Do liberals and progressives like rock, country or rap music?

[Unknown Beatle]

I'm a big rock fan of all genres and have a great dislike for country and most rap music. I also like to listen to Motown and classical music.

A friend of mine and I had a heated discussion about music and what liberals and conservatives taste in music consists of. I said conservatives like country and liberals like rock, in general.

Just trying to find out what most DUers like and report back to my friend about my findings about the subject.

[roody]

1. Yes.

[brewens]

35. Of course. The classic Yes was best. Wakeman, Howe and those guys. That period where Anderson

hooked up with Trevor Rabin was pretty good music but maybe it shouldn't have been called Yes. It didn't start out the way. That was chris Squire and Rabin, along with White working on an album. Anderson showed up, liked what he was hearing, took some tracks home and came back with some great lyrics. So with three of the Yes guys, it ended up being called Yes.

Yes purists turn up their nose when you mention 90125, but it's a great album.

[sweetloukillbot]

53. Yes may be progressive, but Rick Wakeman is an arch-conservative...

Still love their music, and they don't bring politics into it. Plus Wakeman's a nice and incredibly funny guy!

[sweetloukillbot]

59. Yes purists turn their nose up at Drama - but that's a great album too

And Talk was surprisingly good, almost as good as 90125. Would've been better if Wakeman would've been involved as planned. And as sacriligious as it is - I actually liked "Fly From Here" last year.

[bemildred]

93. +1. The only right answer. nt

[bluedigger]

2. You could post a poll.

You might be surprised.

[LWolf]

78. That wouldn't accurately answer the question,

since many on DU are not liberal, and are only "progressive" in the way the DLC "progressive policy institute" is "progressive."

[bluedigger]

80. Well, I can't argue with that.

But you are turning this into an "angels on the head of a pin" argument if you focus on the liberal/progressive dichotomy, which has been done so many times before here. I don't think that was really the OP's focus of interest.

[LWolf]

81. So...

do DUers like rock, country, or rap?

This DUer likes rock, some OLD country/folk music, could like rap if I ever ran across lyrics that were not misogynistic, violent, and/or hate speech. I've heard, in the last 3-4 decades, a few. Enough to fit on the fingers of one hand with some left over.

[bluedigger]

84. I guess I should weigh in, too.

Started out focused on rock, but my tastes have grown much more catholic over the years. I'll listen to most anything but top 40 radio that doesn't have an overtly offensive message these days, including country and bluegrass. I guess opera is a deal breaker, too. Oh yeah, techno - I hate that shit.

[Uncle Joe]

3. Disco

Thanks for the thread, Unknown Beatle.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

11. The Real Thing!

[Uncle Joe]

22. Here's a little more of the real thing.

This one is actually my favorite from Earth, Wind and Fire

[Taverner]

4. This Socialist Liberal likes:

Powerpop
Indie Rock
Rock
Classics
Classical
Jazz
Anyone from the school of Miles
Hip Hop
Classic Soul
70's Anything
New Wave
No Wave
Punk
Psychedelic
Stoner Metal
EDM
OLD Country (Hank Sr, Patsy Cline, etc)

[Electric Monk]

5. Liberal doses of progressive rock, of course

unless I'm in the mood for something else

[NRaleighLiberal]

6. I love lots of music, from alternative rock through jazz to ambient and classical...

there are just a few genre I avoid - disco, rap, most opera, and country. Not a huge fan of bluegrass either...and am not particularly fond of classic rock (I like to look ahead more than being wistful of the music of my youth).

I suspect there may be some generalizations on music taste due to geography/politics of said geography - but also many exceptions - just as much due to age/generation.

[premium]

7. I love rock and country rock,

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hate rap.
Favorite rock band-Pink Floyd
Favorite album by Pink Floyd-Pulse.

Favorite country rock band-Molly Hatchet
Favorite album by Molly Hatchet-Double Trouble Live.

Nothing like live music.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

8. Conservatives I know like Bruce Springstein and U2

[rightsideout]

9. Ted Nugent

[cynatnite]

10. I enjoy a large variety of music...

I love all kinds of rock. I enjoy classic country...the 70's and earlier. Anything later than that, I don't care for much unless you count George Strait, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings and a few others.

I have limited taste in rap music. I have enjoyed much of Tupac's music. His lyrics can't be beat.

Usually, I can always find something to enjoy when it comes to varying genres of music.

I think Chinese opera and polka are probably the only genres I don't care much for.

[tarheelsunc]

12. I love rock, I hate country, and I like some rap. eom

[Marrah_G]

13. I like all of it

I am especially a fan of Celtic music.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

14. I like that too

Irish

[Ghost in the Machine]

15. I like all different kinds of music. I can go from B.B. King to Westside Connection to the Stones,..

Hank Williams Sr., Charley Pride, Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash to Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Ozzy Osbourne, Van Halen to Stevie Ray Vaughan, Muddy Waters, Aretha Franklin, Howlin' Wolf, and so on and so on, etc.

About the only thing I can't stand is Classical Music lol...

Peace,

Ghost

[PADemD]

16. Rock, yes, and most other genres of music.

I dislike rap, opera, and improvizational jazz.

[JI7]

17. Blues, rock, punk, classical, just about everything

just not much into rap or modern teeny bop pop but even then there might be things i like.

[Iggo]

18. Metal 'til I die.

\m/ \m/

[premium]

39. Metal,

Metallica, Iron Maiden, Dream Theater, and, of course, the ultimate Metal Band, Black Sabbath.

[Initech]

86. The metal will never die!!!

[jberryhill]

19. Lemme check the Liberal Manual for a sec...

Let's see... Uh... Chapter 43, Music; Section Seven, Acceptable And Prohibited Kinds...

[geckosfeet]

64. +1

[CokeMachine]

20. If I can hear it I like it.

Country Rock, Some Rap, Disco, Old Rock and let's not forget the Carpenters!!!! Yep, I'm old!!

[Purveyor]

21. Depending on my mood and setting, I like all music with the exception of opera (which I guess really

isn't music in the musical sense, imo).

[sweetloukillbot]

61. Never was big into opera until I met my wife

Her bachelor's was in vocal performance. Then she played me Jessye Norman sing the Url-King and the Habanero and I saw God. In return I introduced her to early 20th Century eastern European composers.

[Ron Obvious]

23. I'm big into Polka

The kind where you wear lederhosen and slap your knees a lot.

Ooompah pah pah *clap* Ooompah pah pah *clap* *blat*

But then I've always been a cool hep cat. I also lie a lot.

[Initech]

37. Can you do a Ziggy socky?

[Ron Obvious]

75. Of course!

Hoy! Hoy! Hoy!

[Scootaloo]

24. Almost totally eclectic

I am utterly and completely sick of "Classic rock," I've heard every song, by every group, until I can't stand it anymore. Hendrix, Led, and Pink Floyd can stay, the rest can all go die in a fucking fire for all I care. If every Skynard song vanished from the memory of every human being, I think it might improve us as a whole.

With country... it depends on what you mean by "country." it all kinda gets lumped into a weird moosh. I dig bluegrass, Johnny Cash transcends genre, and I'm sure there's good groups and songs out there, but most of it just sounds like people trying to make classic rock softer and twangier.

Gangsta rap is bothersome - either it's really really good, or it's miserably bad; Tupac being the former, Fifty Cent the latter. Generally the further away it is from being its own recognized genre of rap, the better it is, since once it started getting marketed as "gangsta rap," it jumped the shark - you lost NWA and got Li'l Wayne, YEEAAAAAAH. Also, I have a special hatred for Insane Clown Posse and every moogly motherfucking faygo-chugging doofus who listens to them.

I'm not sure why so much disdain for rap in the thread. I'm just going to guess a lack of exposure and negative preconceptions?

Aside from that? It's an open field. My pandora ranges from Black 47 to Deadmau5 to Iron Horse to Lady Gaga to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan to Tupac... and most everything between. And I keep it on shuffle.

[TransitJohn]

25. Yes.

Probably all three. I like some of all three.

[Initech]

26. I'll listen to anything except Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift

But otherwise my music tastes are pretty open. I listen to everything from modern favorites like 30 Seconds To Mars, Queens Of The Stone Age, Rise Against, The Roots, Daft Punk, Nine Inch Nails, Dream Theater, Muse, Flogging Molly, to classics like James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, Black Sabbath, the Stones, Joe Walsh, Led Zeppelin, the Beatles, The Who, The Doors, and everything in between.

[Scootaloo]

27. Bieber's actually pretty good

granted you're probably not the target audience, but he's a lot like John Mayer - he's got some real talent going, it's just that what sells is narrowly-focused outside your demographic. Wait a couple years, the guy will move to another niche and we'll all be like "That guy? Him? No way!

Taylor Swift I'll grant. All market, no talent.

[Initech]

32. He's such a douchebag though.

Have you seen that gaudy leopard print Audi R8 he owns? If that doesn't scream "I'm a huge douchebag" I don't know what does.

[dorkzilla]

28. Erm...does 16th/17th C lute music count?

Does it mean anything to anyone that my idols are Jordi Savall and Paul O'Dette?.

(crickets)

I thought so.

Edited to add - c'mon dudes, this is SMOKIN'. And no, I am not kidding.

[dorkzilla]

36. Okay then RESIST THIS!!!!

Yes, yes I know....why do you think I am called DORKzilla???

[brewens]

29. I like both kinds of music. Rock and Roll! n/t

[forestpath]

30. I like alternative and regular rock. HATE country and rap music.

[burnodo]

31. I don't think there is any exclusivity

"Liberals and Progressives" encompass many different people with many different musical tastes

[Jamastiene]

33. It depends on the individual liberal.

I know liberals that like rock, country, rap, new age, classical, bluegrass, and any other number of genres of music.

Personally, I like punk(old school mostly, but some newer artists as well), hard rock, metal, classical, Native American drum music, and some new age. Country makes my teeth itch, unless it is someone like Willie Nelson or one of the other classics who can actual sing. Rap is not music.

[Deuce]

34. Yes, i like them all....

[Spitfire of ATJ]

38. I mowed the lawn yesterday with the ipod playing Houses of the Holy.

[premium]

40. Led Zeppelin.

Excellent album.

[chillfactor]

41. I love all kinds of music..

but classical the best

[OriginalGeek]

42. My favorite genre is death metal

but my favorite band is Led Zeppelin. I listen to and love jazz, classical, country/bluegrass, hip hop, R&B, classic rock, modern rock, 50s, Motown, world music and probably things I don't know if they have names and weird sub-genres of most of those.

I work in an office with one other guy - he's a very conservative, teabagger Republican and he mostly rolls with anything I play (I have a computer set up as a music server with more than 30,000 songs on it). I usually load the entire drive in Winamp and randomize the list and let it ride but I often set up whole albums or have theme days.

My co-worker only complains when I play country.

[Initech]

58. I love the metal, but I'm more of a prog metal fan.

I like bands like Opeth, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Tool, Pink Floyd, Katatonia, Porcupine Tree (huge Steve Wilson fan), and so on. I used to be really into hardcore death metal and all the weird sub genres but I kinda grew out of that.

[OriginalGeek]

83. If it weren't for Sabbath, Maiden, Priest etc..

I probably wouldn't have gotten into the rest. I was really into it in the 80s/early 90s but then lost track of it (was too busy for it) in the late 90s/early 2000s...but then all my favorite bands from then kept turning up on tour and releasing new albums (I've seen Napalm Death more in the last 3 years than in the previous 23) and I got back into it and found even harder, more fun stuff to go with it..I love progressive tech death and experimental stuff...

Portal is god-tier:

Unless you have a massive sound system attached though your computer can't compare to the live experience...

[olddots]

43. I like Italian food .

[blogslut]

44. We're not a monolith

I like what I like.

[Tikki]

45. One thing I've learned in the years I've been on DU...All music is represented here...

Every kind of music and I mean everything even remotely musical has a fan here.

And that is very cool about us.


Tikki

[Electric Monk]

48. Nice post :)

[sabrina 1]

46. This one does, love rap, always did, and Country. All kinds of music, Classical, Rock, Jazz.

Why do you think that one's political affiliation determines their liking for music? Never heard of that before. Music is a universal language.

[longship]

47. Sorry, it's opera for me.

And a lot of other classical music, from all periods. Bach is awesome! So is Mozart, especially his operas. Twentieth century stuff is my favorite. "Sit still and take your dissonances like a man." as Charles Ives said to a guy in Boston Symphony Hall during a Bartok performance. No doubt it was "Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celeste." Or something similar. One of my faves.

I like some jazz, mostly 40's and 50's stuff. Benny Goodman big band, his Carnegie Hall concert is fucking awesome! "Sing, Sing, Sing!" Bill Evans. Some Monk. MJQ. Mostly mainstream stuff, but early Miles is great, especially "Kind of Blue".

There's some old rock I can tolerate, but not much. The new stuff I just don't grok. And rap (and similar) is just some dude yelling at me. I despise Elvis, but old Motown is okee-dokee. Patsy Cline was cool, too, although not a big country fan.

Mostly I listen to classical and opera.

Sorry.

[Ron Green]

82. Props for your taste and acumen!

[TexasTowelie]

49. Catnip!

Oops,

In descending order

rock
classical
world ethnic music
opera
reggae (UB40 if that counts)
rap (does Afroman fit here?)
country (a few of Willie's ballads)

[politicat]

50. I subscribe to Sturgeon's Law.

90% of everything is crap. that's the nature of both creativity and a mercantile system.

Most of what I listen to falls under the broad category of "Rock" (specifically, I tend to listen to Electronic Body Music, Future-pop and Synth-pop, with sprinklings of Industrial, Punk, post-punk, folk-punk, modern classical* and occasional rap-fusion.) I generally don't like country nor bluegrass, but there's a specific chord that is common in those genres that grates in my ear. (Diminished minor fifths. They just skeeve me out.) Also, I truly cannot bear the sound of a pedal steel. Just thinking about it makes me twitch.

Lyrically, I find rap fascinating -- there's excellent poetry to be found in the genre. Free styling can be utterly astounding when the artist gets in the flow and starts bending the language. Not so fond of the culture of misogyny.

My mother is a country fan, so I hear rather more than I'd prefer. I often wonder how much of the CW scene is manufactured to fit within a specific ideology because it feels remarkably consistent in its nostalgia and topical boundaries. I wonder if that's the product of its highly locational nature (since Nashville is still very central to CW, while the various genres of Rock have gone totally distributive) or due to market forces within the production structure (since CW has not yet gone as far into independent production as rock.) Again, not so fond of the internal misogynistic culture within CW.

I'm done with radio. And with top 40 anything. Commercial pop of all sorts has eaten itself and is now on the fourth or fifth cannibalization of itself. The interesting work is coming out of the independents and the sub-genre communities.

* modern classical -- probably written in the last 10-15 years, often written for film scores or game scores or for television; rarely if ever played in any other venue; never appears on radio. I am officially bored with Baroque, Chamber and Romantic era classical.

[Half-Century Man]

51. Not a big fan of polka or mariachi

Everyone has a musical talent; Mine is "audience". I love it no matter the style or place of origin. I have a flash drive with 247 songs in Japanese, English, and Russian. Played a japanese salsa song for my friend Maria O****m once. She was torn between liking it as a salsa song and a different culture doing a good job imitating Cubano music.

[sigmasix]

52. the genre doesn't matter to me

As long as the music is interesting, I like it. Why would anyone deny themselves the pleasure of a good work of art, just because of the genre label?
I like punk, americana, rap, electronica, country, folk, psychedelia, rock, metal, hardcore punk, pop, classical, experimental, noise, dance, R and B, old school funk, jazz-rock, singer/songwriter, stage musicals, english whimsy psych, persian and other middle eastern native music. soul, rock and roll and jazz.

Music I don't like: vapid American christian (WOW worship) pop, most popular contemporary top country music and artists, bad tribute albums and bands, super serious death/black/boo-hoo metal bands and Ted "the child rapist" Nugent.

And Celine Dion- she can leave anytime.

[sweetloukillbot]

56. Professional music critic here so I do come close to listening to damn near everything

Can't stand much modern pop, country, or Contemporary Christian, especially if it involves autotuning, but I can enjoy Justin Timberlake and Miranda Lambert at times. Progressive rock is my probably my favorite genre, but I enjoy the Sex Pistols as much as I enjoy Pink Floyd, just for different reasons. They each stir my soul in some way. I'm currently listening to Phil Manzanera, before that I had Diamond Head on, before that the Monks, and before that Joy Division. And there are very few people I will outright boycott - usually those who promote racism or homophobia - Won't listen to most dancehall because of that - but I freely admit to listening to Ted Nugents albums from 1975 to 1978 or so - I enjoy the music even if I cringe every time he opens his mouth. His idiocy doesn't make Stranglehold a bad song - but when I write about him, I'll praise Stranglehold as much as I criticize him for supporting Gov. Brewer or Sheriff Joe (yes, I sat through one of his concerts recently and lived to write about it). As many artists that I love are conservative as are liberal - ironically progressive rock seems to be a bit of a breeding ground for conservative Christian musicians - not sure why. But that doesn't make their music less good - I can even listen to some of the more preachy Christian music if it is well written and performed - admittedly not a lot though!

[99th_Monkey]

54. Celtic/Techno-trance/Afro-Juju/Gypsy/Experimental/Fusion ~nt

[graham4anything]

55. Edith Piaf,Aretha Franklin, Lana Del Rey,Louis,Duke,Bing,Frank,Elvis & Elton,Pet Clark,S&G,Marvin

Elvis Presley and Elvis Costello and the Pet Shop Boys, Dwight Yoakam and Buck Owens and Merle Haggard
The Beatles, Monkees, Mamas& Papas, Marlene Dietrich, Richard Harris & MacArthur Park
Jimmy Webb songs, Johnny Cash from Johnny Cash 1950s to Johnny Cash Hurt, to Kanye West to Jay-Z & LL Cool J
(for those that say they don't like rap, Johnny Cash was the original gangster(yet he actually never was in jail)
Aretha Franklin (take any song and she owns the song once she sings it)
Ernest Tubb, Bob Wills and anything that Swings, from Texas Swing to Big Band


Artie Shaw, did I say Artie Shaw if not let me repeat Artie Shaw, to Herb Alpert and his Tijuana Brass
From Bobby Vinton to Neil Sedaka to Bobby Sherman and Shirley Jones and Howard Keel

To the Showboat soundtrack (the 1950s version) to stuff Dr. Demento plays

although I think Elton is about 1000 times better than Billy Joel, Billy Joel said it best when he said,
It's still rock and roll to me.
EVERYTHING and anything WABC in NYC played in the 60s and 70s back when music was just music and they played everything from rock to pop to instrumental to easy listening to soul(R&B) to country to whatever, all back to back to back to back.


and a special shout out to BACH.
I am piano based, and every single rock and roll piano player based something they sang on Bach (air on the G string to be be specific)
From Procol Harum's Whiter Shade of Pale, to Elton's Goodbye YellowBrick/Sun go down/Someone Saved Life/The One/etc.

and Steve Earle-however, though yes, we know now his political stuff, I still prefer his Guitar Town album, in its entirety, as one hell of a classic lp. He gave that up and became what we know him to be today, but that LP is a one of a kind original
You can't beat Guitar Town.

As the great Cole Porter (especially when he himself sang his own songs)said Anything Goes.

Neil Diamond, especially his early moody stuff to his I haven't played that song again for years
(boo on the people who think they can't admit they like Neil and Barry when they secretly do.)

From Dancing in the Dark 1929 by Bing Crosby (one heard that song in the bar scene in The Shining), to Bruce's Dancing in the Dark.

Bernard Herrmann movie music (especially OBSESSION the Brian DePalma movie release of the movie that was styled like Vertigo
and dare I say it, a better movie than Vertigo, the best Hitchcock Movie Hitch never made himself, and released during a time when it was impossible to see Vertigo as it was kept from being seen for a quarter century in a rights fight).

And instrumentals like the Somewhere in Time theme, Theme from a Summer Place, Classical Gas, Good Bad & Ugly,
I was Kaiser Bill's Batman, etc.

everything and anything

and I posted this again in the lounge yesterday, but take a listen to the second Stars Spangled Banner that Marvin Gaye sang
(on youtube it is the one in color, there is another in bxw of a more regular version), and if that isn't the single most sexy song
you ever heard. Marvin Gaye was a genius, damn shame what happened to him (and all because there was a gun and bullet in his fathers hand).


And please, most everything I like but please if there is one thing I never, ever want to hear...

(OMG he isn't going to say this, please, (no, no, don't say it, you will annoy every single person here if you say it, just shut up, don't say it, for once in your life, just be quiet, don't say it...)...........

[sweetloukillbot]

57. Depends on the rock music (and the country for that matter)

I think alt-country skews more liberal, and I think your basic cock-rock skews more conservative. I also think a lot of musicians who are apolitical in their younger days skew conservative as they get older and don't want to pay taxes (I call that the Velvet Underground affect). Frank Zappa was a bold libertarian who stood up for justice, his wife is an obscenely litigious crusader against anyone's right to perform Frank's music.
For every Charlie Daniels there's a WIllie Nelson, and even that idiot who did the song about wearing his Confederate shirt at Starbuck's was an Obama supporter. I see a lot of Republican d-bags at Rush concerts, and the Allman Brothers played an Obama benefit under their individual names for fear of offending their conservative fans. Even going to alternative shows like the White Stripes - I see a mix of liberal hipster types and conservative bro's.

My last point - I tend to think that Conservatives pay less attention to the person's overall activities and get more offended when the bands they like preach at them - (Springsteen, Dixie Chicks, even Garth Brooks). Liberals know where these people stand - when I went to see Nugent I knew he was going to make an ass out of himself for about 50% of the show - I wasn't offended because I knew his feelings - and when they got too much, I went to the bar and watched the rest of the show on closed circuit TV. Heck, I was at a Jackson Browne/Steve Earle show and there were people booing both of them for making political statements - I mean, who did they think theywere seeing - Jackson Browne has been a liberal activist for 40 years and Steve Earle was touring on the strength of John Walker's Blues? Bonnie Raitt was quintessential suburban minivan music, and she's a major liberal activist and Garth Brooks has been a strong advocate for gay rights, even back in the 90s.

[backwoodsbob]

60. what a wierd question

liberals aren't some single minded organism like the Borg.
Ask enough liberals and you will find every genre

[Lilyeye]

62. I enjoy all three

I do prefer more 80s/90s/early 2000s rap and I like classic rock the most.

[geckosfeet]

63. Another effort to stereotype liberals?

Kind of like all liberals support gun control, free speech and media privacy? (A1 ×A2 A4)

I like a lot of music. And my listening habits have changed over time. But what i find myself listening to most frequently is some variety of jazz. Blues, gospel, many modes of new age celestial music, movie soundtracks,chants, native American, various ethnic and cultural styles.

Hope that does not help any effort pigeon hole liberals.

[Douglas Carpenter]

65. I'm going to guess that liberals tend toward rock, folk and jazz - but there

are liberals and even out and out left-wingers in all genre of music


Country music star Willie Nelson came to Lorain, Ohio on Sunday to perform at a sold-out benefit in support of Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH).

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/30/willie-nelson-performs-to-support-dennis-kucinich/

[hobbit709]

66. Blues and rock.

[rucky]

67. Oasis

who are The Beatles?

[B Calm]

68. I hate rap! Love rock, blues

and some country.

[HappyMe]

69. I like just about any kind of music.

I didn't think music came with "liberal" or "non-liberal" labels.

[Freddie]

70. Classic rock mostly

Although I get *really* sick of the same 300 or so songs they play on classic rock radio and I prefer to seek out lesser-known album cuts. I adore Sting and can't wait for his upcoming Broadway show.
I like all music except rap (I'm too old) and loud screaming jazz, which my husband loves and gives me a headache.

[RebelOne]

89. Classic rock also.

Not a fan of country music or rap. There used to be a great classic rock station here in Atlanta, but it switched ownership and now plays everything.

[YeahSureRight]

72. Can't stand country music

I Like rock and early rap.

Even though Ted Nugent is a assclown Stranglehold is one fucking great song!

For those who don't remember when it first came out or are unfamiliar with it........

[JustAnotherGen]

73. I love country music

[IDemo]

74. CCR

Cross Canadian Ragweed:

Also:

Old Crow Medicine Show -

James McMurtry -

John Butler -

[treestar]

76. I can like all of those

I'm not partial to country, but like some of the modern country. I like the Dixie Chicks, and did before the dust up, in other words, that may be a coincidence.

I don't listen to rap much though. It is repetitive to me, or, I don't understand the words and you have to in order to appreciate it.

[bigwillq]

77. Yes (nt)

[Codeine]

79. My CD/MP3 collection runs the gamut from Cannibal Corpse to Morrissey to John Coltrane.

I'm equally at home listening to The Smiths as Slayer, Prokofiev as Portishead, Depeche Mode as Ornette Coleman, and Subhumans as Peter Gabriel-era Genesis. Good music with challenging ideas and an eye toward creativity works for me in nearly any genre.

But goddamn do I hate country. There are obvious exceptions everyone makes (Patsy Cline and Johnny Cash come to mind) but in the main I just find it to be a vast, unbelievably over-polished wasteland, more studiously bland, focus-group-tested and corporate than even current Top 40 stuff.

Blech.

[rrneck]

85. It seems that rock and country come from two different musical traditions

with different cultural objective.

Rock tends toward rebellion and change, and liberalism is focused on cultural change as well. Country is traditional and comes from gospel music traditions, which make it more appealing to those of a conservative mindset which seeks to avoid cultural change. Rock's roots are in rhythm and blues while country's roots are in gospel.

Of course, what I know about music I could write in a matchbook with a grease pencil, so I could be full of shit.

[mitchtv]

88. Just finished listening to "Tosca"

so , clasical,, classic country, oldies rock, Tango, musica Andino, cajun ,Celtic

[DevonRex]

87. Led Zeppelin, Sly & TFStone. Government Mule.

I like Muse, Mumford & Sons, The Lumineers, Iron and Wine. The Sounds. My Morning Jacket.

[Zorra]

90. I like rock, old country, reggae, jazz, blues, classical, some bluegrass, some folk, some trance,

and I like many Native American peyote songs.

I don't much like modern country; it's schlock to my ears, but I love some older country like Patsy Cline and Willie Nelson

Jolene is is the kind of old country song I love ~ simple, haunting, and sung perfectly, with feeling.

Country ain't just for conservatives, some country songs are beautiful and timeless.

I am a musician and I love music; I've tried hard to learn to like rap, but it simply does nothing for me except make me irritable.

[kentauros]

91. My music tastes are eclectic

and have nothing to do with my politics. If it brings me joy, why should I care if it doesn't fit in someone else's idea of what I'm "supposed" to listen to?

But if you want an idea of what I do like start with somafm.com and then go to wfmu.org. There is far more to my tastes than that but it will get you started

[WorseBeforeBetter]

92. No rap or pop, and only "good" country or country-influenced,

like Patsy Cline, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Emmylou Harris, The Avett Brothers, Ryan Adams, etc. I listen to many different classical/sacred, international, and college stations.

Not sure what the Liberal Handbook states, but there it is.

[liberal_at_heart]

94. I think that is a bit too much of a generalization. I am a liberal and I love blue grass country

music. I also love southern blues rock and roll. I love classical music. I love R&B. I love lots of different kinds of music.