What type of music? What kind of music do you listen to? I love dance electronic, dark techno,...

ArishMell · 70-79, M

A huge variety spanning the last 500 years; secular and sacred although I am not religious, from Mediaeval to Now - though not the more arcane avante-garde.

I enjoy 1960s pop and rock, rhythm-and-blues (not the synthetic pop sometimes apparently sold as "R&B"), folk...

.....some jazz, but not Swing / Big Band arrangements...

..... film and video-game music - although I do not play video-games..

..... some works from the musicals (e.g. Cats, West Side Story; their 19C operetta predecessors by Gilbert & Sullivan )...

..... all sorts of solo, chamber, symphonic and vocal material from the Mediaeval & Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Modern, Contemporary style eras...

(My favourites are from the Romantic, Modern and Contemporary; spanning roughly the last 150 years to now.)

None of those styles you list though (aren't they all much the same?), nor rap or the chart stuff. I find them very synthetic, unimaginative, seem to worship "celebrity" low ability and creativity, and like the performers themselves, made to be ephemeral. I wonder if this field is repeating the stage that largely ended the Big Band era before the dawn of Rock-&-Roll: becoming stale and unable to originate anything.

Video-game music surprised me when I discovered it, although I don't hear much of it. The early electronic games' equipment could accommodate only chirps, squeaks or repetitive four-note jingles. Computers can now handle pseudo-photographic action scenes accompanied by film-level symphonic music. Music far harder to write than film music, too, because films have a set narrative, but game themes have seamlessly to follow players' choices.

The contemporary avant-garde is opaque to say the least, as are some of its composers' strange explanations. However, it is right that composers experiment with new styles, they have their followers, and some of their work or ideas will probably take root.

samueltyler2 · 80-89, M

1940s big band jazz, smooth jazz, Broadway shows, Sinatra.

Ducky · 31-35, F

Mainly rock and pop, but I’ll listen to anything except country.

LavidaRaq · F

Almost any music.. Latin is a fave

CrazyMusicLover · 31-35

post-punk, post-rock, ethno music, fusion, neofolk, dark folk, darkwave, ethereal, deathrock, gothic rock, old school EBM/electro industrial from 80s and early 90s, industrial metal, doom metal, black metal, folk metal, reggae, dub, neoclassical