Reply #20: My favorites

[last_texas_dem]

As I've probably mentioned before, my tastes tend to be more rooted in the past than is healthy, but...

I like much of what falls into the loose definition of rock, from British invasion stuff to sixties garage bands to folk-influenced rock to power-pop (especially the early- to mid-70's era) to psychedelic rock (and pop) and progressive-rock. The '70's is my favorite decade of music: a statement which will make most music critics sick! I like a number of jazz-rock bands but have never dug very deeply into jazz. I like most of the music that they play on "classic rock" stations, but don't listen as much as I used to because I've become overly familiar with so much of it. Plus, I like "classic pop" as much as I like classic rock. In terms of newer rock, I like a lot of what was called "alternative" into the nineties, but kind of stopped listening much when most mainstream rock seemed to be either pop-punk or "new metal." I try to keep an open mind, though, as I know there is a lot of stuff out there that I would like and am just not hearing because I'm not making the effort.

In terms of country, I like much of the old stuff from the sixties and seventies and certain bands beyond. Country was actually the first "new" music I listened to very much growing up (it had generally been oldies before that) and I know a particular era from the mid- to late-nineties pretty well, but haven't listened nearly as much during this decade. I also like plenty of "country-rock" bands and have liked a number of the "alt-country" bands I've heard.

With R&B, I love the old stuff from Motown and Stax up through Philadelphia International, but am not as fond of much of what has come from the eighties and beyond.

I guess I do tend to focus the most on, broadly, rock and pop, but there has been so much released that I can still find that is interesting and appeals to me, even if I find most of it digging through old record bins!; I guess that's my excuse for perhaps being too overly focused on those genres!

ON EDIT: I wanted to add... (I got lazy at the end, probably because I'd already been way too verbose in what I'd already written!) after I re-read the post title about listing *all* of the music that I like that I probably should clarify that what I listed isn't all of the genres I like to listen to. I could probably find something from just about any genre that I would like to listen to. I have some big band, old folk, Cajun, metal, weird "spoken word" stuff, etc. that I like to listen to, it just isn't a large part of the music I own. I just wanted to add that because I thought what I'd listed seemed too narrow!