Your Top 5 favourite musical genres?

equalsql

In the spirit of trying to understand where you bods are coming from musically,  I thought it would be interesting to see what your favourite musical genres are.

Place in order of preference with, if possible, a favourite example from each.

I'll put my list up later but until then does anyone want to start this ball rolling?

Rocker

Country including Country Rock
Trad Irish including Folk music and Celtic Rock
Classic Rock
Classical Piano, mainly Chopin, Beethoven etc.
Campfire Songs, general songs that everyone knows.

# Edited post for clarity.

Caffeine_Vampire

1 - Blues
2 - 5 - Blues

Whitecat

Yacht Rock
Post Rock
Electro
”Indie”
Prog rock that’s not too proggy 

Grumpyrocker

Metal
Classic Rock
Prog (of the more Pink Floyd end)
More Metal
And another splash of Metal

blobb

Canterbury

Space rock

Zappa

Folk rock

Ossian

MagicPigDetective

Hard to split all I listen into clear genres, so I've created five sub categories which include several sub genres. I have phases of others, such as folk, jazz, hip hop etc, but don't listen often enough to replace the main ones below. I have a low attention span and jump all over the place, listening to different stuff every week, especially now it's so easy with Apple Music.  

1. Alternative, shoegaze, indie, post rock etc and a lot early 90's indie and grunge.

2. Classic rock, blues, Hendrix, Led Zep etc a bottomless well of music to dip into an explore

3. Metal - Sabbath, Stoner, Doom, Mastodon.

4. Drum and Bass - been listening since the mid 90's. Prefer jazzier and liquid styles, especially Hospital Records releases and podcast.

5. Ambient, electronic, techno etc.  

Reverend

Heavy Metal - particularly 76-84 or so
Proto Metal and classic rock - Purple, Grand Funk, Free through to the obscure stuff like Bang, Nightsun etc
Hip Hop - mostly 80s but some 90s and beyond
early black and death metal. Hate polite production and stuff that sounds more like Machine Head than Judas Iscariot
dark folky and ambient stuff

Philly_Q

Stoner/psychedelic/doom metal (Earthless, Mars Red Sky, Elder, My Sleeping Karma, Sleep, Pallbearer, Khemmis)

Classic rock (the stuff which used to be called heavy metal in the 70s and 80s but nobody thinks it's metal any more - Scorpions, Y&T, Rainbow, Dio)

Alternative(?) metal (early 90s stuff like King's X, Galactic Cowboys, Warrior Soul, Living Colour)

Hair/glam metal (Winger and Dokken, not D'Molls or Tuff)

Some prog (Rush and Kansas, not Yes or the Canterbury scene) 

Some alternative rock (Veruca Salt, Matthew Sweet)

And Clutch.  What the hell category do Clutch come under?

Mark1960

1 - Rhythem n Blues - SRV / Thorouhgood / Rolling Stones / Dr Feelgood

2 - Rock n Roll - Chuck Berry / Jerry Lee / Buddy Holly

3 - Soul - Wilson Picket / Commitments

4 - Blues - BB, Clapton

5 - Country Blues - Blues Band / CCR / Albert Lee

ICBM

In order of number of albums...

Alternative & Punk
Pop
Rock
Classical
Electronica/Dance

lasermonkey

Dream Pop/Shoegaze (Cocteau Twins, Slowdive, Besnard Lakes, etc)

Post Punk (The Cure, The Chameleons, Siouxsie & The Banshees, etc)

Electronic/Downtempo/Ambient (Boards Of Canada, Eno, etc)

Indie/Alternative (Teenage Fanclub, Radiohead, etc)

Black Sabbath

munckee

Alternative/grunge/indie 80s 90s to now stone roses, radiohead to nirvana, pixies, yeah yeah yeahs
60s pop beatles, byrds, monkees etc
US 60s/70s rock Neil Young, Tom Petty, Bruce Springsteen
country from johnny cash and kris kristofferson to modern maddie and tae/david nail type stuff
erm whatever category sigur ros is?
 

KKJale

These days largely cosmic skiffle, flan rock, scare plunk, ¡meep! and polter psyche. 

I love the sense of community.

thecolourbox

For me, though I'm yet to spot a common link (other than between a couple of them):

1. Classical - mostly Late romantic early modern, Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninov.
2. 00s indie garage rock type stuff - White Stripes, Strokes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Franz Ferdinand, et al, and the stuff that's come from those bands/members since
3. Folky Singer Songwriter stuff, generally the depressing end of things - Laura Marling, Simon & Garfunkel, Bright Eyes, Noah & the Whale
4. Really old (ie proper) blues - Son House, Blind Willie MacTell, Charley Patton etc
5. The pop end of electro-pop (hard to name that one) - Christine & the Queens, St Vincent,

equalsql

OK, here's my list.

Neo-Soul/Jazz RnB like H.E.R

Modern Jazz Fusion ala Snarky Puppy

Gospel

Classic Blues/Rock ala Oli Brown

Americana  like Sarah Jarosz

scrumhalf

1) Great music

2) Really good music

3) Good music

4) Decent music

5) Shit music that somehow appeals to me

EricTheWeary

I wrote a long answer but it was boring so I asked my youngest son what I listen to. 

Ska. 


[ I’d say that’s not a comprehensive answer but there you go] 

equalsql

EricTheWeary said:

I wrote a long answer but it was boring so I asked my youngest son what I listen to. 

Ska. 


[ I’d say that’s not a comprehensive answer but there you go] 

Bit of a rude boy are you @EricTheWeary? 

axisus

1 Prog old and new
2 classic rock
3 Blues 
4 jazz fusion
5 jazz

EricTheWeary

equalsql said:

EricTheWeary said:

I wrote a long answer but it was boring so I asked my youngest son what I listen to. 

Ska. 


[ I’d say that’s not a comprehensive answer but there you go] 

Bit of a rude boy are you @EricTheWeary? 

Well according to my son apparently so. Although I did take him to see Slipknot, I'm fairly sure he doesn't think they are a ska band.