The music I like.

It's always hard to define exactly what music I am into. If I was told I could only listen to one single genre for the rest of my life I would choose indie pop, but even that is a very loosely defined genre. I like lively music, that doesn't take itself too seriously or is steeped in romanticism, featuring guitars, keyboards or other electronic instrumentation and increasingly I find myself being more into bands with female vocalists.

My favourite bands are well known, successful bands such as Manic Street Preachers, Weezer, The Libertines and The Smiths. My current favourite new bands are The Heartbreaks and Pris, very independant and very unknown (for now at least), but equally I worship at the altar of Lady Gaga and Kanye West. Delve back a bit further toward the 70s and my favourite bands are all punk rock, The Clash, The Slits, Ramones, Sex Pistols, Buzzcocks. Jump further back to the 60s and I really couldn't give a toss about the rock'n'roll bands of the time, apart from The Beatles, I'd be more into the girl groups, The Supremes, The Shangri-La's, The Ronettes. Skip back forward again to the 80s I would be full C86, The Pastels, McCarthy, The Mighty Wah!, The Shop Assistants, Talulah Gosh. The 90s I witnessed, which was britpop mainly.

I wish I could say that it's easier for me to define the music I don't like, but again I cannot. Quite simply I don't like boring music, not at all keen on guitar bands without vocals or anything too prog rock. But there are exceptions there even, I like a lot of acoustic singer/songwriters and I actually quite like Mumford And Sons and Stornaway, their lyrics put them above the rest of the similar tosh out there.

Reading that back there is a definite thread to the music I love, I just can't define it myself. Maybe if I was musically technically minded I could, but I'm not. I just like what I like.