POLL: Favorite styles of music, ok stuff, dislike?

Favorite?

hmm... Nick Cave? dunno what that would be considered.

I love rock, but it always sounds shabby on a real nice system,.Well, hard rock does.

RAP and HIPHOP sound fantastic on a good system.

Tell ya one thing, those rap artists spend big bucks to get thier recordings sounding crisp. I know i know, alot of compression, alot of samples and loops, but all in all you can crank it and it wont sound distorted.

R&B is fantastic as well. I dont know if anyone here likes Alicia Keys, but man that girl has a set of pipes on her! she also very adept at tickling the ivory on a nice steinway piano.

I dont like jazz, at least not the free-form stuff where several musicians play whatever the hell they want while others do the same.

all in all, nothing beats BB king. I love anything by BBking. Eric clapton aint half bad either.

Sometimes though, none of that will cut it. Sometimes what i need is a good heavy dose of Skinny Puppy or Project Pitchfork.

All music has its up's and downs. I used to hate anything that wasnt "Industrial". Eventually though i found the way to find and appreciates the musical merits of all. Be it Frank Sinatra, or Wu Tang Clan.

Classical first, 18th century

Next Well Recorded Singers with small backup of any genre

Jazz other than fusion, particulary with Afro Cuban or Celtic rhythm.

What drives me away, synthetic drums, overmixed non acoustic bass, operas with two principal sopranos.

I realized I love everything combined together onto one and the main and probably unique contender of such style is
MAGNA.

My favorite type of music is rock music from the late 1950's through the 1970's. We are talking the Beatles; Byrds; Dylan; Stones; Sam Cooke; Mamas & the Papas; Gary Puckett; Doo Wop; etc. Lillian Roxon's "Rock Encyclopedia," which was published in 1968 (I still have my copy), could be renamed "Rich's Favorite Music."

My second favorite type of music is Americana (country; folk; bluegrass) . Pick up a copy of the "No Depression" magazine to see what I mean. At any point , I will own from 40% to 60% of their "Top Whatever" lists.

My third favorite type of music is a toss up between jazz and classical/opera. I buy a lot of these two types of music and I am still learning about them ... but, I still can not distinguish between two conductors' versions of the same piece.

I find most world music tolerable, but I do not buy it consistently. I own some Cuban (Afro-Cubano All Stars); some latino (Ruben Blades); some African ... but that's about it.

I head for the door whenever I see the warning label "explicit lyrics" on the CD cover. It is not the use of language that offends me. What the warning sticker has come to represent to me though ... is music that is a mish mosh of thug braggadocio set to a boring and repetitive "thump thump" beat. The music is not melodic ... the words are not poetic. Kid Rock may try to "humor it up" on occasion ... but it still does not work for me on any level.

Elizabeth: thanks for a great post. This New Year finds me, just like last year, recuperating from spinal fusion and listening to a lot of music. My New Year's resolution for 2004 is to focus only the music and not the equipment (granted though, I am a mid fi aficionado ... when I do damage it is in $500 chunks). Posts like yours help me to keep my New Year resolutions.

Regards, Rich

Favorite: all periods of jazz, far too much to list or discuss. Orchestral/Symphonic music of the classical,romantic and some modern classical music.
Next is some progressive rock, some rock and pop. I love Latin Jazz, bluegrass, "Good" reggae,soca,chutney soca (indian wife from Trinidad, mon)
I head for the door when I hear MTV/BET rap,modern r&b, modern "bad" reggae, angry trashy hard rock of the last decade or so
I'm into BEAUTY, aesthetics, composition, you know, the rules of design. NOT UGLY TRASHY GARBAGE