Other than prog, what other genres do you enjoy?

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?

Southern rock is my calling. 

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

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

Other than prog, mainly psychedelic rock and doom metal.

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.

Magnum Vaeltaja wrote: 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.

I'm a big fan of the Allman Brothers Band, myself.

mechanicalflattery wrote: 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.

I love industrial music, too. Especially Einsturzende Neubauten, Skinny Puppy, Throbbing Gristle, Test Dept., and Missing Foundation.

I like all kinds of music; and mean all, no holds barred whatsoever. My interests change month to month, week to week, day to day. Sometimes I'm obsessed with a single artist or album, sometimes a genre or period. Sometimes two or more things will serve as parallels, sometimes I'm not focused on anything in particular at all.

I'm liking select Extreme/Tech over the last couple years, but mostly, a bit of (good) New-Wave and whatever you'd class Bruce Cockburn as............just BRILLIANT !!