SCREAMO!
emo
rock
hardcore
alternative
SOME rap

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emo

Do you own a white belt? Do you carry around a brown sack full of bottled water?

HipHop... from old school to present

R&B... if you like hiphop it's difficult not to have R&B in your music mp3 collection, for the obvious reason that there's major overlap.

Soul... from old school stuff like marvin gaye to alicia keys and john legend.

Neo-Soul, Quiet Storm... also known in street language as soulful slow jams

Latin... Of course (Reggaeton gang, Daddy Yankee, Latin hip-hop, etc., Alejandro Sanz)

Rock... I like a few certain random songs, not by artist, but specific songs that I find catchy.

Some experimental, aggro/elektro-industrial, industrial metal...I have been getting into this genre recently

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I can give most sub genre's of rock a chance. Jazz I like but i don't know much of it "Weather Report" -Fusion- and "Galactic" -Acid Jazz- are about all I follow. I like some Rap: "Jurrassic 5" and "Outkast" are my highlights.

I love all sorts of music, especially rock. My favorite genres in rock include:

heavy metal (especially extreme metal)
hardcore
prog rock (from King Crimson to the Mars Volta)
folk rock
post rock
classic rock

I'm also into electronica, especially drill and bass, jazz (namely fusion), some modern classial, and hip hop.

Heavy metal is my favorite genre, but I looooooove diversity in my music.

From the ashes...

Britpop
Post-punk
New Wave
Power Pop
Reggae
Dub
Grime

Ha! This thread made me think of a blurb I had to write for my radio show a few years ago, the show was called "Rock'n'Roll High School" and here's what I wrote on the application when asked "Type of stuff you play?":

An assortment of rock, pop, psychedelic, garage, rockabilly, psycho-billy, proto-punk, punk, ska-punk, post-punk, Mod, Indie, country-rock, insurgent country, cow-punk, power-pop, punk-pop, jangle-pop, twee-pop, chamber-pop, shoegazer/dream pop, folk, folk-rock, krautrock, riot grrrrl, lo-fi, hardcore, heavy metal, surf, blues-rock, art-rock, prog-rock, pub-rock, post-rock, goth-rock, grunge, stoner-rock, space-rock, paisley-pop, C-86, New Wave, etc.

It doesn't really incorporate everything I listen to, but it does account for about 90% or so.

mmm...questions:

what is
- psycho-billy?
- riot grrrrl?
- paisley pop?
- C-86?

Answer, you weirdo

I think I qualify as the ultimate weirdo here.

Psychobilly: Cramps
Riot Grrrl: Bikini Kill, but goes back to Patti Smith, the Slits and Joan Jett
Paisley Pop: Salvation Army jumps out, but "(Listen to the) Flower People" by Spinal Tap qualifies.
C-86: "Twee-ish" Indie British guitar pop from 1986. I liked and still own Mighty Lemon Drops, Close Lobsters and the Wedding Present, and I don't call them twee, but twee's not a dirty word to me.

There's actually a pretty good article on C-86 on Wiki: C-86 Music

It sort of reminds me how I tend to lump bands that sound like the Shins into a genre I call "Garden State Music."

I wont get into this whole sub-genre shit, or it'll get all too confusing, so I'll just list the main:

Indie
Electronic
Alternative Rock
Progressive Rock
Folk (very few bands)
Punk (very few bands)

Britpop/Jangle pop: The Smiths, Belle & Sebastian, REM
Electronic: Boards of Canada, Aphex, Avalanches
Experimental/Rock: Pink Floyd, Radiohead, Bowie
Jazz, Post-Rock: Miles Davis, Talk Talk, etc.

I'm not well-read (er - listened) in Rap, Country, or Metal.

What genres of music do you love?

Hmm....

A hard question to answer these days. I used to favour certain genres when I was younger. You get to a certain age where you've heard so much music that you no longer care what the genre is & you're only concerned with how good it is. I know that sounds like a cliche, but it's true.

If music like Mr Bungle, Naked City, Melt Banana, Frank Zappa and Secret Chiefs 3 can be classed as a genre then I own a lot of that. I don't know what you'd call it though - experimental? I suppose that's one area of music I still follow.

I used to like metal quite a lot - but it had to be really heavy. Stuff like Nailbomb, Godflesh and Napalm Death.

Also went through an 'ambient' phase. For about 3 years I listened to nothing but minimalist composers and strange electronic sounds. Stuff like Steve Reich, Phillip Glass, The Orb, Ozric Tentacles, Aphex Twin and Ed Alleyne Johnson.

There was also my surf rock phase and my much berated 'classic rock' and 'brit-pop' phases. There's been so many - I own a lot of mainstream pop music too.

I stopped listening exclusively to one type of music about 10 years ago.

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Metal
Heavy Metal
Power Metal
Death Metal
Nu Metal
Viking Metal
Folk Metal
Progressive Metal
Doom Metal
Heavy Rock

WHAT!!?? No Black Metal..???

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Folk Metal

what's Folk Metal?!? o_O

I've heard some folk metal.

It's pretty obscure stuff. It has it's roots in the Sinal Tap-esque 'stonehenge' kind of stuff - but it got a lot heavier.

Check out 'Dreamweaver' by Sabbat for the roots of folk metal. They were a pagan metal band who liked to dabble with acoustic instruments in a 'Wicker man' stylee. And then they'd cave your head in with speed metal.

It's an aquired taste mind.

Alternative Pop/Rock
Art-Rock
Big Band
Chicago Blues
College
Indie Rock
Jump Blues
Neo-Swing
New Orleans Jazz
New Wave
R&B
Ska Revival

I like all major genres, but I loooooove Jamaican music, 'speshly Rocksteady.

the blues.