What is your favorite genre of music?
Posted October 17th, 2007 by Corey W. deVos
Blues
7% (34 votes)
Classical
13% (61 votes)
Country
2% (11 votes)
Downtempo
2% (12 votes)
Electronica
9% (46 votes)
Folk
5% (24 votes)
Funk
1% (6 votes)
Hip Hop
2% (11 votes)
Jazz
10% (51 votes)
Pop
2% (9 votes)
R&B
2% (12 votes)
Rock
20% (98 votes)
Reggae
2% (10 votes)
Soul
1% (5 votes)
Religious
2% (9 votes)
Regional: African
1% (3 votes)
Regional: Asian
1% (7 votes)
Regional: Australian
0% (0 votes)
Regional: European
1% (4 votes)
Regional: Native American
0% (1 vote)
Regional: South American
1% (6 votes)
Other
14% (66 votes)
Total votes: 486
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Hmm..
How about Avantgarde Norwegian Black Ambient Metal?
Wow!!!!! thank you!
Wow!!!!! thank you!
Missed a few categories there...
What about Metal, or Acid Jazz? Techno? Ambient? House?
I tried to keep the options
I tried to keep the options as high-order as i can. Metal is, technically, an offshoot of Rock. Techno, ambient, and house are all covered by Electronica. If i listed all the possible subgenres, the poll would have hundreds of options.
Really, this demonstrates how, in the end, genre categories are completely arbitrary. Useful as "orienting generalizations," but tend to fall apart upon closer inspection. For example, Rock could simply be defined as any music that tends to have 4/4 timing, with a verse-chorus-verse structure. In that case, hip-hop is really a subgenre of rock--whereas Rock and Roll moves from side-to-side, Hip Hop is up-and-down. The biggest difference might be that Rock typically emphasizes the guitar as its primary instrument, whereas Hip-Hop might emphasize the turntable....
Anyway, it's all so arbitrary, but fascinating nonetheless.
And if i get a lot of requests for new categories, i will make additions.
seriously if you wanna
seriously if you wanna reduce metal to an offshot of metal, then you might as well just do that with Rock as it has a "4/4 timing, with a verse-chorus-verse structure", just like the blues. Plus, Metal does offer so much more than the 4/4 timing and the generic song structure. Especially since the early 90s with some of the Death Metal Bands from Florida (e.g.Death). Cynic (early 90s) and Dillinger Escape Plan (late 90s to now) there has been some serious jazz influence as well as adding new sounds and eventually instruments within their musical spectrum that implemented electronic sounds.
Agreed, the poll was too
Agreed, the poll was too simplistic. I should have included more sub-genres. It brings me great shame as a "trans-genre dj" that i didn't include as many options as many of you would have liked. Now i know, and knowing is half the battle.
Yo Joe!
seriously ...
I don't know what I was trying to bring across, but it definitely wasn't such mumbo-jumbo.
broken down to its core I tried to say that:
* Rock has taken song writing structures AND riffing from Blues (esp. in Rock's beginnings), still Rock has it's own genre listing
* Metal has developed a lot since ignaural years adding strong jazz/fusion elements (Cynic, Dillinger Escape Plan..), electronic elements (The Locust, Genghis Tron), polyrhythmic drumming and rhythm sections (Tool, Meshuggah, A Life Once Lost)
--- gosh, my writing up there is horrible (does it help to say that english is not my native language? ;-/
Post-Apocalyptic Punk Folk Rock?
And, of course, you are missing Post-Apocalyptic Punk Folk Rock music. No wonder so few of us have completed the poll!
music vote
you didn't put in "new age"category -- I can't believe it! on a Ken Wilber site!
...and Pagan Underground! If
...and Pagan Underground!
If this goes on we'll be running out of web space.
Love,
Terri in Joburg
Hard decition
I can not vote for just one of this genres because i like all of them depends of my mood and the ambience i am at.
Jazz, Heavy Metal, Goa-Trance, Salsa, Samba, Country, Drum & Bass or Hip Hop,
all of that is good but some i can not hear for hours.
Punctuation police
Er... apologies for commenting off-topic, but I didn't see a webmaster contact.
Holon's Blogroll (to right) should be Holons' Blogroll.
lest we forget...
Anything that leaves out Satan isn't integral.
Metal baby.
definately, the whole
harder section has been left out and thats definitely not the whole spectrum of musical experience...
here's my musical universe in its significant order: hardcore/punk, all kinds of metal, rock (mostly whats referred to as Emo today), electronica, techno (mostly minimal), jazz (mostly 60s-70s), some pop and hip hop.
Is eclectic a genre?
Is eclectic a genre?
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