What music floats your boat?

[heliumflight]

In my college days Classic Rock ruled. Now as I age, that has been replaced a good deal by Blues. I am also loving Acoustic. Never used to listen to female singers in the yore. But now listen to them more and more. Was never into jazz and still am not. But smooth jazz is now a goodly component.
Advantage of having streaming music service is certainly an advantage in discovering new music everyday!

Absolutely! With Spotify offers an endless sea of music, spanning every genre, mood, and era. Whether you're in the mood for immersive instrumentals, nostalgic classics, or the latest hits, there's always something new to discover

 

[heliumflight]

Most of these are very well recorded and in my 'Audiophile Music' category

@IndianEars , thank you and Mazhar for sharing gift.

 

[heliumflight]

In my limited experience with Western music, I have truly liked these female voices.
Joan Baez (absolute top of my list), Karen Carpenter, Inger Marie Gundersen, Kari Bremnes, Melody Gardot, Tracy Chapman. Ella Fitzgerald, Diana Krall.

Others that I have heard occasionally and might be worth your time are Patricia Barber, Sarah Vaughan, Shirley Horn, Jennifer Warnes, Holly Cole, Mary Black, Norah Jones, Rebecca Pidgeon, Eva Cassidy, Barb Jungr, Eliza Gilkyson, Joni Mitchell, Lynn Anderson, Rosanne Cash, Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton, Tanya Tucker, Tammy Wynette.

Theese lists are in no order and are across genres.
Only the last six of the second list are country stars, a genre I was into way back.

Karen Carpenter's voice is like an angel, so divine, like God.

 

[chander]

The question will be easier to answer with what doesn't float your boat I can listen to most things as far as it is not - Trance, Heavy EDM or Heavy Metal (thrash, death, metallica ).

Just like everything else -Music has a right place right time feel. Sometimes an old Bollywood sad song hits it right, but on certain occasions only an AC/DC song would do! On a regular day, my music will just be playing in the background, song radios mostly. Choosing a favorite genre is difficult, a favorite artist is very difficult, artists within the genre is impossible So what I look for is -

Groove - great bass grooves, I can almost ignore everything else going around in the song as far as the bass is groovy. Think of a song like Good times by Chic or Tippy-Toes by The Meters, Soul Searching by Dafuniks. Lots of funk and disco comes to mind, LOTS and lots of motown classics, things that features anthony johnson as a bassist, a bunch of electronica. Just a foot tapping groove.

Singability - something with "good" lyrics, a lot of dynamic singing, lots of voice modulation. Mostly while driving/riding this is my scene, sing along with whats going on. List is humongous, doesn't matter if the song is sad, just get into the singing bit of it. Lots of bollywood, old school rock & roll, pop stuff. Anything that gets you sing along full power.

Background tunes - This is what is mostly playing around me. LOts of jazz, lots of chill lo-fi beats, jam bands, instrumentals - folk & classical, hindustani or Carnatic classical, lots of African music etc etc. Youtube for Jugal Bandi. Tempo Can be really slow, really groovy, really peppy, doesn't matter.

Barring a few that keep making my annual list of often played artists - like The rolling stones or old bollywood or The meters, I end up listening to a lot of new artists each year - thanks to the "Song Radios" & Youtube algorithm. Few make it to my playlists, but lots of great stuff discovered.

Just to wrap up this word soup, I will end with the song I am tripping on recently and also why -
For the Love of Money by the O'Jays - The song has one of the funkiest bass guitar grooves. When the song starts - for the first 2 bars - it seems (not sure) that there is just the bass guitar, the drums hit on the 3rd bar (atleast that is what it sounds like). The first bar has the bass guitar with some sort of chorus modulation going on, which is just trippy. As soon as this song starts my spectrum analyser light up from 25Hz to almost 10K - that is rare on bass guitars, it's just so catchy. The bass guitar also stands out in mix which is another thing - it just drives it all.
The lyrics are ok - nothing crazy, drum work is fantastic complementing that bass groove perfectly.

If you like bass grooves listen to this song Just too much fun.

 

[Decadent_Spectre]

I find the way the question is posed by the OP interesting. It speaks to possible perceptions of music.

I listen to Rock,Metal,Electronic and a little bit of Pop.