Thread: What is Your Favorite Type of Music?

Rock, for sure. Specifically classic rock.

Gothic rock/metal, definitely. It's not as "Gothic" as you might think, trust me. The melodies, the combination of hard guitar and soft, melodic vocals, it just gets me. Some is softer than the rest, and I love that too. Nightwish, Within Temptation, Leaves' Eyes, Xandria, Epica, After Forever, Lacuna Coil, Blind Guardian, Kamelot, I love 'em all.

Originally Posted by Man of Steel

Gothic rock/metal, definitely. It's not as "Gothic" as you might think, trust me. The melodies, the combination of hard guitar and soft, melodic vocals, it just gets me. Some is softer than the rest, and I love that too. Nightwish, Within Temptation, Leaves' Eyes, Xandria, Epica, After Forever, Lacuna Coil, Blind Guardian, Kamelot, I love 'em all.

You aren't Goth are you? I don't have anything against them. I just don't get it. Why be Goth when you could have fun in life?

Rock/Metal, specifically of the stoner variety. Love everything about it really.

Originally Posted by kingofclutch

You aren't Goth are you? I don't have anything against them. I just don't get it. Why be Goth when you could have fun in life?

No, not in the least. Hence my comment as to how totally non-emo Gothic metal is.

Originally Posted by Universal Mind

Rock, for sure. Specifically classic rock.

ditto

I wish I could choose more than one choice, because i like so many types of music. I like rock/metal, hip hop, rap, and classical the best. I can tolorate jazz and blues, but folk music and country I HATE. I cant stand the stuff.

I'd have to say I like soundtracks. Any artist can use words to invoke meaning and emotion, but the good ones let the instruments do the talking. <3

I know that's not a genre. LEAVE ME ALOOOONE! *hides in corner*

Originally Posted by Abra

I'd have to say I like soundtracks. Any artist can use words to invoke meaning and emotion, but the good ones let the instruments do the talking. <3

That's the reason I like good guitarists, or good players of any instrument. If you listen to Jimi Hendrix and his guitar, the guitar has as strong a voice as Jimi himself. Good players of any instrument can make their instrument talk and that's what's so wonderful about music.

I picked rock, but this should have been a multi-choice poll, since I would have also picked classical. Actually, I can enjoy most music that isn't rap (the closest thing to rap I like is Linkin Park, which has some rap, but with real melody and power behind it, so it works).

Metal. Not just any kind though, I hate (well most of) the mainstream radio crap. They're only out to make money. I like technical metal specificly. I love how awesome guitarists can translate a story better than vocalists can. After all, to me music is about emotion, not details. The better a band can express the emotions of anguish, anger, sadness, frustration, abandonment, loneliness... the more I like it. I see instruments as a way to interpret your own emotion into something more tangible. Being a inheritly unhappy Schizophrenic individiaul I would say that is why it appeals to me.

I'll name a few.

Arsis (Freakin awesome technical melodic death metal)
Wintersun (Experimental technical power death black folk metal... lol)
Suicide Silence (Technical Deathcore)
GWAR (Love the Theater angle... only their thrash albums though)
Morbid Angel (Angry, extremely complex technical death metal)
And likely a few others not in mind at the moment

However I do enjoy the following, especially while getting stoned...

System of a down
PRIMUS!!!
Tool
A Perfect Circle
A few others i'm sure i forgot...

EDIT: I picked Classical, because it's not neccasirly the genre I appreciate, it's the complexity. Hell, Tom Azagthoth's (Morbid Angel) main influence is Mozart. And quite a few technical extreme metal bands have the same song structures as classical and jazz music. It's just a much, much different sound. I hate it when boobs are soooo arrogant they can't even believe or appreciate the techinicality, just because it sounds angry. Fucking prudes, so set in their ways...

I don't really go for any genre in particular. I'm more a tune guy. I like loads of different songs from loads of different genres. I never buy albums - only singles. I usually get addicted to one song, listen to nothing but that for a few days, then get addicted to another etc. etc.. So I hop across the genres.

Although, looking on my iPod, most are classical/new age/soundtrack, so that's what I put.

Metal. I just can't get enough of Metallica, Rammstein, Slayer, Manowar, and Dragonforce. Hellz ya!

Dang we got a lot of people here who like rock/ metal.

Originally Posted by kingofclutch

Dang we got a lot of people here who like rock/ metal.

The internet is where we lurk X.X

80s classic rock ... i really wish i was old enough back then (i'm born 1985) ... music in this new millennium suck

This is always a really hard question for me to answer briefly. I like all kinds of music. It's much harder for me to try to judge music by genre than it is by artists, or, more specifically, songs. I've grown up listening to everything: I'm from Texas, so (even though, in general, I'm not a fan of country) there are some country songs I can appreciate. I had piano lessons at about 7yrs old, so I love classical. My dad was a dj who had records of all genres lining the walls, so, I grew up loving all the classic soul/funk/blues/R&B stuff. Had a diverse circle of friends as a teen and got into rock and rap at about the same time. Most recently, like 10 years ago, I got into electronica and hip-hop. I don't really think I could pick a favorite. Some of my favorite artists are in my profile.

BUT, for the sake of voting; I chose Hip-Hop/R&B - Mainly because I am most inspired by hip-hop. I started getting sick of the old, materialistic mainstream rap that I was hearing on the radio, but finding more underground hip-hop was like enlightenment for me. I love the intelligence, the positivity, the technicality, the political content, the social-awareness, the linguistics...all of it. There are certain rappers that I hold in as high regard as some of the greatest literary masters - the kind of artists who make me just sit quietly, focused, and get completely sucked in by their lyics and style...

...the kind that, ironically, most of the people who pass judgment on hip-hop aren't even aware of.

Originally Posted by wa'el

80s classic rock ... i really wish i was old enough back then (i'm born 1985) ... music in this new millennium suck

Times are changing. The new generation has a different taste.

I picked classical. I like just about any genre of music, including gothic rock and new age music. It depends on my mood. I just have a particular dislike for country. I don't necessarily hate it, persay, but I won't listen to it given the chance. However, if I have to listen to it for more than an hour or so and/or can't get away from it (ie, in a car) then it dips into the realm of "please cut my ears off and tape up the holes."

But right now I'm listening to a solo piano radio station in Media Player and I can't get enough of it! There's just something so moving and mesmerizing about the way some people just make that instrument sing! The range of emotions that can be evoked with classical are endless and ranges from simple, catchy melodies to vastly complex, convoluted pieces that just swirl inside of my head. Soundtrack music, I include in this category as well (with the obvious exception of non-classical soundtrack music). It just sparks my imagination and I just run with it.

I also have an apprecition from techno and, as I said gothic rock. Sometimes I'm just in the mood to listen to something that makes me want to dance (when no one's around) and/or drive really, really fast. I had to force myself to stop listening to Evanesence, though. After a few months of listening to it in a depressed stupor, I realized that it really wasn't helping...

Originally Posted by Oneironaut

This is always a really hard question for me to answer briefly. I like all kinds of music. It's much harder for me to try to judge music by genre than it is by artists, or, more specifically, songs. I've grown up listening to everything: I'm from Texas, so (even though, in general, I'm not a fan of country) there are some country songs I can appreciate. I had piano lessons at about 7yrs old, so I love classical. My dad was a dj who had records of all genres lining the walls, so, I grew up loving all the classic soul/funk/blues/R&B stuff. Had a diverse circle of friends as a teen and got into rock and rap at about the same time. Most recently, like 10 years ago, I got into electronica and hip-hop. I don't really think I could pick a favorite. Some of my favorite artists are in my profile.

BUT, for the sake of voting; I chose Hip-Hop/R&B - Mainly because I am most inspired by hip-hop. I started getting sick of the old, materialistic mainstream rap that I was hearing on the radio, but finding more underground hip-hop was like enlightenment for me. I love the intelligence, the positivity, the technicality, the political content, the social-awareness, the linguistics...all of it. There are certain rappers that I hold in as high regard as some of the greatest literary masters - the kind of artists who make me just sit quietly, focused, and get completely sucked in by their lyics and style...

...the kind that, ironically, most of the people who pass judgment on hip-hop aren't even aware of.

Yes, I agree. For a while I thought no one else one here liked hip hop and R&B! Although I admit I sort of like the mainstream hip hop I enjoy the underground stuff you were talking about.

Evanescence is... Not nearly as good as I used to think.


I'm kinda like O is, though, really. I grew up listening to country. By country I do NOT mean what is played on the radio nowadays; that's crap in the basest sense. I mean the ld stuff. My dad loves all the old country, and I inherited that love. Marty Robbins, Tom T. Hall, Hank Williams, Charlie Pride, George Jones, Johnny Horton, Johnny Cash, Stonewall Jackson, Faron Young, Red Sovine, Bobby Bare, (if you haven't already, O, give those last two a listen, they tell some great stories in their recitations) Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings, the lot.

At the same time I can appreciate certain hip-hop and rap, (though I really need to get O to tell me some good artists so I can become enlightened ) and I like a lot of oldskool rap. I don't know a lot of names in those genres, though. Classic rock I dig, too. I'm no conniseur, no, but I can appreciate a little Lynyrd Skynyrd, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, and Queen, fo sho! I never did much care for clasical, unless John Williams could be considered such. I love John Williams' soundtracks. Hans Zimmer isn't too bad, either.

Jazz I just plain don't like, same with opera (though operatic metal is another thing altogether). The rest is generally, "Meh." Then a friend pointed me to Within Temptation and thus I discovered the awesomeness that is Gothic/symphonic metal. That's pretty much all I listen to these days. Mourning Tree by Leaves' Eyes is set to loop on my MP3 player. Incredible, soft, relaxing song.

Originally Posted by kingofclutch

Tell me what you like about it and how it describes you.

Woops, I missed that part. I love classic rock the most because it just sounds so damn good and is so full of energy and extreme passion. I guess that's how my mind is. I usually don't come across as full of entergy and passion in person, but what is always going on in my head is a different story. Classic rock came in the very influential wake of The Beatles, the greatest musical force in history, in my opinion.

However, I am also a huge fan of Delta blues, folk, and space music, but I like those kinds of music even more when they are mixed with a rock sound.

I also really love disco and classic soul. There was a lot of big time talent in those genres.

Rap bores the Hell out of me unless it is really, really funny. I have a very twisted sense of humor, so I get a major kick out of the most extreme gangster rap. I don't think it's funny when the stuff they rap about happens in real life, but it makes good fictitious morbid humor as long as it is just art.

Originally Posted by wa'el

80s classic rock ... i really wish i was old enough back then (i'm born 1985) ... music in this new millennium suck

Times are changing. The new generation has a different taste.

Yes, and that taste is puke in my mouth!

I like classic rock too. Also some metal. Mostly because I like good guitarwork with lyrics I can actually understand/make sense. Rock on!

Originally Posted by suttsman

Yes, and that taste is puke in my mouth!

haha .... totally