Music

[Rival]

Question for religious folks who try staying away from... secular pop trash music

What do you listen to? For background stuff, I've already posted some ambiences I like. I also enjoy jazz (instrumental).

What do you like?

Edit: I'm talking about non-religious music, generally, or it could be from a religious tradition that's not yours.

 

[The Hammer]

Question for religious folks who try staying away from... secular pop trash music

What do you listen to? For background stuff, I've already posted some ambiences I like. I also enjoy jazz (instrumental).

What do you like?

Pagan Folk music mostly. But also ambiences. Classical music. And Drumming.

 

[Secret Chief]

Question for religious folks who try staying away from... secular pop trash music

What do you listen to? For background stuff, I've already posted some ambiences I like. I also enjoy jazz (instrumental).

What do you like?

90% classical, 10% misc

 

[SalixIncendium]

I've been listening to Indian classical music more frequently. I set up a Ravi Shankar channel on my Pandora playlist. I really like the sitar.

I also have an Elder Scrolls channel on Pandora that plays lots of Jeremy Soule's stuff along with other gaming and movie soundtracks.

 

[Rival]

Currently listening to this,

 

[PearlSeeker]

Rock, prog rock, folk, Vangelis (new age?), classical, jazz, a capella, prog metal ...

Here is some Balkan folk with flamenco/jazzy virtuosity and improvisation:

 

[Laika]

Question for religious folks who try staying away from... secular pop trash music

But that's the degenerate, western capitalist soft porn.... I mean.... music that makes me nihilistic, dark and horny! How can you live without such corruption?

 

[mangalavara]

Question for religious folks who try staying away from... secular pop trash music

What do you listen to? For background stuff, I've already posted some ambiences I like. I also enjoy jazz (instrumental).

What do you like?

Edit: I'm talking about non-religious music, generally, or it could be from a religious tradition that's not yours.

Very nice questions! In my case, I currently listen to music every once in a while. When I listen to music, it is usually Chinese music that features an instrument called the gǔzhēng. In general, I like Chinese music that, as a Hindu, I would describe as 'sattvic,' meaning it has the quality of being pure, peaceful, virtuous, positive, and the like.

Before I became a Hindu, I listened to genres such as goth rock, dark wave, and heavy metal. When I first started chanting mantras in August 2020, I found that I no longer desired to listen to that sort of music. Goth rock and dark wave are what I would call 'tamasic:' they have the quality of being negative, dull, anxious, etc. Some heavy metal music is also tamasic while other forms of it might be more 'rajasic' or having the quality of being passionate, active, driven, etc.

 

[Sundance]

Question for religious folks who try staying away from... secular pop trash music

What do you listen to? For background stuff, I've already posted some ambiences I like. I also enjoy jazz (instrumental).

What do you like?

Edit: I'm talking about non-religious music, generally, or it could be from a religious tradition that's not yours.

Hmmmmm….my musical preferences are all over the place; my ears are wide open. Some of my favorite styles are early Punk (à la The Ramones, The Romantics, The Clash, and Death), Shoegaze/Dream Pop, Chillwave, 80’s New Wave, different kinds of Jazz music, Jazz-Rap, 80’s R&B, Classic Soul, Funk, Disco, Dub Reggae, Ska-Punk, Paisley Underground, Jangle Pop, Latin Rock, Post-Rock, anything from the British Invasion, Chilled out Hip Hop, and New Age music (Yanni, Enya, Kitaro). I even have my ears drenched in something called ‘Midwest Emo’!