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What is your favorite genre, and why?

It's a really good question. I remember the first song I ever heard on a transistor radio. She Loves You (yeah yeah yeah). After collecting all vinyl records from all my favorite rock and folk groups from the 60s, 70s, & 80s, I stumbled upon Dave Brubeck's Take Five LP and Stan Getz / Joao Gilberto (featuring Antonio Carlos Jobim) LP.

I've been discovering Jazz music ever since. It's my go to favorite. But the beauty of online streaming music is that you can explore music in all directions just about as deep as you want to go.

I still enjoy my classic rock and folk. I enjoy bluegrass occasionally and world music. Even a little electronica (?) (art of noise, enigma, etc), Blues occasionally and even classical from time to time.

But like the OP, I really don't have much use for country music post Johnny Cash / Hank Williams or Woody Guthrie. Somehow it just doesn't do anything for me.

I think the reason i prefer Jazz is because so much of it is instrumental and not Lyrics, Lyrics, Lyrics ad nauseum. And you get so many variations / arrangements of classical standards.

But enjoyment of music should be a never ending broadening of horizons.
 
Though I like most types of music and though I will sometimes go for extended periods of time without listening to my favorite genre, at the end of the day I do always come back to punk. And my conception of that genre is not the narrow version that's often-trumpeted (1975-1979 or something)...I see it as a much broader form that's seeped into and acted as a base for a whole slew of genres that have come after it.

I think when I explore new genres, I'm often most attracted to artists/bands that I perceive as having qualities that I relate to and find in punk. Sometimes it's an attitude, sometimes it's a perspective, and most oftentimes it's an energy and intensity.
 
My earliest music memories were listening to my fathers jazz albums. Today I still listen to jazz 80% of the time. Along the way I listened to country rock, and rock with a healthy dose of blues thrown in but I always retuned to my jazz roots.

cubdog
 
Although I was quite young, I am definitely a musical product of the 60s. Surf/hot rod songs by the Beach Boys and Jan & Dean; Lesley Gore and the girl groups; Four Seasons' doo-wop pop; some of the early British Invasion, teen-pop by The Monkees and Gary Lewis and the Playboys, and bubblegum artists such as The Archies, Lou Christie, Tommy Roe and 1910 Fruitgum Co. were faves then and still are. In Michigan, we had Motown constantly on the radio, and while I liked many of the songs then, I don't ever need to hear Stevie Wonder or Diana Ross again. Didn't care at all for psychedelic, acid-rock, r&b/blues or jazz. That is still the case.
 
My favorite is jazz. It's the one that impresses me the most. The musicians always put serious effort into making it good. Also, it's multifacetted like no other genre. Out of the many jazz tunes I've heard, I can only think of a couple tunes I don't like and very few jazz artists I don't like. Any other genre, I tend to be very selective with.
 
I usually cant make my mind up between Art Music and Jazz Music, But if I had to choose which music I would bring with me to the moon it would be Art music.
 
As you know Jimmy-man.....I am right there with you! Progressive rock and progmetal are my two main genres. This comes by way of Funk and R&B, I have to say. Growing up early 70's Yes, Pink Floyd, VdGG and mainly Genesis and Rush were my thing. But I am a huge EW&F and Parliament/Funkadelic fan....both of these groups writing style and playing style made me inquire more the progressive music scene.

Made me also look into and appreciate experimental jazz...Miles Davis, Coltrane, Soft Machine, early Crimson, that is when I solidified my liking of progressive rock music.

Over the past 10yrs I have been enjoying so many new artists, and today not so new, within the prog community like Porcupine Tree, Marillion, Galleon, Spocks Beard, Neal Morse, Flower Kings, Riverside, IQ and Dream Theater.....so on, there are TONS of artists within the progressive rock scene.

But I do have to admit that since a lot of the writing and playing style within prog also comes from classical music structure...I don't listen to any classical music. My father did, but that has not caught on with me, not sure if it will either.
 
prog, psychadeli, proto-punk, glam, garage, folk, americana, dead, new wave... oh, you wanted just one?
 
Mine is 60's to 80's hard rock. When I was a kid in the early to mid 70's my older brother introduced me to Alice Cooper, Grand Funk, etc.
 
Yanni...


I saw Chameleon with Yanni and their spinning drum kit guy several times at a couple of joints in and around Minneapolis in early 80's. Also saw them in their pre-Yanni days. Chameleon was kind of a live music staple around these parts for many years during that time.

RC
 
70's and 80's rock, what I guess would be considered Psych or Progressive.

Such as:

School by Supertramp (I consider this one to be a masterpiece)
Apostrophe album by Frank Zappa
Some of the earlier stuff from ELO
Pink Floyd (most of their stuff)

Specifically, the music that goes beyond the standard verse and chorus format of most rock and pop today and in the past. Songs and albums that showcase the creativity of the artists. Complex compositions where a guitar riff, organ / synthesizer piece, or even a few percussion accents are added in just the right place. This kinda demonstrates (to me) that they didn't just whip out another song to fill the album and meet their contractual obligation with the record company, but they put a little of themselves in the music.

Example:

Beatles - Hey Jude (contractual obligation)
Beatles - Maxwell's Silver Hammer (artistic expression)
 
jsisk said:
Specifically, the music that goes beyond the standard verse and chorus format of most rock and pop today and in the past. Songs and albums that showcase the creativity of the artists. Complex compositions where a guitar riff, organ / synthesizer piece, or even a few percussion accents are added in just the right place. This kinda demonstrates (to me) that they didn't just whip out another song to fill the album and meet their contractual obligation with the record company, but they put a little of themselves in the music.

Example:

Beatles - Hey Jude (contractual obligation)
Beatles - Maxwell's Silver Hammer (artistic expression)
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Creativity does not necessarily equate complexity.

Creativity can be simple or complex.

You can use several extra notes here and there to add personality to music.

But you can also play a smaller amount of notes in a particular WAY that adds personality to the music.

Complex music can be creative. It can also be boring and sterile...notes for notes' sake.

The rawest emotions are often expressed effectively in a simple and straightforward manner. That sure is adding personality to the music.
 
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