What is your favorite music genre?

[Deja Q]

Every genre has its good and its bad, but of all the good from every genre, which one speak to you most? Which one do you dig?

I love trance/techno these days.

I've come a long way from 60s->disco->early 90s alternative before they sold out->early 80s for 2 weeks->disco again->techno/trance now.

How about U?

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. My fave genre: Music that doesn't suck

but don't ask me to define it, because it's subjective. :-)

[OneBlueSky]

23. good answer . . .

I listen to almost everything, as long as it doesn't suck . . . mostly jazz these days, primarily from the 30s through the 50s . . . but my collection is eclectic, everything from the Beatles to Mozart and back again . . . love folks like Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Ella, Marley, Joni Mitchell, Springsteen, Dylan, Duke Ellington . . . you know, artists that don't suck . . . :)

[Rabrrrrrr]

24. You have good taste!

That's all music that doesn't suck!

[MrSoundAndVision]

2. Right now its:

British late seventies progressive: Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, even David Bowie

[Occulus]

3. Choral.

I write choral music. Been writing it since I was 15 or so.

The human voice is the only instrument we're ALL born with. I find it simply amazing that most people don't consider it a musical instrument.

Scat solos are an art form in and of themselves. Ba doo'dn da deep ba doo'dn da dee.... and an eight-part choir in close harmony is simply a joy to hear.

Gives me chills, every time.

[Rabrrrrrr]

11. Well, this explains your other thread about that impossible question!

I looked at that text, and bloody hell if I know. :-)

Who's your fave for vocal writing?

I love the way Glass and Reich write for voice, and also Penderecki and Ligety. And of course, Meredith Monk. Abslutely Meredith.

You can tell I'm anchored in this century, though. :-) But I also like the old motets and chants, just not familiar with them at all, really. And not so big on the choral stuff of bach and Mozart, etc. It's beautiful, yes, but doesn't juice me up. Hildegard of Bingen - that's exciting!

[Occulus]

19. I like

Elgar. "My Love Dwelt in a Northern Land" is a beautifully morose piece of music.

Copland's choral music leaves something to be desired; one of my favs is John Rutter. His Requiem is simply breathtaking.

I've performed the Rutter Requiem twice, and both times it was awe-inspiring.

[Rabrrrrrr]

21. Just listened to Rutter's "Mass for Children" last night

Yuck! Totally disappointed.

His requiem is interesting, though I find it tiresome after a while. The Kyrie is beautiful! i find him trudgy, though.

But his mass for children is just horrible, I think.

I'm not familiar with the Elgar piece. I dno't think i've ever heard an Elgar choral piece.

I like Faure's choral music - my church has performed a fair amount, and it's always good (as well as his organ music!).

So in your compositions, what style do you work in?

[mvd]

4. Classic rock

Beatles are my favorite artist, too. Runners up: power pop and folk.

[Kamika]

5. 80s

Except the metal

[Occulus]

9. aawww, c'mon

even the metal was fun back then. But NOW we have McMusic, so I guess it's all good. /sarcasm

[Deja Q]

10. i'm lovin' it!

Just to borrow McDonalds's latest stupid catchphrase, spelt out just how they had spelled it out...

I didn't like the metal back then. Our society, amusingly, has treated 80s metal as something best forgotten. Hehehe!

[stanwyck]

14. I LOVE '80's new wave

I buy these cheesy compilation CDs which feature all the new wave '80's groups. They're great. I even go to the gym just so I can listen to that music. Didn't like the metal, though. Especially all those sappy metal ballads.

[mlawson]

6. Is "college radio" a genre??

I really liked it around 1990. We have no college station here, amazingly enough, just top 40 shit, and an NPR station that nowadays plays 'hillbilly'.

[MrSoundAndVision]

12. Our NPR here in KY is the same way

Classical and Bluegrass. So you like the Smiths? They're my latest find. What about the Pixies?

[mlawson]

13. Yeah, Pixies is 'beach music' to me.

Because I happened to be at the beach the first time I really got into them. I wish it were May and 90 degrees, and I was at the beach right now!

But yeah, our NPR station used to be fantastic; I could put it on, and enjoy it 24/7. But now they think it's smart to mix the music up. Late last night they were into a groove of great jazz, I was settled back with sherry, and in a reverie. Then out of nowhere, "Layla"!!! I shut the volumn almost off, and after that, straight into the most God awful hillybilly you ever heard!!

Do they think this is 'cool', or are they just stupid???

[MrSoundAndVision]

15. They're just stupid

Same thing happened here, and you know why: Oh Brother Where Art Thou? It's true, people here took that as some celebration of southern humor and sophistication. Maybe it was, but that's not us! You should read the paper, they have this guy who's a regular contributing writer, he just writes about how common it was to see carriages when he was a boy (he only about 55), and how great it is to live on a farm, and how great it is to go to a bluegrass concert. I just hate him! I was writing the paper everyday about the war in March, they printed me three times in a row, and then all of the sudden constant Garry Barker stories about raising tobacco with his daddy. It sucked.

[welshTerrier2]

7. Folk Rock

singer-songer, acoustic, bluegrass, blues, oldies

you can listen to the best all folk station on the net ... it's also local for folkies in massachusetts ...

check out: www.wumb.org

[XNASA]

8. Brit Pop

Blur, XTC, Martin Newell. It overlaps into some Costello and even Radiohead.

At the present, I'm listening to a lot of Tom Jones.

[kanrok]

16. Gregorian chants

[greendog]

17. Folk rock, bluegrass, alt-country

Richard Thompson, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, Lucinda Williams, Jimmy Dale Gilmore, Del McCoury, Tim O'brian, Tony Rice, Alison Krause.......

[proud patriot]

18. Heavy Metal

:evilgrin:

[toddzilla]

20. roadhouse blues

[Il_Coniglietto]

22. I guess trip-hop

but I listen to so many different genres that's it's a little off to say it's my favorite. *shrug*

[RandomKoolzip]

25. My ideal genre would be a cross between Power Pop and Free Jazz...

I like dissonant/experimental music, but I also love classic Beatles-type melody. If only there was some kind of fusion of the two....

The only artists who even come close (very rarely) are MX-80 Sound, some Guided by Voices, the early Soft Boys, Sun Ra's "We Travel the Spaceways," Chris Knox, The Wrens, late-period Van Der Graaf Generator, some Canterbury/RIO types like Robert Wyatt/Soft Machine, the 5UU's and maybe three or four others I can't think of right now....

[guitar man]

26. Classic R&B,Motown,Funk,Soul.......

Marvin Gaye,Stevie Wonder,Tower of Power,Earth Wind and Fire,GAP Band,Sly Stone.....etc. etc.


I like a lot of traditional blues and blues-rock too.Anything with a groove and some soul!

[Colin Ex]

27. What's your trance/techno poison?

Any groups in particular?

I'm way too into Aphex Twin, Anti-Flag, and Placebo for my own good. (Ambient electronica, punk, and glam rock, respectively.)

-C

[Zuni]

34. I saw Anti-Flag

years ago in Baltimore at a Church. My friends' band opened for them but later were banned for 'inciting riots'. One of my buddies tried to remind them at the Church that the band that headline was called Anti-Flag! What a surreal situation

[FDRrocks]

28. Punk-Rock...

for purely musical reasons. Rivaling that in the technical area is jazz.

[MrScorpio]

29. Here's a quick list of today's disc burns

1. I've Known Rivers 3:40
Courtney Pine Modern Day Jazz Stories Jazz

2. VINYL JUNKIE 5:39
United Future Organization UNITED FUTURE ORGANIZATION Jazz
3. Doo Uap, Doo Uap, Doo Uap 3:35
Gabin Hôtel Costes 5 Electronica/Dance

4. Joyful Girl 6:16
Soulive Soulive: Next Jazz

5. Break You Off 7:27
The Roots Phrenology Hip Hop/Rap

6. I Am The Black Gold Of The Sun 5:16
Nu Yorcian Soul Nu Cool (Disc 1) Jazz

7. Closer 6:26
Mondo Grosso Closer Pop

8. One Night In Rio 6:26
Louie Austen Hôtel Costes 5 Electronica/Dance

9. Where are we going? 4:37
Donald Byrd Black Byrd Jazz

10. Underground 6:57
Courtney Pine Underground Jazz

11. Poetry Man 5:33
Zap Mama Seven World

12. I've Known Rivers 8:35
Gary Bartz Ntu Troop I've Known Rivers and Other Bodies Jazz

1. ON EST ENSENBLE SANS SE PARLER -L.O.V.E.- 5:01
United Future Organization UNITED FUTURE ORGANIZATION
Jazz

2. Les Champs Elysées (Stéphane Pompougnac Remix) 4:50
Clémentine Hôtel Costes 5
Electronica/Dance

3. Anna 4:15 Radio Version '96
Freundeskreis Hip Hop/Rap

4. Superstarr 3:05
MC Solaar Prose Combat Hip Hop/Rap

5. Mulatica Mia 4:57
The Tao Of Groove Fresh Goods Electronica/Dance

6. Hit The Road Jack (Pé Na Éstrada) 5:39
Mo'Horizons Saint Germain des Prés Café II Jazz

7. UPA NEGUINHO 4:22
United Future Organization UNITED FUTURE ORGANIZATION Jazz
8. Long Island Wildin' 1:30
De La Soul Buhloone Mind State Hip Hop/Rap

9. Shadows of Ourselves 3:37
Thievery Corporation The Mirror Conspiracy Electronica/Dance

10. Get Urself 2gether 5:07
Zuco 103 Tales of high fever World

11. Songe 3:30
Zap Mama A Ma Zone World

12. Metropolitan 3:14
Emmanuel Santarromana Hotel Costes 6 Electronica/Dance
13. Bebete vambora 4:07
Zuco 103 Tales of high fever World

14. Temps Mort 3:41
MC Solaar Prose Combat Hip Hop/Rap

15. Rafiki (Original Mix) 4:04
Zap Mama A Ma Zone World

Mushroom Jazz 1-4

[Leftist78]

30. I can't pick one

I like blues, blues-rock, early 90's alt-rock, punk, folk, folk-rock, and alt-country all equally well and for different reasons.

[ComerPerro]

31. Jambands

Phish, moe., Umphrey's McGee, Big Wu, Gov't Mule, Claypools' Frog Brigade...

[mac56]

32. Power pop, jump blues, honky-tonk country, lounge.

In that order. Basically, anything that may have been on a jukebox in 1966.

[Zuni]

33. Blues, Soul and R and B

not R and B now, but R and B like the 50s and 60s and even 70s types like Percy Sledge or Al Green