Besides Prog, What's Your Favorite Genre?

I'm torn between heavy metal and jazz, but considering only the ammount of albums I have my answer is heavy metal.

20th century concert music and pop are the bests.

Meh. Prog is sort of overwhelming in my ratios, but I try to listen to some Jazz (as in, non "fusion" jazz), rock, metal and trying to get into classical. Also, some electronic music - mainly chiptune. Some nice pieces in that genre. 

Waaaaaaaaait, there is another genre than prog?...... 

Ha, thats why I sort of referred to SpaceRock as a sub-sub-genre, because I knew someone would chime in on this "technicality".   Yes, Blues is a genre.  Jazz is a genre.   Rock is a genre, so Prog I suppose is a "sub-genre".   Of course now I'm waiting for those that will say:

I guess it depends on if you're talking about prog as a very specific genre or everything with some degree of prog elements, as in everything that is listed on the site. If we use the broader definition I mainly besides prog listen to heavy metal and hip hop, with some trips into the lands of jazz and alternative country (Slim Cessna's Auto Club rocks!).

akajazzman wrote: CCVP I love an answer like that.  Metal and Jazz!    Diversity really is the spice of life.   And I really believe the ability to accept other forms of music as valid helps keep your mind open.  Thats why I've always had a bit of a problem with Wynton Marsellis  (sp?) because he thinks Jazz is simply "better" than Rock.  No argument.

Quite true. I've always liked many distinc genres of music. My oldest love is blues, because my father simply loves it, and then classical music, because I studied it through most of my life (and I like really most kind of classical around, from medieval music (mostly Gregorian Chant, though) up to Romantic), and it helps a lot having a family member in the state orchestra, so I get free tickets to all of their presentations and concerts (). My main love is, however, progressive rock, with heavy metal (which I started listening in my teens) and jazz (which I started listening fairly recently) right behind it.


Edited by CCVP - January 15 2011 at 19:21

Folks, blues and jazz, from whence prog came.  But also non-progressive rock and older stuff.  Mountain is one of my favorite bands.  So is Ween.  Big gap between those two but that's OK.  Ritchie Havens is one of my favorite singers, I enjoy him from time to time.  Warren Zevon.  I guess mainly singer-songwriter stuff, and also jazz.  I like Lee Morgan a lot, and Duke Ellington.  Generally I like either really old jazz or 60s hard bop.  I started out liking metal but I couldn't care less for it now, just certain kinds and in small doses.

Basically I'll give anything a chance, and the only music in which I can't find a single redeeming quality is modern "indie pop" and "indie rock", which they ought to just rename "whiny, soulless, adult-contemporary noise".

Besides prog, my favourite is classical music, and then hard rock and heavy metal

I wouldn't like to call one genre my favourite because I really identify more with great artists and it is not the genre by itself that bestows greatness on them but their brilliance.  That said,  I would say jazz is my favourite genre (though calling it a genre as opposed to a form sounds dubious) because I relate to its approach more than other forms/genres.  I cannot really call prog a genre per se because it is more of an approach to songwriting and not an approach that's universally evidenced in all the music that gets called prog either.  I love some of the great rock bands but rock in its basic form is rudimentary, predictable and boring music so I can't call rock a favourite genre of mine though I like a lot of rock music.