What kind of music do you like?

[Amanda695]

I was just wondering what kind of music people are into.
I personally like the heavier stuff like metalcore, post-hardcore, etc.

[krantcents]

As a n older person, I find my taste in music is ecclectic! If I am having a difficult day, I prefer jazz or classical music. I prefer 60's rock n roll normally, but I like all kinds of music, but not a steady dose of one particular kind except 60's music. Probably because I grew up with it.

[J.Apple902]

hip hop & electronic
modern disco (Disclosure style)
instrumental hip hop dance music (Benzi, Branchez, Brenmar, RL Grime, Baauer)

[moneybags]

Mostly Pop, a little bit of everything else. Not a huge fan of country or heavy metal.

[disneysteve]

Favorite is probably show tunes and 60's but I like a lot of stuff. As krantcents said, it partly depends on what I'm doing. At work, I'll often put on a smooth jazz internet radio station if I'm doing paperwork and need to concentrate but want some background music, but I'd never do that when I'm driving. Then it is more likely to be the local classic rock station. Then there is my standard fall back, which I actually have playing right now, and that is the soundtrack album from last year's Les Mis movie. I could listen to Samantha Barks singing "On My Own" all day.

[PauletteGoddard]

I most often listen to...

Classical

Post-rock (characterized by the influence and use of instruments commonly associated with rock, but using rhythms and "guitars as facilitators of timbre and textures" not traditionally found in rock. Post-rock bands are often without vocals. Mogwai, DoMakeSayThink, Explosions In the Sky, Röyksopp, Godspeed! You Black Emperor)

"Art Deco" music (Al Bowlly, Fletcher Henderson, Fats Waller, Alberta Hunter, Boswell Sisters, Hot Jazz Club Quintet) but mostly early jazz

Shoegaze, dreampop, psychedelic and acid rock (Tame Impala, Silver Apples, Stereolab, Holydrug Couple, My Bloody Valentine).

Krautrock (Amon Duul, Popol Vuh, Can, Cluster)

"Canadian Content" (Stompin' Tom Connors, Canadian Brass, Glenn Gould, Holy F*ck, Metric, Destroyer, DoMakeSayThink)

[sroot19]

I like dance music, always gets me in a good mood.

[freebiefan1]

Trance and Techno

[gradi]

techno and pop

[Tessol36]

I think I like most genre's of music. It always depends on my mood at the time. However I am lazy when it comes to creating a playlist of any sort so I just listen to my itunes library at random. I have been listening to a lot of gospel lately though. It's very uplifting.

[Dsquared513]

It's annoying how many sub-genres there are these days, but I guess mostly I like indie, shoegazer, and prog rock. I like all good music (yes, even rap and some country) but was mostly into heavier stuff growing up. My favorite band is the Mars Volta, but they haven't put out a really good album in 6 years, ditto for Tool who were my previous favorite. I've been impressed with the Silversun Pickups last 2 albums and would say "Neck of the Woods" was my favorite album last year (I think it came out Nov 2012 technically). Anymore I just buy a single or two on Itunes and listen to it like 50 times in a month and then move on. Right now I'm obsessed with the new Young the Giant single "It's About Time", and the Artic Monkey's "Do I Wanna Know?". I was a teenager in the late nineties so I grew up with Nirvana, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, etc. While I do still like a lot of their songs I can't imagine only listening to that same group of songs for the rest of my life, I am always looking for something new. I don't have anything against classic rock, but after hearing a lot of the same songs over and over I don't feel that I ever need to listen to "Purple Haze" or "Stairway to Heaven" ever again in my life. I enjoy them, but I would choose to listen to something new that has new parts and meanings for me to discover. That is one reason why I like the Mars Volta, they can having anywhere from 6 to 9 people on a song and incorporate experimental noise and jazz fusion along with complex time signatures and various hispanic influences so I never get bored listening to a song, and the lyrics are obtuse so they can mean whatever I want that day and are interesting to try to decipher any actual meaning since some lyrics are about a song topic and others are admittedly chosen merely for there phonetic qualities. Parts of the songs can be very abrasive though, they are certainly not for eveyone. I like all music, but as I grow older I don't think I'll be tuning into stations for the nostalgia of hearing the same songs over and over and over, the radio is bad enough about playing the same crap repeatedly without me narrowing my musical tastes to a single decade or two.

[JoeP]

I like prog rock: Opeth, Blackfield, Porcupine Tree, Aviatic, God is an Astronaut, Steve Wilson, Yes, ELP, Kansas, King Crimson, Genesis, RWPL, Glass Hammer, Wigwam, Utopia, U.K., Tortoise, Gentle Giant, Premiata Forneria Marconi.

Then I'll mix it up with Beastie Boys, Lily Allen, Vivaldi, Bach, and some bad 80s one hit wonders.

Pandora is a good resource for finding new artists in a particular genre.

[AggieLife]

Taylor Swift and Dubstep. What more can you ask for?

[Randomsaver]

I usually start on youtube with Eva Cassidy and see where it leads me.

[Chrisk]

FIDLAR
The Orwell

I'm into the new style that has a mix of new age grunge and garage band sound.