Other than prog, what other genres do you enjoy?

As a total music geek who wants to know about everything and font the best in any given genre - it would be easier to list the genres I can't seem to enjoy. 

Kajagoogoo seem to fit the bill for me, and not just for Beggs' bass virtuosity .......(and I generally HATE commercial pop music..........)

I like hard-rock/heavy-metal from the end of the 60's to Year 2000. I've got 150 vinyles, 300 CDs and 50 cassettes of that genre.
I also enjoy classic rock, classical music and jazz.

Saperlipopette! wrote: The terrible term "world music"

I love the term "world music," actually, at least as long as it's understood in the way that libraries understand it.  No other term I've encountered comes close to capturing what "world music" lumps together.  When "world music" is avoided, what tends to happen if you love and want to regularly search for world music is that either (a) you've got to instead start searching for hundreds of very specific genres, like "Tuvan throat singing," "Balinese gamelan music," "sacred harp singing," "Benzele pygymy music" etc., which is obviously a pain in the rear end--not to mention that then you tend to miss stuff that you weren't previously familiar with, or (b) you keep running into a bunch of "pure" pop, metal, jazz etc. from other countries instead, which obviously isn't what you're looking for when you're looking for world music.

The misconceived complaint is that it's purely a "marginalizing" term.  That complaint is misconceived because it ignores that there's world music from every country--like sacred harp singing, prison work songs, Appalachian folk music, Sioux Indian music, etc. from the US, for example.  That's all world music.

The misconception on the other side is that "world music" must then refer to all music.  It doesn't.  It refers to musics with folk roots (in the broader, anthropological sense of "folk") that had and continues to have a strong regional tie, because it's not something that "caught on" and propagated around the world as a type of pop music (again in a broad sense of the term "pop"), and by extension, it also refers to music that blends those regional folk musics with more contemporary pop musics.  The latter is sometimes called "world fusion," although some people--including me--prefer to use "world fusion" for music that's more or less like jazz-fusion with world music influences.

We could use another term like "indigenous musics" or something instead, but the problem is that no particular term is popular enough on that end yet to be useful for those of us who regularly search for albums in the category.


Edited by Terrapin Station - September 05 2016 at 08:03

Lately I've been trying to listen to as much 40-50s music/radio as I can.  It makes me feel good when not much else does. 

Terrapin Station wrote: Saperlipopette! wrote: The terrible term "world music" I love the term "world music," actually, at least as long as it's understood in the way that libraries understand it.  No other term I've encountered comes close to capturing what "world music" lumps together.

The older I get the less inclined I am to say that I like music of a particular genre because the more of it I hear the less I tend to like. For example I've listened to Progressive Rock since it was invented yet if I were to list all the Prog Bands I like against all those I don't then the latter list would be far longer, similarly there is more Metal that I dislike than like, more Gothic Rock I cannot stand than adore and more Electronic Music that leaves me unmoved than moved - yet I would have cited all four genres as favourites of mine at one time or other. And this is a good thing because if nothing else it's cured me of "completistism" - I no longer need to buy the complete discographies of all the bands I really like and similarly I don't feel compelled to soak up every artist who tags themselves as a genre I like so can spend all that money pursuing something else instead and have fewer played-once albums in my collection. Ironically, it was Amazon's unsolicited "People who bought _____ also bought..." recommendations that tipped the balance because their leaping-to-an-erroneous-assumption algorithm invariable suggests albums and artists I wouldn't touch with a barge-pole, now more often than not I see Amazon's recommendations as a list of things to avoid [for example: Joe Bonamassa, Cream, Graham Parker, Eric Clapton, JJ Cale, The Ramones and frickin' Chicago (ffs) - I detest all those artists, they bore the pants off me (apologies to those who like any of it, each to their own, it's a free country and no one's perfect)... why? just because I happen to have bought a couple of Jeff Beck albums in the past 20 years? bleugh].

Edited by Dean - September 05 2016 at 11:02

I'm glad to see some prog fans enjoy avant garde stuff, too.

Gamera wrote: Mostly Detroit techno, and a little bit of deep house and progressive house. This might be the only things I actually enjoy besides everything I listen to which is related to prog.

Are you familiar with Ozric Tentacles? I always thought they did a pretty good job of blending house/techno with prog. Prog you can rave to.

presdoug wrote: 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".

Do you like Satie? When it comes to piano music, there's something about Satie' s work that really takes me somewhere else.