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What is your favorite genre, and why?

JimmyNeutron

JimmyNeutron

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So in hanging out here on AK, as well as with friends, you get to know others favorite groups. I started thinking about this for a minute. :scratch2: Why do *I* like a particular genre when my brother likes Classical, or my sisters like Jazz, or my daughter likes country, and so on.... Personally, I've been exposed more to country music than any other genre because of my business working on tour buses for bands and groups, but I hate country. No one that I know listens to my favorite genre - progressive metal. I have a wide pallet. I love some jazz, a adore Sarah McLaughlan, I praise Yanni, I was raised on AC/DC, but progressive rock has been my most absolute favorite genre. My top 5 in the world artists are Dream Theater, Symphony X, Queensryche, Vanden Plas, and Kamelot. So why, if I listen to, and love other artists' genres, did I eventually settle on this particular genre? I mean I love Frankie Valle, as well as the 4 Seasons too. :yes: And 70's music is always in rotation on my stereo. Hmmmmm....I just don't know.

So does anyone have any particular reasons for liking any particular artist or genre? Other than "The music just appeals to me". Was there a turning point in your life when you heard a lyric, a phrase, and say "Damn, that's it"? :scratch2:

Jimmy
 
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Well way back when I was a youngster(Early-Mid 50's) I was trying to learn to play a 6 string Guitar when I heard my first Instrumental and that was that,I was hooked.And ever since then I've been partial to any type of Instrumentals.Smooth Jazz being my favorites these day ala Paul Hardcastle/Euge Groove.The Venture,Wakikis,Chantays,Johnny & The Hurricanes,Booker T & The MG's,The Shadows etal of the 60's as well as 70's groups too numerous to mention continues on for me!I did learn how to play most of them over a span of 50+ yrs having been in many Bands during that period and of course played all manner of Pop.Rock,Country whatever during this time but always my 1st love was/is Instrumentals of any variety such as Moog/Electronic/Pop-Rock and so on and so forth:)
 
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Bach and Zappa are my favourite composers.

Well, classical music is my favourite genre, it gives me most. Zappa in my opinion also belongs into this genre (although he was a universal genius) and I adore for example his "Civilization Phaze III" opus.

My favourite Bach opus is not the Mass in b minor (BWV 232) or the St.Matthew Passion (BWV 244) - the K2 and the Mount Everest of classical music - but the sonatas for violin solo (BWV 1001-1006).

Of course I also appreciate the oeuvre of other classical composers.

Mindful listening to classical music makes me being One with what I hear.
 
My favorite genre is the one to which I listen in the Now. Sometimes rock, sometimes country, sometimes jazz, sometimes classical, sometimes different. If I can't get into one in the Now, I change genres to some other current favorite, but do return again in some other Now. Exceptions would be trying a new genre. Every rule has exceptions.
 
Psych and prog rock here, followed closely by blues. Jimmy- You praise Yanni? You know he's considered a cult religion. The FBI is probably in a car outside your house right now. :D
 
Classical music, because of its extreme variety and universal (meaning world-wide ranging) character: it ranges from medieval music up to contemporary music, involving all kinds of harmonic and rhythmic structures imaginable, and expressing all kinds of humans emotions and states of mind. I love switching from a very diatonic piece to a twelve-tone composition, from voices (with or without texts in all possible languages) to complete instrumental music, from huge orchestras to chamber music and solo instruments playing.
 
Hendrix. I think he is a music all to himself.

Classic Country.

I bout like it all though.
 
In the last year or two, my favorite genre is likely the amorphous "Americana" genre, from Lucinda Williams to Wilco to T-Bone Burnett to Patty Griffin to Carolina Chocolate Drops to Son Volt to Uncle Tupelo to Robert Plant's recent collaborations (Alison Kraus, Patty Griffin)....
 
The Shadows? Never thought I'd see that name here. Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, Brian Bennett. I still listen to them but recently it's been Fourplay, Rippingtons, Yellowjackets, Spyro Gyra, etc. Musicians with skill, not just big amps..stacked.
 
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Psych and prog rock here, followed closely by blues. Jimmy- You praise Yanni? You know he's considered a cult religion. The FBI is probably in a car outside your house right now. :D
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Hmmmmmm....I have seen way too many van's parked outside my house to find this just a coincidence. :scratch2:

Jimmy
 
These days, my favorite music is basically '60's and early '70's stuff. Classic-rock, pop, funk, R&B, blues, etc. Pretty-much anything from that era. Goes perfectly with my hi-fi setup (which was basically the point of putting that system together in the first place). I've always been a huge fan of old Hendrix, Stones, Beatles, Doors, Zeppelin, George Harrison, Badfinger, and that sort of thing, and my main system, especially my turntable and speakers (listed below) just make that stuff sound beautiful (I was just listening to Jeff Beck's "I Ain't Superstitious" from my "Truth" stereo LP, and the sound is like pure, transcendental enlightenment through that setup... Old vinyl is such a joy these days).
 
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jimfet said:
Hendrix. I think he is a music all to himself.

Classic Country.

I bout like it all though.
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Yeah, I probably have more Hendrix on vinyl & CD collectively than any other artist/band, although Floyd, the Stones, Zeppelin, and the Beatles are close.
 
I'm a minority around AK, but my favorite genre would be island/beach music. Think Jimmy Buffett. Maybe Buffett is a genre. I don't know but there are lots of other artists doing similar stuff...Zac Brown, Eric Stone, Larry Joe Taylor... I think I'm drawn to it because I'm about as far from a Type A personality as you can get and the music speaks to me because of it.

I'm also a sailor (probably couldn't have guessed that from the avatar, but it's true) and there's nothing quite like hitting a nice beam reach with "Knee Deep" or "Son of a Son of a Sailor" playing through the modest little system on my boat.
 
I guess I would be in that minority with you! When I check my trusty Collectorz software, Buffet leads everyone else by a large margin with 44 including both CD and vinyl in different versions. He's followed by the Moody Blues, Linda Ronstadt, and Dave Mason and lots of others with 10-15 titles each.

I do tend to listen to almost any genre and at any time. I am just as likely to follow Buffet with Miles Davis, or Led Zep with Charley Pride. I tend to reach into the record shelf and play what I grab.

Kind of a related question, but why is there almost no vinyl available for the contemporary country genre. Most of it is ridiculously compressed and over produced, but I can certainly think of some modern titles that would be deserving of a little TLC. I know I listen to a lot of old Jerry Jeff, Nanci Griffith, Southern Rock, etc. Hell, most "Southern Rock" is a lot more "Country" than most of what is called country these days!
 
Roots blues. Nothing like it. The raw emotion and life stories being poured into the the music just grabs my soul and shakes it. If Fred McDowell or Mavis Staples doesn't touch your being you are beyond help. :smoke:
 
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Kind of a related question, but why is there almost no vinyl available for the contemporary country genre. Most of it is ridiculously compressed and over produced, but I can certainly think of some modern titles that would be deserving of a little TLC. I know I listen to a lot of old Jerry Jeff, Nanci Griffith, Southern Rock, etc. Hell, most "Southern Rock" is a lot more "Country" than most of what is called country these days!
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I think most of the new stuff is so-compressed at the production stage that I don't think a vinyl pressing will help much, but I certainly wouldn't mind seeing a return to form. Some old-school country music production would be nice. This Rascal Flatts thing has got to go. I don't hate the music so-much as I hate the production-style itself. It's become a bad cliche, kind of like mid '80's "new country".
 
Rock, and more specifically, prog. I was a teenager growing up with ELP, early Kansas, Yes, King Crimson, etc. Even now, I am discovering some I never heard - Gentle Giant, Triumverate, etc. And then there are the "newer" groups, like Dream Theater, Mars Volta, Opeth, the list goes on and on...
 
GT, Amen to that, though I can think of some over the last 25 years had decent production and deserve being correctly mastered for vinyl.

Brad Paisley - Play
Sugarland - Love On the Inside
Darius Rucker - Learn to Live
George Strait - Easy Come Easy Go

These are a bit older, but excellent old school country.
Lionel Cartwright - Chasin' the Sun
Radney Foster - Del Rio Texas 1959
David Ball - Thinkin' Problem
Mark Chesnutt - Longnecks & Short Stories
Tracy Lawrence - Sticks and Stones
Suzy Bogguss - Something Up My Sleeve

These are but a few that I would love to see get some Vinyl lovin'
 
Mid sixties psychedelic punk garage rock mostly by obscure bands. I like the raw amateur inventiveness of the music.
 
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