Your favorite genre of music?

[the Savage Hippie]

I love Tool so humping much that I'm going to throw down Prog Rock for shiggles even though I'm not certain of what Prog Rock actually entails. Definitely something to do with being musically supreme.

I wouldn't categorize Tool as prog(ressive) rock, although they have some prog elements in their music.
Progressive rock is a genre that first started to appear in the late 60's (King Crimson was one of the very first prog bands). The genre became widely popular throughout the 70's and more bands would appear to play progressive rock Jethro Tull, Genesis (early), Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Camel, Pink Floyd, Yes, Gentle Giant, Van Der Graaf Generator, Nektar etc.
Narrowed down to a few facts progressive rock contains elements from a lot of differents genres, a use of many different instruments be it flute, bongos, accordian, mellotron whatsoever (often mixed together), the structure of a song will most likely avoid what we describe as a classical popform; instead of being A, A, B, A, B, C, B, B (a common popsong) - a prog song might look like this A, A, B, C, C, D, D, B, D, D, E, C, A. There is also a lot of time signature differences from popular music instead of the regular 4/4 - progressive rock will often contain pieces of 7/8, 3/4, 5/8, 9/8, 7/4 etc... also the tempo might change a lot during a song.

Prog 1 = Jethro Tull

Prog 2 = Focus

Prog 3 = Camel

[Vendetta]

New age, opera metal, and I have no idea what yanni's music is classified as.

[Yomnom]

Jazz, Metal (most subgenres except Black Metal), Industrial, Progressive House, Psytrance, Pop. I can also listen to some hip-hop, if I'm in the mood. Recently I got into Dubstep although I have a feeling it will become tiring quickly. Oh, and some videogame soundtracks are nice too.

[Black Thunder]

Rock:
- Hard
- Progressive
- Classic
- Soft
- (Some) blues
- (Some) folk
- (Some) christian
- (Some) punk

Metal:
- Heavy
- (Some) thrash
- Progressive
- Power

I also know and like a few Rap songs here and there. Jazz also.

NOT:
- Emo
- Screamo
- Death/Doom/Black metal
- Techno/House
- Noise/Random [&@%!]

... and the likes of those mentioned above.

[Stendarr]

Huge fan of most metal genres. But not that scene-kid crap that kids these days call metal.

This + old rock/progressive rock (post-rock), punk (hardcore, post-punk) and some electronic.

But speaking of metal, these days I'm in a huge NWOBHM trip. Realized Dianno Maiden is 10 times superior to Dickinson Maiden, that Crucifixion and Trespass recorded some of the finest songs of the movement, [&@%!] Sin rocks, Avenger, Blitzkrieg... argh.

I must also confess and talk about my newfound love for Inepsy. Anyone who likes rockin' hard and dirty PUNK/ROCK/metallish stuff will love that. Take alcohol and cigarettes abused voice similar to Lemmy, add d-beats and Fast Eddie (early Motorhead) type riffing, and you've got some of the most rocking and badass music in existence. It just makes you want to get wild or do some speeding in your car. Just listen to these babies: 1, 2, 3. I saw them live and it was one of the best shows I ever saw.

[Veck]

I think Hip Hop and Pop would be best to put here right now, as I haven't listened to anything else in a while.

[the Savage Hippie]

But speaking of metal, these days I'm in a huge NWOBHM trip. Realized Dianno Maiden is 10 times superior to Dickinson Maiden.

Being a former huge Iron Maiden fan. I can tell you: Sure, DiAnno kicked ass, but he wasn't what the band wanted and he wanted to leave the band even before Steve Harris told him that they needed a more operatic vocalist. DiAnno rules, but he could never do what Dickinson has done in Maiden.
So NWOBHM huh? Go for Witchfinder General and of course Pagan Altar (yeah I am a doomhead!) :p
Btw Stendarr: Check out the thread called "Bands You've Seen Live" I have finally answered you...

[Stendarr]

Being a former huge Iron Maiden fan. I can tell you: Sure, DiAnno kicked ass, but he wasn't what the band wanted and he wanted to leave the band even before Steve Harris told him that they needed a more operatic vocalist. DiAnno rules, but he could never do what Dickinson has done in Maiden.

Yeah, I guess. Still, as much as Dickinson is good, I'm not a huge fan of his vocals or the arena-like Maiden songs. They're good, but they get old fast and don't have that little something songs like Prowler (or anything on the s/t and Killers) or like Wasted Years. And one of the reasons I love so much early Maiden, is well, I'm a huge fan of NWOBHM, so I love the more punky, dirty and raw rock n' roll sound.

So NWOBHM huh? Go for Witchfinder General and of course Pagan Altar (yeah I am a doomhead!) :p

That's what I'm talking about! Death Penalty is such a killer album, I'm occasionally blasting it at my job. And last time I saw Cauldron live a couple of weeks ago (a Canadian retro-heavy band), they covered Free Country. Guess who was shouting "Look out for me, let's trip on LSD!" while air drumming and furiously headbanging? Me.

As for Pagan Altar, I had the privilege of seeing them live do a 2 hours set. They were supposed to play Volume 1 in its entirety, but the bar had to close down so... at least they played the better half, and I can die without regrets now that I've seen them perform "Judgement of the Dead.

Btw Stendarr: Check out the thread called "Bands You've Seen Live" I have finally answered you...

Will do.

[MasterRokon]

I enjoy screamo/grudge, but most of all electronic, specifically nightcore.

[Mithrandir]

Thrash Metal, Grunge, and being from Texas I like Tejano music

[Frogmander]

Metal and Alternative Rock, I don't like much heavy metal as most of it is just "RARARHWHARGARGH" random screamo music :/

[Nevastar]

I used to be way scene, so I still listen to hardcore/metalcore/screamo bands sometimes, but electronica would have to be my favourite; gotta love some synth. Also rock such as Coldplay, and easy listening such as Jack Johnson.

[MARS]

Metal and Alternative Rock, I don't like much heavy metal as most of it is just "RARARHWHARGARGH" random screamo music :/

I call

[everar]

favorite is shoegaze

runners up include dreampop, twee, psychedelic, japanese 'group sounds' movement, mod/freakbeat, new folk, alt-country, motown, electro...

[The Dog Whisperer]

Musically Oblivious 8th Grader?
Shoegaze?
hmm..

Spoiler:

[everar]

Shoegaze is very much more broad than the jarring dissonance of MBV, though they were important in pioneering it.

"This music is the opposite of hype. It's about genuine emotion. It's about standing at a gig or walking around with your headphones on and being completely transported. It's about that kind of beauty." ~Ulrich Schnauss

Some shoegaze bands to sample would include:
Jesus & Mary Chain, The Boo Radleys, Lilys, Ride, Slowdive, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Mahogany, The Stone Roses...

From there, a hundred more branch off and take to their own inspiration. Like Engineers, The High Violets, Loop, FilmSchool, Cocteau Twins...

[MARS]

Isn't shoegaze a derivative of post-rock? That's the impression I got.

[everar]

Wikipedia defines postrock as: using rhythms and "guitars as facilitators of timbre and textures" not traditionally found in rock

That much is true, but Godspeed You! Black Emperor and the like are not Shoegaze really. The mood is different, and in Shoegaze you'll find more emphasis on the use of vocals and a melancholy sort of bliss-release. And more slight dipping of the harmony into a disharmony that somehow finds its way back into the fold and extrapolates from verse to verse with new meaning. Shoegaze also patently uses a "wall of sound" effect with sometimes several guitars, and lots of pedals and delay and reverb. Postrock may share some of these, but Shoegaze has a more defined way to use them.

[ReeceH]

Definatly grunge or punk rock!

[Taters]

I dabble in bits of (almost)everything but most often find myself coming back to power metal and folk metal.

[Mekorosi]

I've got two words for you:

Heavy Metal

[Luvitus]

I've got two words for you:

Heavy Metal

I have two words for YOU.


Progressive Metal.

[HatofMadness]

I have my favorites...but regardless of genre, as long as it sounds good, ill listen.

[Vendetta]

I've been casually listening to a lot of classical piano recently.

[Sonixboom]

I have posted in this thread befor and i stand by hip hop.

Followed by good old rock and roll

-Sonix