Poll: What's your favorite type of music excluding folk or singer/songwriter

As soon as I submitted this one I realized I forgot it. Was it because you reminded me? Somebody did.

Though I do love my rock music, right now I've gotta lean towards blues. Robert Johnson, Howlin' Wolf, Colin Linden, George Leach - the list goes on. :)

You have to love Robert Johnson. Crossroad Blues is on my short list of greatest songs. The only boxed sets I own are

• Robert Johnson
• Dylan
• Bowie
• Louis Armstrong

OK who's going to be the first one to remind me of a boxed set I forgot to mention?

I dont know what YOU have, but my only boxed set is the Wierd Al boxed set :D

"I hope you enjooooyyyyyyy..... my new boxed set."

I love that song!!

Dude...the band Roxette should totally put together a box set, and call it the Roxette Boxette.

mmmm. it's all about the Barbershop bay-bee.

I suppose it'd fit into an "oldies" genre, but it's so much more than just older songs made a cappella.

anyways, in leiu of that I voted for opera ;)

*sigh* of course B-shop is "oldies". The new stuff is called vocal jazz :-P  (Ok it's not exclusively a capella, but the best stuff is)

But whatever, it's singing something, which is more than what I'm doing, so I'm jealous of you and George (and others who I'm forgetting at the moment, there are lots of B-shoppers in this group)

Mmmmm barbershop....

i would beg to differ with the "vocal jazz" category... contemporary a cappella includes a huge range of styles of music. jazz is one, certainly. but there is also pop, rock, doo-wop, gospel, traditional hebrew, collegiate (as i believe they kind of have their own style), and of course barbershop. just check out the huge catalog at mainely a cappella and you'll see what i mean. :)

i really think we've had this poll before.

i picked blues, cause it's my fastest-growing musical taste. also because the choice quotes an elton john song, which is my secret guilty pleasure.

sheesh!

My two answers aren't on there. Indie pop bands and hardcore.

:(

Hardcore what? Polka?

.oO We're an accordian band Oo.

 

/me laughs

Um. no. :)

.oO We're coming to your town, we make annoying sounds, we're an accordion band.. Oo.

*blink*
Wow...I should know by now that no quote is too obscure for FHDC ;-)

Nope. :)

Well, there *was* a pop option...so, deal.  :P

Yeah, but "pop" is like, mariah carey and crap like that.

ick.

OK, but it's also indie pop.
*Shrug.

not really... I mean, would you put the maggies and FoW in the same category as her?

Well, if that category is "pop," then, I guess so.

I think the issue is that there are two kinds of "pop". One is the original usage... where "pop" is short for "popular".

The other "pop" usage is where it describes the musical style... it has a poppy fun-ness to it. That's the use that I'm thinking of when I describe those bands like FoW.

True....but there's also a lot of overlap there.

Hrmm...where is the other option?  Where's the "Many of the Categories but not all" option?   There is just too much other music that I like....that doesn't fit neatly into one of the genres.  Hrm...which one to choose, which one to choose?  Though if a "Showtunes" option were there, I probably would pick that one. </rant>

Easy to answer, if only the poll question was phrased thus: what type of music do you spend more time listening to than any other? There are no favourite types of music for me, just favourite songs/works.

Country music? Or is that too close to folk?

I like Country and rock n' roll about equal.

I dig rock and roll music and I love to get the chance to play and sing it.  I figure it's about the happiest sound goin' down today.  The message may not move me.  Or mean a great deal to me.  But hey!  It feels so groovy to say!

                -those quintessential folkies: Peter, Paul and Mary

How crazy can Main Street get?

Whoa. That's a lt different from me.

i love all kinds of music.. makin' me choose just ONE? oh dear.. i said "hooked on classics" cause thats the only thing close to my favorite genre.. Beatles.. Donovan.. Zeppelin.. Doors.. the usual suspects.. lol.. um.. i LOVE A Cappella.. and yes, i admit it. i watched the Academy of Country music Awards last night.. i'd expected to see Steve Azar,cause his website said he wuz gonna be there.. but .. um.. he wasnt>,< .. but Rascal Flatts was.. so cool.. i like anything basically that you wouldnt find anywhere but a coffeehouse or a pawnshop.. so.. i cant really say..

a cappella.

and all its minions and all its hosts and all its hordes.

hi.

vocal jazz, modern acappella, barbershop, gospel, choral, whatever.  the human voice = yes.

thank you to john, ellen, beth, and arbie for representing. (:

 -= george =-

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