Favourite type of music

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

As it says in the title, what's yours?

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

I voted Punk, though arguably that'd tie with Rock n Roll, the latter probably being a greater influence - Buddy holly, Springsteen etc.

[Igor]

Was a really tough call but went for hiphop because it's probably what I listen most. But classical is probably the only thing out of those I don't listen a lot anyways.

[Sam_b]

All and only topics about music belong here. Polls have been allowed, but please use good judgement before making one, as you should do for every thread. Polls about our favorite musical genres are not allowed because it's a silly question and always causes controversy. If you make one, everybody will flame you for it and I will either close or trash your thread

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[ÑóẊîöʼn]

I reckon the poll would be better if it were multiple choice. For me it's a toss-up between Hardcore (EDM), Industrial Metal and Psytrance. But I also like a fair bit of Drum & Bass, Thrash/Death/Speed Metal, Synthpop/Futurepop and Trance. Smatterings of other stuff also.

I guess it would be simpler to say that generally I like electronics-heavy production, raw, distorted and/or trippy soundscapes, and significant emphasis on the beat/drums. Vocals-wise I like counterposed extremes; Fear Factory's Burton C. Bell is a master of combining his strong and clear singing voice with the dry harshness that is his signature metal vocal sound.

Oh wait, was that really simpler? But anyway, hopefully you all get what I mean.

[Il Medico]

I voted indie, but most of my favorite stuff falls somewhere under the broad banners of either Indie (Rock,Pop, Folk, etc) or Punk (Though more Oi and ska-punk than Hardcore). The poll probably should have been multiple choice, imo.

[ed miliband]

other: i mainly listen to soul, funk, hip hop and what might broadly be called 'reaggae' (tho more specifically: dub, dancehall and early ragga, roots, and early ska).

[Ostrinski]

Voted indie but does anyone think its weird as shit that alternative and progressive are grouped together instead of alt/indie

[Rusty Shackleford]

I voted other because im indecisive. I could have gone with the metal option or the punk option, but i could easily go for both, and what i like from both of them can easily fade into the other. Also, Folk/alt/indie is growing on me.


Neutral Milk Hotel is amazing among other things:wub:

[Comrade #138672]

I listen to whatever the mainstream considers to be in the top 40 pop songs. *wink*

[Ostrinski]

Dont be silly you're the doom king of this site

Edit: at rusty

[thriller]

It was tough choice between punk and jazz, but I voted punk because I see shows by punk artists and continue to get new releases by punk artists. I love jazz to fucking death, but anything post 1985 is just weird and stretching too much IMHO.

[Il Medico]

I voted other because im indecisive. I could have gone with the metal option or the punk option, but i could easily go for both, and what i like from both of them can easily fade into the other. Also, Folk/alt/indie is growing on me.


Neutral Milk Hotel is amazing among other things:wub:
Neutral Milk Hotel is the shit, easily one of my favorite bands despite their short career. I'd check out The Decemberist (also the shit) who are along the same vein as NMH if you don't already listen to them. You might also want to check out Synthetic Flying Machine and The Olivia Tremor Control, both of which were projects Jeff Magnum (front man for NMH) worked on before NMH, or perhaps some other bands from the Elephant Six Collective.

[Igor]

It was tough choice between punk and jazz, but I voted punk because I see shows by punk artists and continue to get new releases by punk artists. I love jazz to fucking death, but anything post 1985 is just weird and stretching too much IMHO.

acid jazz is awesome

[Il Medico]

It was tough choice between punk and jazz, but I voted punk because I see shows by punk artists and continue to get new releases by punk artists. I love jazz to fucking death, but anything post 1985 is just weird and stretching too much IMHO.
Depends on the type of jazz. Most of the modern jazz I listen to tends to be southern jazz that's sound is something of a mix of Dixieland, Ragtime, Swing, and maybe a little Showtunes.

Some examples:

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[leftistman]

I went with metal, although for me acid-rock is tied with metal. Punk is also a close second.

[Sam_b]

Withholding judgement about this thread. It's a silly poll, but I'm unsure if it warrants closing just yet.

[JPSartre12]

I'd say pop ... if mixed with the whole house, techno, dubstep, electronic genre.

Can Gaga have her own category? Cause that's the one that I pick :wub:

[MustCrushCapitalism]

Dirty emo of course.

I'm stuck in a coma, stuck in a never-ending sleep
And some day I will wake up and realize I gave up everything...


Can Gaga have her own category? Cause that's the one that I pick :wub:

....NO.

[Fawkes]

Anything with a funky groove and some bass weight

[Robespierres Neck]

I like and listen to all kinds of music. Folk, jazz, blues, country, punk, hardcore punk, rock 'n roll, alternative/indie, hip-hop, pop, metal (especially black and sludge), post-rock, post-hardcore, noise, breakcore, and more. I picked classical though. I've grown very fond of it in the past year. All different kinds of classical, even the avant-gardes like John Cage and Morton Feldman. These days, I listen to it the most. In fact, I'm listening to Bela Bartók right now.

On a side note, my favorite bands are The Smiths, The Velvet Underground, and Godspeed You! Black Emperor. I also love Patti Smith, Woody Guthrie, and old Dylan. I notice someone mentioned Neutral Milk Hotel. In The Aeroplane Over The Sea will always be one of my favorite albums.

[Robespierres Neck]

Neutral Milk Hotel is the shit, easily one of my favorite bands despite their short career. I'd check out The Decemberist (also the shit) who are along the same vein as NMH if you don't already listen to them. You might also want to check out Synthetic Flying Machine and The Olivia Tremor Control, both of which were projects Jeff Magnum (front man for NMH) worked on before NMH, or perhaps some other bands from the Elephant Six Collective.

Did you hear about Bill Doss of Olivia Tremor Control? Sad news.

[Rusty Shackleford]

Dont be silly you're the doom king of this site

Edit: at rusty

Sure, its my shit. But you can't listen to the same thing all day and not expect to get bored of it. Which, i do occasionally get bored of the genre but then those riffs... man, those riffs...




Neutral Milk Hotel is the shit, easily one of my favorite bands despite their short career. I'd check out The Decemberist (also the shit) who are along the same vein as NMH if you don't already listen to them. You might also want to check out Synthetic Flying Machine and The Olivia Tremor Control, both of which were projects Jeff Magnum (front man for NMH) worked on before NMH, or perhaps some other bands from the Elephant Six Collective.


I will most definitely be checking into these recommendations.

Recently i discovered The Builders & the Butchers and instantly fell in love.

Also, a friend showed me Murder by Death which she assumed i would like, and she was definitely not mistaken.

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

Withholding judgement about this thread. It's a silly poll, but I'm unsure if it warrants closing just yet.

Sorry, didn't realise it was in the rules to not create polls threads like this. You can close it if you want, my only intention was to get a more general discussion started.

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

I like and listen to all kinds of music. Folk, jazz, blues, country, punk, hardcore punk, rock 'n roll, alternative/indie, hip-hop, pop, metal (especially black and sludge), post-rock, post-hardcore, noise, breakcore, and more. I picked classical though. I've grown very fond of it in the past year. All different kinds of classical, even the avant-gardes like John Cage and Morton Feldman. These days, I listen to it the most. In fact, I'm listening to Bela Bartók right now.

On a side note, my favorite bands are The Smiths, The Velvet Underground, and Godspeed You! Black Emperor. I also love Patti Smith, Woody Guthrie, and old Dylan. I notice someone mentioned Neutral Milk Hotel. In The Aeroplane Over The Sea will always be one of my favorite albums.

Velvet Underground are/(were) so good. Word is that for The Velvet Underground and Nico album, Nico had to sleep with the whole band to get on the album, cos as is plain to hear, she can't sing for shit.

I find Dylan so overrated. His voice and his whole manner just spoil what are clearly some very well written songs. Just never really 'got' him.

[Ostrinski]

I love Dylan's voice.

[Igor]

I love Dylan's voice.

Yeah Dylan is awesome. His lyrics rock, but he wouldn't be Dylan and just some random ass good lyrics guy without his voice.

[Caj]

I like most genres of music to at least some extent. It would be impossible for me to narrow it down to only one "favorite."

EDIT: I voted "Other," by the way.

[thriller]

Depends on the type of jazz. Most of the modern jazz I listen to tends to be southern jazz that's sound is something of a mix of Dixieland, Ragtime, Swing, and maybe a little Showtunes.


I hate ragtime. I'm more partial to be-bop and hard-bop.
@Igor Not really into acid jazz. Fusion is decent, but strays to far from the original for me.

[Fawkes]

Speaking of jazz, any suggestions for good jazz funk ala Head Hunters

[kuriousoranj]

I chose "other" because Reggae isn't on the list.

[Revoltorb]

I voted other because it's somewhere between ska, punk, and folk for me.

[Althusser]

I don't care so much about the genre, but the message and the leftist leaning.

Revolutionary hip-hop, metal, rock, folk... doesn't matter to me, as long as it inspires the revolution.

[smellincoffee]

I like most every kind of music, but depending on mood I'll favor either swing/classical pop (think the big band era), or 50s-60s pop and rock & roll. I grew up on the latter, and discovered the former as I was coming of age. I also deeply enjoy classical, jazz, folk, and eighties pop.

[Ostrinski]

Fuck political music.

[fdfd]

Fuck political music.

There's an extremely ahistorical opinion!

[officer nugz]

Fuck political music.your opinion sucks

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[PetyaRostov]

Velvet Underground are/(were) so good. Word is that for The Velvet Underground and Nico album, Nico had to sleep with the whole band to get on the album, cos as is plain to hear, she can't sing for shit.

I find Dylan so overrated. His voice and his whole manner just spoil what are clearly some very well written songs. Just never really 'got' him.
Some of Nico's solo stuff is really good. Chelsea Girl is a classic. I like the drone.
I'd defend Dylan (obv fuckin brilliant) but i'm not sure anyone needs to endure another conversation about Bob Dylan

[PetyaRostov]

plus All Tomorrow's Parties and Femme Fatale are seriously good VU songs which would not be anywhere near as effective without her.
besides the only person she would have had to sleep with is Andy Warhol (which IMO was unlikely)

[Quail]

I like Dylan's voice tbh and he's one of my favourite artists. His early stuff, anyway. He's made some really awful music too, but I don't really listen to much of his later stuff.

I put "other" because I'm not really sure what my favourite genre is. I listen to quite a wide variety of stuff. Some folk, blues, 60's music, punk, grunge, metal, ska, reggae... Just a bit of a lot of things. I don't really like hip-hop, rap or anything that's in the charts and I don't listen to classical music because I like listening to lyrics (probably why I like Dylan so much).

[NoOneIsIllegal]

screamo ("skramz")
post-rock
shoegaze
black metal (depressive, atmospheric, blackened shoegaze)
death metal (melodic, symphonic, technical, blackened, jazzy)
thrash metal (teutonic, crossover, thrashcore)
crust punk
metalcore/mathcore

[Pirate Utopian]

I mostly listen to rap (OFWGKTA/ASAP/Raider Klan), punk (Trash Talk, OFF!, Trapped Under Ice) and some electronic-ish music (James Blake, Toro Y Moi, Salem)

[Niall]

I voted punk/hardcore etc. Hatbreed rule

[Geiseric]

Lately i've been listening to irish, swedish, and american folk music. I've recorded rap before. However i'm also big on the punk scene in the bay area and western US in general.

[Yuppie Grinder]

probably yet to be invented

[DasFapital]

shoegaze with some Crass and Woody Guthrie thrown in

[∞]

Dont lump Rap with RnB. I fucking hate RnB.

[Hex_Omega_]

Blues, Cello, Classical, Jazz, Metal and Progressive Rock.

[Ghazkull]

Several monthes ago found such Ska group as Talko.
They are awesome :)

[brigadista]

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[Radical Dandy]

Classical, especially Wagner and Ludwig van.

[chandni12]

my fav music is rock n roll

[newdayrising]

I object to the methodology of the poll.
For example, I voted for punk/hardcore/post-hardcore because it's the closest option of those available, but I absolutely hate 90% of what's called "post-hardcore" (usually an euphemism for disgusting emo music), and most people into real punk and hardcore probably agree.
Similarly, there's a Blues/Country option. So somebody into Robert Johnson or Howlin' Wolf and someone into Garth Brooks could be counted in the same category.
Also, I love soul music from the 60's, motown, and stuff like that. But the closest option for me to vote for is "rap/r&b/hip hop". So fans of the Supremes and Marvin Gaye are counted alongside Lil' Wayne and 50 Cent fans.

[zoot_allures]

I selected "other". My favourite genre, without doubt, is free improvisation/free jazz. I suppose I could've selected "jazz", but that term is too broad in that I'm not very keen on more traditional jazz, and it's too narrow in that a lot of the stuff that's labelled "free jazz" isn't really part of the "jazz idiom" (to use Derek Bailey's phrase). I'd say that free improv/free jazz is its own genre.

Maybe if you'd put something like "modern jazz", I'd have selected it, since I love most of the more recent developments - jazz-fusion, (non-free) avant-garde jazz, etc.

Up next would be modern experimental & avant-garde classical. As with jazz, the more traditional classical does very little for me. I'd say that classical from before the late 1800s (and, of course, all the later stuff firmly sticks to the earlier styles) is among my least favourite genres, in fact.

[Red Banana]

House music and jazz, both separate and mixed. It may sound like a strange combination, but when done the right way, it sounds beautiful. I also like trip hop and ambient a lot, which usually have jazz elements in them, but not necessarily any house elements. Trip hop and ambient would fall in the broader category of "electronic" I would say.

[Orientalist]

Rap hiphop and pop :thumbup1:

[Sea]

Out of those, classical. But I do love me some new wave.

[Green Girl]

I voted "other".

Classic Rock mostly from the 1960's-1970's - The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Doors, The Moody Blues, Jethro Tull, Donovan, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Deep Purple, Jefferson Airplane, King Crimson, Pink Floyd, Ten Years After, Canned Heat, etc.

Although I like some 1980's rock such as Talking Heads, Wang Chung, Men Without Hats, etc.

I also like Jazz mostly from the 1950's-1960's but also some modern Jazz such as Dave's True Story, Wayne Horvitz, Teresa Tang, Rebecca Pidgeon, Sara K., Patricia Barber and Chris Jones. :)

[NewLeft]

mostly pop

[kalpona]

i voted classic, not that i like classic rather than anything else, actually the type of music the genre of music really depends upon what mood you are in

[B5C]

To quote Mindless Self Indulgence:


"I like my coffee black. Just like my metal."

[Zealot]

I listen to everything but my favourite genre would have to be metal, particularly djent metal. That music is the shit.