Says it all in the title!
For me, I'm interested in any other genre - especially R'n'B and pop...but I can't stand heavy metal (or metal for that matter )

Just wanted to know

Who says any of us like classical

I like pop and rock, make electronic pop music.

I like to play jazz (but don't really listen to it much)

I like New Orleans jazz and the music of the 1930s

Pretty much anything goes apart from this modern "RnB" which isn't actually R&B at all.. Wailing and screaming is *not* singing

I'm into American Nu-Metal bands at the moment, but I like a lot of more conventional rock like Paul Weller, for example

I like listening to random stuff like BB King, Chuck Berry, Carl Perkins, Eric Clapton on odd occasion. I love cheesy 80's stuff like Human League, Heaven 17, ABC, Fiction Factory etc as well (along with the 80's House/Hardcore stuff as well).

Quite eclectic really, what I listen to depends on my mood

I play trumpet in a ska band, enjoy attempting classical on the piano, and listen to Musical theatre, rock, pop, classical, brass band, jazz etc etc etc depending on what takes my fancy at the time.

Only genres I can't stand are rap and rave. Can't see the point!

I am glad to have a range of tastes

I like soul, some jazz and most music of the 60's..

I have mates from ethnic backgrounds, so I've been listening to African, Indian and Russian music. Some great rhythms in these, particularly the African.

I enjoy a number of world musics, particularly the music of the gamelan.

Me too John! We must chat about different styles sometime.

I like songs which have good background parts, as I find myself listening carefully to how the harmonies all fit together (probably a habit from being musical! ) The song also has to have a proper tune. I don't like stuff that's just all electronic and rapping.

I have to admit with quiet a few of you people, I don't really enjoy a song with so much rapping in, and there are quite a few songs which get on my nerves as the same tune can just repeat again and again... but I can mostly settle for anything

I play (& listen to) all sorts, depending on what instrument I'm on and my mood at the time. Also the audience: Standing in front of a folk club with a guitar and singing something from the Great American Songbook or the Jazz catalogue can be done (and I do occasionally) but usually doesn't go down well and you do have to be selective. Don't even think of singing something that Percy Grainger, Benjamin Britten or John Ireland might have written and called a folk song and as for something in a foreign language, well, I just can't imagine it, unless you count Gaelic (which isn't really foreign - probably less so than English come to think of it!). Mind you, Flanders & Swan goes down well (in moderation!).

On the other hand, I cannot imagine singing F&S to the audience at the fundraising gig last month when I played bass guitar in a band - Midnight hour, 12 bar blues, Rolling Stones, etc, was much more the mark. Nor an I imagine them being impressed by Liszt, Chopin, Bach, Haydn etc., nor by anything I might play on the flute.

I like listening to most things: Classical (of all periods, including modern), Jazz, Motown, Rock & Roll, Country & Western . . . Lots really.

I'm not fond of Brass or military band music, and definitely not fond of Bagpipes. Can't really get my head around gamelan. Likewise a lot of other middle & far eastern music, though I did buy a CD called something like "Camelspotting - the real Oasis" a few years ago and it is rather good once you get the hang of it.

I dislike the noise churned out by computer programmers and masquerading as music for the purpose of creating an atmosphere in a disco where it is impossible to have a conversation, this being one of the few genres that I would wish to have a conversation over.

Someone has already said they dislike rap music: Perhaps the only memorable line in an otherwise dreadful film called The Last Boy Scout (or it might have been Hudson Hawk, also dreadful and both starring Bruce Willis) is where a baddie says to Bruce Willis "I want to hear you scream" and Bruce Willis replies "Play me some Rap music"!

I almost never listen to classical (small c) music - not because I don't like it, I do, although it's the 20th century plus stuff that tends to really enthrall me, just that there's so much music and so little time.

My big love is jazz - I probably listen to more mainstream and bebop than anything else but I also love more modern stuff, and funk and fusion. To those of you who don't like rap try listening to Soweto Kinch - rap with intelligence and meaning.

I like classic American and Northern soul, I used to be really into 80s/90s indie and singer-songwriter stuff (another victim of the "not enough time" thing).

Brazilian and Cuban music is fantastic too...

To paraphrase "There are only two types of music, the good type and the bad type, I like the good type"

Yes, it's a big problem, and there's rather a lot of Radio 3 that I want to hear, but that always includes Jazz Record Requests, and often Jazz Library, with my interest comprising Swing and Bebop but only occasional tracks outside them. Otherwise, there is often interesting "Bollywood" pop on the BBC Asian Service, and in my rare excursions outside these and classical (in the widest sense), I have happened across Karen Carpenter and Astrid Gilberto, whom I would be happy to hear in pretty well anything for their vocal quality and polished musicianship. I am much less likely to switch off a jazz or Brazilian vocalist than an operatic one, because unacceptably poor tuning is so much rarer in these genres. When my offspring still lived with us, they got me listening to Madness and Level 42, who are just about the only groups in the pop charts since 1980 that I know enough about to wish to hear them again, but I don't seek them out.

Many years ago, I used to play in pit orchestras for amateur operetta (mostly G&S, but occasional Strauss and Lehar) and musicals, and I still like some of these, especially Kern, Gershwin, R Rogers and Bernstein. I would love to play jazz, but feel lacking in both instrumental technique and the appropriate musical theory.

Quelle surprise

I hardly ever listen to music of any kind.
(though I am partial to a bit of prog rock )

I'll listen to anything really.

Someone the other day asked me if I liked dance music. They looked like they were going to pass out when I said yes.

I suppose I ought to be ashamed to post the above sentence on this forum.

I think there is a certain amount of musical snobbery out there - "Oh, you can't possibly listen to that if you like "Classical" music..." Rubbish, imo.

I love all types of music - classical, contemporary classical, jazz, dance, r'n'b, some hip hop, pop, 80's rock!

Only types I don't like are really heavy rock and metal!

You haven't listened to the right bands in that genre if you don't like it, IMO.

The American bands in this particular musical sphere surpass the UK equivalents by miles.

Also sympathise with...



I remember getting a comment from someone at uni that my music collection was "eclectic"

I listen to a very, very wide range of stuff, though I tend not to have things on as background music... if it's enough of a nonentity that I can use it as aural wallpaper, then, with a few exceptions, I'm unlikely to want to listen to it. I had a roommate at uni and then a housemate after who listened to more-or-less anything in preference to silence, and in consequence I value my peace and quiet too much to clutter it with something I'm not fussed about... not in a snobby way, simply that I have had my fill of music "for the sake of it".


Nah.


Not necessarily - there are types of music where even the highest level of musicianship can leave an individual cold. I'll try to listen to more-or-less anything once, but in the few genres which I really don't like, even bands whose music I can appreciate is a good example of said genre aren't bands whose music I would choose to listen to... it can be about not having heard "the right bands", but similarly it's just as possible that a certain kind of music simply isn't what someone finds enjoyable.

Speaking for myself, I am oversensitive to noise and to certain noises... no amounts of musicianship is going to make a band's output pleasurable for me if my body (not my mind) is going "stop! stop! make it stop!" (This probably also contributes towards my ability to enjoy quality silence as much as quality music! )

Depends really, quite a lot of the "heavy" bands do some acoustic stuff which is very nice too I do like bands like Nonpoint, Breaking Benjamin etc when I'm in a bit of a mood, though. It's a massive contrast to what I usually listen to Maybe that's why I like it.

You wouldn't have been a Yes fan would you?

No. (Couldn't resist - know I'm not maledictis! )

I like a huge number of things: prog rock and other 1970s music (especially Genesis and 10cc), folk-rock, quite a lot of trad folk music, swing, early music, musical theatre (but not ALW), bands such as Metallica, REM and Slipknot that No 1 son has liked in the past (though I can't cope with his current passion for drum 'n' bass) - almost anything, really!

Yep, I'll listen to just about anything - from AC/DC to club. I draw the line at hip-hop and most rap. A lot depends on my mood and where I am.

Cerebral stuff is no good in the car for example. Apart from the huge variation in dynamic levels - which you simply cannot listen to while driving - I need my concentration for second-guessing what all the idiots on the road are about to do

Me me me.......
And Pink Floyd, Genesis, ELP, etc. etc. Currently looking out for a CD copy of Earthbound by King Crimson.

I'm of a certain age you know.

I go along with the "2 categories" theory - good and bad. However, there are still some genres which are a closed door - most jazz in particular. Though I can even listen to country music now (proper country, not that stupid Garth Brooks nonsense) and I'm even prepared to concede that dance music is ideal for its purpose (it's remarkably similar to the stuff we use for morris dancing you know).

I tend to go through periods where I listen to mainly one type of music with bits of other stuff thrown in. In my mid 20s I went through a phase of 2 or 3 years where it was almost wholly classical, followed shortly by the "Frank Zappa" years. I think that was the time when I got serious about music. At the moment it's loads of oboe music (I can't think why ) and whatever Radio 3 surprises me with.

I've always enjoyed a bit of noise though and apart from the aforementioned prog rockers there are Led Zep and the Groundhogs who I still listen to now and then. These days I would highly rate the Foo Fighters and Queens of the Stone Age (though now defunct I think) and Nick Cave in his various guises (Bad Seeds, Grinderman). I'm still a folkie too - John Kirkpatrick for melodeon, Kathryn Tickell on Northumbrian smallpipes and Richard Thompson (best living guitarist? and Britain's best songwriter).

I think this is the point where everyone comes out the closet and says:
'my name is XXX and I like prog rock'. I used to be ashamed, but no longer. What's wrong with quadruple concept albums and 47 minute guitar solos?

I play a bit of folk, jazz and swing, so I'm quite keen on them. Also like rock, trance, blues and rock and roll. I think I may be the only person here to appreciate some (and I stress 'some') rap. Putting aside the offensive language and continual references to drugs and chainsaws, I have to say I think Eminem's rapping in particular is very clever.

Oh, yes! An underappreciated and increasingly rare commodity.

Isn't it just - I think growing up in the countryside and now living in a mid-terrace in a town has taught me to appreciate it even more!

Me too: It's just that when I was a teenager, those of us who liked prog. rock were either Genesis fans or Yes fans but fashion wouldn't allow you to be both (though both camps liked Mike Oldfield, Pink Floyd etc. more or less equally). The reason I sort of assumed Maledictis would be a Yes fan is that we almost never agree on anything, and I was a Genesis fan!!

Well barbershop, obviously. What is this 'classical' you speak of?

I will listen to pretty much anything if I am in the right mood.

Yeah I'm a fan of indie/rock but I don't like all this rave nonsense thats going around. How does someone who sits at a computer show talent?

You can't beat classical. I love listening to classical music


Stace

I refer you to Brian Tranceau. He is absolute genius. Quite a lot of film and game composers use computers these days too (eg: Jeremy Soule).

The computer is just another instrument at the end of the day - if it's used properly it's just as capable of making excellent music just like any other IMO. One thing to remember about computers; garbage in = garbage out.

Ah, I can see that (a case of Blue Peter or Magpie?), but I was wasn't thus afflicted. I am, of course talking about "proper" Yes and Genesis - Yes Album, Fragile, Nursery Cryme, Foxtrot. None of that later rubbish. Same with Floyd really. It was all downhill after Meddle and nothing beats Ummagumma.

Oh I just remembered probably the most influential album of my youth and it's from none of the above. Jethro Tull, Aqualung.

I wish that there was a better term to use than classical. I don't like describing anything other than music of the Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven age as classical but it is not an easy task explaining that music by Bach and Handel or the Tudor greats is not classical music to some folk.

Aha, like the time I confused someone from work by saying "If I'm listening to small-c classical music, it will likely be baroque" - which had to be followed by what the difference is between scmall-c classical and Big-C Classical

Me, I think I listen to a wide range of stuff - if it's pop, dance, club, "r'n'b", rap, then it's unlikely I'll be listening through choice. From 'popular' music I'm generally at the heavier end of the market, rock through to metal. But I like plenty of middle of the road stuff I can listen to with my mum in the house too.

Actually, I like iTunes because it puts things in to genres, and sometimes it makes me laugh. The Red Hot Chilli Pipers are apparently 'World'. Kate Bush is 'Alternative & Punk'. We have one track on iTunes - I can't remember who it is by - which is categorised as 'Inspirational'. And several tracks that it's deemed 'Unclassifiable' But 'Rock' is probably the genre that comes out most highly populated, which even with occasional dodgy classifying is probably right.

Yes

Good - I was worried there for a minute!

I am not of this "certain age" btw - just to make that clear...

Ah - it all becomes clear

I love all types of music.
I play mostly classical, and listen mostly to pop (on the radio).
I play in a small jazz group once a week but not much jazz other than that.
MM

I like Rock and Rap kind of... but classical is a favorite.

Everything from Plainsong to Jean-Michelle Jarre, via Jethro Tull and Show of Hands.

Today, iTunes has classified Puddle of Mudd's Come Clean as 'Books and Spoken Word'.

sorry, but this is an incredibly closed-minded attitude. the computer doesn't write the music for you, it just plays it. (i know there's software these days that can create backing tracks etc., but real electronic music artists write it themselves.) you might not like the music, but to say that the composers have no talent because their music is played by a sequencer instead of an orchestra is rather insulting. if Bach had used a computer when writing his music, would you say he had no talent either?

Solari mentioned BT (who's trance, not rave, BTW); you might also try :wumpscut: (EBM) and VNV Nation (futurepop).

as for raves: the music chosen for such events tends not to be very interesting, because it's not intended for listening, it's for dancing, and it works pretty well for that.

I would class BT as "Epic Journey Trance" if there is such a category, although obviously he crosses in to other genres The guy is absolutely amazing and has commissioned a lot of one-off bits of kit (for example, to make the "stutter" effect).

I still never tire of the ESCM album Oh, and to quite a lot of people, "rave" just seems to mean anything that uses purely digital instruments - I find it a little irksome

You are so restrained...
Dance music gives me flashbacks

Big fish, little fish, hanging out the washing...
Big box, little box, put dinner in the oven....

Was that you?

Nah, I was way more imaginative than that...

We had
"Big fish, little fish, big fish, little fish,
Big fish, little fish, cardboard box...
Shopping trolley, shopping trolley,
Big fish, little fish, cardboard box."

I remember teaching that to my grandma! She came to stay over for the weekend about a year ago and me and my sister had nothing better to do than sing that song. She picked it up in no time!

<splatters water all over computer screen>



My sister and I never got as far as the shopping trolley line, but I can well imagine how the move goes...

Q. What do you call a raver on a dessert trolley?
A. Sweet!

Q. What do you call a raver in a filing cabinet?
A. Sorted!

To return to topic , nearly all of what I listen to is classical (with either capital or lower case c).

That reminds me, apparently when I was a lot younger, I use to love Bob the Builder' 'Can we Fix it'. It got on my mum's nerves a lot especially as it was no.1 in the charts...I also loved the Winnie the Pooh song when I was a tiny tot, but I can't remember the song...

Good times, good times...

I can hardly see people off their heads dancing to Bob The Builder in aircraft hangars in the middle of the countryside, though