Your Top 5 favourite musical genres?

starwarsnosebleed

1.Sludgy stoner stuff
   (Melvins, Hepa-Titus, Thrones)

2.Weird and abstract punk
   (Ween, Butthole surfers, Shit and shine,
   Thee Oh sees, Ty segall, Joy division,
   Half man half biscuit)

3.Late 60’s/Early 70’s psychedelic rock
  (Captian Beefheart, Can, 13th floor elevators,
   Hawkwind, Stooges, Pebbles comps etc)

4.90’s Grindcore
   (Spazz, Brutal truth, Agoraphobic Nosebleed,
    Early Earache and Relapse stuff)

5.Other non rock stuff
   (Joanna Newsom, Suicide, Dead C,
   Acid mothers temple, Prettiest eyes)

breakstuff

In no particular order, 

Metal/Prog Metal. 

Hair Metal. 

Indie. 

Psychobilly/Rockabilly. 

Seventies Punk. 

Reverend

KKJale said:

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

I love the sense of community.

Only worth listening to post meep! And perhaps the early proto plunk, up to when Berry Gammon left Trafficwangler to join Frottage Ensemble 

rlw

Blues

Country

Americana

Reggae

octatonic

1. Avant/Experimental Rock: Zappa, David Torn, Bill Frisell, John Zorn, Adrian Belew etc.
2. Extreme/Progressive/Death Metal: Strapping Young Lad, Meshuggah, Mastodon, Decapitated
3. Post-Metal: Isis, Neurosis, Russian Circles, Tool (where else do they go?)
4. Fusion/Shred: Guthrie Govan, Scott Henderson, Mike Stern etc 
5. Bebop/Jazz/Post Bop Experimental: Miles, Parker, Coltrane, Snarky Puppy, The Bad Plus.

and... 
6. Rockabilly.

mudslide73

This is hard to narrow down. 5?!

octatonic

mudslide73 said:

This is hard to narrow down. 5?!

Yeah I kinda cheated ^^^

schrodinger1612

Heavy Rock
Techno (old school, Detroit etc.)
Industrial
Ambient/Drone
Blues

And some jazz fusion

Dopesick

Sludge / hardcore / doom / stoner (eg Converge, Melvins, Torche, Boss Keloid, Unearthly Trance, Kyuss, Goatsnake etc)

Grindcore / noise (eg Napalm Death, Nails, Godflesh, Pig Destroyer, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Terrorizer etc)

Black metal / old school (sounding) death metal (eg Carcass, Entombed, Emperor, Negura Bunget etc)

90s alt rock / grunge (AIC, Nirvana, FNM, Soundgarden, Screaming Trees etc)

90s dance music / Britpop (Oasis, Pulp, Ocean Colour Scene, numerous chart rubbish from the times)

Rocker

@Octatonic I listen to a fairly broad range of music but I doubt I have anything you might care to listen to if you called to our house!

schrodinger1612

@octatonic  I’m quite intrigued by Belew due to his unorthodox style, though I’m only familiar with his Crimson ‘Elephant Talk’ phase. What other projects of his are worth checking out? 

proggy

Prog rock: Floyd, Yes, Tull.

Classic rock: Purple, Led Zep, Bad Co.

Southern rock: Little Feat, Skynyrd, ZZ Top.

Grunge: Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam.

Blues: SRV, Gary Moore, Joey B.

tone1

Absolute Radio 60’s
Absolute Radio 70’s
Absolute Radio 80’s
Absolute Radio 90’s
Absolute Radio Classic Rock 

octatonic

schrodinger1612 said:

@octatonic  I’m quite intrigued by Belew due to his unorthodox style, though I’m only familiar with his Crimson ‘Elephant Talk’ phase. What other projects of his are worth checking out? 

Check out his playing with Frank Zappa (Baby Snakes period), with Bowie (Station to Station), with the Bears, with Talking Heads, The Tom Tom Club, his solo albums (Lone Rhino, Young Lions, Inner Revolution, Desire Caught By The Tail, Guitar As Orchestra) and most recently with Gizmodrome.

octatonic

Rocker said:

@Octatonic I listen to a fairly broad range of music but I doubt I have anything you might care to listen to if you called to our house!

I like a lot of other stuff too- I'm just obsessive about the genres/bands above.

HAL9000

Blimey! Hadn’t really thought about this before. Questions about genre are trickier than I’d have first thought. For instance - Tedeschi Trucks Band - are they blues rock? Soul? Americana? Muddy Waters and Joe Bonamassa are both blues players yet I love one but detest the very ground on which the other walks. I like Clapton but that certainly doesn’t mean I like everything he’s ever done. @scrumhalf got it right with 1. Great music 2. Really good music etc.

ICBM

If anyone missed the point in my previous post, I detest the ‘genre’ labelling of music. I used to delete all the genre labels from my iTunes library, until they changed something and meant that you couldn’t get rid of the column... and my OCD about a blank column overrode my dislike of genre labelling , so I started using only the absolute top category in the Gracenote system - hence why I have so much ‘Alternative & Punk’, which seems to be a dumping ground for things that don’t really fit elsewhere or for artists who also dislike being labelled.

thecolourbox

ICBM said:

If anyone missed the point in my previous post, I detest the ‘genre’ labelling of music. I used to delete all the genre labels from my iTunes library, until they changed something and meant that you couldn’t get rid of the column... and my OCD about a blank column overrode my dislike of genre labelling , so I started using only the absolute top category in the Gracenote system - hence why I have so much ‘Alternative & Punk’, which seems to be a dumping ground for things that don’t really fit elsewhere or for artists who also dislike being labelled.

The genres in my iTunes library are:

1. Classical
2. Modern

ICBM

thecolourbox said:

The genres in my iTunes library are:

1. Classical
2. Modern

That's pretty good.

But do you have any Gershwin?

octatonic

Winamp (remember that?) used to have 'Primus' listed as a genre.
Pretty accurate.