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What's Your Favorite Type Of Music, And Why?

Woof	Date: October 30, 2007 @ 6:55 PM For me, I'll have to go with a lineup that includes a mix of real and electronic percussion, one or two guitars, really solid bass, keyboards, and supple, clear lead vocals with good harmonies doing backup. Accessible songwriting. Memorable, with poetic lyrics that also make sense. Lots of hooks. Songs anywhere from three to five minutes in length. Why? Because I like to walk away from the experience, feeling like I've been told a good story. And I like to use what I've heard to carry me through the following days. How about you?
kingo	Date: October 30, 2007 @ 9:21 PM Tough one. Something with good harmony vocals, usually. Some dirtiness to it, too -- underpolished as opposed to overdone. Usually acoustic instruments plus electric guitars and basses. Weird percussion, or a really good drummer. I like to feel like the recording's not QUITE done, I think. Perfect because it's not perfect. That's on Tuesdays, anyway.
officernarc	Date: October 30, 2007 @ 11:34 PM http://youtube.com/watch?v=eeOrddRaSM8
TheTimbreWolf	Date: October 31, 2007 @ 5:16 AM anything acoustic: celtic/folk/newgrass
zedsalt	Date: October 31, 2007 @ 10:37 AM In a seriousness, I couldn't list more than two kinds of music. An unimaginably distant second place would go to anything that sounds contrived, tries too hard to be "radio friendly", doesn't seem sincere, etc. And First Prize goes to...drumroll, please...Ooh that's nice! You're quite the percussionist!...everything else.
Tattoomom	Date: October 31, 2007 @ 11:51 AM Hmmmm...... I'll give you a nickel if you can guess...
BOWILLIE	Date: October 31, 2007 @ 11:52 AM lawrence welk?
Tattoomom	Date: October 31, 2007 @ 12:06 PM
NickSawyer	Date: October 31, 2007 @ 1:47 PM I hate music music is terrible music is stupid music is not bearable music is sometimes bearable music is really ok I guess music is fine music is nice music is quite nice music is really nice music is quite awesome music is extremely awesome I love music
PrincessTast...	Date: October 31, 2007 @ 2:01 PM Favorite kind of music: MANY KINDS Jazz: just about any kind, I love improvisation in music. ADVENTURE! Prog: the best is the best, but beware as there's some pretty bad stuff too (Mr. Roboto, anyone?) Metal: with favorites being System and Tool. Very inventive and very cool. Zappa: because his music is a genre all to itself... and yet not tied to any one genre. If you've been on this site any length of time you probably already know how big a Zappa fan I am. Alexander Spence - Oar: I've praised this album before on this site, but I love it and believe me when I say there is simply no other music like it.
mattbanx	Date: October 31, 2007 @ 8:05 PM Anything rock! Whether that is a jazz influence, blues, metal, or blue eyed soul. And why is because I just explained why. No greater multitude of influences I have found outside of rock.
GTOriginal	Date: October 31, 2007 @ 8:32 PM As a kid I grew up with a banjo player in the house - all I was exposed to was bluegrass, and didn't know other music existed. Then I saw "Jesus Christ Superstar" and memorized the whole thing, I liked the sound so much. I began playing the guitar and people kept telling me I sang like Jim Morrison so I checked out the doors and became an instant fan. This led to my present love of classic rock music, 60s and 70s. When the "disco craze" hit, I really did not like that sound much, so I began making up my own tunes. In learning how to play, I picked up on some of the mellower classic rock stuff, dead, neiol young, like that. As I got older, and went to college I majored in music theory and was exposed to all kinds of stuff, and basically love it all. Today my favorite style to hear is classic rock. My fave style to play is either classic rock or bluegrass/newgrass. Lately I been leaning a bit towards "country rock" ie New Riders, and "southern rock" like Skynyrd etc. But it's ALL good...
GTOriginal	Date: October 31, 2007 @ 8:33 PM Of course there's no O in Neil, one day I'll let Mavis Beacon teach me how to type
NickSawyer	Date: October 31, 2007 @ 9:17 PM I like absolutely everything but Country.
officernarc	Date: November 1, 2007 @ 1:41 PM i try to give everything a chance, even if i'm pretty sure i'm going to hate it.
NoRentJoseph	Date: November 1, 2007 @ 5:45 PM I like many different genres of music. It would be perhaps easier just to name a few albums that I could listen too and never get sick of. Boards of Canada - Music has the right to children. Aphex Twin - 26 mixes for Cash Elbow - Leaders of the free world Sigur Rós - ( ) Oh I don't know, I could go on all night doing that. Fuck it, Electronic experimental. And most probably as it fascinates me how sound can be manipulated in any way. That's a tough question really.
NosmoKing	Date: November 1, 2007 @ 7:09 PM I grew up listening to Big Band, Jazz and Musical Movie Soundtracks. So of course I wanted to play Accordion for two years.. just made sense! Then I heard some good rock but not from North America.. Bands from way across the Ocean.. Bands like Yes, King Crimson, ELP and the list goes on. Time to switch over to drums. Classic Rock was in my heart and still is.. but oh.. then I heard 'Light as a feather' ... ok Chick, John M etc and that list goes on. but I digress .. I would have to say Classic Rock, Jazz, Big Band, Fusion, classical and more recently some modern classical (Górecki) and such. I enjoy most kinds of music..not all but most but Classic Rock has to be first.
NosmoKing	Date: November 1, 2007 @ 7:11 PM Sorry.. I cant leave without mentioning Funk. It is a very close second!
celtaidd	Date: November 1, 2007 @ 7:52 PM Must admit, my first true love was Focus (not sure what genre you'd put them in. They were usually put into Prog Rock) Then Pink Floyd (Prog?, psychedelic? or classic rock? )
PrincessTast...	Date: November 1, 2007 @ 8:22 PM All three really. I forgot to mention Floyd, thanks Celt!!
tsand20175	Date: November 1, 2007 @ 9:04 PM Anything by the Spice Girls.
celtaidd	Date: November 1, 2007 @ 9:19 PM Tim, stop; you're starting to scare me
Snoogans775	Date: November 2, 2007 @ 5:06 PM Each night, I watch the spice girls movie, while listening to spice girl interviews, while drinking out of my limited time offer spice girl swirly straw spicysoda brand spice girl eucalyptus smoothie.
leedsquietman	Date: November 2, 2007 @ 5:46 PM the most progressive period for music was 1977-1987 for me. We had punk, rock, heavy metal (or new wave of heavy metal such as iron Maiden, Saxon, The Scorpions, harder, faster, punk influenced as much as classic rock, as opposed to earlier hard rock like Zep and Black Sabbath), electro composers (Jean-Michel Jarre, Kitaro, Vangelis etc), synthpop duos, new wave (Blondie, New York Dolls etc) alternative (The Smiths, REM, Throwing Muses, Echo and The BUnnymen, A Flock Of Seagulls etc, hip hop/rap, acid house, thrash.death.speed metal, europop (stock aitken and waterman etc), detroit techno starting, gothic influenced bands such as The Cure, Siouxsie, The Mission, The CHurch etc, scratching, glitching, early time stretching/ warping etc, the advent of computer MIDI recording early Cubase on Atari ST etc. We had effects boxes, MIDI and different types of synths (analog subtractive, FM, wavetable, additive, microwave, samplers etc), electronic drums and drum machines, guitar synths, 'keytars', wind controllers like the KX-7, affordable home 4 and 8 track recording for the first time. The range and diversity of sounds in that 10 year period may never be surpassed.
MultiMike	Date: November 2, 2007 @ 5:55 PM My main type of music ranges from Electronic to progressive rock, new age to classical. I was a big Focus fan (still am) as well as Led Zep, Floyd, ELP, Yes, Free, Argent, The Who, Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Tangerine Dream (who incidentally bought thier very first VC Synthesizer off the R/Stones), Ozric Tentacles, Tomita, Ashra, Fleetwood Mac, Manfred Manns Earth Band, A-Ha, Jean Michel Jarre, Golden Earing, Genesis, Hendrix, Joe Satriani, Mike Oldfield, a lot of DMusic Artists + a load of Classical and many more that would fill this page. But sorry, I dont like the Spice Girls
leedsquietman	Date: November 2, 2007 @ 6:00 PM not to mention disco, funk and some interesting fusions. When you turned on the radio and heard stuff like Depeche Mode, Spandau Ballet, Devo, Wham, The Clash, Ultravox, Iron Maiden, Tears For Fears, Earth, Wind and Fire, Jon and Vangelis, Genesis, The Smiths, AC/DC, Echo And The Bunnymen and Kraftwerk all following each other on the radio (still have the tape, August 1984)...that diversity would never exist in these days of Clearchannel...
Distilled1	Date: November 2, 2007 @ 8:47 PM ^ I miss those days Clear Chanel ruined music along with the RIAA And yep you could also hear some Zep and Sabbath or the doors mixed in with all that as well 77-87 I would sugest for me 67-87 as I always had the late 60s and early 70's on my radio along with the newer music I love it all, not a big fan of Opera or Classical though.. but always give all music a chance
zedsalt	Date: November 3, 2007 @ 10:45 AM Oh, let's not give ClearChannel and the RIAA too much credit. Broadcast radio still has NPR, and a few true indies have survived. The RIAA has, in may ways, ruined things for the few companies it represents, but it doesn't deserve nearly all the blame for that. The Majors have been eager to go along with anything...no matter how contrary to logic...that the RIAA has suggested will pull in more dinero. Neither situation is beyond repair. Besides, so many of the best things in music are NEGATIVE reactions to something people DIDN'T like. Punk wouldn't have happened how and when it did if it's progenitors didn't absolutely LOATHE hippy-dippy stuff and Disco (Just as much of the best Punk spin-offs meld some of its attitude and other aspects with...Psychedelic and Disco!). Psychedelic was in part a negative reaction to Rockabilly and the Pop that was a negative reaction to earlier Pop. College radio, satellite radio, internet radio are all trying hard to NOT be ClearChannel, with excellent results. Most Indie labels work hard to avoid being as lame as the Majors, making the Majors an agent of music's evolution in much the same way that catastrophic natural disaster or the introduction of foreign species effect flora and fauna. You know it as well as anyone, Dis'- they can't ruin Music.
ChillinBuzz	Date: November 3, 2007 @ 11:37 AM Electronic and metal. Aphex Twin was the sole reason for getting into electronic (and many other artists have since cemented that path), Iron Maiden, Anthrax and early Metallica & Megadeth forged the path into metal for me. Bob Marley showed me reggae, The Clash showed me punk, The Bee Gees showed me disco and vocal harmonies... Many have come since but those bands are definitely the ones that defined my tastes in the many styles I enjoy. I don't think there's a style of music I don't actually like. The one I like LEAST is country but saying that, I totally dig Johnny Cash.
evansorchid	Date: November 3, 2007 @ 12:44 PM That question is difficult for me because things I liked 5 to 10 years ago now seem quite boring to me now. I guess I'm fickle and like music that simply stimulates how ever I'm feeling that day. Now sometimes I do get nostalgic for something from the past and will listen to some older music to try to recreate a feeling from years ago, or sometimes I'll stumble upon something quite old that I never had the chance to hear when it was originally released and I'll think, 'Damn, that's pretty cool'...I wish I'd heard that when it came out'. But for the most part I simply like anything that is unique and doesn't seem to be trying to rip off other people's work in some formulamatic fashion.
theblacklodge	Date: November 3, 2007 @ 7:22 PM Anything under the RIAA
billrhynes	Date: November 3, 2007 @ 10:05 PM I love to play metal, but my favorite type would actually, probably be best reperesented by the likes of Enya or Tangerine Dream or The Orb. I love music that can transport me to other places. Any kind ofmusic can do that, The Ramones or Pink Floyd or even Pink can do that for me...but the more hypnotic and ethereal and trance stuff really gets to me...
mrToad	Date: November 4, 2007 @ 1:33 AM experimental electronic. soundscapes that paint pictures. or anything good to write, paint, sleep to. (long and ambient.) Gas, Aidan Baker, Alio Die, Robert Rich... so many good artists.
OCmusicchik420	Date: December 18, 2007 @ 3:37 PM I love all types of music from rock, pop, hip hop, hardcore, to metal...but right now i'm in my alternative music stage. I've been really into this new artist, Rachel McGoye. She reminds me of Fiona Apple and Colbie Caillat. Google her, she's amazing!
Mojosnake	Date: December 18, 2007 @ 4:18 PM On 3rd Nov 2008, billrhynes said: I love to play metal, but my favorite type would actually, probably be best reperesented by the likes of Enya or Tangerine Dream or The Orb. I love music that can transport me to other places. Any kind ofmusic can do that, The Ramones or Pink Floyd or even Pink can do that for me...but the more hypnotic and ethereal and trance stuff really gets to me...
jack	Date: December 18, 2007 @ 8:49 PM http://youtube.com/watch?v=W8Y3piodWes
GeneHilbert	Date: December 18, 2007 @ 10:29 PM Cerebral.....
OCmusicchik420	Date: December 28, 2007 @ 3:32 PM i listen to so many different types of music, from rock, to hardcore, to reggae, funk, alternative, experimental, etc. I'm currently listening to artists from Rachel McGoye to The Mars Volta. Yea, I'm weird like that, lol
Thaspian	Date: December 30, 2007 @ 5:49 AM Music that makes my foot tap or my brain work.
ray104	Date: January 6, 2008 @ 5:38 PM Vocal trance/Eurodance. I love the dreamy female vocals usually performed by a very attractive bloned woman or better, a girl with black hair and blue eyes. And of course the relaxing comblex Thumping melodies. Now I wish I had those fourpanasonic speakers and that Quadraphonic receiver I saw at a thrift shop hidden behind a bunch of junk TV's I bet it's still there.. I bet it would sound good in quadraphonic sound.
lucysmusicbox	Date: February 28, 2008 @ 9:45 AM I really enjoy listening to country music because each song tells a story and has real meaning behind it. Most songs now a days just talk about sex and what not. Thats not what attracts me to a song at all. It needs to have some substance behind it.
LZith	Date: March 2, 2008 @ 8:17 PM metal has so many subgeners, and its very expressive, thats why I enjoy it most
LZith	Date: March 2, 2008 @ 8:17 PM metal has so many subgeners, and its very expressive, thats why I enjoy it most
musiclovee	Date: March 5, 2008 @ 2:44 PM I really like the alternative/indie scene, especially female artists. I'm trying to think of an example. Um, Rose Rossi is really amazing. I just love female vocals with an acoustic guitar.
samhans	Date: March 9, 2008 @ 8:34 PM I love all types of music from rock, pop, hip hop,and american music and rock music i love most.I'm currently listening all my favorite music on my music sharing Profile. I listen to so many different types of music,But rock music its grate because its have hard music no meter what the song lyrics so i love rock music more.
samhans	Date: March 10, 2008 @ 12:43 AM Hey Can any one explain me; why my preview gets POSTED??? This went up to 6 similar posts of mine -which are also not getting deleted. I am confused!!! ~
rhthesinner	Date: March 10, 2008 @ 12:44 AM Perhaps you refreshed the page...
zedsalt	Date: March 10, 2008 @ 3:47 AM ...or maybe so few use the Preview function (myself included, obviously enough), that it hasn't been working right for a while, and this is just the first we're hearing of it...
Opossum	Date: March 11, 2008 @ 3:10 AM Preview has worked as POST for ages.
lucysmusicbox	Date: March 13, 2008 @ 11:26 AM Folks and Blue Grass I dig
K3VIN	Date: March 14, 2008 @ 7:47 AM i love it all
tombones	Date: March 15, 2008 @ 3:42 PM I am into electro, indie rock and underground hip hop. But I have been getting into Muse which isn't really my usual sort of music. They have a new CD/DVD coming out on March 22nd that I am pretty psyched about.
Mojosnake	Date: June 18, 2008 @ 2:23 PM my first love is the blues...but i do love it it all.... right now my tastes are leaning to industrial, electro , ebm , trance, electronica in general