Instrumental or Vocal?

Hmm, I wonder what is the general favoritism of GFF member toward music. Which do you prefer? Instrumental or vocal one? to be honest I enjoy and instrumental much more than vocal ones.

90% of my music collections are instrumental, and I barely listen to vocal tracks except it's really good.

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I too very much prefer instrumental music over vocal music.
The exceptions to this rule is when the voice is being used as a musical instrument (artistic and classical songs) rather than a tonal medium in which to say stuff, which seems to me to be the case with most modern music.

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I perfer instrumental music, though most of the music I do have have vocals to them, I rarely pay attention to them and would love a good instrumental song instead sometimes.

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I listen to some Acapella stuff and love it - Eric Whitacre's "Complete A Capella Works" is one of the best CDs I own. But my heart truly lies with Instrumental Music - Wind Ensemble, Brass Ensemble, and Orchestra. I'm the kind of guy who listens to a rock song and can't remember a single word of it but has the tune running through his head all day.

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I tend to like music best for the lyrics and the vocals. A pure intrumental can rarely capture the raw haunting beauty and emotion that a properly used human voice can. It's a rare instrumental that doesn't bore the living shit out of me.

Given the initial purpose of this site I'd imagine the instrumental crowd is going to be pretty overwhelming. I haven't heard much video game music that uses vocals heavily.

I was speaking idiomatically.

I don't prefer either. Some instrumental music is good, some instrumental music is bad. Same goes for music with vocals. I don't discriminate based on what makes the sound. That being said, most of the music I listen to does have vocals.

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My favorite songs are all instrumental songs. The songs that I generally enjoy the most are songs that are instrumental with powerful choirs.

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Final Fantasy songs generally feels good on both vocal and instrumental (piano).

Onegai Teacher (anime) had a piano piece that is very good too.

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I like both equaly really. I've got a good mix of instrumental and vocal music on the computer. Instrumental used to bore the hell out of me but not so much anymore because of the games i play that have some pretty good OST's and such.

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I have about a 70/30 split towards vocal. I'm just a massive sucker for bands and guitars etc and they tend to go hand in hand with vocals.

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I'm more leaned towards the instrumental side of music, although some vocal can be nice. But I find it hard(though not impossible) for vocal to stand without instrumental backing, and yet instruments don't necessarily need vocals.

So, instruments it is.

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Well seeing as I listen to more video game music than mainstream music, then I'll have to say instrumental. I'm not sure why I like/listen to VGM more, it may be because many a time I have thought, when I listen to vocal songs, that the vocalist or the lyrics just don't fit with the tune, therefore making it hard to memorise the song. Meh, that's the best excuse I could come up with =P

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Instrumental 80%, Vocal 20%. I have far more VGM on my HD than I do vocal music, and most of that vocal music is Japanese/English anime/mainstream songs.

Therefore, Instrumental for me.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Why isn't there a bloody 'both' option? I have a lot of vocal and instrumental music, and like lots of other things, there's both good and bad music of each. There's lots of outstanding instrumentals and vocals, so I don't have a preference.

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Instrumental is by far my favorite since there is so much room for creativity in instrumental VGM that vocal songs really don't leave much room for creativity. "Agnus Dei", "Deliverance", "and "Blue Stream" are the best exceptions though since the first one has the best symphonic choir vocal, the next is just strange, and the last is hilarious.

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i just like vocal if they are used like an entire instrument and not only to say stupid lyrics....

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Following the major trend as it seems, I too usually enjoy instrumentals over vocal. The ocassional song will come along that will change my mind--it also depends on the mood.

70/30, shall we say?

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I'm split between the two. I really like music with vocals because I like to hear lyrics. It's what I'm most used to. I don't care if the lyrics are stupid anymore because I like a song because of its music too.

I like instrumental because it doesn't need vocals to complete it. One example I really like is The Gravel Road from the movie, The Village.
I like the quiet instrumental music. That and just piano music.

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Originally Posted by Freelance Wolf

Why isn't there a bloody 'both' option?

Because you can't 'prefer' 'both' if there are only two options, obv.

Virtually all my favourite bands are vocal, though I guess it's not that surprising to see many people liking instrumental music on a game music board. That said, I've been trying to listen to more electronic/instrumental music lately; there is some pretty good stuff to be found, but generally it is still too boring for me. Maybe it's acquired taste.

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I was tempted to put "instrumental" thanks to bands like GY!BE and Yndi Halda, but there are just so many great rock bands that perform vocally. And when you bring into that the fact my favorite all-time band, Love, performs almost exclusively non-instrumentals, it's the clear choice.

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i voted instrumental, but that's probably just because i happen to be listening to an OST at the moment ^^; otherwise it's almost 50/50

i tend to pay more attention to the actual music though, rather than the vocals/lyrics except when it comes to certain singers (Hajime Chitose especially *_*)

I was speaking idiomatically.

I love instrumental music, of varying genres. Sure a few classical tunes will always be sweet, but a good old metal instrumental with a facemelting guitar solo can be peppered throughout my "reptoire" as well. Gotta mix it up.

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I prefer instrumental, but I don't completely rule out vocal music. Granted, a large portion of my music collection is instrumental, but I'm willing to listen to vocal music as well.

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I really don't have a preference, because it just depends on the songs. I probably have more instrumentals in my music collection, but that doesn't mean I neceesarily like them better.

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Originally Posted by Arainach

I listen to some Acapella stuff and love it - Eric Whitacre's "Complete A Capella Works" is one of the best CDs I own. But my heart truly lies with Instrumental Music - Wind Ensemble, Brass Ensemble, and Orchestra. I'm the kind of guy who listens to a rock song and can't remember a single word of it but has the tune running through his head all day.

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Still . . . I don't really have a preference. I just happen to be a singer, so I hear a lot more vocal music. Most of my VGM is instrumental, but that doesn't stop me from listening to Sanctuary/Passion over and over

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