Genres are for normies
Power Metal:
Powerwolf
Gloryhammer
Alestorm
Sabaton
WindrosePagan music:
Emerald Rose
TyrAnd then sea shanties, folk music, Irish (rebel and otherwise), labor/protest music, and the occasional bouts of pure randomness.
Right now I cannot get enough of Miracle of Sound. Dude just checks every box there is for me. It's like if every other kind of music I listen to got gene-spliced into one guy.
In no particular order other stuff:
Blackmore's Night
Clamavi de Profundis
Omnia
FaunI'd say I used to listen to metal, but nowadays, I still listen to metal lol. Huge fan of Progressive Metal/Djent/Thall bands. Not much into Deathcore/Doom Metal lately however.
At work tho, I tend to listen to a lot of instrumental stuff and genres vary greatly: mathrock, jazz, electronic, game/movie OSTs, blues, fusion, and among others.
During drives, mainly depends on the mood, but mostly revolves around the above given genres.
To name a few artists, I usually listen to the below (in random order):
- Jakub Zytecki
- Chon
- Plini
- Periphery
- Necrophagist (when r u guys coming back 😔)
- Dirty Loops
- Up Dharma Down
- Joji
- Tycho
- Sleep Token
- Lorna Shore
- Tom Misch
Would love to share some more, but these are what I thought of at the moment.
Experimental Example: Nurse With Wound "Dueling Banjos" https://piped.video/watch?v=7BwFYGfMv_o
Psychedelia Example: 13th Floor Elevators "Earthquake" https://piped.video/watch?v=OUurlw2_teg
Krautrock Example: Neu! "Hero" https://piped.video/watch?v=H0HsOKN3ly4&t=148s
Hip Hop Example: De La Soul "A Roller Skating Jam Named Saturdays" https://piped.video/watch?v=9S5lTgyfT2c
Post Punk Example: Chrome "Animal" https://piped.video/watch?v=5OjniYelhDw
Punk Example: Rich Kids "Ghosts of Princes in Towers" https://piped.video/watch?v=Hg71K6eTiv4
Country Rock Example: Nick Lowe "She Don't Love Nobody" https://piped.video/watch?v=YNwteQFTLhk
Live Music Example: Grateful Dead "Bertha" https://piped.video/watch?v=p78PIvj-PwM
Tropicalia Example: Os Mutantes "Ave, Lucifer" https://piped.video/watch?v=PSe2Dn960mo
World Example: Aisha Kandisha's Jarring Effects "Moulssinia" https://piped.video/watch?v=ZHNUuXQH11k
Indie Rock Example: Purple Mountains "She's Making Friends, I'm Turning Stranger" https://piped.video/watch?v=EhQjp-P4y34
Here lately I mostly listen to the kind of music that your most insufferable hipster friend would try to recommend you.
The Mountain Goats
The Decemberists
Radical Face
Neutral Milk Hotel
The Shins
Pat the Bunny
Andrew Jackson Jihad
Mal Blum
Daisy the Great
Delicate Steve
Professor Caveman
The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets
This is a bit messy looking, but these are my top five fav “genres” and my fav “artists” from each (genres in quotes because half of these aren’t exactly genres. Artists in quotes because one is not the artist but a sound the real artists use).
Kawaii metal: Babymetal and Ladybaby
Anime music: guess I’ll say Aimer because that’s probably the one artist with the most anime songs in my playlist (shoutout to Nier games soundtracks because they don’t fit in any of my other fav “genres”)
Vocaloids and utauloids: Flower is my fav vocaloid - love how she sounds, love her designs, and it helps that she was made for j-rock/metal
Vtubers/Hololive performers: Bae is bae
Rock/metal: Avenged Sevenfold and Metallica
Post rock, synthwave, japanese jazz. I also love hard rock, but don't listen to it too often, because I can't listen to it while I'm working
Gonna use this post as a chance to give a shout out to Electric Callboy which I recently gave a chance to after they kept popping up in my recommendations, they're some sort of trance metalcore band, and boy do they have fun songs.
OT, but... How did we get to lemmites and not lemmings?
listen to electric callboy
I can't speak for anyone else, but my favorite couple of genres over the past half year or so has definitely been 90s pop music and vocalsynth (vocaloid and other similar products).
I only really started getting into 90s pop because I found a playlist of songs for it on yt and decided to save it because I liked what I heard.
I'm all over the place. Some of my favorites include Flogging Molly, The White Stripes, and MC Frontalot. Lately I've been getting into the stoner metal band Gnome.
My first love is Hip Hop but I love lots of genres Funk, Soul, Jazz, Electronic, House, Techno, Dreampop, Ambient, Balearic, Indie/Alternative - I’m probably missing something 😊. I’ve even setup some communities here on Lemmy for my music genres that I love.
Some of my favourite artists:
- Mount Kimbie
- The xx
- J Dilla
- Flying Lotus
- Larry Heard/Mr Fingers
- The Avalanches
- Khruangbin
- Beach House
- Toro Y Moi
- Erykah Badu
- Miles Davis
- Four Tet
- Leon Vynehall
- Jonny Nash
EDIT: Adding City Pop genre as well since I saw another user comment that
2nd EDIT: Oh and Reggae, Dub too!
3rd EDIT: Okay I keep adding artists thinking I can’t believe I left such and such off haha I’ll stop now!
Retrowave // synthwave
tool
a few recommendations:
Djent/Core:
- Architects
- Spiritbox
- Jinjer
- Polaris
- Periphery
- Dayseeker
- Holding Abscence
Prog:
- Leprous
- Wheel
- Vola
- Animals as Leaders
- Haken
- TesseracT
Some absolutely belting suggestions in this thread nice work guys!
I’ve kinda got all my eggs in different baskets but mostly I listen to pop punk, alternative, and some classic rock
rock/metal and most derivatives. for example metallica, ac/dc, iris and others.
Mostly it's different subgenres of rock and metal (like 70% of all comments here. Seriously, I've never met so many ppl that listen to my favorite music in one place xD).
I kinda have a few moods. For the "fun and energetic" mood I have hard rock and heavy metal, for the "my job is f*cking me and I don't like it" I have nu metal and some other things that sound angry, for the "fancy" I have a strange mix of P!atD, Franz Ferdinand, some songs that are creepy/sad but sound happy ("I can't decide", "Don't fear the Reaper", "To The Sea") and steampunk/dark cabaret/murder song bands (Voltaire, Coppelius, the Cog is Dead, American Murder Song)
Here's a smattering of stuff off the top of my head.
Drum & Bass, Breaks, Glitch-Hop, Ghetto Funk, Dubstep, Ambient
Artists: Danny Byrd, Sub Focus, Teebee, Noisia, Phace, Logistics, WBBL, Evol Intent, High Contrast, Tonic, Featurecast, Calibre, Slynk, John B, Calyx, Metrik, Commix, CMC & Silenta, Pimpsoul, Future Funk Squad, A.Skillz, Krafty Kuts, Deekline, Plump DJs, Klute, The Prodigy, Pressure, Chemical Brothers, Boards of Canada, Caribou, Jon Hopkins, The Orb, Aphex Twin, Samples, Stanton Warriors, Concord Dawn, Bobby C Sound TV, The Breakfastaz, The Funk Hunters, Defunk, Freddy Todd, Gramatik, GRiZ, Sub Focus, ill-esha, Gladkill, JPOD, Kalya Scintilla, Spor, K+Lab, Netsky, Opiuo, Mochipet, Stephan Jacobs, Rusko, DJ Food, VibeSquad, Father Funk, Beats Antique, Dillinja, Spoonbill, Skream, Russ Liquid, Benga, Pastician, Digital Mystikz, N Type, Beat Fatigue, Minnesota, Pinch, Big Gigantic, Psymbionic, Caspa, Phaeleh, Orbital, Scuba, Loefah, Goth-Trad, Adam Freeland, Thriftworks, DJ Shadow, Stickybuds, Funkanomics, Coki, Starkey, Vaccine, Nero, Joker, Phutureprimitive, Amon Tobin, Black Sun Empire, Nu:Tone, Ed Rush, Optical, Shy FX
Trip-Hop
Artists: Massive Attack, Thievery Corporation, UNKLE, Portishead, Morcheeba, Leftfield, Groove Armada, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Sneaker Pimps, Nightmares on Wax
Hip-Hop
Artists: Blockhead, Wax Tailor, RJD2, Abilities, Mos Def, Gift of Gab, Sage Francis, Wu-Tang Clan, Eyedea, Aesop Rock, MF Doom, Run the Jewels, Tonedeff, A Tribe Called Quest, Cunninlynguists, Nas, Substantial, The Roots, Dead Prez, Black Star, Digable Planets, PackFM, Talib Kweli, Smif-n-Wessun, The Notorious B.I.G., Warren G, Immortal Technique, Big Pun, Murs, Hieroglyphics
Post-Electronic Pop/Rock type shit? Dream Pop? Indie Pop? I have no idea.
Artists: Elder Island, Haelos, Alex Winston, London Grammar, Maribou State, MS MR, Warpaint, RY X, Rhye, Parra for Cuva, Bleachers, Zero 7, Aurora, Phox, Lucius, Alt-J
Folk, Folk Rock, Americana
Artists: James Taylor, Bon Iver, Simon & Garfunkel, Cat Stevens, Emmylou Harris, Joni Mitchell, Brandi Carlile, Patty Griffin, Peter, Paul and Mary, Willie Nelson, The Lumineers, Of Monsters and Men, Lord Huron, Hozier, Shakey Graves, Nanci Griffith, Ray Lynch, Neil Young, Daughter, The Milk Carton Kids, I'm with Her, Nickel Creek, Punch Brothers
Progressive Rock (Maybe kinda, sorta Metal?)
Artists: Porcupine Tree, The Pineapple Thief, Gazpacho, The Flower Kings, Kolm, Steven Wilson, Airbag, Lunatic Soul, Riverside, Soen, Haken, Blackfield, King Crimson, Leprous, Pink Floyd, Rishloo, Katatonia, Dredg, Rush, Opeth, Rpwl, Jethro Tull, Chroma Key, Karnivool
Tool
Artist: Tool
My musical tastes vary from rock and it’s many subgenres and off shoots to dozens of genres of EDM (mainly Progressive House, Trance, Techno, Psytrance, Dubstep, and Drum & Bass). I have a Spotify library exceeding 12k tracks.
Some of my favorite acts in no particular order include The Offspring, Rise Against, Pearl Jam, Ghost, Led Zeppelin, Iron Maiden, Avenged Sevenfold, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Breaking Benjamin, Billy Talent, Linkin Park, Paramore, Deadmau5, Feed Me, Kill The Noise, Liquid Stranger, Dance With The Dead, Ghostland Observatory, Rezz, Eric Prydz, Infected Mushroom, Heatbeat, Death On The Balcony, Hernan Cattaneo, and Lee Burridge just to name a few.
almost exclusively electronic music, just can't seem to get enough of it. (ambient, downtempo, drum & bass, dub, electro, glitch, goa trance, house, idm, psybass, psychill, psytrance, synthwave, techno). I'd be happy to try to give recommendations of any of these if you ask.
also love funk like Parliament/Funkadelic and some electronic focused jambands like STS9 & Lotus
Mainly early 2000s "Whose Line is it Anyway?" hoedowns. My favorite is the one where they make fun of Colin's baldness.
Punk rock.
I oscillate between 3 moods. For the longest time I exclusively listened to metal and rock, System of a Down being my all time favorite. Also Primus, Korn, Rammstein, Suicidal Tendencies, ICP, and La Dispute (not exactly metal/rock but fits in with all my angry music that keeps me happy lol).
My other mood, when I’m struggling with my mental health, is Pink Floyd. All the Pink Floyd, all day long, listen to the same album on repeat for 3 weeks straight Pink Floyd. My current favorite album is The Final Cut. It haunts me in an amazing way.
Recently I’ve been on an alt/electro pop kick. Ashnikko is my favorite and I can't wait to see her on tour later this year. Also Kim Petras, Medusa, Poppy (kinda scratches that metal itch too), Royal & the Serpent, YONAKA, SUUNS, and IC3PEAK (ALSO kinda scratches the metal itch).
The Beta Band, Vulfpeck, Khruangbin, Holy Hive, Tame Impala, Hippo Campus, STRFKR, Greta Van Fleet
Classical
My music taste is... eclectic. For example, the last 20 searches on Spotify are
Sober - Childish Gambino
Numb - Linkin Park
Being me to life - Evanescence
Still Fly - The Devil Wears Prada
... Ready for it? - Taylor Swift
Tighten up - The Black Keys
Don't Go Chasing Waterfalls - Groovio
I Miss You - Blink 182
Give me One Reason - Tracy Chapman
Canned Heat - Jamiroquai
Little Girl Gone - Chinchilla
In the Waiting Line - Zero 7
Chicago soundtrack
Ben Folds
Push Up - Creeds
Without You - Joseph
Boombastic - Shaggy
Jerk it Out - Caesars
Formation - Beyonce
Gasolina - Daddy YankeeBet you can't tell how old I am. 😅 IYKYK...
- Noise rock
- Stoner rock
- Industrial
Cold wave, no wave, post rock, uplifting trance, mutant disco, freak folk
Happy Hardcore, Psytrance, Progressive Techno :)
Progressive and djent metal
Well, Fuckmyfuckingass, if you must know. Punk, folk, and folk punk with some rock and classical mixed in there too
IDM and Jazz
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I almost exclusively listen to video game music. I've been listening to a lot of music from Pokemon Black and White lately.
I really like J-Core right now. But I sometimes just tune in to the Dance genre. I'm a bit of an allrounder, because I hear lots of electronical music, as stated above: J-Core, Dance, Techno, House, Hard style, French Core and Psytrance. Just to name a few.
I had my phase, where I mostly listened to a guy named Otira. Now I listen a lot to someone called t+pazolite. My current favorite Track is called "Hyper 4id"
Most flavours of metal, hard rock, punk, some blues stuff like SRV and Gary Moore. Basically, if it has loud guitars in it, I'm there.
Future Breaks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2U8x0ixCZU
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C418
Mostly rock. Specifically love 80s hair metal and hard rock, and prog rock/metal. Lately I've had Sleep Token albums on constant rotation.
Metal, breakcore, and whatever genre kobaryo is
The band Sleep Token has been a majority of my played music for over a month now, and I don't see that changing anytime soon. I mostly listen to stuff like Metalcore, Deathcore, Djent, Nu Metal, Prog, Instrumental, I love metal covers of pop songs. Also like hard dance, dubstep, DnB, some pop, some rap, most anything as long as it isn't tasteless.
I listen to a bit of everything. Bands in my recent rotation include Low, 3rd Secret, Motörhead, Rick James, L7 and Joji, Aimee Mann, Mdou Moctar, Aphex Twin, Beastie Boys. Donny Benet
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard’s PetroDragon Apocalypse is my favorite album all year.
My favorite all time genre is industrial. So stuff like The Young Gods, Nine Inch Nails, Skinny Puppy, Front Line Assembly, KMFDM, Ministry, Filter, Mulitple Man, Meat Beat Manifesto, Pig, Emptyset, Youth Code, Atari Teenage Riot / Alec Empire, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, Download…
Ska Punk, rock, and power metal. My favourite bands at the moment are:
Streetlight Manifesto/Catch 22/BOTAR (Absolutely phenominal in every way)
Night Gaunts
Bomb The Music Industry! (And Jeff Rosenstock's other projects)
Beast In Black
NanowaR of Steel
Reel Big Fish
Less Than Jake
Mad Caddies
The Trews
Semisonic
Flogging Molly
Alestorm
Gridlink just dropped a new track and I was reminded of what a banger Longhena was
I'm a real big fan of grunge. All my discovery feeds are based off nothing but 90's grunge.
I'm really into mid 2000s pop-punk. Obviously the big ones like blink-182 and Green Day, but also a bunch of the smaller ones like The Starting Line, Rufio, New Found Glory, etc. Those were the bands I listened to when I was learning to play guitar. I learned so many of their songs because they were easy AF (except Rufio). And I guess those songs really stuck with me.
I mostly listen to varieties of British music (shoutout !britishmusic@lemmy.world)
I love R&B. I've been exploring British country music lately (surprisingly is a lot of it).
Massive fan of grime music (!grime@lemmy.world) (similarish to hip hop but with electronic beats) and its predecessor, UK garage (summery dance music vibes). UK rap in general is a big thing for me. I listen to drill music on occasion but not super often (modern gangster rap basically, although there's a lot of commercial drill nowadays). Been really into jersey club music lately - I think the beats are really cool.
I have some fondness for dancehall (!dancehall@lemmy.world) and afrobeats music as well.
Other than that, I enjoy (but don't listen to actively) baile funk, some varieties of house music, deep/original dubstep music (not the screechy dubstep most people think of), reggae, lofi-hiphop, the underground NY hip hop scene
Legitimately almost every genre, as long as I'm the mood. Lately tho I've mostly been listening to The Fall of Troy, Blink-182, Dance Gavin Dance, This Town Needs Guns, and good ole Pro Era artists like Capital Steez and Joey Bada$$.
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I'm pretty big on americana lately. Lots of good bands to discover. I'm also getting back into ska.
i listen to everything, but my favorite artists are That Handsome Devil, Frank Zappa, Death Grips, blink-182, Björk, Tom Waits, Prince
my favorite album right now is Steve McQueen by Prefab Sprout
Highly recommend the Piano Guys. They mix classical music with modern hits.
I personally like chiptunes and 80s rock
I like Funk and Soul and Techno and Rock and Classic Hip Hop and the best from the 60s to the 80s. I guess i just love good Music
two of my very favorite genres are future garage and atmospheric black metal, but i'm a melomaniac and listen to a ton of genres
Only happy hardcore
Mostly extreme metal, moreso since going back to college, but I also like post-rock, shoegaze, and classical amongst other things. Try this out for size.
Heavy Metal. Most things with screaming/growling that has actual lyrics are gold to me. Ice Nine Kills manages to blend that with my love of the horror genre, and discovering them felt like finding a new home.
I'll listen to almost anything at least once. The only genre I actively avoid is current country. If I had to pick in genre, it would be early 2000's emo.
The most recent album I listened to all the way through was Wellerman - The Album by Nathan Evans. Put on Wellerman, the song, for my son. Ended up liking the whole album.
My most listened albums are probably a toss-up between Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge (My Chemical Romance), College Dropout (Kanye), Deloused in the Comatorium (The Mars Volta), or Toxicity (System of a Down).
Amd according to my "Your Spotify" instance, my most listened artist of the last year was Alt-J.
I tend to hyperfixate though, so I'll listen to the same album/genre for weeks/months, then not listen to it at all for months while I listen to something else.
Also, for anyone that selfhosts and uses Spotify, Your Spotify is nice to have for threads like this.
Right now I'm really into indie/alternative with some funk and rock in there. My favorite band of all time is Her's.
Inner Wave, Jack Stauber, Pink Floyd, Binki, Bakar.
All amazing artists and all of Her's songs are amazing
Mostly Irish folk (with a healthy infusion of Irish rebel music mixed in)
Synthpop, new wave, dark wave, cold wave, minimal wave, post-punk, goth rock....
...but like synthpop more than anything else. I gotta have those hooks. <3
A Blue Ocean Dream
a-ha
Alien Skin
Ashbury Heights
Beborn Beton
BlakLight
Blue October
Body of Light
Brutalist Architecture in the Sun
Camouflage
Cetu Javu
Children Within
Code 64
Conetik
Count to Infinity
Covenant
Dark-O-Matic
Depeche Mode
DeVision
Echo Image
Electro Spectre
Fantazja
Fragrance.
Korine
Lust for Youth
Mesh
Mind Machine
Molly Nilsson
Neuroactive
New Order
Null Device
NUN
Pet Shop Boys
Psyche
Riki
Rupesh Cartel
Sally Dige
Sea of Sin
State of the Nation
SWEEP
Tenek
The Bedroom Witch
The Mobile Homes
Torul
TR-ST
Veil Of Light
VH x RR
Wave in Head
Wolfsheim
ZynicHappy to listen to lots of stuff though. Some others that come to mind right away: Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Kylie Minogue, Madonna, Moist, Technotronic, early Skinny Puppy, Gunship, Luis Ake...
I’m into everything tbh.
Lately I’ve been getting into the following:
Teenage Fanclub (song is The Concept)
The Lemon Twigs (song is In My Head)
Tainy (song is FANTASMA | AVC)
Duster (song is Constellations)
I guess that’s mostly alt-rock, slacker rock type stuff. Except Tainy… But damn DATA is fucking good man.
Drake, 90s rap, classic rock and Tame Impala.
Right now: Steely Dan’s album „Aja“
Folk drum and bass (e.g. monster ceilidh band)
I'm slightly biased towards progressive rock (Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin), vanera (Baitaca, Os Serranos), neofolk and folk metal (Faun, Korpiklaani... does Kayah's album with Bregović count?), some punk and grunge (The Offspring is still one of my favs). But it's a bit too messy to generalise.
Midwest emo... Camping in Alaska, caving, cap'n jazz, American football etc. Highly recommend caving if you're into that sort of stuff, hands down the most underrated artist I've ever seen.
Last four concerts were Erykah Badu, Blood Red Shoes, Marcy Playground and Tears for Fears. They were all amazing and you can't really go wrong with any album from any of them.
...Is Taylor Swift a genre?
But seriously, my music taste is pretty much her. Otherwise I like alt rock, rock (not too heavy though), ballads, pop that has good lyrics and a decent hook, and any song I hear that has guitars I like 25% more than those that don't.
Ambient, electronica, Post punk, emo and goth stuff, synthwave, sludge / stoner metal, industrial, and folk music.
My favorites over the years were
- Chemical Brothers
- Underworld
- The Presets
- Aphex Twin
- Brian Eno
- Boards of Canada
- Ministry
- Nine Inch Nails (but boy did he jump the shark hard)
- Skinny Puppy / oHGr / Download / Phil Western
- Einstürzende Neubauten
- The Cure
- Killing Joke
- Neil Young
I don't know why, but I also gravitate to girl guitar bands. Especially if they sing in harmony. Instant goosebumps!
I'm all over the place. Willie Nelson, Rodrigo y Gabriella, OutKast, The Cure, Beck, Blackalicious, B-52s, Talking Heads, Pink Floyd, Rolling Stones, James Brown, The Clash, Ray Charles, Jonny Cash, The Who, ELO, The Beatles, The Guess Who.
Basically I start with listening to different genres of music, and add them into a big playlist and keep looking for new music to add to the playlist. I love finding collaborations that bands have done and spinoff bands.
Kobaryo Speedcore
Death metal, experimental metal, vaporwave/mallsoft, witch house, and experimental punk.
I've been listening to a lot of Cavalera Conspiracy and Voivod lately. Polysics are pretty fun, too. Luxury Elite is a reliable vaporwave choice.
it changes all the time but right now-
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Vulcan has diverse range of favourite music...
But for now, mostly Dub Techno, Visual Kei, Symphonic Metal, Black Metal, and Classical.
My favorite music styles are synthpop, vaporwave and spacesynth.
I had no idea. Thanks for sharing. Wilo you provide the link?
Shameless plug: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2hsEUTTMDSGt2R1YFPqnsN
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