Name 3 music genres which best represent your overall taste.

Krautrock
New Wave
Tropicalía

No wonder my favorite band is Stereolab.

Thread title should be 'list' instead of 'name' but it's fine if you want to name a genre.

post-punk
minimalism
disco

Those exact three would probably be my second set of choices.

Mmm I'm going to assume your favorite band could be Blondie.... They're not precisely minimalistic though, maybe ESG? Im trying to think of a band which sounds influenced by those three genres and nothing comes to mind. LCD Soundsystem?

lounge
twee/shoegaze
soft rock

That one is even harder... Wilco?

microgimp
gubba
New Gravy Revival

That's an easy one Noodle, your favorite artist must be either Dave Matthews Band or Jimmy Buffet.

Pop
Rock
Jazz

sometimes I listen to Alternative or Classical

Slightly maudlin foreign-language pop with female vocals partially influenced by nineties indie
Slightly maudlin foreign-language pop with female vocals partially influenced by nineties Eurodance
Soca

Fingerbanging
Image Bands
Non-Shitty Basslines

deep genial somnambulism

I like both kinds of music, this record and the next one

Oi!
Oi!
Oi!

No wonder my favourite band is the Cockney Rejects.

Right now, Krautrock, post-punk and house

right now:

post-punk/new wave
modern jazz
new/experimental

-Brief Things
-Ponies
-Subliminals

Mmm I'm going to assume your favorite band could be Blondie.... They're not precisely minimalistic though, maybe ESG? Im trying to think of a band which sounds influenced by those three genres and nothing comes to mind. LCD Soundsystem?

i like all those bands. the answer is probably closer to devo and kraftwerk and can though.

Ooh I love taxonomy.

Progressive rock
Folk rock
Free jazz

ratchet
ratchet
ratchet

what would be my favourite band based on my picks?

something which reinforces your worldview

vocal
instrumental
un

Dolphin techno
Penniless rap
Spiritual hat jazz

cave-voice
smokesound
post-eldritch horrorcore

too hard to do properly, but I think this is an accurate answer because it's three things no one gives a shit about

Free jazz
Disco
Gangsta rap

ok that came off a little sour, let me try:

+ moon-eyed, apollonian crooning*
+ running-through-moonlit-woods-caked-in-excrement jams
+ blank-faced party music

*not necessarily vocal

I'll try to do this more seriously, in the spirit that Moka intended...

My 3 favourite "genres" are:

-Shoegaze
-Krautrock
-Stadium House

No wonder my favourite band is... School of Seven Bells?

funk
power-pop
Latin/Brazilian

Favorite band: Pizzicato Five

atm

- disco
- ambient
- jazz-funk

that configuration may be too recent + unstable for me to already know and like whoever's nestled in the middle of it.

Donna Summer?

good enough.

gothic symphonic metal
indietronica
warm drone

Also, Fingerbang, what are 5-10 bands that represent Stadium House to you?

for some reason the first thing that came to mind for the Shoegaze - Krautrock - Stadium House combo was Scooter, this is comically inaccurate but I'm sticking with it.

clowncore
clockpunk
powerviolence

boom bap
70s Singer/Songwriter
pop country

I don't think there are 5 bands that represent Stadium House. Uuuhhh...

-The KLF
-Shamen
-Technotronic
-Snap!/Black Box/random Belgians with samplers?
-Technique era New Order

Utah Saints?

Post-Rock
Prog Rock
Techno/House

Fave bands: Rush, Stereolab

classic country
70s singer-songwriter
roots reggae/dub

i don't have a favorite band or artistbut the past 5 years have been dominated by: dylan/neil young/townes van zandt/george jones/joni mitchell/grateful dead/bill callahan/various reggae and dub compilations

so much love for post-punk here, which isn't too surprising but i kind of feel its the most overrated genre? don't see what the big deal is

lo-fi usually shoegazey early 90s indie with krautrock drumming
yearning guitar-based american music that makes you think of gorgeous open spaces
wistful jangle-pop

This was difficult to narrow down.

what's my favorite artist? I sure as hell can't decide.

so much love for post-punk here, which isn't too surprising but i kind of feel its the most overrated genre? don't see what the big deal is

― marcos, Thursday, March 20, 2014 1:49 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I guess you get the full package. I wanted to write reggae + disco + funk + punk + rap but post-punk at its best combines elements of all of them.

Power Pop
Funk
Plunderphonics

ok that came off a little sour, let me try:

+ moon-eyed, apollonian crooning*
+ running-through-moonlit-woods-caked-in-excrement jams
+ blank-faced party music

*not necessarily vocal

― ogmor, jueves 20 de marzo de 2014 12:22 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Animal Collective

'80s/'90s indie
Power pop
Melancholy dance music/electronica

Ooh I love taxonomy.

Progressive rock
Folk rock
Free jazz

― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), jueves 20 de marzo de 2014 11:09

Sun Kill Moon? Maybe James Blackshaw et al.?

right now:

post-punk/new wave
modern jazz
new/experimental

― 1 pONO 3v3Ry+h1n G!!!1 (dog latin), jueves 20 de marzo de 2014 9:33 (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

James Chance? For some reason NYC No wave comes to mind when I think about experimental jazzy post punk. Blurt also.

Or Sonic Youth?

Love James Chance! If I gave him and his band a bit more time they'd be a favourite. Perhaps a might too violent to listen to for long periods though.

ALways struggled with SY though. I Like them, but not to the extent some people do.

Power Pop
Funk
Plunderphonics

― MarkoP, Thursday, March 20, 2014 2:29 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The Pop Group / Mark Stewart

funk
krautrock
doom metal

Follakzoid

classical
heavy metal
ambient

if this were a "which type are you?" quiz my screen would now read "Congratulations! You are Dude Who Was Into Metal In The 80s"

young gods

though i really wanted to say wingy wangy malmsteen

classical
heavy metal
ambient

if this were a "which type are you?" quiz my screen would now read "Congratulations! You are Dude Who Was Into Metal In The 80s"

― (or if you must, "data") (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, March 20, 2014 3:09 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The new Ulver/Sunn O)))

'80s/'90s indie
Power pop
Melancholy dance music/electronica

― Gavin, Leeds, Thursday, March 20, 2014 10:48 AM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

We must have very similar music libraries. I had to leave out an identical description of electronica with the three-only restriction.
Same with power pop.

dub
idm
hip hop

nightmares on wax?

weirdo electronic
metal
old skool hardcore/jungle

I like loads that doesn't fit into that triangle though!

Squarepusher's last couple of albums would fit in this.

I loved his last album!

Arrrrgh I don't know if I can do this. Trying to expand/contract stuff to make it fit, it won't fit.

I pretty much cheated.

Like, I'm trying to jam stuff together so I can get a genre that covers synthpop and minimal and krautrock, but I don't think it's going to happen.

Minimal synthkraut is bound to be a thing, pretty sure I read about it in FACT.

krautrock influenced minimal synthpop?

jamming those together would be some sort of synthkrautism

mynthrock

post-punk
post-rock
post-piss-up-late-night-youtube-randomness

Ha, I'm going with chap.

- Minimal synthkraut
- The NWW list
- Lame indiefuxx0r shit

Moka, please use your divination skills, what is my favourite band?

We must have very similar music libraries. I had to leave out an identical description of electronica with the three-only restriction.
Same with power pop.

Yeah your three are definitely in my wheelhouse too.

Cool! Oh and

"yearning guitar-based american music that makes you think of gorgeous open spaces"

I guess could read as Explosions in the Sky or something which is definitely not me.

I'm going more for Cass McCombs with the description.

Krautrock
Stoner Metal
Prog

Qotsa

Like, I'm trying to jam stuff together so I can get a genre that covers synthpop and minimal and krautrock, but I don't think it's going to happen.

― emil.y, Thursday, March 20, 2014 3:52 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Neue Deutsche Welle?

I liked the first five animal collective records way back when, & tho they're no way near my fav they're a pretty good mix of the first two things at least

Zeuhl
Gamelan
Pigfuck

Qotsa

Definitely like them, not sure I'd consider them my favorite.

Zeuhl
Gamelan
Pigfuck

...rangda?

Ha, I'm going with chap.

- Minimal synthkraut
- The NWW list
- Lame indiefuxx0r shit

Moka, please use your divination skills, what is my favourite band?

― emil.y, jueves 20 de marzo de 2014 16:02 (37 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh my, this is unfair since you're pick

Ha, I'm going with chap.

- Minimal synthkraut
- The NWW list
- Lame indiefuxx0r shit

Moka, please use your divination skills, what is my favourite band?

― emil.y, jueves 20 de marzo de 2014 16:02 (37 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh my, this is unfair since you're picking three genres in one and the NWW list alone could be another 100 different ones. For the first genre I would probably pick The Boredoms or Kraftwek. NWW list probably the best definition could be Comus or Cabaret Voltaire? And the last one could be Belle and Sebastian? Ha

Well, I like all of those bands, so you're not far out. I don't think I actually have a favourite band any more.

I cant think of a band that sounds like kraftwerk, belle and sebastian and cabaret voltaire all at once.

Oh wait I can... Your favorite band is: Hot Chip!

Noooooooooooooooooo!

ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

Lali Puna?

Hahahaha

beatlesque pop
early 20th century classical
zeuhl

obv only 3 genres leaves out a lot of what I listen to, esp regarding dance music, metal, non-beatlesque pop, etc

I admit that 'lame indiefuxx0r shit' should probably be one of my three genres too. Disco, ambient, lame indiefuxx0r shit. Wait, that's Hot Chip too isn't it???

palmwine
zamrock
highlife

I don't like Wilco

me neither zzzz

rock
pop
jazz

or any combination thereof

e.g., pazzock

but used to be totally into classical

Red house painters / sun kill moon? They fit the soft rock/shoegaze genres, It's the lounge tag the one that throws me off. What are your favorite artists then?

Xxpost

Butthole Surfers?

Field Mice/Trembling Blue Stars, Northern Picture Library
Mark Ayers, Robert Lester Folsom
Arthur Lyman and lots of torch singers and localized bar bands

Psychedelic rock
Ambient/drone
Shoegaze

Did the Butthole Surfers play with lounge? I haven't heard them since high school.

I admit I'm not making it terribly difficult to extrapolate my favorite band from those three. xp

Bardo Pond clearly

You know me so well, though!

I love that some people here actually feel the need to let everyone know that by picking 3 they are leaving out some other genres that they listen to

psychedelia
jazz
roots( not sure what to call this, early recorded music - Remebetika, country, Irish, Blues, folk etc etc)

& several others like hard rock, postpunk, beat, rockabilly, reggae, dub, african, Greek, No wave

Post-punk
NZ-style indie rock
Alt country

Though the last has been fading and is being replaced by krautrock.

shoegaze
indie
Goth

tunes
jams
grooves

I love that some people here actually feel the need to let everyone know that by picking 3 they are leaving out some other genres that they listen to

― every moser (wins), Thursday, March 20, 2014 2:51 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

..no more of just expressing that it is hard to pick which three.

pretty sure some people here had to pad they lists

i think that's "pad thai"

yes please

goth
reggae/dub
yacht rock

Acid Klezmer

Freeform Field Hollers

Jingles

Jingle Field
Acid Holler
Sock Moods

Kroutrock
Heavy psych
Neil Young (it's a genre isn't it?)

floral
business on to
old razzle dazzle

butts
butts
close thread

rock opera
broadway soundtracks
Christian metal

Spacemen 3
Swans
Coltrane

decrepit funk
tilbury touch
action pack

European free improv
drones, loud and quiet
post-bop jazz

Favorite artist: Frank Zappa (go figure)

Post-normgaze
Technical tweetstep
Shartcore

reggae
r&b
techno

bouncy bright house
melodic raucous rock
lush smooth 80s-ish stuff

Krautrock (even though I hate the term + concept)
Electroacoustic
Funk

^rhcp

Metal that doesn't go BLAOWARGH
Classic Rock
The Motherfuckin' Time

(xp) That's fightin' talk

vaporwave
cool jazz
'deep' techno

very repetitive music
music that is only sometimes repetitive
music that has NO repetition

not joking btw

it's all repetitive if you listen to something more than once in your life, it's just irregular repetition *exhales massive bong hit*

that's a lot to say with a bonghit in you! :D

atmospheric death metal
east coast hip-hop
hardcore punk

I like a lot more than that obv, I was heavily into 70s prog rock for a while, but these are the three I return to the most lately.

I can see why clouds loves funeral doom so much now

slowcore
psych rock
dream pop

atmospheric death metal

Is that like Incantation/Grave Miasma? That's the kind of DM I like most.

yup, exactly that. stuff like Immolation, mid-period Morbid Angel, etc.

I like the brutal stuff too, but this stuff is my preference.

sad music

Synthpop
Post-punk
Prog

atmospheric death metal
east coast hip-hop
hardcore punk

Non Phixion?

I ignored this thread bcs it looked lame but it is actually fun. it is also lame but in a good way

rock opera
broadway soundtracks
Christian metal

Sabbath Assembly

goth
reggae/dub
yacht rock

Junior Boys I guess?

- Minimal synthkraut
- The NWW list
- Lame indiefuxx0r shit

feel like this is probably one of those super early Flying Nun bands I've never actually listened to

me =

80s hardcore
70s proto-metal
Jeff Millsian hard techno

jeff mills should do a covers album of classic sst tracks and call it mills & boon

Dub
Shoegaze
Italo

Can anyone think of an artist(s) that combines these 3?

skrillex

haha, no. I think at least Dub and Shoegaze should be very compatible. I'm surprised nobody has had a go at it (that I know).

slowdive did, so did seefeel

boo radleys too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mf1ckzFAsR8

maybe ar kane are a good fit for all three, especially on "i"

Gotta listen to AR Kane then. I've only heard one or two tracks.

can't think where they combine all three all at once on the same song but these are good examples of each individually...

dub ar kane = baby milk snatcher
shoegaze ar kane = lolita
italo ar kane = love from outer space

I can see why clouds loves funeral doom so much now

― Scooby Doom (۩), Sunday, March 23, 2014 3:20 PM (6 hours ago)

haha, i do like plenty of funeral doom a lot but didn't realize that was the image i had!

i love this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Mf1ckzFAsR8

1. Classical
2. Music made by women and/or queers
3. Avant-anything

Julia Holter

Yes, though to my ears she only applies to 2.

xp - Charming Hostess

✓

no wave
glam rock
torch songs (mix of show tunes/blues/country)

haha, no. I think at least Dub and Shoegaze should be very compatible. I'm surprised nobody has had a go at it (that I know).

― daavid, Sunday, March 23, 2014 10:21 PM

Hello let me please introduce you to Lazarus (in fact half of Giant Steps) by the Boo Radleys.

jazz (hard bop thru jazz-rock eras)
funky r&b
drug-inspired rock

(been mostly ignoring the latter two in favour of *The Classics* so far this year)

beatlesque pop
early 20th century classical
zeuhl

no recs for me :( I guess this is why I make my own music!

balearic
normcore
music sung by nuns

@ Dom lol immediately what I thought of when I saw your list was "...Les Noces?"

Other than that though it's obvious stuff that you're way into already (Ruins)

If you find more things that combine those three, let me know, though.

"...Les Noces?"

that would definitely have fit! but yeah, when I looked at the list after I made it, I realized that I really do try to make music that combines that stuff. It seems like if your favorite genres are sufficiently not alike, you'd pretty much have to make up a new genre to get something that combines them.

Well, Beatlesque pop + early 20th century music could = a lot of prog, right? So I guess it's a question of how specifically Zeuhl-ish the prog should be?

well, it's not really a lot of prog other than Magma and offshoot bands these days. Like, Yes is a good example of a prog band with Beatles influence...and years ago, I did listen to a lot of Yes, but not so much now. I guess what I'm thinking would be some weird combination of Harry Nilsson, Ravel and Magma. Which, if it existed, would probably cause a black hole to happen and swallow me.

I've been thinking and I'm not sure I could actually pick three genres unless it was something like:

music with an intricate combination of independent melodic or rhythmic lines
music with guitars
music with a rich and varied sonic palette

that sounds like Discipline-era Crimson to me, though I guess you could argue they don't have a hugely varied sonic palette. Same for Steve Reich's pieces with guitars. Meshuggah? Orthrelm?

All stuff I love, yeah. After I typed that, I actually thought "Hm, King Crimson should probably be my favourite band."

Actually, I don't think "rich and varied" exactly gets at what I'm going for there: "detailed sonic palette" is better, I think.

Sergei Prokofiev
Stevie Wonder
Kerri Chandler

junk shop glam
commercial jingles
refrigerator noises

^^^ fav artist: Tom Waits

Os Mutantes

Garbage

The 3 Ms- Mozart, Merle and The Monkees.

i hate tom waits come on

You think that's bad I got Red Hot Chili Peppers

Got? From where?

From here, some joker here thought the 3 music genres which best represented my overall taste led inexorably to the Red Hot Chili Peppers

Unless they were referring to someone else, though as funk was one of my genres I think the vile calumny was aimed at me

Now I see. Looks like it was indeed ^ed at you.