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     Hello, everyone. I wanted to take a quick sidestep and ask: who are your favorite non-metal acts?

     I enjoy a lot of various artists and groups who wouldn't label themselves as metal, but my favorites would be The Allman Brothers Band, Hiroshima, Wu Tang Clan, Public Enemy, Ruby Braff, Mozart, Bach, Joni Mitchell, Kenny Loggins, Billy Joel, Gravediggaz, T-Bone Walker, Mobb Deep, Cat Stevens, and Jeff Beck. 

     These musicians mean a lot to me, musically, and they've even impacted my metal taste and showed me aspects of music that I had never thought of before. But, anyway, enough about me; let's hear some of your favorites!

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7 hours ago, RelentlessOblivion said:

Still think we need somewhere to archive the older inactive threads just so there's not quite so much to go through.

We'll see. I'd rather just merge this and avoid duplicates. Going through old threads is part of the fun of joining a forum, and duplicates get confusing.

I can't wait to get set up here and start listening to music again, metal or no.

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12 hours ago, RelentlessOblivion said:

Still think we need somewhere to archive the older inactive threads just so there's not quite so much to go through.

 

As for the topic at hand I've been in a very metal mood lately so the only non-metal artists I've been listening to lately have been Frank Zappa and Miles Davis.

Very cool!

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Well, I do not consider Guns N Roses as metal, so yeah... Guns, of course. Like, all four albums (Spaghetti Incident does not count since it's more like cover album as I know).

Red Hot Chilli Peppers is what I love, but I can't really understand why there are days when I can't listen to them, and there is some days when I listen only to them. I love like 80% of their music. Funky, energetic and beautiful.

I love listening to some game soundtracks. Mafia I has beautiful soundtrack. Guitars from 1930's, that beautiful, natural vibe of that time. Some orchestra stuff. 

Also, I listen to Michael Jackson sometimes. 6 years ago The Prodigy was my favorite band. Now I listen to them rarely. Ummm... Next in mind comes Pet Shop Boys - you can say it's first music I've ever heard if you don't count some random radio stuff from 80's. I recall my first band where guys used guitars was The Clash. I remember their album Combat Rock, witch I had listened like 5-7 times, I don't really remember.  Then, of course Hip Hop came in my life, and really became my life :D I mean, there was no days when I wasn't listening to it. From such mainstream as Eminem to russian underground hip hop, and some of latvian. Then I began discovering more and more rap from U.S. In seventh grade my favorite was Nirvana. After that... Afther that there was an period of nothing. Yeah... Shitty, wacky music. Just trying to find myself something to listen. Lil Wayne, some random rap bullshit.. After that time of listening to total crap I started listening to Viktor Coy - russian rock musician, witch passed away in 1990. He was talking a lot about USSR, it's problems n stuff like that. Then I came back to hip hop more deeply. Within time I started to listen a lots of kinds of music. There's everything from music in my life. Jazzhop, hip hop, rock, funky music, EDM, punk rock, pink-pop or whatever you call it. Yeah :D

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This time of year is always about English carols around the house, but recently I've also been listening to a lot of fusion -- Mahavishnu Orchestra, Shakti, Charles Tolliver's Music Inc, a tiny little bit of Al Di Meola. Also been playing some old favorites -- Deine Lakaien (German goth/synthpop) and some of Bill Laswell's group Material. Seems like a good bit of the music I was into twenty years ago is finally coming back around for me.

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so when i first listen to metal i think i was 13-14 years old i always think why i must listen outside of metal music because on metal we can heard anything musical influence's start from blues,classical,jazz,punk,hardcore,etc. but 7-8 years later i am realized i need back roots of metal music. cause you know if there's not classical or blues or proto rock music. there will not be metal sub-genre even will not exists. so i decided to learn all kind of music which related with Metal music improvement yeah not only blues,classical also some ambient music,jazz (which later inspired Technical death metal, avant-garde/experimental metal band) ,hardcore,punk,folk music and even some pop song i've listen to and i try to learn some electronic music too

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It's suddenly dawned on me just out out there my taste in music is. I dig the shit out of classical, blues, jazz, rock 'n roll, prog rock, hard rock, punk, rap, some folk music, some crooners (Frank Sinatra especially), a bit of country and even some pop. Then there's the metal where the only stuff I don't like is nu-metal, industrial, djent, or the watered down commercial psuedo-metal.

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On 6/24/2019 at 2:00 PM, Kilian_Leon said:

What are the most accepted non-metal albums within the metal comunity?

Lots of noise albums/bands (Bizarre Uproar, Grunt, etc.) seem to be pretty well accepted into the metal community in Finland.  There are lots of split noise/metal albums emerging from Finland and elsewhere.

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