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This is an extremely difficult question. Off the cuff my answer would have to be experimental. I would think that there would be enough variety in there to keep me occupied and interested and seeing a lot of new things. From some of the experimental music I've listened to it seems like it's a genre which blends a little bit of all genres based on the artist and the time and the mood.
Growing up I was in a weird place with music. I didn't listen to it very much at all, but I was oddly attracted to techno music. In Germany Captain Jack was my favorite. "Hey-Oh Captain Jack! Bring me back to the railroad track!" :D A friend of mine had an older sister who had the track on tape and she made a copy for me. She let the recorder run too long and I got an extra song: "There she was, just-a walkin' down the street, singing 'doo-wa-dee d'dee-dee-dum-dee-dee doo' snappin' her fingers and shufflin' to the beat." It was something else, but I listened to both quite a bit. Later on the Smurfs came out with children's tapes where they sang pop songs. I listened to those going to sleep. Most were pop techno, must have been a German thing.
In America I started listening a lot to Weird Al. I wanted to buy every CD he had coem out with. I liked his style and I liked the comedy (not that I was a comedy connoseur or anything, I was like 10). He was all I really listened to at the time. In the background was my parent's music though, which seemed to be a blend of R/B and country. Faith Hill, Tim McGraw, Marky Mark, and some others were listened to a lot. I really was not a fan of those when I was a kid, I guess because my parents liked them. Of course Mom had a habit of connecting a lot of these songs with her mood swings so there's also an association there.
When my Mom and Dad (Tony) divorced we met Dad (Troy) in Arizona. I felt a need to impress him, so I started listening to the kind of music he liked, Rock, mostly classic Rock. That's when Ozzy, AC/DC, and GNR came into the picture (I'm still a big GNR fan). I became really closed-minded about music here especially. It was rock or nothing. I "hated" Country and Pop music, anything my sister and mother listened to. It was just hard Rock.
I met Sam, my wife, in 2005 officially, but mostly 2006 and she started to slowly turn me. I was pretty pig-headed with her too, but in the end I was the one listening to her music and loving it (though she liked some of my songs too, even though mainstream music was not a favorite of hers). Now I'm listening to all kinds, including Country and Pop, including Tim McGraw. Some of my favorite musicians are Infected Mushroom, GNR, Gary Jules, Depedro, and many more. A little bit of just about everything. I've become pretty addicted to the variety different genres offer.
That's why, I think, I would have to go with Experimental, just because I enjoy that variety. Not the same old thing, not groups who all sound the same, or even in a genre. That's my choice.
This is an extremely difficult question. Off the cuff my answer would have to be experimental. I would think that there would be enough variety in there to keep me occupied and interested and seeing a lot of new things. From some of the experimental music I've listened to it seems like it's a genre which blends a little bit of all genres based on the artist and the time and the mood.
Growing up I was in a weird place with music. I didn't listen to it very much at all, but I was oddly attracted to techno music. In Germany Captain Jack was my favorite. "Hey-Oh Captain Jack! Bring me back to the railroad track!" :D A friend of mine had an older sister who had the track on tape and she made a copy for me. She let the recorder run too long and I got an extra song: "There she was, just-a walkin' down the street, singing 'doo-wa-dee d'dee-dee-dum-dee-dee doo' snappin' her fingers and shufflin' to the beat." It was something else, but I listened to both quite a bit. Later on the Smurfs came out with children's tapes where they sang pop songs. I listened to those going to sleep. Most were pop techno, must have been a German thing.
In America I started listening a lot to Weird Al. I wanted to buy every CD he had coem out with. I liked his style and I liked the comedy (not that I was a comedy connoseur or anything, I was like 10). He was all I really listened to at the time. In the background was my parent's music though, which seemed to be a blend of R/B and country. Faith Hill, Tim McGraw, Marky Mark, and some others were listened to a lot. I really was not a fan of those when I was a kid, I guess because my parents liked them. Of course Mom had a habit of connecting a lot of these songs with her mood swings so there's also an association there.
When my Mom and Dad (Tony) divorced we met Dad (Troy) in Arizona. I felt a need to impress him, so I started listening to the kind of music he liked, Rock, mostly classic Rock. That's when Ozzy, AC/DC, and GNR came into the picture (I'm still a big GNR fan). I became really closed-minded about music here especially. It was rock or nothing. I "hated" Country and Pop music, anything my sister and mother listened to. It was just hard Rock.
I met Sam, my wife, in 2005 officially, but mostly 2006 and she started to slowly turn me. I was pretty pig-headed with her too, but in the end I was the one listening to her music and loving it (though she liked some of my songs too, even though mainstream music was not a favorite of hers). Now I'm listening to all kinds, including Country and Pop, including Tim McGraw. Some of my favorite musicians are Infected Mushroom, GNR, Gary Jules, Depedro, and many more. A little bit of just about everything. I've become pretty addicted to the variety different genres offer.
That's why, I think, I would have to go with Experimental, just because I enjoy that variety. Not the same old thing, not groups who all sound the same, or even in a genre. That's my choice.
