List all the styles of music that you generally enjoy

Yes, you can just say "everything," "good music," or "all kinds" if you like. I listed mine and some favorites from each style of music.

Mine are:

big band/jazz/swing (sample artists: Frank Sinatra, Rosemary Clooney, Bobby Darin, Bing Crosby, Count Basie)

classic rock (sample artists: The Beatles, Elvis, The Rolling Stones, Fleetwood Mac, Simon And Garfunkel, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, CCR, The Who, The Moody Blues, Dusty Springfield, Chuck Berry, Beach Boys, James Taylor, Shangri-Las)

rock (sample artists: Bruce Springsteen, John Mellencamp, Tom Petty, The Bangles, Blondie, The Go-Gos, The Cars, U2, R.E.M, The Police)

Modern rock (sample artists: Pearl Jam, Garbage, Liz Phair, Alanis Morissette, Stone Temple Pilots, Hole, The White Stripes, Green Day, Smashing Pumpkins, Travis)

Motown/early R&B (sample artists: Aretha Franklin, Luther Vandross, The Supremes, The Temptations, The Ronettes)

power pop (sample artists: Cheap Trick, Badfinger, Big Star, Raspberries, Kay Hanley/Letters To Cleo, Fountains Of Wayne, Sloan, B-52s, Barenaked Ladies)

pop (sample artists: Madonna, Cyndi Lauper, Michael Jackson, The Corrs, Michelle Branch/The Wreckers, Avril Lavigne, The Veronicas, Kelly Clarkson, Damone, The Dollyrots, Susan Cagle, The Like, Rooney, Lisa Mychols, Kate Voegele - also newer Aly & AJ, most Cher, and new Mandy Moore)

folk (sample artists: Peter, Paul, & Mary, Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, Indigo Girls, Kate Rusby)

indie pop (sample artists: New Pornographers, The Decemberists, Belle & Sebastian, Cindy Alexander, Jag Star, Eisley, Rilo Kiley, Stacie Rose, The Pierces, Nina Gordon, Alexa Wilkinson, Abra Moore, Tegan & Sara, Leslie Mills, Stars)

singer songwriter (sample artists: Anna Nalick, Aimee Mann, Tori Amos, Bonnie McKee, A Fine Frenzy, Josh Ritter, Sheryl Crow, Melissa Etheridge, Sinead O'Connor, Neil Finn, Sarah McLachlan, Brandi Carlile, Jo Davidson, Laura Dawn, Bree Sharp, Amy Rigby, Alison Ray, Thea Gilmore, David Gray, Rosanne Cash, Regina Spektor)

country (sample artists: Dixie Chicks, Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton, Merle Haggard, George Strait, Patty Loveless, Miranda Lambert, Martina McBride, the Lost Trailers, Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson, Vince Gill, Dwight Yoakam, The Mavericks)

alt-country & bluegrass (sample artists: Steve Earle, Kasey Chambers, Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss, Wussy)

new age/world (sample artists: Enya, Loreena McKennitt, Juana Molina)

classical (sample artists: Mozart, Beetoven, Bach, Vivaldi, Chopin)

Wow, you sure went to a whole lot of work with all those lists!

I'm too sleepy for that...

But I will play nonetheless!

Classical: Almost all kinds except for whole operas. I love all your artists plus Mendelsohn!

Jazz: MJQ, Mose Allison, and many whose names I cannot recall!

Rock: The Beatles, Sting, Simon and Garfunkel, Bruce Springsteen, and etc!

Rock on, baby! :headbang:


:hi:

I still left some artists out that were equally deserving. Fortunately, I made a list to start me out when I do these. I am not much of an opera fan either.

Hope you are having a good Labor Day! :hi:

I'm actually looking forward to returning to my poetry class tomorrow!

And I hope your Labor Day is outstanding as well! :hi:

Speaking of music, I saw Carrie Underwood and The Lost Trailers last night. Both were good! Carrie's a sweet person, and looked very cute.

How has your class been? Good luck with it!

Tomorrow we turn in our first poems...

I posted mine a couple of days ago...

Here's the link:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=6890403

Thanks for your good wishes!

:hug:

I love how you capture the intimacy there. Keep up the good work! :hug:

"Before He Cheats," "Jesus Take The Wheel," and "Some Hearts."

But my main listening habits include:

Alternative: I think what they call alternative now days is not really all that alternative. It's more pop rock and pop punk. Bands like My Chemical Romance, Muse, Sum 41, and Green Day.

New rock

New and classic metal

i don't like country or the 'bitches n hoes' stuff but, other than that, i'm pretty open-minded

i want to expose myself to as much as i can

It would be easier to list them.

Polka music gets old to me awfully fast. And I don't care for most modern country music which strikes me as rather a bland cross between pop and country. I'm not much into what I call "diva music" - the Whitney Houston/Celine Dion over-the-top vocals stuff. And bubblegum pop like Britney and that kind of forgettable stuff doesn't do anything for me.

But for other stuff, I mostly listen to classic rock but enjoy a wide variety of things. I like ethnic music, love classical though I don't know enough about it to cite composers, enjoy a lot of opera (and don't enjoy a lot, too).

I love old country and bluegrass, folk music, blues, funk, a lot of jazz. I love thoughtful ballads and semi-autobiographical songwriters. There's some old AM radio type of cheesy happy pop that I enjoy.

Music is great - it's such a uniquely human thing.

:cry::cry:

:P

I like jazz--all kinds except "smooth jazz," but especially swing/big band and cool/modal jazz; bebop isn't QUITE up there with the rest, though it's still better than most other music. I also like classic rock, classic soul/R&B/motown, etc. I basically say that I like '20s-'50s jazz, everything related to rock/soul/whatever except disco and the really truly wimpy pop music from the '60s & '70s, some early '80s rock (NOT particularly arena rock or hair-band stuff), and some random '90s songs.

I've never really gotten into country, metal, alt-rock, any rock 'n roll from today's so-called rock/emo/punk music, rap, hip-hop, and modern R&B, though some is tolerable.

Pretty much everything but rap/hip hop, death metal, pure techno (I hope the new Veronicas single isn't a sign of things to come - stick with the great pop/rock!), soulless country, some adult contemporary, much of Christian pop and rock (I do love Paramore, Eisley, and SPNR,) opera, Creed-like modern rock, emo.. :hi:

I have four of his songs on my PC, and I love 'em ("Babylon," "This Year's Love," "Say Hello, Wave Goodbye," and "Sail Away.") I'm thinking of buying the White Ladder album someday...

:D

It's my favorite one from him so far. :hi:

Listen to it over and over again... :D

And I've never heard of "power pop" (sounds like a candy like "pop rocks" to me) and although I recognize four of the names in that category, I don't think I've actually listened to any of them.

often is 60s rock influenced, but with a lot of hooks in the music. It is known to be very catchy. Some of my pop artists are close to this category.

I'm really out of the current popular music loop. I don't even understand the phrases people use to describe it.

I'm a product of 40's, 50's and 60's music in addition to classical and jazz. I have had less and less time to pay attention to new stuff since the early '70's.

Hope this helps:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hook_%28music%29

I'm familiar with "motif". Just didn't know that the word "hook" has been used more recently in lieu of "motif" to describe the same phenomenon in pop/rock music.

My newest discovery, Imperial Teen, could fall into the power pop category.

I really like it, but I've only heard "The Hair The TV The Baby and the Band"

As I've probably mentioned before, my tastes tend to be more rooted in the past than is healthy, but...

I like much of what falls into the loose definition of rock, from British invasion stuff to sixties garage bands to folk-influenced rock to power-pop (especially the early- to mid-70's era) to psychedelic rock (and pop) and progressive-rock. The '70's is my favorite decade of music: a statement which will make most music critics sick! I like a number of jazz-rock bands but have never dug very deeply into jazz. I like most of the music that they play on "classic rock" stations, but don't listen as much as I used to because I've become overly familiar with so much of it. Plus, I like "classic pop" as much as I like classic rock. In terms of newer rock, I like a lot of what was called "alternative" into the nineties, but kind of stopped listening much when most mainstream rock seemed to be either pop-punk or "new metal." I try to keep an open mind, though, as I know there is a lot of stuff out there that I would like and am just not hearing because I'm not making the effort.

In terms of country, I like much of the old stuff from the sixties and seventies and certain bands beyond. Country was actually the first "new" music I listened to very much growing up (it had generally been oldies before that) and I know a particular era from the mid- to late-nineties pretty well, but haven't listened nearly as much during this decade. I also like plenty of "country-rock" bands and have liked a number of the "alt-country" bands I've heard.

With R&B, I love the old stuff from Motown and Stax up through Philadelphia International, but am not as fond of much of what has come from the eighties and beyond.

I guess I do tend to focus the most on, broadly, rock and pop, but there has been so much released that I can still find that is interesting and appeals to me, even if I find most of it digging through old record bins!; I guess that's my excuse for perhaps being too overly focused on those genres!

ON EDIT: I wanted to add... (I got lazy at the end, probably because I'd already been way too verbose in what I'd already written!) after I re-read the post title about listing *all* of the music that I like that I probably should clarify that what I listed isn't all of the genres I like to listen to. I could probably find something from just about any genre that I would like to listen to. I have some big band, old folk, Cajun, metal, weird "spoken word" stuff, etc. that I like to listen to, it just isn't a large part of the music I own. I just wanted to add that because I thought what I'd listed seemed too narrow!

decided I should hear so far today:

NY Dolls- Puss n Boots
Pink Fairies- Do It
Flying Burrito Brothers- My Uncle
Rolling Stones- Comin' Down Again
Dave Edmunds- Home in my Hand
Johnny Thunders- Are You Living
Ted Nugent- Writing on the Wall :hide:
Elmore James- Dust My Broom
Wire- Pink Flag
Butthole Surfers- Lady Sniff (only song I've skipped so far)
Cult- Nirvana
Black Sabbath- Snowblind
Bob Dylan w/Happy Traum- Lonesome River's Edge
Minutemen- It's Expected I'm Gone (live)
Rolling Stones- Crackin'
Minutemem- Themselves
Big Boys- Thin Line
Drive By Truckers- The Company I Keep
Magnolias- Pale Horse
Heartbreakers- Born To Lose
James Brown- Tell Me What I Did Wrong
Dinosaur Jr- In a Jar
Ronnettes- Born to be Together
Alice Cooper- Billion Dollar Babies
The Dolls- Daddy Rolling Stone (live '76)
Bo Diddley- Look at my Baby
Hanoi Rocks- Tragedy
Beatles- Nowhere Man
Blondie- Touched By Your Presence Dear
House of Large Sizes- School is a Drag
Uncle Tupelo- I Wanna Destroy You
Dave Clark 5- Anyway You Want it
Van Halen- Ice Cream Man
Undertones- I Gotta Get Her
David Bowie- Rebel Rebel

It's all just rock-n-roll to me, but damn I've had a great day sitting around and listening!

I could do without the Ted Nugent song, but you have The Beatles, David Bowie, Dinosaur Jr., Blondie, Ronettes, Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan.. and good choices from them.

My modern list would add Lisa Loeb, Camera Obscura, The Charade, and more.

There should be a genre called 'Maximum Roots Rock-n-roll'. I love the style and soul of early RnR, and the balls-to-the-wall intensity of punk. When they meet- whoaaa! That's the sound for me!

The Stones 'Rip This Joint' is a good point of reference.

and I'm hooked.

My new favorite artist. Her talent is undeniable.

Phenomenal voice. I hope she lives long enough to become one of the greats. Just like Josh Ritter has established himself among the finest folk/rockers.

:headbang:

(as for the list, I like every kind of music so I can't take part)

Jazz, Hip-hop, Rock, Blues, Soul, Country.

I'm not too big on Heavy Metal or Classical, but I can find at least a few artists from those genres that I enjoy.

Punk
Hardcore
Post-punk
Post-hardcore
Post-metal
Indie rock
Alternative rock
Noise
Math rock
Psychobilly
Metalcore

(Some of my favourite bands would fit into more than one of these, there's plenty of grey area between some.)

Probably some others.

And of course, hip-hop.

Punk (The Clash, Hot Water Music, Against Me!)
Hardcore (Bad Brains, Husker Du, Refused)
Post-punk (Mission of Burma, Gang of Four, Psychedelic Furs)
Post-hardcore (Fugazi, Alexisonfire, These Arms Are Snakes)
Post-rock (Explosions In The Sky, Sigur Ros, Godspeed You! Black Emperor)
Post-metal (Isis, Pelican, Swords)
Indie rock (Arcade Fire, Arctic Monkeys, Cursive)
Alternative rock (Seaweed, Brand New, Sparta)
Noise (Big Black, Scratch Acid, Geinus)
Math rock (Slint, Botch (They're a little more mathcore, I guess, but whatever), Drive Like Jehu)
Psychobilly (Tiger Army, Reverend Horton Heat, The Cramps)
Metalcore (Protest the Hero, Every Time I Die, The Bled)
Hip-hop (El-P, MF Doom, Sage Francis).

(Changed Propagandhi to Against Me! just because I've been obsessed lately.)

Good for you, primate. :hi:

The Clash can indeed by classified as punk, but they are also rock IMO.

They're all rock, aside from hip-hop.

are kind of their own genres.

What psychobilly artist would be good to try first? I have to hear that.

Psychobilly basically has its roots in punk and rockabilly. Noise has its roots in punk and post-punk.

"Forever Fades Away" even sounds power-pop. They're pretty diverse. Thanks for the mention.

Only good thing to come out of that shithole. Well, Gunmoll too.

And strange. Gunmoll did a split with Fifth Hour Hero. I didn't know that. Kinda a odd combo.

But it's safe to say that most of my favorite music is produced using the small-band format (guitar-bass-drums), and thus, I'm really a Rock dude.

Some current favorite songs:

The Format: "Dead End"
The Twilight Sad "We Walked For Miles"
Genesis: "Squonk"
Sam Cooke: "Good Times"
Dag Nasty: "Values Here"
The Shazam: "Sweet Bitch"
Y. Bhekhirst: "Hot in the Airport"
My Morning Jacket: "Wordless Chorus"
Blitzen Trapper: "Country Caravan"
Vampire Weekend: "A-Punk"
The Byrds: "Bugler"
Klaxons: "Golden Skans"

Here's a quick rundown of my favorite CD of the year, Mourner, by a man named Andrew Curtis-Brignell.He calls himself Caina (one man band).

Caina is Andrew Curtis-Brignell, who, at the tender age of 20, deserves the "genius" tag. While his peers parade about in panda paint, proclaiming misanthropy yet adding MySpace friends, Curtis-Brignell is unmasked, bespectacled, a dude with an acoustic guitar. Early demos aped Burzum's midpaced buzz, but even then, Caina had identity—haunting singing here, a coruscating clean tone there. Over time, Caina departed black metal for dark ambience, post-rock, neo-folk, and other un-metallic realms. The I, Mountain EP, released earlier this year, is a thrilling snapshot of this evolution, weaving myriad styles into a 20-minute journey.

"Mourner" refines Caina's sound(s); the ambience is more focused, the melodies more memorable. Curtis-Brignell is getting mighty proficient at audio editing. The album opens with a bulkheads-and-boilers soundscape worthy of The City of Lost Children. The scene then cuts to droplets of old piano fit for a Kieślowski film. Not until the second track does a proper song swim into view. Acoustic strummings and Jeff Buckley-esque croons yield to oceanic waves of shoegazing distortion, as Curtis-Brignell's black metal past resurfaces and howls. The album is rife with this type of transformation. One second, you're in quiet forests; the next, you're drowning.

"Constantine the Blind" and "Morgawr" are gothic folk with electric interruptions; "The Sleep of Reason" recalls the delirious shoegazing of the Verve's A Storm in Heaven. A hidden track even drops bouncy post-punk, albeit with windswept desert tones.

One CD that spans about ten genres.

But I'll try to name some of the ones that fit squarely into a genre;

Big Band/Jazz/Swing - Duke Ellington, Sinatra, Buddy Rich, Ella Fitzgerald, Thelonius Monk, Wynton Marsalis, Charlie Parker

Classic Rock/Rock - Not much :) Jimi Hendrix,The Who, Blue Oyster Cult, The first four Kiss albums and Cheap Trick (I'll combine power pop and this category).

Modern Rock - um...there must be something....

Pop - That's the stuff on the radio, right? I don't know any of it then. :)

Folk - I'm putting Simon and Garfunkle here because that's why my parents considered them, and I agree, because I associate rock with guitars that are plugged in. :P I'm also going to plug in Bobby Darin here, though I realize he could be in a few categories comfortably.But "Song of Freedom" was the first song I heard that I knew was him (I had heard Mack the Knife a million times, but didn't know who it was.It was just one of my dad's favorites).

Indie Pop - I'm stumped again.Notice a pattern of me not knowing pop at all anymore? You'd never know I was a DJ for years.

Singer/Songwriter - Michael friggin' Gira!!!!!!! Oh, and his band, the Angels of Light.And his old band, The Swans

Country - Johnny Cash (of course), Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Jerry Reed, Some Dwight Yoakam (he's a damn fine actor, too), and one Garth Brooks song (Ireland,which isn't really even country).

Alt Country/Bluegrass - Mojo Nixon, Southern Culture on the Skids, Doo Rag/Bob Log III

New Age/World - The only band I can think that would fit under this would be Transglobal Underground (check 'em out...neat stuff! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekGjTOE1WYg )

Classical - I can listen any of it, but prefer the darker, brooding stuff (shocking, isn't it?) like Wagner and stuff like that.

Now for the fun stuff!

Industrial - Ministry, KMFDM, Skinny Puppy, Throbbing Gristle, Godflesh

Punk - Crass, Dead Kennedys, Minutemen, Minor Threat, The Queers, Didjits, Bad Religion, The Ex, D.R.I.

Post Punk - Butthole Surfers, Ed Hall, Pain Teens, God Is My Co-Pilot, Thinking Fellers Union, Dirt Merchants, Alice Donut, The Jesus Lizard

Grunge - Mudhoney, Tad, Fluid, Skin Yard, early Nirvana

Old School Trash - Metallica, Slayer, Vio-lence, Sepultura, Kreator, Wargasm (Boston's finest!)

Metalcore - Absolutely nothing.

Stoner/Doom - Sleep (look up the history of the song Dopesmoker,a 63 minute ode to pot that the label wouldn't release), Electric Wizard, Yob (now Middian), Bloodhorse

Black Metal - Xasthur, Leviathan, 1349, Craft, Burzum, Nachmystium, Lurker Of Chalice, Emperor

Rip Your Face Right Off Your Skull Metal - Anaal Nathrakh, The Axis Of Perdition

Pure Noise Merchants - Merzbow, John Weise, Wolfeyes, To Live And Shave In L.A., Wold

Ambient/Shoegaze - Sunn O))), Sunn O))), and Sunn O))) (pronounced as just Sunn, after the amps)

And four bands that I can never pigeonhole because they do a little of everything from release to release and song to song - NoMeansNo (my all time fave), The Melvins (2nd fave), Boris (rapidly climbing the list), and The Residents.

And like you I bet I left a hundred off that could have been mentioned.Record labels love people like us (and People Like Us is another good band lol).

Pop can be from the radio, but I have a few there that don't get much airplay. Some are under the radar pop artists. :hi:

BTW, can't forget to mention Pink.

Stylus did a good feature on teen pop/pop. Some names I missed from their list:

Brie Larson
Lillix
Marion Raven/M2M
Fefe Dobson
Hope Partlow
Skye Sweetnam
Joanna
Taylor Swift
Cheyenne Kimball
Katy Rose
Lucy Woodward (BTW, she expanded on her blues/big band leanings for a great, very adult second CD)
Josie And The Pussycats

And I'll add Hope 7, some Hanson, Aslyn, The Click Five, and Vanessa Carlton. Many of the others in the feature don't interest me.

http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/weekly_article/bluffers-guide-to-post-2000-teenpop.htm

Tikki

I will say that I have been turned off to Country in the past few years.

Jangle Pop (Guadalcanal Diary, early REM, Let's Active)
Paisley Underground (Dream Syndicate, Three O'Clock, Bangles)
Brit Punk (Clash, Undertones)
"Big Music" (U2, Waterboys, Alarm, Big Country)
Alt.Country/Americana (Steve Earle, Dwight Yoakum, Old 97s)
British Invasion (Beatles, Kinks, Stones)
Punk Pop (Green Day, Bowling For Soup)
Post-Punk (Echo & the Bunnymen, Concrete Blonde)
Celtic Rock (Dropkick Murphys, Pogues, Flogging Molly)

The pop genre in my OP could be broken down. Like pop/rock for Damone and the Dollyrots, 80s pop for Madonna and Cyndi Lauper, and punk-pop for Avril.

Noelle from Damone's side project, Goddess Of My Religion, would be more like hard rock.

Is Steve Earle country? Folk? Rock? Alt Country? Americana? All of the above?

What about X? You could call them punk, roots rock, alt country (especially under their Knitters guise), Americana or post punk, depending on the song.

U2 started out as a quintessential post-punk act (Television was a huge influence), but they've been part of the mainstream scene for so long that a lot of youngsters look at me funny when I point that out.

Classic Rock can include anything from Merseybeat to Hendrix to the Allmans to early Aerosmith. Good luck with that.

Even power pop is a wide category. Cheap Trick is the usual point of reference, but what about, say, Blink-182. They don't have much punk street cred, so do they get shifted over to power pop?

give a general idea of the kinds of music you like. Not really genre-specific, but I used some to help break up my list. :hi:

Nothing else like it.

and soukous.

I only listen to klezmer covers of late 1960s african juju pop.

No accordion transpositions of Fela Kuti afrojazz?

peasant!

I prefer King Sunny Ade on the kazoo, thank you very much.

though I am willing to accept some Thomas Mapfumo on the autoharp.

Linda Thompson's "The Versatile Heart." Absolutely haunting and beautiful.

"Early" music, from plainsong to madrigal
Romantic, baroque and other classical
"20th Century" experimental classical
Early blues
Early jazz
Early progressive rock
Rock R&B such as the Who
Psychedlic Rock
Electronic music, encompassing most genres, such as
Electro, D&B, New Wave, early Techno, Krautrock, avante garde,
EBM, IDM, etc.
Punk
Hardcore such as Killing Joke
Early industrial such as SPK
Folk such as Penguin Cafe Orchestra

Basically, anything with honesty and integrity.

and what is rock R&B?

I really like "good music" or "everything".





When I became intersted again I started to listen to "Space Age Pop"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_age_pop

and people like Juan Garcia Esquivel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Garc%C3%ADa_Esquivel

Alternative rock (sample artists include Beck, Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, Muse, the Smashing Pumpkins, At The Drive-In, Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Sublime, the White Stripes, etc)

Blues (includes Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, John Lee Hooker, B.B. King)

Classic Rock (includes AC/DC, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, C.C.R., The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, the Who)

Comedy (includes David Cross, Dave Attell, Lewis Black, Lenny Bruce, Mitch Hedburg, Bill Hicks)

Country (not much there except for a couple of random Johnny Cash CDs)

Funk (Al Green, Bootsy Collins, Eddie Hazel, Funkaelic, James Brown, Parliament, and a bunch of random comps)

Hip-Hop / Rap (Beastie Boys, Del Tha Funkee Homosapien, Dr. Dre, Gnarls Barkley, Lupe Fiasco, Mos Def, Outkast, Ozomatli, The Roots)

Indie Rock (includes Arcade Fire, Decemberists, Fiery Furnaces, Flaming Lips, Liars, Interpol, Manu Chao, Modest Mouse, TV On The Radio)

Instrumental (Frank Zappa, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Explosions In The Sky, Liquid Tension Experiment)

Jazz (Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Herbie, Monk, Wayne Shorter, Sonny Rollins)

Metal (includes Agalloch, Black Sabbath, Devin Townsend, Dream Theater, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Katatonia, Mastodon, Megadeth, Neurosis, Nine Inch Nails, Opeth, Primus, Rage Against The Machine, SOAD, and Tool)

Progressive (Blackfield, Frank Zappa, Grateful Dead, Isis, King Crimson, Les Claypool, Mars Volta, Pink Floyd, Porcupine Tree, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Yes)

Punk (includes Dropkick Murphys, Pennywise, Flogging Molly)

Reggae (Black Uhuru, Bob Marley, Damian Marley, Stephen Marley, Burning Spear, Steel Pulse, Toots & The Maytals)

Modern Rock (includes Audioslave, Beck, Chris Cornell, Incubus, The Killers, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Faith No More, Peeping Tom, Foo Fighters, Wolfmother, Soundgarden)

I dislike most current pop/top 40 music, hate pop-country (all they play on country radio these days), R&B diva music (males and females), woe-is-me whiney emo, Creed type crap (whiney music again), and a lot of folk music (navel-gazing whining really annoys me).

My favorite genres are metal and many of it's variations, punk, a lot of hip-hop, classical (especially chamber music), opera, industrial, reggae and dancehouse, and a lot of "traditional" or regional music (from traditional Irish to world to zydeco, etc).

are quite different on what we love and dislike - lol.

I always forget some biggies on my lists: like Abba and The Sundays.

1).- Country
2).- Western

& I'm a sucker for torch songs.

Jazz: Miles, Coltrane, Bill Evans, Chick Corea
Blues: Stevie Ray Vaughn, John Lee Hooker
Soul: Ray Charles
Steely Dan: They are their own genre
Motown
Classic country & bluegrass
Classical: Chopin, Mahler, Verdi, Beethoven, Bach
Afro-cubano: Poncho Sanchez, Eddie Palmieri


Hate:

Most commercial pop, soft (flaccid) jazz, almost any machine-generated dance music.

Most of the time it is one of these

American metalcore, thrash, black/death metal as practiced by Lamb of God, Killswitch Engage, Opeth, In Flames, Mastodon, Machine Head, Slayer, Gojira, Chimaira, Pantera, etc...

Industrial/EBM as practiced by Skinny Puppy, Oghr, VnV Nation, Assemblage 23, Front 242, Nitzer Ebb, CombiChrist, Terence Fixmer etc...

Pop Electronica as practiced by Pet Shop Boys, New Order, Depeche Mode, etc....

Other genres I will listen to from time to time

Singer Songwriter as practiced by Duncan Shiek, Sheryl Crow, John Mellencamp

Alt Country as heard by Steve Earle, Uncle Tupelo, Old 97's, BR5-49, Dixie Chicks, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Hank Williams III

Old skool alternative rock: INXS, The Cult, The Cure, Tears for Fears, etc...

Wide Open Spaces, Fly, and Home are more country. Taking The Long Way is more alt-country.

But since they have taken a stand against * which goes against most mainstream country, I throw them in alt country, but you are correct, early Chicks would definitely fit in country/bluegrass.

Indie pop
Twee pop
Indie rock
Psych pop
Folk pop
Garage punk
Powerpop
Bubblegum

Oh, and hardcore metal where the vocalists don't bother to sing. Some of the music is great, but as soon as the vocals start I want to smash something.

I like most rock, from the Beatles to mainstream rock today. Eighties new wave, rock, hair metal, progressive metal. Some progressive rock. I like some pop (I think Christina Aguillera and Pink kick ass), and most singer-songwriters. Late 90s pop (a lot of it was singer-songwriter stuff) was really good as well.

I like some Celtic--anything with violins and fiddles. LOVE the Dixie Chicks.

My tastes are pretty eclectic.

I added Pink and a couple others to my starting out list, so I won't forget them next time. What are some Celtic artists you would recommend? :hi:

A local celtic-influenced pagan band called Gaia Consort as well. My wife's more the expert there than I am, I'm afraid, though she doesn't tend to remember names.

You can check out Gaia Consort's music for free at their website. http://www.gaiaconsort.com

On the right side of the graphic menu there is a "listen" button. I really like the Secret Voices and Gaia Circles albums.

I've been looking to expand my world music collection..

This is what my Party Shuffle gives up :D


Cinerama - Elenore
The KLF - What Time is Love? (LP Mix)
Calexico - All The Pretty Little Horses
Bread - Make It With You
Ambrosia - You're The Only Woman
Fugazi - Bad Mouth
Autour De Lucie - Les Promesses
Bee Gees & Samantha Sang - Emotion
William Shatner - Has Been
Christopher O'Riley - Knives Out