Describe the kind/kinds of music you like

[mvd]

When I was younger, I was super varied. I would have classic rock along with alternative/grunge, really pop stuff, country, and singer/songwriter. I am just as varied now. While I like alternative rock a bit less and don't buy as much country, I still like those forms of music. My favorite kinds now are classic rock, pop/rock, folk and singer/songwriter. But I also listen to country, alternative, R&B, classical, and more.

[bif]

1. Just about everything except rap and country

Electronic, shoe-gazer, indie rock, singer songwriter, classical, world, jazz.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

2. Pretty much the same as you!

[Snarkoleptic]

3. I like both kinds- Country AND Western.

[C_U_L8R]

4. Loud and fast

I like both kinds. Too.

[Codeine]

5. I enjoy jazz, but only certain kinds.

I like alternative music, from the late 70s right up to current stuff.

Black metal, and to a much lesser extent, death metal.

Math rock.

"College rock" and indie stuff.

Darkwave, dreampop, and shoegaze.

Blackgaze, which is black metal filtered through the shoegaze aesthetic.

Some traditional metal and thrash.

Punk, with a strong preference for heavily-political bands.

Industrial and its various offshoots.

Apocalyptic folk.

Classical.

Classical Indian.

Probably a ton of other shit I'm forgetting.

[The Polack MSgt]

6. Grew up on old country and bluegrass - as a child it was just about all I heard

In Jr High I started to listen to pop music and rock -Became an Allman Brothers fan, and I'm still a fan of all the off shoots and variations that group sired.

In the service I learned about a lot of different genres and artists

Now I'm old so - Old country old soul and R&B hip hop (backspin era) and hard 70s metal still on the play list - but I mostly listen to blues and Americana these days

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

7. Blues

Classic Rock, Oldies, Early Country like Buck Owens, Cash, Jennings, Haggard. Chamber Music, on occasion. Ragtime.

[FSogol]

8. Punk, New Wave/Alternative, Lo Fi, Older Jazz, Tango, and some Classical. n/t

[MiltonBrown]

9. 20th Century American music til around the mid-60s

Blues, ragtime, hot jazz, Al Jolson, hillbilly, swing, boogie woogie, western swing, folk, rhythm and blues, jump blues, hillbilly bop, country, bluegrass, Cajun/Zydeco, Chicago electric blues, doo wop, rockabilly, rock-n-roll, girl groups, soul, dance craze

If it's American and before the Beatles, I probably like it a lot. (not much for crooners or big band though, no marches Sousa either)

Western swing is my favorite because it combined all of the early American genres into one. Jazz, blues, swing, hillbilly, ragtime piano, group vocal harmony back-up vocals plus fiddle and steel guitar and orchestrated by hype-men/ frontmen like Milton Brown and Bob Wills.

I do enjoy some current artists who remind me of old American acts such as JD Mcpherson (50s rnr), Pokey LaFarge (old timey, western swing), Big Sandy and His Fly Rite Boys (American roots), Cactus Blossums (Everly Bros), Charlie Thompson (old time country) Tuba Skinny (dixieland jazz) Carl Sonny Leyland (piano- boogie woogie, rockabilly etc) and many others.

Many of the best practitioners of old time American music are based in Europe. They are amazingly authentic and dedicated, usually moreso than their American counterparts.

[KT2000]

10. Joe Bonamassa and

everything he does - also his influences like Gary Moore now. Used to be jazz and classical.

[OriginalGeek]

11. I mostly go to death/thrash metal concerts

but I like at least something in almost every kind of music I've heard of so far EXCEPT nu-metal. No redeeming qualities there
I love bluegrass and western swing and some regular country but probably not current commercial country.
I like a lot of underground rap and hip-hop.
I love classical and Jazz and some pop and of course Classic rock.
I like New wave and New Wave of British Heavy Metal.
I love classic punk and hardcore punk and crossover punk/thrash.
I love indigenous music - I'm probably the only person I know who finds Tuvan throat singing fascinating. But every area of the world has native songs that turn me on.
I love a lot of J-Pop and K-Pop and especially anime theme songs.
I will throw some dollars in a talented bucket player's hat on the street.
I adore the blues and especially how it influenced rock.
If a band describes themselves as death-core or metal-core I probably won't give them a fair listen but I love grind-core.
I'm an atheist but i find a lot of religious music comforting. The music, not really the words lol. Christian rock, however, is terrible.
I'll listen for hours to Echoes with John Diliberto for all the cool ambient and spacey new age stuff.
I'll get caught often at red lights belting out my best falsetto* along with the Bee Gees.
I've been really warming up to gothic country and other kinds of hybrid music like "Street-grass" which seems to be a mash-up of country and hip-hop. (See the theme song for Justified - my man-crush on Timothy Olyphant has nothing to do with why I like that theme song).

As unmusical as I personally am I think I overcompensate by being a fan of lots of things. And yet, if I'm driving through unfamiliar land and I'm hitting seek on the radio dial I get pissed off by most of what commercial radio offers up. I know there's so much good out there but you'd never know it from the radio.


*My best is really really bad. I do keep the windows rolled up.

[ornotna]

12. I listen to just about anything