What Is Your Favorite Genre Of Music?

I don’t know a lot about music genres but apparently I listen mostly to modern alternative rock, australian surf rock, pov: indie, indie rockism and la pop. I think spotify just made these up tbh I have no freaking clue what la pop is but apparently I listen to it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Mostly Metal and Rock. I dabble in a bit of punk, jazz and hardstyle occasionally.
My fav bands are System of a Down, Korn, Pantera and Weezer (The most important one of them all)

@Adivii_ Nice! Korn and System of a Down are the reasons why I play bass guitar.

Dance Music (EDM), mostly trance, hardstyle, and big room house
I grew up listening to Linkin Park, blink-182, Green Day, and Avenged Sevenfold too, so Rock/Nu Metal and Symphonic Metal sound good for me

I don't really understand music genres. For me, there's "instrumental music", "pure songs", and "songs with instruments". And then there's rap, which doesn't fit into any of those.

I also don't get the word "artist" in relation to music. An artist is someone who makes physical art, or describes the imbuing of media with meaning. Music is made my musicians, who may be composers, singers, instrumentalists etc.

Anyway, I like a lot of music from Beethoven, Lia, Nightwish, Tschaikowsky, The Delgados, Bjork, The Spinners, Supercell and Dvorak, and I also have to mention Holst and Rimsky-Korsakov for a few particular pieces. Beethoven definitely the most important name there. But I really don't look all that hard for music, it's mostly just a matter of what I stumble across.

Metal, Rock, Kpop, and 2010's pop

Mostly Nu metal Staind, Deftones, Sevendust, LP, mudvayne, etc. Also been getting into Epicore lately

There's so many types of music I like and I can listen to just about anything. Currently I've been listening to a lot of Dream Pop music.

@TheAnimeLogician That's sick! I've been playing guitar for 6 years now and discovering them made me even more motivated.

I haven't listened to any music yet, I plan to do that in the future though. I will edit this post once I listened to a piece of music, so keep an eye out for my update.

I like Rap, not really gangster rap though.

I enjoy Kanye West, Tyler the Creator, 21 Savage, Common, Travis Scott, MF Doom, Kendrick Lamar, hell I could keep going but I'd be here all day.

@DontHugMeImDead This! Simple, yet great. Didn't get much into Kpop till I noticed how good it was, which was after my high school years.

@TheAnimeLogician I got into koop around 2013 and I mainly listen to 2013-2017 kpop. I'm currently obsessed with senorita by VAV and mamma Mia by sf9 lmao what are some of your favorite songs?

@DontHugMeImDead That's a tough one, lots of good Kpop songs, though I need to check my spotify just to make sure I'm accurate of which songs I like the most. And that's nice, good to see lots of diversity in music taste within MAL.

I tend to listen to a lot of music, but if I had to pick two, it'd probably be doom metal and darksynth.





This said, I'd wither without city pop and SNES-era japanese OSTs, so the cliché kinda holds true 😂

I really like ambient and classical, stuff I can listen too passively while I do other things!

I'm a big fan of industrial and all its subgenres, especially post-industrial and death industrial which imo produce some of the freakiest most otherworldly soundscapes. Other than that I really enjoy trip-hop, atmospheric drum & bass, ambient, and techno

I'll share one of the coolest things I've come across recently

Tough one. I mean I like gaming music, Anime music is ok but not my preferred.

I enjoy EDM and dropped off Pop easily.

I probably listen to mostly DnB, Nu Disco, Electro, Future Bass, House (it's odd subgenres of Future House, Deep House, etc.), Glitch Hop I think, the odd Trance, Chillout, Ambient, Hardcore, Dubstep, Drumstep, Electro Swing, Future Funk, French House. Other further stuff.

I mostly listen to smaller artists though, the odd ones from like Monstercat I started with then Monstercat fan channels/promo channels, some from Funky Way/Funky Panda or NCS but less so those over time.

I just go by fan channels or follow artists on Soundcloud/YT these days and if they come from Umbra Collective or Nightowl Collective, Silver Skies and probably some others (I mostly seek by artists and their work though it just so happened some aligned with those, not common but just those ones seemed to align more then the so many other labels I've come across.

I have my few key artists and others are just new to me all the time, sometimes 1 song sometimes an EP, other times following them for a few years and drop of or come back and hear what I missed), I go for sound design and if it sounds good I'm interested in the structure and enjoy some samples/patterns they go for.

Usually not lyrics unless they have a good spin on the lyrics then sure otherwise pass most sound typical and uninteresting or the sampling/instrumentation can be too simple so pass.

I would say if not EDM I'd probably be fine with Rock maybe or Metal I listen to some EDM that has aspects like them.

I tend to listen to a lot of music, but if I had to pick two, it'd probably be doom metal and darksynth.





This said, I'd wither without city pop and SNES-era japanese OSTs, so the cliché kinda holds true 😂

@Suntanned_Duck2 So like EDM, but with a more technical element to it, not just the same hypish style or generic beats?

I'm a huge fan of metal. Slipknot and Metallica are like a religion to me

@Enji_Todoroki Nice! Some of my first metal albums were from Slipknot, All Hope Is Gone and Slipknot Live: 2.0

I have an affinity grind core in particular.

I have an affinity grind core in particular.

I say Vocaloid music is my favorite genre of music.

My mom's friend lived in Japan for decades working in the travel industry, and would bring back many things for my older brother and I - so I would always listen to old Japanese cassette tapes from the 80's, and got really into - what would now be considered City Pop - but I made mixtapes when I was, like, four years old, filled with singers like Anri and DREAMS COME TRUE, still love them to this day

@TheAnimeLogician Thats awesome. The first few albums from slipknot are the best. but i have them all. lol

@LeDemiurge Grindcore is pretty sick, even though the songs last for 2-3 minutes I'm always down to listen to grindcore.

mixture of indie rock and indie pop, however i am a sucker for kpop and jpop on the odd occasion.

@TheAnimeLogician Pretty much. I don't have an easy to describe type interest. It's very open ended.


I enjoy a mix of some calm sounding, some simple (it varies as some House tracks for example can sound really good and others a bit on the boring side) but also enjoy certain fast paced or deep sounding ones.

The more you hear what I listen to the more it makes sense so I sort of go all over the place. But it's up to the way it sounds, the artist's style or whatever I'm in the mood for sometimes. I'm not that concrete on only generic or only hype ones.

Like I've heard Follin Brothers Prog Rock type NES/SNES game tracks to I assume Rock/Metal in some EDM but as I'm not that familiar with the genre I can only guess.

Like family have Pop, Rock and so on but I haven't listened enough to them to really know the aspects of the genre or those artists as much.



Mostly technically but I don't mind the more simple sounding. It varies how the artist went about it, sometimes their style I hear in each track is just appealing, sometimes they try something new and it just works. Other times it just connect with me.

When I hear some little odd details I like I really get into it, it can be brief, it can be a whole segment, it varies.

Like in some cases I'll go I like the Gran Turismo menu music and enjoy that fusion jazz, other times it's some racing games like R Racing Evolution I enjoy the menu music for or Auto Modellista that does the per screen a different mix of the drums or samples to add or remove thins, something Mario Kart 8 does when you get to the cup selection screen but is different in the kart parts or character selection menu. Auto Modellstia has that about 3 times it changes, it's gimmicky but I like it.

That or puzzle games with good electronic music like Practical Intelligence Quotient 1 & 2.

Other times it's the Ratchet - Gemlik Base type where it's very space and alien.

I don't have an easy to describe type interest as you can tell. XD



I do the same when I make my own music (not really, just playing around with an app Music Maker Jam, I don't make songs for profit I couldn't with their samples anyway it's just for fun). But I've gone with calm samples, hard hitting ones, it varies.

The key artists I keep following reflect this as well.

Some as simple as Majestique - Girls With Red Lipstick (Electro Pop I think it is, I do enjoy Electro Pop or Synth Pop) I find just calming in a way. Some Future Funk tracks are simple and repeat a lot as the point of it but they have fair bits in-between I like.



Here is some playlists I made that I keep around for my thoughts on some songs. I have these playlists that describe what I like about some songs to give an idea, remind myself why I like them besides the likes I give to songs either as a 'reminder' (how I would treat MAL PTW, On Hold, watching in different ways or a playlist I treat YT as a like button option sometimes as well) as some are just remainders.

Very those that I really like which is why I mostly put those playlists is for those I really like and have more to say on them.

https://soundcloud.com/suntanned-duck2/sets/part-7-tracks-with-my

https://soundcloud.com/suntanned-duck2/sets/part-6-tracks-with-my

https://soundcloud.com/suntanned-duck2/sets/part-5-tracks-with-my

https://soundcloud.com/suntanned-duck2/sets/favourite-lyric-vocal-chop

https://soundcloud.com/suntanned-duck2/sets/part-4-tracks-with-my


It varies on the artist or what they were going for with each song.

Like to me something like Getsix - Pulse or Umbra Collective - Taking Off as multi-genre songs I don't mind their mixing up of things especially the end parts of both of those songs. I enjoy the complexity, the odd details they switching things up for in the end parts of the tracks even if the rest is enjoyable it's the last parts that are memorable for me I can go yep, that to that to this to that is coming up at that point in the song.

In other cases something like a Meakii - Voidal Anaglyph I like the mix of chill but also the drum patterns being a bit odd mixed in with the chill vibe it goes for. The way I find that Soba - Utopia balances the light/dark side of things or Paper Skies & Nanqo - Orbit particularly even if I like this one Skyth's remix goes about things. Or Nytra - Ethereum I find some parts calming but it also blends some things well that aren't.

Even the changing it up a lot of Punker & Intrex - Atlas reminded me of the switching up a game called Devil Dice did with one of it's tracks, where it had a similar in most parts it went back to but also a different segment after it. I really like that.

Others can be just something disco like or something very calming that I find Volant - Closer, Nifem -Divisi, Fractal - Itvara, Morn/Colorcase (name change now but was Morn) - Lucent (how the bass goes in it is calming to me) or Fading Language's piano and electronic ambient sounds.

Others like Mewnlight Rose - Eye of the Storm are simple but I think does a fair job fitting the name and being enjoyable enough still. Some structures/gimmicks just appeal to me in a way, a sample, an instrument, a drum pattern mixing it up. It's hard to describe without hearing then or in the moment one will go oh I know what you mean and the other will go it's not doing it for them. It's obviously down to each person after all.

Not into lyrics much but I have a playlist for lyrics/vocal chops. As it depends on what the themes were and how they present it not just a typical love song or something but a spin on the concept like Movie Love for example,

https://soundcloud.com/montaime/discoholic-movie-love?in=suntanned-duck2/sets/favourite-lyric-vocal-chop

or how they present the vocal chops.

https://soundcloud.com/suntanned-duck2/sets/favourite-lyric-vocal-chop




Sometimes I can go ah this sample or instrument sounds great, other times it's how they present the drums/drum machine, the synths, how it sounds, how they present the violin, trumpet, piano, or some instruments I don't sometimes care for but it's how they used it that counted.

@TheAnimeLogician Any bands in particular?

@LeDemiurge Hell yeah! Pig Destroyer, Napalm Death, Insect Warfare, Cattle Decapitation (even though their new stuff is DeathGrind, it's still amazing), and some people call The Red Chord Grindcore, but I think they lean a bit closer to Deathcore.

@TheAnimeLogician Yeah, the Red Chord is deathcore/mathcore. Great taste

The more I've tried to narrow down my music taste the more I realise I'm interested in specific scenes rather than genres: My main interest is progressive/experimental electronic yet still club-friendly music from the late 90s/early 2000s, typically European as that was where club culture was at its best in my opinion. Genres like hard trance, progressive breaks, ambient techno/trance, progressive house, ibiza/balearic trance, IDM, downtempo, psybient etc. All these genres typically bleed into one another anyways as the music was primarily made to be used in DJ sets. I like how the same song can sound completely different depending on how it becomes a component of something greater than the sum of its parts (a bit like a Grateful Dead show lol). If I had to name only one of these genres it would probably be ibiza/balearic trance.

My favourite artists in that fit this bill are: Salt Tank, Chicane, Solarstone, Ashtrax, Paul van Dyk, Ayla, ATB, Matt Darey, Markus Schulz, The Thrillseekers, Mea Culpa, John Bletran, Oliver Lieb, Sasha, Doss, Kaito, TaQ, Solar Fields, Autechre, Monolake, Dettinger, Pete Namlook, Yoshihiro Sawasaki, The Future Sound of London, Fennesz, Novanova, Seofon, Yoji Biomehanika, Alphazone, Yoshiaki Ochi, Flutlicht, Tetsu Inoue, and Brock Van Wey.

Here's a couple of my favourite tracks as examples:

@Suntanned_Duck2 You ever tried using a DAW(Digital Audio Workstation) like FlStudio or Reaper or Ableton Live and making your own music with samples, beats, and synths?