Rank your favorite music genres/styles

[mvd]

I'm not holding you to specific genre labels. You can use anything to describe a style of music. I'm ranking my favorites from #1-#5, with ties possible in each ranking.

My ranking, plus favs in each style:

1) Classic rock (Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Fleetwood Mac, Beach Boys, The Byrds, Rolling Stones, etc.)
2) Power pop, pop/rock, rock, folk, folk/rock, singer/songwriter, Motown (These genres can be just as good to me as classic rock, but I put classic rock #1 because of how I worship artists like the above. Power pop would include artists like Cheap Trick, Sloan, The Cars, and Big Star. Pop/rock would include artists like Avril Lavigne, Michelle Branch, The Veronicas, Damone, The Format, Nina Gordon, Fountains Of Wayne, Susan Cagle, Brie Larson, Barenaked Ladies, and Alison Ray. Rock would include artists like The Bangles, Bruce Springsteen, John Mellencamp, The Shins, New Pornographers, and Belle And Sebastian. Folk would include artists like Pete Seeger and Peter, Paul & Mary. Folk/rock would include artists like The Indigo Girls and The Jayhawks. Singer/songwriter would include artists like Anna Nalick, Sarah McLachlan, Aimee Mann, Cindy Alexander, Sufjan Stevens, and David Gray. Motown would include Smokey Robinson, The Supremes, and The Temptations.)
3) Modern rock, alternative (Modern rock would include artists like Pearl Jam and Garbage. Alternative would include artists like Regina Spektor and Sigur Ros.)
4) Classical, older R&B (Classical would include Mozart and Beethoven. Older R&B includes artists like Aretha Franklin, Luther Vandross, and Marvin Gaye.)
5) Country, alt-country (This includes new and old country - from The Dixie Chicks to Alan Jackson to Neko Case to Merle Haggard.)

[mainegreen]

1. 'kay

1 - Trance-hop
2 - Goa-psy
3 - Chipcore
4 - Trip-Hop
5 - Industrial ( no emo/goth crap though )
5 - Lounge
5 - Neuvo Bossanova
5 - Ambient
6 - Yodeling country
7 - Classical

[mvd]

2. Interesting lineup

I'm not a big emo fan, either. But the new Fall Out Boy CD surprised me as actually being good.

[kwassa]

3. My rankings constantly change

what is surprising is what has popped to the top recently.

1) Classical, smarter than the average music. I am appreciating smartness now.
2) Blues, particularly slide electric blues.
3) Straight-ahead jazz
4) Latin Jazz
5) Old-school funk.
6) Various latin styles like salsa and merengue.
7) Zouk from the French Antilles, Soca from T&T. Other caribbean styles, too, like rara and compas.
8) Soukous and other Afropop genres
9) Roots rock styles
10) Various other forms of R&B.

I am bored to tears by "classic rock", as I have heard every song 3,593,201 times. Or more.

[mvd]

4. Oh well, to each his own

I could listen to those old greats over and over. I'm not even as bothered by current radio as some.

[mvd]

5. I was thinking of where to puts faves like U2 and R.E.M.

Regular rock sounds like a good category for then. And Elvis would go in classic rock.

[mainegreen]

6. I thought rock was simply catagorized by the decade is was in?

Like 60's rock, 70's rock...
:shrug:
I don't listen to rock though.

[mvd]

7. I'm thinking of rock as later than classic rock but not really

the modern rock/alternative style of the 90s. But definitions can vary.

[Mojambo]

8. Mine

1. Indie Pop (twee, folk-pop)
2. Power Pop and pop punk (bubblegum)
3. Garage rock
4. Classic punk
5. Indie Rock

Quite a bit of crossover between those genres.

[mainegreen]

9. What is classic punk?

[Chan790]

10. Classic Punk

The Ramones
Buzzcocks
The Clash

That'd be examples of obvious ones. Some debate as to where the line is chronologically:

I'd argue that:

Dead Kennedys
Fugazi
Mission To Burma
Black Flag

qualify as well.

[Mojambo]

11. I'd add the Sex Pistols to that first group.

[Chan790]

13. Yeah, I knew I was forgetting a huge one

but spaced right through who it was.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

12. Mine:

1) Jazz (Miles, Coltrane, Mingus, Ellington, Brubeck, Blakey, Rollins, Smith, Parker, Gillespie)
2) Rock/Classic Rock (Afghan Whigs, Beatles, Stones, Radiohead, The Clash, Wilco, The Who, Led Zeppelin, Yo La Tengo)
3) Hip-Hop (Blackalicious, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Jurassic 5, DangerDoom, DJ Shadow, Beastie Boys, Run-DMC)

[ghostsofgiants]

14. Damn, that's kinda tough. Not sure I can rank them, depends on my mood at any given time.

And some of the genres overlap in ways.

Punk/hardcore - Anything from The Clash, to Husker Du, to Refused.
Post-hardcore/screamo/whatever - Bands like Thursday, Alexisonfire, At the Drive-In, The Blood Brothers, even Fugazi and the like.
Indie rock/post-punk revival - Interpol, Arctic Monkeys, Cursive, Portugal. The Man, etc.
Hip-hop - The Roots, Sage Francis, Sweatshop Union, MF Doom, etc.
Post-punk/new wave/whatever - Joy Division, Mission of Burma, The Psychedelic Furs, Devo, etc.

[Chan790]

15. Damn, that's some good taste.

except the hip-hop.

[ghostsofgiants]

20. My musical taste originated from skateboard videos...

So I've always had a love for both punk and its related offshoots/subgenres, as well as hip-hop.

[mvd]

22. Hi, primate!

So how much of a music elitist would you say I am based on my taste? I really don't think I have any music snob tendencies - I'm just a little discerning (like I like the pop artists I mentioned, but not Hilary Duff, Paris Hilton, or Ashlee Simpson.)

[ghostsofgiants]

27. You're anything but a music snob, haha.

[mvd]

28. That's what I think, too

I actually did a poll a while ago and some thought I was a bit snobby - lol. I would make a good music critic because of my open-mindedness.

Night!

[mvd]

30. Before I get off

I can't believe I left out the Corrs in my pop/rock artists. They could be #1 in that category.

[Spider Jerusalem]

16. I couldn't possibly rank my favourite musical genres.

It's impossible.

I like jazz, and classical, and techno/electronica/ambient/etc, and rock, and pop, and industrial, and punk, and a lot else besides...but the fact that I like SOME composers, bands and artists whose music falls under those categories doesn't mean that I like ALL the artists who fit a given category; and since I have different reasons for liking Beethoven and the Ramones and Massive Attack and Duke Ellington and Frank Sinatra and so on, I couldn't possibly say that I like one MORE than another. It all depends on my mood and what I feel like listening to at any given moment.

[mvd]

17. That's ok - just list them like you did, then

What I do is I examine the number of artists I love in each genre and then look at the extent of that love. But the artists I mentioned aren't in order. For example, I certainly wouldn't say I like John Mellencamp more than the Dixie Chicks.

[BlueJazz]

18. Mine...

Jazz...West Coast preferred
Classical
Arias
Some Rock (Van Halen...Steely Dan...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

19. Here goes.

1. Early music, especially medieval and Renaissance choral
2. Baroque opera and oratorios (Carissimi, Charpentier, Lully, Monteverdi, Handel)
3. Mozart, Bach
4. Classic rock (late Beatles, early Stones, the Doors, Hendrix)
5. Miscellaneous 80s stuff (Devo, the Cars)
6. Smashing Pumpkins, Greenday, Pearl Jam, etc.

Most unfavorite:

Country, Christian "rock," "lite FM" pop, screechy jangly jazz.

[mvd]

21. My least favorites would be:

hip hop, some A/C, opera, death metal, Christian pop (and I'm a Christian,) and pure techno.

I like early Beatles just as much as late.

[Initech]

25. I can tell you my least favorites:

1) Screamo / emo / hardcore

2) Trance / techno

3) Gangsta rap

4) Christian rock

5) Easy listening / adult contemporary

6) Musicals

[mvd]

26. I'm also not an emo fan

There's no Dashboard Confessional in my collection. Though Joanna Pacitti does a nice job with "Screaming Infedelities."

Most Christian rock also doesn't interest me. I do love Plumb, Eisley, and Sixpence None The Richer.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

23. Mine:

1) Classic rock (Beatles, 'Stones, Steely Dan, ELO, Simon and Garfunkel, Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, Eric Clapton, Cream, the Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd, the Police/Sting, Fleetwood Mac, Elton John, Van Morrison, etc.)

2) Jazz--from swing 'til mid-fusion or so (Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Charlie Parker, Paul Desmond, Theo Monk, Duke Ellington, the Gershwins, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holliday, pretty much all of 'em)

3) Classic R&B/soul (Earth Wind and Fire, Aretha, Marvin Gaye, some Vandross, some Al Green, one or two Barry White joints, "world soul" acts like Bob Marley)

The rest of the music is much more on an individual artist basis than on a genre as a whole basis.

Least favorites: rap, a lot of modern pop, death-metal bands, "Christian" "music," modern "country" "music," and the ever-disgusting smooth "jazz" "music." :puke:

[Initech]

24. Here's mine:

1) Progressive rock / jam bands (Frank Zappa, Porcupine Tree, Pink Floyd, Yes, Grateful Dead, Phish, Primus, The Mars Volta, etc)
2) Classic rock (Rolling Stones, Zeppelin, Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, CSNY, CCR, Bob Dylan, Captain Beefheart, The Who)
3) Funk (P-Funk, James Brown, Al Green, Prince, Gnarls Barkley, etc)
4) Indie (Flaming Lips, The Liars, TV On The Radio, Sonic Youth, Pavement, Sigur Ros, The Shins, Yo La Tengo, etc)
5) Reggae (Bob Marley, Damian Marley, Peter Tosh, Matisyahu, Spearhead, Steel Pulse, Black Uhuru, Burning Spear, etc)
6) Modern rock (Pearl Jam, Queens Of The Stone Age, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rage Against The Machine, Muse, Foo Fighters, Beck, Radiohead, Tom Waits, The White Stripes, etc)
7) Metal (Queensryche, Iron Maiden, Neurosis, Tool, Dream Theater, Black Sabbath, Megadeth, Opeth, Judas Priest, System Of A Down, Tomahawk)

[CRF450]

29. Mostly heavy rock or metal

Disturbed, Korn, Limp Bizkit, Staind, Spineshank, Linkin Park, Three Years Hollow, P.O.D., Tool, Skindred and Breaking Benjamin.

Also a little bit of rap music, mostly Lil John stuff.

[usaftmo]

31. 80's music rules the world!

:woohoo:

[Redneck Socialist]

32. Bluegrass

bluegrass
bluegrass
bluegrass

80's european heavy metal (Iron Maiden, Accept, etc)

What can I say, I'm weird

Throw in some old school country (Johnny Cash), Alt country, Old timey music and celtic play on LOUD and you've got my CD collection.


:headbang:

HOLY SHIT!!!111!1 I forgot Jerry and the boys :hippie: and Jimmy Buffet :party:

[Broken_Hero]

33. nothing new, really...

1. Heavy Metal...aka Metallica, Korn, Slipknot, Fear Factory, Kittie, Type O Negative, Life of Agony, SOAD, Staind...etc etc...

2. Classic Rock...aka Hendrix, Sabbath, Pink Floyd, UFO, Doors...

3. Easy Listening...aka Sarah Mclachlan, Celine Dion, Mariah Carey...

4. Soft rock...aka Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart, Elton Joh, Billy Joel...

5. hmm, tough one...hard to determine. I would say....big music overtures...like soundtracks, like we talked about the other day mvd. I prefer them over dance/country, thats for sure, and blues/jazz doesn't even register to me....so, I saw the big music scores, I don't know if you call that big band, or orchaestra music...but there you go. My fave's snd tracks..Gladiator, Last of the Mohicans, LOTRs to name a few...