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Joined: September 08 2009
Location: Wales
Status: Offline
Points: 850
Posted: December 26 2016 at 13:25
My main passion outside prog is classical. I started off with the usual suspects (and maintain plenty of admiration for works by the likes of Beethoven, Mahler, Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky etc.), and now I'm discovering and enjoying many relatively little-known composers outside the standard repertoire. There's enough to discover in 20th-century orchestral music alone to keep me occupied for many many years to come.
I'm also very partial to great pop music (probably mainly from the 70s onwards). Although even with that I do veer toward the more ambitious side of it (if anyone tells me that Tears for Fears have no proggish influences or elements to them at all, they're lying.)
Joined: December 20 2016
Location: Italy
Status: Offline
Points: 12
Posted: December 26 2016 at 19:19
Punk straining in HC and viceversa
Husker du
Rhytm'n'blues ROCK'N'ROLL Extreme salsa Accappella's grindcore Hat tricking 70's funky Poor 70's funky Sweet 70's funky Lizard by King Crimson (oppsssss you told EXCEPT prog :D OK....but best record ever) No wave New wave Nasty wave Rockabilly Psychobilly Surfabilly Billy Silly
John Zorn Youzorn Celtic zorn
Every form of Psychedelia Hard rock Fusion
I hate metal
I hate porcupines near trees (boring boring pretentious boring)
Joined: December 20 2016
Location: Italy
Status: Offline
Points: 12
Posted: December 27 2016 at 10:13
Terrapin Station wrote:
These are divided up in an idiosyncratic way that's not supposed to make logical sense to anyone else, but I collect all of the following equally. They're divided up the way the are based on my collecting interests. I simply copied the list I use for collecting purposes. Also, some of the genre names are what they are because they're the names used on rym, for example--it makes it easier for me to find the stuff I'm interested in:
afro-cuban jazz ambient/drone/noise art pop/sophistipop/zolo avant prog/RIO/zeuhl bluegrass blues blues
rock/boogie rock Broadway/showtunes bubblegum/teen pop/Radio Disney artists/top of Billboard charts comedy
stand-up/comedy music country/western country
rock/Americana dance/disco experimental folk/singer-songwriter funk fusion gospel hard rock hip-hop jazz latin metal modern
classical nu metal/groove
metal/funk metal/rap metal/rap rock pop pre-baroque
classical pre-rock
pop (pre 1956)/pre-British Invasion rock (through 1963) progressive
rock punk psychedelic
rock/psychedelic pop R&B reggae/dub rock soft rock/yacht rock soul southern
rock western
classicalmusic world music
I listen to quite a few film scores and video game soundtracks. When you think about it, soundtrack albums are very much like concept albums, since the music follows the story of the movie/game. Most people are rather surprised when I tell them that the Undertale soundtrack by Toby Fox was my favorite album of 2015.
In addition to that, I also like quite a bit of modern electronic music. Pendulum's 'Immersion' gets quite a few spins in my CD player.
I also grew up listening to alternative rock (311/Incubus/Soundgarden), so I still enjoy that style of music from time to time.
At the end of the day, I really just like to expose myself to as many new genres of music as I can find.
Joined: March 30 2010
Location: P
Status: Offline
Points: 1007
Posted: January 07 2017 at 05:12
I have always loved ABBA, Boney M, Dschinghis Khan, Arabesque and especially early Teach-in. Teach-in's first two albums are hi-class, hi-end pop for me. Some their later songs, as well.
Joined: December 17 2008
Location: Barranquilla
Status: Offline
Points: 51
Posted: January 13 2017 at 07:27
Thank God we have Apple Music and Amazon. I was born and raised in the Colombian Caribbean and it was very hard to listen to something beyond salsa, merengue, mainstream pop and that kind of stuff.
It has been more of less 25 years ago that I began my music collection. Classic Rock (Stones, Beatles, The Who...) Classical (Glass, Mahler, Chopin... almost everything), Jazz (Miles, Coltrane, Ella...), some Country (Isbell, Cash, W. Nelson...), Songwriters (Cohen and Dylan, and in spanish Krahe, Sabina, Serrat). Of course, Prog is still my genre of preference.
There are so many great music out there, I don't understand why so many people waste their ears listening to garbage. It's a free world anyway.
Joined: February 08 2005
Location: Hants, England
Status: Offline
Points: 727
Posted: February 07 2017 at 14:00
Mainly hard rock, by which I mean Black Sabbath, Budgie, Groundhogs, Stray, Trapeze, etc. I also listen to genres which could be broadly grouped as easy listening, like Johnny Cash (mainly the Sun recordings), Guy Mitchell, Frankie Laine, Frankie Valli, Beach Boys and the crooners like Nat King Cole. I even like musicals, especially Rodgers and Hammerstein.
Just about anything other than rap(except the early stuff) and country and western. Big fan of fusion, psychedelic and hard rock and metal in particular. I also like folk, electronic(older style ie TD), classical and jazz.
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