Your Desert Island for Life Music Style

[Togakure]

If you were stranded on a desert island for the rest of your life, and this lil genie said, "I'll bring you a solar powered ipod and some killer 'phones, and every song on the planet from ONE of the following genres," which would you choose?

Metal
Punk
Rock
Pop
Techno/Trance
Soul/Rhythm and Blues
Blues
Reggae/Ska
World
Hip-Hop/Rap
Jazz
Country
New Age
Classical
Gah! Other (please specify)

EDIT: Crud, my poll option timed out before I could finish it ... 5 minutes ain't enough. The whole point was to check out the bars. Phooey.

[Csargo]

Punk

[Strike For The South]

NC baby country all the way. Soothe me into sweet oblivion

[Kanamori]

Put me on Ibiza, 'nuff said (If all goes well, spring break, away from London, baby!)

[GoreBag]

Metal. How is this different from the other "favourite genre" polls we've had, though?

[Togakure]

Metal. How is this different from the other "favourite genre" polls we've had, though?

I must have missed them. Sorry for the redundancy. I was looking forward to reviewing the bar graph.

[Drisos]

very hard to say... think I would pick Trance... but depends on my mood

[Kekvit Irae]

New Age

[English assassin]

If I was there for the rest of my life it would have to be classical. nothing else could hold your interest or be broad enough to cover all your moods.

My genre of choice is metal, but the idea of listening to nothing but metal fopr the next 50 years, and on a nice peaceful desert island, is too much. Its like saying you want to drink nothing but whisky for the resty of your life. After a bit your head would hurt...

[edyzmedieval]

Hip hop/rap all the way!!!

[Geoffrey S]

Classical. There's such a huge range of options, so there'd be anything for my mood. Also, the best classical music beats any other genre.

Second choice would be jazz.

[master of the puppets]

metal, with the sounds of meytal pounding in my ears i will be spured on and conquere the island yaaaaaaaa... oh its deserted... well that was easy.

[ah_dut]

rock, something for every occasion, it'll probably change to classical sooner or later though

[BDC]

For a lifetime? Classical. Rock has its place, but a lifetime of it is too much.

[Alexanderofmacedon]

Metal4eva

[Steppe Merc]

Rock. It in some way incompasses all of the music and bands I like, except for Blues, R and B (real R+B, not that crap today) and Reggae. But I'd be comfortable just saying Classic Rock if it had to be more specific, but it doesn't have to be, so I can listen to the new My Morning Jacket and still have the Dead.

Oh, will be able to get new albums as they come out?

[GoreBag]

After a bit your head would hurt...

A fine comparison, but headbanging cures everything, including headaches.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Techno/trance...anything with too much singing would get really annoying.

[miho]

I would probably choose rock because you have so many different songs from which to pick from. I think it would be better to ask which song of each genre would they pick. One for rock, one for rap,...

[Drisos]

Techno/trance...anything with too much singing would get really annoying.

[Ludens]

That genie is hardly a genius if he labels Classical as one genre. There is almost as much diversity in Classical music as in all the other genres put together. So Classical would probably be my choice.

(I read that the word classical was mainly meant to distinguish older, "classy" music from newer pop(-ular) music. I don't know if this is true, however.)

[ArcticSonata]

Metal. So many diifferent types so little time.

[Reverend Joe]

Blues all the way. As good as classic rock is, the Blues hold so much more for me.

[Dutch_guy]

(hard)Trance / Techno.

[GiantMonkeyMan]

a bit of a rubbish genie asking you to listen to music instead of getting you a boat....

i would have to choose rock if that includes classic rock as well then all the better

[King Henry V]

Classical. It fits best with the water gently lapping at the sands, a sunset over a calm sea and nice piece of soothing opera playing in the background.

[Ludens]

I would define classical as music performed with traditional instruments, in the traditional fashion. You could further refine into an Orchestral Branch, involving a conductor and a large band, and the harder to define solos which are simply traditional violin, or piano pieces. Of course that's painting with a broad brush--there's hundreds of sub-categories.

I think it is not possible to make a waterthight separation if you hold that definition. Remember that for example early Jazz used pretty much the same instruments as Classical music (but not vica versa). The inclusion of new instruments happened gradually.

On the other hand, I have no idea how one should define Classical. I think it is just a style. And styles are usually linked to fashions.

I have no fixed favourite: I like Raphael, Vivaldi, Saint-Saens, but at the moment I am listening to techno. I also have a Jazz version of Bach, a CD with Klashmer-like music, the Carmina Burana. A bit of everything really, or at least everything that is in some way thirthy or more years old. I just picked Classical because it has the biggest variety.

[Togakure]

By "Classical," I meant music from the four traditionally recognized periods of "classical" music: the Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Impressionistic (or Contemporary) periods. Bach to Beethoven to Chopin to Debussy, etc.. Gershwin is towards the tail end of the last (some might say that he's just beyond the end of the Contemporary period).

This is how classical music was defined for me in my days of focused music study/training with the Music Teachers Association of California, 1968 - 1981.

[Geoffrey S]

I still stand by the über-iPod containing all classical music then.

[Lehesu]

Classical, based on the rough definition I have derived from this site. "If it ain't baroque, don't fix it!"