What kind of music do you like?

[LightPhoenix]

A lot of the categories I checked (Rock, Orchestral, Band, Jazz, Opera) I really have more complex tastes in. For example, I tend to like multiple categories of what is considered rock, but really I would consider prog rock and metal (and prog metal) different than rock. Similarly, I'm a huge fan of romantic period music, but I can't stand most post-modern and baroque (except Bach). Even more complex, I like classical era music for the most part, but not Mozart. And really, the "band" music I like is more considered classical - for example, Holst and Grainger wrote numerous pieces for concert and marching band. However, big band music is completely different, and thus the category is pretty ambiguous in a bad way. And Jazz I'm just starting to get into, so I only know a few big names, but nothing specific, even though jazz is a huge category of music.

Further compounding the issue is that I don't mind listening to music that is good, depending on the genre, that would include Pop, Musical/Theater, Rap, Ambient/Electronic, Country, Folk, and Religious.

 

[ThirdWizard]

If you're just getting into Jazz, might I suggest some Ornette Coleman as one Big Name not to miss. He really makes you change the way you listen to music once you understand his stuff. I don't know of any other jazz musician whose music caused so much controversy.

 

[James Heard]

I'm kind of disappointed that there's no "Lounge" category. It's really what I listen to most these days, smoooooth and cheesy. Yum.

 

[Aeolius]

Somehow "ambient/digital" and "electronic" do not equal New Age. Between that and not finding an 80s New Wave selection, I checked nothing.

 

[loki44]

Irie mon.

 

[IronWolf]

Rock, Alternative and Electronic were my choices.

I tend to like the whole range of rock from classic to hair metal to speed metal to grunge to modern day rock. I also like industrial and techno on most occasions.

 

[Zander]

I like Elvish Presley and orchestral but not roc 'n' troll.

Seriously, I like classical music especially 19th c. Russian (e.g. Mussorgsky), classical film music (e.g. LotR), celtic (e.g. Clannad) and some pop (e.g. Billy Joel, Eurythmics).