I love:

Classic rock
Power pop & pop/rock
Rock
Modern rock/alternative
Folk
Folk/rock
Motown
Older R&B
Country (especially traditional and alt-country)
Classical

Jazz is my first, great love, which makes the fact that I hear less and less to love each year all the harder.

I grew up on classic country and have never lost my taste for it.

I probably own as much classical music as anything else in my music collection, but that probably has as much to do with the amount of vinyl I sold when I moved five years ago as anything else.

I'm a popular music omnivore liking rock/pop/r&b/folk and all the myriad sub-genres in pretty much equal measure.

I take world music in short phases and small doses.

I am painfully ignorant of all rap and hip-hop after Gil-Scott Heron.

I can't think of single genre I outright don't like, but no small number of individual artists and bands can provoke considerable venom.

I like i bit of everything generally, but mainly:
Pop-Rock
Alternative
Soul (Especially Marvin Gaye and Otis Redding)
Some general pop as well, especially old michael jackson and Prince.

I have recently been getting into some jazz, R&B and hip hop also.

Anyone who loves jazz and doesn't own the wax poetic album - nublu sessions, buy it!! It's excellent, really modern take on jazz, electronic programming and stuff used, it's excellent!

Hip-Hop is the only genre I love (counting stuff like DJ Shadow/RJD2 as hip-hop)

I'm a sucker for shoegaze, noise pop, jazz influenced hip hop, and melodic electronica. Also, anything that has raw production values sounds good to these ears. For instance, I can't get enough of that rapture guitar tone.

I hate to say I like a particular genre, because in any genre there is so much that is terrible.

Take hip hop for example. Even when you split it up into mainstream and indie hip hop, there's tons of horribly boring or annoying albums on each side. El-P was right in the Pitchfork interview he did: there is too much laziness in the underground hip hop world.

I hate saying I like indie rock. This feels wrong to me because I don't like Pavement or late 80s Sonic Youth (early 80s and early 00s SY is good). Spoon are one of the few bands I like where I can't come up with a description better than "they're a really great indie rock band". Yeah, I like a lot of indie rock, but I usually need SOMETHING to differentiate you from the rest of the bands "inspired by VU, SY, Pixies, and 80s post punk". That's why I didn't like "The Meadowlands" by the Wrens.

When I'm talking to someone about what music they like, I no longer ask for what type of music they like because everyone always says "everything". Now I ask for individual bands/albums that they like.

Hard Rock
Older Metal
Alternative
Classical
EARLY Hip-Hop (Whodini, Public Enemy, DMC, Grand Master Flash)
Blue Grass

Stoner Rock
Techno (music to dance/strip to)

I can get with most genres. I don't listen to much hip-hop, but I like some of it. My collection centers around:

Power pop
Brit pop
Alt-country
80's new wave
Slowcore
Jangle pop
Singer-songwriter
1st-3rd wave punk

I am open to good music of just about any genre. The only one I stay away from completely is New Country. Not particularly into Emo, Indie Rock, or House though.

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Originally posted by Buck "Sweetie" McGuck:
I hate to say I like a particular genre, because in any genre there is so much that is terrible.

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I hate to go off-topic, but this comment just made my day. The whole "all genres are great" response given by every single person on the face of the Earth since the invention of the iPod had to be skewered sometime. Bravo.

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When I'm talking to someone about what music they like, I no longer ask for what type of music they like because everyone always says "everything". Now I ask for individual bands/albums that they like.

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Completely true.

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What genres of music do you love?

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Drone. Deathprod, Double Leopards? I'm there.
EDIT: Plus Stars of the Lid, etc.

I'm a huge fan of everything jazz-influenced and been so for 20 years now. I also enjoy almost every aspect of black music history...be it 70s funk, disco, r&b (I'm a sucker for 80s r&b - complete with cheesey drum-machines) and even some hip-hop (pre-1995)
I don't really care much for the more recent stuff...soulful house/US garage aside.

Trance all the way (also a bit of Hard House), or to people who know nada about electronic music: techno

I like alot of older forms of punk, rock and RnB. I really like country, classical and some newer rock like the White Stripes and the Hives.

I tend to avoid techno, jazz and alot of newer rap (though there have been some good albums recently, OutKast's new one and Dizzee Rascal).

Prog/Art Rock (& Progressive/Jazz Fusion)
Indie (both Electronica and Rock)
Experimental Rock

Recently been getting into early Ska/punk/raggae. [MMBT,OPIVY,CLASH] Like innovative guitarwork -Charlie Hunter, Keller Williams, early british pop -the Kinks,Small Faces. ALT Country -UncleTupelo,Grant Lee Buffalo. At least thats what I'm into these days.

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Originally posted by hennepin:
Recently been getting into early Ska/punk/raggae.

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I fine I like a lot of the early 80s ska. For the last week or so I've been sampling The Toasters' collection In Retrospect: The Best Of on Stomp. They're not a band I'd ever checked out before and I'm finding I'm liking them a lot. Have you heard them?

Now Playing: "Catch Me Up" Gomez Split The Difference (Virgin)

LinnTate, no haven't heard of the toasters, there are a lot of bands I don't know about. Thanks for the tip. I just looked them up on singingfish.com and have downloaded some live tracks. they sound good. Check out Madness, a british ska band. I like Common Rider a lot too. A band you definitely don't know, but are one of my favorites is "Conehead Buddha", they're ska/funk with a latin edge.

Machols, I think they call you a "troll".

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GENRES! ew! genres shouldnt exist. you shouldnt be able to group music so easily and with such banality...every Band or Musician should be an Anomaly as every person should be an Anomaly and those who arent should be Ignored.

The Worst Genre is...radio friendly country. It really makes me just want to give up when i hear people listening to that stuff....there is no chance for those soulless wastes. nevermind the snakes that play a role in its creation/distribution. after that is bad heavy metal.

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Once again, we see the bizarre flight of ideas that is...THE MACHOLS! On the one hand, you rail against genre-ization as a whole. But just a few paragraphs later, you lump together several types of music (radio-friendly country and "bad" heavy metal) as easily fitting into a genre primarily, it seems, because it offends your aesthetic sensibilities. Hmm.

I give your overall effort a B-/C+, Mac. I like the direction you were headed, but then you sold your idea down the river.

I'm with you that over-emphasizing "genre" tends to de-emphasize the individuality of music. Calling something "alt-country" shouldn't be the end-all, be-all of what it sounds like. But it is a useful shorthand to get to know what others are into. I prefer, however, to ask people WHAT BANDS they like.
I wouldn't just walk away from someone who asked me what genre I liked, though. That seems awfully unfriendly and a little snobby. It's the indie-cool record store clerk mentality: "I know more about music than you-therefore, I shall not degrade myself by hearing what you say."

Is that "trollishness"? Is that even a word? It should be!!!

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Originally posted by hennepin:
Check out Madness, a british ska band. I like Common Rider a lot too. A band you definitely don't know, but are one of my favorites is "Conehead Buddha", they're ska/funk with a latin edge.

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My first introduction to Madness was the "Our House" video that was a staple of the early years of MTV's. As much as I liked their stateside releases, I never gave them as much time as I did The Specials or The English Beat. No time like the present to rectify that error.

Common Rider is news to me, though. Thanks for the tip in return, hennepin.

Oh, and Machols is okay, just a bit much to parse.

Do you know the famous quote attributed to Duke Ellington, M.? There are only two kinds of music, good music and bad music.

Or, as Frank Zappa once said, if you like it, it's good, if you don't, it's shit.

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