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Most of the guys with long hair I meet are into Heavy Metal music such as Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and similar, but I am not a fan of those bands and feel like an outsider among those with long hair.
among the elder long haired guys, their tastes generally fall into the "Classic Rock" genre.
Is there anyone besides me with long hair that listens to something other than Heavy Metal or Classic Rock music?
what about Electronic music?
Yeah, I love Big Band music from the '40s, any kind of Swing dance era type music from either modern or long ago, Salsa tunes, C&W, Argentine Tango music, Jazz, Soul, R&B, even Frank Sinatra! Talk about "not fitting in", I felt totally out-of-place at the one and only Grateful Dead concert I went to -- and I was the only longhaired guy in my group (so I LOOKED like I would probably fit in, but found their music downright boring)!
- Ken in San Francisco
PS - The only thing I like about Heavy Metal is watching the head-banging; but trust me, I'll need to wear ear plugs!!
PS - The only thing I like about Heavy Metal is watching the head-banging!
oh yes, head-banging is so fun to watch !
As a fan of rock music/hard rock music i've never gotten the
appeal of head banging..
ME.
Besides wearing long hair and wearing other colors of clothes aside black (My favorite color is Blue and some dark tones of it), I don't like heavy metal and other types of Music that hurts my ears.
My personal preferences are Classical Music, 50's rock and roll, 70's disco era musics and many other flashbacks from 80's and 90's.
Many other guys wear their hair long because of musical taste and a high percentage of them comes from heavy metal.
Back when I was in college we brought a number of rock music
acts to campus for concerts. I learned very early on in those
years to use earplugs of some type to cut down on the volume and save my hearing. I love rock music but I also love having my
hearing.
I learned over the years to hate classical music. Too many relatives trying to shove their taste in musuc down my throat.
I have small "c' catholic tastes in Music. it depends on my mood and environment. I do like classic rock, hell I grew up when it was cutting edge and saw many of the bands. However, I also like Jazz, Fusion, Country, Bluegrass, and the true classics, what was once termed "Long hair" music. Your taste in music is a part of you. much like your comfortable style of hair. Just enjoy what you like be open to others tastes. but it really isn't a contest.
Classic rock fan here. It has a lot to do with my age, though. I still like the same bands from the 60s and 70s that I always did.
My son has long hair and likes classical, techno and theme tunes from various TV shows. He's 21.
I miss the days when tv shows had theme songs. Sadly very few have them these days.
Glad to hear you son has long hair.
I enjoy almost all genres of music with the exclusion of of metal and (most) rap. I keep my radios tuned to mix stations because I don't care to listen to any one genre for more than about 5 minutes at a time. I can listen to the whole spectrum of musical creativity for hours upon end. Turn to a station dedicated to one specific genre and I will get bored with it in short order, even if I find the style otherwise quite refreshing.
Daniel
I listen to heavy metal, specifically doom metal. However my taste in music is much more broad. Specifically I like early Medieval European and Near Eastern folk music, especially from the Lower Caucasus regions, music from places such as: Pontos, Hayastan, Assyria, Kurdistan, Tajikistan, Lazistan. It seems the heavy metal mystics have taken a liking to the world music genre. There's a lot of Folk Metal music being composed. I play a folk instrument myself.
Hi(gh)!
Also Georgian? That would be one of my favourites...
This is something wonderful I find about MLHH - the diversity of our philosophies of life and cultural references and the one thing we have in common, having kicked the barber!
My own cultural basis is a rejection of the 20th century from about the 1930's onwards. I am not impressed with the grandiose mentality of the late 19th century either. My own fascination with long hair comes from pictures and stories of men who lived long before those periods, in the middle ages, the 17th and 18th centuries and who identified with the Romantic movement of the early 19th. A gentleman had long hair. An artist or a clergyman had long hair.
My musical tastes, the subject of this thread are "classical", between medieval music, the Renaissance, the Baroque era, Mozart, the Romantics and the 20th century until about 1914. I began to take music seriously through the Anglican choral tradition and taking up the organ at the age of 13. As the years went by, my musical tastes widened to include British Light Music and some of the ragtime and jazz tradition of up to about the 1950's.
At about 12, I wandered into some of the modern music of the late 60's and early 70's. Led Zeppelin, Slade, Queen and others. We were under peer pressure to go along with this stuff like football teams. It just wasn't me. I was listening to Tchaikovsky and Purcell on my cassette player with headphones at the time when I got a chance! I was elsewhere.
Long hair is a part of my identifying with another world which was just as human and imperfect as ours, but without the inhumanity of our mechanical and hyper-rational era. That probably sounds quite cranky, but that is how I feel.
I fail to understand "hard rock", "heavy metal" and other contemporary idioms. I run a mile! Heavy metal for me means certain isotopes of some metals used in the nuclear industry - or lead, gold and uranium.
Happy listening whatever your tastes and preferences.
Anthony
I like Electronic music as well as some Rock, never been a fan of Metal music although yes, I must agree that long hair is often if not always associated with Metal music...
Interesting, there are many Rock and even Pop singers with long hair :)
Michael Jackson was one of them, in his early career sported an awesome big afro and late sported curly and straight long hair.
yes, exactly
The stereotype is that all longhaired men are into heavy metal.
Just as it's the stereotype that all black men are criminals.
Or all blonds are dimwitted.
I get stereotyped all over the place. I don't own a car and travel by bike. Therefore, I must have a DWI. Or I'm “Greener than thou”. Or unemployed, and probably homeless (given the hair).
I work at a library, therefore I must be “literary”, whatever that means.
I'm a civil servant, but blow away everyone's expectation that I'm some sort of stuck-up petty bureaucrat. I joke around and have fun with my customers. I bend the rules into unrecognizable forms if that's what it takes to make the customer happy.
You whine about being stereotyped, but then turn around and you stereotype me.
So at age 58, I must be into geriatric rock? I hated the stuff in the 70s, (and it hasn't improved with age, IMHO).
Everyone does it. I'm not on your case about it, simply making a point. That's just how people are. You get used to it or you don't.
For the record, I like EDM (mainly the classically-influenced stuff), small combo jazz (think John Coltrane, Wes Montgomery or moving ahead 50 years, Hiromi Uehara), and J-rock (not to be confused with J-pop).
Hi(gh)!
To me as a non-American: what is a DWI?
And, yes, I also experienced stereotyping: I'm frequently sorted in as a programmer - which, to be fair, is pretty close to reality! The only person among my close friends who is as much into (amateur) programming as me is also long-haired and bearded...
Let me help with what DWI is in the US of A.It's simply an abbreviation of a motor vehicle offense known as "driving while intoxicated" either by alcohol or drugs. Sometimes its also referred to as DU.Definitely something you don't want to be caught doing being the penalties are steep and its really not safe either ;) Hope this helps....Cheers
Mârk
"Driving While Impaired
The acronyms DUI, DWI, OMVI and OVI all refer to the same thing: operating a vehicle under the influence of alcohol or drugs. The most commonly used terms are DUI, an acronym for Driving Under the Influence, and DWI, an acronym for Driving While Impaired."
I would note that many who live in the big city (pick a city,
any city) don't own a car since 1. parking is scarce on non existant, 2. traffic is really bad (gridlock). 3. cars often get stolen or broken into. 4. lots of accident which leads to high insurance rates. So it makes sense to ditch the car and either walk, take a cab, take a bus, take the subway,
etc.
I would also add that there are cities where it can cost
upwards of $50 a day to park that car.
I am just adding to my music selection using a Marantz Surround sound system. I added Louis Armstrong for his rendition of THE MUSKRAT RAMBLE featured in movie A River Runs Through it. Foo Fighters, The Eagles, Yo yo AM, and The William Tell Overature and Piano compositions by Franz List. So for the time being I guess that I am all over the place with music. I brought home a new stack of classical on Tuesday.
Hey Doug,
I'm sixty (60) years old. I like liturgical,
Christian, Country & Western, and boy bands.
Your long haired bro,
Raymond
I LOVE JAZZ! And again this year, I'm planning to spend a full week at the end of the month in Montreal Canada with close to 2 million people for the Montreal International Jazz Festival. Great music, great site, great shows in halls and outside (free concerts outside on 4 different stages). A must for all jazz lovers!
Interesting topic...Thanks for introducing it:
I am passionate over piano music and mostly listen to Classical, but also Dixieland Jazz and Blues.
Hi(gh)!
What is your definition of "electronic music"? If you mean electronic music in the sense of the 1970s and 1980s, i. e. bands and musicians from the "Berlin School" like Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream, Ash Ra Tempel/Ashra, 70s French electronica like Jean-Michel Jarre, Richard Vimal or Serge Blenner, the US electronic scene with Larry "Synergy" Fast, the Silver Apples or the late Michael Garrison, other great symphonic electronic composers/musicians like Vangelis or Kitaro, then we both like the same music.
But Larry Fast complained in an interview that many younger music journalists do not look before the arrival of techno and related dancefloor styles when it comes to defining "electronic music" (which quite well matches my observations throughout the Internet), to them "electonic music" is simply "dance/club". Too sad...
And, yes, classic (i. e. 70s/80s) electronica always was (and still is!) also longhair music - just remember Klaus Schulze in his "Moondawn" years, or the early Serge Blenner, Kitaro, and of course Vangelis, even nowadays, at 72!
Ladytron and they are awesome!
Ah lahks both kinds o' music: Country...and Western! :-)
(Actually, I like Country, Western, and anything else I can play with a ukulele...)
Don
YES to electronic! I like metal too, but have been into electronic, dubstep, & house lately. Really dig the artists from South Africa called Die Antwoord.