Specific genres of music I like

Submitted by darktremor on Tue, 07/14/2009 - 18:32
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  1. Another personal list, which I've created to refer to whenever I'm in a musical rut. This lists them in order of favorite, with the top being the most liked.

  3. Favorites, in order:
  4. Minimal/microhouse/mnml/neo-trance
  5. Likely number 1 because of the long hours I have to spend at computers, working. Not only are neuroscience, DJing, and web design all very computer-centric activities, but my ADHD medication often keeps me working for considerably longer than most can sustain attention (of course, without it, no work of any sort occurs at all).
  6. Ambient dance (ambient house/psy/breaks/trance/dub)
  7. Cool jazz/bebop/hard bop
  8. Freak-folk/Psychedelic folk
  9. IDM and IDM Pop
  10. Acid jazz/abstract hip-hop/Nu-jazz
  11. Ambient
  12. Classic trance
  13. Orchestral (specifically minimalism, late romantic, and impressionism)
  14. Post-rock
  15. Shoegaze (and nu-gaze)
  16. Electro-house
  17. Psytrance
  18. Post-punk (both classic and revival are excellent)
  19. Dubstep
  20. Funky house
  21. Jungle
  22. Art rock/Krautrock
  23. Trip-hop
  24. Rave
  25. Free jazz
  26. Second-wave trance (progressive trance/anthem trance/epic trance)
  27. Deep house
  28. Dance-punk
  29. "World" (tough to place, since it varies so widely both in quality and style. IE While "Mali blues" and "Asian underground" rate very highly for me, I dislike most ethnic new age)
  30. Underground hip-hop
  31. Indie folk
  32. Indie "garage"
  33. Hard techno
  34. Nu-disco
  35. Classic disco and funk
  36. "Progressive"
  37. Dub
  38. Blues
  39. Fusion jazz
  40. Reggae
  41. Breaks
  42. Experimental
  43. Salsa/tango/ballroom
  44. Hardcore (happy hardcore and gabber)
  45. Electroclash
  46. Eurodance

  48. Poorly explored, intended for later exploration:
  49. World
  50. Late romantic (orchestral)
  51. Classic indie rock
  52. Rave
  53. Classic jungle
  54. Impressionism
  55. Reggae
  56. Free jazz
  57. Blues
  58. Classic folk
  59. Dub
  60. Fusion jazz
  61. Metal
  62. Classic funk and disco
  63. Fusion jazz
  64. Early romantic
  65. Classic country
  66. Baroque
  67. Serialism
  68. Spectralism
  69. Drill n' bass
  70. Happy hardcore and gabber
  71. Tech-house
  72. Glitch
  73. Classic rock
  74. Classic RnB
  75. Cakewalks, marches, "swing", and other turn of the 20th century gems (thanks cylinder project!)
  76. Grime
  77. Ballroom (rumba, salsa, tango, flamenco, etc.)

  79. Avoid:
  80. Smooth jazz
  81. Post-grunge
  82. New swing jack
  83. Comedy music
  84. Modern country
  85. Modern "christian"
  86. 80's Rnb
  87. Teen pop (the 90s to early 00s variant especially)
  88. Modern punk and punk-pop
  89. Nu-metal
  90. Emo pop
  91. Modern emo
  92. Reggaeton

  94. Meh: (not that interested, but not antagonistic)
  95. Modern mainstream pop (trendwhoring, lazy production, and the overuse of autotuning have gone so far that most of it is now basically the poppiest tip of the electro-house, minimal, epic trance, funky house, and "progressive" icebergs. This is not a bad thing. Hell, a lot of the songs even sample dance classics. Many are even direct remakes of them.)
  96. Modern mainstream hip-hop (same deal as mainstream pop)
  97. Grunge
  98. Singer-songwriter
  99. Swing jazz
  100. New wave
  101. Classic punk
  102. No wave
  103. Classic "emo"
  104. Ska
  105. Calypso
  106. Medieval (seems quite dull in comparison to later orchestral genres)
  107. "Jump-up" dnb
  108. Tribal
  109. Space pop/French pop
  110. Bluegrass (I really know nothing about it, actually...)
callanyvegetable07/15/2009

This is favorite-ed!

darktremor07/15/2009

Cool, thanks! I'm surprised you're a fan, I made this list more as a way to help myself keep track.

callanyvegetable07/16/2009

It reminds me of different genres I've yet to explore, so it's helpful for me too!

spinmedown1607/18/2009

No Goa Trance? I don't listen to it hardcore but it is up there for me personally.

darktremor07/21/2009

Yep, it's there - I just lump it in with psytrance.