Other than prog, what other genres do you enjoy?

Mostly metal and hard rock. No rap, country, or pop. I'm pretty picky about what I listen to.

i listen to quite a lot of soundtrack and library music, as well as folk and electronic music, a lot of jazzy music, tropica, exotica.... I love a ton of psych tinged music. I like funk. I used to listen to lots of classical, but not so much now.

If I were to choose a particular favourite of mine over the last ten years it would be Ennio Morricone, and I listen to Piero Umiliani and the usual suspects. I love Vladimir Cosma, Mandingo, Egisto Macchi, Stringronics, Sven Libaek, and Janko Nilovic. I love music with a big band sound. I love folk, the Wicker Man soundtrack is a favourite of mine. I also like Air an awful lot. And I do listen to a lot of Matt Berry, and genuinely love his music. I don't how many times I've played the Kill the Wolf album.
Yesterday I was listening to Beach House's Teen Dream, and before that Luc Ferrari. Today I was listening to Mark Fry's Dreaming With Alice.

Most of what I listen to I do consider to be in the prog-related realm, despite most of it not being in the archives.

EDIT: Cause I missed one that I still really like after decades and really started the ball rolling for me on loving modern music when I was a child: Gary Numan. While not Prog, Replicas is THE album, I would say, if I were to mention one (I don't think it's so simplistic) that led me on this journey. Then it was the Alan Parsons Project's I Robot and then Pink Floyd and so on.... And I love David Bowie (who is in the archives).

SO in terms of specific genres: jazz, classical, electronic, tropica, exotica, folk, psych, new wave, synthpop, library/ various soundtrack music, musique concrete, funk, downtempo, ambient, art pop, art/ academic music, plenty of punk, indie music etc. It's almost easier to say what i don't like, and even then I will find exceptions. I also like eastern oriental music and a lot of world music and stuff called new age. And I like quite a lot of Eurodisco music.

By the way, as a side-note, I don't know if I would say that I like Prog as a genre. There's plenty of music classified as Prog here that I like, but there's an awful lot that I find hard to tolerate. My preferred music in the archives I commonly think of as Prog umbrella music, or progressive music. I do like lots of music in most of the categories here. What I often think of as stereotypically Prog I often don't like, so I don't think myself as a Prog fan per se. It's such a mixed bag, I'd say by its nature, and prog draws from a diverse range of genres. The "Prog" I tend to like intersects heavily with other genres that I like and that which I don't tends to have genres that I don't generally care for as a significant influence (that said, I can like prog bands that draw on styles that I don't normally care for). Some people say, "if it's good music I like it" no matter what the genre, but I find that a strange statement as good music is so subjective. If they mean "If it's good music by my standards" or "good music to me", it seems kind of a pointless and redundant statement. That's like saying "If I like the music then I like it." Well, yeah.... I wouldn't have assumed otherwise, although there are some masochists. I can say that there is music that I like that I don't consider to be good, and there is a grey area to be explored with such statements.

Edited by Logan - July 19 2017 at 11:41

Guldbamsen wrote: ... All genres of music consist of at least 75% horse manure. ...

That's open to debate - according to some recent studies that proportion could in fact rise up to a staggering 90% (my subjective opinion, too)

I like black metal, Nordic folk, renaissance classical music, avant garde jazz, and some ambient.

Psych

Before Prog I was very closed minded musically. Over the last few years however I really have started to enjoy a whole bunch of music I would of normally turned my nose up at. Jazz is one area I have come to like, electronic is another. But the biggest shift has been towards world music especially Andean. Don't ask me why my tastes have become so eclectic but perhaps it's for the better, but it drives many people around me mad.