What are your favorite music genres?


Here's mine in relative order of favorites:

Late 60's/Early 70's Psychedelic (Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd, Jefferson Airplane, etc.)
70's European Progressive (Yes, King Crimson, PFM, Ange, etc.)
70's Krautrock (Popol Vuh, Faust, Can, etc.)
60's/70's Classic Rock (Rush, Zeppelin, Beatles, etc.)
Late 60's/Early 70's Folk (S&G, Joni Mitchell, Cat Stevens, etc.)
Late 60's/Early 70's Acid Folk (Fairport Convention, Trees, etc.)
Avant-garde Jazz (Sun Ra, Coltrane, etc.)
70's/80's Electronic (Tangerine Dream, Jean-Michel Jarre, etc.)
80's/90's Ambient Electronic (Pete Namlook, Paul Schutze, Steve Roach, etc.)
Mid 80's to Mid 90's Shoegaze (Cocteau Twins, Lush, etc.)
late 90's trip-hop (Portishead, Sneaker Pimps, etc.)
70's/80's heavy metal (Kiss, Judas Preist, etc.)

I like a smattering of other genres; a little new age, a little Indian music, etc., but those are the main ones. 95% of my music is made up of music from 1965-1978 or so...

How about you?
soulgoober
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Female vocal - many genre.
I feel like I am in the presence of an angel when I hear my favorite recordings of them.
70's hard rock - Led Zeppelin and Nazareth on top!
Late 60's heavy psych - Cream on top (pun intended)!
70's heavy prog - Yes, Genesis, King Crimson and Gentle Giant on top!

Since I got the audiophile bug approx 2 years ago (it's not going away!) I listen a lot to jazz and classical and other music only to hear the fine sounds of these genres.

I was a record collector of rare pressings/groups etc for decades and have many a obscure vinyl that isn't up to highest standards sound wise (private pressings etc) - that never bothered me in the past, but now...oh well...have a GREAT one!
Great thread!

Gosh, I don't even know where to start. My collection is all over the map and I don't have any overall favorites. What I listen to depends on my mood at that moment and nothing else. I like electronic a lot like Fischerspooner, The Faint, Radiohead, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Air, etc. I also like vocal music like Rickie Lee Jones, Joni Mitchell, Peter Frampton, Johnny Lang, Jimmy Thackery, etc. Also rock like Subbionic, Badly Drawn Boy, Jeff Beck, Chamberlin, Ben Folds Five, Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Nine Inch Nails, Marylin Manson, Rammstein, etc. I guess there are some of the ones I listen to pretty often but then I can reach for jazz and classical too when the mood strikes.

Arthur