My favourite type of music would definately be progressive rock/metal, be it the better known bands like Dream Theater (James LaBrie solo album just out is great :D ), Queensrÿche or Symphony X, or lesser known bands like Threshold, Vanden Plas, Evergrey, Pagan's Mind,...

However having a favourite type of music doesn't me I don't listen to anything else. At times I stick on all audio in my media player (over 120 hours), which contains apart from other types of metal, rock (Muse, Red Hot Chili Peppers), classical music (LotR soundtracks), pop (songs from several artists like Hoobastank, Savage Garden, Kyo, etc..). I even have Apocalyptica, who play only cellos, be it Metallica songs they play. I usually listen to prog, but when my mood asks it I can listen to other stuff, and I don't despise other music (not even rap). I just won't listen to rap, for example if I have the choice.

Not liking a style of music doesn't mean that that music sucks, and this is a point where I strongly agree with Grojlach. Disliking a style means just that: YOU don't like it. If you don't like something that does not automatically make it bad doesn't it? Imagine it this way. Let's say you don't like a car, because of its colour. The car can still be perfectly good for someone else. Does the car suck? No. The same could be said for music styles. Everyone listens to whatever music they want to listen to, and they have the right to listen to whatever they want to listen to. If they don't like something, that doesn't mean that those who like that something are non-normal. It's just different tastes. Like someone prefering chicken to beef or inversely.

I like it how you're ripping on some of the bands that were listed by others, but are still brave enough to name some of the most reviled bands among anyone older than 16 as your favourites*. ;) It's nice of you to have developed a taste in music at the age of twelve, but I doubt that makes you an expert on the suckiness of bands that you will most likely come to appreciate in a few years time regardless, though, if teenagers stay as predictable in their music tastes as they are nowadays**. Don't take my words the wrong way, but I do think you'll find your music taste evolving over the years, and you may have to eat those words some day. I know I had to.*** ;)

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* Cheap dig that isn't really true, of course. My youngest brother is 17 and still a big LP-fan, though it does tend to lose the factor of "coolness" somewhat once you're confronted with other kinds of music at that age. ;)
** Because if I have to be honest, I can pretty much guess the ages of many posters here, purely because they write to have suddenly discovered Rammstein or Metallica, or simply by their use of language to describe their favourite band. I'm not saying that it's a flawless system, nor that people automatically stop listening to certain bands when they've reached a certain age (as some people simply get "stuck" in their taste at some point because they're busy pursuing other interests), but it's mostly an observation that many young people simply tend to go through certain phases of musical taste that are somewhat predictable. ;)
*** Of course, with wholly different kinds of bands, as I was twelve waaaay back in 1993. [img]smile.gif[/img]
</size> </font>[/QUOTE]I agree with you on that, however at the moment I have no taste whatsoever in hip hop, metal, country, or some game music and that's all I was saying