eBay.

Of course, I could be mixing up some facts here and there... I don't have a perfect memory.

As for today, I despise US Top40 radio music: extremely generic and overall boring. I'm more the underground guy. However, I tend to like some European Pop much more than the US counterpart; especially tracks from Eurovision.

Here's a rundown of some notable bands and genres I discovered since my first CD ever that I still listen to today:

- Stratovarius (first song ever: Hunting High And Low)
- Sonata Arctica (first song ever: Weballergy (I believe))
- B'z (1st: Love Phantom)
- Two-Mix (1st: Rhythm Emotion)
- David Wise (pretty much the only Video Game music composer I'm invested into, except some exception here and there)
- Kotani Kinya
- Nightwish

- Eurobeat (duh)
- JTrance
- Trance
- some (Happy)Hardcore
- Classic Rock
- Hard Rock
- Rock
- Power Metal
- Symphonic Power Metal
- JPop
- Eurodance
- some New Age

I'm open to almost all genres. Genre I despise above all: Dubstep (all variations), Jazz and some others I can't think of.

It starts to get long so... I'm finishing this here.

@skibblesx Blatant Beat? I just discovered that they made one of the most evasive Hardcore track that I liked a lot: "Hardcore Overdose" by Euphoria! I'm so going to buy the full track in WAV on Juno (and some other tracks) once I get the ooportunity.

Blatant Beats was a sister label to Brisk & Ham's main label: Next Generation. Both labels go back to the 90s and feature MANY of the core anthems in the Happy Hardcore genre (ie. Shooting Star by Bang!). You will find Euphoria's tracks spread out over both labels. Euphoria also went by VAGABOND.

Here are the Label's personal CD releases:
http://www.discogs.com/Various-The-Collect.../release/150118

http://www.discogs.com/Brisk-Ham-The-Colle.../release/345360

http://www.discogs.com/Brisk-Ham-Next-Gene.../release/550045

Enjoy!

happy hardcore huh? haha...

I used to listen to DDR and music like that as well when I was younger...don't know a lot of genres....

One reason I ask is because I was thinking of songs like Gangnam Style which IMO isn't all that good of a song, yet people all over the world think it's the best thing ever.

Also what's annoying with that is that psy apparently created songs back in 2004 that were anti-america "Kill the Yankee, kill the Yankee's mother" shit like that.... Yet now the entire country supports him like a king....

I was on a cruise in December and they played the song, it was the first time I ever heard the entire song, and I wasn't impressed. Everyone in the dining hall was going nuts, kids, and adults, was pretty embarrassing.


There are many other songs, and people I find disgusting like Beyonce, but what can you do... We give these people "idol" rankings and make them out to be so much better than someone else.

Mainstream music was good when I was a kid in the 90's. I don't like mainstream music/artists they played on the FM/radios, stuff these days. I mostly listen to 80's music (I'm a loyal 80's music fan).

I used to be into Video Game music 5+ years ago, not into it now.

Anime & Japanese music: Haven't been in the scene/up to date since 4+ years ago.
I still like it and still got some J-music and anime ost/songs on my PC. This is my favorite Japanese Anime song ever.

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YOUTUBE ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPbXEcF6WkE )

Hohoemi No Bakudan by Megumi Ogata (Better version than Matsuko Mawatari, imo)

I like every genres/songs that is good, but I prefer to stay away from today's mainstream music & artists, like: Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, Beyonce, Lady Gaga, etc. etc.

And YES, I love Eurobeat, I think I got all/if not, most of the Super Eurobeat volumes collection in mp3, lmaol! To be honest, I like the older eurobeat songs more than newer ones, guess I'm just an oldie...

This is me, too. I used to enjoy listening to popular music from the mid-90s to the early 2000s. Now I can't really do it anymore, because I find I just can't connect with popular music. It doesn't give me the effect I want - I want to be energized by my music, and mainstream just doesn't do it for me anymore.
Edit: Someone should do a eurobeat version of All the Things she Said by t.A.T.u

Eurobeat is one of the main genres of music I listen to. I mainly listen to it while driving, playing racing games, or exercising - Eurobeat gives me energy.
I also listen to liquid funk/liquid drum and bass. It's much more mellow than eurobeat is, but is similar in that a lot of it is synth and it's pretty fast paced. Also, there's less of an emphasis on vocals.

Example (for full effect, listen at least 30 seconds in)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFSUAZly8TQ

This post has been edited by Juke on Apr 6 2014, 02:05 PM

Lucky....

I need to get collecting lots of songs and I'm having trouble finding a place to download/buy songs.


@Lebon I find dubstep trash also..

To me I like melody and music, Dubstep kills it and overpowers it with bass, awful bass at that.

First i fell in love with Punk Rock, mainly for the speed. then BOOM! i discovered eurobeat, and for years now i alternate between the two. actually it really depends if anyone else is around, most people around here would think it is weird. because it kind of is.

honestly, if it wasn't for this site i would have never known the true scope of the genre... hundreds of albums, tens of excellent songs! just like punk rock!

I remember the first record I bought was 50 Cent's Get Rich or Die Tryin'

Since then I've been listening mostly to metal before finding eurobeat a few years ago. Right now I'm crazy for Björk's music, and she is kinda mainstream I think

there's a freakish amount of kid in the rave scene that used to be punk/metal. I have no idea how the transition even happens 8I

I mainly listen to EDM, but Japanese pop is nice too. I've got a few Love Live albums on my iPod.

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