i was just curious as to what types of music people like to listen to, because i personally think i have weird musical taste: well, i love my classical music, but then i also like my punk rock music. Quite an unusual combination, but it works for me.

Rock.

I listen to The Arrow mostly (a digital Rock radio station).

On TV we only watch The Hits and my current fav is My Chemical Romance - Black Parade

Mostly jazz, but I also have a soft spot for one man and his guitar acoustic singer-songwriter stuff.

Same as Tsax, but also listen to considerable amounts of Van the Man, as my son is a little bit obsessed by him to say the least. I also like funk, soul and classical.

me too!

It is healthy to have a wide taste of music. I know one person who only listens to Bach.... nothing wrong with Bach, but, come on!

Your taste is not weird at all!

Exactly!!! I listen to a wide variety of stuff too. I like rock, some pop, punk rock, and some classical (Oh, and film music; lots of it!!!)

i think its simply because we have a greater appreciation for most types of music. Why would someone want to listen to just Bach? - don't get me wrong - he's a great composer, but i do see your point, that its better to have a wider variety of music to listen to.

Lots of different things actually. It was difficult to choose an answer, because I'm not sure what I listening to most at the moment - rock/punk/indie type-stuff or classical. Went for other in the end cause I'm listening to a lot of Irish traditional stuff I suppose.

You can see the Black Parade video on their web site http://www.mychemicalromance.com/ - click on "view all media" on the bottom right

I listen to all sorts of music - NO idea which one I listen to most... probably classical but I really don't know.

I only really listen to classical... nothing against the other types of music but I don't find it as inspiring as classical. The only music I can't tolerate in the background is trance music- sorry, but who wants to listen to five minutes of non-stop beat and nothing else? Oh, and Britney Spears... If I had to choose anything other than classical it would be soft rock.

I like mostly any kind of music. from the pussy-cat-dolls to Vivaldi.

I like classical, dance, r"n"b, jazz and latin!

Synth pop

The type of thing I tend to listen to most are classed as either rock, metal or Alternative & punk (by iTunes)

I listen too a lot of rock (Jeff Buckley, Joan as Police Woman...that sort of thing) and folk (Nick Drake, Joni Mitchell..etc.)!

Interesting that there are 12 types of 'modern' music, and just one for classical. I guess that's anything 'older than modern', but it's a very huge category!

I can imagine at the time, somebody's grandma saying 'Ooooh, how can you listen to that Mozart, it's just tuneless rubbish!'

I listen to all sorts of music. Rock (Queen, The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd) Metal (Marilyn Manson, Korn, Disturbed) Acoustic (Johnny Cash, Nick Drake, Willy Mason) Pop (The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Michael Jackson) and Classical (Basically anything)

I would say I am listening to Classical the most at the moment. Mainly Choral and Organ stuff, but I agree with Maize that it is strange you placed Classical as a general topic. Some classical music I am not so keen on, say Chopin, and othr 'classical' music I love, like Bach, Mozart and Byrd.

Interesting topic though!

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Classical; I'm a flute player, therefore play alot of this style and it is what I end up listening to most. Also like pop.
Music I like: James Galway's music, Ian Clarke's, Vivaldi, Poulenc, Faure, Showtunes etc.

Interesting that there are 12 types of 'modern' music, and just one for classical. I guess that's anything 'older than modern', but it's a very huge category!

yes - this was my immediate reaction too. It's not a very balanced poll !

I mostly listen to classical & have hardly anything else in my collection, but I do have quite a wide variety of things , from Bach & Vivaldi, to Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, Brahms, Rachmaninov, Debussy, Messiaen, Prokofiev, Shostakovich (to name some of my favourites).

It's not that I don't like any other kind of music, more that I'm so involved in classical music that I don't think about other kinds very much. I'm quite happy to sing other styles in choir, in fact it's a nice change after many years of standard classical repertoire & I do other styles with my piano pupils if they want to.

Not entirely on-topic but continuing a discussion that has developed on the thread: I'm just back from a concert which included classical (Martinu, Ravel, Bach, Lutoslawski, Turina, Joplin), solo acoustic guitar/vocal, amplified guitar/bass/vocal duo, solo bagpiper and fiddle/guitar duo. Amazing variety of styles and sounds, and everyone - no matter what their perceived favourite was before they came - was delighted by the chance to experience and enjoy such a wide range of music. It was a good lesson.

Me too. I love classical music but yet I listen to rock and Metal too. Mostly Metallica and a Finnish metal opera band called Nightwish. Don't worry, you're not eh only one with weird music taste.

oo...i think this poll kind of clearly shows that most of us listen to Rock music the most (Excluding classical music) - maybe because we're all students......it must just be "a phase" we're all going through...

nope - I'm 42 and have always rocked

Anything and everything!!! And I mean it...

I listen to pretty much anything...

The "wierd"-est?

Well that depends on who you are!

I'm guessing lots of people on here would find Porcupine Tree pretty wierd! Yet other people I know listen to that sorta music a lot, but would find baroque or renaissance music really wierd! Thing with a word like "wierd" is that it's soooo subjective!

I wanted to tick more than one box... but hey ho. I love my classical, but then again, I couldnt go anywhere whithout the spice girls and Gina G on my iPod. Along with all those great 60s hits and cheesy number ones such as the Wurzels Combine harvester and Ernie with his fastest milk cart. And where would I be without those great musicals to sing along to?! Annie, My fair Lady, The lion king, Oliver, and of course Gilbert and Sullivan!!

Lmao!!

We played this really loud at the last training weekend!!

Nope, if you're going to divide popular into all those categories, you'll have to divide classical into its proper categories, so I can't vote. Besides, there is a lot of difference between what you might listen to most, and what you listen to as a full range...

I voted for other because I'm currently listening to mainly kinda folk rock/indie type stuff, but I listen to so much stuff... I mean last night me and a mate were listening to Steps and S Club and Busted (Rawk on lol) but right now I'm listening to my folk instrumental playlist (Flook, Uiscedwr etc.) and I like to listen to classical, particularly Baroque and Romantic as well. It's just really an impossible question for me.

I love flook!! It was my english teacher at school who introduced me to it about 4 years ago.

Hmmm... The list seems to consist of 'Classical', followed by several variants on 'Modern'. May I say it seems a bit slanted?

I shud reall be saying classical (the upstanding music student that i am ), but really i love r 'n'b and hip hop music. I've had to broaden my musical taste to do AS music though. When it comes to playing, i love to play classical and jazz, so i guess i'm a bit all over the place really

...but still managed to miss out heavy metal. And no, it's not the same as rock, they are two different genres, but perhaps metal is classified as other??

I tend to (predominantly) listen to classical (in its various genres), perhaps seconded by jazz, but also tend to flick through radio stations when I'm in the car, so I listen to quite a wide range of music really.

Indeed...

And all the sub-genre of metal... And heavy metal...

Cyber-metal... Grindcore... Hardcore... Death-metal... Gothic-metal... Gothic-rock...

And all the hundreds of divisions of dance/electronic music!!

Wow someone else has heared of them!! Went to see them live last year and got to to meet them Except for some reason Sarah thought I was a flautist

A site of this pedigree should really have a stricter definition of the term "classical", which to me indicates music from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

And should therefore also have closer definitions of all the genre listed!

With modern music there is so much variation that practically every band needs a new genre... And there are so many subgenre within one genre these days...!

musicals

Im obsessed with them

and Irish trad, my favourite bands being Flook (they are love!) and the Bothy Band

I am perfectly happy listening to anything from Gregorian Chant right through to living composers such as John Adams, Thomas Ades, and James MacMillan . But never opera or jazz.

they are amazing.

I'm going through a more "rock"y phase at the moment, I tend to do that - at different times I'll listen more to different genres, but I still try to keep a balance of different things.

Indie. Whatever that means. (At this precise moment in time: Liquid Lives by Hadouken!)

I am a MASSIVE metal fan and so called "emo" music. I like most music but I really love My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, Korn, Slayer, Slipknot and Panic! At The Disco.



HK x

I had to put 'Other' ! I listen to everything and anything!

I feel a true musician should be into every sort of music across the whole board.
I myself have been into Rock n roll,blues,psycobilly,Rockobilly,punk,ska,pop,oi,classical,rock,heavy metal.
Afetr mixing with the punks and their attitude, got me back into music after a 20 year break of discontent and at the moment more then contempt in writing and playing my own brand of Rock N Roll !!

At the moment I'm probably mostly listening to pop (i.e. whatever's on the radio) and indie type stuff (love Biffy Clyro's new track...)
Overall my CD collection is mostly indie and emo stuff. Whereas my iPod is emo/indie/dance/pop/r 'n' b/baroque/classical

I just can't make myself listen to jazz, blues or funk. I'm getting used to playing jazzy stuff on my flute though so we'll have to see

I think I'm quite strange in the fact that I rarely listen to albums. I can't imagine sitting there and listening to an album all the way through. I need to listen to different bands and different styles mixed together that's probably why there's so much different stuff on my iPod. It also means that itunes really suits me - I can just download single tracks that I like

This is yet another poll in which I have not bothered to vote because the categories are so odd. I suspect that the amount of Classical music (Haydn to Beethoven) I listen to is exceeded by the Romantic and possibly by the early 20th C "modernist" composers (no longer modern) such as Stravinsky and Schonberg. I don't know where Medieval, Renaissance or Baroque would rank, but none of these would I switch off just because of the music (I might because of the performance). Then, again, what about Blue Grass, Country and Western or "Bollywood" (Indian popular music)? and it's a bit odd to have Jazz as one category when some people (I am one) have strong preferences within it. I have no great enthusiasm for Trad Jazz, though I might like particular groups; I usually like Swing; I almost always like Bebop, whether big band or small group; I occasionally find myself intrigued by post-Bebop groups such as "Weather Report", though some of its incarnations seemed to get bogged down into a sort of minimalism on which I give up.

Yes, my thoughts too.