If I wasn't listening to classical, I'd be listening to...

[Mn Dave]

 

[karlhenning]

Return of the Son of SPF! : )

[Gurn Blanston]

The only other genre that I get any enjoyment from is bluegrass, and since I refuse to lump it in with "Country", then I was forced to choose "None of the Above". Good bluegrass is instrumental poetry.

[karlhenning]

Good bluegrass is instrumental poetry.

Agreed.

[Sergeant Rock]

Country/Americana usually, but could be almost anything.

Edit: By country I mean real country, not the pop crap on country radio.

Sarge

[Florestan]

Of the listed genres, the only one I can't stand is rap.  So I voted "some of the above"

[Mn Dave]

I'm mostly rock guy when not being classical guy but I like a good song no matter which genre.

[Mn Dave]

Edit: By country I mean real country, not the pop crap on country radio.

My man!  Hank, Lefty, George, Merle, Johnny...

[Sergeant Rock]

My man!  Hank, Lefty, George, Merle, Johnny...

Exactly...

[mc ukrneal]

Country is music?!?! Huh. I guess you learn something new every day!  (Ducks...hides in bomb proof shelter...emerges two years later...oww, ok, who threw that?...oww, and that...owww, and...)...

Seriously, for me latin.  I already listen to a ton of it. But latin includes latin jazz and Brazilian, Tango, etc. (I would slide a few classical composers into the latin category from classical as they are actually both). So I guess what this tells you is I am trying to be sneaky on this one!   

[mc ukrneal]

Yes, Country is music, and very well written and performed music.  Sarge is right, though, what is on country radio, and in the popular mind, is a sad affair.  Once the country music label heads and marketing departments heard the siren song of the teenage market, it all went to hell - but there's still plenty of music available from the 1950s and 1960s, into the 70s.  The Outlaw country scene (Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Waylon Jenningns, and their progeny, Buddy Miller, Emmylou Harris, Chris Knight, was of the '70s and produced some of the greatest songs ever.  Many of these guys are from Texas, a great country song state - Guy Clarke, Townes Van Zandt, Steve Earle, Rodney Crowell - all writers of the highest caliber.  It bothers me that so many people are ignorant of the wealth of really well written songs are country, and that keep getting written despite the desert of country radio.  "Chisled In Stone" (Vern Gosdin/Max Barnes), "The Song Remembers When" (Hugh Prestwood) are a couple of songs from the '90s that match anything from the Golden ages.

Bluegrass is technically not "country music" but usually the same people listen to both, and many country singers have made Bluegrass records or came up in that style - Keith Whitley, Vern Gosdin, for example both started out in Bluegrass.  Ricky Skaggs started in BG, then went Country and then returned to BG - which is really his world.  Stere Earle and Merle Haggard both have made BG records.  Here in Nashville there is a great BG bar, The Station Inn where one can hear fantastic BG most nights for very little $$$.  If you can find it there is a great alt-BG record by the New Grass Revival and Leon Russell - NGR is a legit BG group but also incorporates other styles like rock and r&b especially in their song choices.  Of course, Johnny Cash always did a BG song here and there.  But the died-in-the-wool BG is still going very strong, and Del McCourey & sons, and others like, him are doing it just as strong as Bill Monroe did in his day.

But, there were many genres in the list that I listen to and few I listen to that are not on the list, so Some of the Above was my vote.

Very intersting post. Thanks!

[Lethevich]

Either metal or the new wave of female fronted male backed two-member electro groups. Metal is my constant fall-back, and it's where I began seriously exploring music. It provides some elements that I enjoy in classical - a sense of scale and contrast, big tunes writ large in a heart-on-sleeve Romantic manner, and a more-punk-than-punk sense of obnoxious loudness and energy.

Certain types of electro groups I have been getting more into recently - some come close to electropop interspaced with layered noise (HeartsRevolution, Crystal Castles), some more like electropunk (Kap Bambino) - they all tend to share useful qualities for an elitist such as I must be for putting it this way: catchy tunes, happy party music, but with a sense of the underground (noisy moments, distortion, video game samples) that preclude it from ever being popular enough to begin to feel pressure to change the sound to be more commercial and watered down..

[springrite]

In order:

The rain

The wind

Paint drying

[Mirror Image]

I don't listen to much music outside of classical anymore. For about 10 years, I was a fanatic about jazz music, but this has since dwindled down to maybe a few listens a year and when I do it's usually a big name like Miles or Bill Evans.

[Sergeant Rock]

Yes, Country is music, and very well written and performed music.  Sarge is right, though, what is on country radio, and in the popular mind, is a sad affair.  Once the country music label heads and marketing departments heard the siren song of the teenage market, it all went to hell - but there's still plenty of music available from the 1950s and 1960s, into the 70s.  The Outlaw country scene (Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Waylon Jenningns, and their progeny, Buddy Miller, Emmylou Harris, Chris Knight, was of the '70s and produced some of the greatest songs ever.  Many of these guys are from Texas, a great country song state - Guy Clarke, Townes Van Zandt, Steve Earle, Rodney Crowell - all writers of the highest caliber.  It bothers me that so many people are ignorant of the wealth of really well-written country songs, and that keep getting written despite the desert of country radio.  "Chisled In Stone" (Vern Gosdin/Max Barnes), "The Song Remembers When" (Hugh Prestwood) are a couple of songs from the '90s that match anything from the Golden Age.  And artists like Brad Paisley and Lee Ann Womack* are great, real, country singers carrying the torch into the 21st century. 

Bluegrass is technically not "country music" but usually the same people listen to both, and many country singers have made Bluegrass records or came up in that style - Keith Whitley, Vern Gosdin, for example both started out in Bluegrass.  Ricky Skaggs started in BG, then went Country and then returned to BG - which is really his world.  Stere Earle and Merle Haggard both have made BG records.  Here in Nashville there is a great BG bar, The Station Inn where one can hear fantastic BG most nights for very little $$$.  If you can find it there is a great alt-BG record by the New Grass Revival and Leon Russell - NGR is a legit BG group but also incorporates other styles like rock and r&b especially in their song choices.  Of course, Johnny Cash always did a BG song here and there.  But the died-in-the-wool BG is still going very strong, and Del McCourey & sons, and others like, him are doing it just as strong as Bill Monroe did in his day.

Sarge

[71 dB]

Voted for "electronic".

I listen to some pop/rock/jazz/world music/new age too but mainly classical and "electronic" (there are so many types of electronic music).

[karlhenning]

If I wasn't listening to classical, I'd be listening to...

The Bobs:

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[karlhenning]

If I wasn't listening to classical, I'd be listening to...

The Bobs

"The unclassifiable a cappella antidote to modern technology." ~ Robert Adels, Cash Box

[Sandra]

When did the word "International" become the name for a music genre?

[Gurn Blanston]

When did the word "International" become the name for a music genre?

I took it to mean "World Music" which I always thought was a stretch too, but which at least does have some definition to it. To me, it is rather closer to the definition of 'obscenity', I can't tell you what it is, but I know it when I hear it.