Other than prog, what other genres do you enjoy?

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   I guess I could say rock in general.  Within rock, my favourite is prog rock, and then I guess comes metal... and after that hard rock and pop.  Of course, it depends also on the songs themselves.

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Dellinger Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member VIP Member Joined: June 18 2009 Location: Mexico Status: Offline Points: 12732	Posted: September 04 2016 at 20:55
	I guess I could say rock in general. Within rock, my favourite is prog rock, and then I guess comes metal... and after that hard rock and pop. Of course, it depends also on the songs themselves.

TeleStrat Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: December 27 2014 Location: Norwalk, CA Status: Offline Points: 9319	Posted: September 04 2016 at 19:24
	All the way back to the sixties I've been into guitar driven, blues based hard rock. I listened a lot to bands like The Animals, Them, Hendrix, The Jeff Beck Group and Cream. In the seventies I discovered Jazz Rock Fusion when Jeff Beck and Tommy Bolin guested on several albums. In the Metal days it was Ozzie solo albums, Metallica, Megadeth and Testament. When I joined PA a couple of years ago I revisited a lot of seventies Prog and then discovered RPI and several similar Spanish language bands. I guess I went back to my roots when I found Desert Rock / Psych Rock / Stoner Rock and that's where I'm at right now. I didn't leave anything behind because I can grab an album from any genre I mentioned and enjoy it as much as I ever did.

ClemofNazareth Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Prog Folk Researcher Joined: August 17 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 4659	Posted: September 04 2016 at 19:01
	Desert rock, a lot of the paisley underground bands, chanson (mostly 60s and early 70s), Bakersfield country, almost everything that came out of Laurel Canyon, lots of traditional folk songs especially from North and South America, 70s and 80s girl bands, and whatever R.E.M. was considered.
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Nicky Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Newbie Joined: June 12 2016 Location: Elsewhere Status: Offline Points: 25	Posted: September 04 2016 at 17:09
	Other than prog, mainly psychedelic rock and doom metal.

presdoug Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: January 24 2010 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 8615	Posted: September 04 2016 at 16:17
	Classical music in a big way; The Symphony (I started a thread on the subject) is my main musical enjoyment; also piano music-sonatas and concertos. To paraphrase the late great conductor Bruno Walter, "I could not live my life without Bruckner and Mahler".

Lewian Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: August 09 2015 Location: Italy Status: Online Points: 14733	Posted: September 04 2016 at 16:16
	According to the definitions on this site, Math Rock and Post Rock are subgenres of Prog, so I won't list these. I have a lot of experimental avantgarde music (electronic or not) that is not filed under Prog. Also I listen to some 80s post punk. And then there's stuff scattered over many genres that I like, be it jazz, classical and modern classical, some singer/songwriter, some classic rock, some world music, some arty and not so arty pop music... Edited by Lewian - September 04 2016 at 16:17

A_Flower Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: April 18 2015 Location: 2112 Status: Offline Points: 1199	Posted: September 04 2016 at 16:14
	Other than prog...I guess if I had to choice, maybe alternative. I also enjoy regular normal rock music on occasion. I only enjoy dance if I'm dancing with friends or something like that...but really, prog is my only liking. Most other genres of music I like have some prog related movements, and it's not often that I find a prog song I don't enjoy.
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Terrapin Station Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: July 23 2016 Location: NYC Status: Offline Points: 383	Posted: September 04 2016 at 15:56
	These are divided up in an idiosyncratic way that's not supposed to make logical sense to anyone else, but I collect all of the following equally. They're divided up the way the are based on my collecting interests. I simply copied the list I use for collecting purposes. Also, some of the genre names are what they are because they're the names used on rym, for example--it makes it easier for me to find the stuff I'm interested in: afro-cuban jazz ambient/drone/noise art pop/sophistipop/zolo avant prog/RIO/zeuhl bluegrass blues blues rock/boogie rock Broadway/showtunes bubblegum/teen pop/Radio Disney artists/top of Billboard charts comedy stand-up/comedy music country/western country rock/Americana dance/disco experimental folk/singer-songwriter funk fusion gospel hard rock hip-hop jazz latin metal modern classical nu metal/groove metal/funk metal/rap metal/rap rock pop pre-baroque classical pre-rock pop (pre 1956)/pre-British Invasion rock (through 1963) progressive rock punk psychedelic rock/psychedelic pop R&B reggae/dub rock soft rock/yacht rock soul southern rock western classical music world music

mechanicalflattery Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: August 08 2016 Location: Seattle Status: Offline Points: 1056	Posted: September 04 2016 at 15:55
	Jazz (especially free and avant-garde) post-punk, noise rock, industrial, post/math rock, metal (especially funeral doom and drone), minimalism, experimental in general, ambient, no wave, psychedelia and krautrock, RIO, maybe a little world music... Most of all I prefer music that doesn't feel constrained to a given genre. I'm open to anything that doesn't sound like Billboard dreck. I'm interested in one day exploring classical, hip-hop/rap, more contemporary electronic music, etc but I've got plenty of time.

Magnum Vaeltaja Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: July 01 2015 Location: Out East Status: Offline Points: 6777	Posted: September 04 2016 at 15:35
	Southern rock is my calling. The Allman Brothers Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Marshall Tucker Band are all top 10 artists for me (MTB is probably a top 5), and I'm also a fan of Molly Hatchet, Outlaws, Blackfoot and the Charlie Daniels Band. Any time I'm on the road for more than an hour or two, some southern rock will get played. It's the perfect road trip music, or just general travel music for that matter. I'm also keen on the collaborative playing that goes along with the genre. Most southern rock bands had 2 or 3 guitarists, and often piano, fiddle or flute/saxophone thrown into the mix, so there's plenty of interesting jamming potential and lots of seamless trade-off licks, which I love. I'm also a strong proponent for the idea that effective music should reflect the geography and culture of where the artists come from. I'm drawn towards prog that does this, whether it's some rustic and romantic RPI, some depressive and pensive English symphonic prog or lively and spirited Quebecois fusion. Southern rock is especially perfect for this, with the music and lyrics speaking true to the North American experience. I mean, it's hard not to get nostalgic when you put on Skynyrd's Tuesday's Gone with the autumn leaves falling around you, or the Allman Brothers' Blue Sky as the early morning sun shines over the country, or when you're driving out west and the Marshall Tucker Band's Fire On The Mountain paints romantic images of America's past and the determination and tribulation of the quest for gold. Southern rock, man. It's the stuff.
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RockHound Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: March 03 2013 Location: USA Status: Offline Points: 664	Posted: September 04 2016 at 15:22
	I like both genres - country and western! Actually, I like classical, jazz, and fusion. Delving too deep into subgenres hurts my head.

LostWaxMuseum Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Groupie Joined: December 19 2013 Location: New York Status: Offline Points: 67	Posted: September 04 2016 at 15:14
	I'm curious to know what other genres are popular among fans of prog. I enjoy shoegaze, sound art, and experimental music for the exploration of timbres. I like math rock and post-hardcore because I like complex rhythms and time signatures. The list goes on as I listen to a diverse palette of styles. What do you listen to besides prog and what appeals to you about it?