What era of music do listen to the most?

What, no Josquin des Prez?

 

Late 50’s -late 90’s for rock
Early 80’s - mid 90’s for hip hop
Early 50’s-early 80’s for r&b
1920’s-present for jazz and improv
1880’s-present for classical/avant-garde
1980’s-1990’s for electronic

 

Mesopotamian cuneiforms are my jam.

 

I depends on the genre.

 

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My collection extends from Buddy Holly and Chuck Berry in the 50s through multiple releases from last year. Nothing yet from 2020, but the year is young.

I love music from every decade since the dawn of the rock era (sorry, not into jazz or classical) but if you want me to rank them by how much I love them/how much I listen to them:

70s > 90s > 00s > 60s > 10s > 50s > 80s

I was born in 1988.

Bvb, why no love for specifically 1981 and 1999? Those years both have excellent releases, in my opinion.

Sara Bareilles. A modern day Carole King as far as I'm concerned.

 

Very small doses of that stuff. And Gesualdo once in a while. But I don't get more deeply interested until Bach. And I skip over much of the early romantic stuff. Not a Liszt or Schumann fan. And I go right up to Ligeti, Lutoslawki, Norgard, etc...

 

Tied between current and early 20th century

 

Currently, I listen to middle '60s through early '90s. Most of my listening is for semi-pro reasons, but the timeframe for the technical research matches my taste. Tend more towards S&G, Carpenters, LindaR, ABBA, Anne Murray, TheCars, Suzanna Hoffs (I mean, the Bangles), and others like that. Most stuff that I listen to is 'master tape' type quality -- not remastered, loudness wars mastered or poorly mastered... Basically, sounds like vinyl style mastering on digital media, but not prepped for vinyl, essentially ends up being raw unmastered quality.

John

 

Tough to say for certain for myself. I have been listening to a lot of new released material of late. I am onboard with lots of recent material like: Oh Sees, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Andrew Bird, Susto, Mt. Joy. I have and always will listen to lots of 90's music especially Primus and Pearl Jam. I also have lots of music from the 60's and 70's I listen to.
Bottom line: I listen to almost all genres and music from the 50's all the way up to "The Now"

 

Or, as close as we'll get!

 

The most? Baroque these days. (Blame it on the person in my signature.)

 

Born in 65. I listen to everything. I love the music from the dancing movies of the 30's and 40's, I greatly appreciate the crooners from the fifties and the beginning of rnr. The sixties and seventies are my most intense radio listening period. The eighties gave me great satisfaction with hard rock and the start of house music. The nineties made me discover trance, dance and .... country music.

The 2000/2010 period has been mainly Britpop and the new country music generation, mixing country with hard rock and rap. And from there on I have returned again to the radio. I listen to X-FM, new pop/rock and rap music. Country Rocks, a Swedish radio station, that plays only modern (not older than 15 years I guess) country music with a rock sound. And further on Spotify eclectic playlists.

It gives me the right mixture of music I like, music to sing with, music to dance on, music I want my kids to know and music to discover.

Reading this over I suddenly realised... Sometimes people tell me that I'm not listening, that's not true, I just listen to something I appreciate more...

 

It would be a close race for me, trying to identify the era I listen to the most. It would probably be current pop, folk, Americana, and alt country. Jazz from the 1950s and 60s could be as much or more, or is at least in 2nd place. The music of my youth - Blondie, Pretenders, Duran Duran, The Police, The Clash - probably comes in a close 3rd.

 

Those were kind of arbitrary cutoffs. Didn't really give too much thought about those years releases. Mostly thinking about when I bought the most music. And, yeah, those two years do have a lot of great music, too.

 

Rock: 70's > 60's > 90's > 00's. Lately, the Stones, Radiohead, R.E.M., Grateful Dead, and Led Zeppelin.

Jazz: '58 - '75, lately mostly Miles.

Classical: From JS Bach to John Adams. The past year or so probably more Beethoven, Bartok, and Sibelius than anyone else.

 

80s, and voraciously so. Some early 90s thrown in there too.

For classical music, however, I listen to all eras pretty equally. From the Baroque to the Postmodern.

 

It changes all the time. Right now I'm in a late 80s, earlier 90s shoegaze state of mind.

 

For me, it varies by genre:
Pop - ‘55-‘85
Rock - ‘68-‘94
Country ‘59-‘70
Soul - ‘65-‘75
R&B - ‘55-‘63
Jazz - ‘55-‘70
New Wave - ‘78-‘83
Hip Hop - ‘88-‘94

 

All 60s / pre-Disco 70s.

 

It varies. 1965-1974, 1982-1992.

 

To me, I mainly like music in the 80s and 90s, some 60s.

 

The 20th Century.

 

Mid 60' to late 70's.

 

1. 80s
2. "current" (2000-now)
3. 70s
4. 60s
5. 90s
6. 50s