What’s your favorite kind of music?

June 27. 2010, under Blogr with No Comments

It’s a simple question, but I never have a clear answer for it. I can tell you my favourite color, season, movie, or book, but when I’m asked what my favourite kind of music, there’s no short and concise response.

If I had to pick a genre I would have to say Electronica. It’s broad enough to include most of the music I like to listen to on a daily basis. For example: techno, house, trance, industrial, electro, drum n bass, breakbeat, and sub-genres within those genres.

My parents and older siblings have been a big influence as well, which is why I love classical music and random songs from the 50s, 60s, and 70s. A few examples are songs from The Monkees, The Beatles, Billy Holiday, Harry Belafonte, and Abba.

My musical education began since I was in my mother’s womb. She plays guitar (and several instruments). My parents would play classical music, Abba, Mocedades, Maria Bethania, samba, old salsa musica etc. And when I was little my older sister would listen to Madonna, Erasure, REM, Pet Shop Boys, U2, etc. while my brother subjected me to Metallica, Pearl Jam, Sound Garden, Guns n Roses, Aerosmith, Nirvana, Poison, and other hair bands. Growing up in the early nineties I loved techno and pop music, and by the year 2000 I listened to bands like Korn, Slipknot, Kittie, and other alternative rock bands switching between numetal and more melodic rock like Matchbox 20 or Green Day. It’s hard to say, I listen to whatever pleases my ears. I never liked metal, the harshest music I ever listened to was Mushroomhead, Skinlab, and Devildriver when I was a freshman in high school. Then I went back to my techno/trance roots and started listening to progressive trance and dance and experimented with goth music to see what that was about since I always tend to be pretty morbid. I found a few songs that I liked in J-rock, gothic or symphonic metal, but I never really got into it. When I found Industrial/EBM I was impressed that it combined what I liked about rock and electronica together. I listen to everything I have mentioned before whenever the mood calls for it just like I’ve always done. From Gwen Stefani to Adema to Handel to Captain Jack, and Combichrist to Alanis Morisette. I mix it up every now and then. So, what is my favourite kind of music? Whatever pleases my ears. I have an open mind although there are few types of music that don’t sit well with me like country, bachata, tejano, cumbia, reggaeton, jazz, etc. and The Mars Volta. I can’t stand them. But oh well. Everyone is entitled to their opinion.