Music genres

[Sinister Intents]

What kind(s) of music do you listen to? What genre and subgenres? What do you prefer in music? Do you get neurotic about being extremely specific with music genres?

I think everyone knows I mostly listen to death metal and grindcore.

[The Intransigent Faction]

What kind(s) of music do you listen to? What genre and subgenres? What do you prefer in music? Do you get neurotic about being extremely specific with music genres?

I think everyone knows I mostly listen to death metal and grindcore.

Sludge metal! I also occasionally dig through older industrial metal that I listened to in high school.

I listen to pretty much any type of rock and many types of metal, as well as classical, and have more recently dabbled in rap or hip-hop occasionally. It depends on my mood, of course, but I pretty much always love the heavy droning sound of sludge metal. There are some bands and songs that I just can't bring myself to like (i.e. a bunch of viral pop songs and 'stereotypical'/'mainstream' rap).

I actually discovered most of the metal bands I listen to by browsing YouTube at random. I'm not elitist about it, but I do love the feeling of finding rare, raw musical gems that way.

In my opinion, the best singers/songwriters are the most versatile (i.e. able to uniquely mix or go back and forth between genres or subgenres). I also have this neurotic tendency to find a song that I love, play it on repeat constantly until I'm tired of it, and then move on, but I do come back to old favourites eventually.

[Brandon's Impotent Rage]

Heavy metal, hard rock, prog rock, Alt. Country, old school country, industrial, acid jazz, fusion, j-pop, and edm.

[red-winter]

Tons of rock (most of which is punk), metal (death metal and thrash metal mostly), reggae & ska, a little bit of rap on occasion, and sometimes random old folk music

[Ceallach_the_Witch]

Recently:

A lot of Liú Tiānhuá's works of the erhu
Brutal and slam death metal - putrid pile, suffocation, cephalotripsy and mortician get played a lot
euro/italo-disco
crust punk
black metal
soul
eurobeat
bluegrass
chopped n screwed

[Cliff Paul]

emo, screamo, post-rock, metalcore, black metal, ambient, darkwave, hardcore, math-rock, and drake.

[Comrade Jacob]

Goth/postpunk/batcave/deathrock etc (Sisters, cure, joy division, siouxsie, bauhaus etc)
Shoegaze/dreampop (Slowdive, ninth paradise, sway, lsd and the search for god)
hard rock (Led zeppelin, The Cult)
classic-rock (The Beatles)
Hip Hop (Biggie smalls)
Classical (Tchaikovsky)

[Zoop]

I like everything really, from Marilyn Manson to Tchaikovsky, to Cyndi Lauper. My favourite genres though are folk (Woody Guthrie, early Bob Dylan), rap (Tupac, Eminem), and electronic music (Chvrches etc).

The only genre I can't stand is death metal. I'd rather gouge my own eyes out than listen to that putrid shite.

[Counterculturalist]

I listen to about 50-75% punk. Besides that I like old folk, country, blues, ska/reggae, metal, rock, rap... pretty much the only genres I dislike are modern r&b and adult contemporary, and I tend to dislike most music of any genre made after 1991.

[The Intransigent Faction]

I'd rather gouge my own eyes out than listen to that putrid shite.

Ironically passable as death metal lyrics? :lol:

[G4b3n]

Underground Hiphop
Heavy metal
alternative rock

[Sinister Intents]

You all have amazing taste in music

[Sewer Socialist]

For the longest time, I thought I didn't like music. Anything on the radio bored me.

When I was a teenager, I discovered punk rock, and with it, a whole new world. It seemed that I liked more extreme forms of music, and subcultures that go along with them. I was sort of a 80s-nostalgic hardcore kid when I was in high school, since that was sort of a trend at the time. Maybe it got too normal for me, but I started to get more into crossover, crust, grindcore, powerviolence, etc., and my politics got equally extreme along with it. Maybe all this is just me having a fetish for iconoclasm.

I started working at a record store where I could access hard-to-find music, I spent my time reading books on the history of various punk music scenes, and I found a supportive community, which I was really lacking, and the lack of one had been causing some depression.

Other things I listen to include early '90s hip hop, old blues, old folk, hip hop from weird-sounding languages.

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[DOOM]

Mostly Hip-Hop, (golden era, g-funk, (post-)southern rap and trap) and Techno/House/Electronica.
There are some metal/punk/hardcore records I like though.

[mushroompizza]

-Anything Psychedelic
-Anything Jazz Infused
-Hip Hop
-Rock
-IDM

[atheist]

It's too easy to get neurotic with genres and sub-genres when you listen to metal, because it's so eclectic.

If you want to get technical, I listen to a lot of blackened death, sludge, folk, symphonic, and power metal. Trance metal is also apparently a thing (Blood Stain Child anyone?).

I just call it all metal though...