Besides Prog, What's Your Favorite Genre?

Hi,

quite a bit of metal,
lots of post-punk,
electro,
world music (especially Balkan, Arab, Turkish),
classical (early 20th Century, Mussorgski, Mozart, Bach),
indie,
class mainstream artist (Prince, Police, ...)






Edited by Bonnek - January 17 2011 at 16:41

Not so long ago I would have denied that prog was my favourite genre despite being a big fan of Yes, KC, Pink Floyd and having quite a lot of other prog in my collection.  Even now I am not sure as it goes back that old question of what prog is.  One of the things that attracted me to this site and has kept me here is that it covers a broad range of music that not everyone would agree is prog.  I found that a lot of my favourite artists are here even though I had never really connected them to the core prog stuff I have always liked.  I am thinking of artists like Jefferson Airplane, Steely Dan, Pentangle, Fairport Convention, The Doors, Led Zep, Miles Davis and other jazzy stuff like Mahavishnu Orchestra and Shakti.  Also, modern proggy indie-ish stuff like Mew, Radiohead, PRR, Mercury Rev, Flaming Lips.  And Krautrock such as Can and Kraftwerk.

The thing is that I like plenty of other music that has aspects in common with the artists I mentioned above but doesn't get onto this site - for example: Bob Dylan, Byrds, CSN(Y), Grateful Dead, psychedelia in general, all of which ties in with the 60s artists I mentioned; various folky music from the 60s to the present day that ties in with Pentangle and Fairport; jazz like Coltrane and Pharaoh Sanders; post-punk / early 80s indie that at a push you could relate to the indie-type bands I mentioned above; I also like modern bands like Field Music and Everything Everything which I think have some quite proggy elements but seem to fall outside of the boundaries of this site.  I also enjoy quite a bit of 20th C classical and, at the other end of the scale, will listen to a bit of 'classic rock' radio as a guilty pleasure if there's nothing else on.

Which is a long winded way of saying that I like quite a lot of different 'genres' but prog is a kind of centre of gravity  where things start to overlap and mix together and to which I seem naturally to be drawn.

Blues and metal

Jam, electronic (especially IDM and minimal), indie, blues, jazz. 

I hate indie, alternative and nu metal bands but i love a good hard rock heavy metal blues or maybe thrash metal sometimes or maybe doom and gothic or symphonic metal/rock

Mainly folk rock but also hard rock and metal.