Favorite Music Genre?

[somebody231]

What's your favorite music genre?
I had to combine a few, because the maximum amount of options was 10.
Please specify your selection with a reply! (For example if "Metal/Hardrock", specify which?)

I, myself, love metal ^_^ \m/

 

[MistressValerie1]

I prefer "Latin Pop" 🙂

 

[Celtic_Emperor]

I would have to say classical. Classical (meaning instrumental only for all intents and purposes of this vote) speaks on so many levels and depths than singing, dancing, words, or lyrics ever could.

It takes the unknown and intangible and makes it something so dear, deep and fimiliar, yet without a face, identity, or personification to back it up. It pierces the soul and envokes all of the emotions the human spirit and condition is capable of feeling.

Rage, love, passion, and hate, its all there and everything inbetween. And all you have to do is listen and you'll hear it and feel it and experience it. Just listen.

 

[Cbarton]

Southern Gospel, followed close by Irish/Celtic folk

 

[Low_Roads]

My favorite type of music is Baroque: Bach, Handel, Telemann, the Scarlattis, like that. I'm listening to a Bach harpsichord concerto as I write this. I suppose you could categorize it as Classical, though it predates the Classical music period. Anyway, Classical is what I voted for in the poll. I do happen to enjoy Celtic traditional music too. Altan is my favorite group in this genre. And I'd also like to put a good word in for film scores, the best source I know for modern orchestral music. List Danny Elfman and Jerry Goldsmith high amongst my favorite movie composers.

 

[Celtic_Emperor]

I love celtic music, in certain instances more than I do classical. There are plenty of great choices, even more modern, contemporary ones. Anyone ever heard of Enya? She's really good. I get alot of artistic inspiration and alot of ideas when I listen to her. The Corrs are a really good irish family band that I've loved for a long time, since they started. There are alot of other wholesome celtic bands out there too, though most are not very well known in the mainstream. 🙂

 

[Ignatz]

I love celtic music, in certain instances more than I do classical. There are plenty of great choices, even more modern, contemporary ones. Anyone ever heard of Enya? She's really good. I get alot of artistic inspiration and alot of ideas when I listen to her. The Corrs are a really good irish family band that I've loved for a long time, since they started. There are alot of other wholesome celtic bands out there too, though most are not very well known in the mainstream. 🙂

The Canadian singer and composer Loreena McKennit is splendid in this field. Her CD "The Visit" is the one that hooked me, although she hasn't put out a bad album that I know of.

 

[Ignatz]

My favorite type of music is Baroque: Bach, Handel, Telemann, the Scarlattis, like that. I'm listening to a Bach harpsichord concerto as I write this. I suppose you could categorize it as Classical, though it predates the Classical music period. Anyway, Classical is what I voted for in the poll. I do happen to enjoy Celtic traditional music too. Altan is my favorite group in this genre. And I'd also like to put a good word in for film scores, the best source I know for modern orchestral music. List Danny Elfman and Jerry Goldsmith high amongst my favorite movie composers.

One of my favorite stories concerns the time when the Thomaskirche in Leipzig needed a new music director and tried to hire Telemann, considered at the time the greatest composer in Germany. Unfortunately, he wanted too much money to take the post, so the church was compelled to settle...for Johann Sebastian Bach!

 

[Low_Roads]

That's Enya from Clannad, right Vlad? I'm semi-familiar with Clannad. Their music tends to be quieter than stuff by the Chieftans or Altan, rather soulful and lilting. I remember too that Enya contributed to Howard Shore's score for "The Fellowship of the Ring", providing the song ultimately nominated for a Best Song Oscar of that year. Beautiful voice, quite angelic.

 

[Low_Roads]

Great story, Ignatz! It's amazing how Bach, currently the best respected composer of all time, has been minimized throughout history!

 

[Celtic_Emperor]

The Canadian singer and composer Loreena McKennit is splendid in this field. Her CD "The Visit" is the one that hooked me, although she hasn't put out a bad album that I know of.

I've never heard of her. I'll have to give her a look-see.

 

[Celtic_Emperor]

That's Enya from Clannad, right Vlad? I'm semi-familiar with Clannad. Their music tends to be quieter than stuff by the Chieftans or Altan, rather soulful and lilting. I remember too that Enya contributed to Howard Shore's score for "The Fellowship of the Ring", providing the song ultimately nominated for a Best Song Oscar of that year. Beautiful voice, quite angelic.

I'm pretty sure thats her, yes. She has both a somber and uplifting and spiritual presense to her songs, they're mostly all really good. I haven't heard an Enya song yet that I haven't liked for one reason or another. And the band/orchestra that plays for her is top notch also. In this genre it can all be ruined if the instrumental score cannot keep up with the singer, or vice versa. Enya really has it together.

I find it kind of funny that the first time I found her music a long time ago, her cds were in the "new age" section. That didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And in some ways its a little ignorant and disrespectful too. Just because it's not what the average american is used to being exposed to doesn't mean it's far out or outlandish enough to be called "new age". 🙄

 

[Low_Roads]

I find it kind of funny that the first time I found her music a long time ago, her cds were in the "new age" section. That didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And in some ways its a little ignorant and disrespectful too. Just because it's not what the average american is used to being exposed to doesn't mean it's far out or outlandish enough to be called "new age". 🙄

No, from what I know of her music, it really couldn't be called New Age. The stuff I'm familiar with is pretty much Celtic tradtional, which doesn't have any overt, trippy spirituality to it. New Wave often seems to be used as a catch-all category for music that doesn't fit neatly into other established genres. One "New Age" band I like, Cusco, deals basically with "travelogue" themes... Mexican, American Indian and South Seas Island rhythms. No songs, just small, descriptive orchestral pieces, which is probably what makes it so hard to classify. So, dump it in the "New Age" bin. Far easier than trying to figure out what it actually may be.

 

[Celtic_Emperor]

Yeah, it can't possibly help sales either if an otherwise good artist is just thrown in a bin and pushed to the side. No one will think to look there.

 

[nessonite1]

I chose "rock" because it covers the broadest spectrum. but, really, I've loved bits of everything.
Oldies, standards, 70's rock, 80's rock, 90's rock, alternative, classical, broadway tunes, opera, folk songs, hippy peace rally music, jpop, swing, satire/novelty, jazz, etc etc etc...
I never pick favorites. It just depends on my mood. Sometimes I'll just put the Katamari Damacy soundtrack on and loop it for hours. xp

 

[MistressValerie1]

I like both Enya and the Corrs. I also have a penchant for 60's bands like the Fifth Dimension and Chicago (particularly their first, and best, album).

 

[ILove2Tickle1]

I don't have a favorite genre, per se. But I don't like rap, hip hop, and country. Everything else, I'm cool on.

 

[Elazul]

My favorite genre is heavy metal, closely followed by classical. Following the progression of musical development, heavy metal is the ultimate incarnation of rock and roll (which was the evolution from the blues, and so forth). Unfortunately, heavy metal also includes countless abominations, generally the mainstream and/or nu-metal bands. But the bands that channel the energy and intensity properly, fusing influences from classical pieces and the genre's other predecessors, create unparalleled art.

 

[somebody231]

10 was the max. amount of options to choose from. I know you can't squeeze all the music in the world into that amount.

I know classical and renessance aren't the same thing in music, but they're close, so pick your music by that. But yea... it lacks alot like "anime music" and such, but just picked some popular ones... :wooha:

 

[LonelyKimiko]

I like to Rawrk!

 

[crydun]

country. so, none of the above

 

[XaviarRkR]

Doubt I'm the first to say, but

I don't got one. All music is music, and all bad noise is bad noise.