Top Ten Music Genres with the Most Heart

The Top Ten
1 Blues Blues is a music genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century.

I believe it was Eric Clapton who said: "Some people find the Blues depressing. I find the opposite. It rescued me..."
I totally get what he means by that. Blues has so much heart, soul and truth. These artists wore their heart on their sleeves and sang about their lives and experiences with so much passion and honesty The Blues doesn't have any old nonsensical lyrics to music like you find with some genres - Blues lyrics have real feeling and meaning; it's an emotional projection of their heart and soul to yours. So please tell me, in what way is that "depressing"?

Agreed completely! Once I read about it. Blues musicians were very sad, depressed about their lives. That's why they created the sad songs, emotional songs. Those old blues guitar licks are prime example of it.

Inc. Blues-Rock.
Blues is about real peoples' real lives, issues, struggles, real emotions. It's passionate, soulful, extremely emotive and does indeed have a whole lot of heart. And I've taken it into mine.

2 Jazz
3 Soul Soul music (often referred to simply as soul) is a popular music genre that originated in the African American community in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It combines elements of African-American gospel music, rhythm and blues and jazz.
4 Rock Rock music is a music genre that was created in the 1940s. The genre was popular during the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and 2000s. Rock bands generally consists of a guitar player, a drummer, bass player and singer. There are many rock subgenres - such as heavy metal, alternative, hard rock, grunge, and more. Notable rock bands and music artists include The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Queen, Van Halen, Foo Fighters,... read more

I vote for rock because it has a lot of heart and it can get your heart pumping and feeling emotions!

5 Heavy Metal Heavy Metal music is a sub-genre of rock music that originated in the late 1960s-70s, featuring more distorted and heavier instrumental work and darker lyrical themes. Heavy Metal broke into mainstream success with bands such as Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden and Metallica.

Other notable Heavy Metal bands include Judas Priest, Anthrax, Testament, System of a Down, Megadeth, Slayer, Pantera, Avenged... read more
6 Country
7 Gospel
8 Classical
9 Opera
10 Folk
The Contenders
11 Punk Punk rock is a subgenre of rock music. It usually has rebellious lyrics and down stroked power chords played on guitars. Bad Religion, Sex Pistols, and Green Day (actually pop-punk, which is still punk in a way) are a few punk rock bands. The subgenre influenced thrash metal because of it's down stroked guitar playing and other factors.
12 Hip Hop
13 Country-Rock

Which I have grown extremely fond of.

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