What Genre of Music Do You Listen To?

[lxskllr]

Top three. I'd make a poll, but there's too many options. I'd end up reading "You don't have my favorite music; Indo-highland penis singing!"

My taste is music has shifted around over the years, but for the most part, I listen to same style of music I always have. It's the quantity of each that changes, with the occasional addition. Currently...

post rock
ambient - all kinds, but leaning more towards space, rather than naturalistic
jazz - small ensemble cool jazz kind of stuff, as well as jazz/rock noirish like Angelo Badalamenti

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[Crono]

Easier to list what genres I don't listen to.

But since its limited to top three favorite:

1. Pop
2. Rock
3. Classical

Number 1 (by time) is always pop, but 2 and 3 varies. Hip-hop, new age, metal, ambient, doo wop, various folk/world music, motown, jazz, soundtracks, dubstep, disco, bollywood, all the rock and pop sub genres,+++ make their way into my queue and playlist to varying degrees.

 

[FeuerFrei]

medieval/early music - basically stuff that's 100s of years old
90s alternative - nostalgia factor
modern pop - find some good albums now and then
ambient/chillout - free stuff for non-active listening. I spend hours playing it but almost never notice the artist/track name.

 

[DigDog]

1. comedy; this means anything between Weird Al to Lawnmower Deth (with a sprinkling of Tragedy).
2. mentally-aggressive music; this could be a collection of 3-seconds meme clips, synesthesia music, iwrestledabearonce, japanese shock-pop downloaded from YouTube, or just something absurd and hard to understand.
3. anything high-skill, such as Coltrane's Giant Steps, or Necrophagist, or some Guthrie Govan side-project white label. Think "Buckethead", but better.

that's stuff i listen to on my headphones, or at my PC. when i'm being active, such as when i'm at the pub with friends or doing some work, i like some good' ol commercial Dance, like I Got The Power.

i really can't listen to normal stuff .. have not been able to for some years. If you play me Ruby Tuesday, you'll kill me. i'm more of a 432Hz Microtonal Bach Variations kind-of-guy.

 

[lxskllr]

Easier to list what genres I don't listen to.

But since its limited to top three favorite:

1. Pop
2. Rock
3. Classical

Number 1 (by time) is always pop, but 2 and 3 varies. Hip-hop, new age, metal, ambient, doo wop, various folk/world music, motown, jazz, soundtracks, dubstep, disco, bollywood, all the rock and pop sub genres,+++ make their way into my queue and playlist to varying degrees.

It's getting to be classical season. I like the way it sounds in the winter. I also tend towards sparse, "crystalline" ambient that sounds like the north.

An example I enjoy could probably be found from every genre, but I tend to not like edm, hiphop, pop, and country. I do enjoy some Americana, that looks a bit like country if you squint, but not the big radio stuff. Also, rock bores me anymore. I'm not vocally driven in the first place. If the vocals don't grab me from a musical perspective, I don't generally listen too hard to the rest.

 

[stargazr]

Rock
Blues
Classic Country (and Americana)

 

[The Frozen Mind]

1. Heavy Metal
2. Jazz
3. Electronica

I still listen to the same music I like since I was 9 years old. started to listen to new songs lately, also listens to any kind of genre. (even sesame street songs) but still my top 1 genre rules. any day, any time.

 

[lxskllr]

1. Heavy Metal
2. Jazz
3. Electronica

I still listen to the same music I like since I was 9 years old. started to listen to new songs lately, also listens to any kind of genre. (even sesame street songs) but still my top 1 genre rules. any day, any time.

I can appreciate black metal on an intellectual level. Listen closely and find interesting bits I enjoy, but for extended listening or background music, it's TOO LOUD

 

[The Frozen Mind]

I can appreciate black metal on an intellectual level. Listen closely and find interesting bits I enjoy, but for extended listening or background music, it's TOO LOUD

Yes, there are a lot of interesting "dark" poetry around the traditional metal genres.
as I am a Metal Head. 1 full album of Heavy Metal is enough. extended listening is not fun anymore. for background music it's always the Chillout Music genre and Electronica for me.

 

[quackagator]

Old country
rock

 

[Thebobo]

Psychedelic jam music. So early Dead, QSMS, and Disco Biscuits, String Cheese Incident etc, but I can listen to just about everything.

 

[IronWing]

Early music from the period before those baroque punks ruined western music (mostly polyphonic)
Tuareg and Malian blues
American blues
Rock
Persian - Mediterranean classical and folk
Sufi (Gnawa, Qawwili, dervish)
Central Asian (Mongolian and Tuvan)
Sacred Harp shape note
Fred Neil

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Classic rock and Iranian political speeches set to reggae.

 

[Zanovar]

Classic rock and Iranian political speeches set to reggae.

haha

 

[Chaotic42]

Basically everything except EDM, death metal, and that crazy J-Pop/K-Pop stuff. I've got Del the Funky Homosapien next to Garth Brooks next to Mendelssohn on my playlists.

 

[John Connor]

Ah. A lot of everything. Mostly 80's pop, New wave, and trip hop.

I doubt anyone gives two shits though.

HAHA

 

[IronWing]

Ah. A lot of everything. Mostly 80's pop, New wave, and trip hop.

I doubt anyone gives two shits though.
HAHA

I care. I'm here for you, man.