Next to prog, your favorite genre?

Metal cause it feels good.

I wouldn't even say that prog is my favorite. I like pretty much all music with the exception of country and the emo/pop crap that's out these days.

Indie, Afrobeat, IDM, Jazz, Folk

1. Metal
2. Classic Rock/ Hard Rock
3. Classical
4. Jazz

Really hard Poll as I like all music from jazz to country .reggae and soul as well. You missed Latin music( Salsa)

My next favorite would have to be Classic Rock with Jazz immediately following that

I like Classic/Hard Rock but it seems like plenty of those bands I like wind up in the Prog Related section. I know it's not prog but it's still close enough. I like some Jazz and Classical but I can't appreciate it if I listen to it for too long. That being said, I would have to say Folksy/hippie music from the 60s and 70s along the lines of Simon & Garfunkel and the Byrds. I'm also a big fan of Elton John and Billy Joel.

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I'm taking "Pour On Sauce, Worcestershire." I don't know what I'm going to do with it, but it's far too good to let it go to waste.



Edited by TheCaptain - January 13 2009 at 10:19

classical/hard rock  and other: african music..what a great discovery i made few years back, listening to great artists like ismael lo, salif keita, amadou and meriem etc..african music is very varied, rich, powerful, and addictive

I went over my alphabet, and it seems that punk would come after prog as a musical genre. (PR, PS, PT, PU,PV,PW etc)

I voted other. Though I like prog a lot, there's other stuff I listen to as much, or even more. If (I think) it sounds good, I don't really care what genre it fits into - my music tastes are not really that specialist.

1. Alternative Rock. This encompasses a huge amount of my music collection (probably ~40% or so), probably not the most popular music round these parts, but R.E.M. and U2 were the first bands I really got into. Aside from that I have a lot of funk-rock (Red Hot Chili Peppers, Faith No More, Rage Against The Machine, Mr. Bungle), grunge and post-grunge (Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam), Madchester (Happy Mondays, Primal Scream), Brit-rock (Radiohead and Muse).

2. Electronic Dance Music. I'm not as heavily into this music as I was when I was in my early 20s, when I listened to a lot of Techno from the likes of Jeff Mills, Robert Hood, Dave Clarke and Laurent Garnier. My tastes are somewhat mellower now, and tend to listen to Carl Craig (who still produces a lot of good, jazzy stuff), Andrew Weatherall (particularly Sabres of Paradise), Coldcut (their JDJ release is one of the best mix albums out there), DJ Food, UNKLEsounds (not as much of a fan of them as producers), Massive Attack, Portishead, Kraftwerk, late 80s-mid 90s electro (Aux 88, Cybrotron, I-F etc.), Orbital, the Orb, Future Sound of London ...

3. Metal. Probably the 2 subgenres of metal I listen to most are Progressive/Avant Garde (Dream Theater, Fates Warning, Liquid Tension Experiment, Tool, Mars Volta, Opeth) - looking around here will help me find other bands I know rather less about - and Stoner Metal (Kyuss, Monster Magnet, Sleep). I also like to listen to pre-Black Album Metallica, Groove Metal (Pantera, White Zombie) and some Alternative Metal (System of a Down). 

I also listen to a fair bit of Classic Rock and Hip Hop (not Gangsta Rap).



Edited by 3vilP3nguin - January 09 2009 at 11:46