What genre of music are you into?

[sharkweek178]

I like all kinds of music. Classic rock and heavy metal. 90's rap and hip hop. Old school country. Off the top of my head my favorites are Public Enemy, Black Sabbath, Johnny Cash, Ministry, Lyle Lovett.
Just to give an idea, here's ten random songs from my workout playlist on shuffle.
Ain't No Grave - Johnny Cash
Trade In Your Guns For a Coffin - Rob Zombie
Is It Live - Run-DMC
H8 Red - Anthrax
Body Movin' Fatboy Slim Remix - Beastie Boys
Power Hungry - White Zombie
Smoke On The Water - Deep Purple
Alive - POD
We're Not Gonna Take It - Twisted Sister
Game Face - Public Enemy

 

[ClownLurch]

I make a rule of never going to see bands that are past their due date. No nostalgia tours. I could never like Siouxsie as much as she liked herself on that stage. But it was the tour where Smith played with that shambles of a band. I think I was the only person there not wearing black that night. It was a very early Goth affair.

There's always a new, young band that needs the money to do something new and young with. Bands that become tribute bands to themselves don't interest me. I've stopped going to shows though, as I've retired to a place no band ever visits. Plus I am too old. I can still have a lot of fun, but I was scaring the kids and getting stared at all night. I stood with the sound men or else they all thought I was security, a cop or someone's grandad chaperoning.

Couldn’t agree more.
I’ve a workmate who is right up on the new band scene as his Mrs works for a division of Sony records in London and gets tips on bands long before they’re signed to even independent labels never mind the multinationals.
We end up going to see young bands in London pub back rooms for £5 a couple of times a month. Still great fun and a lot of the crowd have grey hair when they’ve any at all.
£100+ to see The Who, Elton John, Steely Dan, Rolling Stones, U2 etc going through the motions with half of the original band as dots on the horizon doesn’t interest me. Though I’d love to have caught them all in their early days.

Yowl doing The Travelling Murder Show and Hotel Lux doing The English Disease and The Last English Hangman etc knock all these old bands into a cocked hat for me. Young n hungry beats old n bloated every time at £5 compared to£100+. Besides I’ve already seen most of the heritage rock acts

 

[GaryE]

More bands to check out.

Studies show most people lock into rigid musical tastes early, and many have zero interest in music beyond their era. Once again, I have a defective brain that never lost interest in new stuff.

I live in a small seaside city that's quite out of the way, and has no consistent music scene. This is where the tribute bands come to make tiny amounts of money. If you can sound and look like a 70s to 90s "classic rock" band, you can fill a 200 seat venue in towns like this. But with the internet, I can listen to things from all over the world in my fishroom.
My world view says you either live in a huge city like London (my favourite city) or in a small one. No in betweens or suburbs. I'm drinking my morning coffee out back among the songbirds, with fog softening the trees, the surf in the distance and deer watching me and the dog warily. Sometimes, I miss the roaring city, but it's a give and go. I can be in London or New York in a few hours for a fix, and maybe some new music.

Back in the day, my best friend was a music reviewer, so I got to sample live music much like you can now.

 

[Ichthys]

My musical taste cherry-picks small amounts of many genres. Take any genre and I will either like nothing from it or one band/artist, maybe two. So if I tell you a band I like, and you say “so you like that genre?”, I’ll say no, just that band. My musical preferences are very narrow in that way, but very wide and eclectic.
I don’t really like hearing music I haven’t heard before, because I don’t like most of it. I never listen to music on the radio. But I do ok. I often scroll down YouTube when I’ve watched a video that I know and like, and I often find a new band/artist that I love there. I need to love my music. I can’t listen to music that’s just ‘ok’.

I’m 61, and although I still love the music I loved when I was younger, I hardly ever listen to it. I tend to listen mainly to the good music I’ve recently discovered.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

I'm all about Muppet Funk!

 

[Back in the fold]

Music . Anything too stupid to be said is sung .

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Music . Anything too stupid to be said is sung .

Aw, come on, Jungle Boogie is filled with spiritual symbolism and metaphoric commentary on the human condition.

 

[gwand]

Aw, come on, Jungle Boogie is filled with spiritual symbolism and metaphoric commentary on the human condition.

That video reminds me of the rock band I was in during high School, except the muppets look and play better than we did.

 

[Lateral Line]

It is a mood thing for me. Normally, I'm calm and relaxed and have Pink Floyd, Yes, Curved Air, bands like that on. I like good music, lyrics aren't terribly important to me, often just get in the way. I like keyboards, used to play a bit. When something, or more likely, someone, has annoyed me, I may reach for a blast of harder rock, I've several Hawkwind albums for example that fix that for me.

 

[simonas]

I'm 47 and when in high school was bang into the chili peppers, faith no more etc and that has followed me through my life but more so after covid and lockdown where I rediscovered a lot of music
Favourites are the chilis, Pearl Jam, Faith no more , Alice n chains , John Frusciante, Floyd, Fleetwood mac

 

[Ichthys]

In the 70s I was a huge fan of Bowie, Queen and Roxy Music. In the late 70s, being a “rebellious adolescent”, I was also heavily into the Stranglers.
I tend to like music that is not mainstream, but I find it impossible to describe my musical tastes, which are very eclectic and varied. I like music from a lot of genres but I never like the whole genre, just selected bands and artists, and even songs. I’m not into dreampop much, for example, but I love Cocteau Twins.

These days, even though I don’t like listening to music that I don’t know, (because I won’t like most of it) I’m still on the lookout for new (to me) bands and artists. So I don’t listen to much ‘unknown’ music but when I do I often find something, so I do alright. I recently discovered Purity Ring and AURORA for example.

Very recently (the last few months) a little bit of boredom took me to watching (mostly) Americans reacting on YouTube to British music, and I’m obviously going into my second childhood now because I’ve fallen in love all over again with Queen and Bowie, which I hadn’t really listened to for a long time. Can’t get enough of them, again.

I don’t like jazz, folk, country, heavy metal, rap, and many other genres, although I probably like a song or two from each of them. Such is me.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Thinking about doing a somewhat modified version of this song with my kinders this year:

 

[emeraldking]

What genre of music are you into?​

I do like a lot of music genres with the exception of house, dance and similar crap...

 

[Herpin Man]

I will listen to almost anything except rap, hip hop, or heavy metal.
Weekdays, I like smooth jazz while I work or drive. Evenings, while I’m doing chores in the herp room, I like stuff from the 70’s and 80’s.
Weekends, I like country music.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

I will listen to almost anything except rap, hip hop, or heavy metal.
Weekdays, I like smooth jazz while I work or drive. Evenings, while I’m doing chores in the herp room, I like stuff from the 70’s and 80’s.
Weekends, I like country music.

I have to be in just the right mood for metal, but once in a great while, nothing else will do. I'm partial to Stryper and Queensryche. Not at the same time.

Interesting thing about rap: I can appreciate some of the songwriting and vocal/rhythmic nuance, but I don't like it. I don't like musicals either. But Hamilton, the rap musical? A work of absolute genius. I watched it the first time just to make my wife happy, figuring I'd hate it, and I was laughing and/or crying through the whole thing.

Just goes to show that some works transcend their genre. I had a college roommate that was into death metal. He didn't like classical music, but I got him into Tchaikovsky and Dvorak.