Hahaha Bscly.
You can’t call one type of music “better” because musical tastes are subjective. You can judge which type of music requires more skill to preform, however.
I’m mostly inclined to Jazz, Alternative, Indie, varieties of Punk, Metal, etc.
I’ve become a recent fan of Dubstep, though my tastes vary wildly.
Basically, if it prompts an emotional response of any kind (except perhaps disgust, ha), I consider it to be ‘good music’.
I tend to prefer softer music. I do like some songs that are a little harder but nothing even close to heavy metal. I’d say the hardest song I’ve enjoyed is Queen’s Hammer to Fall. I do somewhat like jazz, though I prefer more rock. I despise hip-hop and rap with a passion, though there are some exceptions.
To your question about which genres I prefer:
Yes to all except gangsta rap.
But, if I had to pick just one or two, I’d go with smooth jazz (think Weather Channel’s “Local on the 8s” music) while I’m doing something intellectually demanding. Physically demanding? Either dark orchestral (Orff’s “O Fortuna” and Holst’s “Mars” immediately come to mind) with the addition of a Latin chanting choir…or perhaps instrumental rock.
Just for listening to? Eclectic mix of all the genres (again, except gangsta rap).
Personally, I’m more inclined towards the heavier metals, and like stuff such as Parkway Drive, The Black Dahlia Murder, Protest the Hero, Between The Buried And Me, etc.
On the other hand, I am absolutely in LOVE with Journey, Styx, Queen, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix…
I also like techno, and VERY VERY occasionally some rap.
The only genre I really can’t stand is country.
EDIT: Oh, and some of Metallica’s old shit.
I can’t just say soft or hard. It depends. I generally don’t like what’s popular, but I like a lot of old stuff, Beatles, zeppelin, floyd, stones, clapton, journey, Crosby stills nash (young), etc.
Newer stuff is basically some chili peppers and MGMT. I like techno too though.
If any of the band members cut themselves or if the “singer(s)” introduce themselves and/or their darkly tanned brethren in the beginning of the song I despise it. Pretty much anything outside of that is in my music library.
*Edit: Almost forgot that hearing a heavy twanged southern accent makes me want to shoot the radio a lot of the time as well.
I’m a metalhead, so I can easily say I’m on the heavy side.
But I do also like Frank Sinatra, Elvis (including their particular genres), Country or Classic 
HEAVY IS BEST
I’m musically schizophrenic.
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I love all sort of music, and see why so many peolle are going “this is better! No this better! No it blablabla”.
Most of the music I like is slow, acoustic-y stuff, or just pretty melodies on synths or stuff. I’m not a big fan of metal, or heavy rock, but sometimes I do come across something I really like, but this is rare since I mostly just browse over things that I already know I have a great chance of liking.
I also like: classical, orchestra, (some) techno, folk (especially), and French songs (this isn’t a genre, but for some reason I have an affinity for them, even though I don’t know any French at all besides ‘omelette du fromage’ and ‘bonjour’).
And you missed my point. Even when you don’t classify music by genres, it’s still classified by genres. You can go ahead and hammer in how you listen to good music and don’t care about the genres, but thats dumb. Similar sounding music constructs a genre. If you like an artist from a genre, you will like similar sounding acts. And the same way, if you hate (like R&B, which is a genre by the way) how some act sounds, similar sounding artists will construct another genre.
Now genres can cover a large varierity of music, I don’t deny that, but if you enjoy many acts from the same genre, you can say you like it as a whole. If you for example have only one artist from another, you don’t really like it.
And anyone saying “I LIKE ALL MSUIC HURP DURP” can just go fuck off.
True, but I listen to different artists of a lot of different genres.
I prefer crust punk and riot-ska. I also listen to old school punk, third-wave ska, a little first-wave, death metal, a little grind, true Norwegian black metal, indie pop (i.e. Apples in Stereo), classic pop (i.e. Beatles, Beach boys). I also like a couple of rappers, for instance: Dan Le Sac Vs. Scroobius Pip, NAS, Atmosphere, Gym Class Heroes, the Roots. Oh, and blue grass, folk punk, weird shit like Rudimentary Peni and Meat Puppets, some true screamo like Pg. 99 (not any of that newfangled kid-friendly Hot Topic shit), and some pop punk like NOFX and Screeching Weasel.
I also hate a lot of music, but I won’t get into that because I doubt anybody cares.
I like the cut of Patonki’s jib.
Hm, since people are mentioning it I do like country. My dad listened to it all the time when I was a kid so I guess that’s part of the reason. I don’t generally like electronic music but I’m not going to say I don’t like all since I can’t say that I’ve listened to every electronic song. I generally prefer vocal heavy songs. And Frank Sinatra is awesome B) .
Metal, rock, punk and simlar. i like eveyrhting from Pantera to Minor Threat to P!nk to Kittie, i love it all.
I also headbang to country…
Jazz, Rock n’ Roll, Heavy Metal, Industrial Metal, Ambient, Electronica, Jungle, Drum n’ Bass.
Classic rock, metal, heavy metal, death metal, black metal, soft metal, blues, Rock n’ roll and Swedish Folk music.
But mostly this.
So I guess Heavy.
No no. This thread is about music. 