What genre do you enjoy listening to most?

[Gringo]

Be honest - the poll's anonymous.

Feel free to chime in if your choice isn't on the list...

[Archae]

1. The true masters.

Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Stravinsky...(sigh)

[ArwenJade]

2. I like variety

Anything but opera and country.

[TOhioLiberal]

3. Classic rock

Well, rocks!!

L8er
Trekkerlass

[JaySherman]

4. Depends on my mood

Pretty much everything you listed except for hip-hop dance, bubblegum pop, and most mainstream pop.

Edit: Oh, and currently I LOVE the jam band scene.

[populistmom]

5. A wide variety

Classical (favorites are Chopin, Debussy, and Mozart), classic rock, 80's- early 90's "alternative", a little Motown, some singer-songwriter Lillith Fair type stuff, and occasionally a bit of jazz. Not into much pop or hip-hop. Some older country stuff I can appreciate like Patsy Cline or Willie Nelson (amazing songwriter), but most country isn't very appealing to me.

[Bundbuster]

6. Classical - especially piano concertos

by Mozart, Saint-Saens, Rachmaninof, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Haydn, Chopin.

A question for officianados (Rabrrrrrr?) - Why did Schubert never compose a piano concerto? I can only guess that his solo piano creations were, in my opinion and perhaps his, the ultimate expression for that instrument - the final word, if you will.

[mobuto]

30. I agree

I've been listening to Wilhelm Kempff's complete cycle of the Schubert piano sonatas and they're amazing - some of the best music ever written. They're not, however, virtuosic. The problem's that Schubert's piano music was often too difficult for him to play - unlike Beethoven and Mozart he really wasn't a very good pianist (better than I am, though :-) ). He didn't have what it took to play alongside a serious orchestra, especially the virtuosic music required in a real concerto.

[ComerPerro]

7. jambands

[JaySherman]

10. Cool. Favorites?

Ekoostik Hookah and Jack Johnson.Also the Allman Brothers and their various solo incarnations.

[ComerPerro]

14. Let's see

Allman Bros
Bela Fleck/Flecktones
Big Wu
Blues Travler
Bockman's Euphio
Claypool's Frog Brigade
Dave Matthews Band
Derek Trucks Band
Disco Biscuits
Drums and Tuba
Ekoostik Hookah
Galactic
Jazz Mandolin Project
Keller Williams
Leftover Salmon
moe.
Oysterhead
Papa Grows Funk
Phish
Pseudopod
Railroad Earth
Speakeasy
String Cheese Incident
Umphrey's McGee
Widespread Panic
The Yards

[JaySherman]

17. Were you by chance at Bonnaroo last year?

If you're interested, full downloads of the sets are up on WinMX. If you're interested in getting a hold of them, drop me a PM.

[slack]

8. Reggea

or something like Linton Kwesi Johnson.

Ok, I also prefer Techno, in the 90'ies I loved E-Werk and Tresor in Berlin. A little hint, 'der dritte Raum' - 'the third area' from Germany. That's really good techno.
http://www.der-dritte-raum.de/

they play friday in L.A.

[dolo amber]

26. You worked at Tresor?!?

Awww man, you SUCK! (Meant in the most friendly possible way, of course. ;))

I'm a huge techno fan, I have like a million sets that were recorded there...I can't IMAGINE what it'd been like to be there in person. How cool. :yourock:

[imax2268]

9. you forgot METAL...!

I am a heavy metal man through and through...

but other stuff is ok...except rap and country...BLAH...!

[neverborn]

32. Yes!

It's all about metal!

[TSIAS]

11. I guess mainstream pop

I used to listen to country a lot, but I've settled on pop.

[Gringo]

12. Heh heh

You all are about like me. I don't much care for the oldies - and definitely not country...

[xxqqqzme]

13. where's the Blues?

Buddy Guy - Clarence 'Gatemouth'Brown - John Lee Hooker - BB King - Eric Clapton - Bonnie Riatt - Stevie Ray Vaughn?????

[Bridget Burke]

29. Not white-bread enough for this list.....

Country was ignored as well. Not to mention international music--from all the varieties of Latin through Irish.

One clue: Jazz & New Age are lumped together. Probably Kenny G & John Tesh would be the ideal duo!

[UnAmericanJoe]

15. Punk. nt

[OneBlueSky]

16. um . . . jazz and new age are pretty distinct categories . . .

I listen to lots of jazz, but almost no new age (with a few exception such as the Paul Winter Consort) . . .

[mac56]

18. Power pop -

pure pop, skinny-tie pop, whatever you want to call it.

Also jump blues, honky-tonk country, bebop, and lounge.

Add on edit: basically anything you would have found on a juke box in the middle to late '60s.

[Kamika]

19. 80s

topic

But no metal

[Loonman]

20. No Metal, Punk or Hardcore?

[arwalden]

21. Country (Mostly modern... but some old style)

that is to say... when I'm not listening to DISCO. Which does not suck, by the way, so stop saying that.

-- Allen

[Redneck Socialist]

22. Other, other, other!

You need an other category.

Bluegrass, bluegrass, bluegrass! Bluegrass rules!

[cryfordawn]

23. Other

Heavy metal. Sorry.

[LWolf]

24. other:

folk

blues

and a bunch more, but those are my top two, depending on the mood.

[GOPisEvil]

25. Other - Indie pop/rock, alt-country, blues, jazz...

[zonmoy]

27. darker classic and modern rock.

are what I like.

[PVnRT]

28. I used to wear flannel with black jeans and workboots to school

Take one guess which genre I voted for.

[cmf]

31. Indie pop

and other stuff you don't hear on commercial radio stations.

[GOPisEvil]

33. Yeah, like these guys!

www.longwinters.com

I'm so sad they're not coming to South By Southwest this year. :-(

[cmf]

42. I saw them Saturday night!

At a benefit concert for KEXP. It rocked!

[mvd]

34. I voted for classic rock, but..

really power pop, folk-pop (like Dar Williams - just listened to Beauty Of The Rain again and thought I underrated it - I'll give her at least one of the top honorable mentions, as it's amazing except for two filler songs (#2 and #10)), folk, Motown/older R&B, and classical are often just as thrilling to me. I just think that classic rock is the most consistently great genre. Rock, country, and bluegrass of all eras, when they are good, are also high on the list.

[bif]

35. Jazz and some new indie rock

Nuthin' beats straight ahead jazz.

[WoodrowFan]

36. what? no hard rock?

no hair bands??

[Kat45]

37. Other: Hard Rock and Blues

[MrSlayer]

38. Other: Heavy Metal.

Wimps and Posers leave the hall!

[kodi]

39. americana

its where the best music is being done these days.

try wncw over the net and see what i mean

http://www.wncw.org/

[Bonhomme Richard]

40. Classic rock but leaning toward Acoustic

[Deja Q]

41. Movie soundtracks

Which is essentially "modern classical for the commonfolk"...