New wave is the love of my life and what I am into all the time and it seems to have always been that way, as bands I would take note off as a kid tend to have been New Wave 9/10 even tho I did not know what New wave was.

I am even slogging away at work at Christmas and a unknown yet familiar Christmas song comes on and I am now perked and happy to be listening to Christmas music as it was a New Wave Christmas song.

I came across it as a proper genre and understanding it with what other bands are in it, aswell as the sound. Weirdly enough it was the Japanese New Wave Band Polysics that opened me up to the genre as a genre yet it was Devo that showed me it in all its glory.

My childhood friend be Ska, while I was just loved New Wave I never knew it, yet I was hanging out with Ska once Madness blasted my ears with Baggy Trousers, then got pretty deep with it for years untill New Wave came into my life...kinda stopped hanging out with my friend. Still visit.

Another one I have spent alot of time with is unusual/experimental/prog rock which only makes sense since its alot like New Wave in the basics.

Then overall I am a sucker if any of these are Japanese.

Some of other flings in past was Punk and Jazz. Punk I never got to deep into I ended up on the fringes and picking up the lesser punk bands as things I will often listen too, yet I wont say no to some proper Punk.

Jazz I do enjoy yet I never know their names lols, Jazz I suppose is my one night stands.


Then there is the ever fun blond you know you can have fun with in the form of Pop, namely Synth or bubblegum pop. Sometimes you just need to have a good time and not think.

this is genuinely sad...

because you more-or-less abandoned something you love because others who didn't take the time to understand or even afford you the basic respect for your independence questioned your taste and didn't support you.

I mean I am no advocate of the line of reasoning to continue doing something just because it feels right ignoring the possibility that it's haphazardous and you somehow missed that, so definitely ask yourself why people question you. But when it comes to music, who cares? Enjoying one form of music shouldn't have any bearing over your life, unless you are susceptible to messages or lyrics that might advocate some at-risk behavior. But mostly, it's a free-for-all and like whatchu like. Except kanye...don't like him. That's just bad form!!! Good producer but just a d-bag of a human being...we don't like his kind 'round these parts.

I have a guilty pleasure in enjoying some of the japanese, I guess J-Pop, music from anime some times. Although some of it is just genuinely good, by any music lover's standards I imagine.

And if I got music on shuffle, some of the strictly Japanese lyrics joints? I'll quickly advance the track 'cause it does sound childish but when I'm by myself--ROCK ON! But if somebody discovered I enjoyed it--so what?

My point is that you shouldn't feel guilty for enjoying hip-hop music. I might even playfully criticize you at some point in the future but that's part of camaraderie. At the end of the day I wouldn't wantchu to deny yourself for the sake of my approval and others aroundju should conduct themselves the same way.

Anyway, I hope you take courage and return to form 'cause it sounds like you owe some of your earlier tastes an apology. Unless you genuinely just evolved and no longer appreciate it the same way...then I guess just move on.

My main genre is Alt rock but i also really like experimental rock and new wave.. oh, and a bit of jazz, mainly swing jazz.

^This. Don't let the man bring you down, Cil.

Answering the OP, the nebulous term of avant garde will do. And jazz, hip hop, and metal too.

Prog/Hard Rock/Metal/Fusion

Soft Rock, Hard Rock, Medium Rock, and Well-Done Rock

No Igneous Rock?