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INTPs, Favorite Music Genres

  • Electronic

    Votes: 26 47.3%
  • Alternative Rock

    Votes: 22 40.0%
  • Metal of any kind

    Votes: 18 32.7%
  • Classic Rock

    Votes: 13 23.6%
  • Indie Rock

    Votes: 23 41.8%
  • Religious

    Votes: 3 5.5%
  • World (what parts of the world?)

    Votes: 9 16.4%
  • Classical

    Votes: 21 38.2%
  • Folk

    Votes: 6 10.9%
  • Country

    Votes: 4 7.3%
  • Pop

    Votes: 12 21.8%
  • Rap

    Votes: 9 16.4%
  • Hip Hop

    Votes: 11 20.0%
  • Musicals

    Votes: 8 14.5%
  • Other

    Votes: 22 40.0%

Favorite Music Genres

[INTP] 
14K views 32 replies 31 participants last post by  SeagullStanley 
#1 · (Edited)
Pretty simple. What kinds do you like? Edit: also, do lyrics matter to you?
 
#2 ·
I don't concentrate on lyrics unless it has sentimental meaning to me.

No particular order
Electronic: Ambiance, Krautrock, Space Music, New Age, Windham Hill Recordings
Metal of any kind: Led Zepplin is about my limit on heavy metal I like to listen to.
Classic Rock: and Progressive Rock, a wide variety.
World: Swiss (radiotell.ch), Norweigen (NRK.no Folkemusikk)
Classical: Romantic Period and some Opera
Folk: Examples, Arlo Guthrie and The Waterboys - Fisherman's Blues
Pop: Those which are sentimental because it reminds me of a time, place or person.
Musicals: Examples, Rocky Horror Picture Show and Fiddler on the Roof.
 
#3 ·
I guess I should put my own stuff. I like anything that is weird or could be the soundtrack to something I would write, which rules out rap and country automatically, and I do have a preoccupation with lyrics so I also don't like most rap, pop or country for that reason. I don't like the sound of classic rock so I don't have any of that. I like pretty at least something out of much every other genre, and I probably should have voted pop because I do like a few pop songs, or maybe it's soft rock. I'm not really sure. I know I only have one country song because I like the fiddles, and the only rap or hiphop I have is Christian, and I don't listen to it very much.

I probably listen to classical music (largely piano, cello and other stringed instruments), world (honestly I listen to music from every part of the world except possibly South and Central America), and folk the most, but I don't necessarily like them more than other genres.
 
#4 ·
I prefer modern country, doo-*** music, other rock-and-roll music from the mid-to-late '50s and the '60s, and Celtic/New Age.

Lyrics (in songs that have lyrics) are very important to me. I much prefer a song with a story, but a theme/topic I am interested in is good as well. Bad lyrics can completely destroy a song for me, even if the tune is good. Good lyrics can make me enjoy a song even when the tune is bad.
 
#11 ·
I like so many types of rock, just not 80's or anything where the lead singers are high pitched. If you can take a genre then slap "rock" onto it... odds are I'll like it. Indie rock is my favorite, though.
Definitely metal. Death metal is good but I prefer soft metal where there's a mix of screaming and singing.
Other than that, Celtic, indie instrumental, 50's, 60's
No jazz, no blues, and no country as the main elements of the song.

Lyrics don't matter unless they sound really cool
 
#12 · (Edited)
Sorry, with the choices given, I don't think I can vote. I like (more or less in order):

Reggaeton
Merengue
Active rock (classic rock but only the FAST stuff--Billy Idol, ZZ Top, etc.)
Bakersfield and other "old" country (no new-fangled country music)
Punk rock
Remixes of just about anything, as long as it has a strong beat
Baroque music (most other "classical" music isn't rhythmic enough)
Rockabilly
Hip Hop

Yes, I like lyrics (English or Spanish), no matter how bad or politically incorrect.
 
#14 ·
:sun-smiley: Death and black metal. :sun-smiley:​
I love the lyrics on the Scream Bloody Gore and Leprosy albums by Death, and the lyrics on the With Oden on Our Side album by Amon Amarth. Other than that, I usually don't care about the lyrics.
 
#15 ·
I like classical, pop, world, and rap. My favorite composers (in order) would be Prokofiev, Rachmaninov (not his symphonies though), Chopin, and Tchaikovsky although I mostly just listen to Prokofiev. In terms of pop I like whatever I find on the internet (Ella Mai, Taemin, there are some others). I like klezmer, the duduk (I tried learning it once.... I gave up), and pretty much flutes from anywhere. In terms of rap I listen to Chance the Rapper and Childish Gambino. Lyrics don't matter at all, I can't understand any of the lyrics from other languages and the lyrics I can understand are mostly just stupid (that's at you Ella Mai, how many breakup songs do you need?). I think the sound and shapes of words are more important than the meaning in picking what I listen to.
 
#17 ·
I'm kind of varied. I've noticed I tend to like aggressive music the most with the exception of a few softer songs, but only songs with specific tones used. Well, I don't know, sometimes I just find a softer sounding song resonates with me, but it's not very often.

My main genre of choice is I suppose the odd 'metal' kind of band that I come across. I don't really like most popular metal which is why I put the word in quotes, you know, like Metallica or Iron Maiden or some other standard shit a lot of people listen to. Not to be a hipster, just never liked it. Most of the bands I've found that I've liked are usually just a set of friends from some random part of the planet who are playing around with sounds and having fun. It's a nice sentiment, because as a person I feel that's what music should be.

In terms of sounds, like I said, I like aggression but with interwoven melodies for contrast. One of my favorite bands right now is called 'The Healing', some dudes from Ontario. Some of the themes of their lyrics are inspired by neuroscience and that just makes me fucking swoon a little bit, you just don't get that from other genres, well perhaps you do if you look hard enough. I mean, The Healing's YouTube page barely exceeds over a 1,000 likes, they're nobodies in the music game. It makes me sad.
 
#18 ·
My taste in music is pretty varied, but mostly based around rock. Some of my all time favourite bands include Muse, The Smiths, Radiohead, and Red Hot Chili Peppers. Metal and electronic can also be nice at times.
I don't listen to a lot of non-English music, maybe some French singers like Jacques Brel. (oh, and I love Rammstein). Do note that I absolutely cannot stand music in my first language, not sure why, it just makes me cringe lol.
When it comes to classical music, I really like the romantic era (Chopin, Strauss, Tchaikovski).

Lyrics don't matter to me, of course good lyrics are a plus but it's not the main thing i'm looking for.
 
#20 ·
Noise, powerviolence, all the experimental rock and punk stuff, some hip hop. there are others.
I've managed to widdle it down to 2 things that attract me to new music. It must either be:

loud, energetic, bombastic, exciting (without being too indulgent or stupid)

OR

stuff that wonders me with its novelty. usually this means "challenging" music, but really anything with a strong sense of cleverness or innovative spirit. Stuff using sounds and compositional elements that I haven't heard before.
Also I tend to ignore lyrical subject matter. As long as the emotions don't sound too forced or altogether stupid, I don't have a preference for content. I moreso prefer vocalists with an interesting timbre or delivery with their lyrics; also melody and rhythm etc.
 
#21 ·
I have no knowledge about the genres of music, so it's hard to describe what I like. I like a lot of different kinds of music, the only genre I know I don't like much is metal.

I mostly listen to parodies myself, so yes, lyrics are somewhat important, though I can enjoy music without great lyrics. I also enjoy listening to video game music.

I made a few playlists in YouTube that I listen to during work:
Weird All Yankovic
Ylvis
Brentalfloss
The Lonely Island
Tim Minchin
VivaLaDirtLeague
A collection of random music videos that have gone viral at some point.

I used to listen to a playlist of songs from South Park too and had some of the country songs of Fallout 3 and New Vegas, plus from the K-Rose radio channel of GTA San Andreas.
 
#23 ·
How snobby and presumptious.

I'm a bit confused that Blues and Jazz apparantly are classified as "other", while "religious" stands as a musical genre. I mean, there is religious "classical music", metal, hiphop, folk, whatever, it's not really a genre, it's rather some sort of detail.
 
#25 ·
Black metal, blackened death metal, death metal, thrash metal

Grunge rock

90s hip-hop, 00s indie hip-hop (particularly Midwest artists), modern trap-metal (Scarlxrd, Snowmane, City Morgue)

Classical (particularly violin concertos by Bach, Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Shostakovich)
 
#26 ·
Used to hate the "I listen to everything" people until I became one of them.

doom metal, english baroque, city pop/future funk, noise, breakcore, industrial, bedroom pop, 90s tech house, that dude you met's mixtape are all pretty good genres.

I DJ mostly trapmetal/punk rap sets with added lofi and dark wave. If I feel like the crowd's digging it I'll throw in some post-rap, which is really the hip hop subgenre I'm digging these days. If it's not any of that I'll usually be mixing future funk, house or lofi.
 
#29 ·
Ha, I'm one of those "listen to a little bit of everything" people, it's probably Ne finding all the similar threads across seemingly unrelated genres.

I have more of a favorite aesthetic musically, my favorite music is dreamy, echoey, and ambient-like, this can be anything from phil spector productions to dub reggae(king tubby, lee scratch perry, ect) to cocteau twins style dream pop. Lots of 1950s music has that heavy reverb sound to like those elvis records and doo ***, early surf rock, ect.
 
#27 ·
MPB (popular brazilian music) is simply amazing and rich, although underrated since it is originated in a peripheral country (though some subgenres are acknowlegded [e.g. bossa nova])classical music, R&B,neosoul, indie/alt rock and recently, bedroom pop are my favorites
 
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