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General Category => General Board => Taijitu Polls => Topic started by: bigbaldben on June 12, 2015, 12:20:42 PM
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Vote, dammit.
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Only choosing one is hard, but I guess I'll have to go with blues. My favorite blues singer is probably R.L. Burnside (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._L._Burnside) or Lightnin' Hopkins (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightnin%27_Hopkins). When it comes to women's blues, my favorite singer is Big Mama Thornton (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Mama_Thornton).
I'll listen to pretty much anything, but other favorite genres include rap/hip-hop, ambient, indie rock when I can stand the phoniness, shoegaze, new wave, soul, progressive rock, classic country and western, and Fleetwood Mac.
Some genres I can't listen to are modern country and most punk music.
Some genres I feel ambivalent to are screamo, most metal, jazz, and classical. I could take or leave them.
I like most pop music except when it's bad. I enjoy a lot of experimental and microtonal music, but I can't stand pieces that feel ingenuine or shocking for shock's sake. My favorite experimental music piece is probably the ambient track by William Basinger, The Disintegration Loops (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYOr8TlnqsY).
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Only choosing one is hard, but I guess I'll have to go with blues. My favorite blues singer is probably R.L. Burnside (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._L._Burnside) or Lightnin' Hopkins (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightnin%27_Hopkins). When it comes to women's blues, my favorite singer is Big Mama Thornton (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Mama_Thornton).
I'll listen to pretty much anything, but other favorite genres include rap/hip-hop, ambient, indie rock when I can stand the phoniness, shoegaze, new wave, soul, progressive rock, classic country and western, and Fleetwood Mac.
Some genres I can't listen to are modern country and most punk music.
Some genres I feel ambivalent to are screamo, most metal, jazz, and classical. I could take or leave them.
I like most pop music except when it's bad. I enjoy a lot of experimental and microtonal music, but I can't stand pieces that feel ingenuine or shocking for shock's sake. My favorite experimental music piece is probably the ambient track by William Basinger, The Disintegration Loops (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYOr8TlnqsY).
Yeah, choosing one is hard - I had to think quite a bit before choosing my "top" one.
The rise of digital music and playlists, I think, have opened up music lovers to more genres, which is a good thing. You can sample the songs first and don't have to spend $20 on a CD of a band that only has one decent song on a movie soundtrack, no less. I'm looking at you, Folk Implosion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Folk_Implosion).
Maybe I'll have another poll of "genres you can't stand." :D
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jazz and classic music, mostly bebop and romantic. Inside classic I can't stand most harpsichord tho, or too many violins, or too much italian drama. With jazz I mostly love trumpet, although bebop is one of my favorite I often listen to the mellow Chet Baker's trumpet (not voice, no thank you).
I listen and appreciate other types but I don't randomly listen to any of them, that's reserved for the genres above. I can appreciate pop and their projects, mostly on reading between the lines kind of thing, I don't usually enjoy their music specially when it's being shoved down my throat in all radios, commercial places, shops and the like.
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Why is Dark Cabaret not an option?
/me gives a surprisingly hipsterish look of disdain.
Seriously though this is just too tough a choice for me to choose anything but other.
A short list of things I like:
- Kimya Dawson (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=523xLGUJFCI)
- Joy Division (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncJ8FCvCofw)
- Jonathan Coulton (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFoYNVp6k8A&list=PLFRvzqqkF4fjvPMWDRgrjpMYj3OUYagbu)
- Tiger Lillies (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xCGz8rc-HY)
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Symphonic. Easy.
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Rock all of it! (and some pop, very selective)
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Yay diversity!