What music speaks to your soul (brain, heart, loins)? Aka evoking emotion. Good or bad. Talk to me...
Blues,southern rock and grunge (Alice in Chains, Soundgarten and Nirvana-all good
My music to relax by might be something like Enigma. When I'm with my friends, we like to dance to Bruno Mars, Justin Timberlake or anything to get our blood flowing, even James Brown or Little Richard.
Bad, as in "good"
saw king crimson last year what an ending to that show like double wow
I love so many genres, but my heart is in the Blues.
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!
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."