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What do you think is the best genre of music?

I like just about anything, although my favs are Jazz and Classic Rock.

Pollzup Doggz

1. Rock
2. Jazz
3. Dance
That's what I like :)

Where is the anything but rap category? For that matter there's no irish category so the polls automatically void.

Where is ethnic, or *gasp* classiccal (which is really several different types all crammed in one category. *sigh*) I like both of those a lot. And there is so much crammed into rock. Try telling me that Chuck Berry, Jimi Hendrix, Styx, The Ramones, and Motorhead are all the same type of music.

[EDIT]I just read my post. I sound very bitter. Sorry. Not trying to be rude or degrading, sorry if it seems that way.

*gasps in shock*
There's no Latin Rock or Bagpipes!
I demand a new poll!

Teh Queeen!

The best genres are not even on the poll.

1 - prog rock/metal
2 - world fusion

Two very different styles I know, but thats what plays at my place.

What about bagpipes? They play at my house :)
Also, I've decided to add solo drums to my list. There's something about a rhythm...

Black Metal!

indie rock and lap-pop

Yes, where is CLASSICAL MUSIC?!?!?

Rock
100% fact

Rock

Though a valiant effort, I think this poll was doomed from the start. Anyway, given the choices available, I'll go with rock.

Rock. Specifically Stoner, Punk, Blues and Grunge rock.

Alternative all the way

Lacks "none of the above" plus umpteen other kinds of music.

As for me :"serious" electronic music, as on:

http://www.imeb.net/english.html
http://www.ipem.rug.ac.be/Archive/
http://www.matrix.mu/welcome/welcstart.htm
http://www.cemstudio.com/
http://www.mills.edu/LIFE/CCM/CCM.homepage.html
http://www.furious.com/perfect/ohm/columbiaprinceton.html
http://www.hartnet.org/artsinct/Semi/

http://www.tonmeister.ca/personal/geoff/emusic/main.html
http://www.ams-net.org/musicology_www.html#CEM

and to maybe pick up a couple of names we program at our local radio station:

http://semradio.audionetwork.be/playlist.php

Irish Folk/Celtic kicks ass.

1. Rock
2. Metal
3. Dance

Its got to be Trip-Hop for me. Can't vote for it though

Firstly, I hate rap; secondly, I don't know the exact definitions of "Punk" and "Techno" music, thank God, but I must express my opinion that the best genre of the musical arts is the Romantic.

Championed by such great artists as Verdi, Chopin, Dvorak, and Wagner (one of my absolute favorites), it remains the symbol of wonderful progression and a new vision.

Of course, something must be said for the genre which spawned the Romantic period - the Classical. Mozart ranks highest among these, in my mind, immediately followed by Beethoven and Handel. (Who could forget Bach, the man from whom they all learned?)

And I wouldn't dare end this post without saying that Haydn's 62nd String Quartet is my favorite piece.

Sorry, but I forgot to mention Brahms, lol.

Oh! :eek: I almost forgot Mendelssohn.

Emo by far. Now excuse me while I lace up my super-alternative black converse shoes and write a poem about how fantastic and sexy that twat from Dashboard Confessional is.

But on a serious note:
1)Metal
2)Dance

:)

Truly, none can overlook some of the great classical-type pieces of the nineteenth century, such as Mahler's fifth symphony, anything by Wagner, and 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra'.

Out of the choices offered, Rock, specifically Guns N' Roses, Black Sabbath, Ozzy, CCR, Led Zeppelin, etc. Not this new Green Day crap.

Folk rock or grunge

Emo by far. Now excuse me while I lace up my super-alternative black converse shoes and write a poem about how fantastic and sexy that twat from Dashboard Confessional is.

LOL!!!

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Industrial.

Soul!

1. Rock
2. Metal
3. Dance

metal is a type of rock

Death metal, Gangsta rap and 1970's Country music...oh, I think I misread the question. I think Miles Davis, Johnny Rotten & Ludvig Van hold the torch for my favorite music...did I forget Willie Dixon? "qvak!".

I don't think it's possible to have a "best genre" really is it? I mean, I love my heavy metal, but if I want to chill out then it's classical music or something bluesy. If I'm driving then it's harder or indie rock 9/10. What I do think is more possible is to have a least favourite genre. I find most dance music crap unless I'm "in the right state of mind" and in the right type of club, and jazz... well... jazz. On occasion it actually sounds like everyone's playing the same song, so that makes it just about palatable. But it's largely self-indulgent toss. I know a guy who's a jazz musician on a cruise ship and he actually said that the majority of people he knows who like jazz are musicians. Hardly anyone who is not a musician likes jazz.

Where was country on the list? Country music is the best!!

Leaving out Classical and Romantic is pretty inexcusable. You could easily just incorporate punk as a subgenre of rock.

I guess my favourites from that poll are probably Metal and Electronica (well, I'll assume that you meant that to be a part of alternative or dance).

But I like a lot of music. I'm listening to Elton John now and I was listening to Claude Debussy just before that.

Rock is pretty general so that's what I'm polling for. My three favorite bands are classic rock, alternative rock, and rap rock: AC/DC, The Smashing Pumpkins, and Rage Against the Machine. Generally I hate rap, but Rage is the exception.

As a generalisation, its rock. Check out anything from the BritPop era of nineties British music - Blur, Pulp, Sleeper, Echobelly. I suppose you could say it was Indie rock, but it was still great.

Still like that old time rock and roll,
That kind of music just soothes my soul,
I reminisce about the days of old,
With that old time rock and roll

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Country!

hehe

metal is a type of rock
That would depend on your definitions of Rock and Metal. To me, rock and metal are two different genres.

[EDIT]Out of curiosity...are you American? I remember one of my lecturers saying something about lots of different styles (she mentioned electronica and pop as two examples I think) coming under a general "rock" heading in America. Then again she could have been talking absolute nonsense, she's not quite all there, bless her.

Its got to be Trip-Hop for me. Can't vote for it though
Trip-Hop's always intrigued me but when I try and listen to it, it screws with my head a bit too much :s

jazz fusion for me. Chic Corea rocks.

Rock
Punk
Metal

not necessarily in that order, but pretty much

I said punk, but really its punk rock that does it for me.

Man, I love rock (especially punk), hip-hop, classical, r & b, you name it. Pop is probably my least favorite, mainly because most of the "artists" are total fakes.

Man, I love rock (especially punk), hip-hop, classical, r & b, you name it. Pop is probably my least favorite, mainly because most of the "artists" are total fakes.
You'd be surprised how many rock artists are fakes too...



Albeit, not as fake as Britney and co.

Well I am a devout rap lover, it is such a shame not many users here like rap :( .

Intelligent Dance Music. It's not certifiably intelligent. It's not easily danceable. More than half of it is stuff some people (some people who listen to rock and rap and stuff) wouldn't conisder it music. But it is the future!

Intelligent Dance Music. It's not certifiably intellignet. It's not easily danceable. More than half of it is stuff some people (some people who listen to rock and rap and stuff) wouldn't conisder it music. But it is the future!
Yay for Richard D. James and his cohorts!

Yay for Richard D. James and his cohorts!

Richard who?

Country....

Intelligent Dance Music. It's not certifiably intelligent. It's not easily danceable. More than half of it is stuff some people (some people who listen to rock and rap and stuff) wouldn't conisder it music. But it is the future!
Sounds interesting....care to name any artists?
*Music geek:D*

Richard who?
Richard D. James=Aphex Twin

Sounds interesting....care to name any artists?
*Music geek:D*
Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada, Squarepusher, Amon Tobin, Autechre, Mouse on Mars, Mu-Ziq, and a bunch of other stuff.

I reccomend Boards of Canada.

What do you think is the best genre of music?

I've taken a recent interest in Techno and Trance. Fascinating! :)

Aphex Twin is ridiculously trippy.

So many expressing their hate for RAP - lovely! :sniper:

WHERE IS WORLD MUSIC???? :headbang:
Which actually divides again into so many other genres...
Gotta expand your music mind, people! :cool:

i voted rock, but to me that encompaines punk and metal as well.

It's not easily danceable.
Hey, you know, you can sort of dance to "Come to Daddy" if you jerk around rather violently and at a rediculously fast pace. I just tried.

Damn, it's more tiring than trying to dance to gabba even...

Hee, I'd love to see someone try to dance to "Bucephalus Bouncing Ball".

So many expressing their hate for RAP - lovely! :sniper:

WHERE IS WORLD MUSIC???? :headbang:
Which actually divides again into so many other genres...
Gotta expand your music mind, people! :cool:

World music is good.

Where is ethnic, or *gasp* classiccal (which is really several different types all crammed in one category. *sigh*) I like both of those a lot. And there is so much crammed into rock. Try telling me that Chuck Berry, Jimi Hendrix, Styx, The Ramones, and Motorhead are all the same type of music.
Motorhead and the Ramones aren't really rock; they're more punk.

Indie Rock And Indie Pop Forever! :)

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Is "world music"? Can't we just be a little more simplistic about music categorization? I mean, come on . . . everything's pretty much rock and all the other stuff flows from it (i.e., rap, heavy metal, and so on).

whoa whoa whoa.... no ska???? poo

Guess I just have to vote rock then... sigh
Rocks good though. w00t

metal is a type of rock
No its not.



BLACK METAL!!

Jazz. You can't woo women to rock. Well, not the type I go for, anyway. Rock comes in a close second but many bands sounds come off as contrived to me. It has to be a really good rock band for it to be listenable.

Where are the Blues!?!?


The Blues are the roots and everything else is the fruit.

To the newcomer: is that an insult?

"Classical" (i.e music written by composers, generally from a period of the last FIVE CENTURIES up until TODAY) includes the greatest genres.

All those other pieces of shit you call genres are sub-genres of the same old performer-artist-troubador love-songs-strum-guitars bullshit which isn't really even music but instead, hormonal angst given physical form for the purpose of looking good and getting money.