One Genre for the Rest of Your Life...What Would It Be?

[number1sixerfan]

If you could only pick one genre to live with for the rest of your life what would it be and why? Just something I thought about and I still can't answer my own question.

 

[soozieq]

Acoustic without hesitation. Especially nice through headphones.

 

[3DCadman]

Progressive Rock, because it's so wide ranging and I love to listen to complicated, beautiful music. Also, just about all of my favorite bands are in that genre.

 

[grawk]

Pop, because so many things fit under pop

 

[dantztiludrop]

Psychedelicajunslamgrass - 'cuz I wanna still be dantzin' when I'm 92! My name assumes a single night out of crazy dantzin', but I suppose I could take its meaning 1 step further to when I literally drop....fer good. At least, I'll die with a perma-grin!

 

[brotherlen]

How far down the chain of classification are we talking about? e.g. Rock, or like Punk? or mid 80's hardcore punk? I guess that doubles as my answer as well. Classical and Jazz? I'm starting not to like this question, I'll have to get back to you on this. How about not silence?

 

[number1sixerfan]

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Originally Posted by brotherlen /img/forum/go_quote.gif How far down the chain of classification are we talking about? e.g. Rock, or like Punk? or mid 80's hardcore punk? I guess that doubles as my answer as well. Classical and Jazz? I'm starting not to like this question, I'll have to get back to you on this. How about not silence?

Lol, whatever classification you want. I still can decide lmao.

 

[Brian loves music]

pop rock cause that's like 90% music that I have ever had access to

 

[zumaro]

Classical - for its emotional and intellectual depth, for its huge stylistic variety, and for it putting me in contact with the human condition through the ages, in all its complexity, more completely than any other musical genre. Subgenre - probably sacred vocal music, although I find that hard to justify in the way I just stated, particularly as my viewpoint is totally atheistic.

 

[Sordel]

I've spent the majority of my time recently listening to stuff on the jazz side, but I don't think I enjoy it enough to choose it, so that's the first genre out. A lot of the music I love is classical, but I couldn't go to that when I want something with a bit more bite and primitivism.

I guess that I'd go for singer-songwriter, because that's where most of my long-term favourites would fall. I'd be sorry to lose Zappa and Keith Jarrett from the playlist of my life, but with Tori, Kate Bush, Ani Difranco and a horde of my other idols, I'd probably do all right.

 

[Assorted]

Classical would never be obsoleted, various interpretation and performance can be done by peoples millenia's later, and a middle-class North American lifetime is simply not long enough to appreciate the depth of this wonderful genre.

 

[webbie64]

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Originally Posted by Sordel /img/forum/go_quote.gif I've spent the majority of my time recently listening to stuff on the jazz side, but I don't think I enjoy it enough to choose it, so that's the first genre out. A lot of the music I love is classical, but I couldn't go to that when I want something with a bit more bite and primitivism. I guess that I'd go for singer-songwriter, because that's where most of my long-term favourites would fall. I'd be sorry to lose Zappa and Keith Jarrett from the playlist of my life, but with Tori, Kate Bush, Ani Difranco and a horde of my other idols, I'd probably do all right.

singer-songwriter? Now that's what I call a Genre! I note you use female singer songwriters as your examples but I'd join you on that 'genre' choice, because it can still cover pretty much all traditional genres/styles.

 

[Sordel]

Singer-songwriter used to be a pretty widely-accepted genre in the seventies, when people such as Carole King, Elton John and Billy Joel broke through as solo performing artists who performed their own material: then a fairly recent invention. It's exclusive in the sense that one wouldn't use it to describe band-based songwriters, or for that matter "pop" singers, whether or not they write their own stuff.

 

[Assorted]

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Originally Posted by Sordel /img/forum/go_quote.gif Singer-songwriter used to be a pretty widely-accepted genre in the seventies, when people such as Carole King, Elton John and Billy Joel broke through as solo performing artists who performed their own material: then a fairly recent invention. It's exclusive in the sense that one wouldn't use it to describe band-based songwriters, or for that matter "pop" singers, whether or not they write their own stuff.

That's actually a great genre! If only I had access to the Performer-composer genre of the 18th century.

 

[Wmcmanus]

Reggae. Always chills me out. But then again, I don't listen to it all that often and if it was the only thing I could listen to... hmmm... tough one.

I'd probably go with blues, actually. I can listen to Channel 74 on SIRIUS for days at a time when I'm on the road driving in the States. A lot of the music I love stems from the blues, so I think that's probably where my true love lies, deep down.