Favorite music genres

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Hi everyone,

Can you please share what your favorite music genres are? I havent seen a thread about music genres around here, so I thought to create one now.

Well, for me, I like mostly Hard Rock/Metal. Here's a list of my favorite music genres.

Power Metal
Hard Rock
Post Grunge
Alternative Metal
Pop Rock
Glam Metal

I also like sometimes:

Hip Hop
Country
Trance
Italo House

Usually whatever I listen to which isnt metal is mostly instrumental electronic music in the styles above.

New wave/Synthpop
Post-Punk
Top 40 Pop 1964-1975
1960s Garage Rock
Classic Rock
Power Pop
Grunge/Alternative Rock

Guilty Pleasure - Late 60s early 70s Bubblegum Pop/Rock

Starting really obvious:

drum n bass

skater thrash
thrash metal
industrial
hip hop
neosoul
trip hop
techno (acid, tribal, Swedish)
grunge
funk
half-time

I also don't know what rock category Jane's Addiction and Faith No more sit in, they were big in my formative years of taking in music as were Suicidal Tendencies.

baroque & bach
modern classic, & chamber music
ska
roots reggae,dancehall
trip hop, electro swing
blues (gospel?)
funk, jazz
worldmusic,
pop/rock/psychedelic/punk
upbeat doo wop,
ragtime, and/ or 1920/30s music
kletzmer, gypsy, balkan,
rai (the more trad), sufi music,
high-life(ghana/nigeria,etc)
old bollywood
w-africa griot music
fusion or jazz fushion
cumbia, ska-cumbia, kaseko

to name some, i'm no expert in genres or names, never like the whole works in one genre or artist
humor and absurd in every genre,

Metal
black metal
heavy metal
doom metal
power metal
folk metal
troll metal
glam metal
hair metal
pirate metal
idk most of the metals then,
Post Punk
Goth
Disco
Industrial
Electronic
neo-psychedelia
60's psychedelic rock
and a lot of other random stuff from other genres those are just the main ones that came to mind.

art rock
post punk
film soundtracks
krautrock
baroque pop
dub reggae
hip hop/trip hop
d'n'b
synth pop
rock 'n' roll/punk/hard rock
psychedelia
electronica
glam rock
noir pop/rock (twin peaks ost, early nick cave, link wray)

loads of others. I don't really discriminate by genre.

Classic Rock
Folk
J-pop (Ikimono Gakari)
K-pop
Classical (Beethoven)
Romantic (mostly Chopin)
been listening to 80s rock lately on youtubemusic I like the band Heart so far

My music taste very a lot & I go through different phases. For a while now I've been really into old-skewl Punk, Anarcho-Punk/Anarchist Punk, Pop Punk, EMO, & Ska.

Other genres of music I like include but are not limited to
Glam Rock
Pop Rock
Pop
Boy Bands
Commentary R&B
Disco
70s
80s
90s
Soft Rock
Classic Rock
Grunge
Geek Rock
Comedy
Country
Some Irish/Celtic
Some Thrash Metal
Some Goth Rock

At this moment I'm listening to the band GWAR

Blues,Synth Pop and 60's psychedelic rock

new age
traditional
pagan folk
post rock
jpop
jazz
classical
flamenco
game/anime soundtracks

miscellaneous likes:
pink floyd
kaji meiko(think the style is modern enka, but haven’t explored it yet)
joe satriani
yngwie malmsteen
elvenking
finntroll
babymetal
metallica
megadeth

Anything but heavy rock/metal.

I forgot to list Alternative Rock & Southern Rock