What is you fave genre?

[BlackBart]

Metal. I listen to and love folk, indie, alt.rock, blues, classical, jazz... But at the end of the day, goddammit, Metal's got it all. Everything that makes the other genres good rolled up into one diverse pure package of awesomeness.

[Chinaski]

What is you fave genre?

AC/DC

For me. If I can pick only one, I'll pick punk. But that would be unfair to all the other stuff I like. Imagine a word without Black Sabbath , without swing , without classical , without The Prodigy , without psychedelia.....

Go with metal, it contains all of those anyway

You would say that.

Seriously, though.

1) Black Sabbath? If we choose to consider Sabbath rock instead of metal, there are a sufficient number of directly inspired Doom Metal bands like Reverend Bizarre to meet the bill.
2) Swing? A bit harder to find, but I'm sure some of the prog stuff could fulfill requirements. Stuff like the Mars Volta, for example. If it's jazz in a more general sense, then Atheist are also pretty cool.
3) Classical? Fuck, it's full of that. Arrangements of classical pieces, classical rearrangements of metal pieces, crossover... Everything.
4) The Prodigy? Ok, not the band themselves, but industrial metal, techno-crossover, etc is huge.
5) Psychedelia? Oh hell, Meshuggah are a goddamm mindfuck, not to mention Spiral Architect.

Win-win.

[Chinaski]

Metal. I listen to and love folk, indie, alt.rock, blues, classical, jazz... But at the end of the day, goddammit, Metal's got it all. Everything that makes the other genres good rolled up into one diverse pure package of awesomeness.

I appreciate Black's sentiment, but that song isn't actually metal.

[BlackBart]

Metal. I listen to and love folk, indie, alt.rock, blues, classical, jazz... But at the end of the day, goddammit, Metal's got it all. Everything that makes the other genres good rolled up into one diverse pure package of awesomeness.

I appreciate Black's sentiment, but that song isn't actually metal.

Very true fridge... Now this is metal... nothing else will do... and one of the sweaty oiks in the audience is MEEEEE!!!

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And it's not Satriani, it's Eddie Clarke.

[Thinking Aloud]

Um ... genre, eh? Dunno. Whatever the link in my sig is classed as. Something like that. Crap?

[Trolldor]

[Bella Fortuna]

Um ... genre, eh? Dunno. Whatever the link in my sig is classed as. Something like that. Crap?

*Sigh*

Hardly.

[JOZeldenrust]

That's a twenty minute bicycle ride from my home...

I prefer:
- alt.country: Townes van Zandt (obviously), some Johnny Cash, Guy Clark, Neko Case.
- indie: really into Editors right now, Kaiser Chiefs, The Decemberists, Tindersticks.
- classical music: mostly Bach, Rachmaninov, Chopin, Liszt.
- soul: Otis, Sam Cooke, Curtis Mayfield.
- jazz: Stan Getz, Chet Baker, Miles Davis, Eastern European modern jazz (Jiri Stivin, Boris Urbanec)
- americana: Calexico, Woven Hand.

And I left out a whole lot.

[Beelzebub2]

Whatever Manilow is labelled in.

[Deep Sea Isopod]

So, I'm the only person here who likes Popera/operatic rock/Classical crossover?

[tattuchu]

So, I'm the only person here who likes Popera/operatic rock/Classical crossover?

That actually sounds interesting, and something I might like. But can you give some examples

Generally I like progressive rock, new wave (well it was new at the time), alternative, this sort of thing. Mainstream rock bores the living shit out of me. Give me King Crimson or Jethro Tull, however, and I'm transported to another dimension.

Right now I'm really getting into Arcade Fire.

[Deep Sea Isopod]

So, I'm the only person here who likes Popera/operatic rock/Classical crossover?

That actually sounds interesting, and something I might like. But can you give some examples

Generally I like progressive rock, new wave (well it was new at the time), alternative, this sort of thing. Mainstream rock bores the living shit out of me. Give me King Crimson or Jethro Tull, however, and I'm transported to another dimension.

Right now I'm really getting into Arcade Fire.

Andrea Bocelli is classed as a Crossover artist, not Opera. It is a very big unbrella
OK, examples......

The worlds biggest selling Soprano is a crossover artist.



Operatic Rock
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B65CFK8Y ... re=related[/youtube]


Bond are a classical crossover string quartet.



There are more example if you want, but crossover has something for everyone, I do believe. Try searching for stuff on YT.

[Azathoth]

I really despise that stuff DSI. If you are going to listen to opera/classical listen to it. Not a watered down poppified version to appeal to the masses.

[Red Katie]

I like jazz. Also American folk music, which is mostly songs that were popular tunes in England and Scotland in the 18th century. Also the modern stuff that's called folk music: Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Judy Collins, like that. Folky singer-song writers, such as Janis Ian, John Prine (who verges into country), Joni Mitchell (who verges into rock, and these days, jazz), and Tom Waits, who was obviously influenced by Bob Dylan, but really isn't folk at all. Definitely Leonard Cohen.

Well, not the most modern modern folk music, which is piss-willy.

I think Judy Collins is performing in Orlando this weekend, but I can't afford to go.

I used to not be able to understand why I couldn't enjoy classical, until I had this revelation: Most classical music, at least that you hear on the radio, is orchestral. When I listen to jazz, I don't like big band. I like trios, quartets, quintets. What made me think I was going to like big band when it was classical? So I went to the book store and listened to little snatches of string quartets by Dvorak. I loved it. I wanted it bad, but it was 65 bucks. What am I, made of money?

[Azathoth]

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