Music Genres

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Amount of time spent listening to genres you like. By percentages, if you can - I couldn't. I listed from most to least, using very broad terms:

Rock/Pop (from Sinatra to Dream Theater)
Jazz (swing, bebop, post-bop, smooth, fusion)
Classical
Soul
Film Orchestration
Blues (Elmore James to Johnny Winter)
Country
Other
 
`Here you go, from most to least. Although the percentages vary from day to day, here is the general order.
Jazz
Classical
Rock/Pop (you put Sinatra in this group!?)
Soul
Blues
Other (I love World Music and Punjabi)
Country

No Bluegrass or religious/Gospel, ever.
 
Classic Rock (1966 -90) Vinyl Era
Blues Rock
Soft Rock
Prog Rock
* did I say I like Rock?
Jazz (bebop mostly)
Standards (like programming found on Seriously Sinatra Sirius XM)
Classic Country ( like ^^^... Willies Roadhouse XM)
Blues (like ^^^... BB King Bluesville XM)
80's New Wave (like ^^^ ... 1st Wave XM)
Classical Music (any period)
 
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Jazz/acoustic
New wave/Alternative
classic rock /soft rock
Soul /Blues acoustic
Country
Classical

Audiofreak71
 
50's to 80's Pop/Rock - 40%
Blues/Soul/Funk/Reggae - 20%
Jazz - 20%
Other - newer/folk/punk/classical/country/soundtracks/easy/etc. - 20%
 
`Here you go, from most to least. Although the percentages vary from day to day, here is the general order.
Jazz
Classical
Rock/Pop (you put Sinatra in this group!?)
Soul
Blues
Other (I love World Music and Punjabi)
Country

No Bluegrass or religious/Gospel, ever.

Yeah, I know the Sinatra inclusion seems odd - initially. But it was the popular music of its day, thus pop, and has traditionally been referred to as such for many moons. Like I said, I'm casting a wide net and still have more genres and sub-genres than I prefer in my PC files.
 
Everything, and I mean everything -- in no particular ranking, priority, order or identifiable proportion, including country, rap, electronica, psychedelia, soundtrack, ambient, psybient, atmospheric, dubstep, easy-listening, classical, modern classical, classical classical, rock, space rock, math rock, prog rock, post-rock, hip hop, blues, bluegrass, grime, alternative, grunge, jazz, fusion, nu-metal, old metal, New Age, old age, etc., etc., etc. -- except opera: 100%

Opera: 0%
 
Western Swing
Classical
Alt Country
Rockabilly
Classic Rock
Country
Big Band
Jazz
Gypsy Swing/Flamenco
Blues
World Music
 
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Country music, as long as it’s written in the country just outside Vienna
Big band music from the 30s and 40s
Lighter orchestral, as in the Boston Pops
Vocals from “the Great American Songbook”
Jazz, as in Diana Krall
Choral music, esp a capella
 
Classical.
Opera.
I've recently been exploring sacred choral music written for the Russian Orthodox Church.
Occasionally, big band (e.g., Count Basie).
 
Over the past few years:
Jazz in all its forms from the earliest days to the most recent experimentation - 80%
Classical in all its forms from the earliest known forms to the most recent experimentation - 8%
Various world and folk musics - 7%
Rock and whatever is left over - 5%

There is a fair amount of bleed over between the various genres in the last two categories. As an example consider that Chris Thile, mandolinist extraordinaire has a duet recording that was put in the folk/bluegrass bin at the store as was his recording of J. S. Bach's sonatas and partitas for violin which is most definitely a classical recording.
 
Acoustic Piano Jazz = 85%
All other jazz = 10%
Classical = 5%

Trace amounts: Rock incl New Wave, Metal, etc.
Electro-Swing when the occasional mood strikes.
Current popular music when certain friends visit.

Five years ago I was about 90% Classical.
I like how preferences ebb and flow as time goes by.
 
Good Stuff - 65%
Hi-Brow Good Stuff - 15%
Girly Stuff (some of 'em are hard to put in a category...folky, torchy, jazzy, country?) - 10%
Miles Davis - 0% (His picture scares me, and gives me nightmares.)

:rflmao::rflmao::rflmao:

I absolutely love Miles Davis' work, but had to giggle when I read this.
 
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