Daily Poll: Favorite Music Genre

[bigbaldben]

Vote, dammit.

[Myroria]

Only choosing one is hard, but I guess I'll have to go with blues. My favorite blues singer is probably R.L. Burnside or Lightnin' Hopkins. When it comes to women's blues, my favorite singer is 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.

[bigbaldben]

Only choosing one is hard, but I guess I'll have to go with blues. My favorite blues singer is probably R.L. Burnside or Lightnin' Hopkins. When it comes to women's blues, my favorite singer is 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.

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.

Maybe I'll have another poll of "genres you can't stand."   

[Delfos]

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.

[Khem]

Why is Dark Cabaret not an option?

* al'Khem 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
• Joy Division
• Jonathan Coulton
• Tiger Lillies

[AwesomeSaucer]

Symphonic.  Easy.

[The Empire]

Rock all of it! (and some pop, very selective)

[bigbaldben]

Yay diversity!