I'm not sure that I have a genre - but I have albums that when I first hear them they fill a hole in my heart that I didn't realise was there. Just two examples - Iron and Wine "The Creek Drank the Cradle"; Gillian Welch "The Harrow and the Harvest."

I love listening to tunes by the rat pack, performed in french...
Duo Guago, Pink Martini and others.

Alanis Morissette and her music really speak to me in mind and heart and soul. She writes and sings from the heart and her own experiences, and I feel like she is someone who would be able to understand and appreciate many things I've thought, experienced and felt. She's also recorded some beautiful love songs, where she also keeps it real.

This a very nice one:

Heavy metal played very loudly. I love the energy, the vibration, it gives me goosebumps. And that's generally, certain riffs just magnify it......e.g. The Smoke on the Water riff, I have to feel it, not necessarily emotionally but physically, not just hear it, it has to be loud!

Electro-bossa music, especially if the accent on a beat is particularly heavy, is good at stirring the loins.

Chopin piano solos of all kinds. Puts me in another place. I love that a human could make such a beautiful thing, and that another human can play it and bring the person who wrote it back into this reality. Other classical piano as well. I also love good old rock and roll. Just makes me happy. Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry, Bob Seger, LEON RUSSELL. Most real music moves me.

Oh, so many choices! Why do you make me choose? A few that are known to evoke emotions for me: Emotional songs about parenting: Harry Chapin "Cat's In The Cradle" and Brandon Rhyder "Freeze Frame Time"; Lamenting love not yet found: The Corrs "Somebody For Someone"; Unselfish love, probably about a young adult child of the writer: Resless Heart "New York (Hold Her Tight)"; Silly and optimistic: Sarah Buxton "Outside My Window"; A ghostly love story: Michael Martin Murphy "Wildfire"; That is a very small cross section of an exceedingly large, eclectic, and ever changing list with elements that may be ephemeral and others that are anything but ephemeral.

It varies with my mood. Most commonly it's Iron Maiden or The Who. Sometimes it's classical. On occasion it's classical. Now and then it's The Grateful Dead, Doors, or Hendrix. It's never rap or country.

we are going to see orchestral manouvers in the dark on monday. romance with a hint of protest set to a dance beat

I am a progressive rock musician. So Yes, Genesis, The Moody Blues, Rush, Pink Floyd, The Who, The Beatles..the list goes on and on.....

Emotion? For restless longing try this. Here's the best sung version imo of Rachmaninov's Vocalise. Many instrumental versions are also fantastic as well.

It depends entirely on the mood I'm in.

Usually it's classical music. Beethoven's Ninth is the pinnacle, but I find others as well. Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky have written pieces which absolutely transfigure me. Now that I've said that, some country songs reach down into my being as well. "Where've You Been" by Kathy Mattea is one, but there are others.

Music has always been the most important thing in my life. I was lucky to have been exposed to it from an early age. I had a strong aptitude for it, and found solace, sustenance, and profound joy in listening to a wide range of it. I taught myself to play acoustic guitar when I was a teen, and gradually got proficient enough to be able to earn a modest living. I'm still playing at 72, though not as much as I used to. It's awfully hard to be specific about why certain types of music move me. I dislike anything "lite" (Neil Diamond, Lawrence Welk, and Kenny G make me want to puke) while Steely Dan, Beethoven quartets, fusion, flamenco, Joe Jackson lift my spirits immeasurably. I also love musical satire---the compositions of PDQ Bach (a character created by music professor Peter Schickele) are drop dead wonderfully funny. I have listened to my favorite songs so much that they're contained in my memory---I can play them in my mind and I can hear every detail and nuance. Can any of you relate?

Music for sure. I'm fascinated by how the timing around when I hear a song can magnify the emotional sensation. I have a folder on my phone called "megamix" that I drop all the songs I like as I come to them. But a song that straight up makes the hair on my arms stand up at one time might have me reaching for the skip the next time it rolls by. But at another time, chills again. I'm particularly drawn to the melancholy at times. Elliott Smith, for sure among others. But other times it's old funk, or rap, or metal, or blues, or the odd pop song that will give me chills on the joyful/giddy side of the fence. It's almost like time travel too how a song can take you back. I read "The Sword of Shannara" while listening to the first "Boston" album. Yet another rambling response.

The Blues. The saying goes, "How do you play the Blues? You gotta feel it!"

Mainly hip hop, but really any kind of conscious music speaks to me Public Enemy Dead Prez Immortal Technique Brother Ali Aesop Rock Lupe Fiasco KRS-One - Boogie Down Productions Talib Kweli & Mos Def - Black Star Killer Mike & El-P - Run The Jewels Lowkey After Hours Jedi Mind Tricks Ras Kass Canibus CunninLinguists Rage Against The Machine Kendrick Lamar J. Cole The Roots Atmosphere Dilated Peoples OutKast Del the Funky Homosapien Locksmith Sage Francis Greydon Square Syqnys Beast 1333

In classical

Jazz mostly, Chris Botti:

A very eclectic wide range of music.

For me, no comment is needed.

I love so many genres, but my heart is in the Blues.

What a great question!!!!!

Wow, how about Grateful dead Eyes of the World from Winterlan 10/19/74. Awaken from Yes' Going for the One. Miles Davis' Kind of Blue, King Crimson's Lizard, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway by Genesis, John Coltrane Africa Brass, Anything by the Dave Brubeck Quartet, a live opus from the Cowboy Junkies such as 32-20 blues, Lay it Down, Blue Guitar, dragging Hooks, etc. A classic Willie Nelson song like Buddy or Crazy. I could go on and on and on. Music is a huge part of my life. I have over 1200 lps that I keep adding to, have crazy Spotify playlists that amuse me to no ends( feel free to follow me at CF Daniels).

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