What type of music do fellow Aker's listen to. Make two selections of your prefered catagory.
Myself I am a Hard Rock & Metal and New Age. Lets see what else people like in our community.

No surprise, but I listed Blues and Folk, although I also listen to a lot of alt-country (didn't know whether to choose country or folk - a lot of crossover there). Stuff like Wilco, Ryan Adams, Lucinda Williams, Whiskeytown etc.

Cool idea for a poll.

JD

I'm about the same as Jeff. Guess I'm in a alt. country, folk-rock/blues/acoustic period right now.

-Dave

Blues, rock and jazz for me.

I'm a big Miles Davis fan. I especially like his "electric" period.

Really like the jazz/rock fusion of the early to mid 70's. Mahavishnu Orchestra, Billy Cobham, Chick Corea and Return To Forever. That sort of thing.

Brubeck, Coltrane, Mingus and Parker all see the inside of my CD player from time to time.

Big time Gov't Mule fan.

HUGE Jethro Tull fan.

And I like a spinkling of both old and new rock.

DB

I am in the Dave-Jeff-Jeff-Dave category

A.

I'm alt.everything.

The styles that I listen to most of the time are Contempory, and fusion Jazz...

Also The new Country is a good alternative to the junk rock that is played on comercial radio nowadays..I like tunes that sing about 'drinkin', 'hoopin' and hollerin'..and bebopin' through the cornfeilds at 2:00 in the morning..and have a real guitar in the music ...not that fake synth stuff that is sampled ...or done by two string wonders...ie...'power chords'!!.....There is a whole generation of guitar Players out there who learned to play from somebody that dont know how themselves....

As for the jazz...it just moves me ...

I also like some techno...but it can get monatanious(sp)...but I still like a beat!!...

In a nutshell ...I guess I like everything but Hip-Hop..Opera..and new rock....(with the exception of Tool)

I have pretty eclectic taste growing up in the 50's and 60's, but I voted for Blues and Rock. Not so much the R&B and Alternative parts though. I also like country style rock (Eagles, Linda Ronstadt, Neil Young ) and Willie Nelson, and some folk (Arlo Guthrie, Fairport Convention, Pentangle, Dylan, Judy Collins). I'm also listening to more jazz these days, especially on our local NPR station.

Basically, I don't care much for modern POP, straight country, opera, classical, techno, punk, c-RAP or hip hop, or basically anything that is hugely commercially successful these days.

Remember, back in the 60s and 70s all those rock giants never had any real commercial radio hits (uh, remember Top 40??), although your local classic rock station probably plays them to death these days.

Drybasement

Long time no see. Nice to see ya back.


Jazz and blues are my main stays followed by anything from tool to Janis Joplin.

I voted for two but it really isn't that simple enough. Things like I do like rock but will never own anything to do with the Eagles,
Genisis, etc. apply to me too. More the artists and their talent than the genre. :)


Carl

Originally posted by grumpy
Drybasement

Long time no see. Nice to see ya back.

Thanks Grumpy.

Good to be back.

DB

Mostly I listen to rock. I'm into a lot of bands that got lumped into the metal category, but lots of the ones who consciously pursued the trappings of it, starting with Motley Crue and Quiet Riot, stick in my craw as contrived. So-called nu-metal now makes me ill, particularly the pointlessly angry rap metal hybrids.

I like a lot of old arena rock and AOR. The California country-rock sound from the 70s works for me too.

The more rock-oriented prog bands work for me but the more (psuedo)intellectual ones don't.

Blues. Oh yeah. I love me some blues.

Hip-hop you can keep.

Old R&B and soul sound great when you hear a song that hasn't been beaten to death at least, but a lot of the contemporary stuff sounds like a masturbatory display of vocal skill.

I dig honky-tonk country but crossover country pop has always annoyed me. Let me clarify: Rock that sounds like real country or vice-versa sounds fine to me, vanilla pop beng sold as country just pisses me off. Unfortunately there seems to be a whole lot more of the latter.

Sweeping, swelling string sections and rooms full of backup singers going oooOOOOH aaaaAAAAHH were a cancer on recordings from the fifties up til sometime in the eighties that has thankfully subsided. Of course now there are other overused seasonings like sequenced samples, synthdrum beats, sequenced pitch changes on the voice (thanks a effin million Cher), and gratuitous scale trills of grace notes.