I thought this might be interesting.  I'm also bored.  I also should be studying for a test tomorrow.

I'm currently in a bluegrass loving mood.  I just realized this is really generic and not a very good poll.  Oh well.

metal. btw im still on my PSP

I'm a sucker for the Christian music!

I am definitely in a metal phase, whichh has lasted for a couple of years now. Before that, it was electronica, which I still like. Rock has always been there for me.

 

And what the hell is Screamo?? I think I have an idea, but just want clarification!

  here is an example of screamo

I obviously voted Metal -  what the is bluegrass through?

Nickel Creek is one of the best known bluegrass bands. 

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here's one of Bela Fleck and Steve Martin playing one of steve martin's songs

Tough one. What should one base the vote one? For example, with one exception, opera is the only music that has ever had such an emotional impact that I actually cired (the exception is The Cure, the Wish tour -93).

 

But I have to stick with classical.

Tough one. What should one base the vote one? For example, with one exception, opera is the only music that has ever had such an emotional impact that I actually cired (the exception is The Cure, the Wish tour -93).

 

But I have to stick with classical. Beethovens 9th symphony, 4th movement. All the reason you need.

It came down to classical vs. bluegrass for me.  Overall it's classical, but for now it's bluegrass

Krak, just 'listen' to this...

 

Lacrimosa dies illa

Qua resurget ex favilla

Judicandus homo reus

Huic ergo parce, deus

Pie Jesu domine

Dona eis requiem

 

And hell yeah, I pulled that from memory, Booyah! ;D

Pie Jesu?  It's a beautiful song.  Would you consider that classical or opera?

Lacrimosa, not Pie Jesu (and Lacrimosa is the final part of Sequentia, which is the 3rd part of Requiem). So, an excerpt from Requiem (in my case, Mozarts version). Most definitly a classical piece.

Well, I had a tough one.  Technically I grew up on Metal....from it's earliest roots in the 60-70's, to it's mainstream insurgence in the 80's.  But I went with Rock, as it is more broad in terms of what I listen to. 

I voted Techno/Dance/Electronice, but I'm pretty much into trance rather than techno or electronica.

as far as variety goes, i don't think there is a genre that's more broad than metal. there's

 

heavy metal

ambient metal

psychedelic metal

sludge metal

death metal

black metal

progressive metal

viking metal

grind core metal

power metal

speed metal

folk metal

neo-classical metal

love metal

thrash metal

doom metal

gothic metal

 

that's 17 different types of metal. if you can think of a genre with more variety then tell me and list the types. besides those are only the metal genres i can think of off the top of my head.   

Symphonic (Black) Metal

To name a few more...

 

Female Fronted Metal

Groove Metal (http://www.last.fm/tag/groove%2520metal?ac=groove%20metal)

folk metal

nordic folk metal

 

Browsing last.fm for the various types of metal could take a while, I think...

that's 21 (i already listed folk metal) there's also

 

avant-garde metal

stoner metal

drone metal

 

and that makes 24

It's a rather endless list...though I would like to know the difference between "Nordic Folk Metal" and "Folk Metal"! lol!

it's the same difference between Viking Metal and Death Metal. Viking Metal is mostly about vikings of course and the odinistic  gods of Asgard such as Thor. Nordic Folk Metal emphasizes Nordic folk lore instead of folk lore in general 

See when it comes to music, that is where I get annoyed.  Most of those 'branches' of metal, are just someones excuse to be metal without 'being' metal.  ::)

Yeah...you just need to look at some of the tags used on last.fm for some of the groups!

 

For example, I am currently listening to a song by Xandria, and here are all the tags used on last.fm for the group - all 60 different tags. Many can be dumped or merged into one. Just crazy!

 

1. alternative  

2. alternative metal  

3. alternative rock  

4. ambient  

5. band  

6. beautiful  

7. beautiful voices

8. black metal  

9. dark ambient  

10. darkwave  

11. death metal  

12. doom  

13. doom metal  

14. dub  

15. emo  

16. experimental

17. favourite  

18. female  

19. female fronted  

20. female fronted metal  

21. female vocal  

22. female vocalist  

23. female vocalists  

24. female vocals  

25. female-fronted metal  

26. folk  

27. folk metal  

28. german  

29. german metal  

30. germany  

31. goth  

32. goth rock  

33. gothic  

34. gothic metal  

35. gothic rock  

36. hard rock  

37. heavy metal  

38. indie rock  

39. japanese  

40. love

41. melodic  

42. melodic death metal  

43. melodic metal  

44. metal  

45. new wave  

46. pop  

47. power metal  

48. progressive metal  

49. punk  

50. rock  

51. ska  

52. soul  

53. soundtrack  

54. symphonic  

55. symphonic gothic metal  

56. symphonic metal  

57. symphonic rock  

58. synthpop  

59. viking metal  

60. xandria  

I think I saw repeating tags.....dang