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Poll, what styles of music genres do you very regularly listen to? You who vote for: Other, please tell us which genre it is. We are curious.

What styles of music genres do you very regularly listen to?

  • Rock

    Votes: 164 65.9%

  • Pop

    Votes: 100 40.2%

  • Hip Hop / Rap

    Votes: 34 13.7%

  • R&B / Soul

    Votes: 57 22.9%

  • Jazz / Blues

    Votes: 151 60.6%

  • Classical

    Votes: 114 45.8%

  • Country / Folk

    Votes: 73 29.3%

  • Electronic / Dance

    Votes: 90 36.1%

  • Reggae / Latin

    Votes: 39 15.7%

  • Other (for genres not specifically listed)

    Votes: 81 32.5%
  • Total voters
    249
bluefuzz said:
Yes, I always forget we are in 2024. A hundred years ago for me is still the mid 19th century! But I did actually write 'a hundred or two' – broadly implying the 19th century ...
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While I'm not at all fond of Donald Clarke's conclusions, I still recommend "The Rise and Fall of Popular Music" for its deep background on the creation of "Popular" (that is to say "Commercial") music. That also goes as far back as the 1800s.

www.classical.net

Classical Net Review - Clarke - The Rise and Fall of Popular Music

The Classical Net web site offers a comprehensive collection of information and news on classical music subjects including articles and CD reviews, composers and their music, the basic repertoire, recommended recordings and a CD buying guide. The site now features over 9000 files of information...
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somebodyelse said:
More drinking than death surely?
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But plenty polka folk punk.

I have to admit neither Korplikaani or Finntroll are really my thing but I thought 'death metal polka folk punk' had to exist – most probably in Finland – being the country in the world with most metal bands per capita ...
 
Multicore said:
I also checked all but one box: R&B/Soul.
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The only box I didn't check was Hip Hop / Rap. I have nothing in principle against Rap but the good stuff seems to get drowned in the dross even more than other genres.

R&B for me will always be more Dr. Feelgood than Beyoncé.

I have recently been watching episodes of 'The Midnight Special' on YT. A show running from the early 70s to the early 80s that I have only recently become aware of. I don't think it was ever broadcast here in Europe/UK. From the first couple of seasons the performances of Gladys Night (& The Pips) and Curtis Mayfield (with and without the Impressions) stand out. They simply wipe the floor with most of the other acts on their respecive shows. There's a lot of graet R&B/Soul so be discovered from that era ...
 
Multicore said:
I still don't know what math rock is
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I think I first heard the term used in connection with the band Polyrock in the early 80s. Their first couple of albums, produced somewhat surprisingly by Philip Glass, were pretty good.

Current exemplars of the genre would be (also excellent) Horse Lords ...
 
Multicore said:
I still don't know what math rock is. Is that when playing it involves a lot of difficult counting, like Deerhoof or King Crimson?
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Dude I got your and every poster's back. Didn't check for math rock, though. Just find it click and listen. :D

 
bluefuzz said:
R&B for me will always be more Dr. Feelgood than Beyoncé.
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Wikipedia insists on calling Dr. Feelgood pub rock, whatever that is. I recall being told by a fan in about 1983 that Brilleaux considered it R&B, which, I think it rather obviously is.

The poll title says "You who vote for: Other, please tell us which genre it is. We are curious." Did you try? I seems really hard to me. Might be easier to uncheck that box and consider Elaine Radigue soul, KK Null dance, and Jason Lescalleet folk.
 
bluefuzz said:
I have recently been watching episodes of 'The Midnight Special' on YT.
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Thanks for mentioning that. I found a YT channel that looks official with lots of individual performances from the shows, some of which I've seen before, like the one of Focus Hocus Pocus I've watched often.

Can you point us to where to find whole episodes?
 
bluefuzz said:
If you go a hundred or two years back then there were basically two 'genres' of music: classical and folk. Classical music was learned through formal apprenticeship or academic training from 'established' theories of melody, harmony and composition. Most often played from a written score with little opportunity for improvisation. Conversely, folk music was typically based around rythmic and melodic patterns learned informally 'by ear' from family members or local community. Songs and tunes, even if they did have a single 'author' quickly morphed and changed through improvisation and the imperfect nature of human memory.

If you accept this skeletal taxonomy of 'cultural transmission' then most popular genres of music throughout the 20th century could be seen as subgenres of 'Folk Music', including Blues, Jazz, Country, Rock, Soul, Metal etc. Once recorded music was a thing commonly available to everyone (say post WWII) then formal 'academic/classical' music began to seriously inform 'popular' genres and vice versa.

Nowadays, a 'metal' or 'jazz' musician is as likely to have as much formal training, sight reading ability and thorough grasp of 'theory' as any 'classical' musician.
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Jazz musicians have always had a solid grasp of theory. Good improvisation requires it.
 
Thank you all for all the interesting suggestions on different music and music styles. :D

What I wonder is this. Can you suggest any internet radio stations that play the style of music you mentioned?

Radio listening has really increased for me in recent years. If you add up all the channels that play music with all these podcasts - which pop up like mushrooms - the range is enormous.I can recommend these pages below, for those interested in finding radio stations with good sound quality. Lots of links to different radio stations that play all kinds of music: :)

www.hiresaudio.online

HiRes Internet Radio

How to listen to HiRes Internet Radio in 24-bit lossless FLAC with browsers and apps plus a list of HiRes Internet Radio stations.
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CD Quality Internet Radio

How to listen to CD Quality Internet Radio in lossless FLAC with browsers and apps plus a list of CD Quality Internet Radio stations.
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If you recommend radio stations, it doesn't have to be HiRes or CD Quality. I only included those pages because, well, we are still on a HiFi forum. Sound quality and all that. ;) Plus there are some really good stations that are recommended on those pages.:D
 
ahofer said:
Jazz musicians have always had a solid grasp of theory. Good improvisation requires it.
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Yes, but few of the early practitioners had any formal music education. Django Reinhardt, for example, was illiterate and only learned to sign his own name late in life and could certainly not read music, yet was one of the greatest improvisors on guitar ...
 
bluefuzz said:
Yes, but few of the early practitioners had any formal music education. Django Reinhardt, for example, was illiterate and only learned to sign his own name late in life and could certainly not read music, yet was one of the greatest improvisors on guitar ...
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Theory is mostly a way to connect sound/effect with instrumental execution - through notation or, in many cases, not. You can get a very thorough and practical understanding of it through effective practice on your instruments. If you have perfect pitch, all the better. Very few good jazz soloists are thinking about theory at all, but the reason they know what to play is that chord change shapes and note sounds are etched into their muscle and pitch memory.

You can learn a poem without ever writing it down (and some famous poems were translated that way for hundreds of years). Writing it down can help, though.

I can replicate things I hear because of ear training. Many luckier folks can just listen and play it. I knew Bill Charlap when he was just a kid, and he was extraordinarily talented that way.
 
Multicore said:
This should be a topic in its own right so we can gather together links and commentary about the programming.
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You have a point there.:)

All you have to do is google it and it will show up. At random I took a category mentioned in the thread and then got:

Forest psytrance

www.psystation.com

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Indulge in the mesmerizing sounds of Forest Psytrance on our online radio station. Immerse yourself in a world of mystical beats & let your mind wander. Tune in
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So there are probably radio channels for all styles of music mentioned in the thread.:)

A hell of a lot of energy in that forest psytrance music. :D
 
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AudioSceptic said:
Perhaps podcasts as well?
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Sure but I would do that separately.

In the US (is it like this where you are) licensing means that podcasts are mostly music free. And for different reasons Spotify kicks your podcasts uploads out if they have too much music in them. So podcast tends to mean blah blah here. I'm curious to know if it's different elsewhere.

Then there's the question of on-demand versus live. Podcasts are on-demand: listen when you want. Internet radio is more immediate: listen now or you miss it. A different kind of experience.

I'm a podcaster now and used to be a radio broadcaster so I'm not trying to elevate one over the other.
 
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