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What is your favourite genre of music and why?

What is your favourite genre of music out of these options?

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What to choose, what to choose..?

I love Tchaikovsky, Percy Sledge, Chris Daughtry, Live (their lyrics are amazing!), Carl Orff (Carmina Burana makes me feel small, if you know what I mean), Texas, Deff leopard, Adam Lambert, Celine Dion, Meat loaf etc but I think I'm giving my age away here. ;) :lol
 
I like pop/rock and country best. It flows with how I'm feeling. Like at the moment, my favorite song (which has become my mantra) is "What Doesn't Kill You (Stronger)" by Kelly Clarkson :D.
 
:o ... that was hard to call ... I am telling you that I use to listen to just 60's & 70's tunes till ... my daughter's sweetheart came into the picture :o he got me started on .. country music !! So, I like the following artists:

* Tim McGraw & Faith Hill
* Taylor Swift
* Rascal Flatts
* Reba McEntire
* Sugarland

That is just a few I have other's too ... but those are the main ones. I saw Reba in concert a few years ago when she came to town w/ Kelly Clarkson and that ah was one AWESOME SHOW ... it was my first ever concert and I really enjoyed it ... then last year my daughter, her sweetheart & his landlord at the time got tickets to see Kenny Chesney and well they got me one too and so I went to see him and it was a great concert. So, if I would to choose who I wanted to see in concert ... I would have to say Tim, Rascal Flatts, Reba again ... so maybe sometime !!
 
Rock/pop, I guess.
And when I discovered Skillet, I found out that hard rock is awesome.

Although to be honest I'll listen to pretty much any genre. I don't generally judge a song by it's genre...except I generally dislike rap. But there are exceptions.

Bands like Skillet, Casting Crowns, Relient K...their styles are generally what I like in music.
 
I like pretty much everything except rap and R&b although I did see a rap group called End Time Warriors when they opened for DeGarmo and Key about 20 years ago. They were pretty good. I used to dislike opera, but I'm kind of warming up to it now.
 
i actually can't decide :chini love country , pop and rock, jazz, rap , gospel, rnb, ...i'm not into blues for me that's melancholy...( sorry for the adele fans) ...
 
It's hard to pick just one genre. While I may listen to certain genres more than others, I appreciate music of all genres if the melody is good/catchy, and if the lyrical content has meaning.
 
My favorite genre is metal. I like the rough sound of it, as well as the ability of metal to get pretty melodic, depending on the sub-genre. Speaking of which, I like how diverse metal is; although I don't like every form of it, I like how there are different kinds of metal. If you want something fast and melodic, there's power metal. If you want something fast and in-your-face, there's thrash metal or grindcore. If you want something heavy and melodic at the same time, there's melodic death metal or melodic metalcore. You want something plain heavy, there's death metal or black metal. If you want something with good riffs, there's classic metal, progressive metal, or glam metal.

Aside from bands that have violent, materialistic, or satanic lyrics, I like how metal lyrics are often serious in nature, and appear to have been well thought out. Metal covers a wide variety of topics, depending on the sub-genre or band. Along with the lyrics, I enjoy the composition; to me, metal has the best musicians. I especially enjoy songs with guitar solos, and drummers who do double bass, blast beats, or gravity rolls. Sometimes, the bass player is good (Iron Maiden and Necrophagist are good examples, though the latter is a death metal band, one of the few that I like). The rhythm guitar in metal often has nice riffs. The vocals can vary, which adds to the variety; if you don't like death metal because of the growling, for example, you can listen classic metal, which has singing. In conclusion, I enjoy metal for its heaviness, diversity, and composition.
 
Crusader7000 said:
My favorite genre is metal. I like the rough sound of it, as well as the ability of metal to get pretty melodic, depending on the sub-genre. Speaking of which, I like how diverse metal is; although I don't like every form of it, I like how there are different kinds of metal. If you want something fast and melodic, there's power metal. If you want something fast and in-your-face, there's thrash metal or grindcore. If you want something heavy and melodic at the same time, there's melodic death metal or melodic metalcore. You want something plain heavy, there's death metal or black metal. If you want something with good riffs, there's classic metal, progressive metal, or glam metal.

Aside from bands that have violent, materialistic, or satanic lyrics, I like how metal lyrics are often serious in nature, and appear to have been well thought out. Metal covers a wide variety of topics, depending on the sub-genre or band. Along with the lyrics, I enjoy the composition; to me, metal has the best musicians. I especially enjoy songs with guitar solos, and drummers who do double bass, blast beats, or gravity rolls. Sometimes, the bass player is good (Iron Maiden and Necrophagist are good examples, though the latter is a death metal band, one of the few that I like). The rhythm guitar in metal often has nice riffs. The vocals can vary, which adds to the variety; if you don't like death metal because of the growling, for example, you can listen classic metal, which has singing. In conclusion, I enjoy metal for its heaviness, diversity, and composition.
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Crusader:

Very interesting and well thought out comments, and you seem to have a profound knowledge of the metal genre.

Do you think that for example, the vigorous and elemental style is easily adaptable for communicating the Christian message?

Blessings.
 
farouk said:
Crusader:

Very interesting and well thought out comments, and you seem to have a profound knowledge of the metal genre.

Do you think that for example, the vigorous and elemental style is easily adaptable for communicating the Christian message?

Blessings.
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Yes, I do. All of the members of As I Lay Dying are Christians (which is one reason why I like them), for example. According to them, in one way or another they apply a Christian message in their music, since they believe that if you really believe in something, it will affect many areas of your life. I agree with this.
 
My favourite genre is UK Hardcore/Happy Hardcore/Rave (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_hardcore)

It's fast, it's hard, it brings a punch to the air and a grin to the face that would scare small children and old people :D Not all of the tracks have lyrics, it's about rhythm and melody (and those that do are basically love songs) so you can easily turn it into music you can worship God to and I very often do :yes

I enjoy all sorts of other genres and artists but nothing beats a rave!!
 
Crusader7000 said:
Yes, I do. All of the members of As I Lay Dying are Christians (which is one reason why I like them), for example. According to them, in one way or another they apply a Christian message in their music, since they believe that if you really believe in something, it will affect many areas of your life. I agree with this.
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Crusader7000: Interesting, ty, and I see that Tim Lambesis from As I Lay Dying has a Trinity symbol tattoo also. (Did you realize?)

I agree about faith affecting deeply one's life.
 
Crusader7000 said:
No, I never noticed that. How interesting.
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Crusader7000:

Yes, and I guess the design kind of puts into context the direction of his and the Christian metal band's message, I suppose. (On the other thread I saw that you thought that maybe for metal bands it was kind of appropriate for its artists to get tattoos, although I saw you kind of dislike them.)

Interesting, anyway.

Blessings.
 
I grew up in the 70s', and really got into the hard rock of the day. It's still my favourite genre. I'm also really exicted about guys like Alice Cooper, Glenn Hughes, Dave Mustaine, Victor Griffin, Nico McBrain, Rob Halford finding their way to God.

Bands represented here include Alice Cooper (obvious one ^_^), Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Megadeth, Pentagram, Iron Maiden and Judas Priest.

There's been an incredible response to Jesus in the hard rock/heavy metal community lately. I'm so glad these guys have learned that God wants to love, forgive and help them (rather than condemn them), and that he has given them their musical talents. It's nice to see them using these talents in a postive way.
 
evanescence,my chemical romance,the used,lacuna coil,flyleaf,disturbed,30 seconds to mars,Blutengel,AFI,within temptation,enigma,Red,Gorillaz,nightwish,the cure,depeche mode....
 
Guess I should update since my last post . xD
So I still really like the bands I mentioned before, but now there's also Red, Owl City, Tenth Avenue North, Fireflight, Disciple. But in a lot of cases, I listen to a lot of songs from various bands. Worth Dying For, My Heart to Fear (a couple of songs), Jesus Culture, Flyleaf, Andrew Peterson, Demon Hunter (checking them out a bit), Thousand Foot Crutch, DC Talk (yeah, Jesus Freak!), Tobymac, etc.
There's like a lot of genres in all that. xD I tend to be partial to rock, usually, and I love hard rock and some forms of metal. (I think I prefer alternative metal to, like, hardcore metal. Usually. I like some rap metal, too.)
But I also love whatever genre Owl City counts as. Depends on what mood Im in.
 
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