ive been all over the musical map lately. Depending on the day you can find me listening to anything from ambient/electronica to noise to 60's surf pop. Some people say that you'll eventually find your musical niche, but i doubt that'll happen in my circumstance.

I love reflecting on genres of the past that led me to where I am today. It seems like it was only yesterday when I was listening to I Mother Earth religiously for months on end, and thought that it couldn't get any better than Led Zeppelin. How young and naiive of me..

Hip hop is way above the others on the list.

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Hip hop is way above the others on the list.

It's not because you have a cool name that we should have the same tastes as you

New Wave, Post Punk, Synth-Pop, Alternative Pop/Rock, Electro

Without meticulous subcategorization, and in no particular order:

Indie Pop/Rock (Elliott Smith, Spoon, Sufjan Stevens, Interpol)

Death Metal (early Morbid Angel, Suffocation, Cryptopsy, Immolation)

Black Metal - almost exclusively early 90s (Emperor, Immortal, Darkthrone)

Jazz - mostly be-bop, hard bop, and modal (Mingus, Thelonious Monk, Coltrane, Miles Davis)

Hip-Hop (Nas, Wu-Tang, Organized Konfusion, De La Soul, MF DOOM)

Rock (Radiohead, Pearl Jam, Pink Floyd, Jeff Buckley, The Cure, The Flaming Lips)