Favourite music genre

I spend most of my listening time with blues and classic rock, my favorites of which are rooted in blues and then alternative rock. I grew up on these genres first on AM radio and then through the heyday of FM radio. (WBCN in Boston),

I expect given the known relationships between familiar music and pleasure and familiar music and memory most of us gravitate to what we know and like.



I’m off to the Florida Audio Expo today. Hope to hear some music I know and like.

Have faith, Mike. Our youngest was the same way. Now at 40 he’s collected 7 to 800 used classic rock and blues LPs. Sharing our similar interest provides some great conversation and learning (for me!).

I have an eclectic taste in music, from any Metallica to early Dire Straits, Love over Gold and Telegraph Road..
From local artists, I like Paul Kelly's works. I am not fussed on Doof Doof music or anything using voice pullers.

I like all kinds of music. I tend to gravitate toward the heavy metal, nu metal or some of the very early rap. .
I picked this video for shock value. The band is very good. I really like female leads in metal bands. Hailstorm, Pretty Reckless, Within Temptation.

Classical from the early Renaissance to now.
Plus almost anything else (including rap) on rare and brief occasion.

3dbinCanada said:

...What are your top three genre that you seem to gravitate to either listening or purchasing?

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I've done some prior work on this subject before. Below you'll find a pie chart of my music purchases by genre (2K albums)--exceeding three genres in your request. The graphic tells a better story, however:



[Note that I have a couple of playlists with named genres in foobar (i.e., Halloween, Christmas). Don't worry about those.]

The above chart doesn't really tell the story of what I actually listen to the most. Classical is by far the most played. New age (ambient) is played much more than the number of discs in that genre would indicate, as well as "folk rock" (70s AOR), soundtracks, and jazz fusion.

Straight-ahead jazz is played less than the number of discs would indicate, as well as rock--indicating shifting tastes over decades of collecting albums. Multichannel SACDs are played much more on an album basis than CDs. Their statistics weren't caught in the above, as was also the case for multichannel DVD-As, DTS, and Blu-Ray music discs.

My setup is dialed-in for multichannel music reproduction.

Chris

I just hand transposed the statistics from foobar2000 and plotted an exploded pie chart in MS Excel. I'm sure just about any PC-based music player will do that (i.e., provide statistics based on genre).

Chris

I like a wide variety of music, from Trance to Classical.
For me, the music has to have dynamic range, and surprise me with something different.
For example, Bubbles by Yosi Horikawa, and his ping pong and basket balls.

A beat on full loudness the whole way, that's the real turn off.