Of the first three bands, the second I kind of liked, but not enough to go out of my way and download an album or something. The others were mostly just…not good. For me.
I do kinda like jagga jazzist already, mildly.
Mike Patton was not enjoyable at all.
Of the last post with videos, I like Chopin. That’s about it.
If someone says something like “I’m not counting Classical here as no modern band can compete,” or any other such idolizing of historical musical fads, there’s a pretty good chance I’m not going to agree with their taste in music.
You seem like a guy really into the technical aspects of music – technical guitar skills, weird time signatures, weird scales. That interest tends to translate into musical “maximalism,” if you will: making music as complex as possible, often just for the sake of complexity. I, on the other hand, tend to be an all-around minimalist. That’s why I’ve come to accept that almost all of my music is going to be in 4/4 or 3/4 (although I do get some occasional math music in there, on the mild side: 7/4, 5/4, 11/4, palatable weirdness re:Sufjan Stevens, Hella, Tortoise, etc.). That 13/16 shit doesn’t really interest me. The fast stuff doesn’t really interest me. The over-layered stuff doesn’t really interest me (not that I don’t like layered music, as long as the layers are well integrated, re:Flying Lotus, Prefuse 73, again Sufjan Stevens etc.).
If you want to hear some stuff I like, check out my 8tracks playlists – start wherever you like, except 11, 11 is my least favorite.
[edit]11 is fine