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What's your fave Genre/s of music?
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Right now I'm listening to a lot of catchy tunes from Swede Mason and Cassetteboy's more musical tracks. Gord knows what genre those fall into!
Last week I was mostly listening to game soundtracks - Duke Nukem 3D, Street Fighter 2 and 4, Final Fantasy 4 and 6, various Amiga tracks.
Last week I was mostly listening to game soundtracks - Duke Nukem 3D, Street Fighter 2 and 4, Final Fantasy 4 and 6, various Amiga tracks.
I think the genres of some of my most played songs, according to wikipedia, are representative of what I listen to:
1. Reggae/Hip-hop
2. Alternative/indie rock
3. Alternative/roots rock
4. Hip-hop
5. Alternative rock/post grunge
6. Folk rock
7. Rock
8. Hip-hop
9. Synthpop/electropop
10. Pop/hip-hop
11. Pop Rock
12. Roots rock/swamp rock
13. Alternative hip-hop/dance
14. Euro-pop/dance
15. Funk rock/psychedelia
1. Reggae/Hip-hop
2. Alternative/indie rock
3. Alternative/roots rock
4. Hip-hop
5. Alternative rock/post grunge
6. Folk rock
7. Rock
8. Hip-hop
9. Synthpop/electropop
10. Pop/hip-hop
11. Pop Rock
12. Roots rock/swamp rock
13. Alternative hip-hop/dance
14. Euro-pop/dance
15. Funk rock/psychedelia
In high school (late 80s, early 90s), I was mostly into Classic Rock, Rock, some pop, and some of that-era hip hop...Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Rush, U2, Beastie Boys, etc.
As the 90's rolled around and I headed to college, I shifted fully into 90's rock/pop like Third Eye Blind, Gin Blossoms, Goo Goo Dolls; and rock/grunge...Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, Smashing Pumpkins, Live, Bush, Red Hot Chili Peppers...and some harder stuff like Rage Against The Machine.
Near the end of the 90s, I started finding myself totally enamored with progressive/jam bands, after being introduced to a lot of those bands through a friend on tour. The more I listened, the more I found that it was what I had been searching for throughout my high school and college years. I knew there was something I liked back then, but never placed it.
Nowadays, I still listen to most of the stuff I did in my college years. But my main listening habits fall into the jam band range. My favorite band by far is moe., followed by String Cheese Incident, Widespread Panic, Umphrey's McGee, some Phish, some Dead, Allman Brothers (classic-style), STS9 (more electronica kind of thing), amongst several others. I can put on some of these bands and get lost for a while. STS9 is my chill background computer-work music. I also can get down with some blues and jazz.
I generally cannot stand gangsta-rap, but can get into some hip-hop (not the look at my money and bitches and cars stuff). I don't like southern-style country, but can generally handle other sub-genres of it. I pretty much dislike all kinds of grind/death/speed/slice/punchyourface/killyourmom/eatyourdog metal. Pretty much, if your band has a person who's full time job it is to growl really loud or your drummer hits the snare more than 14 times a second, forget it.
But I do have an interesting love/hate relationship with electronic music. All this dubstep, drum and bass, house, techno, trance, unce unce unce unce unce unce stuff....I can never listen to that normally for more than 3 seconds without gouging my eyes out with a dull spork. However, oddly enough, as a lighting designer and programmer by trade, I would LOVE to work in a dance club doing their lighting. For some reason, I think that would be ridiculously awesome, even though I can't listen to that type of music outside of that situation.
tl;dr - I like some stuff, and not other stuff.
Were you wearing black-rimmed glasses and drinking cans of PBR while doing it?
As the 90's rolled around and I headed to college, I shifted fully into 90's rock/pop like Third Eye Blind, Gin Blossoms, Goo Goo Dolls; and rock/grunge...Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, Smashing Pumpkins, Live, Bush, Red Hot Chili Peppers...and some harder stuff like Rage Against The Machine.
Near the end of the 90s, I started finding myself totally enamored with progressive/jam bands, after being introduced to a lot of those bands through a friend on tour. The more I listened, the more I found that it was what I had been searching for throughout my high school and college years. I knew there was something I liked back then, but never placed it.
Nowadays, I still listen to most of the stuff I did in my college years. But my main listening habits fall into the jam band range. My favorite band by far is moe., followed by String Cheese Incident, Widespread Panic, Umphrey's McGee, some Phish, some Dead, Allman Brothers (classic-style), STS9 (more electronica kind of thing), amongst several others. I can put on some of these bands and get lost for a while. STS9 is my chill background computer-work music. I also can get down with some blues and jazz.
I generally cannot stand gangsta-rap, but can get into some hip-hop (not the look at my money and bitches and cars stuff). I don't like southern-style country, but can generally handle other sub-genres of it. I pretty much dislike all kinds of grind/death/speed/slice/punchyourface/killyourmom/eatyourdog metal. Pretty much, if your band has a person who's full time job it is to growl really loud or your drummer hits the snare more than 14 times a second, forget it.
But I do have an interesting love/hate relationship with electronic music. All this dubstep, drum and bass, house, techno, trance, unce unce unce unce unce unce stuff....I can never listen to that normally for more than 3 seconds without gouging my eyes out with a dull spork. However, oddly enough, as a lighting designer and programmer by trade, I would LOVE to work in a dance club doing their lighting. For some reason, I think that would be ridiculously awesome, even though I can't listen to that type of music outside of that situation.
tl;dr - I like some stuff, and not other stuff.
I was listening to Indie music before you even knew what Indie music was.
Were you wearing black-rimmed glasses and drinking cans of PBR while doing it?
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I be interested to hear some of this psychedelia you speak of.. Here psychedelia would be psytrance...
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I be interested to hear some of this psychedelia you speak of.. Here psychedelia would be psytrance...
I listen to everything from rap to jazz. I go through phases as to what I listen to the most. Right now it's dubstep. The only music I can't listen to is old gospel.
50's and 60's rock and roll.
Almost anything by Ray Charles.
New Orleans Cajun. Also any Dr. John and Professor Longhair.
Blues
No Pop, broadway musicals, and pretty much anything after 1980
So old, so out of it...
Almost anything by Ray Charles.
New Orleans Cajun. Also any Dr. John and Professor Longhair.
Blues
No Pop, broadway musicals, and pretty much anything after 1980
So old, so out of it...
Started with punk, then went on to house/techno for a little while(really small period) the went on to Metal. Was on that for a few years then I started to listen to Techno and went to my first rave. From then I learned about Psy and Trance for a few years. Later on got hooked on hard style and jump style. Now I love techno and lots of its variations like progressive and minimal. Aside from that I listen to Drum and Bass, dub step, a little k and j pop and lots of Soundtracks from games and movies, oh and a lot of 8Bit(Chiptune). But Techno is still my number one!
All time favourites: Black Metal , Ska Punk, Electronic Jazz. Avant Garde ( All kinds of it)
Like: Hip-Hop/Rap, 60's Rock, Electronic, Ambient, Industrial, Post Rock. Jazz. EMB.
Don't Like: Pop, Greek Folk. Country, Progressive Rock, Heavy Metal and all non extreme metal sub genders, Reggae.
Like: Hip-Hop/Rap, 60's Rock, Electronic, Ambient, Industrial, Post Rock. Jazz. EMB.
Don't Like: Pop, Greek Folk. Country, Progressive Rock, Heavy Metal and all non extreme metal sub genders, Reggae.
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The 80s rule.
Agreed. The 80s were my teen years, so there's a bit of a "halcyon days" effect in there for me, I'll admit. Still, the 80s saw several introductions to the music scene at large:
- The unleashing of MTV on an unsuspecting audience, giving American music buyers the unprecedented ability to see the artists they listened to. Good news for cutesy pop artists that didn't have much actual talent; bad news for really good musicians that were not so photogenic (see Rock section below).
- The use of the synthesizer as a prominent instrument in popular music, and the establishment of the technology called MIDI, which led to the birth of several genres including synthpop and, later, acid.
- The beginning of the Compact Disc era and the decline of analog music media, especially magnetic tape.
- The explosion in popularity of hip-hop, fueled by the advent of, among other things, the sampler.
- The conversion of the suddenly unpopular genre called disco, through the underground genre called Hi-NRG, into house music, which changed dance clubs irrevocably. The OONTZ had begun.
- The rise in popularity of the maxi-single and extended remixes.
- The decline of what is often called "classic rock" as a chart-topping genre, as many 70s arena-rock staples didn't take advantage of the music video format and often got left behind in the music culture zeitgeist. Those that successfully adapted include ZZ Top, Van Halen and Kiss (who dropped their signature makeup). Hard rock lived on, though, transformed into the image-driven glam (or sometimes called "hair") metal.
I have a 200-song playlist of my absolute favorite tracks ever (I call it "Timeless Tunes") that spans from 1973 to the present. The 80s is the most-represented decade with at least 70 tracks; the most-represented year is 1984, with 13.
hahah...this made me laugh. I went to school back in the early 90's with some wannabe goth emo kid who had some different sub-genre assigned to every song he heard. We'd be driving along, a song would come on, and he pipe up "Oh, this is so post-electro-modern-fusion-jazzertron" or some crap like that. No matter what the genre was, it always contained the word "post".
Metalcore, Pop Punk, Post-hardcore, a little Deathcore, and real screamo. I also enjoy a small variety of electronic artists, indie, and general alternative rock, but I love metal and Pop Punk.
70% of the time I listen to electronic music, but that doesn't mean I can't appreciate the rest - you can find me on last.fm!
Electronic:
Industrial/EBM/Dark Electro/Synthpop/Aggrotech
Drum & Bass/Jungle/Neurofunk/Liquid/Darkstep
Breaks/Breakcore/IDM
Trip-Hop/Acid Jazz/Nu Jazz/Ninja Tunes/Lounge
Goa/Psytrance/Darktrance
Techno
Hardstyle/Gabber/Frenchcore/Hardtek
House/Electro/Dance/Eurodance
Acoustic:
Hard Rock/Grunge/Shock Rock
(Alternative) Rock
Hip-Hop/oldskool R&B/Soul/Rap
Jazz
Classical
Balkan/Folk/World
Metal/Black/Death/Melodic
Hate/can't appreciate:
Country!
- you can find me on last.fm!Electronic:
Industrial/EBM/Dark Electro/Synthpop/Aggrotech
Drum & Bass/Jungle/Neurofunk/Liquid/Darkstep
Breaks/Breakcore/IDM
Trip-Hop/Acid Jazz/Nu Jazz/Ninja Tunes/Lounge
Goa/Psytrance/Darktrance
Techno
Hardstyle/Gabber/Frenchcore/Hardtek
House/Electro/Dance/Eurodance
Acoustic:
Hard Rock/Grunge/Shock Rock
(Alternative) Rock
Hip-Hop/oldskool R&B/Soul/Rap
Jazz
Classical
Balkan/Folk/World
Metal/Black/Death/Melodic
Hate/can't appreciate:
Country!
Eclectic
To say the least.
Rock from way back to the present date
Indie
Lou Reed
Dire Straits
Pink Floyd
Al Stewart
Jackson Browne (and David Lindley)
And on it goes...They say you can identify personality from an individuals musical taste...No chance with mine
To say the least.
Rock from way back to the present date
Indie
Lou Reed
Dire Straits
Pink Floyd
Al Stewart
Jackson Browne (and David Lindley)
And on it goes...They say you can identify personality from an individuals musical taste...No chance with mine
Well i like to listen Rock, Jazz, Rap and hipe hope music these are my favorite genre of musics as well as I like to dance on these musics.
Depending on what I'm in the mood for at the time I like almost everything except country music. WTF is that crap about?
Lately I've been having a revisit of my love for electronica, in various forms.
Lately I've been having a revisit of my love for electronica, in various forms.