Favorite style of music poll

[mvd]

DISCLAIMER: I can't include everything, so if your choice isn't here, just choose other and post your style.

Overall, my favorite is classic rock. Has The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Simon & Garfunkel, Fleetwood Mac, The Beach Boys, The Byrds, CCR, and many more..

[tjwmason]

1. Certain types of classical.

Principally: renaissance, baroque, modern French organ school, mystic minimalists.

[mvd]

3. I go to sleep to classical music

But of course, I enjoy it at other times, too. I mainly have CDs from the oldies like Beetoven and Mozart.

[ghostsofgiants]

2. Punk/post-punk

And the various subgenres and such therein.

[Omphaloskepsis]

22. What he said..

I also listen to a healthy amount of rap/hip hop...

[ghostsofgiants]

30. Yeah, plenty of that too.

[REDKING]

4. I like intelligent noise...lalalala

:evilfrown:

[Derailer]

12. would you settle for listening

then laughing your ass off when you read the lyrics later?

:)

[REDKING]

13. Oh aye.......

:D

[AlienGirl]

5. Folk, followed by "alternative" rock and classic rock

I like some of everything, though. Mostly, I like songs that have good poetry and tell a story or are about something other than love/heartbreak. It's extra-good if the song is about history (a la TMBG's "James K. Polk"), the cycles of life and death (Live's "Lightning Crashes"), or politics (anything Phil Ochs ever sang).

On edit: Or if it's about disasters, shipwrecks, or nuclear war. I actually have several playlists of nothing but songs about the end of the world. Yeah, I'm weird.

Tucker

[djeseru]

6. Jazz.

Primarily 1920's up to the 1950's. Comfort music. :)

I enjoy many other styles of music as well: former wrecka stow clerk.

[Left Is Write]

7. I can't pick a favorite. I really truly cannot.

[pink-o]

8. I'm really nostalgic for the 90s

And I've lived thru quite a few decades. But I loved Nirvana, Live, Everclear, Pearl Jam, et al. I also loved the hope I felt in the 90s for my country.

In fact, I always wanna party like it's 1999!!:party:

[recoveringdittohed]

9. Country

Real country from the Country Music wing of Country Music. Also like 1950's-1970's Classic Rock.

[mvd]

10. I wish I could have put that on

Yes, country's one of the variety of styles I enjoy. I even like some of Nashville's country pop (Martina McBride, Garth Brooks, earlier Reba, Sugarland, some Faith Hill, Tim McGraw included.)

On edit: I consider these great artists to be more alt/country - Dixie Chicks, The Wreckers, Neko Case, Miranda Lambert, Steve Earle..

[Derailer]

11. I think the 90s and 00 one would be more attractive

if it said "90/00s minus Korn" personally

EDIT: are the google ads now targeting individuals specifically? Because I doubt anybody else sees an ad for Rise Against's "The Sufferer and the Witness"

[NJ Democrats]

14. Classic Rock

[WritingIsMyReligion]

15. It's a tie for me between jazz and classic rock.

I voted "classic rock" here, since I know slightly more about that than about jazz--but I'm working to even the score! :)

Truly, I love music in general.

;)

[NewWaveChick1981]

16. I chose "Other", because my tastes are

New Wave (yeah, you never could have guessed that! :P ), punk, postpunk, and 80s alternative. I like a lot of classic rock too---Pink Floyd and The Beatles are my favorites in that genre.

My CD collection has only those types of music in it. :D

[gordontron]

23. please define new wave

like what are some bands/groups or whatever. I know its probably tough like "what is alternative" but I'm curious...

[ghostsofgiants]

31. Wikipedia has a pretty good summary of it...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Wave_music

Devo and New Order would be pretty good examples, I guess. (Or my favourites, at least.)

And there's also the Claude Bessy definition, which is pretty amusing:

"There is no such thing as new wave. it doesn't exist. It's the figment of some lame cunt's imagination. There was never any such thing as new wave. It was the polite thing to say when you were trying to explain you were not into the boring old rock and roll but you didn't dare to say punk because you were afraid to get kicked out of fucking the party and they wouldn't give you coke anymore. There is new music, there is new underground sound, there is noise, there is powere pop, there is ska, there is rockabilly...but new wave doesn't mean shit."

[NewWaveChick1981]

33. Wiki does have a good definition and summary of New Wave

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%5FWave%5Fmusic

That's a very good overview. New Wave bands I can name off the top of my head are Devo, Adam and the Ants, B-52s, BowWowWow, English Beat, Thompson Twins, The Go-Gos, Ian Dury and the Blockheads, Human Sexual Response, Psychedelic Furs (although they are considered postpunk, which overlaps with New Wave), Blondie, Elvis Costello and the Attractions, Erasure, The Cure, and a ton of others. :)

[Tikki]

17. FUNK

Psychobilly/proto-punk/Rancheras/Mexican polka/Cambodian Rocks/Blue Grass.....among others.




Tikki

[aQuArius]

18. Broadway Musicals!!

I am a broadway musical buff!! I like operettas, classics, more recent, new and even musicals that have never seen the lights of broadway. Secondly, I am a huge fan of the Beatles and Aerosmith which would put Classic Rock as my 2nd fav! :bounce:

[sakabatou]

19. I'm eclectic

[RevolutionaryActs]

20. I don't wanna choose, and you can't make me!

x(



:P

[JohnKleeb]

21. No favorite, love some of many genres

Not a big fan of 80's rock I guess but I like some of every music genre I guess.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

24. Other -- I can't pick one.

I listen to everything from Louis Armstrong to Hank Williams to the Wu-Tang Clan.

I can't pick just one. :D

[leftofthedial]

25. Country

in all its varied forms

alt

y'allternative

americana

etc.

[momophile]

26. '80s New Wave

Yaz, Depeche Mode, Erasure, the Cure - stuff like that.

[Broken_Hero]

27. other-Metal...n/t

[njdemocrat106]

28. I like a whole shmear of genres

But mostly I like rock, pop, and r&b from the 70s and 80s (with a little of the 60s and 90s as well).

[RebelOne]

29. From the late '60s to early '80s

were the best of times in music.

[NaturalHigh]

32. 80s rock all the way.

[Bassic]

34. Progressive rock and metal.

Hell yeah!

[BigMcLargehuge]

35. favorite styles in this order (band specific)

Punk - Dead Kennedys, Black Flag. The Meatmen
Metal - Iron Maiden/Ministry
Progressive - 1981-1987 Marillion, 1987-present Fish
Classical/Opera - Beethoven/Rossini/Wagner
Alternative pop - Too Much Joy/The Katydids
Electronic/Weird - Single Gun Theory/Prodigy/Negativland (up to the Helter Stupid and Guns albums)

[mvd]

36. Hi, Big

I'll do a kind of chart, too.

Love the most -

Classic rock
80s rock such as Bangles, Bruce Springsteen, Cars, Blondie, Go-Gos
Pop/rock and power pop
Folk, folk/rock, folk/pop, and singer/songwriter
Motown

Also love -

Country in all forms (traditional, mainstream, alt/country, bluegrass, etc. - especially traditional, Americana, neo-traditional mainstream, and alt/country)
Classical
Big band/swing

Love, but more inconsistently -

Pop
Modern rock/alternative

Like -

Older and modern R&B
World music
Jazz

Sometimes Like -

Punk
80s hard rock
Metal
Disco
Adult contemporary

Generally dislike -

Rap
Death metal
Pure electronic