Hmmm, good question. Makes you think a bit.

I like real music. Someone who plays music for the expression, not someone who relies on image to get through, or a voice synthesizer. Someone who speaks the truth. There is nothing more than I hate than seeing a 14yr old girl on TV talking about how hard life can be, or having a broken heart. Please! I shit on them, they suck.

Lyrics are a healthy expression. You can write and sing things that you couldn't normally say in real life without being considered weird. I just like lyrics that have deep thought, like Maynyrd (sp?) from Tool. He writes about the opening and closing of "doors" deep in your mind. He is a very deep writer who puts things in a different light, and makes you think "that's a neat way of looking at it."

Technique or fancy playing doesn't impress me. It all comes down again to heart of playing. The expression in their face, their movements, their playing style. You can tell someone who is really into it, and someone who isn't. I listen from simple shit from Nofx, which is fun, uplifting music, to Pantera, which is angry, hateful music, to Hatebreed, which is down right nasty, heavy music, to Pink Floyd, that explores the realms ofone inner being and mind, along with Tool.

Bands don't have to be jumping around like circus animals while playing, they can stand still for all I care, just as long as the words they speak are true, sometimes interesting, and make you think, and the music is again, real, and on time, then I love it.

Music is music. If you got a real drummer/percussionist and an instrument that makes a pitch note, that is real music. It can be a bongo drum and a fuckin, clarinet or something, and that is real music. It's when you get the 3 second loop programmed to play 200 times a song and an attractive person who sings off key, with help from a machine to make them sound on key...that is not real music.

I hate shit that has been layered and dubbed over and over again. If it's drummer/bass/guitar/vocals, that's what I want to hear. One guitar player, than 1 guitar sound. I don't like it when there is one guitar player in the band and it has the sound of 3 players from overdubbing on record, you hear them live, and it is completly different sound.