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When I was a pre-teen and teenager, pop-punk and emo were popular.

Turns out I haven't outgrown this genre. I now listen to more music from a variety of different genres and time periods, but ultimately, 80% of my library is still early 2000's pop punk.

Progressive metal

• Sleep Token
• Long Distance Calling
• Audrey Fall
• Brutus
• Countless Skies
• Before the Dawn
• Dawn of Solace
• Exquirla
• Merrow
• Primordial
• Psychonaut
• Rishloo
• Soen
• Somali Yacht Club
• Tides from Nebula
• Villagers of Ioanninan City
• Wheel
• Greta Van Fleet
• Persefone

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

Pink Floyd, Radiohead, Sonic Youth, Pixies, Neil Young, Beck, Prince

Power Metal:
Powerwolf
Gloryhammer
Alestorm
Sabaton
Windrose

Pagan music:
Emerald Rose
Tyr

And then sea shanties, folk music, Irish (rebel and otherwise), labor/protest music, and the occasional bouts of pure randomness.

Right now I cannot get enough of Miracle of Sound. Dude just checks every box there is for me. It's like if every other kind of music I listen to got gene-spliced into one guy.

In no particular order other stuff:
Blackmore's Night
Clamavi de Profundis
Omnia
Faun

I like Japanese City Pop.

Genres are for normies

Mostly sea shanties, Irish rebel songs, and Kesha.

I'd say I used to listen to metal, but nowadays, I still listen to metal lol. Huge fan of Progressive Metal/Djent/Thall bands. Not much into Deathcore/Doom Metal lately however.

At work tho, I tend to listen to a lot of instrumental stuff and genres vary greatly: mathrock, jazz, electronic, game/movie OSTs, blues, fusion, and among others.

During drives, mainly depends on the mood, but mostly revolves around the above given genres.

To name a few artists, I usually listen to the below (in random order):

• Jakub Zytecki
• Chon
• Plini
• Periphery
• Necrophagist (when r u guys coming back 😔)
• Dirty Loops
• Up Dharma Down
• Joji
• Tycho
• Sleep Token
• Lorna Shore
• Tom Misch

Would love to share some more, but these are what I thought of at the moment.

I still most often listen to Grunge and 90 Hard and Alt rock. According to tidal Pearl Jam is a little more than half of all my song listens every month.

Side note, I think the collective noun for Lemmy users in any music thread should be Motorheads.

Experimental Example: Nurse With Wound "Dueling Banjos" https://piped.video/watch?v=7BwFYGfMv_o

Psychedelia Example: 13th Floor Elevators "Earthquake" https://piped.video/watch?v=OUurlw2_teg

Krautrock Example: Neu! "Hero" https://piped.video/watch?v=H0HsOKN3ly4&t=148s

Hip Hop Example: De La Soul "A Roller Skating Jam Named Saturdays" https://piped.video/watch?v=9S5lTgyfT2c

Post Punk Example: Chrome "Animal" https://piped.video/watch?v=5OjniYelhDw

Punk Example: Rich Kids "Ghosts of Princes in Towers" https://piped.video/watch?v=Hg71K6eTiv4

Country Rock Example: Nick Lowe "She Don't Love Nobody" https://piped.video/watch?v=YNwteQFTLhk

Live Music Example: Grateful Dead "Bertha" https://piped.video/watch?v=p78PIvj-PwM

Tropicalia Example: Os Mutantes "Ave, Lucifer" https://piped.video/watch?v=PSe2Dn960mo

World Example: Aisha Kandisha's Jarring Effects "Moulssinia" https://piped.video/watch?v=ZHNUuXQH11k

Indie Rock Example: Purple Mountains "She's Making Friends, I'm Turning Stranger" https://piped.video/watch?v=EhQjp-P4y34

This is a bit messy looking, but these are my top five fav “genres” and my fav “artists” from each (genres in quotes because half of these aren’t exactly genres. Artists in quotes because one is not the artist but a sound the real artists use).

Kawaii metal: Babymetal and Ladybaby

Anime music: guess I’ll say Aimer because that’s probably the one artist with the most anime songs in my playlist (shoutout to Nier games soundtracks because they don’t fit in any of my other fav “genres”)

Vocaloids and utauloids: Flower is my fav vocaloid - love how she sounds, love her designs, and it helps that she was made for j-rock/metal

Vtubers/Hololive performers: Bae is bae

Rock/metal: Avenged Sevenfold and Metallica

Post rock, synthwave, japanese jazz. I also love hard rock, but don't listen to it too often, because I can't listen to it while I'm working

Gonna use this post as a chance to give a shout out to Electric Callboy which I recently gave a chance to after they kept popping up in my recommendations, they're some sort of trance metalcore band, and boy do they have fun songs.

OT, but... How did we get to lemmites and not lemmings?

I can't speak for anyone else, but my favorite couple of genres over the past half year or so has definitely been 90s pop music and vocalsynth (vocaloid and other similar products).

I only really started getting into 90s pop because I found a playlist of songs for it on yt and decided to save it because I liked what I heard.

Retrowave // synthwave

Lots of classic rock. Billy Joel, led zeppelin, etc.

But lately I've been on a classical music kick.

I am mostly listening to melodic death metal.

But since I discovered Lorna Shore, I enjoy more extreme genres as well, and I am getting my feet wet with deathcore.

Somehow I missed all the good 2000s emo music, but love it now.

listen to electric callboy

My first love is Hip Hop but I love lots of genres Funk, Soul, Jazz, Electronic, House, Techno, Dreampop, Ambient, Balearic, Indie/Alternative - I’m probably missing something 😊. I’ve even setup some communities here on Lemmy for my music genres that I love.

Some of my favourite artists:

• Mount Kimbie
• The xx
• J Dilla
• Flying Lotus
• Larry Heard/Mr Fingers
• The Avalanches
• Khruangbin
• Beach House
• Toro Y Moi
• Erykah Badu
• Miles Davis
• Four Tet
• Leon Vynehall
• Jonny Nash

EDIT: Adding City Pop genre as well since I saw another user comment that

2nd EDIT: Oh and Reggae, Dub too!

3rd EDIT: Okay I keep adding artists thinking I can’t believe I left such and such off haha I’ll stop now!

I'm all over the place. Some of my favorites include Flogging Molly, The White Stripes, and MC Frontalot. Lately I've been getting into the stoner metal band Gnome.

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a few recommendations:

Djent/Core:

• Architects
• Spiritbox
• Jinjer
• Polaris
• Periphery
• Dayseeker
• Holding Abscence

Prog:

• Leprous
• Wheel
• Vola
• Animals as Leaders
• Haken
• TesseracT

Mainly early 2000s "Whose Line is it Anyway?" hoedowns. My favorite is the one where they make fun of Colin's baldness.

I think I'm the only one here who likes mainstream J-pop.

Anybody for Aimer, ReoNa, LiSa, Yorushika, Minami, TK from Ling Tosite Sigure, nZk, Uru, Tielle, Yuuri?

No? I suppose I'm alone in my listening habits. I do like baroque music though

speedcore, artcore, jcore, vocaloid

Some absolutely belting suggestions in this thread nice work guys!

Here's a smattering of stuff off the top of my head.

Drum & Bass, Breaks, Glitch-Hop, Ghetto Funk, Dubstep, Ambient

Artists: Danny Byrd, Sub Focus, Teebee, Noisia, Phace, Logistics, WBBL, Evol Intent, High Contrast, Tonic, Featurecast, Calibre, Slynk, John B, Calyx, Metrik, Commix, CMC & Silenta, Pimpsoul, Future Funk Squad, A.Skillz, Krafty Kuts, Deekline, Plump DJs, Klute, The Prodigy, Pressure, Chemical Brothers, Boards of Canada, Caribou, Jon Hopkins, The Orb, Aphex Twin, Samples, Stanton Warriors, Concord Dawn, Bobby C Sound TV, The Breakfastaz, The Funk Hunters, Defunk, Freddy Todd, Gramatik, GRiZ, Sub Focus, ill-esha, Gladkill, JPOD, Kalya Scintilla, Spor, K+Lab, Netsky, Opiuo, Mochipet, Stephan Jacobs, Rusko, DJ Food, VibeSquad, Father Funk, Beats Antique, Dillinja, Spoonbill, Skream, Russ Liquid, Benga, Pastician, Digital Mystikz, N Type, Beat Fatigue, Minnesota, Pinch, Big Gigantic, Psymbionic, Caspa, Phaeleh, Orbital, Scuba, Loefah, Goth-Trad, Adam Freeland, Thriftworks, DJ Shadow, Stickybuds, Funkanomics, Coki, Starkey, Vaccine, Nero, Joker, Phutureprimitive, Amon Tobin, Black Sun Empire, Nu:Tone, Ed Rush, Optical, Shy FX

Trip-Hop

Artists: Massive Attack, Thievery Corporation, UNKLE, Portishead, Morcheeba, Leftfield, Groove Armada, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Sneaker Pimps, Nightmares on Wax

Hip-Hop

Artists: Blockhead, Wax Tailor, RJD2, Abilities, Mos Def, Gift of Gab, Sage Francis, Wu-Tang Clan, Eyedea, Aesop Rock, MF Doom, Run the Jewels, Tonedeff, A Tribe Called Quest, Cunninlynguists, Nas, Substantial, The Roots, Dead Prez, Black Star, Digable Planets, PackFM, Talib Kweli, Smif-n-Wessun, The Notorious B.I.G., Warren G, Immortal Technique, Big Pun, Murs, Hieroglyphics

Post-Electronic Pop/Rock type shit? Dream Pop? Indie Pop? I have no idea.

Artists: Elder Island, Haelos, Alex Winston, London Grammar, Maribou State, MS MR, Warpaint, RY X, Rhye, Parra for Cuva, Bleachers, Zero 7, Aurora, Phox, Lucius, Alt-J

Folk, Folk Rock, Americana

Artists: James Taylor, Bon Iver, Simon & Garfunkel, Cat Stevens, Emmylou Harris, Joni Mitchell, Brandi Carlile, Patty Griffin, Peter, Paul and Mary, Willie Nelson, The Lumineers, Of Monsters and Men, Lord Huron, Hozier, Shakey Graves, Nanci Griffith, Ray Lynch, Neil Young, Daughter, The Milk Carton Kids, I'm with Her, Nickel Creek, Punch Brothers

Progressive Rock (Maybe kinda, sorta Metal?)

Artists: Porcupine Tree, The Pineapple Thief, Gazpacho, The Flower Kings, Kolm, Steven Wilson, Airbag, Lunatic Soul, Riverside, Soen, Haken, Blackfield, King Crimson, Leprous, Pink Floyd, Rishloo, Katatonia, Dredg, Rush, Opeth, Rpwl, Jethro Tull, Chroma Key, Karnivool

Tool

Artist: Tool

almost exclusively electronic music, just can't seem to get enough of it. (ambient, downtempo, drum & bass, dub, electro, glitch, goa trance, house, idm, psybass, psychill, psytrance, synthwave, techno). I'd be happy to try to give recommendations of any of these if you ask.

also love funk like Parliament/Funkadelic and some electronic focused jambands like STS9 & Lotus

Mostly it's different subgenres of rock and metal (like 70% of all comments here. Seriously, I've never met so many ppl that listen to my favorite music in one place xD).

I kinda have a few moods. For the "fun and energetic" mood I have hard rock and heavy metal, for the "my job is f*cking me and I don't like it" I have nu metal and some other things that sound angry, for the "fancy" I have a strange mix of P!atD, Franz Ferdinand, some songs that are creepy/sad but sound happy ("I can't decide", "Don't fear the Reaper", "To The Sea") and steampunk/dark cabaret/murder song bands (Voltaire, Coppelius, the Cog is Dead, American Murder Song)

I’ve kinda got all my eggs in different baskets but mostly I listen to pop punk, alternative, and some classic rock

I listen to Rock, Punk Rock, Pop Punk, Ska, EDM, and K-Pop.

Some of my favorite bands are Thrice, Streetlight Manifesto, Alkaline Trio, Band-Maid, Dreamcatcher. I dunno man, I just like music.

Happy Hardcore, Psytrance, Progressive Techno :)